An edition of Modern chivalry (1792)

Modern chivalry.

containing the adventures of a captain, &c. : published for the author.

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An edition of Modern chivalry (1792)

Modern chivalry.

containing the adventures of a captain, &c. : published for the author.

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Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of Captain John Farrago and Teague O'Regan, His servant is a rambling, satirical American novel by Hugh Henry Brackenridge, a Pittsburgh writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The book was first published in 1792. The hero, Captain John Farrago, is a frontier Don Quixote who leaves on a whim his Western Pennsylvania farm to "ride about the world a little, with his man Teague at his heels, to see how things were going on here and there, and to observe human nature". The book is arguably the first important work of fiction about the American frontier and called "to the West what Don Quixote was to Europe". It first appeared in 1792 in two parts, and the third and fourth sections of the book appeared in 1793 and 1797, and a revision in 1805, with a final addition in 1815. Henry Adams called it "a more thoroughly American book than any written before 1833."

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Edition Notes

Shaw & Shoemaker, 5898. (Vol. I)

Shaw & Shoemaker, 8070. (Vol. II)

Microfiche. [New Canaan, CT: Readex Microprint, 1987-1992] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 5898, 8070).

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Early American imprints -- no. 5898., Early American imprints -- no. 8070.

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Microform
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2 v.

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OL15628102M

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OL6683019W

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August 8, 2012 Edited by VacuumBot Updated format '[microform] :' to 'Microform'; cleaned up pagination
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