* DancingBear: It's better known for the ''extremely'' long title, which summarizes the entire story, than it is for the actual contents of the book.
* GenreTurningPoint: Widely considered to be the prototype for the English concept of the ''novel'' as a popular fictional work. If it strikes a modern reader as wildly incoherent, rambling, and adhering to none of the established rules of plot, characterization, and narrative, it's because novels literally were not a thing at the time; they were making up the rules as they went. Taking all that into consideration, Moll was a revolutionary new idea in literature: a ''character'' (in that her strength of personality was intended to carry the story along as much as her scandalous adventures).
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