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    Children of the New Forest: The story of four young orphans in the English Civil War

    By Captain Marryat

    3.5/5

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    About this ebook

    Four young orphans are determined to avenge their father’s death as they set out to help restore deposed King Charles the First to the throne. Set in this turbulent time of English history, when Oliver Cromwell’s Leveller army hunted down those loyal to the king, Children of the New Forest is an enjoyable and vivid story of adventure and courage.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGeddes and Grosset
    Release dateJul 30, 2015
    ISBN9781849343732
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    • 4/5
      There are four children have no parents.Their mother is dead and their father died while fighting for the King.If they are found by Cromwell's soldiers,they may be killed.so they escape into the New Forest.I like this story.The four ob them help each other to live in the New Forest. They give me courage.
    • 3/5
      Although I didn't particularly enjoy this book, partially because it has undoubtedly failed to age well, and partially because I personally found it often boring reading - with a lot of attention to the slaughter of animals - worth a read indeed, especially for adults.
    • 3/5
      When I first read this, I adored this and thought it was pretty much perfection. I read it over and over again, until the covers fell off my copy. I had that reaction to a lot of children's books, and I can't quite find the enchantment again in this one, which makes me sad. I decided to reread it after I came across a reference to it in one of the books I read for Introduction to Children's Literature.

      It isn't really a very easily accessible text in some respects: rather biased, sometimes dry, rather didactic. Historical fiction is a turn-off in itself for some people. I remember being drawn in by the characters, though -- some of them are a little too good to be true, but Edward is at least a bit of an idiot sometimes, overly impetuous and jumping to conclusions. Alice and Edith are somewhat non-characters -- indeed, so is Patience, actually -- so I'm surprised I found so much to relate to, as a child. I suppose I didn't really care about whether the characters were male or female. Now I found the story surprisingly short on everything I was more interested in, in the later part of the book -- how exactly Edward gets on in the fighting, for example, and a more satisfying way of bringing all the characters together at the end. The ending paragraph or so is quite an irritating dry summary.

      Still, there is still some of the magic in learning how they become so self-sufficient, in how clever Humphrey and Pablo are, and in the forest adventures. The stuff outside of the forest doesn't ring as true, though.
    • 4/5
      Written in 1847 about the four children of a Cavalier famiiy in the time of Cromwell who learn to fend for themselves very successfully in a the New Forest. The style is complex and the concepts mature and important: Some supporters of Cromwell, who disapproved of the King's actions, realized too late that Cromwell was even more dictatorial. When the monarchy is restored, too much time and property transfer has occurred to restore everything peacefully back to the way it was. The characters are perhaps too perfect and the Eden-like quality of living in the forest may be too ideal. But, hey, why not.
    • 5/5
      There's nothing like a child's book to put you in the midst of history while understanding what children did when faced with adversity. Marryat did a phenomenal job, but then anyone who knows this period of time as well as he did couldn't help but do a phenomenal job.
    • 4/5
      Classic adventure. I loved it.
    • 4/5
      I read most 'Children's Classics' in my youth, but never seemed to get a copy of this one... It's actually (even as an adult reader) a pretty good read, even if, being older and more cynical, we might feel the efforts of the young protagonists are quite astonishingly successful!It's the story of the four Beverley children, during the English Civil War. The orphaned offspring of a well-to-do Cavalier, they are being brought up by a sour old aunt in their family home, until the arrival of Roundheads, the burning down of the property and seizure of old Cousin Judith (whom they take to be Charles I in disguise)...Then follow years of adventure as the four are taken in by a sympathetic forester. Edward, the eldest, soon becomes an adroit deer hunter, while practical brother Humphrey starts a technically impressive farm, and the girls master homecraft. But there's a Roundhead 'Intendant' (with a lovely daughter) supervising the forest; an obliging gypsy who falls into Humphrey's trap; and tantalising news of Charles II returning to re-take the throne...Pretty good!!