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The Cruise of the Jasper B.
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A comic adventure novel by American humorist Don Marquis that follows a landsman who acquires an old schooner, the Jasper B., and is drawn into a lighthearted parody of swashbuckling romance. Suited to readers who enjoy early twentieth-century humorous adventure fiction.
Don Marquis
Donald Robert Perry Marquis was an American humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel, Archy being a supposed author of humorous verse. During his lifetime he was equally famous for creating another fictitious character, "the Old Soak," who was the subject of two books, a hit Broadway play (1922–23), a silent film (1926) and a talkie (1937).
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