“Happy Curtain, or Roxanne” (1724) is the last novel of the English writer Daniel Defoe, the famous author of “Robinson Crusoe”. The main character of the book – the wife of the London brewer, who threw a family because of debts and escaped abroad – remains a “straw widow.” Having thrown children with distant relatives, she goes to keep his housekeeper-jeweler, and after his sudden death in France, he finds other rich and noble patrons (among which the King of England Charles II himself turns out to be). Rising higher on the social ladder, she becomes a respectable woman, known in society under the name of Lady Roxanne. However, years later, the ghosts of the past – abandoned children and a career of the high -society courtesan – unexpectedly and inexorably remind Roxanne about herself, threatening to reveal her genuine name and destroy her new prosperous life …
Author
Defoe Daniel
Translator
Litvinova T.
Publisher
ABC, 2014
Series
Classic (soft)
16+
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