
The Jolly Roger Boxed-Set
A Classic Anthology of Pirates, Privateers, Buried Treasure, Mutiny, and Supernatural Sea AdventuresBy Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Howard Pyle, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, Frederick Marryat, Washington Irving, Harold MacGrath, Max Pemberton, L. Frank Baum, R. M. Ballantyne, G. A. Henty, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles JohnsonLength500h 19m
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The Jolly Roger Boxed-Set charts the enduring imaginative life of piracy across romance, Gothic fiction, historical adventure, boys' literature, sea tale, fantasy, and modern short fiction. Its capacious selection moves between treacherous coasts, mutinous ships, buried treasure, imperial frontiers, and supernatural waters, revealing the pirate as both outlaw hero and emblem of maritime violence. Canonical adventures sit alongside darker tales of dread and moral ambiguity, giving the collection unusual generic and tonal breadth. Its contributors span several literary generations and traditions: the historical romancers, Victorian and Edwardian writers of imperial adventure, Gothic experimentalists, American frontier storytellers, children's fantasists, and twentieth-century popular and modern literary voices. Together, these writers place piracy in dialogue with Romantic individualism, imperial expansion, colonial encounter, masculine adventure culture, and anxieties about law, commerce, and the sea. The inclusion of an early pirate chronicler further grounds the set in the historical myths from which later fiction repeatedly drew. This boxed set is especially rewarding for readers seeking to trace a major popular archetype across changing literary forms. It offers an educational survey of maritime narrative while inviting comparison between adventure, horror, satire, historical romance, and fantasy. Readers will find not a single pirate tradition, but a vigorous conversation about freedom, violence, empire, and the seductions of the unknown.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.4 (12)
Includes Amazon
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length500 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 11, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1On the Cowboy's Trail: Western Boxed-Set (Annotated)
2The Reign of the Black Flag
3History of Pirates of the Caribbean
4Introduction
5Of Captain Avery, And his Crew
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6Of Captain Martel, And his Crew
7Of Captain Teach, alias Black-beard
8Of Major Stede Bonnet, And his Crew
9Of Capt. Edward England, And his Crew
10Of Captain Charles Vane, And his Crew
11Of Captain John Rackam, And his Crew
12The Life of Mary Read, And Anne Bonny
13Of Captain Howel Davis, And his Crew
14Of Captain Bartho. Roberts, And his Crew (pt. 1)
15Of Captain Bartho. Roberts, And his Crew (pt. 2)
16Of Captain Anstis, And his Crew
17Of Captain Worley, And his Crew
18Of Capt. George Lowther, And his Crew
19Of Captain Edward Low, And his Crew
20Of Capt. John Evans, And his Crew
21Of Captain John Phillips, And his Crew
22Of Captain Spriggs, And his Crew
23An Account of the Pyracies and Murders committed by Philip Roche, &c.
24An Abstract of the Civil Law and Statute Law now in Force, in Relation to Pyracy
25Of Captain Misson
26Of Capt. John Bowen
27Of Capt. William Kid
28Of Captain Tew, And his Crew
29Of Capt. Halsey, And his Crew
30Of Captain Thomas White, And his Crew
31Of Captain Condent, And his Crew
32A Description of Magadoxa
33Of Capt. Bellamy
34Of Captain William Fly, And his Crew
35Of Capt. Thomas Howard, And his Crew
36Of Captain Lewis. And his Crew
37Of Captain Cornelius, And his Crew
38Of Capt. David Williams, And his Crew
39Of Capt. Samuel Burgess, And his Crew
40The Pirate Gow
41The Life of Lafitte, the Famous Pirate of the Gulf of Mexico
42The Life of Charles Gibbs
43History of the Adventures, Capture and Execution of the Spanish Pirates
44The Bloody Career and Execution of Vincent Benavides a Pirate on the West Coast of South America
45The West India Pirates
46The Pirates of Panama (A True Account by a Pirate) (pt. 1)
47The Pirates of Panama (A True Account by a Pirate) (pt. 2)
48The Pirates of Panama (A True Account by a Pirate) (pt. 3)
49Appendix
50I. Of Capt. Nathaniel North, And his Crew