Excerpt from The King's Own IF in the case of some novelists it makes little or no difference what their private life and personal experience have been, there are many others whose existence we ought to know with fair intimacy, before we can even begin to understand their work. Captain Marryat assuredly belongs to the latter class. If we are to put ourselves at the right point of view to estimate those novels by which he lives Peter Simple. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.