author
Frederick Marryat
1792–1848
A sailor, storyteller, and one of the early masters of the sea adventure novel, this British writer turned hard-won naval experience into lively fiction. His books helped shape the classic image of life aboard ship for generations of readers.
53 Audiobooks
The Children of the New Forest
by Frederick Marryat
Diary in America, Series One
by Frederick Marryat
The Pacha of Many Tales
by Frederick Marryat
Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
by Frederick Marryat
The Poacher; Or, Joseph Rushbrook
by Frederick Marryat
Japhet in Search of a Father
by Frederick Marryat
Peter Simple
by Frederick Marryat
Snarleyyow; or, The Dog Fiend
by Frederick Marryat
Kolme kutteria: Meriseikkailukertomus
by Frederick Marryat
The Little Savage
by Frederick Marryat
The Settlers in Canada
by Frederick Marryat
The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Sonora, and Western Texas
by Frederick Marryat
Newton Forster
by Frederick Marryat
Masterman Ready; Or, The Wreck of the "Pacific"
by Frederick Marryat
The Mission; or Scenes in Africa
by Frederick Marryat
The Phantom Ship
by Frederick Marryat
Masterman Ready
by Frederick Marryat
Olla Podrida
by Frederick Marryat
Mr. Midshipman Easy
by Frederick Marryat
Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet
by Frederick Marryat
Olla Podrida
by Frederick Marryat
The Mission
by Frederick Marryat
Newton Forster; Or, The Merchant Service
by Frederick Marryat
Frank Mildmay; Or, The Naval Officer
by Frederick Marryat
Stuurman Flink; of, De schipbreuk van "De Vrede"
by Frederick Marryat
Diary in America, Series Two
by Frederick Marryat
The Phantom Ship
by Frederick Marryat
The Pirate
by Frederick Marryat
The Privateer's-Man, One hundred Years Ago
by Frederick Marryat
The Settlers in Canada
by Frederick Marryat
The Children of the New Forest
by Frederick Marryat
The Pirate, and The Three Cutters
by Frederick Marryat
Snarleyyow, or, the Dog Fiend
by Frederick Marryat
Merirosvo
by Frederick Marryat
The King's Own
by Frederick Marryat
Jacob Faithful
by Frederick Marryat
Valerie
by Frederick Marryat
Mr. Midshipman Easy
by Frederick Marryat
Percival Keene
by Frederick Marryat
Poor Jack
by Frederick Marryat
Japhet, in Search of a Father
by Frederick Marryat
The Three Cutters
by Frederick Marryat
Uudenmetsän lapset
by Frederick Marryat
The Little Savage
by Frederick Marryat
Frank Mildmay, De zeeofficier
by Frederick Marryat
Jack Rustig
by Frederick Marryat
Rehti-Jaakko
by Gustav Höcker, Frederick Marryat
Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer
by Frederick Marryat
The Privateersman
by Frederick Marryat
Lentävä hollantilainen
by Frederick Marryat
Poor Jack
by Frederick Marryat
The Pacha of Many Tales
by Frederick Marryat
Saaren orvon seikkailut
by Frederick Marryat
About the author
Born in Westminster on July 10, 1792, he entered the Royal Navy as a teenager and served during the Napoleonic Wars. Those years at sea gave him the firsthand knowledge that later made his fiction feel vivid and convincing.
After his naval career, he became widely known as a novelist, especially for sea stories such as Mr Midshipman Easy. Encyclopaedia Britannica describes him as the first important English novelist after Tobias Smollett to make full and amusing use of his experience at sea, and he is still remembered as an early pioneer of nautical fiction.
He died at Langham, Norfolk, on August 9, 1848. Today, his novels are valued for their energy, humor, and strong sense of adventure, as well as for the window they give into naval life in the early nineteenth century.