Lethal Sails - Complete Pirate Collection : History of Pirates, Trues Stories about the Most Notorious Pirates & Most Famous Pirate Novels

Lethal Sails - Complete Pirate Collection is a riveting anthology that captures the imagination and perilous allure of the high seas. This compendium traverses a broad literary landscape, deftly weaving tales of adventure, betrayal, and maritime lore. The collection brings together an intoxicating blend of styles, from the gothic undercurrents of mystery and horror to the rousing narratives of adventure and moral conflict. Noteworthy pieces form a tapestry that highlights the life-or-death struggles aboard pirate ships, offering readers a compelling journey into the heart of nautical darkness and triumph. The anthology features an impressive range of authors whose backgrounds span multiple movements and eras, amplifying its thematic depth. From the Victorian sensibilities of Charles Dickens and the romanticism of Walter Scott to the dynamic adventure of Robert E. Howard and the psychological complexities of F. Scott Fitzgerald, each contributor lends a unique voice to this maritime saga. These stories stand at the crossroads of cultural and historical movements, from the industrial revolution to the roaring twenties, echoing the universal quest for freedom and conquest that piracy represents. Lethal Sails invites readers to explore the world's oceans through the eyes of its legendary storytellers, offering an unparalleled window into the boundless depths of human ambition. This collection serves both as a celebration of literary brilliance and an exploration of humanity's darker impulses. By delving into the tales and themes that shape our understanding of piracy, readers are encouraged to engage thoughtfully with each story, discovering countless perspectives and insights within a single, comprehensive volume.

More by Jules Verne

Skip the list

Others have also read

Skip the list

1416 books
Jules Verne
Jules Verne (1828–1905) was a prolific French author whose writing about various innovations and technological advancements laid much of the foundation of modern science fiction. Verne’s love of travel and adventure, including his time spent sailing the seas, inspired several of his short stories and novels.
Read more
2087 books
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.
Read more
1141 books
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born on 13 November 1850, changing his second name to ‘Louis’ at the age of eighteen. He has always been loved and admired by countless readers and critics for ‘the excitement, the fierce joy, the delight in strangeness, the pleasure in deep and dark adventures’ found in his classic stories and, without doubt, he created some of the most horribly unforgettable characters in literature and, above all, Mr. Edward Hyde.
Read more
409 books
James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) was a prolific and popular nineteenth century American writer who wrote historical fiction of frontier and Native American life. He is best remembered for the Leatherstocking Tales, one of which was The Last of the Mohicans.
Read more
1704 books
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer, poet, and critic. Best known for his macabre prose work, including the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” his writing has influenced literature in the United States and around the world.
Read more
146 books
Howard Pyle
The work of American illustrator and author Howard Pyle (1853–1911) has appeared in more than 3,500 publications, and in his lifetime, he became one of the country's most famous illustrators. On his death in 1911, the New York Times called Pyle "the father of American magazine illustration as it is known to-day." He is best known for his 1883 novel, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.
Read more
1243 books
Jack London
Jack London (1876–1916) was a prolific American novelist and short story writer. His most notable works include White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and The Sea-Wolf. He was born in San Francisco, California.
Read more
2411 books
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is the creator of the Sherlock Holmes character, writing his debut appearance in A Study in Scarlet. Doyle wrote notable books in the fantasy and science fiction genres, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.
Read more
558 books
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott was born in Scotland in 1771 and achieved international fame with his work. In 1813 he was offered the position of Poet Laureate, but turned it down. Scott mainly wrote poetry before trying his hand at novels. His first novel, Waverley, was published anonymously, as were many novels that he wrote later, despite the fact that his identity became widely known.
Read more
1237 books
Alexandre Dumas
Alexander Dumas (1802–1870), author of more than ninety plays and many novels, was well known in Parisian society and was a contemporary of Victor Hugo. After the success of The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas dumped his entire fortune into his own Chateau de Monte Cristo-and was then forced to flee to Belgium to escape his creditors. He died penniless but optimistic.
Read more
459 books
Washington Irving
Washington Irving was an American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.
Read more
662 books
L. Frank Baum
Lyman Frank Baum was born in Chittenango, New York, on May 15, 1856. Over the course of his life, Baum raised fancy poultry, sold fireworks, managed an opera house, opened a department store, and an edited a newspaper before finally turning to writing. In 1900, he published his best known book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Eventually he wrote fifty-five novels, including thirteen Oz books, plus four “lost” novels, eighty-three short stories, more than two hundred poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings. Baum died on May 6, 1919. He is buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California.
Read more
288 books
J. M. Barrie
J.M. Barrie, the son of a weaver, was born near Dundee, Scotland, in 1860. He was a journalist and novelist and began writing for the stage in 1892. Peter Pan, first produced in London on December 27, 1904, was an immediate success. The story of Peter Pan first appeared in book form (titled Peter and Wendy, and later Peter Pan and Wendy) in 1911. Barrie died in 1937, bequeathing the copyright of Peter Pan to the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, a hospital for children.
Read more
647 books
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald’s masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald’s fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.
Read more
25 books
Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson is a novelist, essayist, literary scholar, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter, and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. A MacArthur fellow, his fiction includes Night Hawks, Dr. King’s Refrigerator, Dreamer, Faith and the Good Thing, and Middle Passage, for which he won the National Book Award. In 2002 he received the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Seattle.
Read more

