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Excerpt from Snarleyyow
This was one of the ugliest and most ill-conditioned curs which had ever been produced ugly in colour; for he was of a dirty yellow, like the paint served out to deco rate our men-of-war by his Majesty's dockyards - ugly in face; for he had one…
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1 author picked Snarleyyow as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is an entertaining, funny fiction novel that’s not exactly about pirates, but it does have a naval setting.
It’s about an ugly, bad-tempered dog and the people around him. This is an “old-style” novel, written long before our current concept of how a novel should be written came into being. I don’t see any reason a modern reader shouldn’t enjoy it.
From Laura's list on pirates (fact and fiction).
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