The Pirate, and The Three Cutters
Frederick Marryat
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Pirates are the subject of many a dime novel and boys' stories, but they tend to be portrayed as one-dimensional. Such is the case here. The captain of The Avenger is a Byronic or even a Michael Scottish hero—an impossible monster, compounded of one virtue and a thousand crimes. Marryat drew on his recollections of the time when he was a midshipman with Cochrane in the Impèrieuse, for the figure of the old steersman, who sticks to his post under the fire of the Avenger.
The Three Cutters was written to pad out the novel The Pirate and deals with smuggling. It is a farcical romp, with too many women in a man's world to be credible. (8 hr 24 min)
Chapters
Introduction | 17:52 | Read by William Bruce McFadden |
The Bay of Biscay | 13:52 | Read by Wayne Cooke |
The Bachelor | 21:45 | Read by Wayne Cooke |
The Gale | 11:10 | Read by LeonFakks |
The Leak | 17:22 | Read by LeonFakks |
The Old Maid | 16:45 | Read by STLVoiceOver |
The Midshipman | 12:48 | Read by Jim Locke |
Sleeper's Bay | 18:32 | Read by JacobValdez |
The Attack | 15:01 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Capture | 38:27 | Read by roselbex |
The Sand-bank | 15:30 | Read by roselbex |
The Escape | 22:50 | Read by roselbex |
The Lieutenant | 15:36 | Read by roselbex |
The Landing | 27:40 | Read by roselbex |
The Meeting | 22:15 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Mistake | 19:04 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Caicos | 23:34 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Trial | 26:02 | Read by Jim Locke |
Conclusion | 16:26 | Read by William Bruce McFadden |
Cutter the First | 23:56 | Read by Jim Locke |
Cutter the Second | 18:55 | Read by ToddHW |
Cutter the Third | 17:13 | Read by Kerry Adams |
Portland Bill | 18:17 | Read by Robert Tunick |
The Travestie | 20:08 | Read by Jim Locke |
The Smuggling Yacht | 13:55 | Read by Jim Locke |
Conclusion | 19:44 | Read by William Bruce McFadden |
Reviews
pirates and the 3 cutters
drainditch wilky
readers of conclusions and Portland Bill best. others, for me not so much.
Bad
A LibriVox Listener
Couldn't get past chapter 7. Just terrible readers used at the most exciting spots. Monotone dull readers