Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend

by Frederick Marryat

Overview

Set in 1699 and framed around the Jacobite (supporters of the overthrown king, James II) conspiracies of the time, Lieutenant Cornelius Vanslyperken is the greedy and treacherous commander of a small vessel that hunts for smugglers in the English Channel. Snarleyyow is his "indestructible" dog.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780935526646
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/1999
Series:	Classics of Naval Fiction , #4
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.14(d)

About the Author

Captain Frederick Marryat (1792–1848) was an actual 19th-century British naval hero who lived a saga worthy of the novels of C.S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian. He survived fifty naval battles on the crack frigate Imperieuse under Lord Cochrane—the real-life model for Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey. In addition to plenty of cannonfire, battle strategy, peril, and passion—liberally sprinkled with wit and fine turns of phrase—Marryat's real-life naval experiences lend his novels a truly remarkable authenticity.

Editorial Reviews

Marryat has the power to set us in the midst of ships and men and sea and sky, all vivid, credible, authentic.

Virginia Woolf

Perhaps the most remarkable instance of a man working his professional knowledge with effect in literature.

G. E. B. Saintsbury

In a purely literary sense [his] real masterpiece.

The Oxford Companion

This was Marryat's navy, his world, and no one brings it to us with greater authenticity.

Alexander Kent

[Marryat's] greatness is undeniable.

Joseph Conrad

"Perhaps the most remarkable instance of a man working his professional knowledge with effect in literature."  —G. E. B. Saintsbury




"In a purely literary sense [his] real masterpiece."  —The Oxford Companion

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