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History
- A General History of the Pyrates, 1724 by Captain Charles Johnson (transcription project)
- The Buccaneers of America, Or the Pirates of Panama: a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main, 1914 by Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin and George Alfred Williams(external scan)
- The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the most Noted Pirates, 1849 by Ezra Strong and Silas Andrus.(external scan)
- An Account of the Pirates Executed at St. Christopher's in the West Indies, in 1828, 1830 by Enoch Wood(external scan)
- The Corsairs of France, 1887 by Charles Boswell Norman (external scan)
- The Story of the Barbary Corsairs, 1890 by Stanley Lane-Poole (external scan)
- History of the Buccaneers of America, 1891 by James Burney(external scan)
- Pirates and Piracy, 1902 by Oscar Herrmann (external scan)
- The Book of Buried Treasure, 1911 by Ralph Delahaye Paine (external scan)
- Piracy Off the Florida Coast and Elsewhere, 1911 by Samuel Abbott Green (external scan)
- Daring Deeds of Famous Pirates 1917 by Edward Keble Chatterton
- Elizabethan Sea-Dogs, 1920 by William Charles Henry Wood (external scan)
- Pirates, 1922 by Claud Lovat Fraser (external scan), or (external scan)
Fiction
Early modern
- The Adventures of Roderick Random, 1748 by Tobias Smollett (external scan)
- The Pirate, 1822 by Sir Walter Scott
- An Old Sailor's Yarns, 1835 by Nathaniel Ames (external scan)
- The Pirate; and The Three Cutters, 1836 by Frederick Marryat (external scan)
- The Pirates Own Book, 1837 by Charles Ellms[1]
- The Privateersman, 1846 by Frederick Marryat (external scan)
- Captain Brand of the Centipede, 1864 by Harry Gringo (external scan)
- Pirate's Vengeance - A Tale of the Early Buccaneers, 1871 by Anonymous
- The Ruby of Kishmoor, by Howard Pyle
- Treasure Island, 1883 by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Pirate Island, 1885 by Harry Collingwood (external scan)
- The Queen of the Pirate Isle, 1887 by Bret Harte (external scan)
- The Curce or The Black Prince Privateer, 1888 by V. Lovett Cameron
- The Isle of Palms, 1888 by C. M. Newell (external scan)
- Bluejackets; or, The Log of the Teaser, 1893 by George Manville Fenn (external scan)
- The Shadow of the Sea, 1897 by Max Pemberton (external scan)
- A Pirate's Gold: A true story of buried treasure, 1898 by William Gordon Stables
- Under Drakes Flag, 19th century by G. A. Henty (external scan)
Modern
- Brethren of the Coast, 1900 by Kirk Munroe (external scan)
- The Corsair King, 1901 by Maurus Jokai
- Prince Rupert the Buccaneer, 1901 by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (external scan)
- Kate Bonnet: The Romance of A Pirate's Daughter, 1902 by Frank R. Stockton (external scan)
- Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, 1903 by Howard Pyle
- The Black Barque, 1905 by T. Jenkins Hains (external scan)
- Sea Dogs All, 1907 by Tom Bevan
- The Secret of Sandhills, 1908 by Francis Marlowe
- The Ghost Pirates, 1909 by William Hope Hodgson
- The Lady and the Pirate, 1913 by Emerson Hough (external scan)
- Prisoners of the Pirates, 1913 by Ruel Perley Smith
- Sea-wolves of the Mediterranean: The Grand Period of the Moslem Corsairs, 1913 by Edward Hamilton Currey (external scan)
- The Pirate of Panama, 1914 by William MacLeod Raine (external scan)
- The Sea-Hawk, 1915 by Rafael Sabatini (external scan)
- Pirate Bridge, 1917 by R. F. Foster (external scan) (external scan)
- Beyond the Sunset, c. 1919 by George Rothwell Brown (external scan)
- Black Bartlemy's Treasure, 1920 by Jeffery Farnol (external scan)
- The Black Buccaneer, 1920 by Stephen W. Meader (external scan)
- Westward Ho! Travels with Francis Drake, 1920 by Charles Kingsley(external scan)(vol 1: (external scan), vol 2: (external scan))
- Tom Pagdin, Pirate, 1922 by Edwin J. Brady
- Blackbeard Buccaneer, 1922 by Ralph D. Paine (external scan)
- The Great Quest, 1922 by Charles Boardman Hawes (external scan)
- Captain Blood, 1922 by Rafael Sabatini
- The Dark Frigate, 1923 by Charles Boardman Hawes
- Privateers of '76, 1923 by Ralph D. Paine (d. 1925)
- Clothes Make the Pirate, 1925 by Holman Day
- The Gold Table, 1925 by Ralph D. Paine (d. 1925)
- Pirate Gold: The Story of Jean Le Fitte, 1926 by Lawton B. Evans (d. 1934)
- Great Pirate Stories, 1929 by Joseph Lewis French (d. 1936) (external scan)
- Rogue's Moon, 1929 by Robert W. Chambers
- The Gold Chase, 1935 by Robert W. Chambers
- The Isle of Pirate's Doom, c. 1930s by Robert Ervin Howard (d. 1936)
- Black Vulmea's Vengeance, c. 1935-36 by Robert Ervin Howard (d. 1936)
- Swords of the Red Brotherhood, c. 1935-36 by Robert Ervin Howard (d. 1936)
Poetry
- The Pirates in England, by Rudyard Kipling
- Sweet Pirate of the heart, by Emily Dickinson
- The Last Buccaneer, by Charles Kingsley
- Henry Martyn, a ballad about a brother turned pirate.
Music
- The Pirates of Penzance, or The Slave of Duty, 1879 by William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
- A Copy of Verses, Composed by Captain Henry Every, Lately Gone to Sea to seek his Fortune, 1694
Source documents
- Declaration of Henry Every to English ship commanders, 1694/5
- Proclamation for apprehending Henry Every, 1696
- An Account by a Pirate Captive, 1824 article in the February edition of American Monthly Magazine
- Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes, Down to the Occupation of Labuan, 1848 by James Brooke and George Rodney Mundy (external scan)
Reference
- "Morgan, Henry (1635-1688)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols. by John Knox Laughton from Volume 39
- "Roberts, Bartholomew," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols. by John Knox Laughton from Volume 48
- "Barbary Pirates," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Buccaneers," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Pirate and Piracy," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Piracy," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)