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Kenneth Roberts


Born
in Kennebunk, Maine, The United States
December 08, 1885

Died
July 21, 1957

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Kenneth Lewis Roberts, a noted American, wrote his historical novels, including Northwest Passage (1937), about the colonial period.

Roberts worked first as a then popular nationally known journalist with the Saturday Evening Post from 1919 to 1928. Roberts specialized in regionalist historical fiction. He often wrote about terrain of his native state and also depicted other upper states and scenes of New England. He for example depicts, the main characters in Arundel and Rabble in Arms from Kennebunk, then called Arundel; the main character of Northwest Passage from Kittery, Maine, with friends in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; the main character in Oliver Wiswell from Milton, Massachusetts.

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Average rating: 4.19 · 8,257 ratings · 615 reviews · 85 distinct worksSimilar authors
Northwest Passage

4.19 avg rating — 3,191 ratings — published 1937 — 127 editions
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Arundel

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4.22 avg rating — 1,748 ratings — published 1930 — 98 editions
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Rabble in Arms

4.33 avg rating — 1,183 ratings — published 1933 — 87 editions
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Oliver Wiswell

4.28 avg rating — 503 ratings — published 1940 — 48 editions
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Lydia Bailey

4.13 avg rating — 480 ratings — published 1940 — 49 editions
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The Lively Lady

4.20 avg rating — 393 ratings — published 1931 — 63 editions
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Boon Island: Including Cont...

3.87 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 1956 — 32 editions
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Captain Caution

3.89 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 1934 — 45 editions
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Battle of Cowpens

3.87 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1911 — 15 editions
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March to Quebec

4.73 avg rating — 22 ratings11 editions
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“Misery, in cold truth, is a weight less upon those who undergo it than upon the minds of those who see it; for he who is cold and starving is so busy in his efforts to obtain warmth and food that he has little time for self-pity, and endures his unhappy condition better than those who take it upon themselves to suffer for him.”
Kenneth Roberts

“All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.”
Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell

“That's one reason why a civil war is worse than any other sort. When two parties in a given country resort to arms to settle political differences, every man is a potential enemy to every other man, and the distinction between legalized killing and murder is not clearly drawn in the minds of average men, who are incapable of sustained thought. Death is held to be a fitting reward for those who dare hold contrary views, and a nation involved in a civil war is a breeding ground for children reared to look with tolerance on next to nothing but violence.”
Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell

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MEN OF IRON BY HOWARD PYLE
 
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HIS MAJESTY'S DRAGON BY NAOMI NOVIK
 
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Rabble in Arms by Kenneth Roberts Kenneth Roberts

RABBLE IN ARMS BY KENNETH ROBERTS
 
  2 votes, 5.7%

Julian A Novel by Gore Vidal Gore Vidal Gore Vidal

JULIAN BY GORE VIDAL
 
  2 votes, 5.7%

The Lively Lady by Kenneth Lewis Roberts Kenneth Lewis Roberts

THE LIVELY LADY BY KENNETH ROBERTS
 
  1 vote, 2.9%

Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts Kenneth Roberts

NORTHWEST PASSAGE BY KENNETH ROBERTS
 
  1 vote, 2.9%

Lincoln A Novel by Gore Vidal Gore Vidal Gore Vidal

LINCOLN BY GORE VIDAL
 
  1 vote, 2.9%

Space by James A. Michener James A. Michener James A. Michener

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Texas A Novel by James A. Michener James A. Michener James A. Michener

TEXAS BY JAMES A. MICHENER
 
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Citizen Washington by William Martin William Martin

CITIZEN WASHINGTON
 
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