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
Length570h 15m
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.
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Rating★★★★ 4.4 (11)
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length570 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 16, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1DRIFTWOOD SPARS (Annotated)
26Chapter XXIII
2BEACH BOOKS Boxed Set: The Greatest Sea Adventure Novels, Pirate Books & Treasure-Hunt Tales
27Chapter XXIV
3Jack London
28Chapter XXV
4The Sea-Wolf
29Chapter XXVI
5Chapter II
30Chapter XXVII
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6Chapter III
31Chapter XXVIII
7Chapter IV
32Chapter XXIX
8Chapter V
33Chapter XXX
9Chapter VI
34Chapter XXXI
10Chapter VII
35Chapter XXXII
11Chapter VIII
36Chapter XXXIII
12Chapter IX
37Chapter XXXIV
13Chapter X
38Chapter XXXV
14Chapter XI
39Chapter XXXVI
15Chapter XII
40Chapter XXXVII
16Chapter XIII
41Chapter XXXVIII
17Chapter XIV
42Chapter XXXIX
18Chapter XV
43The Mutiny of the Elsinore
19Chapter XVI
44Chapter II
20Chapter XVII
45Chapter III
21Chapter XVIII
46Chapter IV
22Chapter XIX
47Chapter V
23Chapter XX
48Chapter VI
24Chapter XXI
49Chapter VII
25Chapter XXII
50Chapter VIII
The Greatest Maritime Novels, Pirate Stories & Treasure-Hunt TalesRafael 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 Farnol570h 16m$1.99 · $0.00
The Sea Hawk and Captain BloodRafael Sabatini26h 51m4.2 (4.3K)$1.99 · $0.00
Skull & Crossbones: 70 Pirate AdventuresRafael Sabatini, James Fenimore Cooper, 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, 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. Ballou726h 17m4.4 (15)$0.99
Bellarion the Fortunate (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini17h 12m4.4 (10)$2 · $0.00
The Captain Blood Trilogy (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini29h 20m4.6 (1K)$3 · $0.00
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
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Love-at-Arms (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini10h 20m3.9 (268)$2 · $0.00
Venetian MasqueRafael Sabatini11h 56m4.1 (111)$1 · $0.00
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
The Lion's SkinRafael Sabatini9h 27m3.9 (289)$2 · $0.00
The Outlaw and the Lady and Other StoriesRafael Sabatini3h 39m$2 · $0.00
The Tavern KnightRafael Sabatini8h 32m3.6 (452)$2 · $0.00
St. Martin's SummerRafael Sabatini10h 28m4.0 (188)$2 · $0.00
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m4.6 (4.6K)$29 · $0.00
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver21h 3m4.5 (949.4K)$46 · $0.00
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00
Remarkably Bright CreaturesShelby Van Pelt11h 17m4.4 (1.7M)$29 · $0.00
The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
White HotIlona Andrews13h 18m4.5 (136.9K)$5 · $0.00
The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5)Jackie French14h 58m4.6 (773)$33 · $0.00
Cast in BloodMichelle Sagara16h 35m4.6 (607)$33 · $0.00
The Captain Blood Trilogy (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini29h 20m4.6 (1K)$3 · $0.00
Ship of the Line (Annotated)Cecil Louis Troughton Smith11h 13m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
The George Orwell CollectionGeorge Orwell24h 46m4.5 (14.4K)$12 · $0.00
ShivajiRanjit Desai25h 13m4.6 (3.1K)$24 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 38m4.5 (9.2K)$2 · $0.00
Driving ForceElle James4h 58m4.6 (407)$20 · $0.00
When God Calls the HeartBrian Bird, Michelle Cox3h 24m4.6 (439)$10 · $0.00
Five Little IndiansMichelle Good10h 34m4.5 (64.5K)$29 · $0.00
Lolth's WarriorR. A. Salvatore13h 20m4.6 (2.4K)$33 · $0.00
The Things We Cannot SayKelly Rimmer13h 48m4.5 (359.1K)$33 · $0.00
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du BoisHonoree Fanonne Jeffers29h 49m4.5 (58K)$8 · $0.00
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