{"product_id":"captain-blood-isbn-9780142180105","title":"Captain Blood","description":"Peter 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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.\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e   vii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003c\/b\u003e   xxvii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.       The Messenger   1\u003cbr\u003eII.      Kirke's Dragons   10\u003cbr\u003eIII.     The Lord Chief Justice   19\u003cbr\u003eIV.     Human Merchandise   33\u003cbr\u003eV.      Arabella Bishop   40\u003cbr\u003eVI.     Plans of Escape   53\u003cbr\u003eVII.    Pirates   69\u003cbr\u003eVIII.   Spaniards   80\u003cbr\u003eIX.     The Rebels-Convict   87\u003cbr\u003eX.      Don Diego   100\u003cbr\u003eXI.     Filial Piety   106\u003cbr\u003eXII.    Don Pedro Sangre   118\u003cbr\u003eXIII.   Tortuga   126\u003cbr\u003eXIV.   Levasseur's Heroics   135\u003cbr\u003eXV.    The Ransom   145\u003cbr\u003eXVI.   The Trap   157\u003cbr\u003eXVII.  The Dupes   169\u003cbr\u003eXVIII. The Milagrosa   184\u003cbr\u003eXIX.    The Meeting   197\u003cbr\u003eXX.     Thief and Pirate   208\u003cbr\u003eXXI.    The Service of King James   220\u003cbr\u003eXXII.   Hostilities   234\u003cbr\u003eXXIII.  Hostages   243\u003cbr\u003eXXIV.  War   256\u003cbr\u003eXXV.    The Service of King Louis   269\u003cbr\u003eXXVI.   M. de Rivarol   279\u003cbr\u003eXXVII.  Cartagena   292\u003cbr\u003eXXVIII. The Honor of M. de Rivarol   302\u003cbr\u003eXXIX.    The Service of King William   310\u003cbr\u003eXXX.     The Last Flight of the Arabella   316\u003cbr\u003eXXXI.    His Excellency the Governor   323\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \"Glorious...I never enjoyed a novel more than \u003cb\u003eCaptain Blood\u003c\/b\u003e.\" —\u003cb\u003eNorman Mailer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the great unrecognized novels of the twentieth century, and as close as any modern writer has come to a prose epic.\" —\u003cb\u003eGeorge MacDonald Fraser\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRafael Sabatini \u003c\/b\u003e(1875-1950)\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Italy to two opera singers, and often joined his parents on their professional tours of Europe. In 1918, he became a British subject and worked for the British Intelligence during World War I. He published his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Lovers of Yvonne\u003c\/i\u003e, at the age of 27, and continued to produce numerous historical novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, and some biographies. \u003ci\u003eScaramouche\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1921, followed by \u003ci\u003eCaptain Blood\u003c\/i\u003e in 1922. Sabatini died in 1950 while vacationing at a Swiss ski resort.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Hoppenstand\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor in the Department of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University. He has researched and published widely in the areas of popular culture and popular fiction studies, and he edited the Penguin Classics editions of Anthony Hope's \u003ci\u003eThe Prisoner of Zenda\/Rupert of Hentzau \u003c\/i\u003eand A.E.W. Mason's The Four Feathers. He is the past president of the Popular Culture Association, and the current editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305393869029,"sku":"NP9780142180105","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780142180105.jpg?v=1767723374","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/captain-blood-isbn-9780142180105","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}