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Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend

Capt Frederick Marryat author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Globe Pequot Press

Published:1st Oct '99

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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.

"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

ISBN: 9780935526646

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 29mm

Weight: 508g

384 pages