Captain John Smith

by Charles Dudley Warner

Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) was an American essayist and novelist. He worked with a surveying party in Missouri; studied law at the University of Pennsylvania; practiced in Chicago; was assistant editor (1860) and editor (1861-1867) of The Hartford Press, and after The Press was merged into The Hartford Courant, was co-editor with Joseph R Hawley; in 1884 he joined the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine, for which he conducted The Editors Drawer until 1892, when he took charge of The Editor's Study. He travelled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He first attracted attention by the reflective sketches entitled My Summer in a Garden (1870). Amongst his other works are Saunterings (1872), Backlog Studies (1873), Being a Boy (1878), In the Wilderness (1878), Captain John Smith (1881), Washington Irving (1881), A Little Journey in the World (1889), As We Were Saying (1891) and That Fortune (1899).

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Genres: History

214 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1881

About the author

Charles Dudley Warner was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.

Warner travelled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and, at the time of his death, was president of the American Social Science Association.

Reviews

[Shannon McNear · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good companion volume for the primary sources...

More readable than Smith's own accounts alone, this makes for good comparison when studying the life of Captain John Smith. Recommended.

[David Horney]

The primary point of this book (written in the late 19th century) is to debunk the 17th century “myth” of Captain John Smith. Smith is portrayed as a boor, braggart and insufferable egotist. Many of his adventures grow by leaps and bounds as he tells and retells them over the years. Many bear a suspicious resemblance to previously published works. Much of what is known about Smith comes from his own writings—he indisputably played a huge role in keeping the colony of Virginia alive during the 2.5 years he was there. Apparently he so annoyed those who had to interact with him on a daily basis that he was shut out from further commissions.

[Cornelio Cano guzmán]

This is a very good book about early USA history.