Frederick Marryat

Newton Forster (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Pirates, madness, and murder feature in this early (1832) high-seas thriller. Impressed into the British Navy, troubled young Newton Forster endures imprisonment in France and a shipwreck in the West Indies before gaining post on a British East India Company vessel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411449855
• Artikelnr.: 50389282

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.