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Oroonoko, Prince of Abyssinia

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Aphra Benn was a phenomenon: a lone female who was by turns a well-respected playwright, a spy, a convict, and the author of 'Oroonoko', the first English novel. Behn tells the (reputedly true) story of an African Prince, betrayed into slavery, who tires of the perfidy of the whites and leads a slave revolt for freedom - with tragic consequences. The atrocities Behn described shocked Restoration England and greatly advanced the cause of abolitionism. Behn's innovative novel also gave females a literary voice; as Virginia Woolf wrote "...it was she who earned [women] the right to speak their minds."
Release date Australia
December 31st, 2010
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Pages
106
Dimensions
129x198x5
ISBN-13
9781907523779
Product ID
10063489

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