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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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  • Olla Podrida

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    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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  • Valerie

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    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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  • 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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  • Japhet, in Search of a Father

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    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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  • Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    Captain Marryat's brisk, unsentimental naval novel follows Frank Mildmay, a flawed but vividly self-aware narrator whose adventures are drawn with the rough authority of real sea life. From the start, Frank's voice is frank about pride, cowardice, courage, and the way experience—not theory—makes a man. His childhood and schooling form a darkly comic education in appetite, hypocrisy, and cruelty: a ... Read more

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

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    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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  • The Mission

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    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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  • Diary in America

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    Captain Marryat's Diary in America, Series Two offers a sharp, witty, and often satirical portrait of the young United States, seen through the skeptical eye of a celebrated British sailor-novelist. Moving from stage-coaches and steam-boats to railroads and western rivers, he records the country's restless energy, crowded travel, and comic discomforts: broken windows, leaking roofs, mud, noise, ... Read more

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  • The Phantom Ship

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    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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  • Masterman Ready; Or, the Wreck of the "pacific"

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    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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  • The Pacha of Many Tales

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    In The Pacha of Many Tales, Captain Marryat spins an Arabian Nights-inspired sequence of adventures where storytelling itself becomes a contest of wit, power, and survival. A comic yet brutal pacha, obsessed with amusement and fearful of boredom, depends on his barber Mustapha—a cunning survivor of slavery, piracy, naval service, and reinvention—who flatters his way into influence and turns ... Read more

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