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The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton
Daniel Defoe
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The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a "bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa, and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy. It has been commended for its depiction of the homosexual relationship between the eponymous hero and his religious mentor, the Quaker, William Walters."
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a "bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa, and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy. It has been commended for its depiction of the homosexual relationship between the eponymous hero and his religious mentor, the Quaker, William Walters."
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Upon these encouragements we resolved upon our journey, and many considerations put us upon it, which, had the thing itself been practicable, we were not so much to blame for as it might otherwise be supposed; I will name some of them, not to make the account too tedious.
First, we were perfectly destitute of means to work about our own deliverance any other way; we were on shore in a place perfectly remote from all European navigation; so that we could never think of being relieved, and fetched off by any of our own countrymen in that part of the world. Secondly, if we had adventured to have sailed on along the coast of Mozambique, and the desolate shores of Africa to the north, till we came to the Red Sea, all we could hope for there was to be taken by the Arabs, and be sold for. . . Read More
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I liked this one better than Robinson Crusoe. A (mostly) exciting story of pirates and treasure, good and evil, total depravity and repentance.
Man, I did not like this book. It's cool that Defoe is considered (possibly) one of the first novelists, but thank the Lord novelists have progressed since then. For something that was supposed to set a literary tradition about pirates (or so I'm told), it was so boring. Defoe's writing feels mostly
I discovered this book in an Oxfam bookshop in Oxford - a 1969 hardback with distinctive orange cover, published in ‘Oxford English Novels’. This context and the object itself added much to the charm and enjoyment of the book, which consists of a long personal (fictional) account of the main charact
Escrita un año después de su gran obra "Robinson Crusoe", en "Las aventuras del capitán Singleton" tiene mucho de lo mejor de Defoe, pero también de lo peor. Racismo, anglocentrismo, xenofobia y colonialismo entre otras joyas. Pero también vamos a descubrir la aventura con mayúsculas.
Esta novela es
A follow-up to Robinson Crusoe, but with a far looser structure. The first half concerns the young narrator, kidnapped and sold as a child, abandoned with a group of would-be mutineers on Madagascar. They get to the mainland of Africa (not a geographically or historically real Africa but a mythic la
It's like the obverse of Robinson Crusoe, innit? Unrighteous dude can't keep still, sees the world, never resting longer in one place than it takes to turn unjustly-acquired goods into gold...but just like in that other book, everything that he sees here is made sense of, filtered through, a thoroug
The plot of Daniel Defoe's journalistic pirate novel Captain Singleton is not the floor-to-ceiling mischief that I expected. It's never page after page of rough-and-tumble, bloodthirsty, irresistible mayhem. It's actually rather boring, in that all the literary work (heavy description, detail, focus