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The Wager

by Giuseppe Giacosa

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The tragic tale of the British naval cruiser Wager from the 18th century is told in David Grann's book "The Wager." The Wager appears to vanish during a mission in the War of Jenkins' Ear, which was fought between the Spanish and British Empires. In reality, though, it sank on a barren island on the southern tip of South America's Patagonia coast. The Wager's remaining crew members are introduced in the prologue.

They land in Brazil and Chile six months apart. After returning to England, the survivors begin to tell differing tales, which prompts concerns about the reliability of the established hierarchy, the brittleness of social order, and how imperial powers fabricate and obliterate history to maintain their claim to govern.

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Giuseppe Giacosa

The Wager is Barrett H. Clark's English version of Una partita a scacchi, a one-act comedy in verse that Giuseppe Giacosa published in 1872 and saw staged in Naples the following April, where it made him famous before he was thirty. A page plays chess with a lord's daughter, his life the stake if he loses and her hand if he wins.

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Pages
32
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English
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