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The Algerine Captive: or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill (Modern Library Classics)
An early American novel follows a hapless doctor from New England classrooms to Algerian captivity. Tyler satirizes American types while seriously examining slavery and cultural collision. For readers interested in how American fiction began to define itself against both European models and Islamic culture. The kind of forgotten classic that illuminates contemporary conflicts by showing how little has changed in our diplomatic quagmires. Prescient about culture clash and surprisingly funny about American pretensions.
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