70 Pirate Novels

di G. A. Henty (Autore)

J. Allan Dunn (Autore)

Angus B. Reach (Autore)

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e-artnow, 2024

70 Pirate Novels surveys the durable imaginative power of piracy across nineteenth- and early twentieth-century popular fiction. Ranging from maritime romance, imperial adventure, historical melodrama, detective-inflected mystery, and juvenile tale to fantasy and proto-science fiction, the volume charts the sea as a space of danger, freedom, commerce, and contested law. Shipwrecks, mutinies, hidden treasure, false identities, and perilous coastlines recur, while especially vivid narratives of privateering, island captivity, and pirate codes reveal the genre's formal variety. Its contributors form an unusually broad transatlantic and European constellation, bringing together canonical novelists with prolific writers for magazines, boys' adventure series, and popular romances. Their works emerge from Romantic historical fiction, Victorian imperial culture, nautical realism, sensational literature, and the expanding mass-market publishing world. Scottish, English, American, French, Irish, and Central European perspectives complicate any single image of the pirate, presenting figures who may be outlaw, patriot, entrepreneur, colonial antagonist, or reluctant survivor. Collectively, these voices illuminate how maritime adventure absorbed contemporary anxieties about empire, class, technology, race, and national belonging. Recommended for students, scholars, and devoted readers of adventure literature, this capacious anthology offers an exceptional comparative encounter with a major popular genre. It invites readers to trace changing conventions across decades and nations, while enjoying the energetic dialogue between radically different narrative styles and moral visions. Howard) The Red Rover, Afloat and Ashore & Homeward Bound (James Fenimore Cooper) The Rose of Paradise (Howard Pyle) The Ghost Pirates (William Hope Hodgson) Off to Sea (William Henry Giles Kingston) A Roving Commission; Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti (G. A. Henty) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) The Pagan Madonna (Harold MacGrath) The Devil's Admiral (Frederick Ferdinand Moore) The Pirate of the Mediterranean (W. H. G. Kingston) The Penang Pirate & The Lost Pinnace (John C. Hutcheson) Afloat at Last: A Sailor Boy's Log of His Life at Sea (John C. Hutcheson) The Ghost Ship (John C. Hutcheson) The Island Treasure (John C. Hutcheson) The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn (Harry Collingwood) Blown to Bits; or, The Lonely Man of Rakata (R. M. Ballantyne) Young Jack Harkaway Fighting the Pirates of the Red Sea (Bracebridge Hemyng) The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer (Richard Clynton) The Cruise of the Frolic (W. Kingston) The Pirate of the Mediterranean (W. Kingston) The Three Admirals (W. Kingston) Captain Mugford: Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors (W. Kingston) Roger Willoughby: A Story of the Times of Benbow (W. Kingston) The Two Supercargoes; Or, Adventures in Savage Africa (W. Kingston) The Mate of the ""Lily""; Or, Notes from Harry Musgrave's Log Book (W. Kingston) Charley Laurel: A Story of Adventure by Sea and Land (W. Kingston) The Voyage of the Hoppergrass (Edmund Lester Pearson) The Story of Jack Ballister's Fortunes (Howard Pyle) The Blood of Belshazzar (Robert Ervin Howard) Kate Bonnet (Frank R. Stockton) On the Account (J. Allan Dunn) The Privateer (Gordon Daviot) The Island Pirate, a Tale of the Mississippi (Mayne Reid) Pirates' Hope (Francis Lynde) The Chief Mate's Yarns: Twelve Tales of the Sea (T. Hains) A Chinese Command: A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas (Collingwood) Seibert of the Island (Gordon Young) Concerning ""Bully"" Hayes (Louis Becke) The Buccaneer (Mrs. S. C. Hall) The Lady and the Pirate

• Autore: G. A. Henty, J. Allan Dunn, Angus B. Reach
• Anno edizione: 2024
• Editore: e-artnow
• Formato: EPUB2 con Adobe DRM
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 4066339592438