Frederick Marryat

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Or the Wreck of the "Pacific"

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Marryat wrote this 1841 novel for his children, who requested a sequel to Wyss's Swiss Family Robinson. The father tried to oblige with the original tale about a family shipwrecked on a desert island, but protected by a wise old sailor. Recalling Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, it also offers an honest critique of imperialism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411449831
• Artikelnr.: 50389984

Autorenporträt

Captain Frederick Marryat (an early innovator of the sea story) was a British Royal Navy Officer and novelist. He gained the Royal Human Society's gold medal for bravery, before leaving the services in 1830 to write books. He is mainly remembered for his stories of the sea, many written from his own experiences. He started a series of adventure novels marked by a brilliant, direct narrative style and an absolute fund of incident and fun. These have The King's Own (1830), Peter Simple (1834), and Mr. Midshipman Easy (1836). He also created a number of children's books, among which The Children of the New Forest (1847), a story of the English Civil Wars is a classic of children literature. A Life and Letters was processed by his daughter Florence (1872). He is recognized also for a broadly used system of maritime flag signalling known as Marryat's Code. Familiar for his adventurous novels, his works are known for their representation of deep family bonds and social structure beside naval action. Marryat died in 1848 at the age of fifty.