{"product_id":"captain-blood-paperback","title":"Captain Blood - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRafael Sabatini\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGary Hoppenstand\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRafael Sabatini \u003c\/b\u003e(1875-1950)\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Italy to two opera singers, and often joined his parents on their professional tours of Europe. In 1918, he became a British subject and worked for the British Intelligence during World War I. He published his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Lovers of Yvonne\u003c\/i\u003e, at the age of 27, and continued to produce numerous historical novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, and some biographies. \u003ci\u003eScaramouche\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1921, followed by \u003ci\u003eCaptain Blood\u003c\/i\u003e in 1922. Sabatini died in 1950 while vacationing at a Swiss ski resort.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Hoppenstand\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor in the Department of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University. He has researched and published widely in the areas of popular culture and popular fiction studies, and he edited the Penguin Classics editions of Anthony Hope's \u003ci\u003eThe Prisoner of Zenda\/Rupert of Hentzau \u003c\/i\u003eand A.E.W. Mason's The Four Feathers. He is the past president of the Popular Culture Association, and the current editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 31, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53755553153357,"sku":"9780142180105","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/a3JOMDMvak9RK2pyaHdCdUc3SUJOUT09.webp?v=1776719346","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/captain-blood-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}