Poor Jack the Settlers in Canada (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Poor Jack the Settlers in Canada In 1840, the year of the publication of "Poor Jack," Captain Marryat had reached the zenith of his literary career. The novels which appeared in 1839 and 1840, "The Phantom Ship," "Olla Podrida," "Poor Jack," and "Percival Keene," though they cannot rank with the best of his earlier work, at any rate in parts attain a very high level of excellence. "Poor Jack" especially contains one or two jokes as good as any recorded of Mr. Midshipman Easy. At no other period of his literary labours did Captain Marryat cover so large and varied a field of subjects, but in the book now before us, he is content for once to confine his wandering fancy to the shores of his native land. Readers of "The Phantom Ship" or of "Olla Podrida" will undoubtedly experience a sense of relief and relaxation in returning from continental tours, from tropical seas and desert islands, to the homely shores of Father Thames, where, with the flats of Essex on the one side, and the pleasant hills of Kent on the other, they may enjoy a well-earned repose. The Greenwich of our own day is a very different place from the picturesque old town that Captain Marryat knew. Even in his time, however, improvements were being carried on with an unsparing hand, and he feels a little uncertain as to whether his readers will be able to identify the precise localities of his story. Houses like that of the affable Dr. Tadpole, "of dark red brick, much ornamented, and probably built in the reign of Queen Elizabeth," were even then conspicuous among the crowd of newer and meaner neighbours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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