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The Algerine Captive
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Paperback
from Applewood Books (December 1, 2008); titled "The Algerine Captive: Or, the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill"
9781429015011 | details & prices | 252 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $17.95
This edition also contains The Algerine Captive, The Algerine Captive
This edition also contains The Algerine Captive, The Algerine Captive
from Modern Library (July 1, 2002)
9780375760341 | details & prices | 255 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.22 lbs | List price $16.00
About: A predecessor of both the nativist humor of Mark Twain and the exotic adventure stories of Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Richard Dana, Royall Tylerâs The Algerine Captive is an entertaining romp through eighteenth-century society, a satiric look at a variety of American types, from the backwoods schoolmaster to the southern gentleman, and a serious exposé of the horrors of the slave trade.
About: A predecessor of both the nativist humor of Mark Twain and the exotic adventure stories of Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Richard Dana, Royall Tylerâs The Algerine Captive is an entertaining romp through eighteenth-century society, a satiric look at a variety of American types, from the backwoods schoolmaster to the southern gentleman, and a serious exposé of the horrors of the slave trade.