After the Revolutionary War, American sailors lost the protection of Britain's Royal Navy and were easy prey for the pirates of the North African coast, who captured ships and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...