Pirate, and The Three Cutters

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

In Category - Action & Adventure Fiction, Nautical & Marine Fiction

Authors: Frederick Marryat In Year : 1897

Book Language: English

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Introduction
The Bay of Biscay
The Bachelor
The Gale
The Leak
The Old Maid
The Midshipman
Sleeper's Bay
The Attack
The Capture
The Sand-bank
The Escape
The Lieutenant
The Landing
The Meeting
The Mistake
The Caicos
The Trial
Conclusion
Cutter the First
Cutter the Second
Cutter the Third
Portland Bill
The Travestie
The Smuggling Yacht
Conclusion

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.