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Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of Captain John Farrago and Teague O'Regan, His servant is a rambling, satirical American novel by Hugh Henry Brackenridge, a Pittsburgh writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The book was first published in 1792. The hero, Captain John Farrago, is a frontier Don Quixote who leaves on a whim his Western Pennsylvania farm to "ride about the world a little, with his man Teague at his heels, to see how things were going on here and there, and to observe human nature". The book is arguably the first important work of…
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4 editions · 2 languages- Paperback · English · 2004Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. · 336 pages · 9780742534032
- Hardcover · English · 1965New College & Univ Pr · 9780808402206
- Other · English · 2009Hackett Pub. Co. · 588 pages · 9780872209916
- Other · UND · 1962Hafner · 9780028418704
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