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Oroonoko and Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (Illustrated)

Nicholas Tamblyn

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Presenting Oroonoko and Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn with illustrations by Nicholas Tamblyn and Katherine Eglund. These classics are part of The Great Books Series by Golding Books.

Virginia Woolf and others have cited Aphra Behn as the first known professional female writer. Oroonoko is an early English novel and one of the earliest in terms of its linear plot; Behn’s epistolary novel Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister was written five years earlier.

Oroonoko is the first English novel to show Africans sympathetically, and the theme of anti-colonialism runs through the book. Its perspective and strong female characters also confirm it as an early feminist novel, expanding on certain ideas explored in the three-volume roman à clef Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, which focused on events of the Monmouth Rebellion and, as a work of amatory fiction, was an early predecessor of the romance novel.

Aphra Behn was born in Canterbury, England, in 1640. Little is known with certainty about her life. A playwright, poet, translator, and fiction writer—it has also been proposed that Charles II employed her as a spy—during the 1670s and 1680s Behn was one of the most prolific and high profile playwrights in Britain . She would write and stage 19 plays, also contributing to others’ plays, and composed three novels, various novellas, and short stories. She died in London at the age of 48 in 1689.

Pages: 300

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Golding Books

Release: March 06, 2018

Oroonoko and Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (Illustrated)

Nicholas Tamblyn

0/5 ( ratings)

Presenting Oroonoko and Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn with illustrations by Nicholas Tamblyn and Katherine Eglund. These classics are part of The Great Books Series by Golding Books.

Virginia Woolf and others have cited Aphra Behn as the first known professional female writer. Oroonoko is an early English novel and one of the earliest in terms of its linear plot; Behn’s epistolary novel Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister was written five years earlier.

Oroonoko is the first English novel to show Africans sympathetically, and the theme of anti-colonialism runs through the book. Its perspective and strong female characters also confirm it as an early feminist novel, expanding on certain ideas explored in the three-volume roman à clef Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, which focused on events of the Monmouth Rebellion and, as a work of amatory fiction, was an early predecessor of the romance novel.

Aphra Behn was born in Canterbury, England, in 1640. Little is known with certainty about her life. A playwright, poet, translator, and fiction writer—it has also been proposed that Charles II employed her as a spy—during the 1670s and 1680s Behn was one of the most prolific and high profile playwrights in Britain . She would write and stage 19 plays, also contributing to others’ plays, and composed three novels, various novellas, and short stories. She died in London at the age of 48 in 1689.

Pages: 300

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Golding Books

Release: March 06, 2018

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