A man wrongly punished for treason escapes from slavery in the West Indies tobecome a savvy pirate, yet he longs for the plantation owner's niece.

Set during the French Revolution, the tale of the man "who was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." This classic novel of swashbuckling adventure and sweeping romance is also a thought-provoking commentary on class, inequality, and the individual's role in society--a story that has become Rafael Sabatini's enduring legacy.

Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman who helped defeat the Spanish Armada, is betrayed by his half-brother, throwing him into circumstances where he becomes a barbary pirate and a follower of Islam.

Set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars, 'Mr Midshipman Easy' follows the escapades of a young sailor who enters the king's service with some interesting ideas about discipline and equality in the British Royal Navy. Packed with humour and controversy, Mr Midshipman Easy is a can't-miss adventure

Newton Forster is a troubled young man who survives impressment into the Navy, imprisonment in France, and a shipwreck in the West Indies before gaining a post on British East India Company vessel bound for Asia. Forster faces a thrill a chaptermurder, insanity, press gangs, prison, pirates, treachery, and romance."

Peter Blood, a physician and an English gentleman becomes a pirate after suffering a grave injustice. Barely escaping the gallows after his arrest for treating wounded rebelswho were fighting the oppressive King JamesBlood is enslaved on a Barbados plantation. He escapes to Tortuga and becomes the leader of a colony of buccaneers."

Peter Blood, bachelor of medicine and several other things besides, smoked a pipe and tended the geraniums boxed on the sill of his window above Water Lane in the town of Bridgewater. Sternly disapproving eyes considered him from a window opposite, but went disregarded. Mr. Blood's attention was divided between his task and the stream of humanity in the narrow street below; a stream which poured for the second time that day towards Castle Field, where earlier in the afternoon Ferguson, the Duke's chaplain, had preached a sermon containing more treason than divinity. These straggling, excited...

Peter Blood, bachelor of medicine and several other things besides, smoked a pipe and tended the geraniums boxed on the sill of his window above Water Lane in the town of Bridgewater. Sternly disapproving eyes considered him from a window opposite, but went disregarded. Mr. Blood's attention was divided between his task and the stream of humanity in the narrow street below; a stream which poured for the second time that day towards Castle Field, where earlier in the afternoon Ferguson, the Duke's chaplain, had preached a sermon containing more treason than divinity. These straggling, excited...

Short Description: The famous tale of a gentleman, betrayed by his brother into slavery, who triumphs as the dreaded pirate captain "The Hawk of the Sea," wreaks his vengeance on his enemies and wins back the girl of his heart.Full Description: Sir Oliver Tressilian, a gentleman of wealth and status in 16th-century Cornwall in England, is betrayed by his brother, spurned by the woman he loves, and sold into slavery. Escaping the slavers, he becomes the leader of the Barbary pirates of Algiers. Now is the time for his revenge! A stunning raid on the Cornish coast yields not only his brother,...