Peter Simple by Frederick Marryat

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Peter Simple by Frederick Marryat

Peter Simple This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentionalunintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPY READING

Captain Frederick Marryat (July 10, 1792 – August 9, 1848) was an English Royal Navy officer, novelist, and Charles Dickens' contemporary and acquaintance. He is remembered today as an early pioneer of the sea narrative. He is most known for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy and his children's book The Children of the New Forest, as well as for inventing a widely used nautical flag signaling system. Marryat was the editor of The Metropolitan Magazine from 1832 to 1835. He continued to write novels, the most famous of which being Mr Midshipman Easy, published in 1836. He spent a year in Brussels, then traveled across Canada and the United States before settling in London in 1839, where he became acquainted with Charles Dickens and others in the literary world.

He was in North America in 1837 when the Lower Canadian Rebellion erupted, and he assisted British soldiers in defeating it. In appreciation of his invention and other accomplishments, he was appointed a Member of the Royal Society. He relocated to a tiny farm in Manor Cottage, Norfolk, in 1843, and died there in 1848. Florence Marryat, his daughter, went on to become a well-known writer and actor.

Francis Samuel Marryat, his son, finished his late novel The Little Savage. Marryat's novels are evocative of their day, with concerns about family ties and social standing frequently overshadowing naval action, but they are fascinating as fictionalized accounts of the author's 25 years at sea. These were among the earliest marine novels, admired by Joseph Conrad and Ernest Hemingway. These served as inspiration for C.'s later works.

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ISBN 13 9781015616516
ISBN 10 1015616518
Title Peter Simple
Author Frederick Marryat
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Legare Street Press
Year published 2022-10-26
Number of pages 490
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