Born with the most rudimentary kind of moral sense, Moll Flanders made a career of harlotry, thievery and penitence. The book of her fortunes and misfortunes, her high misdemeanors and amorous delinquencies, remains today, as it was two hundred years ago, the liveliest and most candid record of a bawd's progress on the primrose path. The looseness of Moll's life in folly and wickedness points the moral that the wages of sin need not be punishment and death; sometimes penitence alone redeems the most versatile sinner. Also by Defoe: Robinson Crusoe and A Journal of the Plague Year (Modern Library No. 92).