
70 Pirate Novels
A Sweeping Anthology of Sea Adventures, Treasure Hunts, Shipwrecks, Swashbuckling Romances, and Maritime MysteriesBy Robert Louis Stevenson, Richard Le Gallienne, Daniel Defoe, Harry Collingwood, Walter Scott, B. Barker, Gilbert Parker, Joseph Conrad, Angus B. Reach, Jules Verne, L. Frank Baum, Arthur Conan Doyle, R. M. Ballantyne, Bret Harte, Jack London, Frederick Marryat, Jeffery Farnol, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, James Fenimore Cooper, Howard Pyle, William Hope Hodgson, William Henry Giles Kingston, G. A. Henty, Alexandre Dumas, Harold MacGrath, Frederick Ferdinand Moore, W. H. G. Kingston, John C. Hutcheson, Bracebridge Hemyng, Richard Clynton, Edmund Lester Pearson, Frank R. Stockton, Gordon Daviot, Mayne Reid, Francis Lynde, T. Jenkins Hains, Louis Becke, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Emerson Hough, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Carter, Mór Jókai, H. De Vere Stacpoole, Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Maturin M. BallouLength726h 26m
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70 Pirate Novels surveys the durable imaginative power of piracy across nineteenth- and early twentieth-century popular fiction. Ranging from maritime romance, imperial adventure, historical melodrama, detective-inflected mystery, and juvenile tale to fantasy and proto-science fiction, the volume charts the sea as a space of danger, freedom, commerce, and contested law. Shipwrecks, mutinies, hidden treasure, false identities, and perilous coastlines recur, while especially vivid narratives of privateering, island captivity, and pirate codes reveal the genre's formal variety. Its contributors form an unusually broad transatlantic and European constellation, bringing together canonical novelists with prolific writers for magazines, boys' adventure series, and popular romances. Their works emerge from Romantic historical fiction, Victorian imperial culture, nautical realism, sensational literature, and the expanding mass-market publishing world. Scottish, English, American, French, Irish, and Central European perspectives complicate any single image of the pirate, presenting figures who may be outlaw, patriot, entrepreneur, colonial antagonist, or reluctant survivor. Collectively, these voices illuminate how maritime adventure absorbed contemporary anxieties about empire, class, technology, race, and national belonging. Recommended for students, scholars, and devoted readers of adventure literature, this capacious anthology offers an exceptional comparative encounter with a major popular genre. It invites readers to trace changing conventions across decades and nations, while enjoying the energetic dialogue between radically different narrative styles and moral visions.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length726 hrs 26 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Captain Kyd: The Wizard of the Sea (Annotated)
2Treasure Island
3Part I The Old Buccaneer
4Part II The Sea Cook
5Part III My Shore Adventure
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6Part IV The Stockade
7Part V My Sea Adventure
8Part VI Captain Silver
9Pieces of Eight
10BOOK I
11BOOK II
12BOOK III
13CHAPTER I
14CHAPTER II
15CHAPTER III
16CHAPTER IV
17CHAPTER V
18CHAPTER VI
19CHAPTER VII
20CHAPTER VIII
21CHAPTER IX
22CHAPTER X
23CHAPTER XI
24CHAPTER XII
25CHAPTER XIII
26CHAPTER XIV
27CHAPTER XV
28CHAPTER XVI
29CHAPTER XVII
30CHAPTER XVIII
31The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (pt. 1)
32The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (pt. 2)
33The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (pt. 3)
34The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (pt. 4)
35The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (pt. 5)
36The Pirate Island & A Pirate of the Caribbean
37A Pirate of the Caribbees
38Chapter One. A Frigate Fight in Mid-Atlantic
39Chapter Two. The Althea Founders
40Chapter Three. The Gig Is Caught in a Hurricane
41Chapter Four. We Fall in With and Capture a Schooner
42Chapter Five. We Proceed in Search of the Althea’s Boats
43Chapter Six. We Find the Launch
44Chapter Seven. A Daring Act of Piracy
45Chapter Eight. We Capture a Spanish Indiaman
46Chapter Nine. We Encounter and Fight the Guerrilla
47Chapter Ten. Señor José Garcia
48Chapter Eleven. Cariacou—And Afterward
49Chapter Twelve. I Become the Victim of a Villainous Outrage (pt. 1)
50Chapter Twelve. I Become the Victim of a Villainous Outrage (pt. 2)