A Message From The Sea - Charles Dickens - Bog

A Message From The Sea is a novel written by the renowned English author Charles Dickens. The story follows the life of a young man named George Croydon, who is the heir to a wealthy family fortune. After a tragic shipwreck, George is presumed dead and his family mourns his loss. However, George survives and is washed up on the shore of a small fishing village, where he is taken in by a kind-hearted family.As he recovers from his injuries, George falls in love with the daughter of his host family, Emily. However, their happiness is short-lived as George's past comes back to haunt him in the form of a mysterious stranger. The stranger threatens to reveal George's true identity and ruin his chance at happiness with Emily.The novel explores themes of love, loss, and redemption as George struggles to come to terms with his past and build a new life for himself. Through his interactions with the people of the fishing village, George learns the value of hard work, honesty, and community. The novel also delves into the harsh realities of life at sea, as well as the social and economic disparities between the wealthy and the working class.Overall, A Message From The Sea is a poignant and thought-provoking novel that showcases Dickens' masterful storytelling skills and his ability to capture the complexities of human emotion.Here the captain sat down on the foot of the bed, and glancing at a dreadful libel on Kitty which ornamented the wall, --the production of some wandering limner, whom the captain secretly admired as having studied portraiture from the figure-heads of ships, --motioned to the young man to take the rush-chair on the other side of the small round table. That done, the captain put his hand in the deep breast-pocket of his long-skirted blue coat, and took out of it a strong square case-bottle.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original wor