Pirate Tales
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In the imaginations of young and old alike, the word “pirate”
resonates with spine-tingling fear and swashbuckling adventure.
Over centuries, our cultural landscape has been populated by a host
of famous real and fictional figures immortalized in literature and
art: Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard, with his fearsome
reputation for cruelty, Henry ‘Bloody’ Morgan, whose treasure is
still sought today, and of course Long John Silver, the archetypal
anti-hero of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1885).
Pirate Tales gathers a treasure trove of excerpts from literary
works inspired by the historical pirates of the 16th and 17th
centuries.The edition begins with Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
(1719), a book containing all the trappings of pirate lore –
shipwrecks, mutineers, undiscovered islands, and talking parrots –
and one which influenced hundreds of works of adventure fiction,
not least Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island (1871). The third
nerve-jangling novel is Treasure Island, without which no book on
pirates would be complete, thanks to its unforgettable additions to
the pirate canon: Blind Pew, Billy Bones, the black spot, wooden
legs and Long John Silver. Extracts from Howard Pyle’s posthumously
published Book of Pirates (1921) round off the edition.The tales
are enlivened by arresting illustrations at every turn, including
those by artists from the Brandywine School such as Pyle, the
undisputed father of pirate illustration, and his students N. C.
Wyeth and Frank Schoonover.This edition features a number of
original artworks by these illustrators, drawn from private
collections, as well as contributions by other artists from
illustration’s so-called “Golden Age” of the late 19th and early
20th century. Scene-setting vignettes for each story were executed
by the illustrator Michael Custode. A comprehensive introduction on
historical pirates and their influence on these literary texts is
provided by Robert E.and Jill P. May, in addition to authoritative
commentaries on each text and biographies of the featured authors
and illustrators. Evoking high seas, flashing blades, and maritime
crime, Pirate Tales offers a tantalizing blend of fiction, history,
and illustration.
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