Colonel Jack

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Colonel Jack
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Colonel Jack

Daniel Defoe
Edition year 1967
Binding Cloth
Illustrator John Lawrence
Weight 1.25 Kg
Pages 320
Dimensions 23.4 × 15.2 cm

Edition details

Colonel Jack by Daniel Defoe. 12 leaves of two-colour full-page wood-engravings by John Lawrence. Bound in yellow linen with a wrap-around illustrative cover design in black by Lawrence, black leather spine-label. Black endleaves. Black slipcase. 23.4x15.2cm. 320pp

About the book

Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack follows the adventurous life of a boy born into poverty who grows up among thieves and criminals in eighteenth-century London. Although he begins his life on the margins of society, Jack gradually develops ambitions beyond the criminal world and experiences a remarkable series of changes in fortune. His adventures take him through theft, transportation, plantation life, military service and financial success. Like Defoe's better-known Moll Flanders, the novel combines fast-moving storytelling with observations on crime, morality, class and social mobility, creating a vivid portrait of a man continually attempting to reshape his identity and circumstances.

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