Richard Carvel — Complete

A thunderous bestseller of its era, Richard Carvel swept across America in 1899 with the force of a naval broadside. The novel opens in 1765 on the shores of colonial Annapolis, where young Richard Carvel, orphaned heir to English nobility, lives under the protection of his distinguished grandfather at Carvel Hall. But Richard's privileged world shatters when his treacherous Uncle Grafton, desperate to claim the family fortune, has the boy kidnapped by pirates and sold into servitude aboard a ship bound for the West Indies. Rescued by a fierce Scottish captain named John Paul, Richard embarks on a transatlantic odyssey that takes him from the squalid hold of a slave ship to the gilded parlors of English nobility, where he witnesses firsthand the corruption sparking revolution across the Atlantic. He returns to Maryland to find his grandfather dead and his inheritance stolen but finds something greater: a cause worth fighting for. Alongside the captain who saved his life now commanding the Continental Navy as John Paul Jones, Richard Carvel charges into history, fighting not just for his birthright but for a new nation's birth.