- Pirates, Sailing, Adventure and adventurers, Fiction
When their boat is burned and they are cast adrift in the South China Sea, Titty, Roger, Peggy, John, Nancy, Susan, and Captain Flint make their way to land only to find themselves the captives of the redoubtable Missee Lee, one of the last pirates operating off the China coast.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Arthur Michell Ransome
- First published
- 1941
- Pages
- 401
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books, David R. Godine, J. Cape
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780099589426
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An English author and journalist, best known for writing the <i>Swallows and Amazons</i> series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of children (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ransome>Wikipedia</a>).
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