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After learning how to fight at a young age, Oroonoko, an African prince, fights alongside his army against invading forces. When a celebrated general saves Oroonoko's life, trading his own to take an arrow for Oroonoko, the young prince feels indebted
'I value fame almost as much as if I had been born a hero'. (Preface to The Lucky Chance). Aphra Behn (1640-89) achieved both fame and notoriety in her own time, enjoying considerable success for her plays and for her short novel Oroonoko, the sto
Restoration-era poet, playwright and novelist Aphra Behn was the first truly professional woman writer in English, and Oroonoko is her sophisticated and insightful condemnation of slavery. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Ja
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn. Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister is an anonymously published three-volume roman
The editor supplies explanatory annotations and textual notes. "Historical Backgrounds" is an especially rich collection of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century documents about colonizers and slaves in the new world. Topically arranged-"Monta
Delve into the scandalous world of 17th-century nobility with Aphra Behn's "Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister," a captivating epistolary novel that unfolds entirely through the exchange of letters. This enduring work of English