# Oroonoko

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- Book: [Oroonoko](https://www.bookquiver.com/aphra-behn/oroonoko) ([Oroonoko.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/aphra-behn/oroonoko.md))
- Authors: [Aphra Behn](https://www.bookquiver.com/aphra-behn)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4125-163-8
- Published: 2016-03-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'We are bought and sold like apes or monkeys, to be the sport of women, fools, and cowards, and the support of rogues . . .' Spy, traveller and pioneering female writer Aphra Benn's story of an African prince sold into slavery is considered one of the earliest English novels