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Oroonoko: Or, the Royal Slave
Oroonoko Or the Royal Slave
Author: Aphra Behn, Joanna Lipking
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....  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393312058
ISBN-10: 0393312054
Publication Date: 5/1997
Pages: 78
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Paperback
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