The Richard Carvel is a historical novel by the American novelist Winston Churchill. The novel takes the form of the memoirs of an eighteenth-century gentleman the Richard Carvel of the title and runs to eight volumes. It is set partly in Maryland and partly in London England during the American revolutionary era. The novel opens with a fictitious foreword, a brief note dated 1876, in which the purported editor of the memoirs, Daniel Clapsaddle Carvel, claims that they are just as his grandfather, Richard Carvel, wrote them, all the more realistic for their imperfections.
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