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The Unfortunate Traveller: or, the Life of Jack Wilton (originally published as The Unfortunate Traueller: or, The Life of Jacke Wilton) is a picaresque novel by Thomas Nashe first published in 1594 but set during the reign of Henry VIII of England.
Feb 4, 2013 · You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Unfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse Author: Thomas Nash Commentator: Edmund Gosse Release Date: May 5 ...
THE UNFORTUNATE TRAVELLER 1 _____ The Unfortunate Traveller or The Life of Jack Wilton. Qui audiunt audita dicunt. Tho. Nashe. London. Printed by T. Scarlet for C. Burby, & are to be sold at his shop adjoining to the Exchange. 1594.
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Early in 1593 Nashe wrote his most enduringly popular book, The Unfortunate Traveller. With its fast-paced narrative, its Italian setting, and its waggish hero, the page-boy and dice-sharp Jack Wilton, it is often hailed as a prototypical English novel, though Nashe's description of it as a ‘chronicle’ is perhaps more accurate.
Jan 25, 2022 · The unfortunate traveller and other works; by. Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601. Publication date. 1972. Topics. Travelers -- Fiction. Publisher. Harmondsworth, Penguin.
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The first of the two narrative voices to address the reader in The Unfor-. tunate Traveller is the fictive one of Thomas Nashe himself in "The Induc-. tion to the dapper Mounsier Pages of the Court." He describes the text to come and, in doing so, begins to characterize himself and the second narra- tor, Jack Wilton:
Thomas Nashe (baptised November 1567 – c. 1601; also Nash) was an Elizabethan playwright, poet, satirist and a significant pamphleteer.: 5 He is known for his novel The Unfortunate Traveller, his pamphlets including Pierce Penniless, and his numerous defences of the Church of England.
