Algerine Captive: Or, the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill Six Years a Prisoner Among the Algerines by Royall Tyler

Algerine Captive: Or, the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill Six Years a Prisoner Among the Algerines

Royall Tyler

256 pages first pub 1967 (editions)

fiction classics reflective medium-paced

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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 sati...

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