The island pirate, a tale of the Mississippi is part of the Pirate Stories catalogue. The record identifies Reid, Mayne, 1818-1883 as the credited author and preserves a link to the source edition.

Edition profile

The extracted text contains approximately 41,434 words, corresponding to an estimated 181 minutes of reading, and is divided into 4 detectable text sections. These figures describe the downloaded text file rather than a printed pagination system.

The automated text analysis reports an average sentence length of about 17.0 words and a measured lexical-diversity value of 0.127. These measurements are descriptive reading aids, not literary ratings.

Catalog context

The source record associates this edition with the following subjects: Adventure stories, Pirates -- Fiction, Dime novels, Mississippi River Valley -- Fiction, Plantation life -- Fiction, Boat living -- Fiction. Catalog terms may reflect historical library practice and can be broader or narrower than a modern reader’s interpretation.

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