The Dark Frigate

by Charles Boardman Hawes

Overview

The story of Philip Marsham who lived in the time of King Charles and was bred a sailor but came home to England after many hazards by sea and land and fought for the King at Newbury and lost a great inheritance and departed for the Barbados in the same ship, by curious chance, in which he had long before adventured with pirates. "ddthe Dark Frigate" is a good story, so good that it could wellhave been twice as long. If it lacks some of the excitement and spontaneity of Hawes earlier books, it shows the same skill in choosing iuncident and detail in rapid narration, and in flashing a character in a sentence or two.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162461548
Publisher:	Anthony Bly
Publication date:	07/23/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	868 KB

About the Author

Charles Boardman Hawes (January 24, 1889 – July 16, 1923) was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction sea stories, best known for three historical novels. He died suddenly at age 34, after only two of his five books had been published. He was the first U.S.-born winner of the annual Newbery Medal, recognizing his third novel The Dark Frigate (1923) as the year's best American children's book. Reviewing the Hawes Memorial Prize Contest in 1925, The New York Times observed that "his adventure stories of the sea caused him to be compared with Stevenson, Dana and Melville".