![]() ![]() ![]() He graduated from Stirling University in 1995 with BA Honours in English and gained an MA in English at Warwick University in 1997. ![]() Markus Neacey is an independent scholar specialising in late-Victorian and Edwardian literature and in particular the work of George Gissing and his circle. The full text of Roberts’s lecture, The Sea in Fiction.Extracts from Roberts’s A Tramp’s Note-book.Extracts from Roberts’s interviews with The Idler.In this edition, Markus Neacey acknowledges Roberts’s special contribution to the British short story by selecting the best examples from his extensive work. With an eye for detail and an unerring skill in capturing the vernacular of the desperate characters he portrays, Roberts leads the reader into vividly-drawn masculine worlds. Whatever the setting, Roberts evokes the dangers and challenges his characters face. His remarkable imagination and willingness to experiment resulted in tales of sailors on the high seas, adventurers in the Australian bush, cowboys in the wild west, saloon society in frontier towns, tramps on the railroad, miners in the mountains of British Columbia, farmers on the South African veld, and writers in men’s clubs. In a career spanning over 50 years, Morley Roberts wrote hundreds of short stories and was one of the most successful operators in the Victorian-Edwardian literary marketplace. Edited with an introduction and notes by Markus Neacey ![]()
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