The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jacque, Commonly Called Colonel Jack


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Colonel Jack explores the story of an English gentleman who begins life on the London streets. Jack and his brothers grew up being pickpockets and bandits, but he desired to change this and be better. Abducted and brought to America, he becomes an indentured servant and then a caretaker of plantations in Maryland, after which his story takes one dramatic turn. Through Jack's story, Daniel Defoe offered a broad look at the social and political geography of his times.




The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jacque, Commonly Called Colonel Jack


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Full title: The History and Remarkable Life Of the truly Honourable Col. Jacque, commonly call'd Col. Jack, who was Born a Gentleman, put 'Prentice to a Pick-Pocket, was Six and Twenty Years a Thief, and then Kidnapp'd to Virginia, Came back a Merchant; was Five times married to Four Whores; went into the Wars, behav'd bravely, got Preferment, was made Colonel of a Regiment, came over, and fled with the Chevalier, is still abroad compleating a Life of Wonders, and resolves to dye a General.










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The Life of Daniel Defoe


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The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe’s writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe’s political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions, including Robinson Crusoe Places emphasis on Defoe’s distinctive style and rhetoric Situates his work within the precise historical circumstances of the eighteenth-century in which Defoe was an important and active participant Now available in paperback