Robert Patlock

The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rounding Cape Horn, the crew of the Hector spots a strange cloud flying erratically through the sky. Alarmed, they open fire, dropping the object or being into the sea. Upon hearing a cry for help, the ship pulls closer to see, afloat on the waves, an old man. The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins is a novel by Robert Paltock.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513217420
• Artikelnr.: 62750588

Autorenporträt

Robert Paltock (1697-1767) was an English novelist and attorney. Born in Westminster, Robert was the son of Thomas Paltock. He became an attorney as a young man and was called to the Bar at Clement's Inn, where he lived until 1759. That year, he moved to Lambeth and married Anna Skinner, with whom he would raise one son. His novel The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins (1751) is regarded as a fictional travelogue in the tradition of Robinson Crusoe (1719) and has influenced generations of writers, including Walter Scott, Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Charles Lamb. Despite the novel's success, Paltock's name has been largely forgotten by today's critics and readers. Regardless, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins remains an important early adventure novel that capitalized on the growth of the colonial imagination among readers in England and abroad.