English · Intermediate
Read Captain Blood in Englishwith every sentence explained
Rafael Sabatini · 1922
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About the book
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini was first published in 1922. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked intermediate and filed under historical fiction, romance and thriller and suspense. It runs to about 112,900 words.
A doctor sold into slavery. A rebel by injustice. A pirate by choice.
England, 1685. Peter Blood is an Irish physician who has had enough of adventure and wants only a quiet life tending patients in the town of Bridgwater. But when he treats a wounded rebel after the failed Monmouth uprising, he is arrested, condemned for treason by the merciless Judge Jeffreys and shipped to Barbados as a slave.
There he is bought by the brutal planter Colonel Bishop, and catches the eye of Bishop's spirited niece, Arabella. Clever, proud and burning with a sense of injustice, Blood begins to plan the impossible: an escape to the open sea, and a new life under a very different flag.
Swashbuckling and witty, Captain Blood is the great pirate romance of the twentieth century and the novel behind Errol Flynn's legendary 1935 film.
- Author
- Rafael Sabatini
- First published
- 1922
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- Historical Fiction, Romance, Thriller and Suspense
- Length
- About 112,900 words
How it opens
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.
Sternly disapproving eyes considered him from a window opposite, but went disregarded. Mr. Blood's attention was divided between his task and the stream of humanity in the narrow street below; a stream which poured for the second time that day towards Castle Field, where earlier in the afternoon Ferguson, the Duke's chaplain, had preached a sermon containing more treason than divinity.
Reading Captain Blood in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday English feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
