A picaresque novel that tells the story of a Guinea coin, as it passes through the hands of a variety of characters in 18th-century England. Along the way, it touches on a wide range of issues, from slavery and piracy to the workings of the stock market. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United...