The Algerine CaptiveRowman & Littlefield, 1970 - 224 sivua One of the first American novels and the first American novel to be published outside America, The Algerine Captive is the fictitious memoir of Updike Underhill, a picaresque Yankee who, after a spate of adventures at home, goes to sea and is ultimately taken captive by the Algerines. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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... Letters . Such comparisons are wide of the mark , for it is not exoticism , fantasy , nor even ingenuity that recommend the book . The chronicling of what the reviewer called " trans - atlantic peculiarities " gives the book its place ...
... Letters . Such comparisons are wide of the mark , for it is not exoticism , fantasy , nor even ingenuity that recommend the book . The chronicling of what the reviewer called " trans - atlantic peculiarities " gives the book its place ...
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... letters , only his mistress . During this period , Tyler joined a circle of young professional men , Joseph Dennie , Jeremiah Mason , Thomas Green Fessenden and others , who had set up practice in the Connecticut River valley from ...
... letters , only his mistress . During this period , Tyler joined a circle of young professional men , Joseph Dennie , Jeremiah Mason , Thomas Green Fessenden and others , who had set up practice in the Connecticut River valley from ...
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... letters in America at the turn of the century . Under Dennie's energetic editorship The Museum's subscription list grew to over two thousand and its circulation extended from Maine to South Carolina . For two years it flourished . The ...
... letters in America at the turn of the century . Under Dennie's energetic editorship The Museum's subscription list grew to over two thousand and its circulation extended from Maine to South Carolina . For two years it flourished . The ...
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... letter to his mother . " I am neither rich , nor independent , " he said , " nor anything like it , but I am not dishonored , nor a beggar " ( Ellis , p . 199 ) . Small reward indeed for a lifetime of service to literature . Whatever ...
... letter to his mother . " I am neither rich , nor independent , " he said , " nor anything like it , but I am not dishonored , nor a beggar " ( Ellis , p . 199 ) . Small reward indeed for a lifetime of service to literature . Whatever ...
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... letters . The educational value of travel literature made it acceptable to the monitors of public morals . It served the Puritan penchant for drawing profit even from one's diversions . At the same time the absence of romantic ...
... letters . The educational value of travel literature made it acceptable to the monitors of public morals . It served the Puritan penchant for drawing profit even from one's diversions . At the same time the absence of romantic ...
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VOLUME I | 31 |
CHAPTER 2 | 37 |
CHAPTER 3 | 41 |
CHAPTER 4 | 43 |
CHAPTER 5 | 45 |
CHAPTER 6 | 48 |
CHAPTER 7 | 51 |
CHAPTER 8 | 56 |
CHAPTER 3 | 126 |
CHAPTER 4 | 129 |
CHAPTER 5 | 133 |
CHAPTER 6 | 136 |
CHAPTER 7 | 139 |
CHAPTER 8 | 144 |
CHAPTER 9 | 146 |
CHAPTER 10 | 149 |
CHAPTER 9 | 58 |
CHAPTER 10 | 63 |
CHAPTER 11 | 65 |
CHAPTER 12 | 67 |
CHAPTER 13 | 72 |
CHAPTER 14 | 74 |
CHAPTER 15 | 76 |
CHAPTER 16 | 77 |
CHAPTER 17 | 78 |
CHAPTER 18 | 79 |
CHAPTER 19 | 81 |
CHAPTER 20 | 83 |
CHAPTER 21 | 87 |
CHAPTER 22 | 89 |
CHAPTER 23 | 90 |
CHAPTER 24 | 93 |
CHAPTER 25 | 96 |
CHAPTER 26 | 99 |
CHAPTER 27 | 101 |
CHAPTER 28 | 103 |
CHAPTER 29 | 105 |
CHAPTER 30 | 107 |
CHAPTER 31 | 111 |
CHAPTER 32 | 115 |
VOLUME II | 121 |
CHAPTER 2 | 124 |
CHAPTER 11 | 151 |
CHAPTER 12 | 152 |
CHAPTER 13 | 154 |
CHAPTER 14 | 156 |
CHAPTER 15 | 159 |
CHAPTER 16 | 168 |
CHAPTER 17 | 170 |
CHAPTER 18 | 172 |
CHAPTER 19 | 174 |
CHAPTER 20 | 175 |
CHAPTER 21 | 177 |
CHAPTER 22 | 180 |
CHAPTER 23 | 184 |
CHAPTER 24 | 186 |
CHAPTER 25 | 188 |
CHAPTER 26 | 191 |
CHAPTER 27 | 194 |
CHAPTER 28 | 197 |
CHAPTER 29 | 199 |
CHAPTER 30 | 201 |
CHAPTER 31 | 207 |
CHAPTER 32 | 213 |
CHAPTER 33 | 215 |
CHAPTER 34 | 217 |
CHAPTER 35 | 219 |
CHAPTER 36 | 220 |
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Adonah African Alcoran Algerine Captive Algiers American amused ARGUMENT The Author AUTHOR'S Manuscript Poems Barbary Barbary pirates Bashaw Boston cæsura called camels Captain John Underhill Captain Underhill captured Christian church command confess court Dennie's Dey's divine doctor dollars England English European eyes faith father fellow citizens fortune friends Grand Seignior Greek hand holy honor horse hundred immediately infidel John Glas Joseph Dennie Kaaba labor land language learned letters literary Mahomet Mahometan manners Manuscript Poems ARGUMENT master Mecca Medina miserable Mollah Mussulman nations native never novel observed officer passed patient person physician port practice preceptor present priest prisoners prophet ransom reader received religion renegado respectable retired Royall Tyler sent sherbet ship slavery soon soul Spondee sublime Porte suffered Thomas Paine thousand torment town treaty Tyler Underhill's Updike Underhill vessel whole William Blaxton wretch Xebec young lady
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Sivu 27 - Novels almost as incredible . . . and therefore, no sooner was a taste for amusing literature diffused than all orders of country life, with one accord, forsook the sober sermons and Practical Pieties of their fathers for the gay stories and splendid impieties of the Traveller and the Novelist. The worthy farmer no longer fatigued himself with Bunyan's Pilgrim up "the hill of difficulty...