Oroonoko

or, The Royal Slave

By:

Aphra Behn

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Paperback / softback

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The first woman in England to make her living by writing, Aphra Behn (1640-1689) combines memoir, exotic travel narrative, and romance to tell the story of the noble Oroonoko, a black man who begins life as a prince and ends it as a slave. The tale depicts the overthrow of a hero by a civilization that considers itself superior to him. Taken up by reformers in the long battle against the slave trade, reprinted and imitated countless times, Oroonoko remains a popular tale that introduces powerful themes onto the literary stage. An influential seventeenth-century fable, by a pathbreaking woman writer, about the fall of a black prince.

Author Biography:

Aphra Behn flourished in the cosmopolitan world of the London playhouse and the court. It was she, Virginia Woolf wrote, "who earned [women] the right to speak their minds."

Release date NZ

May 28th, 1997

Author

Aphra Behn

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Introduction by Lore Metzger

Pages

Dimensions

140x211x8

ISBN-13

9780393312058

Product ID

2471077

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