Captain Belt by F. Clinton Barrington
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ePublished by
May 2024
Originally published 1858
Dime novel, Age of Sail
Author: F. Clinton Barrington
ePublished by
May 2024
Originally published 1858
Dime novel, Age of Sail
Author: F. Clinton Barrington
A Spanish-born buccaneer develops an unfortunate obsession for a beautiful senora who is living with her exiled father in New Orleans. The unscrupulous pirate sails his brigantine there for the specific purpose of renewing his unwelcome attentions and winning her heart—and if that fails, abducting her and forcing her to be his wife. In the modern era we would label him a dangerous stalker.
And of course there is much sailing involved... as should be the case with all novels.
Captain Belt; or, The Buccaneer of the Gulf was Numbers 11–14 of Volume IV. of The Weekly Novelette series published by M. M. Ballou in Boston, Massachusetts; each member of the series being published in four issues over the course of four weeks. Each issue was priced at ten cents, making these “dime novels” supposedly, even though it would cost the reader forty cents to read the entire story. And in addition to that contradiction, at more than 67,000 words Captain Belt is technically a full-sized novel in length, not a novelette.
And of course there is much sailing involved... as should be the case with all novels.
Captain Belt; or, The Buccaneer of the Gulf was Numbers 11–14 of Volume IV. of The Weekly Novelette series published by M. M. Ballou in Boston, Massachusetts; each member of the series being published in four issues over the course of four weeks. Each issue was priced at ten cents, making these “dime novels” supposedly, even though it would cost the reader forty cents to read the entire story. And in addition to that contradiction, at more than 67,000 words Captain Belt is technically a full-sized novel in length, not a novelette.