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The Love Pirate
Den smukke lady Alvinston ønsker ikke at have sin datter Bertilla i nærheden, da en voksen datter kan afsløre hendes alder. Bertilla bliver derfor sendt af sted til en tante, der er missionær i det fjerne Sarawak. Undervejs oplever Bertilla kærligheden, men da hun ikke tror, den bliver gengældt, fortsætter hun alene til sin tante i den farefulde jungle, hvor der stadig findes hovedjægere. Situationen udvikler sig mere og mere truende, men afværges i sidste øjeblik, da hendes elskede, lord Saire, pludselig dukker op.
167 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 1977
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About the author
Barbara Cartland
1,074 books835 followersBorn in 1901, Barbara Cartland started her writing career in journalism and completed her first book, Jigsaw, when she was just 24. An immediate success, it was the start of her journey to becoming the world’s most famous and most read romantic novelist of all time. Inspiring a whole generation of readers around the globe with her exciting tales of adventure, love and intrigue, she became synonymous with the Romance genre. And she still is to this day, having written over 644 romantic fiction books.
As well as romantic novels, she wrote historical biographies, 6 autobiographies, plays, music, poetry and several advice books on life, love, health and cookery – totalling an incredible 723 books in all, with over 1 billion in sales.
Awarded the DBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991 in honour of her literary, political and social contributions, she was President of the Hertfordshire branch of the Royal College of Midwives as well as a Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and Deputy President of the St John Ambulance Brigade.
Always a passionate advocate of woman’s health and beauty, she was dubbed ‘the true Queen of Romance’ by Vogue magazine in her lifetime. Her legend continues today through her wonderfully vivid romantic tales, stories that help you escape from the day to day into the dramatic adventures of strong, beautiful women who battle, often against the odds, eventually to find that love conquers all.
Find out more about the incredible life and works of Dame Barbara Cartland at www.barbaracartland.com
As well as romantic novels, she wrote historical biographies, 6 autobiographies, plays, music, poetry and several advice books on life, love, health and cookery – totalling an incredible 723 books in all, with over 1 billion in sales.
Awarded the DBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991 in honour of her literary, political and social contributions, she was President of the Hertfordshire branch of the Royal College of Midwives as well as a Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and Deputy President of the St John Ambulance Brigade.
Always a passionate advocate of woman’s health and beauty, she was dubbed ‘the true Queen of Romance’ by Vogue magazine in her lifetime. Her legend continues today through her wonderfully vivid romantic tales, stories that help you escape from the day to day into the dramatic adventures of strong, beautiful women who battle, often against the odds, eventually to find that love conquers all.
Find out more about the incredible life and works of Dame Barbara Cartland at www.barbaracartland.com
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July 18, 2014
I have been looking for some time now for the plots of barbara cartland's books. it has been very difficult to find any. but with the help of a discussion here in amazon and via ebay i have started a collection of this lady's outstanding novels. so i thought i could write down the essential plots of the books i have read so far. hopefully, they may help anyone who is looking into her books, like i was.
in the love pirate, a very selfish woman sends her young daughter alone on a ship, in order to become a missionary on a barren little island. while on board the ship, she meets a gentleman who helps her overcome some difficulties and finally they are shipwrecked. while staying at a friend's great house together, she overhears a jealous woman say that the gentleman must be really bored and burdened by her. so she runs away to the island where she is to become a missionary, and the hero runs after her, just in time to save her from death.
in the love pirate, a very selfish woman sends her young daughter alone on a ship, in order to become a missionary on a barren little island. while on board the ship, she meets a gentleman who helps her overcome some difficulties and finally they are shipwrecked. while staying at a friend's great house together, she overhears a jealous woman say that the gentleman must be really bored and burdened by her. so she runs away to the island where she is to become a missionary, and the hero runs after her, just in time to save her from death.
December 25, 2012
I should have liked this more, it was clean it was an old time romance. But the heroine in it is so ridiculously helpless I couldn't really be thrilled for her to end up with the guy and he seemed to me such a chauvinist that I really didn't care if he got what he wanted in the end either, I might try one more of Cartland's books and see....
