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Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works (Penguin Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Aphra Behn
Creator: Janet Todd
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 59344
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 0140433384
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.4
EAN: 9780140433388
ASIN: 0140433384
Publication Date: August 11, 1999
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When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko's noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behn's visit to Surinam, Oroonoko (1688) reflects the author's romantic view of Native Americans as simple, superior peoples 'in the first state of innocence, before men knew how to sin'. The novel also reveals Behn's ambiguous attitude to African slavery - while she favoured it as a means to strengthen England's power, her powerful and moving work conveys its injustice and brutality.
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