The Reign of the Black Flag
Classic Pirate Tales of Buried Treasure, Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Supernatural PerilBy Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Walter Scott, Richard Le Gallienne, Frederick Marryat, R. M. Ballantyne, Charles Dickens, L. Frank Baum, J. Allan Dunn, Charles Johnson, Howard Pyle, Robert E. Howard, James Fenimore Cooper, Alexandre Dumas, William Hope Hodgson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harold MacGrath, G. A. Henty, Washington Irving, Max Pemberton
Length500h 53m
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The Reign of the Black Flag surveys piracy as both historical menace and inexhaustible literary emblem: a figure of rebellion, predation, romance, and maritime uncertainty. Across sea yarns, Gothic tales, historical adventures, juvenile romances, detective-inflected narratives, and modern popular fiction, the collection charts the black flag's changing cultural meanings. Its range moves from storm-bound voyages and disputed treasure to encounters with lawless coasts, imperial frontiers, and the psychological allure of freedom beyond the state. Familiar adventure motifs acquire unusual breadth through the juxtaposition of sensational, comic, atmospheric, and morally ambivalent treatments. The volume gathers writers whose careers span nineteenth-century historical romance, Victorian periodical fiction, American frontier mythmaking, nautical realism, fin-de-siècle fantasy, and early twentieth-century pulp adventure. Together, these voices situate piracy within the literary movements that shaped mass reading: Romantic historicism, imperial adventure, Gothic suspense, children's literature, and the emerging culture of genre fiction. British, American, and transatlantic perspectives converge, revealing how pirate narratives repeatedly negotiated commerce, empire, masculinity, law, and the appeal of imagined escape. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this anthology offers an unusually capacious introduction to pirate literature's formal variety and cultural history. Reading its selections in dialogue illuminates how a shared emblem can generate radically different moods, ethical questions, and narrative pleasures. The collection rewards both classroom study and leisurely exploration, inviting readers to reconsider the black flag as a durable literary language of danger, desire, and dissent.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length500 hrs 53 mins
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Publish dateMar 12, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Jolly Roger Boxed-Set
2History of Pirates of the Caribbean
3Introduction
4Of Captain Avery, And his Crew
5Of Captain Martel, And his Crew
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6Of Captain Teach, alias Black-beard
7Of Major Stede Bonnet, And his Crew
8Of Capt. Edward England, And his Crew
9Of Captain Charles Vane, And his Crew
10Of Captain John Rackam, And his Crew
11The Life of Mary Read, And Anne Bonny
12Of Captain Howel Davis, And his Crew
13Of Captain Bartho. Roberts, And his Crew (pt. 1)
14Of Captain Bartho. Roberts, And his Crew (pt. 2)
15Of Captain Anstis, And his Crew
16Of Captain Worley, And his Crew
17Of Capt. George Lowther, And his Crew
18Of Captain Edward Low, And his Crew
19Of Capt. John Evans, And his Crew
20Of Captain John Phillips, And his Crew
21Of Captain Spriggs, And his Crew
22An Account of the Pyracies and Murders committed by Philip Roche, &c.
23An Abstract of the Civil Law and Statute Law now in Force, in Relation to Pyracy
24Of Captain Misson
25Of Capt. John Bowen
26Of Capt. William Kid
27Of Captain Tew, And his Crew
28Of Capt. Halsey, And his Crew
29Of Captain Thomas White, And his Crew
30Of Captain Condent, And his Crew
31A Description of Magadoxa
32Of Capt. Bellamy
33Of Captain William Fly, And his Crew
34Of Capt. Thomas Howard, And his Crew
35Of Captain Lewis. And his Crew
36Of Captain Cornelius, And his Crew
37Of Capt. David Williams, And his Crew
38Of Capt. Samuel Burgess, And his Crew
39The Pirate Gow
40The Life of Lafitte, the Famous Pirate of the Gulf of Mexico
41The Life of Charles Gibbs
42History of the Adventures, Capture and Execution of the Spanish Pirates
43The Bloody Career and Execution of Vincent Benavides a Pirate on the West Coast of South America
44The West India Pirates
45The Pirates of Panama (A True Account by a Pirate)
46Chapter II
47Chapter III
48Chapter IV
49Chapter V
50Chapter VI
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