Frank Mildmay or the Naval Officer (Classics of Naval Fiction)

Frank Mildmay or the Naval Officer has 86 ratings and 5 reviews. K. said: Marryat, the Shelves: nautical-fiction, adventure, classics, ebooks. Captain Marryat.
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Frank Mildmay or the Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat

The success which had hitherto attended me was no set-off against the risk I ran of losing for ever this lovely girl, and the respect and esteem of her father. For her sake, therefore, I made a vow for ever to abandon this infernal system.

I mention this more particularly as it was the first healthy symptom of amendment I had discovered, and one to which I long and tenaciously adhered—as far, at least, as my habits and pursuits in life would allow me. I forgot, at that time, that to be ingenuous it was necessary to be virtuous. There is no cause for concealment when we do not act wrongly.

Frank Mildmay; Or， The Naval Officer

Mar 25, M. Kei rated it it was amazing Shelves: Captain Marryat was a midshipman under Lord Cochrane during the Napoleonic Wars -- and Lord Cochrane is the real life inspiration for many fictional naval heroes from Horatio Hornblower to Jack Aubrey. Marryat's first novel was widely believed to be autobiographic, and is an exquisitely detailed portrait of life at sea and the coming of age of a young rascal, Frank Mildmay. Marryat dwells up on the small details of nautical life, dismissing large actions, such as the Battle of Trafalgar with "bu Captain Marryat was a midshipman under Lord Cochrane during the Napoleonic Wars -- and Lord Cochrane is the real life inspiration for many fictional naval heroes from Horatio Hornblower to Jack Aubrey.

Marryat dwells up on the small details of nautical life, dismissing large actions, such as the Battle of Trafalgar with "but everybody knows what happened there. Numerous incidents, comic, tragic, and lascivious, are detailed as young Frank succumbs to vice but eventually reforms himself. To read this novel is like sitting over a tankard of ale listening to sailor's tales -- some of which might actually be true.

Jun 12, Kettlehewer rated it really liked it. The real attraction for me is that this book was written by an actual seaman from that time, so I don't feel bad gleaning facts from this novel even if he did fudge some things for artistic license, which he may have. I'd recommend to Royal Navy-obsessed people like myself, but not casual readers. Mar 07, Sylvester rated it it was ok Shelves: Somehow I couldn't bond with the main character.

I didn't have a sense of where he was going. The point seemed to be that our actions inevitably catch up with us. All fine, but without the charm of some of the other novels he's written. Sep 13, Lee Scoresby rated it liked it. Painfully preachy, but a decent story.


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Frank Mildmay or the Naval Officer

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