An edition of The Sot-Weed Factor (1960)
The sot-weed factor.
By John Barth
3.50 (4 Ratings)
33 Want to read1 Currently reading7 Have read
33 Want to read1 Currently reading7 Have read
Publish Date
1960
Publisher
Doubleday
Language
eng
Pages
806
Description:
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: Fiction, Poets, History, Fiction in English, Maryland, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, humorous, general
People: Ebenezer Cooke (ca. 1667-ca. 1732)
Places: Maryland