The Monarchs of the Main; or, Adventures of the Buccaneers. Volume 3

George Walter ThornburyProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 2.8

Word count: 351K words
Chapters: 36

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.The Monarchs of the Main; Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers. Volume 3 (of 3)Author: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876,Language: English, Class: F2155: History of the Americas: Caribbean area. Caribbean sea, Release Date: Jan 21, 2012

Editor's review

This final volume of Thornbury's three-volume The Monarchs of the Main; Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers, also classed as Caribbean area history, is released free by Project Gutenberg. As the closing volume, it gathers the threads of the first two and follows the buccaneers' later activities, best suited to readers who have finished the earlier volumes and wish to complete the whole. Its significance lies mainly in showing how the nineteenth-century English-speaking world told pirate stories:连贯 narrative, weighted toward events and anecdotes of character rather than modern source criticism. Readers can observe how the pirate figure is organized into a popular history with a beginning and an end, and discuss Victorian historical imagination accordingly. Since the public-domain eBook has no modern introduction or index, read with maps and background material and remain cautious about its judgments. For translation trainees and writers of popular history, it is also a usable English text sample.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers who have finished the first two volumes and wish to complete the whole
Scholars studying the English pirate-narrative tradition and popular-history writing
Learners needing a long public-domain English text for translation or writing practice
General history readers interested in stories of the Caribbean

Not a good fit for

Serious researchers seeking modern scholarly annotation and source criticism
Beginners who have not read the first two volumes and want to read only the final one
Readers wanting a Chinese translation or a detailed background introduction

Reading tips

Review the main characters and events of the first two volumes before starting this one.
Read with a map and mark the seas and strongholds mentioned.
After finishing, write a short summary distinguishing narrated facts from the author's evaluations.
For translation practice, choose representative passages and compare with a reliable translation.

About the publisher

Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971

Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.

FAQ

Should the final volume be read in order?

Reading in order is recommended. This volume closes threads laid out in the first two; read alone, character relations and causal links easily fall apart. At least learn the main content of the first two volumes before this one to grasp the whole structure and how it ends.

Is the historical narrative reliable?

It is a nineteenth-century popular historical narrative, not a modern scholarly work, and lacks notes and source criticism. Its framework of events is of reference value, but specific judgments and literary descriptions need caution. Compare with modern Caribbean and pirate-history scholarship and do not rely on it alone.

Is it suitable for learning English or translation?

It works as practice material in a long public-domain English text. The language is nineteenth-century written English with long sentences and strong narrative flow, usable for reading and translation practice. Note period vocabulary and proper names, use a dictionary and background sources, and compare with a reliable translation.

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About the author

George Walter Thornbury Author · English · 1828–1876

George Walter Thornbury (1828–1876) was an English writer, journalist and art critic, born and also died in London. He was the first biographer of the painter Turner, and his writing ranged across poetry, fiction, art criticism, and historical and topographical works. His representative works include the three-volume buccaneering narrative The Monarchs of the Main, the London-themed Old and New London and Haunted London, and Shakespeare's England. The five works held here fall mainly into two categories, London local history and maritime adventure, combining documentary record with readable popular narrative. Public information on his early education and specific posts is limited, so no conjecture is offered here.