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  • Olla Podrida

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    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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  • Olla Podrida

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    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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  • The Poacher; Or, Joseph Rushbrook

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    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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  • Jacob Faithful

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    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

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  • The Mission

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    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

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  • Diary in America

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    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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  • The Settlers in Canada

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    In 1791, the Campbell family leaves England for the unsettled wilds of Canada, where surgeon Mr. Campbell, his wife Emily, their children, and two orphaned nieces must build a life from hardship and hope. A mysterious inheritance soon transforms their modest security into the grandeur of Wexton Hall, but the gift brings responsibility, social influence, and a painful legal challenge when a rival ... Read more

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  • Japhet, in Search of a Father

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    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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  • Japhet in Search of a Father

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    Japhet Newland begins life as a foundling, anonymously left at the Foundling Hospital with a note hinting at legitimate birth and possible reclamation. Raised amid hardship, he is apprenticed at fourteen to the bustling apothecary Mr. Phineas Cophagus, where comic discipline, market chaos, and the hard labor of pounding drugs become his education in both medicine and society. With the help of the ... Read more

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  • Newton Forster

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    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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  • Valerie

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    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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  • Peter Simple

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    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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