The Algerine Captive: The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill: Six Years a Prisoner Among the AlgerinesCosimo, Inc., 1 de juny 2010 - 256 pàgines He wrote the first American comedy to be performed onstage, and here, in this extraordinary but sadly little-remembered 1797 novel, he anticipates the great literature of the coming American century. Here, in two volumes in one book, Royall Tyler tells the astonishing-and thoroughly fictional-tale of Boston gentleman and scholar Updike Underhill, whose life encompasses such extremes as fumblings with Greek poetry that almost lead him to a deadly duel and a stint as a surgeon on a slave ship. One of the first works of fiction to feel uniquely American, this combination of satire and sincerity begins, in Volume 1, as a comedy of manners and genteel adventure the likes of which Mark Twain would later make his own, and transforms, in Volume 2, into a sober tale of abolition and a striking consideration of what it meant, in those early days of the nation, to be an American. Fans of American literature should consider this a must-read. American playwright ROYALL TYLER (1757-1826), born William Clark Tyler, wrote many other plays, some of which have been lost, as well as novels, essays, and humorous verse. |
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A sure Mode of discovering the Bent of | 37 |
Anecdotes of the celebrated Doctor Moyes | 46 |
The Author is happy in the acquaintance | 55 |
The Author quitteth the Study of Gallantry | 58 |
Sketch of an hereditary Doctor and a lite | 67 |
A Medical Consultation | 73 |
Religious Exercises in a Southern State | 80 |
The Author dreameth whilst awake | 120 |
The Author is carried to the sacred College | 131 |
The Language of the Algerines | 142 |
Why do not the Powers in Europe suppress | 194 |
An Algerine LawSuit | 198 |
Of the Jews | 205 |
The Author commences Acquaintance with | 211 |
The Author by Permission of his Master | 219 |
London | 87 |
Reasonable Conjectures upon the Motives | 94 |
Treatment of the Slaves on board the Ship | 101 |
Is brought | 112 |
The Author is blessed with the Sight | 226 |
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Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Algerine Captive: Or, the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill Six ... Royall Tyler Visualització completa - 2008 |
The Algerine Captive: Or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor ..., Volums 1-2 Royall Tyler Visualització de fragments - 1967 |
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