Preface, audio recording in full

Preface, audio recording in full

Reading of the Preface of The Hermit: or, The unparallel'd sufferings and surprising adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll, an Englishman, who was lately discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol merchant, upon an uninhabited island in the South-Sea, where he has lived above fifty years, without any human assistance, still continues to reside, and will not come away. Containing I. His conferences with those who found him out; to whom he recites the most material circumstances of his life; as, that was born in the parish of St. Giles, educated by charitable contribution of a lady, and put 'prentice to a locksmith. II. How he left his master, and was taken up with a notorious house-breaker, who was hanged; how, after his escape, he went to sea a cabin-boy, married a famous whore, listed himself a common soldier, turned singing-master, and married three wives, for which he was tried and condemned at the Old Bailey. III. How he was pardoned by King Charles II. [sic] turned merchant, and was shipwrecked on this desolate island on the coast of Mexico. With a curious frontispiece and a map of the island. The fourth edition.

Early Novels Database, British and American Fiction Collection, University of Pennsylvania

Cataloger: Kate Grace Poje; Reviewer: Gabriella Ekens; Voice Actor: Sam Herron; Project Director: Kate Grace Poje; Omeka Contributor: Colette Gerstmann

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