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Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer
(1874–1950)
 

Canadian novelist, screenwriter, and poet who later moved to the United States: popular in his day for his crime fiction and his wilderness adventures, but he wrote in many genres, from social realism to psychological fiction, and even early science fiction novels. Pen name: Arthur Stringer

Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer


Works

(partial list)

Fiction

Non-fiction

  • A Study of King Lear, 1897.
  • Red Wine of Youth: A Life of Rupert Brooke, 1921. IA

Collections and poetry

  • Watchers of Twilight, and Other Poems, 1894. IA
  • Pauline and Other Poems, 1895. IA
  • Epigrams (1896) IA
  • The Loom of Destiny, 1899. illus. Florence Scovel Shinn (Short stories prefaced with verses.)
Premonitions — The Undoing of Dinney Crockett — The Fly in the Ointment — The Iron Age — The King who Lost His Crown — Life's Loaded Die — The Crucible of Character — The Essentials of Aristocracy — The Honour of the House of Hummerley — Thicker than Water — Instruments of Eros — An Essay in Equality — The Heart's Desire — Not in Utter Nakedness

Works from periodicals

Non-fiction
  • "The Canada Fakers" in Canada West, Oct 1908
  • "A Recipe for Certain Society Fiction" in The Bookman Jan 1904
Longer works
  • "The Breaker," serial in the The Saturday Evening Post, Jan 15, 1916—
  • "Phantom Wires" (1906 Mar, Smart Set) (novel) [Book in 1907]
  • "The Breaker" (1915-16, Saturday Evening Post) (novella)
  • "Creeping Rails" (1907 Mar, