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COLONEL JACK (Adventure Classic): Illustrated Edition - The History and Remarkable Life of the truly Honorable Col. Jacque (Complemented with the Biography of the Author)
COLONEL JACK (Adventure Classic): Illustrated Edition - The History and Remarkable Life of the truly Honorable Col. Jacque (Complemented with the Biography of the Author)
COLONEL JACK (Adventure Classic): Illustrated Edition - The History and Remarkable Life of the truly Honorable Col. Jacque (Complemented with the Biography of the Author)
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COLONEL JACK (Adventure Classic): Illustrated Edition - The History and Remarkable Life of the truly Honorable Col. Jacque (Complemented with the Biography of the Author)

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Colonel Jack follows an orphaned boy from a life of poverty and crime to colonial prosperity, military and marital imbroglios, and religious conversion, driven by a problematic notion of becoming a "gentleman." Colonel Jack prominently tackles the subjects of money and crime. The novel begins with Jack as an abandoned illegitimate child, whose attending nurse is instructed by his father to inform Jack when he grows up that he is a "Gentleman". Jack goes through many adventures, initially turning to crime from desperation, wandering around the country and beyond, finding love several times…
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy, most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is noted for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularize the form in Britain with others such as Samuel Richardson, and is among the founders of the English novel. He was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, and the supernatural.
LanguageEnglish
Publishere-artnow
Release dateJul 31, 2016
ISBN9788026867470
COLONEL JACK (Adventure Classic): Illustrated Edition - The History and Remarkable Life of the truly Honorable Col. Jacque (Complemented with the Biography of the Author)
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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe was born at the beginning of a period of history known as the English Restoration, so-named because it was when King Charles II restored the monarchy to England following the English Civil War and the brief dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell. Defoe’s contemporaries included Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys.

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    It's a great story if you can work your way through old school writing style. And it helps to be somewhat of a Defoe fan I would think.
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    This has remarkable similarities to Moll Flanders and this may partly account for its relative obscurity; an obscurity which I believe to be undeserved because this, more than any other novel I have recently read, filled me full of questions. The first half of the novel *spoilers* is the story of a young man basically decent who is morally compromised by his circumstances into sin and of his struggle to reach a moral compromise with the world. Then, at the end of the first Virginia episode he goes off to the wars and steals everything from the house he’s staying in. This had me thinking that Defoe had given up and cobbled an entirely different piece of writing onto a superb novel to bulk it up. The whole tone was different and the character of Jack is so wholly different as to be a different person altogether. This left me really dissatisfied because I couldn’t care about the events because I didn’t know who the protagonist was. Now, here’s my theory. It’s important to remember that this novel was originally published with no indication that it wasn’t an autobiography, with its author as entirely lacking in self awareness as we are. Just before leaving Virginia, Jack flirts with Christianity. He gives a perfectly reasonable explanation for abandoning it, but I think that explanation is a lie. When he considers murdering his wife he wonders if he is suffering a distemper of mind. I think he has subconsciously realised that the path of God is a narrow one, that it is not possible to compromise, and he has therefore abandoned any attempt at decency. I think his attempts at married life, his abandonment of his first child, his inability to stay on his slave plantation and his continual placing of himself in needless danger are signs of his self hatred. Of course, I could be reading myself into the text and I’m sure other theories are available, but if I'm right, then this is one of the great tragedies in the English language.

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