Oroonoko
Subtitle: Or, the Royal Slave
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: May 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9780393312058
First sentence: I DO not pretend, in giving you the History of this Royal Slave, to entertain my Reader with Adventures of a feign'd Hero, whose Life and Fortunes Fancy may manage at the Poet's pleasure; nor in relating the Truth, design to adorn it with any Accidents, but such as arrived in earnest to him: And it shall come simply into the World, recommended by its own proper Merits, and natural Intrigues; there being enough of Reality to support it, and to render it diverting, without the addition of Invention.