A novel, 1922

Captain Blood

Rafael Sabatini

Peter Blood, a physician who has stayed out of Monmouth’s rebellion, is condemned for treason after treating a wounded rebel.

31 chapters · about 8 hours

How it begins

Peter Blood, bachelor of medicine and several other things besides, smoked a pipe and tended the geraniums boxed on the sill of his window above Water Lane in the town of Bridgewater.

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About the book

Length

31 chapters

First published

1922

Text from Project Gutenberg.