
The Mutiny Omnibus Collection: 10 Classic Storybooks
Victorian Tales of Rebellion, Siege, Naval Peril, and Imperial MemoryBy Justin H. McCarthy, G. A. Henty, Norman Springer, Captain R. N. Edward Edwards, surgeon George Hamilton, Cyrus M. Hussey, William Lay, William Forbes-Mitchell, W. H. Fitchett, A. R. D. Mackenzie, Maria Germon, Frederick P. GibbonLength76h 21m
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The Mutiny Omnibus Collection gathers ten classic narratives of revolt, shipboard discipline, imperial conflict, and survival, tracing mutiny as both historical crisis and enduring literary subject. Across adventure fiction, memoir-like testimony, naval history, and morally charged romance, the volume moves between high-seas peril and the wider political pressures of empire. Its varied modes—swiftly plotted tales, eyewitness-inflected recollections, reflective chronicles, and dramatic accounts of command—show how mutiny unsettles conventional distinctions between heroism, criminality, loyalty, and necessity. The contributors represent a broad nineteenth- and early twentieth-century culture of maritime and imperial writing. Journalists, novelists, military commentators, travelers, and figures connected with naval or colonial experience bring distinct assumptions to scenes of insurrection and ordeal. Together, their writings participate in the popular adventure tradition while also preserving the era's fascination with exploration, discipline, frontier violence, and the ethics of authority. The collection's range makes visible how different literary voices transformed real and imagined conflicts into narratives of suspense, judgment, and historical memory. Recommended for readers of sea literature, imperial history, and classic adventure, this omnibus offers an unusually rich comparative encounter within one volume. It invites students and general readers alike to examine how changing styles and perspectives shape the meaning of mutiny, while fostering a productive dialogue among narratives of courage, coercion, catastrophe, and survival.
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GenreHistory, General Fiction
Length76 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824
2NARRATIVE, &c.
3CHAPTER IV.
4CHAPTER VIII.
5Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59
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6Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59
7INTRODUCTION
8CHAPTER III
9CHAPTER V
10CHAPTER VI
11CHAPTER VIII
12CHAPTER X
13CHAPTER XIII
14CHAPTER XV
15APPENDIX B
16The Tale of the Great Mutiny
17CHAPTER I MUNGUL PANDY
18CHAPTER II DELHI
19CHAPTER III STAMPING OUT MUTINY
20CHAPTER IV CAWNPORE: THE SIEGE
21CHAPTER V CAWNPORE: THE MURDER GHAUT
22CHAPTER VI LUCKNOW AND SIR HENRY LAWRENCE
23CHAPTER VII LUCKNOW AND HAVELOCK
24CHAPTER VIII LUCKNOW AND SIR COLIN CAMPBELL
25CHAPTER IX THE SEPOY IN THE OPEN
26CHAPTER X DELHI: HOW THE RIDGE WAS HELD
27CHAPTER XI DELHI: THE LEAP ON THE CITY
28CHAPTER XII DELHI: RETRIBUTION
29CHAPTER XIII THE STORMING OF LUCKNOW
30Mutiny Memoirs
31Mutiny Memoirs
32PREFACE.
33III. BEFORE DELHI.
34V. CAPTURE OF JHUJJUR.
35VII. DILKHOOSHA.
36The Disputed V.C.: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny
37The Disputed V.C.: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny
38CHAPTER I Ted Disapproves
39CHAPTER IV The Fanatics
40CHAPTER IX Defence of the Commissioner’s House
41CHAPTER X Hope and Despair
42CHAPTER XIII Tynan makes his Choice
43CHAPTER XVI The Post of Honour
44CHAPTER XIX Ted’s Friends are Bewildered
45CHAPTER XXI “Wombwell’s Menagerie”
46CHAPTER XXIV Pir Baksh renders Tynan a Service
47CHAPTER XXVI Lucknow Relieved
48CHAPTER XXIX Jim Disposed Of
49Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora
50Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora