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Mr. Midshipman Easy, The World At War

Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. “Mr. Midshipman Easy” is the adventurous youth of a nineteenth-century literary hero who leaves the luxury of his father's estate to suffer the realities of growing up at sea in his Majesty's service.

Frederick Marryat

Captain Frederick Marryat CB FRS (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836), for his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847), and for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling known as Marryat's Code. (Wikipedia)

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