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Download or read book Of Captain Mission (Annotated) written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-12 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Of Captain Mission is a classic pirate fiction by Daniel Defoe that includes the following prelude: Defoe has been recognized as the author of A General History of the Most Notorious Robberies and Murders of the Pyrates since 1932 when John Robert Moore suggested that the alleged The author, Captain Charles Johnson, like Andrew Moreton, Kara Selym, or Captain Roberts, was just another mask for the creator of Robinson Crusoe. Although most of the first volume is of minor literary importance, the second section that appeared in 1728 as The Story of the Pyrates began with a life "Of Captain Misson and his crew," one of the most notable and neglected works of fiction in Defoe. In the same way and at the same time that John Gay was satirizing the Walpole government in The Beggar's Opera.Defoe began using his pirates as a commentary on the injustice and hypocrisy of contemporary English society. Among Defoe's gallery of pirates are Captain White, who refused to rob women and children; Captain Bellamy, the revolutionary proletarian; and Captain North, whose sense of justice and honesty was a reprimand for government corruption under Walpole.