Captain Frederick Marryat (1792 – 1848) was a British Royal Navy officer, novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early founder of the sea story.

«Percival Keene» is a coming-of-age adventure novel by Frederick Marryat. The story of the book will amaze a favorite reader by the nautical adventures of the character whose name as it titles. Percival Keene is a low-born illegitimate child of a captain serving in the Royal Navy and the process of his  entering to service as a midshipman during the Napoleonic Wars and rising through the ranks with the help of his influential father.