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  • Olla Podrida

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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. ... Read more

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  • Masterman Ready; Or, the Wreck of the "pacific"

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    A storm-tossed voyage, a castaway's hard-earned wisdom, and a family's struggle to build a future at the edge of the world give Masterman Ready its vivid adventure. From the first gale that drives the Pacific through the Atlantic, the novel blends danger, endurance, and faith with practical seamanship, introducing the calm, capable Captain Osborn, the stern Mackintosh, and the resourceful old ... Read more

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  • Diary in America

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    Captain Marryat's Diary in America, Series One is a brisk, satirical travel narrative that follows a seasoned English observer through the United States with wit, suspicion, and a taste for puncturing national myths. From the opening pages, Marryat mocks exaggerated accounts of America, setting up a firsthand, skeptical alternative to the romantic nonsense of credulous visitors. His journey begins ... Read more

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  • Japhet, in Search of a Father

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    Japhet, in Search of a Father is a brisk comic adventure about a foundling who turns abandonment into opportunity through wit, audacity, and endless improvisation. Left as an infant at the Foundling Hospital with a note, a bank note, and a promise that he will one day be reclaimed, Japhet Newland grows up with no family ties but with a talent for telling his own story. Apprenticed to the eccentric ... Read more

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  • The Little Savage

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    Captain Marryat's The Little Savage opens with a fierce survival story and a haunting question: what becomes of a child raised outside ordinary human life? Frank Henniker grows up on a remote island with only a brutal, secretive guardian, learning hunger, labor, fear, and silence long before he understands language, family, or the world beyond the sea. The island itself is both prison and provider ... Read more

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  • Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer

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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 ... Read more

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  • The Pacha of Many Tales

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    A pacha's darkly comic reflections on power open into a chain of calamities where love, war, and arbitrary authority crush the vulnerable. Against a backdrop of ominous, storm-darkened skies and sudden upheaval, the narrator's irreverent voice turns political cruelty into bitter satire while hinting at a larger adventure shaped by fear and fate. A renegade then confesses a ruinous passion for a ... Read more

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  • Newton Forster

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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 ... Read more

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  • The Little Savage

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    Captain Frederick Marryat's The Little Savage is a fierce survival adventure shaped by isolation, cruelty, and hard-won moral growth. A boy raised alone on a remote island by a harsh, secretive old man knows hunger, silence, and fear long before he understands family, faith, or the wider world. His life changes when a ship appears offshore, only to be wrecked by a violent storm that blinds his ... Read more

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  • The Mission

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    Captain Frederick Marryat's The Mission; or Scenes in Africa follows Alexander Wilmot on a journey that begins as an act of filial devotion and becomes a full-scale adventure across the southern African frontier. Moved by his grand-uncle Sir Charles's lifelong grief over the lost survivors of the Grosvenor wreck, Alexander sails from Portsmouth in hopes of bringing back news that may ease the old ... Read more

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  • The Privateer's-man, One Hundred Years Ago

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    Captain Marryat's privateer tale plunges into the brutal world of prize-taking, where courage, greed, and conscience collide on the high seas and along the Caribbean coast. A young narrator aboard the Revenge recalls a savage chase off Hispaniola, where a French ship carrying a planter's family is boarded in hand-to-hand fighting, and the victory leaves him horrified by the bloodshed, the widow's ... Read more

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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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