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单词 Oroonoko
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Oroonoko

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Oroonoko

First edition cover of Oroonoko
Portrait of Aphra Behn, aged approximately 30, by Mary Beale
Anne Bracegirdle appearing in John Dryden's The Indian Queen in a headdress of feathers purportedly given by Aphra Behn to Thomas Killigrew. Scholars speculate that Behn had this headdress from her time in Surinam.
An engraving by William Blake illustrating

Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn (16401689), published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions later that year. The eponymous hero is an African prince from Coramantien who is tricked into slavery and sold to British colonists in Surinam where he meets the narrator. Behn's text is a first person account of his life, love, rebellion and execution.

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