Oroonoko : Little Black Classic

Author: Aphra Behn

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Price : $4.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780241251621
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited
Imprint : UNKNOWN
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Weight (g) : 0.099
Publication date : November 2015
Dimensions : 161mm X 111mm X 10mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Out of print date : January 2020
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Author : Aphra Behn
Series : Penguin Little Black Classics
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 105
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 823.4
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Pages : 128
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Description

We are bought and sold like apes or monkeys, to be the sport of women, fools, and cowards, and the support of rogues ...' Spy, traveller and pioneering female writer Aphra Benn's story of an African prince sold into slavery is considered one of the earliest English novels.

Author description

Little is known of Aphra Behn's early life. She was probably born around 1640 in Kent and in the early 1660s claims to have visited the British colony of Surinam. She turned to literature for a living, producing numerous short stories, 19 stage plays and political propaganda for the Tories.

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