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Sto caricando le informazioni... Masterman Ready (1841)di Frederick Marryat, Frederick Marryat
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. It's worth noting that Captain Marryat wrote this book in response to Swiss Family Robinson. He was expected (by the children in his family) to read Swiss Family aloud to them, and what between the romanticized shipwreck and the bizarrely improbably assortment of animal and plant life all found on one island, he just couldn't get very far. So he wrote his own, informed by his naval experience and his travels. It seems odd that Swiss Family is still widely read today and the more plausible Masterman Ready is less known. I suppose we can blame Walt Disney! ( ) A hundred years ago, this was considered a children's classic. It tells the story of the Seagrave family who are ship wrecked on a south sea island along with a wizened old sailor, Masterman Ready. That sounds like it might be a gripping story, but it's not. It switches between didactic lessons regarding how the protagonists salvage their ship and set up housing for themselves and procure sources of food, along with pious discourses on how all is ordered by God's great, beneficial providence. It wasn't truly horrible, and I thought for time I might get through it. But then, I decided that my age, my remaining time on earth was too short to waste on such dated dreck. I made it 40% of the way through the book, so technically it belongs on the "gave up" bookshelf. But I invested enough time into it and another book on which I "gave up", that I decided one should be counted for my reading for the year and one in the discard pile, where it belongs. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
'One wide water all around us All above us one black sky ? sings the captain in the opening scene of this tale. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.7Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Early 19th century 1800-37Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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