Books with author Charles Roberts

"Kings in Exile" by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

In the following story I have tried to trace the career of a fox of the backwoods districts of Eastern Canada. The hero of the story, Red Fox, may be taken as fairly typical, both in his characteristics and in the experiences that befall him, in spite of the fact that he is stronger and cleverer than the average run of foxes. This fact does not detract from his authenticity as a type of his kind. He simply represents the best, in physical and mental development, of which the tribe of the foxes has shown itself capable. In a litter of young foxes there is usually one that is larger and stronger, and of more finely coloured fur, than his fellows. There is not infrequently, also, one that proves to be much more sagacious and [viii] adaptable than his fellows. Once in awhile such exceptional strength and such exceptional intelligence may be combined in one individual. This combination is apt to result in just such a fox as I have made the hero of my story.

A Little Princess is Charles Robertson's adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's story Sara Crewe is the daughter of Captain Crewe, an officer in the Indian army. He is a widower who decides it is best if he takes her to a boarding school in London. She is homesick for India but she decides to be a brave little soldier and make the best of it. While at the boarding school she is lavished with presents and praise. Tragedy happens when Captain Crewe dies suddenly and penniless. Sara no longer can afford to be a student at the school so the mean-spirited proprietess of the school, Miss Minchin makes her a servant at the school and treats her very badly. When a mysterious gentleman moves in next door, Sara's fortunes are about to change. A great story for all ages.

These earliest observers of animal life were compelled by the necessities of the case to observe truly, if not deeply. Pitting their wits against those of their four-foot rivals, they had to know their antagonists, and respect them, in order to overcome them. But it was only the most salient characteristics of each species that concerned the practical observer. It was simple to remember that the tiger was cruel, the fox cunning, the wolf rapacious. And so, as advancing civilisation drew an ever widening line between man and the animals, and men became more and more engrossed in the interests of their own kind, the personalities of the wild creatures which they had once known so well became obscured to them, and the creatures themselves came to be regarded, for the purposes of literature, as types or symbols merely,—except in those cases, equally obstructive to exact observation, where they were revered as temporary tenements of the spirits of departed kinsfolk. The characters in that great beast-epic of the middle ages, “Reynard the Fox,” though far more elaborately limned than those which play their succinct rôles in the fables of Æsop, are at the same time in their elaboration far more alien to the truths of wild nature. Reynard, Isegrim, Bruin, and Greybeard have little resemblance to the fox, the wolf, the bear, and the badger, as patience, sympathy, and the camera reveal them to us to-day.

This collection includes 120 stories about many wild animals, such as wolves, bears, foxes, wild cats, deer etc. about their life and adventures:DO SEEK THEIR MEAT FROM GODTHE PERDU"THE YOUNG RAVENS THAT CALL UPON HIM"WITHIN SOUND OF THE SAWSTHE BUTT OF THE CAMPIN THE ACCIDENT WARDTHE ROMANCE OF AN OX-TEAMA TRAGEDY OF THE TIDESAT THE ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE LANDINGAN EXPERIENCE OF JABEZ BATTERPOLETHE STONE DOGTHE BARN ON THE MARSHCAPTAIN JOE AND JAMIESTRAYEDTHE EYE OF GLUSKÂPTHE BEAR THAT THOUGHT HE WAS A DOG THE TRAIL OF THE VANISHING HERDS A MASTER OF SUPPLY THE WHITE WOLF UP A TREE THE EYES IN THE BUSH THE RUNNERS OF THE HIGH PEAKSTHE POOL THE SHADOWS AND JOHN HATCH THE FISHER IN THE CHUTES THE ASSAULT OF WINGS THE CABIN DOOR A BASKET OF FISH BRANNIGAN'S MARY LAST BULL THE KING OF THE FLAMING HOOPS THE MONARCH OF PARK BARREN THE GRAY MASTER THE SUN-GAZER THE LORD OF THE GLASS HOUSE BACK TO THE WATER WORLD LONE WOLF THE BEAR'S FACE THE DUEL ON THE TRAIL THE VAGRANTS OF THE BARRENMACPHAIRRSON’S HAPPY FAMILYON BIG LONELYFROM BUCK TO BEAR AND BACKIN THE DEEP OF THE SNOWTHE GENTLING OF RED MCWHAMELINDY AND THE LYNXESMRS. GAMMIT’S PIGTHE BLACKWATER POTTHE IRON EDGE OF WINTERTHE GRIP IN DEEP HOLETHE NEST OF THE MALLARDMRS. GAMMIT AND THE PORCUPINESTHE BATTLE IN THE MISTMELINDY AND THE SPRING BEARTHE SUMMONS OF THE NORTH THE LAST BARRIER ANSWERERS TO THE CALL THE PRISONERS OF THE PITCHER-PLANT THE PROWLERS A STRANGER TO THE WILD WHEN THE LOGS COME DOWN A DUEL IN THE DEEP THE LITTLE TYRANT OF THE BURROWS THE RINGWAAK BUCK THE HERON IN THE REEDS IN THE DEEP OF THE SILENCES ON THE NIGHT TRAIL WHEN THE TIDE CAME OVER THE MARSHES UNDER THE ICE-ROOF THE TERROR OF THE AIR IN THE UNKNOWN DARK THE TERROR OF THE SEA CAVES THE HOUSE IN THE WATER THE WHITE-SLASHED BULL WHEN THE BLUEBERRIES ARE RIPE THE GLUTTON OF THE GREAT SNOW WHEN THE TRUCE OF THE WILD IS DONE THE WINDOW IN THE SHACK THE RETURN OF THE MOOSE FROM THE TEETH OF THE TIDE THE FIGHT AT THE WALLOW SONNY AND THE KID THE LEDGE ON BALD FACETHE EAGLECOCK-CROWTHE MORNING OF THE SILVER FROSTJIM, THE BACKWOODS POLICE DOG THE BLACK BOAR OF LONESOME WATER THE DOG THAT SAVED THE BRIDGE THE CALLING OF THE LOP-HORNED BULLTHE AIGRETTE THE CABIN IN THE FLOOD THE BROTHERS OF THE YOKE THE TRAILERS COCK-CROW THE LEDGE ON BALD FACE THE MORNING OF THE SILVER FROST THE FREEDOM OF THE BLACK-FACED RAM THE MASTER OF GOLDEN POOL THE RETURN TO THE TRAILS THE LITTLE WOLF OF THE POOL THE LITTLE WOLF OF THE AIR THE ALIEN OF THE WILD THE SILVER FROST BY THE WINTER TIDE THE RIVALS OF RINGWAAK THE DECOY THE LAUGH IN THE DARK THE KINGS OF THE INTERVALE THE KILL THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF THE SYCAMORE HORNS AND ANTLERS IN THE DEEP OF THE GRASS WHEN THE MOON IS OVER THE CORN THE TRUCE THE KEEPER OF THE WATER-GATE WHEN THE MOOSE COW CALLS THE PASSING OF THE BLACK WHELPS THE HOMEWARD TRAIL CHILDREN OF THE WILD

