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  • Frank Mildmay

    or, The Naval Officer

    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

  • Jacob Faithful

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    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

  • Diary in America

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    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

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Poacher; Or, Joseph Rushbrook

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    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

  • Masterman Ready; Or, the Wreck of the "pacific"

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    A storm-tossed voyage, a castaway's hard-earned wisdom, and a family's struggle to build a future at the edge of the world give Masterman Ready its vivid adventure. From the first gale that drives the Pacific through the Atlantic, the novel blends danger, endurance, and faith with practical seamanship, introducing the calm, capable Captain Osborn, the stern Mackintosh, and the resourceful old ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Captain Marryat's brisk, unsentimental naval novel follows Frank Mildmay, a flawed but vividly self-aware narrator whose adventures are drawn with the rough authority of real sea life. From the start, Frank's voice is frank about pride, cowardice, courage, and the way experience—not theory—makes a man. His childhood and schooling form a darkly comic education in appetite, hypocrisy, and cruelty: a ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Japhet in Search of a Father

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    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

    $3.99 CAD

  • Newton Forster

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    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

    $3.99 CAD

  • Poor Jack

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    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

  • The Settlers in Canada

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    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

    $3.99 CAD

  • Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    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

  • The Settlers in Canada

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Captain Marryat's Settlers in Canada begins with a family transformed by sudden fortune and even more sudden loss. Mr. Campbell, a successful surgeon in 1794, inherits a great estate, only to discover years later that the property may not truly be his. When the claim is proved, he and Emily accept ruin with courage, surrendering Wexton Hall rather than fight dishonorably. Their children's ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD