Mass' George: A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah
Mass' George: A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah
When young George Bruton loses his mother, his father carries him away from England to the Georgia frontier, to a world of cypress swamps, roaming alligators, and the violent uncertainties of mid-18th century colonial America. Here, amid the sweat and cruelty of plantation life, George finds something unexpected: a friendship with Pomp, an enslaved boy his own age, bound together by boyhood adventures that dare not speak their name in a world built on ownership. Fenn populates his vivid frontier with floods that drown livestock, Indigenous peoples who trade and threaten, and the daily moral gymnastics of a man who loves his son but lives off stolen lives. This is adventure fiction with a conscience, where the warmth between two boys hints at what the institution surrounding them cannot bear to name. It endures not as propaganda but as a window into how thoughtful people once grappled, however imperfectly, with the moral earthquake beneath their feet.
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“There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.””
— George Manville Fenn
“There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.””
— George Manville Fenn
“I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.””
— George Manville Fenn
“The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.””
— George Manville Fenn
“How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.””
— George Manville Fenn
“I had an inheritance from my father,It was the moon and the sun.And though I roam all over the world,The spending of it’s never done.””
— George Manville Fenn
“This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it””
— George Manville Fenn
“For what are we born if not to aid one another?””
— George Manville Fenn
“No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.””
— George Manville Fenn
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