The Queen of the Pirate Isle: Illustrated - Softcover

Harte, Bret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1532738285 ISBN 13: 9781532738289

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Bret Harte (1836 1902) was an American writer whose western stories and poems launched the "local color" school in American fiction.

Kate Greenaway (1846 1901) British author and artist Kate Greenaway grew up in North London and spent summers in the Nottinghamshire countryside. These happy times from her childhood were the foundation of many of her stories. Her illustrations portraying the idyllic landscape as a playground for children dressed in sumptuous Regency clothing offered a romanticized escape from the realities of the ever-encroaching industrialized world. In her costume designs, she combined the influences of her mother, an accomplished seamstress, with those of her father, a master engraver. She studied art in London where she developed a close relationship with printer Edmund Evans (1826 1905). Together they produced more than 150 books. Greenaway s popular illustrations inspired lines of ceramics, jewelry, fabrics, wallpaper, and children s clothing.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1532738285
• ISBN 13: 9781532738289
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 36
• Illustrator: Greenaway Kate