July 8, 2015
I watched a documentary about Barbara Cartland some time ago and remembered I owned one of her books. So I decided to read it to see if it were any good. Sadly, I didn't really like "The Love Pirate" as much as I thought I would. It's not that I don't like the story itself - sometimes I'm in that mood when I want to read something sugary sweet. But it was the way the book was written. There was nothing left to interpret or guess or anything - every feeling and every thought was written out on the paper, which made it pretty boring after a while when I realized that I would get both characters' view and thoughts on every single event in the story... And I couldn't stand the way the female character's dialogue was written, as if she was stuttering the whole time! Hardly one single complete sentence from her! I just can't read such dialogue.
I would give this book 2.5/5 for story, but only 1/5 for style.
I would give this book 2.5/5 for story, but only 1/5 for style.
December 26, 2009
I made an unauthorized student film about it. I can't believe this is still in print.
September 19, 2019
Truly romantic, the hero saves the heroine, no less than 4 times! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Biggest disappointment, the truly evil mother of the heroine gets no comeuppance. Evil aunt who was abusive to everyone else got her head chopped off by the head-hunters. Should have happened to the mom as well.
Biggest disappointment, the truly evil mother of the heroine gets no comeuppance. Evil aunt who was abusive to everyone else got her head chopped off by the head-hunters. Should have happened to the mom as well.
March 24, 2024
Another stinker by Babs. Don't let the title fool you. This book had nothing to do with pirates and little to do with love. An all-around fail.
An unlikeable heroine. An unlikeable hero (a cad who cavorts with married women, a real "love 'em and leave 'em" type). An evil mother, and an even more evil aunt. Seriously, not a decent person in this whole book but the lovely lady in Malaysia who was kind to everyone.
I was going to give this book 2 stars, but the longer I reflect on this pile of trash, the more I subtract. I grant you one lousy star, Barbara. Better luck next time, because you know I'll be back. I just can't quit you.
An unlikeable heroine. An unlikeable hero (a cad who cavorts with married women, a real "love 'em and leave 'em" type). An evil mother, and an even more evil aunt. Seriously, not a decent person in this whole book but the lovely lady in Malaysia who was kind to everyone.
I was going to give this book 2 stars, but the longer I reflect on this pile of trash, the more I subtract. I grant you one lousy star, Barbara. Better luck next time, because you know I'll be back. I just can't quit you.
March 9, 2014
Another sugary sweet novel from The Queen of Romance. My biggest complaint with her novels is the overuse of ellipses and the fact that people stutter so much. Gah!
But I love the innocence, anyway. No worrying about little eyes reading over my shoulder.
But I love the innocence, anyway. No worrying about little eyes reading over my shoulder.
May 9, 2025
It was OK, though there's some racism and quite a lot of misoginy.
April 27, 2023
Arriving home from school, Bertilla is sad to find her home unprepared for her and her widowed mother is far from pleased to see her. Even worse, Lady Alvinston, a celebrated Society beauty, makes it clear that she has no intention of allowing her pretty eighteen-year-old daughter anywhere near the glittering London social scene she enjoys so much herself.
As her mother continues her scheming to snare a wealthy husband before her looks fade, the last thing she needs is Bertilla making it obvious that she is old enough to have a grown up daughter.
So when handsome Lord Saire, the prize amongst all of the eligible bachelors, happens upon Bertilla at a railway station, Lady Alvinston determines that their paths shall never cross again.
Hastily packed up and sent to live with her mean-spirited Aunt Agatha, a Missionary in Sarawak, Bertilla is reconciled to the fact that she will never see England again.
Feeling rejected, unloved and facing the deprivations of a Second Class ticket on her long sea voyage to Malaya, she is astounded to meet Lord Saire once more. Cut off from everything she knows and thrown into the elegant world of the steamship Saloon, Bertilla clutches at the kindness offered by Lord Saire, the man the Society matron’s call, ‘the Love Pirate’.
Dashing, independent and a well-known heartbreaker, Lord Saire is cast in the unusual role of rescuer as they travel towards the beauty and mystery of the Far East.
Acting as guardian and protector to Bertilla is very different to the passionate but brief relationships with Society beauties he normally enjoys and demonstrates the caring side of his nature.
