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The phantom ship

by Frederick Marryat

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Fiction
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"The Phantom Ship" by Frederick Marryat is a Gothic novel published in 1839 that explores the legend of the Flying Dutchman. Philip Vanderdecken embarks on a perilous quest to save his father's cursed spirit, doomed to sail eternally after making a rash oath. Armed with a holy relic, Vanderdecken travels the world seeking his father's phantom vessel, but his mission draws supernatural doom upon all who cross paths with the spectral ship. His journey leads him through encounters with Arabian magic, demonic pilots, and the terrors of the Inquisition. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary and openlibrary-historical matched “Immortality”.

    • “Immortality”· via Open Library
  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from project-gutenberg matched “tales”. Retained metadata contains “legend” in the description and “Tales” in the subject metadata.

    • “tales”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “legend”· in description
    • “Tales”· in subject

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1896J.M. Dent; Little BrownEnglish—Public

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2004-07-19Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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2007-05-22Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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  • Open Library reports 22 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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openlibrary-work:OL166769W
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