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The Children of the New Forest (version 2)

The Children of the New Forest (version 2)

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Number of Chapters: 27

Length: 12 hours and 49 minutes

Language: English

The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. The story follows the fortunes of the four Beverley children who are orphaned during the war, and hide from their Roundhead oppressors in the shelter of the New Forest where they learn to live off the land.

The story begins in 1647 when King Charles I has been defeated in the civil war and has fled from London towards the New Forest. Parliamentary soldiers have been sent to search the forest and decide to burn Arnwood, the house of Colonel Beverley, a Cavalier officer killed at the Battle of Naseby. The four orphan children of the house, Edward, Humphrey, Alice and Edith, are believed to have died in the flames. However, they are saved by Jacob Armitage, a local gamekeeper, who hides them in his isolated cottage acting as his grandchildren.

Under Armitage's guidance, the children adapt from an aristocratic lifestyle to that of simple foresters. After Armitage's death, Edward takes charge and the children develop and expand the farmstead, aided by the entrepreneurial spirit of the younger brother Humphrey. They are assisted by a gypsy boy, Pablo, who they rescue from a pitfall trap. A sub-plot involves a hostile Puritan gamekeeper named Corbould who seeks to harm Edward and his family. Edward also encounters the sympathetic Puritan, Heatherstone, placed in charge of the Royal land in the New Forest, and rescues his daughter, Patience, in a house-fire. Edward leaves the cottage and works as a secretary for Heatherstone, but Edward maintains the pretence that he is the grandson of Jacob Armitage. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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Chapter 1 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 2 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 3 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 4 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 5 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 6 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 7 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 8 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 9 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 10 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 11 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 12 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 13 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 14 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 15 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 16 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 17 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 18 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 19 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 20 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 21 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 22 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 23 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 24 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 25 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 26 (Nick Whitley)
Chapter 27 (Nick Whitley)
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