# Moll Flanders — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe.

- [Author's Preface](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/moll_flanders_se/chapters/author-s-preface.md): The preface defends the novel as a moral work, explaining that the story has been edited to remove lewdness and emphasize repentance. It outlines the author's intent to provide instruction through the tale of a wicked li
- [Moll Flanders](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/moll_flanders_se/chapters/moll-flanders.md): Moll reflects on the trial and transportation of a woman wrongly accused of theft due to her own actions, and describes her subsequent return to thievery in men's clothes before abandoning the disguise. She recounts a ne
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/moll_flanders_se/chapters/endnotes.md): The chapter consists solely of an endnote referencing the bell at St. Sepulchre's, which tolls on execution day.

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