Daniel Defoe, Gabriel Cervantes (Editor), Geoffrey Sill (Editor)
Colonel Jack (Broadview Editions)
- ISBN 13:
- 9781554810710
- author:
- Daniel Defoe, Gabriel Cervantes (Editor), Geoffrey Sill (Editor)
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Broadview Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2015
- Pages:
- 400
- Dimensions:
- 14 x 1.5 x 21.6 cm
- Genre:
- Fiction, Classics, , Daniel Defoe, Gabriel Cer
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Colonel Jack is a complex and entertaining novel that tells the story of an English gentleman who begins life as a child of the London streets. Raised by his brothers as pickpockets and highwaymen, he seeks to improve himself and ultimately finds a life of law-abiding prosperity.
The book follows dramatic turns of fortune for its protagonist, from being kidnapped and taken to America to becoming an overseer on plantations in Maryland. Historical appendices provide additional context on eighteenth-century Virginia and Maryland as well as contemporary crime, punishment, and imprisonment.
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