The Pirate

by Sir Walter Scott
Category: "Fiction - Historical"
Pages:444
Year of Publication:1821
Date Added:01/04/2021
Date Read:03/14/2021
Notes:Mordaunt Mertoun lives in the Shetland Islands with his reclusive father. He is friends with the chief landowner, Magnus Troil, and his two lovely daughters, Minna and Brenda. One day Mordaunt saves a man, Captain Cleveland, from drowning—the only survivor of a shipwreck. He his helped by Norna, a woman who claims, and who often appears, to have powers. Cleveland moves in with the Troils and soon had Minna entirely under his sway. Mordaunt suspects him of treachery and confronts him, only to be stabbed and left for dead. He is rescued and nursed back to live by Norna. Meanwhile, Cleveland departs for Orkney after confessing to Minna that he is a pirate. In Orkney, Cleveland meets his old crew. After a confused and complicated stretch of story, Cleveland is captured. He is allowed to join the British Navy in repayment for a kindness he did for some women while acting as a pirate, but Minna refuses to see him again. Mordaunt, who was strangely missing for most of the second half of the story, marries Brenda. Norna, discovering that Cleveland is her long-lost son, repents of her witchcraft for the remainder of her life.
My Rating: 7

Reviews for The Pirate

Review - Pirate, The

Pretty good. There were some difficult stretches written in the local dialect, and some long stories about the history of the Shetlands that didn't advance the plot any. The shift from Mordaunt to Cleveland as the main character halfway through didn't work for me.
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