Moll Flanders Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2008) A comprehensive overview of positive

A comprehensive overview of positive psychology by one of the acknowledged leaders in the field

This is a book for anyone who wants to introduce simplicity

where she discovers secrets both sublime and ominous

empowered as they are by centuries of experience and a passionate

Various forms of “opportunity hoarding” among the upper middle class make it harder for others to rise up to the top rung

Moll Flanders Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2008) A comprehensive overview of positiveMoll Flanders recounts the story of her extraordinary life, from her birth in Newgate prison to her declining years in married prosperity. After being seduced in the home of her adoptive family she lives off her wits and her beauty, as a whore, 'five times a Wife', and a thief, and is eventually transported to Virginia for her crimes. Rich and penitent, Moll reflects on a world that is both good and evil, just as the reader both abhors and admires