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Moll Flanders, by Daniel DefoeRead about the other entries on the list.
Moll looks back on her first steps in a career of sexual opportunism. It begins with the son of the woman for whom she works as a maidservant. He starts with mere flattery, throws in a few "earnest" kisses and then thrusts five guineas into her hand. "I was more confounded with the Money than I was before with the Love" – and so "I gave my self up to Ruin."
Moll Flanders appears on Freya North's top ten list of romantic fiction.
--Marshal Zeringue