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Title: Percival Keene (Heart of Oak Sea Classics Series.) by Frederick Marryat, Dean King, Louis J. Parascandola ISBN: 0805061398 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Rating: 3
Summary: Sadly disappointed
Comment: Having read Dean King's recommendation (as he is usually accurate), I was expecting something above the average - especially as it is included in a series of Classics...
Sadly, not.
Written in typical 19th Century style, it tends to verbosity and skirting around, instead of coming straight to the point.
Considering that Marryat was a disciple of Cochrane, there is remarkably little action and little detail of that... a few shots are exchanged, the enemy is boarded and the prize is taken in one easy lesson - none of the tension, tactics and strategems that feature so large in other nautical tales. Nor do we get under the skin of any of the characters, there is no fleshing-out of the personalities, so we end up not caring what happens to them.
Our Hero Percival stumbles from one lucky accident to the next in true Victorian story-telling style, but there seems to be no central theme to the plot, apart from his estranged father's aloofness and disguised patronage.
I kept expecting some surprise or twist in the tale, but only the expected happened.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Adventure Wnderful Humor
Comment: A truly wonderful British man of war seafaring novel. Marryat is a wonderful story teller. Good characterizations a little mystery. One difference in the Marryat novels is the stories he tells about the pranks that some of the sailors and officers get up to onboard ship and ashore. And of course this is a usual part of shipboard life but the other officers such as O'Brien don't give us as much of this side of life at sea. Some of the pranks had me laughing nearly out of control
Rating: 3
Summary: Usual Marryat - good!
Comment: Marryat displays his colors in his usual fashion: "normal" people, real characters, and the tang of salt air in your nostrils as you read.
The unacknowledged son of a post captain, young Percival strives to do his duty to achieve his father's/captain's respect. Adventures ensue.
Easy to read. Less social critique than Mr. Midshipman Easy. Less gruesome reality than The Privateersman. Not his best, but it is still a good yarn!
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Title: Peter Simple (Heart of Oak Sea Classics Series) by Frederick Marryat, Louis J. Parascandola ISBN: 0805055657 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Mr Midshipman Easy (Classics of Nautical Fiction Series) by Frederick Marryat ISBN: 0935526404 Publisher: McBooks Press Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Black Ship (Heart of Oak Sea Classics Series) by Dudley Pope, Christopher McKee ISBN: 0805055665 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Lord Cochrane, Seaman, Radical, Liberator: A Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (Heart of Oak Sea Classics Series) by Christopher Lloyd ISBN: 080505569X Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Phantom Ship (Classics of Nautical Fiction Series) by Frederick Marryat, Captain Frederick Marryat ISBN: 0935526854 Publisher: McBooks Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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