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Mr. Midshipman Easy
Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848)
was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story.
“Mr. Midshipman Easy”
is the adventurous youth of a nineteenth-century literary hero who leaves the luxury of his father''s estate to suffer the realities of growing up at sea in his Majesty''s service.