Description
Roxana purports to be the autobiography of Mademoiselle de Beleau, the willful daughter of French Protestant refugees. This beautiful, ambitious, unscrupulous woman, who begins as the wife of a brewer by whom she has five children, moves through a series of adventures in England and on the Continent to become the mistress of a French prince, an English lord, and finally -- it is hinted -- of the king himself. Roxana's story is a romance without any touch of the exotic or improbable; an unromantic romance which brilliantly illustrates Defoe's talent of "lying like the truth".
Book Details
Format
eBook
Pages
416 pages
Language
English
Published
Jul 1, 2001
Publisher
Penguin Putnam
Editions
15 editions
ISBN-10
0786512229
ISBN-13
9780786512225