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Frederick Marryat
Book List in Order: 30 titles
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Mr. Midshipman Easy
- 1836
- / Historical
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ROLLICKING SEA ADVENTURE, set in 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...
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Frank Mildmay, His Majesty's Naval Officer
- Jun-2024
- / General Fiction
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The very first classic naval fiction novel by Capt. Frederick Marryat Frank Mildmay is a rogue and a rascal who cuts a memorable swath as he moves up the ranks of the early nineteenth-century British Royal Navy. Whether seducing pretty girls ashore, ...
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The Children of the New Forest
Four young orphans are determined to avenge their father's death as they set out to help restore deposed King Charles the First to the throne. Set in this turbulent time of English history, when Oliver Cromwell's Leveller army hunted down tho...
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Jacob Faithful
Frederick Marryat was a popular 19th century novelist best known for pioneering the genre of sea stories and for writing other action and adventure books. An acquaintance of Charles Dickens, Marryat's books are still read today....
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Jacob Faithful and the Mission
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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Japhet, In Search Of A Father
Reared as a foundling, and apprenticed to an apothecary, Japhet’s good looks and matchless talent for lying carry him through the guises of tramp, mountebank, quack doctor, gentleman-about-town, and finally the only son of a wealthy general. Publis...
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The King's Own
After his father is hanged during the mutiny at the Nore (1797), William Seymour grows up on board a ship in the Royal Navy and later is impressed into the crew of a daring smuggler. This amusing and exciting novel blends in the classic true tale of ...
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The Little Savage
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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Masterman Ready
It is a vivacious juvenile novel that captures exhilarating adventures related to sea life. The novel is full of wit and excited accounts based on Marryat’s practical experiences. It is marvelous specimen of nautical fiction and worth-read for thos...
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The Mission; Or, Scenes In Africa
Frederick Marryat was a popular 19th century novelist best known for pioneering the genre of sea stories and for writing other action and adventure books. An acquaintance of Charles Dickens, Marryat's books are still read today....
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Monsieur Violet
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...
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Olla Podrida
Travels through europe with family, and other miscellaneous writings. Contents The monk of Seville: a play, in five acts -- The gipsy; or, "Whose son am I?": a comedy, in three acts -- Ill-will: an acting charade -- How to write a fashionable novel -...
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The Pacha Of Many Tales
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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Peter simple
Frederick Marryat was a popular 19th century novelist best known for pioneering the genre of sea stories and for writing other action and adventure books. An acquaintance of Charles Dickens, Marryat's books are still read today....
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The Phantom Ship
Frederick Marryat was a popular 19th century novelist best known for pioneering the genre of sea stories and for writing other action and adventure books. An acquaintance of Charles Dickens, Marryat's books are still read today....
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The Poacher
Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (...
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Poor Jack
In nineteenth-century parlance, a “poor jack” is a waterfront urchin, which is how we meet sailor’s son Thomas Saunders in Greenwich, England. Swept into the English Channel with his friend Bramble, he survives imprisonment in France, eventuall...
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Settlers in Canada
Frederick Marryat was a popular 19th century novelist best known for pioneering the genre of sea stories and for writing other action and adventure books. An acquaintance of Charles Dickens, Marryat's books are still read today....
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The Travels And Adventures Of Monsieur Violet In California, Sonora And Western Texas
Frederick Marryat was a popular 19th century novelist best known for pioneering the genre of sea stories and for writing other action and adventure books. An acquaintance of Charles Dickens, Marryat's books are still read today....
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Valerie
Frederick Marryat was a popular 19th century novelist best known for pioneering the genre of sea stories and for writing other action and adventure books. An acquaintance of Charles Dickens, Marryat's books are still read today....
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The White Wolf Of The Hartz Mountains
Frederick Marryat was one of the pioneers of the sea novel, and a major influence on writers such as Joseph Conrad and Ernest Hemingway. In his day, his short fiction was wildly popular, and 'The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains' remains wid...
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Frank Mildmay; Or, The Naval Officer
Frank Mildmay is a rogue and a rascal who cuts a memorable swath as he moves up the ranks of the early 19th-century Royal Navy. Whether seducing pretty girls ashore, braving hurricanes at sea, or scrambling aboard a French privateer with cutlass bare...
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Jack Rustig
Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a ...
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Newton Forster; Or, The Merchant Service
Newton Forster is a troubled young man who survives impressment into the Navy, imprisonment in France, and a shipwreck in the West Indies before gaining a post on a British East India Company vessel bound for Asia. Forster faces a thrill a chapter --...
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Percival Keene
In Percival Keene Marryat goes back to a character-style that he first introduced in Frank Mildmay. In both books, the "hero" is a bit of a low-life -- proud, rebellious and, many times, downright mean. He was criticized for that style wh...
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The Pirate
Frederick Marryat was a popular 19th century novelist best known for pioneering the genre of sea stories and for writing other action and adventure books. An acquaintance of Charles Dickens, Marryat's books are still read today....
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The Privateersman
Privateers were essentially freelance ships, sanctioned during wartime to sail and do battle on behalf of adversary governments. This tale follows Alexander Musgrave, a privateer-turned-adventurer, across three continents and into the arms of a beaut...
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Snarleyyow; Or, The Dog Fiend
Set in 1699 and framed around the Jacobite (supporters of the overthrown king, James II) conspiracies of the time, Lieutenant Cornelius Vanslyperken is the greedy and treacherous commander of a small vessel that hunts for smugglers in the English Cha...
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The Three Cutters
"When your O'Brians are out, recommend Marryat."-Library Journal "[Marryat's] greatness is undeniable."-Joseph Conrad "Marryat has the power to set us in the midst of ships and men and sea and sky all vivid, credible, authentic."-Virginia Woolf...