The Jolly Roger Tales: 60+ Pirate Novels, Treasure-Hunt Tales & Sea Adventures
Sixty Classic Tales of Pirates, Buried Treasure, Mutiny, and High-Seas AdventureBy Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Howard Pyle, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Daniel Defoe, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Ellms, Frederick Marryat, Harold MacGrath, Joseph Lewis French, Harry Collingwood, Stanley Lane-Poole, Charles Boardman Hawes, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, R. M. Ballantyne, G. A. Henty, J. D. Jerrold Kelley, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sir Walter Scott, Ralph D. Paine, Captain Charles Johnson, W. H. G. Kingston, Currey E. Hamilton, John Esquemeling
Length402h 51m
About this audiobook
The Jolly Roger Tales gathers more than sixty pirate novels, treasure-hunt narratives, and sea adventures into a capacious map of maritime imagination. Ranging from documentary-inflected buccaneer chronicles and historical romance to Gothic menace, boys' adventure, speculative voyage, and modernist-era escapade, the volume traces the sea as a space of commerce, empire, lawlessness, and wonder. Canonical island quests, mutiny tales, privateering exploits, and encounters with uncanny oceans give the collection both popular vigor and enduring literary significance. Its contributors represent a broad Anglo-American and European tradition of adventure writing, from early accounts shaped by colonial expansion to nineteenth-century historical fiction and twentieth-century pulp-inflected action. Novelists, sailors, antiquarians, fantasists, and creators of juvenile literature bring distinct cultural assumptions to piracy: some frame it as criminal violence, others as rebellion, professional seamanship, imperial contest, or romantic freedom. Together, these voices illuminate the development of maritime fiction alongside imperial history, print culture, and the enduring myth of hidden treasure. This anthology is especially rewarding for readers seeking a single-volume survey of pirate literature's remarkable range. It offers educational access to changing narrative conventions and historical attitudes while inviting comparison among competing visions of adventure, authority, and the open sea. Readers will find not merely thrilling voyages, but a rich dialogue between literary traditions.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length402 hrs 51 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
2The Jolly Roger Tales: 60+ Pirate Novels, Treasure-Hunt Tales & Sea Adventures
3Treasure Island
4Chapter I. The Old Sea-dog at the 'Admiral Benbow'
5Chapter II. Black Dog Appears and Disappears
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6Chapter III. The Black Spot
7Chapter IV. The Sea Chest
8Chapter V. The Last of the Blind Man
9Chapter VI. The Captain’s Papers
10Chapter VII. I Go to Bristol
11Chapter VIII. At the Sign of the 'Spy-Glass'
12Chapter IX. Powder and Arms
13Chapter X. The Voyage
14Chapter XI. What I Heard in the Apple Barrel
15Chapter XII. Council of War
16Chapter XIII. How My Shore Adventure Began
17Chapter XIV. The First Blow
18Chapter XV. The Man of the Island
19Chapter XVI. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship was Abandoned
20Chapter XVII. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat’s Last Trip
21Chapter XVIII. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day’s Fighting
22Chapter XIX. Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade
23Chapter XX. Silver’s Embassy
24Chapter XXI. The Attack
25Chapter XXII. How My Sea Adventure Began
26Chapter XXIII. The Ebb-tide Runs
27Chapter XXIV. The Cruise of the Coracle
28Chapter XXV. I Strike the Jolly Roger
29Chapter XXVI. Israel Hands
30Chapter XXVII. 'Pieces of Eight'
31Chapter XXVIII. In the Enemy’s Camp
32Chapter XXIX. The Black Spot Again
33Chapter XXX. On Parole
34Chapter XXXI. The Treasure Hunt — Flint’s Pointer
35Chapter XXXII. The Treasure Hunt — The Voice Among the Trees
36Chapter XXXIII. The Fall of a Chieftain
37Chapter XXXIV. And Last
38The Pirate
39Introduction
40Chapter I
41Chapter II
42Chapter III
43Chapter IV
44Chapter V
45Chapter VI
46Chapter VII
47Chapter VIII
48Chapter IX
49Chapter X
50Chapter XI
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