Daniel Defoe's 1720 novel "Captain Singleton" chronicles the life of a man who becomes a pirate after a troubled upbringing. The hero, lacking moral guidance, is ultimately redeemed by a character named William. The story is partly inspired by the life of pirate Henry Every.
'Captain Singleton,' a 1720 novel by Daniel Defoe, follows the life of a man kidnapped as a child who turns to piracy after squandering his fortune. Despite lacking conventional virtue, he is ultimately saved by William. The novel is partly inspired by the pirate Henry Every.
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| Back | novel Defoe 1720 Singleton is kidnapped as a child and sent to sea he squander his fortune in England and returns to piracy at the end of the novel he is back to England , his adventures over, and married to his shipmate's sister Defoe's hero is a man without 'sense of virtue or religion' because of his upbringing in the end it is William who is Singleton's saviour , both morally and physically The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a novel by Daniel Defoe, originally published in 1720. It has been re-published multiple times since, some of which times were in 1840[2] 1927,[3] 1972[4] and 2008.[5] Captain Singleton is believed to have been partly inspired by the exploits of the English pirate Henry Every,[6][7] who operated in the late 17th century. The narrative describes the life of the Englishman, Singleton, stolen from a well-to-do family as a child and raised by Gypsies, eventually making his way to sea. The former half of the book concerns Singleton's crossing of Africa, the latter half concerning his life as a pirate in the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea. Defoe's description of piracy focuses for the most part on matters of economics and logistics, and Singleton's pirate behaves more like a merchant adventurer, perhaps Defoe's comment on the mercantilism of his day |
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