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| Genre/Form: | Picaresque literature Adventure fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Royall Tyler; Don Lewis Cook |
| OCLC Number: | 137782 |
| Description: | 224 p. 21 cm. |
| Series Title: | The Masterworks of literature series |
| Responsibility: | Edited for the modern reader by Don L. Cook. |
Abstract:
Fictionalized account of a period in 18th century Algerian and American history when pirates from the Barbary coast pillaged ships for passengers and cargo. The passengers were enslaved for years at a time and their memoirs became the background for romance novels of that same time period.
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