Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave

By Behn, Aphra

Book Id: WPLBN0002950219
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File Size: 76.91 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave
Author:	Behn, Aphra
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave
Historic Publication Date:	1688
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Behn, B. A. (1688). Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

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Aphra Behn was the first woman writer in England to make a living by her pen, and her novel Oroonoko was the first work published in English to express sympathy for African slaves. Perhaps based partly on Behn's own experiences living in Surinam, the novel tells the tragic story of a noble slave, Oroonoko, and his love Imoinda. The work was an instant success and was adapted for the stage in 1695 (and more recently by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1999). Behn's work paved the way for women writers who came after her, as Virginia Woolf noted in a Room of One's Own (1928): 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. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

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