Lethal Sails - Complete Pirate Collection : History of Pirates, Trues Stories about the Most Notorious Pirates & Most Famous Pirate Novels

Authors:

Format:

Duration:

Language:

Categories:

Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours - Livre Audio

Jules Verne, Livres audio en français

90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.2) : Novels, Poetry, Plays, Short Stories, Essays, Psychology & Philosophy: The Awakening, A Tale of Two Cities, Iliad & Odyssey,War and Peace, The Yellow Wallpaper, Fathers and Sons,The Prince, Peter and Wendy...

Reis om de wereld in 80 dagen

Tiny Fisscher, Jules Verne

Twintigduizend Mijlen Onder Zee

Jules Verne

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Jules Verne

De reis om de wereld in 80 dagen

Jules Verne

90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.1) : Novels, Poetry, Plays, Short Stories, Essays, Psychology & Philosophy: The Madman, Moby-Dick, Siddhartha, Crime and Punishment, Hamlet, Great Expectations, Little Women, Meditations, The Einstein Theory, Heart of Darkness, The Red Badge of Courage

Michel Strogoff - Livre Audio

Jules Verne, Livres audio en français

Around the World in Eighty Days - Audiobook

Jules Verne, Classic Audiobooks

12 Classic Books You Need to Read Before You Grow up

Antoine de Saint Exupery, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Twain, Eleanor H. Porter, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Jack London, Lyman Frank Baum, Margery Williams, J.M. Barrie

12 Classic Books You Need to Read Before You Grow up

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson, J.M. Barrie, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Twain, Eleanor H. Porter, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Jack London, Lyman Frank Baum, Margery Williams

In Search of the Castaways - Audiobook

Jules Verne, Classic Audiobooks

Others have also read

Cape Horn to Starboard

John Kretschmer

A Stolen Life: A Memoir

Jaycee Dugard

The Adventures of the Circumnavigators in their small Sailing Boats

David Loscalzo

The House of My Mother : The Sunday Times bestselling memoir about a daughter's quest for freedom

Shari Franke

Sailing a Serious Ocean

John Kretschmer

The Serial Killer’s Wife

Alice Hunter

Accordion Crimes

Annie Proulx

De oversteek

Jeroen Siebelink

Justice for Bonnie

Karen Foster, I.J. Schecter

Bitter Harvest: A Woman's Fury, a Mother's Sacrifice

Ann Rule

Kapitein Coke

Raymond K.

If You Really Loved Me

Ann Rule

Jules Verne

Charles Dickens

Robert Louis Stevenson

James Fenimore Cooper

Edgar Allan Poe

Howard Pyle

Jack London

Arthur Conan Doyle

Walter Scott

Alexandre Dumas

Washington Irving

L. Frank Baum

J. M. Barrie

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Charles Johnson