The Lively Lady by Kenneth Roberts Doubleday, Doran and Co 1943 Reprint
Title: The Lively Lady
Author: Kenneth Roberts
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran and Co 1943
Edition: Reprint
Size: 5.5 X 7.25 X 1.25 * 368 pages
Synopsis: The Lively Lady is a novel about the War of 1812 and tells the story of U.S. sea captain Richard Nason as he is captured by the British and sent to Dartmoor Prison.
A SAGA of fighting, suffering, enterprise and romance, and a fitting successor to the great historical novel, ARUNDEL.
IN THE LIVELY LADY, as in ARUNDEL, Roberts has brought to life another Homeric yet long neglected episode in the history of America. In ARUNDEL it was Benedict Arnold's dramatic march on Quebec: in THE LIVELY LADY it is the intrepidity of American privateersmen in the War of 1812 and the bitter sufferings of thousands of American seamen within the mist-shrouded walls of that British purgatory, Dartmoor Prison.
Against this background is laid the calculated daring and indomitable persistence of Richard Nason, son of the Phoebe and Steven Nason of ARUNDEL, captain of a merchant brig at twenty. He is forced into war against his will; and into the violently twisted pattern of his life come a host of vivid characters: the mismated Sir Arthur and Lady Ransome; King Dick, the giant negro ruler of Prison Number Four; Captain Thomas Shortland cruel and violent tempered...
Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957) wrote historical fiction, winning the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 1957 for his novels focusing on early American history.
Overall Condition: Good + It has very minimal wear to the cover and no holes or tears. The dust jacket is not included. The binding has minimal wear. The pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. There are no missing pages; see images.
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