Modern Chivalry - Containing the Adventures of Captain John Farrago and Teague O'Reagan, His Servant

Like Don Quixote, Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and Fielding's Tom Jones, Modern Chivalry is a tale of adventuring, episodic and exciting. Despite the author's European inspirations, it is a distinctively American book, not just because of its homespun, native characters and slapstick humor, but also because it is a narrative of journeying and questing. As it follows Captain Farrago and his sidekick on their travels, the book's premise becomes clear-that democracy as practiced in America is valuable and worthy, but that it is subject to malfunctions when tinkered with by unfit men.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Editor's Introduction Chapter 2 A Note on the Text Chapter 3 Volume I Chapter 4 Volume II Chapter 5 Volume III Chapter 6 Volume IV

About the author

By Hugh Henry Brackenridge - Edited by Lewis Leary

Product details

• Authors: Hugh Henry Brackenridge
• Assisted by: Lewis Leary (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.2003
• EAN: 9780742534032
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-3403-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 475 g
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama