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      The Algerine Captive

      by Royall Tyler
      Published
      Jul 2002
      Main Genre
      Action Adventure Action & Adventure
      Pages
      304
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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, a satiric look at a variety of American types, from the backwoods schoolmaster to the southern gentleman, and a serious exposé of the horrors of the slave trade. "In stylistic purity and the clarity with which Tyler investigates and dramatizes American manners," the critic Jack B. Moore has noted, The Algerine Captive "stands alone in our earliest fiction." It is also one of the first attempts by an American novelist to depict the Islamic world, and lays bare a culture clash and diplomatic quagmire not unlike the one that obtains between the United States and Muslim nations today.

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      First Edition Jul 2002 Modern Library ISBN13 9780375760341 ISBN10 0375760342
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      Jun 1970 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN13 9780808400493 ISBN10 0808400495
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      Dec 2008 Applewood Books ISBN13 9781429015011 ISBN10 1429015012
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      Jun 2010 Cosimo ISBN13 9781616402990 ISBN10 1616402997
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      Dec 2007 Knopf ISBN13 9780307431929 ISBN10 0307431924
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      Dec 2007 Modern Library ISBN10 B000XUAD7M
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