Mr. Midshipman Easy
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A timelesss tale of a midshipman's rise in Nelson's navy.Widely regarded as Marryat's best work, Mr. Midshipman Easy is based on the author's adventures sailing with Lord Thomas Cochrane. This classic seafaring tale is a fascinating account of naval life and warfare, of French prisons and love affairs, and of the midshipman's berth. Marryat's ready wit, unforgettable characters, and true-to-life details have earned him praise from Conrad, Hemingway, and Ford Madox Ford, who called him "the greatest of English novelists."
Chapters (83)
- Captain Frederick Marryat "Mr. Midshipman Easy"
- Chapter One.
- Which the reader will find very easy to read.
- Chapter Two.
- In which Mrs Easy, as usual, has her own way.
- Chapter Three.
- In which our hero has to wait the issue of an argument.
- Chapter Four.
- In which the Doctor prescribes going to school as a remedy for a cut finger.
- Chapter Five.
- Jack Easy is sent to a school at which there is no flogging.
- Chapter Six.
- In which Jack makes essay of his father’s sublime philosophy and arrives very near to truth at last.
- Chapter Seven.
- In which Jack makes some very sage reflections, and comes to a very unwise decision.
- Chapter Eight.
- In which Mr Easy has his first lesson as to zeal in His Majesty’s Service.
- Chapter Nine.
- In which Mr Easy finds himself on the other side of the Bay of Biscay.
- Chapter Ten.
- Showing how Jack transgresses against his own philosophy.
- Chapter Eleven.
- In which our hero proves that all on board should equally sacrifice decency to duty.
- Chapter Twelve.
- In which our hero prefers going down to going up; a choice, it is to be hoped, he will reverse upon a more important occasion.
- Chapter Thirteen.
- In which our hero begins to act and think for himself.
- Chapter Fourteen.
- In which our hero finds that disagreeable occurrences will take place on a cruise.
- Chapter Fifteen.
- In which mutiny, like fire, is quenched for want of fuel and no want of water.
- Chapter Sixteen.
- In which Jack’s cruise is ended, and he regains the Harpy.
- Chapter Seventeen.
- In which our hero finds out that trigonometry is not only necessary to navigation, but may be required in settling affairs of honour.
- Chapter Eighteen.
- In which our hero sets off on another cruise, in which he is not blown off shore.
- Chapter Nineteen.
- In which our hero follows his destiny and forms a tableau.
- Chapter Twenty.
- A long story, which the reader must listen to, as well as our hero.
- Chapter Twenty One.
- In which our hero is brought up all standing under a press of sail.
- Chapter Twenty Two.
- Our hero is sick with the service, but recovers with proper medicine—an argument, ending, as most do, in a blow up—Mesty lectures upon craniology.
- Chapter Twenty Three.
- Jack goes on another cruise—love and diplomacy—Jack proves himself too clever for three, and upsets all the arrangements of the high contracting powers.
- Chapter Twenty Four.
- Our hero plays the very devil.
- Chapter Twenty Five.
- In which the old proverb is illustrated, “that you must not count your chickens before they are hatched.”
- Chapter Twenty Six.
- In which our hero becomes excessively unwell, and agrees to go through a course of medicine.
- Chapter Twenty Seven.
- In which Captain Wilson is repaid with interest for Jack’s borrowing his name; proving that a good name is as good as a legacy.
- Chapter Twenty Eight.
- “Philosophy made easy” upon agrarian principles, the subject of some uneasiness to our hero—the first appearance, but not the last, of an important personage.
- Chapter Twenty Nine.
- In which our hero sees a little more service, and is better employed than in fighting Don Silvio.
- Chapter Thirty.
- Modern philanthropy which, as usual, is the cause of much trouble and vexation.
- Chapter Thirty One.
- A regular set-to, in which the parties beaten are not knocked down, but rise higher and higher at each discomfiture—nothing but the troops could have prevented them from going up to Heaven.
- Chapter Thirty Two.
- In which our hero and Gascoigne ought to be ashamed of themselves, and did feel what might be called midshipmite compunction.
- Chapter Thirty Three.
- In which Mesty should be called throughout Mephistopheles, for it abounds in black cloaks, disguises, daggers, and dark deeds.
- Chapter Thirty Four.
- Jack leaves the service, in which he had no business, and goes home to mind his own business.
- Chapter Thirty Five.
- Mr Easy’s wonderful invention fully explained by himself—much to the satisfaction of our hero, and, it is to be presumed, to that also of the reader.
- Chapter Thirty Six.
- In which Jack takes up the other side of the argument, and proves that he can argue as well on one side as the other.
- Chapter Thirty Seven.
- In which our hero finds himself an orphan, and resolves to go to sea again, without the smallest idea of equality.
- Chapter Thirty Eight.
- In which our hero, as usual, gets into the very middle of it.
- Chapter Thirty Nine.
- A council of war, in which Jack decides that he will have one more cruise.
- Chapter Forty.
- In which there is another slight difference of opinion between those who should be friends.
- Chapter Forty One.
- Which winds up the Nautical Adventures of Mr Midshipman Easy.
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