Arundel is Kenneth Roberts’s first commercially successful novel. With it, he set a pattern of how he approached historical fiction. His subsequent books reflected this pattern. First and foremost, Roberts set a high bar for historical research as a cornerstone of his effort/5. · About the author () Kenneth Roberts was the author of many best-selling novels, including Northwest Passage, Lydia Bailey, Oliver Wiswell, Rabble in 4/5(6). Kenneth Roberts was the author of many bestselling novels, including Northwest Passage, Lydia Bailey, Oliver Wiswell, and the trilogy of Arundel, Rabble in Arms, and The Lively Lady. Renowned for his scrupulous accuracy and unforgettable depictions of past Author: Kenneth Roberts.
This classic tale of shipwreck and survival is reprinted with essays that provide a historical perspective and trace the sources from which Kenneth Roberts () drew his tale. A native Mainer, Roberts, whose historical novels include Northwest Passage and Arundel, was intrigued by the story of the December wreck of the Nottingham. Arundel (International Collectors Library)|Kenneth Roberts, Canadian Labour and Employment Law for the U.S. Practitioner, 2nd Ed, Cumulative Supplement|Moira K. McCaskill, Art From Zaire: Masterworks From the National Collection|Joseph Cornet, Imagery (Cognitive Psychology)|Dr J Richardson. Kenneth Lewis Roberts was an American author of historical novels. Roberts worked first as a journalist, becoming nationally known for his work with the Saturday Evening Post from to , and then as a popular novelist. Born in Kennebunk, Maine, Roberts specialized in Regionalist historical fiction.
Arundel is a work of historical fiction by Kenneth Roberts. Despite it being nearly pages in length, it doesn’t take all that long to read. Roberts manages to pack in a lot of excitement into his story line. In retrospect this is a bit surprising since a big chunk of the book involves trudging through a swampy wilderness. Arundel by Kenneth Roberts – Book Review. To write historical fiction and have it appeal to a wide audience in both its factual accuracy and story development is quite an undertaking, but to accomplish this feat and still have a relevant page-turning masterpiece almost one hundred years later is incomprehensible. Yet again, the great historical novel site bltadwin.ru has facilitated my discovery of a very fine historical novel author, Kenneth Roberts. Arundel is the first in a Revolutionary War trilogy, following the adventures of several fictitious residents of what later became the state of Maine. The novel's first-person narrator Steven Nason and his family are traders and proprietors of an inn serving the little town of Arundel, later renamed Kennebunkport (today's Arundel lies further.
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