Zofloya, or, The Moor
(2021)
Fiction
eAudiobook
Series:
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Naxos Audiobooks, 2021
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EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 24 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781781983546 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT14421055, 1781983542 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 14421055
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
Read by Lucy Scott
'Few venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin.' Satan's final judgement on Victoria sums up a shocking novel, set in Venice at the end of the 15th century, that tracks the path of its heroine from abused victim to fully fledged criminal. Her conscious embodiment of vice seems to know no limits. Depicting unfettered desire and gratuitous cruelty, and challenging taboos of race and class, this tale of lust, betrayal and multiple murder has Dacre moving beyond the limits of contemporaneous gothic heroes (e.g. Matthew Lewis's Ambrosio) into a truly hellish zone of her own
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