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Excerpt from The Life, Adventures, and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton
Defoe had already written a amphlet, upon Captain Avery''s exploits (dec. 1719 and it is probable that Captain Singleton was composed about the same time. It is an admirable tale of adventure, and is very entertaining; but it is on a lower level than Robinson Crusoe or The Journal of the Plague Year. It lacks something of the unity of purpose and the high tone of those masterpieces, and the hero is a man so entirely wanting in principle that it is difficult to take much interest in him. Yet the story is made eminently readable by the author''s powers of invention, and it contains one character, that of the Quaker William, which is among the best that Defoe created. The book abounds, it may be added, in the author''s favourite words and phrases, and hasty com position is shown by the frequency with which sentences begin with the familiar However. Frighted and to fright are of constant occurrence, and on one page (p. 87) we find frighted creatures, frighted them, and they were so frighted, besides the fright.
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Defoe had already written a amphlet, upon Captain Avery''s exploits (dec. 1719 and it is probable that Captain Singleton was composed about the same time. It is an admirable tale of adventure, and is very entertaining; but it is on a lower level than Robinson Crusoe or The Journal of the Plague Year. It lacks something of the unity of purpose and the high tone of those masterpieces, and the hero is a man so entirely wanting in principle that it is difficult to take much interest in him. Yet the story is made eminently readable by the author''s powers of invention, and it contains one character, that of the Quaker William, which is among the best that Defoe created. The book abounds, it may be added, in the author''s favourite words and phrases, and hasty com position is shown by the frequency with which sentences begin with the familiar However. Frighted and to fright are of constant occurrence, and on one page (p. 87) we find frighted creatures, frighted them, and they were so frighted, besides the fright.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Daniel Defoe
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780265389812
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Page Count - 343
Paperback
Contributors
Author
Daniel Defoe
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781332812905
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Page Count - 345
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