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Frank Mildmay

or, The Naval Officer

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A midshipman's career in the Napoleonic navy - the prizes, the floggings, the fever and a captain worth following. Marryat had done all of it as a boy under Cochrane, and this first novel invented the sea story as the English know it. ... Read more

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A midshipman's career in the Napoleonic navy - the prizes, the floggings, the fever and a captain worth following. Marryat had done all of it as a boy under Cochrane, and this first novel invented the sea story as the English know it.
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Olla Podrida

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by Frederick Marryat ...

Captain Marryat's Olla Podrida is a brisk, satirical medley of travel writing, social comedy, and political observation, driven by a narrator whose mind is haunted by "Politicophobia," the curse of seeing Parliament and party conflict everywhere. From London drawing rooms to family meals, dances, the countryside, and even the sea, politics invades ordinary life until escape seems possible only ... Read more

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Captain Marryat's Olla Podrida is a brisk, satirical medley of travel writing, social comedy, and political observation, driven by a narrator whose mind is haunted by "Politicophobia," the curse of seeing Parliament and party conflict everywhere. From London drawing rooms to family meals, dances, the countryside, and even the sea, politics invades ordinary life until escape seems possible only
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The Phantom Ship

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In a weather-beaten cottage near Terneuse, seventeenth-century Holland, Philip Vanderdecken lives under the shadow of a sealed room, a dying mother, and a secret that has poisoned the household for years. Restless, proud, and desperate to escape poverty, he longs to go to sea, but his mother's fearful warnings and sudden collapse draw him into a mystery far darker than want. As she bleeds to death ... Read more

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In a weather-beaten cottage near Terneuse, seventeenth-century Holland, Philip Vanderdecken lives under the shadow of a sealed room, a dying mother, and a secret that has poisoned the household for years. Restless, proud, and desperate to escape poverty, he longs to go to sea, but his mother's fearful warnings and sudden collapse draw him into a mystery far darker than want. As she bleeds to death
... Read more
Jacob Faithful

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by Frederick Marryat ...

Captain Frederick Marryat's Jacob Faithful launches into the bustling, perilous world of the Thames with a boy alone on a river lighter, terrified by his father's death yet determined to carry out his last instructions. Taken in by the wharfinger's family, Jacob is thrust from river-bred innocence into the baffling customs of shore life, where kindness, exploitation, and comic discomfort mingle ... Read more

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Captain Frederick Marryat's Jacob Faithful launches into the bustling, perilous world of the Thames with a boy alone on a river lighter, terrified by his father's death yet determined to carry out his last instructions. Taken in by the wharfinger's family, Jacob is thrust from river-bred innocence into the baffling customs of shore life, where kindness, exploitation, and comic discomfort mingle
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Newton Forster

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by Frederick Marryat ...

Captain Marryat's Newton Forster, or The Merchant Service launches with a comic, combative narrator who mocks critics, defends storytelling, and turns from literary satire to the hard realities of naval life. That restless, self-aware voice gives way to a storm-lashed seaside drama, where retired officer Edward Forster leaves his cottage to answer a gunshot in the night and help a ship in distress ... Read more

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Captain Marryat's Newton Forster, or The Merchant Service launches with a comic, combative narrator who mocks critics, defends storytelling, and turns from literary satire to the hard realities of naval life. That restless, self-aware voice gives way to a storm-lashed seaside drama, where retired officer Edward Forster leaves his cottage to answer a gunshot in the night and help a ship in distress
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Valerie

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Captain Marryat's final novel, Valerie, is a rare melodrama in which women carry nearly all the emotional weight. The story opens in a somber key with a dying speaker entrusting Valerie as executrix, hinting at inheritance, duty, and the shadow of a last testament. It then follows a proud, sensitive heroine forced into the world at seventeen, where dependence becomes a harsh education. Cast out ... Read more

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Captain Marryat's final novel, Valerie, is a rare melodrama in which women carry nearly all the emotional weight. The story opens in a somber key with a dying speaker entrusting Valerie as executrix, hinting at inheritance, duty, and the shadow of a last testament. It then follows a proud, sensitive heroine forced into the world at seventeen, where dependence becomes a harsh education. Cast out
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Peter Simple

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by Frederick Marryat ...

