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Percival Keene is a coming-of-age adventure novel published in three volumes in 1842 by Frederick Marryat. The book follows the nautical adventures of the title character, a low-born illegitimate child of a captain in the Royal Navy , as he enters service as a midshipman during the Napoleonic Wars and rises through the ranks with the ...
- United Kingdom
- 1842
- English
- Frederick Marryat
One of Marryat's most entertaining follows adventures, Percival Keene follows namesake character, a low-born seaman, on a mission to discover and claim his true parentage and identity. Young Keene endures baffles both great and small, a stint on board a pirate ship, a stormy romance, and near-execution at the hands of Napoleon himself, all told ...
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3 de ago. de 2021 · Percival Keene (1842) is a novel by Frederick Marryat. Inspired by the author’s experience as a captain in the Royal Navy, Percival Keene is a tale of bravery, identity, and the manifold...
Percival Keene. The young hero of this book is soon seen to be the result of an unfortunate liaison between a rising star of a sea-captain, and the housekeeper's daughter at his aunt's mansion. The boy joins the navy and is given a good deal of covert help ny his (actual) father.
24 de jul. de 2008 · Percival Keene : Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848. Publication date. 1999. Topics. Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815. Publisher. New York : Henry Holt. Collection. europeanlibraries. Book from the collections of. Oxford University. Language. English.
'Percival Keene' is a coming-of-age adventure novel published in three volumes by Frederick Marryat. The book follows the nautical adventures of the title character, a low-born...
Keene is the bastard son of an upwardly mobile captain in the Royal Navy. For social reasons, his father will not recognize him; but, instead, works behind the scenes to...
