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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Peter Simple

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    Captain Frederick Marryat's Peter Simple and The Three Cutters opens not with action alone, but with a rich frame of biography, editorial care, and literary context that situates one of the great naval novelists of the Victorian era. The book traces Marryat from a distinguished, practical family background through a mischievous, sea-haunted boyhood and into the navy at fourteen, where Lord ... 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 King's Own

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    Captain Frederick Marryat's The King's Own begins in a shadowed register, where honor, guilt, and ruin are bound to the brutal realities of naval life. Against the backdrop of the Mutiny at the Nore in 1797, the novel presents a fleet strained by neglect and resentment, and follows Edward Peters, an educated seaman falsely accused, harshly punished, and driven toward desertion, capture, and 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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  • 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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  • The Poacher; Or, Joseph Rushbrook

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    Captain Marryat's The Poacher begins in the English countryside, where drink, mischief, and lawbreaking lurk beneath a comic surface. A stormy Devonshire night, a drunken schoolmaster, a crafty pedlar, and a seemingly helpless invalid quickly give way to a stealthy family outing that reveals the hidden world of poaching, secrecy, and survival just beyond respectable society. At the center stands ... 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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  • Poor Jack

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    Jack tells his own origin story in a lively, comic voice shaped by naval life, family legend, and the rough wit of sailors. His father measures time by battles instead of dates, a detail that immediately sets the tone for a world where history, rank, and domestic mishap are all treated as grand adventure. Through vivid portraits of his handsome, good-natured father, the imperious Sir Hercules ... Read more

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