A predecessor of both the nativist humor of Mark Twain and the exotic adventure stories of Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Richard Dana, Royall Tyler’

After the Revolutionary War, American sailors lost the protection of Britain's Royal Navy and were easy prey for the pirates of the North African coast, who cap

One of the first American novels and the first American novel to be published outside America, The Algerine Captive is the fictitious memoir of Updike Underhill