Roxana : the fortunate mistress : or, a history of the life and vast variety of fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, afterwards called the Countess de Wintselsheim in Germany : being the person known by the name of the Lady Roxana in the time of Charles II /

'Roxana', Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. The novel's drama lies in the heroine's attempts to understand the sometimes bitter lesson of her life.