Name: Captain Blood (Penguin Classics)
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Author: Rafael Sabatini
ISBN: 9780142180105

portada Captain Blood (Penguin Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rafael Sabatini

Introduction by

Gary Hoppenstand

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2002

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.6 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN

0142180106

ISBN13

9780142180105

Edition No.

Synopsis "Captain Blood (Penguin Classics) "

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. For 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.

Rafael Sabatini

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Rafael Sabatini was an English writer of Italian origin known for his romance and adventure novels, among which stand out The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, and Captain Blood. Sabatini wrote thirty-one novels, several short stories, and a play.

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