Books with author George F. Roberts

Introducing the world to Captain Perrynickle. The most famous pirate you've never heard of!When an iceberg the size of a large city breaks off from within the Arctic Circle headed on a collision course for the East Coast of America all panic sets in. After an armada of war ships, sent by the President, fails at destroying it who in the world can anyone turn to and save them? Only a 300-year-old frozen pirate, that’s who!As engineers struggle to break up the iceberg they discover a frozen pirate ship, complete with captain and his cabin boy buried deep inside, what’s more they are still alive! Now the race is on as Perrynickle must help divert disaster but with an evil professor and his disabled, one-eyed chihuahua out to get Perrynickle by kidnapping his cabin boy how will the pirate be able to save the day?This is the HILARIOUS story of how the world got to hear about the Superfantastical Captain Perrynickle, and how this pirate is brought back to life to save the day. Prepare to be taken on a fast paced adventure and learn his true history and how he came to be.A tale that will have you laughing-out-loud all the way through.

In 1986, James collapses after a game of football at school. The cause is diagnosed as a tumour on the brain. Although treatment is successful, James will never be the footballer he was. The story of James continues on into his thirties as he falls in love, starts a family and becomes, in a modest way, a hero. In From Ten Down to Three George Roberts examines fate as events happen in James's life that leave him questioning whether things are meant to be or are simply coincidence. A phone call made in error lead to him finding love. A bang on the head reveals the presence of the tumour. Saving a young woman's life leads to an unexpected encounter. From Ten Down to Three is a delightful read full of wit and a dash of tragedy.

George Bernard Shaw was an Irish writer who is considered to be one of the greatest playwrights of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Shaw's first major success was Arms and the Man, written in 1894, and he would go on to write other classics including Pygmalion, Major Barbara, and Mrs. Warren's Profession. Candida is a play that centers around the wife of a revered clergyman. When she meets a young poet named Eugene Marchbanks he quickly finds out that his assumptions in regards to Candida are not correct.

Excerpt from Without the Limelight: Theatrical Life as It IsThere are few things about which the public have so many false impressions as they have about the stage. They see it under circumstances which do not help them to form a correctjudgment; they read about it only from the outsider's point of view. The inner life Of the stage is under stood only by those who are intimately associated with it. The ordinary novel and the ordinary story dealing with theatrical life are, as a rule, more creditable to the imagination Of the writers than to their study of facts. The stage in the full glare of the limelight is open for all the world to see. The stage when the cur tain is down, and the children Of Bohemia who tread it so bravely have become once.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.