The Queen of the Pirate Isle
By Bret Harte
- Release Date: 1902-01-01
- Genre: Fiction & Literature
Description
The Queen of the Pirate Isle is a short story set in and around a mining camp in gold-rush California. The four young protagonists - imaginative Polly (the Queen), her cousin Hickory Hunt, their Chinese page Wan Lee, and neighbor-boy Patsey - are all children, have extremely vivid imaginations, and Harte relates their adventures playing pirate - in fantasy, dream, and reality.