
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 50m
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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.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length726 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
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 (pt. 1)
13BOOK III (pt. 2)
14The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (pt. 1)
15The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (pt. 2)
16The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (pt. 3)
17The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (pt. 4)
18The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (pt. 5)
19The Pirate Island & A Pirate of the Caribbean
20A Pirate of the Caribbees (pt. 1)
21A Pirate of the Caribbees (pt. 2)
22A Pirate of the Caribbees (pt. 3)
23A Pirate of the Caribbees (pt. 4)
24The Pirate Island (pt. 1)
25The Pirate Island (pt. 2)
26The Pirate Island (pt. 3)
27The Pirate Island (pt. 4)
28The Pirate Island (pt. 5)
29The Pirate
30Introduction
31Chapter I
32Chapter II
33Chapter III
34Chapter IV
35Chapter V
36Chapter VI
37Chapter VII
38Chapter VIII
39Chapter IX
40Chapter X
41Chapter XI
42Chapter XII
43Chapter XIII
44Chapter XIV
45Chapter XV
46Chapter XVI
47Chapter XVII
48Chapter XVIII
49Chapter XIX
50Chapter XXIII