Father Bombo's Pilgrimage to Mecca
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Father Bombo's Pilgrimage to Mecca
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Father Bombo's Pilgrimage to Mecca is an Orientalist prose satire and picaresque mock-epic coauthored by Philip Freneau and Hugh Henry Brackenridge while both men were juniors at the College of New Jersey. Penned in the autumn of 1770 but not published in its entirety until 1975, Father Bombo is regarded by some to be the first American novel, competing alongside a number of other possible candidates. Father Bombo is a contender "by virtue of its early date, its undeniably native origin and mate
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