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| Alexandre Dumas
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Count of Monte Cristo
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55h
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Listen to the original story and judge for yourself how the main idea of revenge as a highly positive and commendable human aspiration has been misinterpreted by modern and not so modern Western movies....
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| Jack London
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Cruise of the Dazzler
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3h30m
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Boy's adventures amongst the oyster pirates. Very autobiographical....
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| A T Quiller-Couch
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Dead Mans Rock
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10h30m
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The Quest of The Great Ruby..romance, pirates, treasures and adventures in the vein of Stevenson's Treasure Island...
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| E W Hornung
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Dead Men Tell No Tales
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6h30m
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Boat loaded with gunpowder, fire at sea, the only one survivor.....but everything is not so simple.......
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| Edgar Allan Poe
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EdgarPoe-The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
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9h30m
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Marine adventure (pirates and storeways, shipwrecks and cannibalism) plus on to of it all Edgar Poe's own blend of terror and supernaturalism....
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| Karel Capek
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Farm Murder
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15m
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Very short but very interesting story from the Tales From Two Pockets....
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| William Hope Hodgson
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Ghost Pirates
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4h15m
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A strange apparition on board a 19th century sailing vessel....
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| Joseph Conrad
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Mirror of the Sea
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9h
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This is a mixture of Conrad's autobiographical observations and his interesting thoughts about sea and seamen. Not much of the story but highly enjoyable....
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| F Tennyson Jesse
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Moonraker
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5h
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Pirate adventure with the very unusual twist...
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| Marion St John Webb
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Mr Papingay's Ship
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6h15m
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Another children adventure of little boy Robinn and his majical excentric friends....
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| Captain Frederick Marryat
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Phantom Ship
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18h45m
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Another version of Flying Dutchman legend. This one involved the captain's son and his never-ending quest to release his father from the God's punishment. Usual lots of pirates, treasures, adventures, shipwrecks and supernatural. Even a bit of Inquisition thrown in for good measure. But nothing to do with The Pirates of The Caribbean film version....
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| Richard Le Gallienne
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Pieces of Eight
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8h
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This is a tale of buried treasure and fraught with treachery, danger, and the ghosts of dead pirates!...
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| Arthur Conan Doyle
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Pirate of the Land
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19m
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Short crime story...
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| Brat Harte
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Queen of The Pirate Isle
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1h
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Charming children adventure story...
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| Captain Charles Johnson
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Real Pirates - Anne Bonny
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18m
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Real life-stories of real pirates...
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Audio books 16 to 30 (of 55)
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