Name: The Queen of the Pirate Isle
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Author: Bret Harte
ISBN: 978-1347551707

Literature & Fiction | Short Stories & Anthology

The Queen of the Pirate Isle

By Bret Harte 25 Oct, 2019

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Originally published in 1886, The Queen of the Pirate Isle is a short story set in and around a mining camp in gold-rush California - a milieu that features in almost all of Bret Harte's work. Illustrated in this 1931 edition by the fabulous Kate Greenaway, for whom Britain's premier illustrator's award is named, it seems at first glance to be a story for children. The four young protagonists - imaginative Polly, her cousin Hickory Hunt, their Chinese "page" Wan Lee, and neighbor-boy Patsey - are all children, and Harte here relates their adventures playing pirate. Less

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2010-09-07
English
978-1347551707

Bret Harte

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Francis Brett Hart, known as Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902), was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other roma...

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