Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was a spy for Charles II, a playwright, poet, and novelist, and the first English woman to make a living from writing. Her pen name was Astrea. Ernest A. Baker (1869-1941) was an English writer and historian of literature. In 1905, 216 years after Mrs Behn's death, he introduced this collection of ten of her novels in the language of his day, a form which was not a facsimile of her texts. This ebook, prepared 329 years after her death, silently corrects some typos, a...

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.Aphra Behn was a British writer during the Restoration era in the 17th century. Behn was one of the first women in history to earn a writing through living and she would inspire many of the female authors that followed. Behn's most famous works include Oro...

Aphra Behn's The Lover's Watch and La Môntre unfold as sparkling meditations on love, wit, and the disciplined art of devotion. Framed by admiring tributes from Charles Cotton, N. Tate, Rich. Faerrar, G. J., and others, the volume presents Behn as a rare poet whose elegance, originality, and female genius transform a French source into something more beautiful, ordered, and enduring. At its center is the courtly exchange between Damon and Iris, whose separation inspires a symbolic watch—a ...

A witty prologue sets the tone for this Restoration comedy of masks, bargains, and romantic confusion, mocking fashionable emptiness and the appetite for noise over substance. At the center is Sir Timothy Tawdrey, a vain, money-minded fop who plans to marry Celinda for convenience while still pursuing pleasure, only to discover that she loves Bellmour and has little patience for his pompous courtship. Around them swirl sharp-tongued servants, jealous guardians, secret meetings, disguised p...

"The Works of Aphra Behn Vol. V" by Aphra Behn is a collection of writings by the influential English playwright, poet, and novelist Aphra Behn. Aphra Behn was one of the first English women to earn a living through writing, and her works are known for their wit, humor, and exploration of themes such as gender, power, and identity.Volume V of Behn's works likely includes a selection of her plays, poems, and prose writings. Behn was a prolific author, and her works spanned a variety of genr...

This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography.This Collection Includes:The City HeiressLove-Letters Between a Nobleman and His SisterOroonoko or the Royal SlaveThe Rover or, the Banish'd Cavaliers. Part 1 and Part 2 Appendix:Aphra Behn Biography

Bellamora's arrival in London begins as a desperate bid for safety and quickly turns into a nightmare of scandal, secrecy, and social exposure. Taken in by a compassionate elderly gentlewoman, she confesses that Mr. Fondlove has seduced and abandoned her, leaving her pregnant, penniless, and terrified of parish punishment. As the household scrambles to conceal her condition, summon Fondlove, and arrange a hasty marriage before the child's birth, the story satirizes gossip, hypocrisy, and t...

In Volume III, the collection likely includes more of Behn's lesser-known works, providing a deeper insight into her diverse output. This could include additional plays, such as The Widow Ranter (1689) and The Feigned Courtesans (1679), as well as her poetry and prose. Behn's works often featured complex characters, especially strong female protagonists, and addressed controversial topics, including sexual agency, marriage, and class.Behn’s influence on the development of English drama, pa...

Abdelazer; or, The Moor's Revenge plunges into a Spanish court where lust, ambition, and betrayal turn private desire into public ruin. Aphra Behn's fierce Restoration tragedy follows the Moor Abdelazer, a captive risen to power, as he manipulates the jealous Queen Isabella, corrupt nobles, and shifting alliances until the kingdom collapses into accusation, murder, and civil conflict. From its opening song of wounded love and the first charged confrontation between Abdelazer and the Queen,...

This volume presents the first collected edition of Aphra Behn's writings, bringing together her major plays, memoir, letters, and critical commentary in a serious attempt to recover a life long clouded by legend. The editor works to correct errors about her family, birthplace, and career, while showing how Behn became the first Englishwoman to earn her living by writing. From her early years in Kent and formative journey to Surinam to her later life in England and Holland, the book traces...

It is perhaps not altogether easy to appreciate the multiplicity of difficulties with which the first editor of Mrs. Behn has to cope. Not only is her life strangely mysterious and obscure, but the rubbish of half-a-dozen romancing biographers must needs be cleared away before we can even begin to see daylight. Matter which had been for two centuries accepted on seemingly the soundest authority is proven false; her family name itself was, until my recent discovery, wrongly given; the very ...

Oroonoko is a short novel by Aphra Behn (1640-1689), published in 1688, concerning the love of its hero, an enslaved African in Surinam in the 1660s, and the author's own experiences in the new South American colony. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.