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Colonel Jack / Daniel Defoe ; edited by Gabriel Cervantes and Geoffrey Sill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, author.
- Series:
- Broadview editions
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 413 pages : ǂb illustrations ; ǂc 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- Long dismissed by critics as a novel of merely historical interest, Colonel Jack is one of Daniel Defoe's most entertaining, revealing, and complex works. It is the supposed autobiography of an English gentleman who begins life as a child of the London streets. He and his brothers are brought up as pickpockets and highwaymen, but Jack seeks to improve himself. Kidnapped and taken to America, he becomes first a slave, then an overseer on plantations in Maryland. Jack's story is one of dramatic rums of fortune that ultimately lead to a life of law-abiding prosperity as a plantation owner. Historical appendices relate to eighteenth-century Virginia and Maryland and to contemporary crime, punishment, and imprisonment. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Colonel Jack 57.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781554810710
- 155481071X
- OCLC:
- 898088312
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