Of Captain Mission & His Crew: The History of the Pyrates, Vol. II - A Pirates Tale Classic By Daniel Defoe!

by Daniel Defoe, Bdp (Editor)

Overview

In much the same manner and at the same time that John Gay was satirizing Walpole's government in The Beggar's Opera, Defoe began to use his pirates as a commentary on the injustice and hypocrisy of contemporary English society. Among Defoe's gallery of pirates are Captain White, who refused to rob from women and children; Captain Bellamy, the proletarian revolutionist; and captain North, whose sense of justice and honesty was a rebuke to the corruption of government under Walpole. But the fictional Captain Misson, the founder of a communist utopia, is by far the most original of these creations.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012994639
Publisher:	BDP
Publication date:	09/05/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	128 KB

About the Author

London-born Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) pursued a variety of careers including merchant, soldier, secret agent, and political pamphleteer. He wrote books on economics, history, biography, and crime. But he is best remembered for his fiction, which he began to write late in his life and which includes the novels Moll Flanders, Roxana, and the celebrated Robinson Crusoe.