THE PIRATE and The Three Cutters

Captain Frederick Marryat (1792 – 1848) was a British Royal Navy officer, novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early founder of the sea story.

In “The Pirate” and “The Three Cutters” Marryat allowed himself to take a little holiday in company with another kind of sea malefactor whom he knew intimately well. He had already played with the smuggler in The King's Own. In this little stories he reintroduces us to M'Elvina, somewhat disguised, and in altered circumstances, but essentially the same.  Start your adventure in the pirate world far away in the sea.