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  • Frank Mildmay

    or, The Naval Officer

    by Frederick Marryat ...
    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. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Percival Keene

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Frederick Marryat ...
    Percival Keene is a spirited naval adventure that follows a young man shaped by danger, ambition, and the strict codes of maritime society. Captain Marryat blends humor, action, and sharp social observation as Percival moves from family humiliation and comic household chaos to the hazards of war, capture, and hard-won self-discovery. His mother's rise from disgrace into independence, running a ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Poor Jack

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Frederick Marryat ...
    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

    $3.99 CAD

  • Japhet, in Search of a Father

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    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

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Pacha of Many Tales

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    In The Pacha of Many Tales, Captain Marryat spins an Arabian Nights-inspired sequence of adventures where storytelling itself becomes a contest of wit, power, and survival. A comic yet brutal pacha, obsessed with amusement and fearful of boredom, depends on his barber Mustapha—a cunning survivor of slavery, piracy, naval service, and reinvention—who flatters his way into influence and turns ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Jacob Faithful

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    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

    $3.99 CAD

  • Olla Podrida

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    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

    $3.99 CAD

  • Valerie

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    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

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Poacher; Or, Joseph Rushbrook

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    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

    $3.99 CAD

  • Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Frederick Marryat ...
    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

    $3.99 CAD

  • Poor Jack

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    Jack tells his own origin story in a lively, comic voice shaped by naval life, family legend, and the rough wit of sailors. His father measures time by battles instead of dates, a detail that immediately sets the tone for a world where history, rank, and domestic mishap are all treated as grand adventure. Through vivid portraits of his handsome, good-natured father, the imperious Sir Hercules ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

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

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    by Frederick Marryat ...
    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

    $3.99 CAD