
50+ Pirate Novels: An Ultimate Collection (Including Great Seafaring Legends)
Classic Tales of Treasure, Mutiny, Privateers, Ghost Ships, and High-Seas AdventureBy Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Jeffery Farnol, Howard Pyle, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Walter Scott, Frederick Ferdinand Moore, Daniel Defoe, Alexandre Dumas, Frederick Marryat, John Masefield, Rafael Sabatini, Harold MacGrath, Joseph Lewis French, Harry Collingwood, Charles Boardman Hawes, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, R. M. Ballantyne, G. A. Henty, Stephen W. Meader, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph D. Paine, W. H. G. Kingston, William Macleod Raine, Percy F.WestermanLength481h 58m
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50+ Pirate Novels: An Ultimate Collection (Including Great Seafaring Legends) maps the pirate tale across its many literary seas: imperial adventure, maritime romance, Gothic menace, juvenile quest, historical reconstruction, and proto-science-fictional voyage. From storm-bound chases and buried treasure to mutiny, naval warfare, and encounters at the edges of mapped worlds, the volume reveals piracy as both escapist spectacle and a searching meditation on law, freedom, commerce, and empire. Its range encompasses canonical sea legends alongside rarer popular adventures, demonstrating the enduring adaptability of nautical fiction. Its contributors span the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, bringing together major Victorian novelists, American romancers, Gothic innovators, adventure-story specialists, and writers associated with boys' literature and pulp fiction. Collectively, these voices trace the development of the maritime romance through Romantic historicism, imperial culture, Atlantic adventure, and the emergence of modern popular genres. Their differing national traditions and narrative idioms—archival, sensational, comic, documentary, and fantastic—make the sea a shared yet contested imaginative space. This expansive anthology is recommended for readers of adventure literature, maritime history, and popular fiction alike. It offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare styles and ethical visions within one volume, while its breadth invites reflection on how pirate narratives repeatedly reshape danger, desire, and authority. Educational as well as engrossing, it fosters a lively dialogue among generations of seafaring storytellers.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length481 hrs 58 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 17, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Collected Works of Ingersoll Lockwood (Annotated)
250+ Pirate Novels: An Ultimate Collection (Including Great Seafaring Legends)
3Treasure Island
4Chapter I. The Old Sea-dog at the 'Admiral Benbow'
5Chapter II. Black Dog Appears and Disappears
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6Chapter III. The Black Spot
7Chapter IV. The Sea Chest
8Chapter V. The Last of the Blind Man
9Chapter VI. The Captain’s Papers
10Chapter VII. I Go to Bristol
11Chapter VIII. At the Sign of the 'Spy-Glass'
12Chapter IX. Powder and Arms
13Chapter X. The Voyage
14Chapter XI. What I Heard in the Apple Barrel
15Chapter XII. Council of War
16Chapter XIII. How My Shore Adventure Began
17Chapter XIV. The First Blow
18Chapter XV. The Man of the Island
19Chapter XVI. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship was Abandoned
20Chapter XVII. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat’s Last Trip
21Chapter XVIII. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day’s Fighting
22Chapter XIX. Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade
23Chapter XX. Silver’s Embassy
24Chapter XXI. The Attack
25Chapter XXII. How My Sea Adventure Began
26Chapter XXIII. The Ebb-tide Runs
27Chapter XXIV. The Cruise of the Coracle
28Chapter XXV. I Strike the Jolly Roger
29Chapter XXVI. Israel Hands
30Chapter XXVII. 'Pieces of Eight'
31Chapter XXVIII. In the Enemy’s Camp
32Chapter XXIX. The Black Spot Again
33Chapter XXX. On Parole
34Chapter XXXI. The Treasure Hunt — Flint’s Pointer
35Chapter XXXII. The Treasure Hunt — The Voice Among the Trees
36Chapter XXXIII. The Fall of a Chieftain
37Chapter XXXIV. And Last
38Captain Blood
39Chapter I. The Messenger
40Chapter II. Kirke’s Dragoons
41Chapter III. The Lord Chief Justice
42Chapter IV. Human Merchandise
43Chapter V. Arabella Bishop
44Chapter VI. Plans of Escape
45Chapter VII. Pirates
46Chapter VIII. Spaniards
47Chapter IX. The Rebels-Convict
48Chapter X. Don Diego
49Chapter XI. Filial Piety
50Chapter XII. Don Pedro Sangre