Oroonoko (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

By: Aphra Behn, George Jay Smith (Contribution by), Janet Todd (Contribution by)

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Paperback | 15 October 2021

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106 Pages

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20.32 x 13.34 x 0.64

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First published in 1688, Oroonoko follows the tragic love story of a charismatic African prince and his beloved Imoinda. The eponymous hero is tricked into slavery and sold to European colonists in Surinam. Behn's moving and deeply empathetic tale is structured as a first-person account of Oroonoko's life, love, rebellion, and execution.

This Warbler Classics edition includes an historically illuminating article by George Jay Smith from 1925 and an essay that provides context for Oroonoko, Behn's most famous story, by Janet Todd, whose biography Aphra Behn: A Secret Life was published in 2017.

Industry Reviews

"All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn...for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds."

-Virginia Woolf

"Oroonoko is the first humanitarian novel in English."

-Wilbur L. Cross

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