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Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836) and his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847). After trying to run away to sea several times, he was permitted to enter the Royal Navy in 1806, as a midshipman on board HMS Imperieuse. In 1829 he was commanding the frigate HMS Ariadne on a mission to search for shoals around the Madeira and Canary Islands. This was an uninspiring exercise, and between that and the recent publication of his first novel, The Naval Officer (1829) he decided to resign his commission and take up writing full time. Other works include The King's Own (1830), Newton Forster; or, The Merchant Service (1832), Peter Simple, and The Three Cutters (1834), Jacob Faithful (1834), The Pacha of Many Tales (1835), Japhet, in Search of a Father (1836), The Pirate (1836), The Phantom Ship (1839), Poor Jack (1840), Masterman Ready (1841), Percival Keene (1842), The Privateersman (1846) and The Mission; or, Scenes in Africa (1845).
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1792-1848
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". . . [Marryat's] greatness is undeniable" -- Joseph Conrad
"Marryat has the power to set us in the midst of ships and men and sea and sky all vivid, credible, authentic." -- Virginia Woolf
"This was Marryat's navy, his world, and no one brings it to us with greater authenticity." -- Alexander Kent
"When all your Patrick O'Brians are out, recommend Marryat." --Library Journal
"Marryat has the power to set us in the midst of ships and men and sea and sky all vivid, credible, authentic." -- Virginia Woolf
"This was Marryat's navy, his world, and no one brings it to us with greater authenticity." -- Alexander Kent
"When all your Patrick O'Brians are out, recommend Marryat." --Library Journal
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- PublisherDodo Pr
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1406556610
- ISBN 13 9781406556612
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages388
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