Colonel Jack
Published on 22. December 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-1-55481-071-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Historical appendices relate to eighteenth-century Virginia and Maryland and contemporary crime, punishment, and imprisonment.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Calgary
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
4 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55481-071-0 (9781554810710)
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Persons
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.
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.