TY - BOOK AU - Marryat,Frederick TI - Mr. Midshipman Easy AV - PR PY - 2007/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Sea stories KW - Autobiographical fiction KW - War stories KW - Young men -- Fiction KW - Adventure stories KW - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction KW - Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century -- Fiction KW - Midshipmen -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Midshipman_Easy; Release date is 2007-05-21; Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Mr. Midshipman Easy" by Frederick Marryat is a novel published in 1836. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, it follows Jack Easy, a spoiled teenager who believes in his father's philosophy of absolute equality and the "rights of man." When Easy joins the British Royal Navy expecting to find an equal society, reality proves quite different. With help from Mesty, an escaped slave turned ship's corporal, Easy navigates Mediterranean adventures that challenge his idealistic notions about property, rank, and human nature. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21553 ER -