The Crash of the Great Ocean ( Masterman Ready, or the Wreck of the Pacific ) is a children's artwork of the Robinsonade genre of the English navigator and writer Frederick Marriet , first published in 1841. The plot revolves around the Segrev family, shipwrecked and forced to survive on a desert island.
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Content
Story
Upon returning to New South Wales ( Australia ), the ship "Great Ocean" gets into a storm and crashes. The crew of the ship escapes on boats, leaving passengers to their own devices. Members of the Sigrev family, with their black servant Yuno and old sailor Masterman Redi, are selected on an uninhabited island . They have to overcome many difficulties, the worst of which was the attack of the bandits who killed Radi. Heroes are saved thanks to their relative, whom they considered dead.
Keynote
“The Crash of the Great Ocean” is one of the first historical works of adventure for children. It appeared in response to Johann Viss's book Swiss Robinson (1812) [1] . As a seaman with great experience, Marriet was annoyed that Wyss depicted a shipwreck as a romantic adventure and did not approve that Wyss did not take into account the role of nature in his work [2] . The Sigrev family overcomes many dangers, starting with a shipwreck and injuring passengers [3] .
The book is sustained in a strict and pious manner [4] , it contains many references to the former marine life of Masterman Radi [5] , which is associated with God's grace and the “ Bible ” [4] . The family draws lessons from natural history and also discovers evidence of God's favor everywhere [5] .
Reviews
For many years, the work remained a popular adventure story for children [6] . Along with the work “ Children of the New Forest ”, she was considered the best of Marriet’s children's books, and for some time they even believed that “The Crash of the Great Ocean” will forever remain the more popular of the two, due to the continuing interest in the subject [7] . Today, the work is less popular than in the past [8] , partly due to constant moralizing [6] .
Translations into Russian
The work has been repeatedly translated for the Russian-speaking reader [9] :
- Frederick Marriet. Colonists in captivity: A story by Mariotte // Journal Family and School. - SPb. : Printing house K.K. Retger, 1883. - July ( No. 7 ).
- Frederick Marriet. New Robinson Sigismund Rüstig / translation by V. Andreevskaya. - SPb. : Publisher F.A. Bitepage, 1901. - 138 p.
- Captain Marriet. The ruin of the “Great Ocean” / translation by E. Chistyakova-Ver. - SPb. : Publisher P.P. Soikina, 1912 .-- 208 p. - (Complete collection of captain Marriet).
- Frederick Marriet. The collapse of the "Great Ocean" / translation by S. Bystrov. - M .: Earth and Factory, 1928. - S. 5-230. - 232 p.
Notes
- ↑ Gillespie, John Thomas. Historical fiction for young readers (grades 4-8): an introduction . - Westport, Conn .: Libraries Unlimited, 2008 .-- S. 18. - 489 p. - ISBN 9781591586210 .
- ↑ Frederick Marryat. Masterman Ready, Preface. - 1846.- S. 6.
- ↑ Mary Virginia Brackett. The Facts on File companion to the British novel. - 2006. - T. 1. - S. 285. - ISBN 081605133X .
- ↑ 1 2 Knowles, Murray. Language and Control in Children's Literature . - London: Routledge, 1996 .-- S. 6 .-- 284 p. - ISBN 0585447209 .
- ↑ 1 2 Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction . - Stanford, Calif .: Stanford University Press, 1989 .-- S. 420-421. - 696 p. - ISBN 0804715289 .
- ↑ 1 2 Christine L. Krueger. Encyclopedia of British Writers, 19th and 20th Centuries. - 2009. - S. 226. - ISBN 1438108702 .
- ↑ R. Brimley Johnson. Introduction. - Children of the New Forest (by Captain Marryat). - JM Dent & co., 1907.
- ↑ Vincent Starrett, Christopher Morley. Books alive: a profane chronicle of literary endeavor and literary misdemeanor. - Books for Libraries Press, 1940. - S. 45.
- ↑ The collapse of the "Great Ocean" . Laboratory fiction .