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Until 2005 the period of copyright in Australia was for the life of the author plus 50 years
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Some countries even have it as the Author's life +100 years
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Published 1921/22 (UK/US)
James Joyce died in 1941 +70 years = copyright expired 2011/12
Note any recent Critical Review/appraisal Content Novel
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The Online Books Page
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Ned Buntline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Buntline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Buntline_bibliography
Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr
known by his pseudonym Ned Buntline, was an American publisher, journalist, and writer.
1847
Dime novel
The Black Avenger of the Spanish Main, Or, the Fiend of Blood: A Thrilling Story of the Buccaneer Times.
https://archive.org/details/blackavengerspa00buntgoog/
Book Scan of the Novel
a melodramatic and violent pirate novel.
Story about a servant who elopes with his master's daughter, then becomes a pirate after her death. He kills Spaniards but spares a black hangman, a slave who does not want to be freed.
Probably includes period attitudes to topics which
modern readers may find racist or sexist.
For a more complete plot outline see here
The Joy of Piracy: Ned Buntline and the Legacy of the Black Avenger of the Spanish Main
https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/4868
The Black Avenger of the Spanish Main, became the iconic pirate yarn of his age.
Black Avenger proved so popular that elements of its plot soon became common traits of the pirate subgenre.
Prentiss Ingraham's 1882 dime novel, The Black Pirate; or,The Mystery of the Golden Fetters is also mentioned.
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Prentiss Ingraham
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prentiss_Ingraham
Colonel in the Confederate Army, a mercenary throughout the 1860s, and a fiction writer.
As well as writing by his own name, Ingraham used a number of pseudonymss including: Dr. Noel Dunbar, Dangerfield Burr, Major Henry B. Stoddard, Colonel Leon Lafitte, Frank Powell, Harry Dennies Perry, Midshipman Tom W. Hall, Lieut. Preston Graham. He also ghostwrote several works for Buffalo Bill Cody.
Ingraham claimed in 1900 to have written more than 600 novels.
1882
dime novel
The Black Pirate; or,The Mystery of the Golden Fetters
https://dimenovels.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/dimenovels:154415
a swashbuckling navy officer protagonist goes undercover as a pirate. |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 7:21 pm Post subject: Russell Thorndike |
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Russell Thorndike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Thorndike
British actor and novelist,
best known for the Doctor Syn of Romney Marsh novels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Syn
Christopher Syn, the kindly vicar of the little town of Dymchurch. Syn seems pleasant but we soon learn that he has a sinister past. At one time he was the vicious pirate Captain Clegg and he is also the mysterious "Scarecrow of Romney Marsh", masked leader of the local smugglers.
Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh (1915)
https://archive.org/details/doctorsynsmuggle00thor
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Doctor_Syn
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/russell-thorndike/doctor-syn
Though it is the first book written in the series, it follows the events of Shadow of Doctor Syn.
Doctor Syn on the High Seas (1935)
https://archive.org/details/DoctorSynOnTheHighSeasRussellThorndikeDaisyChainsaw
It tells the story of how the young clergyman, Christopher Syn, loses his wife to a seducer. He embarks on a quest of vengeance, taking on the identity of the pirate Captain Clegg to hunt them down.
The book ends with Syn returning to his home of Dymchurch to resume his life as a vicar. Imogene dies in childbirth and Nick, the seducer, is hanged as a pirate.
Doctor Syn Returns (1935)
https://archive.org/details/DoctorSynReturnsRussellThorndikeDaisyChainsaw
Syn's attempt to live an obscure life fails when he is drawn into the local smuggling trade. To protect his parishioners from the agents of the King's Revenue Syn becomes the masked Scarecrow of Romney Marsh and becomes leader of the smugglers. He is one of the first costumed heroes in literature and is clearly inspired by earlier characters such as the Scarlet Pimpernel and Robin Hood.
Further Adventures of Doctor Syn (1936)
https://archive.org/details/TheFurtherAdventuresOfDoctorSynRussellThorndikeDaisyChainsaw
The Further Adventures Of Doctor Syn is a highly episodic series of adventures as Syn, in his guise as the Scarecrow outwits the king's agents and keeps his band of Dymchurch smugglers out of prison.