But is this a role he relishes or are his eyes really on the sophisticated married women he usually spends time with? As a man who has shunned love and marriage is he really the ideal protector for Bertilla as she dreams of freedom, romance and true love?
As Bertilla approached the veranda she heard her name mentioned by her hostess and a lady visitor.
"I cannot help thinking it is funny," the visitor said, "that Lord Saire - the Love Pirate - had to be shipwrecked with no one more exciting than an immature girl. Such a tiring encumbrance as she will certainly interfere with the many alluring ladies he plans to see in Singapore."
Bertilla suddenly felt her cheeks burning with humiliation. Now she knew that she must leave before Lord Saire returned - even if by so doing she left her whole heart behind with him. Better that she disappear into anonymity than be a burden to the man she loved!
Hot tears cascaded down her cheeks as she silently returned to her room to pack.
As her mother continues her scheming to snare a wealthy husband before her looks fade, the last thing she needs is Bertilla making it obvious that she is old enough to have a grown up daughter.
So when handsome Lord Saire, the prize amongst all of the eligible bachelors, happens upon Bertilla at a railway station, Lady Alvinston determines that their paths shall never cross again.
Hastily packed up and sent to live with her mean-spirited Aunt Agatha, a Missionary in Sarawak, Bertilla is reconciled to the fact that she will never see England again.
Feeling rejected, unloved and facing the deprivations of a Second Class ticket on her long sea voyage to Malaya, she is astounded to meet Lord Saire once more. Cut off from everything she knows and thrown into the elegant world of the steamship Saloon, Bertilla clutches at the kindness offered by Lord Saire, the man the Society matron’s call, ‘the Love Pirate’.
Dashing, independent and a well-known heartbreaker, Lord Saire is cast in the unusual role of rescuer as they travel towards the beauty and mystery of the Far East.
Acting as guardian and protector to Bertilla is very different to the passionate but brief relationships with Society beauties he normally enjoys and demonstrates the caring side of his nature.
But is this a role he relishes or are his eyes really on the sophisticated married women he usually spends time with? As a man who has shunned love and marriage is he really the ideal protector for Bertilla as she dreams of freedom, romance and true love?
As Bertilla approached the veranda she heard her name mentioned by her hostess and a lady visitor.
"I cannot help thinking it is funny," the visitor said, "that Lord Saire - the Love Pirate - had to be shipwrecked with no one more exciting than an immature girl. Such a tiring encumbrance as she will certainly interfere with the many alluring ladies he plans to see in Singapore."
Bertilla suddenly felt her cheeks burning with humiliation. Now she knew that she must leave before Lord Saire returned - even if by so doing she left her whole heart behind with him. Better that she disappear into anonymity than be a burden to the man she loved!
Hot tears cascaded down her cheeks as she silently returned to her room to pack.
May 25, 2020
Leaving the whole sexist thing out, I really enjoyed the book. A really cheesy kind of novel for reading on a Saturday night. Not something really intelectual to rely on, but it's still good. The characters are well developed and the plot is not really that cliché. It's a love story after all. To be fair, the main character "Bertilla" is really "helpless" (as I quote from a review I saw here) it's disturbing up to some point to see such a weak character. However, it serves the plot well.
If this book were to be written on the 21st century (it was released on 1977) I would really criticize its sexism and almost toxic emotional dependence. As I see it was not, I'm just going to mention it was there and call it an "historical writing context", to say the least.
If this book were to be written on the 21st century (it was released on 1977) I would really criticize its sexism and almost toxic emotional dependence. As I see it was not, I'm just going to mention it was there and call it an "historical writing context", to say the least.
June 5, 2022
Typical Barbara Cartland book. Girl is in a situation she doesn’t like, falls in love, runs away, endured hardship, gets rescued by lover. Still enjoyed this one though, despite how annoying Bertilla’s dialogue was.
March 22, 2022
With a title like that I had to read it. Sadly not much pirating or shipwrecking. Still amusing.
May 6, 2022
Cartland is the OG Queen of sweet romances, I've never been disappointed by her books they always delivered what promised.
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