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Roxana

Yazan: Daniel Defoe
Seslendiren: Juanita McMahon
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Beautiful, proud Roxana is terrified of being poor. When her husband leaves her penniless with five children, she must choose between being a virtuous beggar or a rich whore. Embarking on a career as a courtesan and kept woman, Roxana passes from man to man in order to maintain her lavish, glamorous lifestyle. But this life comes at a cost; she is torn between sinful prosperity and the respectability she craves. Classics Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Kurgu Literary Fiction Romantik
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What did you like most about Roxana?

I'm surprised at the negative reviews for this classic. I thoroughly enjoyed it and though Juanita McMahon's delivery was excellent - she brought the characters to life with her masterful delivery.

Published in 1724, and in the first-person as a memoir, “Roxana” describes her youth, marriage to a whom man she often refers to as “a fool” and the dire straits she found herself in following her abandonment by this man (the brewer).

I would, however, recommend potential readers who listen to this audiobook to also seek the full 1745 edition – as this gives a fuller ending (a common cause for complaint is the abruptness of the ending in the original and in the abridged versions).

I have to say, by the end of the story I was sad to be parted from Roxana's world. I had grown so attached; it surprised me!

Which character – as performed by Juanita McMahon – was your favourite?

She was excellent with Roxana and the two male characters who stood out the most because of her great delivery were the Prince in France and the Dutch merchant.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

When she reunites with the Dutch merchant.

This was wonderful!

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This is an intriguing tale if somewhat structurally messy from a literary point of view.
Essentially built around the journal and accounts of the protagonist, somewhat out of sequence occasionally and Defoe has a habit of repeating things. Repeating sentences and conversations but also he can spend pages on a dialogue between two Character ad infinitum, discussing a point already made, over and over and then he gives a repeated account of the conclusion.

Complicated in some parts because of this and the 18th century dialogue based language rather than clean prose.

The protagonist is shamefully selfish and has a sad attitude to her own offspring and she balances her suitors on what the best outcome is for her.

I was hoping for a redemption in the end but sadly it doesn't happen as she spirals into a desperate abandonment of her kin and the ultimate demise of her own happiness.

Great narration
Good follow up to " Moll Flanders" .

Fascinatingly flawed character

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A bore compared to Moll Flanders. I got to the end with relief....and his last book.

A bore compared to Moll Flanders

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Read Roxana at university many years ago and thought I’d give this a try. I’ve come away blown away by how modern so many of Defoes ideas still are about issues like capital, gender and class.

I know Marxist critics have had a field day with Robinson Crusoe- but I’m still perplexed by how Roxana is so overlooked as a novel. Gender critical theory weighs so heavily on relations between the women in the novel as well as the men. The only person who come close to seeing through her is the Jewish gold merchant.

It’s so desperately dark (though parts of it read like a Carry On film) that perhaps it’s just too tough to tackle as a tv adaption or film. Juanita has done a brilliant job bringing it to life here.

No doubt that in todays works of Wall Street banks, high class escort agencies, global hot money markets and toothless law enforcers, Defoe would feel right at home. Roxana is still out there now- on a beach in the south of France or shopping on Fifth Avenue.

Fabulous gripping adaptation

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