The King's Own and the Pirate, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

The King's Own and the Pirate, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Frederick Marryat
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2017-11-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780331864687
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Excerpt from The King's Own and the Pirate, Vol. 1 And I also beat a retreat to my sofa and as I threw myself upon it, mentally vowed that, for a month at least, I never would take up my pen. The book is full of digressions; on the profession of authorship and the conduct of reviews - chap. Xxviii., on courage, on Sunday at sea, on smuggling, on theology and natural history. There is also an interesting auto biographical note, which may perhaps be partially credited, concerning Marryat's reasons for going to sea. It was not, he declares, to escape the drudgery and confine ment of a school, or the admonitions received at home. But, after the battle of Trafalgar, when I returned home, I witnessed the funeral profession of Lord Nelson; and, as the triumphal car, upon which his earthly remains were borne, disappeared from my aching eye, I felt that death could have no terrors if followed by such a funeral; and I determined that I would be buried in the same manner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

180 Classics You Must Read In Your Lifetime (Vol.1)

180 Classics You Must Read In Your Lifetime (Vol.1)
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 19138
Release: 2022-11-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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Invest your time in reading the true masterpieces of world literature, the great works of the greatest masters of their craft, the revolutionary works, the timeless classics and the eternally moving poetry of words and storylines every person should experience in their lifetime: Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Middlemarch (George Eliot) The Madman (Kahlil Gibran) Ward No. 6 (Anton Chekhov) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) The Overcoat (Gogol) Ulysses (James Joyce) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot) Odes (John Keats) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Vanity Fair (Thackeray) Swann's Way (Marcel Proust) Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy) Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling) Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Pepita Jimenez (Juan Valera) The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) The Republic (Plato) Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) Art of War (Sun Tzu) Candide (Voltaire) Don Quixote (Cervantes) Decameron (Boccaccio) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Dream Psychology (Sigmund Freud) The Einstein Theory of Relativity The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie) A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Call of the Wild Alice in Wonderland The Fairytales of Brothers Grimm The Fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen

Daughter of the Pirate King

Daughter of the Pirate King
Author: Tricia Levenseller
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250095964
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A 17-year-old pirate captain INTENTIONALLY allows herself to get captured by enemy pirates in this thrilling YA adventure from debut author Tricia Levenseller.