The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2

The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, by Baron Trenck
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Title: The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck Vol. 2 (of 2) Author: Baron Trenck Editor: Henry Morley Release Date: October 16, 2007 [eBook #2669] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF BARON TRENCK***
Transcribed from the 1886 Cassell & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org, proofed by Kenyon, Uzma G., Marie Gilham, L. F. Smith and David.
THE
LIFE AND ADVENTURES
OF
BARON TRENCK
TRANSLATED BY
THOMAS HOLCROFT. VOL. II. CASSELL & COMPANY LIMITED: , LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE . 1886.
INTRODUCTION.
Thomas Holcroft, the translator of these Memoirs of Baron Trenck, was the author of about thirty plays, among which one, The Road to Ruin, produced in 1792, has kept its place upon the stage. He was born in December, 1745, the son of a shoemaker who did also a little business in horse-dealing. After early struggles, during which he contrived to learn French, German, and Italian, Holcroft contributed to a ...