{"product_id":"roxana","title":"Roxana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Roxana (Hardcover, 304 pages – Signet Classics, 1979) – Signet Classics, 1979. Language: Eng.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Like New\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoxana (1724) was Defoe's last novel. It is a fascinating work, simultaneously strange and tragic, which dramatizes the moral deterioration and degradation of its complex heroine. Mlle Beleau, or Roxana as she becomes known, enters upon a career as a courtesan. She passes from one protector to another in England, France and Holland and amasses much wealth. But she is fatally torn between the dull virtue of middle-class respectability and the evil attractions of the beckoning city lights. The only one of Defoe's novels that does not end with the triumph of its protagonist, Roxana is nevertheless a triumphant work of art. It is of enormous historical and social interest, highlighting as it does the complex relationship that existed in Defoe's time between public respectability and private corruption.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daniel Defoe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53098627465440,"sku":"9780451511904","price":154.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/5681\/6608\/files\/91cdhkeVzRL._SY522.jpg?v=1781696169","url":"https:\/\/medicalbook.online\/products\/roxana","provider":"medicalbook.online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}