Charles G. D. Roberts (1860–1943)
Autore di Red Fox
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Image from Little pilgrimages among the men who have written famous books (1902) by Edward Francis Harkins
Opere di Charles G. D. Roberts
A sister to Evangeline;: Being the story of Yvonne de Lamourie, and how she went into exile with the villagers of Grand… (1898) 11 copie
SEVEN BEARS: The Bear That Thought He Was a Dog; With His Back to the Wall; The Brothers of the Yoke; The Ledge on Bald… (1979) 6 copie
Eyes of the wilderness 3 copie
Neighbors Unknown 2 copie
How a Cat Played Robinson Crusoe 2 copie
The Book of the Native 1 copia
The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage / Two Stories of Acadie 1 copia
Some Animal Stories 1 copia
The King of the Mamozekel 1 copia
New Poems 1 copia
Poems 1 copia
The Secret Trails 1 copia
The Vagrant of Time 1 copia
Forest Folk 1 copia
Delphi Complete Poetical Works of The Confederation Poets (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series Book 81) (2019) 1 copia
Poems: New complete edition 1 copia
Ødemarkens Stemmer 1 copia
Opere correlate
This Land : A Cross-Country Anthology of Canadian Fiction for Young Readers (1998) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
Visions from the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (1981) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
SHIVERS: House Party at Smoky Island; August; Coffins for Two; The Money Box; The Charlottetown Banquet; The… (1989) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
Cetus Insolitus: Sea Serpents, Giant Cephalopods, and Other Marine Monsters in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy (2008) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Friends to Man: The Wonderful World of Animals — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Roberts, Sir Charles George Douglas
- Data di nascita
- 1860-01-10
- Data di morte
- 1943-11-26
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Forest Hill Cemetery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Douglas, New Brunswick, Canada
- Luogo di morte
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Luogo di residenza
- Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
London, England, UK - Istruzione
- Fredericton Collegiate
University of New Brunswick
homeschooled - Attività lavorative
- poet
teacher
editor - Relazioni
- Roberts, Theodore Goodridge (brother)
- Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1898)
British Army (WWI) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Lorne Pierce Medal (1926)
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (Knight Commander, 1935)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 69
- Opere correlate
- 21
- Utenti
- 382
- Popolarità
- #63,245
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 125
- Lingue
- 3
It starts off moving through time in a very interesting manner, which seemed to involve transmigration of the souls. However once it gets to caveman times it stops and turns into more of a pulp adventure.
It gets so pulpy i thought at times it had inspired Howards' Conan tales but that was partly because i mistook the main heros name as Crom. The god of Conan, it isn't its Grom.. sorry i mean Grôm, because cavemen were very big into circumflexes. Anyway you can see why i might have thought it related to Conan when you have passages like this one.
"See," said Grôm, "I have made the bright Dancing Ones my servants. The tribe shall come here. And we shall be the masters of all things."
Once more the girl threw herself at his feet. He seemed to her a god. But remembering how she had twice saved his life, she laid her cheek against his knee. He lifted her into the hollow of his great arm, and she leaned against him, gazing up into his face, while he stood staring into the fire, his eyes clouded with visions.
However the books intent is obviously far more pointed and educational feeling. Even if its grasp of history is pretty terrible and it's plagued by the authors own sexist, racist and Manifest Destiny style prejudices.
The novel ends very abruptly too despite earlier attempts to setup some further story lines involved the main characters children but all that is cast aside.
The main issue as i said at the start is that its an inbetween work. Its obvious attempts at mythologising the rise of the white male to his predestined rule over the world are interrupted (thank god) with its very pulpy adventure elements. Some of which even Edgar Rice Burroughs might have rejected as being too outlandish.
In conclusion its an interesting piece which feels like "10,000 Years B.C." if it was paid for by like a church group or something.
Edit: Or to put it another way, its half caveman docudrama half wacky pulp adventure.
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