Oroonoko

Autori

• Aphra Behn

Parametri

• 78 pagine
• 3 ore di lettura

• Avventura
• Letteratura mondiale
• Narrativa
• Prosa storica
• Romanzi d'avventura

Maggiori informazioni sul libro

An influential seventeenth-century fable, by a pathbreaking woman writer, about the fall of a black prince. The first woman in England to make her living by writing, Aphra Behn (1640-1689) combines memoir, exotic travel narrative, and romance to tell the story of the noble Oroonoko, a black man who begins life as a prince and ends it as a slave. The tale depicts the overthrow of a hero by a civilization that considers itself superior to him. Taken up by reformers in the long battle against the slave trade, reprinted and imitated countless times, Oroonoko remains a popular tale that introduces powerful themes onto the literary stage.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 1997