
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.WestermanLength575h 29m
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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
Length575 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 17, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Pirates' Chronicles: Greatest Sea Adventure Books & Treasure Hunt Tales
2Davy Jones' Locker: An Ultimate Pirate Collection (80+ Novels & Adventure Stories in One Edition)
3True Story of the Notorious Pirates
4The Preface
5Introduction
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6Chapter I. Of Captain Avery, And his Crew
7Chapter II. Of Captain Martel, And his Crew
8Chapter III. Of Captain Teach, alias Black-beard
9Chapter IV. Of Major Stede Bonnet, And his Crew
10Chapter V. Of Capt. Edward England, And his Crew
11Chapter VI. Of Captain Charles Vane, And his Crew
12Chapter VII. Of Captain John Rackam, And his Crew
13Chapter VIII. The Life of Mary Read, And Anne Bonny
14Chapter IX. Of Captain Howel Davis, And his Crew
15Chapter X. Of Captain Bartho. Roberts, And his Crew (pt. 1)
16Chapter X. Of Captain Bartho. Roberts, And his Crew (pt. 2)
17Chapter XI. Of Captain Anstis, And his Crew
18Chapter XII. Of Captain Worley, And his Crew
19Chapter XIII. Of Capt. George Lowther, And his Crew
20Chapter XIV. Of Captain Edward Low, And his Crew
21Chapter XV. Of Capt. John Evans, And his Crew
22Chapter XVI. Of Captain John Phillips, And his Crew
23Chapter XVII. Of Captain Spriggs, And his Crew
24Chapter XVIII. An Account of the Pyracies and Murders committed by Philip Roche, &c.
25Chapter XIX. An Abstract of the Civil Law and Statute Law now in Force, in Relation to Pyracy
26Chapter XX. Of Captain Misson
27Chapter XXI. Of Capt. JOHN Bowen
28Chapter XXII. Of Capt. WILLIAM KID
29Chapter XXIII. Of Captain Tew, And his Crew
30Chapter XXIV. Of Capt. Halsey, And his Crew
31Chapter XXV. Of Captain Thomas White, And his Crew
32Chapter XXVI. Of Captain Condent, And his Crew
33Chapter XXVII. A Description of Magadoxa
34Chapter XXVIII. Of Capt. Bellamy
35Chapter XXIX. Of Captain William Fly, And his Crew
36Chapter XXX. Of Capt. Thomas Howard, And his Crew
37Chapter XXXI. Of Captain Lewis. And his Crew
38Chapter XXXII. Of Captain Cornelius, And his Crew
39Chapter XXXIII. Of Capt. David Williams, And his Crew
40Chapter XXXIV. Of Capt. Samuel Burgess, And his Crew
41I. Of Capt. Nathaniel North, And his Crew
42II. Of Captain Teach
43III. Of Major Bonnet
44IV. Of Captain Worley
45V. Of Captain Martel
46VI. The Trial of the Pyrates at Providence
47VII. Of Captain Vane
48VIII. Of Captain Bowen
49Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy
50Foreword