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Francis Obaldistone, the novel's hero, contends with his jealous, unscrupulous cousin Rashleigh for the hand of a beautiful woman, and with the help of Rob Roy, Francis succeeds in exposing Rashieigh's villainy.

Having been abandoned at birth in London's Newgate prison, Moll Flanders uses her disreputable skills in order to survive in the corrupt society of eighteenth-century England.

After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins.