Oroonoko - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oroonoko write by Aphra Behn. This book was released on 2009-06-01. Oroonoko available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aphra Behn was one of the first professional English female writers and Oroonoko was one of her earliest works. It is the love story between Oroonoko, the grandson of an African king, and the daughter of that king's general. The king takes the girl into his harem, and when she plans to escape with his grandson, sells her as a slave. When Oroonoko tries to follow her he is caught by an English slave trader and taken to the same West Indian island as his love.
Oroonoko, Or, The Royal Slave
Oroonoko, Or, The Royal Slave - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oroonoko, Or, The Royal Slave write by Aphra Behn. This book was released on 1987. Oroonoko, Or, The Royal Slave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is an edited text of Oroonoko, a seventeenth-century novel of love, passion, and the struggle for human dignity written by England's most eminent woman playwright, poet, and novelist of the day. The novel tells the story of a great African warrior who falls victim to treachery. As a result, he finds himself a slave in what is now Dutch Guinea. As an emancipation novel, the work gives insight into slave practices in both Africa and the New World Colonies.
Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works
Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works write by Aphra Behn. This book was released on 2003-08-28. Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Prince Oroonoko’s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko’s noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behn’s visit to Surinam, Oroonoko (1688) reflects the author’s romantic view of Native Americans as simple, superior peoples ‘in the first state of innocence, before men knew how to sin’. The novel also reveals Behn’s ambiguous attitude to African slavery – while she favoured it as a means to strengthen England’s power, her powerful and moving work conveys its injustice and brutality.
The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn
The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn write by Derek Hughes. This book was released on 2004-11-25. The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in America. Behn's work straddles the genres: beside drama and fiction, she also excelled in poetry and she made several important translations from French libertine and scientific works. This Companion discusses and introduces her writings in all these fields and provides the critical tools with which to judge their aesthetic and historical importance. It also includes a full bibliography, a detailed chronology and a description of the known facts of her life. The Companion will be an essential tool for the study of this increasingly important writer and thinker.
Oroonoko
Oroonoko - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oroonoko write by Thomas Southerne. This book was released on 1976-12-01. Oroonoko available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The two plots of this tragicomedy concern a black prince sold into slavery and two white women who are husband-hunting in Surinam. Through a discussion of the status of women in the period and of attitudes towards slavery, the editors demonstrated Southerne's complex attempt to explore a parallel between the conditions of slaves and women in contemporary society. They also consider the play in terms of Southerne's high Tory politics and in its own rights as effective drama. Based on a collection of seven editions published within Southerne's life-time, this modern edition includes a section on stage history, with an account of revisions and adaptations, and a detailed comparison between the play and its source in Aphra Behn's novella of the same name.
