Résumé
Résumé de La Dame et le Pirate
À qui s’adresse-t-il ?
Readers who love boyhood games, river chases and old-fashioned courtship told with a smile will feel at home here. It suits anyone who enjoys a talkative narrator, a faithful dog and a good-humored quarrel over love.
De quoi parle ce livre ?
Emerson Hough's comic romantic adventure The Lady and the Pirate begins by a Middle Western trout stream. The lawyer tells his own tale, with dry humor, a love of old philosophers and a stubborn faith in logic. From a Middle Western trout stream the story runs down the Mississippi to the Louisiana coast. It plays at being a pirate yarn while it quietly asks what a grown man owes to his own heart.
Dans ce résumé
- 1A grown man is captured by boy piratesFree
- 2An oath of blood makes him a shipmate
- 3A fight, a pearl and a lesson
- 4The yacht is taken at Natchez
- 5Daily parleys and a hideout in the bayou
- 6A supper at Luigi's with danger at the door
- 7The Gulf, a gale and a wreck on the shoals
- 8What the story is really about
- 9How the story is told
Point clé 1 sur 9
A grown man is captured by boy pirates
One evening the narrator sits by his trout stream, hunting a mosquito for his collection. A shaky voice cries out a challenge. In the alders sits a small boat flying a black flag, with two boys aboard, neither older than fourteen.
The red haired leader aims an enormous revolver at the man's waistcoat button. The fair haired Jimmy is a dreamer. The man, who has not smiled much in three years, feels his blood tingle. Here are youth and adventure, and he has missed both.
He swears a pirate oath on his hunting knife and leads the boys to his log house, which he calls the castle. One boy says only that it is great, and the man is more pleased than by any praise he has ever had.
That’s 1 of 9 key points.
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Questions about La Dame et le Pirate
What is The Lady and the Pirate about?
It tells how a rich, retired lawyer is captured by two runaway boys playing pirates, then chases a yacht down the Mississippi and into the Gulf of Mexico, hoping to win back the woman he loves.
Who is Black Bart in The Lady and the Pirate?
Black Bart is the name the boys give the lawyer who tells the story. He is called Harry by Helena and Peterson, and he is a former lawyer who hides in the woods to forget her.
Who are Jean Lafitte and L'Olonnois in the book?
They are the pirate names of two boys, John Saunders and Jimmy Henderson. They take their names from The Pirate's Own Book and act as the narrator's lieutenants. Jimmy is also the nephew of Helena Emory.
When was The Lady and the Pirate written and is it a true story?
Emerson Hough wrote it in the early twentieth century as a comic romance. The chase passes through real settings, such as the Mississippi, New Orleans and the Louisiana coast.
Is The Lady and the Pirate easy to read?
It is approachable, with short chapters, brisk action and a lively, funny narrator. The boys' pirate talk and the lawyer's speeches are easy to follow and give the story a playful rhythm.