or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill
by
Royall Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
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...