Captain Misson was described by Captain Charles Johnson in the 18th century as the founder of the fictional ‘pirate utopia’ called Libertalia THE accepted view of the period of the Enlightenment is it...
06.01.2023 Westendextra.com and 3 sitesThe spectacular escape of the British slave William Oakley from Algiers to Mallorca inspired Daniel Defoe to write his popular novel Robinson Crusoe. The copperplate engraving is from the book Histori...
06.05.2023 Swissinfo.ch and 1 sitesContinuing our ongoing series of long sentences in literature, (see Steinbeck & Twain and Elmore Leonard ) I present three first sentences from well-known books. “I was born in the Year 1632, in the C...
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