#86 in Adventure
Captain Blood
- 356
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Captain Blood” is a lively pirate adventure led by an eloquent, witty hero, Peter Blood. Rafael Sabatini first wrote it as magazine stories in 1920–21 and collected them in book form in 1922. Some readers find the love plot erratic and the rotating villains a weakness; others have reread it many times since their teens. Some also flag language about race and sex that belongs to its era.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Captain Blood: His Odyssey is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally a series of short stories in Premier Magazine in 1920–1, collected in book form in 1922.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 59 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 29% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Adventure average of 7.8. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 59 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Captain Blood?
It has 356 pages — shorter than 56% of the ranked books in Adventure.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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Same shelf — Adventure — with scores between 7.7 and 7.9, closest to this book.
