Colonel Jack. Даниэль Дефо

- Тип: Текст
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- Издательство: РИПОЛ Классик(2018)
- Возрастная категория: 16+
- ISBN: 978-5-521-06426-7, 978-5-04-116888-9
- Страниц: 445
- Язык: Английский
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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 turns of fortune that ultimately lead to a life of law-abiding prosperity as a plantation owner.