
Davy Jones' Locker: An Ultimate Pirate Collection (80+ Novels & Adventure Stories in One Edition)
Eighty Tales of Treasure, Mutiny, Shipwreck, 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, Charles Ellms, Frederick Marryat, John Masefield, Rafael Sabatini, Harold MacGrath, Joseph Lewis French, Clarence Henry Haring, Harry Collingwood, Stanley Lane-Poole, Charles Boardman Hawes, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, R. M. Ballantyne, G. A. Henty, J. D. Jerrold Kelley, Stephen W. Meader, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph D. Paine, Captain Charles Johnson, W. H. G. Kingston, William Macleod Raine, Currey E. Hamilton, John Esquemeling, Percy F.WestermanLength577h 59m
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Davy Jones' Locker assembles an expansive archive of pirate fiction, sea adventure, maritime romance, and historical narrative, tracing the enduring imaginative power of the oceanic outlaw. Its more than eighty novels and stories range from Gothic mystery and boys' adventure to swashbuckling romance, imperial travel tale, and proto-science-fictional voyage. Familiar figures of buried treasure, mutiny, privateering, shipwreck, and contested sovereignty recur in strikingly varied tonal registers, while classic sea narratives stand beside darker explorations of terror, greed, and maritime lawlessness. The contributors represent a broad Anglo-American and European tradition extending from early modern adventure chronicle through nineteenth-century historical romance and into twentieth-century popular fiction. Novelists associated with realism, Gothic literature, children's writing, imperial romance, detective fiction, and pulp adventure collectively reveal piracy as a flexible cultural language. Their differing national perspectives and historical moments illuminate the sea as a site of commerce, colonial encounter, freedom, violence, and fantasy, enriching the anthology's portrait of maritime culture. This volume is especially recommended for readers, students, and scholars seeking a capacious introduction to pirate literature and its many literary afterlives. By bringing canonical and less frequently encountered works into dialogue, it offers both pleasurable adventure and a valuable comparative resource. Readers may explore how changing styles and assumptions transform the pirate from criminal menace into heroic rebel, exotic spectacle, or unsettling symbol of the unknown.
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Rating★★★★ 4.3 (11)
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length577 hrs 59 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 17, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Davy Jones' Locker: An Ultimate Pirate Collection (80+ Novels & Adventure Stories in One Edition)
2The Preface
3Introduction
4Chapter I. Of Captain Avery, And his Crew
5Chapter II. Of Captain Martel, And his Crew
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6Chapter III. Of Captain Teach, alias Black-beard
7Chapter IV. Of Major Stede Bonnet, And his Crew
8Chapter V. Of Capt. Edward England, And his Crew
9Chapter VI. Of Captain Charles Vane, And his Crew
10Chapter VII. Of Captain John Rackam, And his Crew
11Chapter VIII. The Life of Mary Read, And Anne Bonny
12Chapter IX. Of Captain Howel Davis, And his Crew
13Chapter X. Of Captain Bartho. Roberts, And his Crew (pt. 1)
14Chapter X. Of Captain Bartho. Roberts, And his Crew (pt. 2)
15Chapter XI. Of Captain Anstis, And his Crew
16Chapter XII. Of Captain Worley, And his Crew
17Chapter XIII. Of Capt. George Lowther, And his Crew
18Chapter XIV. Of Captain Edward Low, And his Crew
19Chapter XV. Of Capt. John Evans, And his Crew
20Chapter XVI. Of Captain John Phillips, And his Crew
21Chapter XVII. Of Captain Spriggs, And his Crew
22Chapter XVIII. An Account of the Pyracies and Murders committed by Philip Roche, &c.
23Chapter XIX. An Abstract of the Civil Law and Statute Law now in Force, in Relation to Pyracy
24Chapter XX. Of Captain Misson
25Chapter XXI. Of Capt. JOHN Bowen
26Chapter XXII. Of Capt. WILLIAM KID
27Chapter XXIII. Of Captain Tew, And his Crew
28Chapter XXIV. Of Capt. Halsey, And his Crew
29Chapter XXV. Of Captain Thomas White, And his Crew
30Chapter XXVI. Of Captain Condent, And his Crew
31Chapter XXVII. A Description of Magadoxa
32Chapter XXVIII. Of Capt. Bellamy
33Chapter XXIX. Of Captain William Fly, And his Crew
34Chapter XXX. Of Capt. Thomas Howard, And his Crew
35Chapter XXXI. Of Captain Lewis. And his Crew
36Chapter XXXII. Of Captain Cornelius, And his Crew
37Chapter XXXIII. Of Capt. David Williams, And his Crew
38Chapter XXXIV. Of Capt. Samuel Burgess, And his Crew
39I. Of Capt. Nathaniel North, And his Crew
40II. Of Captain Teach
41III. Of Major Bonnet
42IV. Of Captain Worley
43V. Of Captain Martel
44VI. The Trial of the Pyrates at Providence
45VII. Of Captain Vane
46VIII. Of Captain Bowen
47Foreword
48Preface
49Chapter I. Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main
50Chapter II. The Ghost of Captain Brand