The Children of the New Forest (Puffin Classics)

Marryat, Captain

ISBN 10: 0140367608 / ISBN 13: 9780140367607

Edité par Puffin Books, 1994

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The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

N° de réf. du vendeur GOR002628503

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Children of the New Forest (Puffin Classics)
• Éditeur: Puffin Books
• Date de parution: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0140367608
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780140367607
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Good
• Poids: 222 grammes

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Synopsis

Edward, Humphrey, Alice and Edith Beverley are left orphaned at their family home in the New Forest after their father's death fighting on the Royalist side in the Civil War. To avoid detection by the Roundheads they are sheltered by a forester, Jacob, who passes them off as his grandchildren.

Biographie de l'auteur

Captain Frederick Marryat (July 10, 1792 – August 9, 1848) was an English Royal Navy officer, novelist, and 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 and his children's novel The Children of the New Forest, and for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling. From 1832 to 1835 Marryat edited The Metropolitan Magazine. He kept producing novels, with his biggest success, Mr Midshipman Easy, coming in 1836. He lived in Brussels for a year, travelled in Canada and the United States, then moved to London in 1839, where he was in the literary circle of Charles Dickens and others. He was in North America in 1837 when the Rebellion of that year in Lower Canada broke out, and served with the British forces in suppressing it. He was named a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his invention and other achievements. In 1843 he moved to a small farm at Manor Cottage in Norfolk, where he died in 1848. His daughter Florence Marryat later became well-known as a writer and actress. His son Francis Samuel Marryat completed his late novel The Little Savage. Marryat's novels are characteristic of their time, with the concerns of family connections and social status often overshadowing the naval action, but they are interesting as fictional renditions of the author's 25 years of real-life experience at sea. These novels, much admired by Joseph Conrad and Ernest Hemingway, were among the first sea novels. They were models for later works by C. S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian that were also set in the time of Nelson and told the stories of young men rising through the ranks through successes as naval officers. His later novels were generally for the children's market, including his most famous novel for contemporary readers, The Children of the New Forest, which was published in 1847 and set in the countryside surrounding the village of Sway, Hampshire.