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Jacob Faithful

By Frederick Marryat

2019-10-09 19:16:36

Brief Extract: My father was a puffy, round-bellied, long-armed, little man, admirably calculated for his station in, or rather out of, society. He could manage a lighter as well as anybody, but he could do no more. He had been brought up to it from ... Read more
Brief Extract: My father was a puffy, round-bellied, long-armed, little man, admirably calculated for his station in, or rather out of, society. He could manage a lighter as well as anybody, but he could do no more. He had been brought up to it from his infancy. He went on shore for my mother and came on board again—the only remarkable event in his life. Less

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File size357.287 KB
Print pages142
PublisherPublic Domain Book
Publication date2008-08-20
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1515312925
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, ...

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