Mr. Midshipman Easy (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Frederick Marryat
- First Published: 1836
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure romance
- Time of Work: Napoleonic wars
- Setting: Mediterranean Sea and European coastal waters
- Principal Characters: Jack Easy, Gascoigne, Mesty, Agnes Rebiera
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Historical fiction, Picaresque fiction, Adventure, Sea story
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Child rearing or parenting, Politics, Love or romance, Europe or Europeans, Education or educators, Class consciousness, Storms, Equality, Sea or seafaring life, Duels or dueling, Battles, Navies, Napoleonic Wars, Obedience
- Locales: Mediterranean
The Story:
Jack Easy was the son of a wealthy landowner in the county of Hampshire, England. Jack’s father and mother had almost spoiled the boy for any good in the world, the former by his oversimplified philosophy of equality, and the latter by her doting. Fortunately for the young lad, the family physician, Doctor Middleton, rescued him from his home and put him in a school where he began to learn that the survival of the fittest was the way of the world. When he left school, it was decided he should go to sea as midshipman with Captain Wilson, a poor relation who was...
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