Captain Marryat's Peter Simple launches with the comic misfortunes of a self-described "fool of the family," an awkward young man pushed into naval service and into a world far rougher than his rural upbringing has prepared him for. Sent first to London and then on to Portsmouth, Peter endures family embarrassment, stock-market anxieties, coach-road absurdities, and the first shocks of seafaring ... Read more

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Captain Marryat's Peter Simple launches with the comic misfortunes of a self-described "fool of the family," an awkward young man pushed into naval service and into a world far rougher than his rural upbringing has prepared him for. Sent first to London and then on to Portsmouth, Peter endures family embarrassment, stock-market anxieties, coach-road absurdities, and the first shocks of seafaring
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Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer

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by Frederick Marryat ...

Captain Frederick Marryat's Frank Mildmay opens as a brisk, rueful naval memoir of wasted youth, hard discipline, and the costly education of experience. Framed by reflective epigraphs and sharpened by the narrator's own moral self-scrutiny, the story follows a young man whose neglect, vanity, and hunger for distinction lead him into humiliation as often as adventure. He recalls the thrill of ... Read more

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Captain Frederick Marryat's Frank Mildmay opens as a brisk, rueful naval memoir of wasted youth, hard discipline, and the costly education of experience. Framed by reflective epigraphs and sharpened by the narrator's own moral self-scrutiny, the story follows a young man whose neglect, vanity, and hunger for distinction lead him into humiliation as often as adventure. He recalls the thrill of
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Percival Keene

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by Frederick Marryat ...

Percival Keene is a spirited naval adventure that follows a young man shaped by danger, ambition, and the strict codes of maritime society. Captain Marryat blends humor, action, and sharp social observation as Percival moves from family humiliation and comic household chaos to the hazards of war, capture, and hard-won self-discovery. His mother's rise from disgrace into independence, running a ... Read more

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Percival Keene is a spirited naval adventure that follows a young man shaped by danger, ambition, and the strict codes of maritime society. Captain Marryat blends humor, action, and sharp social observation as Percival moves from family humiliation and comic household chaos to the hazards of war, capture, and hard-won self-discovery. His mother's rise from disgrace into independence, running a
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Olla Podrida

Restored Classics to Go Edition

by Frederick Marryat ...

Captain Marryat's Olla Podrida is a lively miscellany of short fiction, comic sketches, dramatic scenes, travel writing, satire, and literary parody, gathered from his magazine work and selected to show him at his most inventive. In his preface, Marryat insists that only the pieces he considers genuinely worth owning are preserved here, distinguishing his best writings from the merely incidental. ... Read more

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Captain Marryat's Olla Podrida is a lively miscellany of short fiction, comic sketches, dramatic scenes, travel writing, satire, and literary parody, gathered from his magazine work and selected to show him at his most inventive. In his preface, Marryat insists that only the pieces he considers genuinely worth owning are preserved here, distinguishing his best writings from the merely incidental.
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The Privateersman

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by Frederick Marryat ...

In Captain Marryat's The Privateersman, a young seaman is swept into the dangerous, prize-hunting world of privateering, where courage, loyalty, and survival are tested in every storm and skirmish. One of the novel's most gripping episodes follows the battered Revenge as it is hunted by two enemy schooners, with Captain Weatherall rallying his exhausted crew through cannon fire, boarding actions, ... Read more

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In Captain Marryat's The Privateersman, a young seaman is swept into the dangerous, prize-hunting world of privateering, where courage, loyalty, and survival are tested in every storm and skirmish. One of the novel's most gripping episodes follows the battered Revenge as it is hunted by two enemy schooners, with Captain Weatherall rallying his exhausted crew through cannon fire, boarding actions,
... Read more
Masterman Ready

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by Frederick Marryat ...

Caught between a young boy's curiosity and a veteran sailor's hard-earned wisdom, The Coral Island opens with the Pacific battling a violent Atlantic storm and the Seagrave family bound for a new life in Australia. Captain Osborn, the irritable but capable Mackintosh, and the calm, resourceful Masterman Ready help guide William Seagrave through danger, while the family's brave servant Juno and ... Read more

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Caught between a young boy's curiosity and a veteran sailor's hard-earned wisdom, The Coral Island opens with the Pacific battling a violent Atlantic storm and the Seagrave family bound for a new life in Australia. Captain Osborn, the irritable but capable Mackintosh, and the calm, resourceful Masterman Ready help guide William Seagrave through danger, while the family's brave servant Juno and
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