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Lingua: inglese
Editore: Broadview Press Inc, 2015
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Codice articolo G155481071XI2N00
- Titolo
- Colonel Jack
- Autore
- Defoe, Daniel
- Editore
- Broadview Press Inc
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 2015
- Condizione
- As New
- Sovraccoperta
- No Jacket
- Rilegatura
- Paperback
- Lingua
- inglese
- ISBN 10
- 155481071X
- ISBN 13
- 9781554810710
- Peso dell'articolo
- 0,95 libbre
Long dismissed by critics as a novel of merely historical interest, Colonel Jack is one of Daniel Defoe’s most entertaining, revealing, and complex works. It is the supposed autobiography of an English gentleman who begins life as a child of the London streets. He and his brothers are brought up as pickpockets and highwaymen, but Jack seeks to improve himself. Kidnapped and taken to America, he becomes first a slave, then an overseer on plantations in Maryland. Jack’s story is one of dramatic turns of fortune that ultimately lead to a life of law-abiding prosperity as a plantation owner.
Historical appendices relate to eighteenth-century Virginia and Maryland and to contemporary crime, punishment, and imprisonment.
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Informazioni sull’autore
Gabriel Cervantes is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Texas.
Geoffrey Sill is Professor of English at Rutgers University and the co-editor of the Broadview Edition of Frances Burney’s The Witlings and The Woman-Hater.
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