Algerine Captive: Or, the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill (Modern Library Classics) by Royall TylerA 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 expos of the horrors of the slave trade. "In stylistic purity and the clarity with which Tyler

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