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Author: Bret Harte
Publisher: Outlook Verlag
ISBN: 3752364416
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Reproduction of the original: The Queen of the Pirate Isle by Bret Harte
Author: Bret Harte
Publisher: Outlook Verlag
ISBN: 3752364416
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Reproduction of the original: The Queen of the Pirate Isle by Bret Harte
Author: Bret Harte
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Bret Harte's 'The Queen of the Pirate Isle' is a captivating children's story set in a remote English village, featuring beautifully descriptive prose and engaging storytelling. The book follows the adventures of two orphaned children who stumble upon a hidden pirate treasure, leading them on a thrilling journey of discovery and friendship. Harte's writing style is playful and imaginative, making the story come alive with vivid details and colorful characters, making it a delightful read for both young readers and adults alike. This book is a timeless classic that showcases Harte's talent for storytelling and his ability to transport readers to a world of magic and wonder. 'The Queen of the Pirate Isle' is a must-read for anyone looking for a charming and enchanting tale that will leave you spellbound from beginning to end.
Author: Bret Harte
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ISBN: 9780864410184
Category : Dolls
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Author: Harte Bret
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318746583
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Author: Bret Harte
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781532738289
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, fiction, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction.
Author: Francis Bret Harte
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Author: Kate Greenaway
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ISBN: 9781548241292
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Pages : 50
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THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE. I first knew her as the Queen of the Pirate Isle. To the best of my recollection she had no reasonable right to that title. She was only nine years old, inclined to plumpness and good humour, deprecated violence and had never been to sea. Need it be added that she did not live in an island and that her name was "Polly." Perhaps I ought to explain that she had already known other experiences of a purely imaginative character. Part of her existence had been passed as a Beggar Child-solely indicated by a shawl tightly folded round her shoulders and chills, -as a Schoolmistress, unnecessarily severe; as a Preacher, singularly personal in his remarks, and once, after reading one of Cooper's novels, as an Indian Maiden. This was, I believe, the only instance when she had borrowed from another's fiction. Most of the characters that she assumed for days and sometimes weeks at a time were purely original in conception; some so much so as to be vague to the general understanding. I remember that her personation of a certain Mrs. Smith, whose individuality was supposed to be sufficiently represented by a sun-bonnet worn wrong side before and a weekly addition to her family, was never perfectly appreciated by her own circle although she lived the character for a month. Another creation known as "The Proud Lady"-a being whose excessive and unreasonable haughtiness was so pronounced as to give her features the expression of extreme nausea, caused her mother so much alarm that it had to be abandoned. This was easily effected. The Proud Lady was understood to have died. Indeed, most of Polly's impersonations were got rid of in this way, although it by no means prevented their subsequent reappearance. "I thought Mrs. Smith was dead," remonstrated her mother at the posthumous appearance of that lady with a new infant. "She was buried alive and kem to!" said Polly with a melancholy air. Fortunately, the representation of a resuscitated person required such extraordinary acting, and was, through some uncertainty of conception, so closely allied in facial expression to the Proud Lady, that Mrs. Smith was resuscitated only for a day. The origin of the title of the Queen of the Pirate Isle, may be briefly stated as follows: - An hour after luncheon, one day, Polly, Hickory Hunt, her cousin, and Wan Lee, a Chinese page, were crossing the nursery floor in a Chinese junk. The sea was calm and the sky cloudless. Any change in the weather was as unexpected as it is in books. Suddenly a West Indian Hurricane, purely local in character and unfelt anywhere else, struck Master Hickory and threw him overboard, whence, wildly swimming for his life and carrying Polly on his back, he eventually reached a Desert Island in the closet. Here the rescued party put up a tent made of a table cloth providentially snatched from the raging billows, and from two o'clock until four, passed six weeks on the island supported only by a piece of candle, a box of matches, and two peppermint lozenges. It was at this time that it became necessary to account for Polly's existence among them, and this was only effected by an alarming sacrifice of their morality; Hickory and Wan Lee instantly became Pirates, and at once elected Polly as their Queen. The royal duties, which seemed to be purely maternal, consisted in putting the Pirates to bed after a day of rapine and bloodshed, and in feeding them with liquorice water through a quill in a small bottle....
Author: Bret Harte
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Pages : 64
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Author: Bret Harte
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Excerpt from The Queen of the Pirate Isle I first knew her as the Queen of the Pirate Isle. To the best of my recollection she had no reasonable right to that title. She was only nine years old, inclined to plumpness and good humour, deprecated violence and had never been to sea. Need it be added that she did not live in an island and that her name was "Polly." Perhaps I ought to explain that she had already known other experiences of a purely imaginative character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
