- Fiction, Great Britain Civil War, 1642-1649, History, Juvenile fiction
Orphaned when their Royalist father is killed during the Civil War, the four Beverley children are taken into hiding in a cottage in the New Forest and disguised as the grandchildren of a poor forester.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Frederick Marryat
- First published
- 1855
- Pages
- 327
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, P. R. Gawthorn, Dent
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781414262031
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“The circumstances which I am about to relate to my juvenile readers took place in the year 1647.”
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