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.
Tabella dei contenuti
Contents
Epistle Dedicatoryvii
The History of the Royal Slave.1
Endnotes69
A Long-Forgotten ‘Hit’ by George Jay Smith72
Oroonoko: Historical and Political Contexts by Janet Todd88
Circa l’autore
Janet Todd is a former President of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, and Emerita Professor of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of Aphra Behn: A Secret Life (2017).Altri ebook dello stesso autore / Editore
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