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 captured ships and cargo, enslaved crew, and demanded ransom from the U.S. Motivated by these events, Royall Tyler, the first American-born playwright, poet, and novelist, wrote ""The Algerine Captive."" Originally published anonymously in 1797, it tells the tale of fictitious Boston native Dr. Updike Underhill, his capture by Barbary pirates, and their efforts to convert him to their Muslim faith. Written in an entertaining and satiric style that predated Mark Twain, Tyler's novel reveals his patriotic pride and anti-slavery beliefs. His comments on the religious and cultural divide between Western and Islamic beliefs of the day still resonate today.

The Algerine Captive (Masterworks of Literature Series)

Literature & Fiction

Tyler, Royall

Classics

New College & Univ Pr

Bernard Malamud

Through his distinctive fusion of modernist daring and traditional storytelling, Bernard Malamud became one of postwar America’s most important writers, his work an inspiration for and lasting influence on novelists who have come after him, Cynthia Ozick and Philip Roth most notably among them. The second volume of the Library of America’s Malamud edition brings together three novels of the 1960s: A New Life (1961), a satiric campus novel set in the Pacific Northwest (based on the author’s experiences at Oregon State), in which native New Yorker Seymour Levin finds himself confronted not only with a new landscape but with erotic intrigue, university politics, and an appointment that isn’t quite what he had expected it to be. The Fixer (1966) is the gripping saga of a Jew imprisoned in prerevolutionary Russia after being falsely accused of the ritual murder of a twelve-year-old boy. The novel-instories Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition (1969) follows the comic misadventures, sexual and otherwise, of a failed American painter in Italy. In the ten unforgettable stories concluding the collection, Malamud shows himself to be an heir to the tradition of Hawthorne, Chekhov, and Kafka, and at his best— “Idiots First,” “The Jewbird,” “The German Refugee”— their equal.

Richman, Sidney

Community Action Against Poverty: Readings from the Mobilization Experience

Brager, George A

Purcell, Francis P.

Critic's Alchemy

Temple, Ruth Z.

David Graham Phillips

Ravitz, Abe C.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (Twayne's United States Authors Series)

Brittin, Norman A.

History & Criticism

Relates the author's life to his works and studies the development of his themes and artistic techniques beginning with his early sketches in 1924.

Ernest Hemingway

Biographies & Memoirs

Rovit, Earl H.

Arts & Literature

Germanic People

Owen, Francis

History of New York

History

Irving., Washington

Americas

J.D. Salinger

French, Warren G.

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