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Forty Years in the World, Volume I, by Robert Grenville Wallace
Sort-of fictionalized memoirs, published in 1825, of a man who was born in Ireland of an Irish mother and an English father, joined the British army as a buck private (but a clerk), and was sent to India. While serving, he married a local orphan in Cannanore, and worked his way up through the ranks to retire a lieutenant. Then he practised as a solicitor and wrote weird books, apparently. Oh, and had about 8 kids. I loved reading this, and if you're really into stuff from that time period/set of circumstances you probably would too. (Full disclosure: this guy was my 5Xgreat-grandfather.) I'm not sure it was good, and there were plenty of parts that were outright obnoxious, but it sent me back to when I was ten, and puzzling out the world through the expedient of my grandfather's old musty books.
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Sort-of fictionalized memoirs, published in 1825, of a man who was born in Ireland of an Irish mother and an English father, joined the British army as a buck private (but a clerk), and was sent to India. While serving, he married a local orphan in Cannanore, and worked his way up through the ranks to retire a lieutenant. Then he practised as a solicitor and wrote weird books, apparently. Oh, and had about 8 kids. I loved reading this, and if you're really into stuff from that time period/set of circumstances you probably would too. (Full disclosure: this guy was my 5Xgreat-grandfather.) I'm not sure it was good, and there were plenty of parts that were outright obnoxious, but it sent me back to when I was ten, and puzzling out the world through the expedient of my grandfather's old musty books.
(4/300)
