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Colonel Jack Daniel Defoe

Colonel Jack By Daniel Defoe

Colonel Jack by Daniel Defoe


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Daniel Defoe's fifth novel, Colonel Jack is the supposed autobiography of an English gentleman who begins life as a child of the London streets. He and his two brothers are brought up as pickpockets and highwaymen, but Colonel Jack seeks to improve himself. Historical appendices relate to eighteenth-century Virginia and Maryland and contemporary crime, punishment, and imprisonment.

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Colonel Jack by Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe's fifth novel, Colonel Jack is the supposed autobiography of an English gentleman who begins life as a child of the London streets. He and his two brothers (both also named Jack) are brought up as pickpockets and highwaymen, but Colonel Jack seeks to improve himself. Kidnapped and taken to America, he becomes first a slave, then an overseer on plantations in Maryland and Virginia. Returning to England, he is drawn into the Jacobite rebellion and into a succession of marriages, all of which end badly for him. Escaping back to Virginia, Jack becomes a successful planter, ending his life as a gentleman despite his mistakes along the way.

Historical appendices relate to eighteenth-century Virginia and Maryland and contemporary crime, punishment, and imprisonment.

About Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was a British novelist and journalist.

Gabriel Cervantes is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Texas, USA.

Geoffrey Sill is Professor of English at Rutgers University, USA and the co-editor of the Broadview Edition of Frances Burney's The Witlings and The Woman-Hater.

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CIN155481071XG
9781554810710
155481071X
Colonel Jack by Daniel Defoe
Used - Good
Paperback
Broadview Press Ltd
20151222
400
N/A
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