BEACH BOOKS Boxed Set: The Greatest Sea Adventure Novels, Pirate Books & Treasure-Hunt Tales
Classic Tales of Pirates, Shipwrecks, Treasure, and SurvivalBy Rafael Sabatini, R. L. Stevenson, Daniel Defoe, Tobias Smollett, Walter Scott, Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Jack London, Frederick Marryat, Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Mayne Reid, Victor Hugo, R. M. Ballantyne, Jules Verne, L. Frank Baum, Randall Parrish, Charles Boardman Hawes, Rudyard Kipling, Ralph Henry Barbour, Jeffery Farnol
Length569h 39m
About this audiobook
BEACH BOOKS Boxed Set gathers sea adventure, piracy, shipwreck, exploration, and treasure-hunt fiction into a capacious panorama of maritime imagination. Ranging from historical romance and nautical realism to Gothic suspense, imperial adventure, juvenile fiction, and speculative voyage, the volume charts the sea as both commercial thoroughfare and testing ground for courage, greed, loyalty, and self-invention. Its memorable island mysteries, mutinies, lost treasures, and encounters with dangerous coasts reveal how adventure narrative transforms geographical distance into moral and psychological drama. The collection brings together major nineteenth- and early twentieth-century voices from Britain, America, and continental Europe, whose careers span Romantic historical fiction, Victorian popular literature, realism, imperial romance, detective-inflected tale, and early science fiction. These writers draw variously on naval experience, colonial expansion, mercantile culture, frontier mythology, and the enduring traditions of the buccaneer legend. Read collectively, their distinct national settings and narrative temperaments illuminate both the exhilarations and ideological tensions of maritime literature, including its treatment of empire, masculinity, technology, and the unknown. This boxed set is especially rewarding for readers seeking a broad, comparative introduction to sea literature and adventure fiction. It offers an unusual opportunity to trace recurring motifs across radically different styles while enjoying self-contained tales of peril and discovery. Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find in these works a rich dialogue between romance and realism, fantasy and history, and the lure of freedom and the risks of the open sea.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length569 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 16, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1DRIFTWOOD SPARS (Annotated)
2BEACH BOOKS Boxed Set: The Greatest Sea Adventure Novels, Pirate Books & Treasure-Hunt Tales
3Jack London
4The Sea-Wolf (pt. 1)
5The Sea-Wolf (pt. 2)
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6The Sea-Wolf (pt. 3)
7The Sea-Wolf (pt. 4)
8The Sea-Wolf (pt. 5)
9The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 1)
10The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 2)
11The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 3)
12The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 4)
13The Mutiny of the Elsinore (pt. 5)
14A Son of the Sun (pt. 1)
15A Son of the Sun (pt. 2)
16A Son of the Sun (pt. 3)
17James Fenimore Cooper
18The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 1)
19The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 2)
20The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 3)
21The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 4)
22The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 5)
23The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 6)
24The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 7)
25The Red Rover (pt. 1)
26The Red Rover (pt. 2)
27The Red Rover (pt. 3)
28The Red Rover (pt. 4)
29The Red Rover (pt. 5)
30The Red Rover (pt. 6)
31The Red Rover (pt. 7)
32The Red Rover (pt. 8)
33Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 1)
34Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 2)
35Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 3)
36Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 4)
37Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 5)
38Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 6)
39Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 7)
40Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 8)
41Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale (pt. 9)
42Miles Wallingford (pt. 1)
43Miles Wallingford (pt. 2)
44Miles Wallingford (pt. 3)
45Miles Wallingford (pt. 4)
46Miles Wallingford (pt. 5)
47Miles Wallingford (pt. 6)
48Miles Wallingford (pt. 7)
49Miles Wallingford (pt. 8)
50Homeward Bound; Or, The Chase: A Tale of the Sea (pt. 1)
Bellarion the Fortunate (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini17h 12m4.4 (10)$2 · $0.00
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Fortune's Fool (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini11h 9m3.7 (133)$2 · $0.00
CAPTAIN BLOOD & THE SEA HAWK (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini26h 54m$2 · $0.00
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The Black Swan (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini9h 28m4.5 (1K)$2 · $0.00
Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini12h 47m3.8 (84)$2 · $0.00
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The Banner of the BullRafael Sabatini7h 29m4.0 (70)$2 · $0.00
The Marquis of CarabasRafael Sabatini13h 59m4.1 (148)$2 · $0.00
The TyrantRafael Sabatini5h 13m4.4 (10)$2 · $0.00
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The Outlaw and the Lady and Other StoriesRafael Sabatini3h 39m$2 · $0.00
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St. Martin's SummerRafael Sabatini10h 28m4.0 (188)$2 · $0.00
Collected Stories Vol. IIRafael Sabatini16h 11m$1 · $0.00
Torquemada and the Spanish InquisitionRafael Sabatini13h 30m3.8 (84)$1.50 · $0.00
The Gates of DoomRafael Sabatini9h 42m4.0 (55)$2 · $0.00
Heart of IronC. M. Alongi15h 24m4.8 (665)$30
Ethic IIAshley Antoinette9h 1m4.7 (8K)$20
RiversnowTess Thompson8h 11m4.7 (1.3K)$20
Supreme ClienteleAshley & JaQuavis8h 58m4.7 (3.4K)$20
Body Refinement in a Beast Tamer’s World, Book 1Seth Ring14h 7m4.7 (1.3K)$27
Desperate MeasuresBrenda Jackson8h 59m4.7 (669)$28 · $0.00
Searching For ThanksgivingS.E. Smith4h 24m4.8 (395)$20
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