This edition includes a novel about life of a red fox and 36 short stories about different animals.Contents:Red Fox (a novel)The Moonlight TrailsThe Lord Of The AirWild MotherhoodThe Homesickness Of KehonkaSavoury MeatsThe Boy And HushwingA Treason Of NatureThe Haunter Of The Pine GloomsThe Watchers Of The Camp FireWhen Twilight Falls On The Stump LotsThe King Of The MamozekelIn Panoply Of SpearsDo Seek Their Meat From God"The Young Ravens That Call Upon Him"StrayedThe Watchers In The SwampQuills The IndifferentStripes The UnconcernedThe Black Mule Of AveluyStar-Nose Of The Under WaysKroof, The She-BearThe Initiation Of MirandaOn The Roof Of The WorldBlack SwampThe Isle Of BirdsThe Antlers Of The CaribouThe Sentry Of The Sedge-FlatsA Tree-Top AeronautThe TheftThe Tunnel RunnersA Torpedo In FeathersHow A Cat Played Robinson CrusoeLittle Bull Of The BarrensThe Tiger Of The SeaGray Lynx’s Last HuntingMothers Of The North

#13 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . . “[A] roller coaster ride of a mystery . . . Roberts speeds the reader through an investigation offering plenty of delicious twists and turns without ever compromising credibility.” — Publishers Weekly “Typically entertaining: plotting, characterization, and setting dovetail into an excellent reading experience for mystery fans. Jacovich is tough and intelligent and possesses enough self-awareness to make him very good company indeed. Heartily recommended.” — Booklist A slick con man, posing as a recent immigrant from County Mayo all alone in America, is preying on the clannish loyalties of the Irish community in Cleveland for gifts, money, and other less tangible treats. When Common Pleas Judge Maureen Hartigan realizes she’s been bamboozled, she and her daughter, Cathleen, hire private eye Milan Jacovich (it’s pronounced MY-lan YOCK-ovitch) to chase down the swindler. But the con man turns up dead in a skanky motel room, and Milan finds himself tangled in the world of the local Irish godfather, Con McCardle, who is connected with the IRA. Milan also finds himself once again face-to-face with Cathleen Hartigan, an old flame that never quite kindled. Their own feelings clash with the more urgent need to solve a murder. Milan learns a lot about Irish customs and cultures—including “the Irish sports pages.”

In the autumn of 1816, John Melmoth, a student in Trinity College, Dublin, quitted it to attend a dying uncle on whom his hopes for independence chiefly rested. John was the orphan son of a younger brother, whose small property scarce could pay John's college expences; but the uncle was rich, unmarried, and old; and John, from his infancy, had been brought up to look on him with that mingled sensation of awe, and of the wish, without the means to conciliate, (that sensation at once attractive and repulsive), with which we regard a being who (as nurse, domestic, and parent have tutored us to believe) holds the very threads of our existence in his hands, and may prolong or snap them when he pleases.On receiving this summons, John set immediately out to attend his uncle.The beauty of the country through which he travelled (it was the county Wicklow) could not prevent his mind from dwelling on many painful thoughts, some borrowed from the past, and more from the future. His uncle's caprice and moroseness,-the strange reports concerning the cause of the secluded life he had led for many years,-his own dependent state,-fell like blows fast and heavy on his mind. He roused himself to repel them,-sat up in the mail, in which he was a solitary passenger,-looked out on the prospect,-consulted his watch;-then he thought they receded for a moment,-but there was nothing to fill their place, and he was forced to invite them back for company.

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