The Kenneth Roberts Reader

by Kenneth Roberts

Here is a generous and varied helping of Kenneth Roberts's writing. Originally published in 1945, the book is filled with action, drama, humor, and intimate conversation, and is sure to delight the most cosmopolitan tastes.

Genres: Historical Fiction

464 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1945

About the author

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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Reviews

[Matt Kelland]

Some of the essays were interesting, but mostly they were just rants, as if from a grumpy grandpa. The diet one, for example, could have been a quarter of the length and better for it. The excerpts from fiction were unsatisfying - I'd rather read the original novel.