The Algerine Captive: Or, the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill

by Royall Tyler

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375760342
• ISBN13: 9780375760341
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Modern Library
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.9"