The Queen of the Pirate Isle
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    The Queen of the Pirate Isle
                                            
                            By Bret Harte
                            
                                25 Oct, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        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 Gre
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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