Courageous Exploits of Doctor Syn (1938)
https://archive.org/details/TheCourageousExploitsOfDoctorSynRussellThorndikeDaisyChainsaw
an episodic collection of adventures. It follows Syn's adventures in his guise as the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh as he foils all attempts to catch him and to break up the Dymchurch smugglers.
Amazing Quest of Doctor Syn (1939)
https://archive.org/details/TheAmazingQuestOfDoctorSynRussellThorndike/mode/2up
Shadow of Doctor Syn (1944)
https://archive.org/details/TheShadowOfDoctorSynRussellThorndikeDaisyChainsaw
Though it is the last book written in the series it acts as a prequel for the first novel.
This story is set during the events of the French Revolution and part of the action has Syn rescuing people from the Reign of Terror in the style of the Scarlet Pimpernel. The other main plot element is a love story. Syn has fallen in love with young Cicily Cobtree and hopes his actions against Robespierre will earn him a pardon from the King. When Cicily dies, Syn gives up his ideas of pardon and nearly loses his sanity. This sets the stage for the fiendish character he becomes in Doctor Syn: A Tale Of The Romney Marsh.
Note that the "first" book, Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh (1915)
, is actually the final story chronologically; the others proceed in published sequence.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 8:47 pm Post subject: Jules Verne |
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Jules Verne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne
French novelist, poet, and playwright.
Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe.
He has sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction".
Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare.
Jules Verne remains to this day the most translated science fiction author in the world.
Jules Verne Books includes:
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Journey to the Center of the Earth
From the Earth to the Moon
Around the World in Eighty Days
The Mysterious Island
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Michael Strogoff
Off on a Comet
Robur the Conqueror
An Antarctic Mystery
Master of the World
Books by Verne, Jules
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/60
Jules Verne Pirates Stories
Tom Ayrton Character
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ayrton
In Search of the Castaways
The Mysterious Island
In Search of the Castaways
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_the_Castaways
Scottish able seaman, Ayrton served as quartermaster on board the three-mast ship Britannia, under the command of Captain Harry Grant. Differing opinions and extreme disputes with Grant led Ayrton to attempt leading a mutiny, the failure of which ended in his being expelled from the ship.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2083
The Mysterious Island
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Island
Tom Ayrton – with his former crew of pirates and pirate captain Bob Harvey, sailed on their pirate brig the Speedy in The Mysterious Island, an 1874 novel by Jules Verne.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8993
https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20180906
The Lighthouse at the End of the World
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse_at_the_End_of_the_World
The plot of the novel involves piracy in the South Atlantic during the mid-19th century, with a theme of survival in extreme circumstances, and events centering on an isolated lighthouse
Kongre – leader of a band of murderous pirates, roaming the South Atlantic in the pirate ship Maule, in Jules Verne's 1905 novel The Lighthouse at the End of the World
apparently only printed retail versions available
The novel was adapted into the 1971 movie, The Light at the Edge of the World.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_at_the_Edge_of_the_World
Facing the Flag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facing_the_Flag
France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon with the threat finally overcome
Count d'Artigas"—actually Ker Karraje, a notorious pirate of Malagasy origin.
Karraje hears of the super-weapon invention and takes it serious and decides to gain possession of it.
Karraje and his crew lead double lives. Karraje goes around openly, under the alias of "Count d'Artigas", a pleasure-loving, slightly eccentric but eminently respectable member of nobility. He is a regular visitor to the ports of the East Coast aboard his schooner Ebba. To outward appearances, Ebba has no other means of propulsion than its sails, but in fact, it is pulled by an underwater tug. By this means, Karraje and his crew can pull up to becalmed sailing vessels without raising suspicion and board them without warning. They then rob and massacre the crews, scuttling the ships, adding to the statistics of "unexplained disappearances".
Facing the Flag by Jules Verne
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11556
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Jack London - Hearts of Three
Jack London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London
American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.
Novels include:
The Call of the Wild (1903)
The Sea-Wolf (1904)
White Fang (1906)
The Assassination Bureau, Ltd (1963)
(left half-finished, completed by Robert L. Fish)
Hearts of Three (1920)
(novelization of a script by Charles Goddard)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts_of_Three
Young descendant of the pirate Henry Morgan, who left him a rich heritage, wants to find the treasure of his ancestor.
On the way, he meets his distant cousin, also Henry Morgan. Together, they will find dangerous adventures, unknown lands, and love.
Hearts of Three by Jack London
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