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  • Frank Mildmay

    or, The Naval Officer

    A midshipman's career in the Napoleonic navy - the prizes, the floggings, the fever and a captain worth following. Marryat had done all of it as a boy under Cochrane, and this first novel invented the sea story as the English know it. This edition adds fifty-five plates of marine painting, among them Turner, Munch and Thomas Luny, alongside four illustrations restored and coloured. ... Read more

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

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    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

    $1.99 USD

  • Peter Simple

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    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

    $1.99 USD

  • Jacob Faithful

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Captain Frederick Marryat's Jacob Faithful launches into the bustling, perilous world of the Thames with a boy alone on a river lighter, terrified by his father's death yet determined to carry out his last instructions. Taken in by the wharfinger's family, Jacob is thrust from river-bred innocence into the baffling customs of shore life, where kindness, exploitation, and comic discomfort mingle ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Mission

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    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

    $1.99 USD

  • Diary in America

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    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

    $1.99 USD

  • Masterman Ready

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Caught between a young boy's curiosity and a veteran sailor's hard-earned wisdom, The Coral Island opens with the Pacific battling a violent Atlantic storm and the Seagrave family bound for a new life in Australia. Captain Osborn, the irritable but capable Mackintosh, and the calm, resourceful Masterman Ready help guide William Seagrave through danger, while the family's brave servant Juno and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Captain Frederick Marryat's Frank Mildmay opens as a brisk, rueful naval memoir of wasted youth, hard discipline, and the costly education of experience. Framed by reflective epigraphs and sharpened by the narrator's own moral self-scrutiny, the story follows a young man whose neglect, vanity, and hunger for distinction lead him into humiliation as often as adventure. He recalls the thrill of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Olla Podrida

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    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

    $1.99 USD

  • The Pacha of Many Tales

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    A pacha's darkly comic reflections on power open into a chain of calamities where love, war, and arbitrary authority crush the vulnerable. Against a backdrop of ominous, storm-darkened skies and sudden upheaval, the narrator's irreverent voice turns political cruelty into bitter satire while hinting at a larger adventure shaped by fear and fate. A renegade then confesses a ruinous passion for a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Poor Jack

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Captain Frederick Marryat's Poor Jack follows the fortunes of a plainspoken sailor whose life is shaped by shipboard discipline, comic hardship, and the rough pride of working-class naval culture. Jack's story begins with his father's unlikely rise and fall in the world of the frigate Druid, where pompous officers, sharp-tongued women, and social pretensions collide in a satire of rank, marriage, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Peter Simple

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    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

    $1.99 USD