Oroonoko
or, the Royal Slave
- Auteur: Aphra Behn (Engeland)
- Soort boek: Engelse novelle uit 1688
- Taal: Engels
- Eerste uitgever: Will. Canning
- Uitgever: Penguin Classics
- Omvang: 144 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook /luisterboek
- Prijs: £ 8,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Aphra Behn Oroonoko, or, the Royal Slave review en recensie
- “Although it was not popular duing Behn’s lifetime, today Oroonoko is Aphra Behn’s most widely read and most highly regarded work remains important. It also influenced the development of the English novel, developing the female narrative voice and treating anti-colonial and abolitionist themes Oroonoko is notable for its groundbreaking depiction of the horrors of slavery, and it has come to be called one of literature’s first abolitionist tracts.” (GradeSaver)
Flaptekst van het boek uit 1688 van de Engelse schrijfster Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn, the poet, playwright, novelist and political satirist was the first truly professional woman writer in English. This selection, edited and introduced by Professor Janet Todd, demonstrates the full sophistication and vitality of Aphra Behn’s genius. It contains the plays The Rover and The Widow, Ranter (the first English play to be set in the American colonies) together with Love Letters to a Gentleman, a choice of poems and two short novels – The Fair Jilt and Oroonoko – which are among the most innovative prose writings of the seventeenth century.
Aphra Behn was born on 14 December 1640 in Canterbury, Kent, 
England. She was a playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era. Her story Oroonoko is by some scholars regarded as the first novel published in England. She wrote a little bit more than twenty plays of wich two were publshed after her death and some poetry and prose books of wich Oroonoko is the most famous. She died at the age of 48 on 16 April 1689 in Londen ans is buried in the East Cloister of Westminster Abbey.