Mr Midshipman Easy - Softcover

Captain Marryat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014005295X ISBN 13: 9780140052954

Publisher: Penguin, 1982

Synopsis

Wen lax (D pcip Une of the priyate iiltitoiii Kexttbentnce Pi Mtievoml times he ran away, having ibonijt of a sea life. In 2806 his jiie gate I m Miuse. For the next lidanadyenturous life aboard ship A iose palmy days of privateering, slave Agallant officer and intrepid seaman. In 1830. he resigned from the navy to jiiyd-wxitiiig, wlkich ahry had resulted in the lllgt book: The Naval Officer, or Scenes and rof Frank Mildmay. t Caay, his liveliest and most popular novel, It is said to have been inspired by Don Quir irikstores the hero as having been reared in the are equal a difficult theory consistently to days of the British Navy. This motif was and the result is a narrative of adventure, peopled by the jo Uiest lot of I fod a deck. are perennially popular, because he is a bom cause his characters are real. For both incident drewlargely on his own experiences; and it is 1nature of his work that one must attribute ;his splendid stories of the sea. pi wfairaliation; fe my m: w.
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Review:

"[Marryat's] greatness is undeniable." --Joseph Conrad, Notes on "Life and Letters"

"Marryat has the power to set us in the midst of ships and men and sea and sky all vivid, credible, authentic." Virginia Woolf "

"[Marryat's] greatness is undeniable." Joseph Conrad, Notes on Life and Letters"

From the Back Cover:

A rollicking sea adventure, set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars, Mr. Midshipman Easy follows the escapades of a young midshipman who enters the King's service with some ideas that run badly afoul of the standards of naval discipline! The author was an actual 19th-century British naval hero who lived a saga worthy of the novels of C.S. Forester or Patrick O'Brian. Captain Frederick Marryat survived fifty naval battles and served on the crack frigate Imperieuse under Lord Cochrane - the real-life model for Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey. Mr. Midshipman Easy is said to have been inspired by Cochrane's adventures as a young midshipman.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 014005295X
• ISBN 13: 9780140052954
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432