Get the larger Penguin with her play The Rover Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works or the (cheaper, more recent). and though (again as I said in an update) this particular Penguin eBook lacked any of the usual accoutrements for making an historical text more digestible.

for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds. Oroonoko Aphra Behn Harper Collins, Fiction - 320 pages 2 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified Oroonoko, the. Oroonoko was published in 1688 near her death to some success. Two centuries after Behn's burial in Westminster Abbey's Poets Corner, Virginia Woolf observed, 'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn. The storyteller's account of an African prince who is sold into slavery and becomes the leader of a rebellion represents one of the first fictional treatments of colonial and abolitionist themes, and it is unusual for its era in its sympathetic regard for black Africans.ĭespite the considerable success of her poetry, plays, and fiction, little is known for certain about the life of Restoration-era author Aphra Behn (1640–89). Originally published in 1688, the tale combines memoir, biography, and travelogue in the form of a narrative by an Englishwoman visiting Surinam. So that having made his first compliments, and presented her an hundred and fifty slaves in fetters, he told her with his eyes that he was not insensible of her charms while Imoinda, who wished for nothing more than so glorious a conquest, was pleased to believe she understood that silent language of new-born love and, from that moment, put on all her additions to beauty.A landmark in the history of the novel, Oroonoko is among the earliest such works in the English language and its author, Aphra Behn, is often cited as the first professional woman writer. Oroonoko was a prince of the African country Coramantien who secretly married his true love, and while he was away at war, she was selected by his grandfather. When Prince Oroonokos passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses.

Had ever beheld, that lovely modesty with which she received him, that softness in her look and sighs, upon the melancholy occasion of this honor that was done by so great a man as Oroonoko, and a prince of whom she had heard such admirable things the awfulness wherewith she received him, and the sweetness of her words and behavior while he staid, gained a perfect conquest over his fierce heart, and made him feel the victor could be subdued. The bestselling story by a legendary female writer-a tale of love, slavery, and rebellion. Penguin UK Ebook 144 Pages familyhome Eligible info 11.27 Ebook Free sample Switch to the audiobook About this ebook arrowforward Aphra Behn, the poet.

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