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The Algerine Captive: or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill (Modern Library Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Royall Tyler
Creator: Caleb Crain
Publisher: Modern Library
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 263642
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2002 Modern Library Pbk. Ed
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0375760342
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.2
EAN: 9780375760341
ASIN: 0375760342
Publication Date: July 9, 2002
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A predecessor of both the nativist humor of Mark Twain and the exotic adventure stories of Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Richard Dana, Royall Tyler’s 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 expose of the horrors of the slave trade. “In stylistic purity and the clarity with which Tyler investigates and dramatizes American manners,” the critic Jack B. Moore has noted, The Algerine Captive “stands alone in our earliest fiction.” It is also one of the first attempts by an American novelist to depict the Islamic world, and lays bare a culture clash and diplomatic quagmire not unlike the one that obtains between the United States and Muslim nations today.
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