The Pirate (novel)

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The Pirate (novel)

The Pirate is also the title of novels by Harold Robbins
Harold Robbins

Harold Robbins was an United States author.Robbins, born Harold Rubin in New York City, claimed to be a Jewish orphan raised in a Catholic boys home; actually, he was the son of well-educated Russian and Polish immigrants....
and Frederick Marryat
Frederick Marryat

Captain Frederick Marryat was an England novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story....

The Pirate is an 1821 novel by Walter Scott

Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a prolific Scotland historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe during his time.In some ways Scott was the first English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers all over Europe, Australia, and North America....
, based roughly on the life of John Gow

John Gow

John Gow was a notorious pirate whose short career was immortalized by Charles Johnson in A General History of the Pyrates. Gow was probably born in Wick, Caithness, to William Gow, a merchant, and Margaret Calder....
who features as Capt. Cleveland. The novel is set mainly in Shetland. It was one of the Waverley Novels

Waverley Novels

The Waverley Novels are a long series of books by Sir Walter Scott. For nearly a century they were among the most popular and widely-read novels in all of Europe....
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arrival of Cleveland spoils Mordaunt's relationship with the Troil girls, and soon a bitter rivalry grows between the two.

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The Pirate is an 1821 novel by Walter Scott

Walter Scott

John Gow

Waverley Novels

The Waverley Novels are a long series of books by Sir Walter Scott. For nearly a century they were among the most popular and widely-read novels in all of Europe....
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Plot summary

The arrival of Cleveland spoils Mordaunt's relationship with the Troil girls, and soon a bitter rivalry grows between the two. Minna falls in love with Cleveland, not knowing much about his true profession. Brenda however is in love with Mordaunt. The pirates capture the Troils, and after an encounter with the frigate

Frigate

A frigate is a warship. The term has been used for warships of many sizes and roles over the past few centuries.In the 18th century, the term referred to ships which were as long as a ship-of-the-line and were square rig on all three masts , but were faster and with lighter armament, used for patrolling and escort....
"Halcyon" are freed. Brenda and Mordaunt are reunited, and Minna and Clement parted.

Characters in "The Pirate"

Captain Clement Cleveland - English buccaneer
Buccaneer

The buccaneers were Piracy who attacked Habsburg Spain and France shipping in the Caribbean Sea during the late 17th century.The term buccaneer is now used generally as a synonym for pirate....
, shipwreck
Shipwreck

A shipwreck is the remains of a ship that has wrecked, either in it having sunk or been Beaching . A shipwreck can refer to a wrecked ship or to the event that caused the wreck, such as the striking of something that causes the ship to sink, the stranding of the ship on rocks, land or shoal, or the destruction of the ship at sea by vio...
survivor
Claud Halcro - Poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
, admirer of John Dryden
John Dryden

John Dryden was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of English Restoration to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden....
Basil Mertoun - a misanthrope and recluse
Recluse

A recluse is someone in Solitude who hides away from the attention of the public, a person who lives in solitude, i.e. seclusion from intercourse with the world....
Mordaunt Mertoun - son of Basil, a handsome youth, tenant of Magnus and friend of Magnus' daughters
Magnus Troil - Rich man of noble Norse ancestry, daughters Minna & Brenda
Ulla Troil - Mad relative of Magnus, also known as "Norna of the fit-ful head". May have supernatural abilities, or merely believe herself to have them.
Triptolemus Yellowby - Yorkshire
Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
factor, sent to improve Shetland agriculture
Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....

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