Captain BloodPeter Blood is a physician and an English gentleman who becomes a pirate out of a rankling sense of injustice. Barely escaping the gallows after his arrest for treating wounded rebels who were fighting the oppressive King James, Blood flees England and becomes enslaved on a Barbados plantation of buccaneers. When he escapes, no ship sailing the Spanish Main is safe from Blood and his companions. Abounding with adventure, color, romance, and strong social commentary on the evils of slavery and the dangers of intolerance, this classic adventure is a story about how oppression drives men to desperate actions, how fate plays a hand in everyone's life, and how love is ultimately the greatest power of all. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
Contents
HUMAN MERCHANDISE | |
ARABELLA BISHOP | |
PLANS OF ESCAPE | |
PIRATES | |
TORTUGA | |
LEVASSEURS HEROICS | |
THE RANSOM | |
THE TRAP | |
THE DUPES | |
THE MILAGROSA | |
THE MEETING | |
THIEF AND PIRATE | |
SPANIARDS | |
THE REBELSCONVICT | |
DON DIEGO | |
FILIAL PIETY | |
DON PEDRO SANGRE | |
THE SERVICE OF KINGJAMES | |
HOSTILITIES | |
HOSTAGES | |
THE SERVICE OF KING LOUIS | |
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