Captain Blood

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Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-12-31
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary

This is a classic swashbuckler filled with swordplay and adventure. Peter Blood, a physician and English gentleman, runs afoul of the crown and is enslaved on a Barbados plantation.

Author Biography

Raphael Sabatini (1875-1950) was born in Italy and, after moving around Europe throughout his childhood and adolescence, settled in England in 1892. He became an internationally bestselling author with the publication of Scaramouche in 1921. His other novels include The Sea Hawk and The Gamester.

Gary Hoppenstand is associate chair of the department of American thought and language at Michigan State University. He has published and edited numerous books and articles, among them the Penguin Classics edition of A. E. W. Mason's The Four Feathers.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Suggestions for Further Reading xxvii
The Messenger
1(9)
Kirke's Dragoons
10(9)
The Lord Chief Justice
19(14)
Human Merchandise
33(7)
Arabella Bishop
40(13)
Plans of Escape
53(16)
Pirates
69(11)
Spaniards
80(7)
The Rebels-Convict
87(13)
Don Diego
100(6)
Filial Piety
106(12)
Don Pedro Sangre
118(8)
Tortuga
126(9)
Levasseur's Heroics
135(10)
The Ransom
145(12)
The Trap
157(12)
The Dupes
169(15)
The Milagrosa
184(13)
The Meeting
197(11)
Thief and Pirate
208(12)
The Service of King James
220(14)
Hostilities
234(9)
Hostages
243(13)
War
256(13)
The Service of King Louis
269(10)
M. de Rivarol
279(13)
Cartagena
292(10)
The Honor of M. de Rivarol
302(8)
The Service of King William
310(6)
The Last Fight of the Arabella
316(7)
His Excellency the Governor
323

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