The life, adventures, and pyracies of the famous Captain Singleton : containing an account of his being set on shore in the island of Madagascar ...

Author(s)

• Defoe, Daniel
• Kumar, Shiv Kumar

Bibliographic Information

The life, adventures, and pyracies of the famous Captain Singleton : containing an account of his being set on shore in the island of Madagascar ...

Daniel Defoe ; edited by Shiv K. Kumar ; with a new introduction by Penelope Wilson

（The world's classics）

Oxford University Press, 1990

Uniform Title

Captain Singleton

Note

Reprint, with new introd. Previously published: London : Oxford University Press, 1969. Previously published in series: Oxford English novels

Bibliography: p. [xxiv]-xxvi

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Abducted as a child and forced to sea at the age of 12, Bob Singleton loses the fortune he made crossing Africa on foot, only to make a greater one as a pirate, before his realisation that he is `a Thief, a Pirate, a Murtherer, and ought to be hanged' sets him on the road to salvation in the company of one of Defoe's most memorable characters, William the Quaker. At once an adventure story, travel narrative, and view of eighteenth century society through the eyes of one of its outcasts, Captain Singleton is no longer considered one of Defoe's minor works, but an outstanding novel of ideas.

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Details

• NCID: BA10727177
• ISBN:
  • 0192822004
• LCCN: 89022884
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxix, 285 p.
• Size: 19 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR3404
  • DC20 : 823/.5
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00232564