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The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth · Booklabria

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The Sot-Weed Factor

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First published: 1960
Editions: 29 in 2 languages

Synopsis

Considered by critics to be Barth's most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired the status of a modern classic. Set in the late 1600s, it recounts the wildly chaotic odyssey of hapless, ungainly Ebenezer Cooke, sent to the New World to look after his father's tobacco business and to record the struggles of the Maryland colony in an epic poem

Subjects: History
Historical
Humorous
Poets
Maryland
Set in: Maryland
Time: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

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29 in 2 languages

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