Oroonoko

By: Aphra Behn

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Paperback | 30 October 2003 | Edition Number 1

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144 Pages

Age
18+

Grade
12+

Dimensions(cm)
19.8 x 12.9 x 0.9

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Aphra Behn, the poet, playwright, novelist and political satirist was the first truly professional woman writer in English. This selection, edited and introduced by Professor Janet Todd, demonstrates the full sophistication and vitality of Aphra Behn's genius. It contains the plays The Rover and The Widow, Ranter (the first English play to be set in the American colonies) together with Love Letters to a Gentleman, a choice of poems and two short novels - The Fair Jilt and Oroonoko - which are among the most innovative prose writings of the seventeenth century.

About the Author

Aphra Behn was a dramatist of the Restoration and considered one of the first professional, female English writers.

Industry Reviews

Oroonoko is a poignant tragic story of an African prince whose grandfather, the king, denied him his true love, black beauty Imoinda . Betrayed and sold into slavery to British colonists, Oroonoko finds his lost love in the British colony of Suriname but fails to gain freedom for himself and his family and soon finds a tragic, grotesque death. This new edited version with an introduction, further reading and notes by Janet Todd, offers a fresh assessment of the literary and political contexts of Oronoko, providing also a summary of Aphra Behn's life and the criticism of her writing during the Restoration period. Particularly interesting is the editor's observation of Behn's controversial treatment of the racial differences and colonialism; Todd highlights how the narrator identifies herself with her hero - Imoinda, but also includes herself in the 'we' of the Europeans. Moving and thought-provoking. (Kirkus UK)

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