The Boy Pirate Volume 1 of 6
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ePublished by
September 2019
Originally published 1865
Fiction, Age of Sail, The Boy Pirate series
Author: Unknown
ePublished by
September 2019
Originally published 1865
Fiction, Age of Sail, The Boy Pirate series
Author: Unknown
The Boy Pirate; or, Life on the Ocean is a long-running 19th-century serial that was gathered together and re-published as one large book in 1865. It is re-published here digitally in six volumes, of which this is Volume I.
The Boy Pirate is the story of a boy of noble birth who is deprived of his birthright and forced into a life of piracy by his father’s steward, who murders the boy’s father, attempts to murder the infant boy himself, pretends to marry the boy’s mother, and takes over the lord’s estates. When the boy grows older he goes on to thrive as the renowned and feared “Red Raven,” travelling the world as a pirate while never forgetting the sense of honor and chivalry inculcated in him as an infant by his noble birthright. (Okay, yeah, there’s a bit of classism inherent to that premise. It was a British serial, not an American serial.)
There are numerous sub-plots and side stories, many different characters from various social classes, and the Boy Pirate manages to take his angst, ambition, and heroic chivalry around the world to experience many adventures, while giving readers a taste of various 19-century cultures in the process.
The Boy Pirate is the story of a boy of noble birth who is deprived of his birthright and forced into a life of piracy by his father’s steward, who murders the boy’s father, attempts to murder the infant boy himself, pretends to marry the boy’s mother, and takes over the lord’s estates. When the boy grows older he goes on to thrive as the renowned and feared “Red Raven,” travelling the world as a pirate while never forgetting the sense of honor and chivalry inculcated in him as an infant by his noble birthright. (Okay, yeah, there’s a bit of classism inherent to that premise. It was a British serial, not an American serial.)
There are numerous sub-plots and side stories, many different characters from various social classes, and the Boy Pirate manages to take his angst, ambition, and heroic chivalry around the world to experience many adventures, while giving readers a taste of various 19-century cultures in the process.