Oroonoko or, The Royal Slave
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published: July 1973
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9780393007022
First sentence: I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned 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.