Skull & Crossbones: 70 Pirate Adventures

di G. A. Henty (Autore)

J. Allan Dunn (Autore)

Angus B. Reach (Autore)

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e-artnow, 2024

Skull & Crossbones: 70 Pirate Adventures surveys the enduring romance and terror of piracy across nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century popular fiction. Its sea chases, mutinies, treasure quests, island mysteries, and encounters with privateers range from historical romance and boys' adventure to detective-inflected suspense, imperial yarns, and imaginative fantasy. The volume places swashbuckling spectacle beside darker meditations on lawlessness, survival, colonial expansion, and the precarious ethics of the sea. Its contributors form an unusually broad transnational company: canonical novelists of adventure, Victorian and Edwardian magazine writers, historical romancers, children's authors, and practitioners of mystery, fantasy, and maritime narrative. Drawing on traditions associated with the historical novel, the imperial adventure tale, nautical realism, and the popular short story, these voices reveal piracy as a flexible cultural symbol. Their varied idioms—from archaic romance to brisk serial plotting—show how maritime conflict could entertain while registering changing ideas about nation, commerce, masculinity, exploration, and freedom. Recommended for readers of adventure literature and popular culture alike, this anthology offers an exceptional opportunity to trace a major imaginative tradition across genres and generations. Its breadth encourages comparison between heroic legend, comic invention, moral fable, and unsettling sea terror, fostering a rich dialogue among seventy distinct visions of the pirate world. Richard Le Gallienne's Pieces of Eight offers a dreamy, poetic take on lost gold and hidden islands, underscoring how the pirate genre can stretch beyond pure action into realms of imagination and wonder. Ranging from gritty realism to spirited romance, these stories endure because they feed our hunger for adventure and exploration. The promise of forbidden freedom on the waves, of charting one's own course beyond the reaches of polite society, remains thrilling in any age. In these pages, readers can raise the Jolly Roger, brave treacherous waters, and claim their piece of the world's most enduring maritime legends—proving that the pirate's call is one we'll never grow tired of answering.

• 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: 4066339592445