Colonel Jack Author:Daniel Defoe Full title: The History and Remarkable Life Of the truly Honourable Col. Jacque, commonly call'd Col. Jack, who was Born a Gentleman, put 'Prentice to a Pick-Pocket, was Six and Twenty Years a Thief, and then Kidnapp'd to Virginia, Came back a Merchant; was Five times married to Four Whores; went into the Wars, behav'd bravely, got Preferment, w... more »as made Colonel of a Regiment, came over, and fled with the Chevalier, is still abroad compleating a Life of Wonders, and resolves to dye a General.
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When this novel first appeared in 1722, its author could not have been aware that he had written at once a tale of adventure, a primitive Bildungsroman, and a fable that embodies - as recent studies of Defoe's life and thought have made clear - many of his ideas on human nature and society. Never so popular as Robinson Crusoe, nor so acceptable to modern readers as Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack is non the less the least ambiguous of all Defoe's novels, expressing through its characters and their actions the wide range of interests of this important eighteenth century writer.« less