Jim Davis
John Masefield
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Description
John Masefield's Jim Davis is a novel of a boy's early life, told in the first person. Jim Davis was born in 1800 in Newnham-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, as the century turned. He remembers masons shaping the two bows of a great house near his home. His nurse stopped to watch them on the green strip by the river, where gypsies camped.
His mother died in 1805, on Trafalgar day, and his father in 1809, after shutting himself away in grief. His uncle fetched him to Devonshire, and the coach journey made a deep mark on him. At Bristol he first saw big ships and spoke with sailors. The book, long loved as a boys' classic, grows from these beginnings toward the smuggling coast.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | John Masefield |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 265 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |