W Clark Russell: 24 books

Contents The Two Drovers  By Sir Walter Scott  Mr. Deuceace  By W. M. Thackeray  The Brothers  Edward Bulmer Lytton  Doctor Manette's Manuscript  By Charles Dickens  The Caldron of Oil  By Wilkie Collins  The Burial of the Tithe  By Samuel...

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation. The Death Ship: All Volumes is a classic maritime fiction novel from prolific author W. Clark Russell. Russell was famous for fiction novels involving the sea.

The seagoing fiction of W. Clark Russell has been compared to Poe, London, Cooper, Marryat, and William Hope Hodgson. This 1895 collection includes “Cornered!”, “A Midnight Visitor,” “The Strange Adventures of a South Seaman,” “The Adventures of Three Sailors,” “The Strange Tragedy of the ‘White Star,’” and “The Ship Seen on the Ice.”

William Dampier (1651-1715) was one of the world’s true swashbucklers; not only the first Englishman to explore Australia and New Guinea, he circumnavigated the globe three times before age sixty. In this cogent biography, W. Clark Russell presents Dampier’s great adventures and vast achievements.

An Ocean Tragedy by W. Clark Russell is a tale of romance and adventure on the sea, not to be missed.

Mr. Royle, a young second mate aboard a British Mercantile Marine vessel, copes with the cruel Captain Coxon, his callous first mate, and a mutinous crew. A beautiful young woman rescued from a shipwreck only complicate matters, both in safety and in love. This 1877 novel, boldly subtitled "An Account...

A shipful of husband-seeking women bound for Australia, diverted by mutineers, find themselves aground on an island in the South Seas. Can Captain Charles Morgan and his new second mate, serving-girl Alice Perry, train thirty females to raise sails for Sydney? This 1894 nautical romance-adventure is one of Russell’s best, and most original.

Walter Longmore, a young French-born midshipman, finds adventure and romance in this 1898 novel when he meets Miss Belle Stuart; together they face a series of adventures and misadventures. Russell’s experience in the British maritime service lends an air of realism to this high-seas thriller, praised by critics for its freshness, skill, and sheer inventive power.

Jeremy Liver—a sneak, coward, and drunk—incites mutiny aboard the good ship Atlantic. A falling spar almost kills the stalwart Captain Heron, who embarks on a dangerous course after the mutineers abandon ship. Russell’s eye for authentic nautical detail grounds this 1896 tale of romance and adventure in realism. 

A brutal sea captain, an inhuman chief mate, and an indignant crew set out to sea together—an obvious equation for disaster. This is the gripping tale of this voyage, and of Mr. Royle, the mild second mate who rises to the occasion, overcoming mutiny and shipwreck in an attempt to save the lives of two innocent civilians.

Apart from its legal bearings, A Marriage at Sea is a readable story. The hero, though not much of a sailor, owns a yacht, and in it he carries off Miss Grace Bellassys from the school at Boulogne to which she has been consigned by the villain of the piece, who happens to be here aunt and guardian -- a lady who wishes to make the girl turn Catholic though both her parents were Protestants.

Second mate William Lee narrates this spellbinding tale of a captain’s madness, a woman’s devotion, a shipwreck, and a dangerous escape from an island. Of this 1880 novel—about the doomed voyage of the sailing ship Waldershare—the author maintained “There is not an incident that is not true.” Some events he depicts he experienced himself.

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation. The Last Entry is a classic maritime fiction tale by the author of 'The Wreck of the "Grosvenor,"' and "My Shipmate Louise".

A sailor stranded on an iceberg discovers a trapped pirate vessel, its crew encased in ice for fifty years. A campfire thaws out French corsair Jules Tassard, who offers to share his treasure before descending into murderous madness. This 1887 nautical horror yarn predates H. G. Wells’ use of suspended animation as a plot vehicle.