title: Oroonoko, and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics)
author:  Aphra Behn 
description: "One could simply enjoy the collection as well-written Restoration diversions rather than as significant tracts." --Wendy Rowland, Literary Review 22/11/1994<br /><br />"Behn knew the West Indies and describes it as a sumptuous natural paradise. it is a gripping story of honour and dishonour, One could simply enjoy the collection as well-written Restoration diversions rather than a significant tract." --Literary Review. Aug '94 20/2/95
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  Girlebooks Presents
  
  
  Oroonoko
  
  
  or, the Royal Slave
  
  
  by Aphra Behn
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  # The Royal Slave
  
  
  I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain
  my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may
  manage at the poet's pleasure; nor in relating the truth, design to adorn it
  with any accidents but such as arrived in earnest to him: and it shall come
  simply into the world, recommended by its own proper merits and natural
  intrigues; there being enough of reality to support it, and to render it
  diverting, without the addition of invention.
  
  
  I was myself an eye-witness to a great part of what you will find here set
  down; and what I could not be witness of, I received from the mouth of the
  chief actor in this history, the hero himself, who gave us the 