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The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2)

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    Daniel Defoe's The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2) is a historical fiction and adventure fiction novel. It deals with mistresses.

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    About The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2)

    "The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2)" by Daniel Defoe is a novel published in 1724. When Roxana's reckless husband abandons her penniless with five children, she faces an impossible choice between virtue and survival. Through cunning and compromise, she ascends from desperate poverty to extraordinary wealth, becoming mistress to increasingly powerful men across Europe. But as fortunes rise through morally ambiguous choices, the past refuses to stay buried, threatening the carefully constructed life she has built through scandal and secrecy.
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    Themes, setting & tropes

    Genres

    Subjects

    • Historical fiction
    • Picaresque literature
    • Mistresses
    • Adventure stories
    • Great Britain, History, Charles II, 1660-1685
    • Women, Great Britain
    • Women, Europe
    • Europe, History, 17th century

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    Who wrote The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2)?

    The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2) was written by Daniel Defoe.

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    It is usually shelved as Historical Fiction and Adventure.

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    Yes. It is in the public domain in the United States and can be read free on Project Gutenberg in EPUB, Kindle and HTML formats.

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