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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 ...

One of the first American novels and the first American novel to be published outside America, The Algerine Captive is the fictitious memoir of Updike Underhill, a picaresque Yankee who, after a spate of adventures at home, goes to sea and ...

The book also features a section with selections from contemporary letters, essays, novels, conduct books, and public documents, which debate issues of the era.

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