Author: Charles Peake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Saucy Jack, and The Indiaman. By a Blue Jacket [i.e. C. Peake].
Author: Charles Peake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 946
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Champions of the Fleet
Author: Edward Fraser
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Sot-Weed Factor
Author: John Barth
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1628972009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting...to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this satire of the 18th-century picaresque novel-think Fielding's Tom Jones or Sterne's Tristram Shandy -is also an earnest picture of the pitfalls awaiting innocence as it makes its unsteady way in the world. It's the late 17th century and Ebenezer Cooke is a poet, dutiful son and determined virgin who travels from England to Maryland to take possession of his father's tobacco (or "sot weed") plantation. He is also eventually given to believe that he has been commissioned by the third Lord Baltimore to write an epic poem, The Marylandiad. But things are not always what they seem. Actually, things are almost never what they seem. Not since Candide has a steadfast soul witnessed so many strange scenes or faced so many perils. Pirates, Indians, shrewd prostitutes, armed insurrectionists - Cooke endures them all, plus assaults on his virginity from both women and men. Barth's language is impossibly rich, a wickedly funny take on old English rhetoric and American self-appraisals. For good measure he throws in stories within stories, including the funniest retelling of the Pocahontas tale -revealed to us in the "secret" journals of Capt. John Smith - that anyone has ever dared to tell." —Time Magazine
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1628972009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting...to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this satire of the 18th-century picaresque novel-think Fielding's Tom Jones or Sterne's Tristram Shandy -is also an earnest picture of the pitfalls awaiting innocence as it makes its unsteady way in the world. It's the late 17th century and Ebenezer Cooke is a poet, dutiful son and determined virgin who travels from England to Maryland to take possession of his father's tobacco (or "sot weed") plantation. He is also eventually given to believe that he has been commissioned by the third Lord Baltimore to write an epic poem, The Marylandiad. But things are not always what they seem. Actually, things are almost never what they seem. Not since Candide has a steadfast soul witnessed so many strange scenes or faced so many perils. Pirates, Indians, shrewd prostitutes, armed insurrectionists - Cooke endures them all, plus assaults on his virginity from both women and men. Barth's language is impossibly rich, a wickedly funny take on old English rhetoric and American self-appraisals. For good measure he throws in stories within stories, including the funniest retelling of the Pocahontas tale -revealed to us in the "secret" journals of Capt. John Smith - that anyone has ever dared to tell." —Time Magazine
The Trafalgar Roll
Author: Robert Holden Mackenzie
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The County and City of Cork Remembrancer
Author: Francis H. Tuckey
Publisher:
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Category : Cork (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Publisher:
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Category : Cork (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
British Pirates in Print and Performance
Author: M. Powell
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137339911
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fictional or real, pirates haunted the imagination of the 18th and 19th century-British public during this great period of maritime commerce, exploration, and naval conflict. British Pirates in Print and Performanc e explores representations of pirates through dozens of stage performances, including adaptations by Byron, Scott, and Cooper.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137339911
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fictional or real, pirates haunted the imagination of the 18th and 19th century-British public during this great period of maritime commerce, exploration, and naval conflict. British Pirates in Print and Performanc e explores representations of pirates through dozens of stage performances, including adaptations by Byron, Scott, and Cooper.
The Works of Thomas Hood
Author: Thomas Hood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
History of Fayette County
Author: R. S. Dills
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fayette County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fayette County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description