Moll Flanders

Of course, nearly all of the time, hers is a struggle to live without working.

Of which more anon.

Reading Defoe.

The story takes place during the English Civil War, sayeth the notes, but you would never know it reading this book.

Not a word about it so far, and I am 100 pages into a 308 page edition.

For all we have seen, the whole country could have been at peace, all along.

Moll and everyone around her are oblivious.