Project Gutenberg 2008-09-14 Public domain in the USA. 80 Neville, Richard A Pirate of Parts Reading ease score: 81.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "A Pirate of Parts" by Richard Neville is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around a vibrant character named Handy, an actor and perpetual optimist, whose myriad life experiences lead him to assemble a ragtag company of fellow performers. Together, they embark on an adventurous journey across the Long Island Sound, navigating the unpredictable world of theater and the whims of audiences. At the start of the novel, we meet Handy, a "strolling player" who is not only an actor but also a jack-of-all-trades, accustomed to the struggles of life in the theater. Faced with a lack of work during a challenging summer for actors, he devises a plan to create his own playing company to tour the towns along the coast. As Handy gathers a motley crew of performers, their escapades begin with a comical attempt to stage "Uncle Tom's Cabin” under a tent, leading to humorous misadventures—including run-ins with authorities and unexpected rival performances. The opening chapters set a lighthearted tone for the narrative while hinting at deeper themes of ambition, camaraderie, and the unpredictable nature of life as a performer. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Theater -- Fiction PS Text Pirates, Buccaneers, Corsairs, etc. Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 327771 327788 2024-10-11T10:51:36.711583 2023-09-12T04:11:37.917159 text/html text/html 328242 2021-01-04T02:52:20 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 607290 2021-01-04T02:52:20 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 569872 2024-10-11T10:51:44.839612 application/epub+zip 571217 2024-10-11T10:51:39.261582 application/epub+zip 199402 2024-10-11T10:51:37.584599 application/epub+zip 415915 2024-10-11T10:51:48.907560 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 392357 2024-10-11T10:51:43.581539 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 322514 2022-09-12T10:23:21.330199 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 308586 308357 2024-10-11T10:51:35.768608 2023-09-12T04:11:37.199077 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 308449 2021-01-04T02:52:20 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 119647 2021-01-04T02:52:20 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 308443 2021-01-04T02:52:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 119612 2021-01-04T02:52:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20985 2024-10-11T10:51:49.042517 application/rdf+xml 12124 2024-10-11T10:51:38.136596 image/jpeg 3338 2024-10-11T10:51:37.860601 image/jpeg 671342 2024-10-11T10:51:36.748638 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog