In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories (1892) by: Robert Barr - Softcover

Barr, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1978302851 ISBN 13: 9781978302853

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Robert Barr (16 September 1849 – 21 October 1912[1]) was a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland. In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories Thirteen short stories by one of the most famous writers in his day. Robert Barr was a British Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland. In London of the 1890s Barr became a more prolific author - publishing a book a year - and was familiar with many of the best selling authors of his day, including Bret Harte and Stephen Crane. Most of his literary output was of the crime genre, then quite in vogue. When Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories were becoming well known, Barr published in the Idler the first Holmes parody, "The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs" (1892), a spoof that was continued a decade later in another Barr story,

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1978302851
• ISBN 13: 9781978302853
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 106