Author:Morley Roberts

Morley Roberts
(1857–1942)

English novelist and short story writer, best known for his novel, The Private Life of Henry Maitland (based on the unhappy life of George Gissing the novelist), and his short stories, the sea yarns in especial.

Morley Roberts

Works

  • The Western Avernus; or, Toil and travel in further North America (1887) illus. A. D. McCormick (non-fiction) (transcription project)
  • The Plunderers: a Romance (1900) (external scan)
  • A Tramp's Notebook (1904) (non-fiction) (transcription project)
  • The Blue Peter: Sea Yarns (1908)
  • Painted Rock; Tales and Narratives of Painted Rock, South Panhandle, Texas, Told by Charlie Baker, Late of that City and Also of Snyder, Scurry County (1907)
  • The Private Life of Henry Maitland (1912) (based on the life of George Gissing) (transcription project)
  • Land-travel and Sea-faring (1891) (external scan)
  • Songs of Energy (1891) (external scan)
  • The Reputation of George Saxon: and Other Stories (1892) (external scan)
  • A Question of Instinct; an Analytical Study (1895) (external scan)
  • Strong Men and True (1897)
  • A Son of Empire: A Novel (1899)
  • The Colossus; a Story of To-day (1899) (external scan)
  • The Mate of the Vancouver (1900)
  • The Fugitives (1900)
  • In Low Relief: a Bohemian Transcript (1890) (external scan)
  • Rachel Marr (1903) (external scan)
  • The Promotion of the Admiral, and Other Sea Comedies (1903) (external scan)
  • The Degradation of Geoffrey Alwith (1905) (external scan)
  • Lady Penelope (1905) (external scan)
  • The Idlers (1906)
  • The Red Burgee: Sea Comedies (1906)
  • The Flying Cloud (1907) (external scan)
  • Four Plays (1911) (external scan)
  • Thorpe's way (April 1911) (start transcription)
  • Time and Thomas Waring; a Study of a Man (1914) (external scan)
  • Ancient Mariners (1919) (HathiTrust)
  • Lyra Mutabilis (1921) (external scan)

Stories from magazines

Poetry

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.


This author died in 1942, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 82 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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