Moll Flanders(摩尔·弗兰德斯)
Daniel Defoe
Part 1
Author's Preface
The world is so taken up of late with novels and romances, that
it will be hard for a private history to be taken for genuine,
where the names and other circumstances of the person are
concealed, and on this account we must be content to leave the
reader to pass his own opinion upon the ensuing sheet, and take it
just as he pleases.
The author is here supposed to be writing her own history, and
in the very beginning of her account she gives the reasons why she
thinks fit to conceal her true name, after which there is no
occasion to say any more about that.
It is true that the original of this story is put into new
words, and the style of the famous lady we here speak of is a
little altered; particularly she is made to tell her own tale in
modester words that she to…