Mr. Midshipman Easy
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About This Book
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 (82)
- CHAPTER I
- Which the reader will find very easy to read.
- CHAPTER II
- In which Mrs Easy, as usual, has her own way.
- CHAPTER III
- In which our hero has to wait the issue of an argument.
- CHAPTER IV
- In which the doctor prescribes going to school as a remedy for a cut finger.
- CHAPTER V
- Jack Easy is sent to a school at which there is no flogging.
- CHAPTER VI
- In which Jack makes essay of his father's sublime philosophy, and arrives very near to truth at last.
- CHAPTER VII
- In which Jack makes some very sage reflections, and comes to a very unwise decision.
- CHAPTER VIII
- In which Mr Easy has his first lesson as to zeal in his Majesty's Service.
- CHAPTER IX
- In which Mr Easy finds himself on the other side of the Bay of Biscay.
- CHAPTER X
- Showing how Jack transgresses against his own philosophy.
- CHAPTER XI
- In which our hero proves that all on board should equally sacrifice decency to duty.
- CHAPTER XII
- 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 XIII
- In which our hero begins to act and think for himself.
- CHAPTER XIV
- In which our hero finds that disagreeable occurrences will take place on a cruise.
- CHAPTER XV
- In which mutiny, like fire, is quenched for want of fuel and no want of water.
- CHAPTER XVI
- In which Jack's cruise is ended, and he regains the Harpy.
- CHAPTER XVII
- In which our hero finds out that Trigonometry is not only necessary to Navigation, but may be required in settling affairs of honour.
- CHAPTER XVIII
- In which our hero sets off on another cruise, in which he is not blown off shore.
- CHAPTER XIX
- In which our hero follows his destiny and forms a tableau.
- CHAPTER XX
- A long story, which the reader must listen to, as well as our hero.
- CHAPTER XXI
- In which our hero is brought up all standing under a press of sail.
- CHAPTER XXII
- 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 XXIII
- Jack goes on another cruise—Love and diplomacy—Jack proves himself as clever for three, and upsets all the arrangements of the high contracting powers.
- CHAPTER XXIV
- Our hero plays the very devil.
- CHAPTER XXV
- In which the old proverb is illustrated, "That you must not count your chickens before they are hatched."
- CHAPTER XXVI
- In which our hero becomes excessively unwell, and agrees to go through a course of medicine.
- CHAPTER XXVII
- 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 XXVIII
- "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 XXIX
- In which our hero sees a little more service, and is better employed than in fighting Don Silvio.
- CHAPTER XXX
- Modern philanthropy, which, as usual, is the cause of much trouble and vexation.
- CHAPTER XXXI
- 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 XXXII
- In which our hero and Gascoigne ought to be ashamed of themselves, and did feel what might be called midshipmite compunction.
- CHAPTER XXXIII
- In which Mesty should be called throughout Mephistopheles, for it abounds in black cloaks, disguises, daggers, and dark deeds.
- CHAPTER XXXIV
- Jack leaves the service, in which he had no business, and goes home to mind his own business.
- CHAPTER XXXV
- 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 XXXVI
- 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 XXXVII
- In which our hero finds himself an orphan, and resolves to go to sea again without the smallest idea of equality.
- CHAPTER XXXVIII
- In which our hero, as usual, gets into the very middle of it.
- CHAPTER XXXIX
- A council of war, in which Jack decides that he will have one more cruise.
- CHAPTER XL
- In which there is another slight difference of opinion between those who should be friends.
- CHAPTER XLI
- Which winds up the nautical adventures of Mr Midshipman Easy.
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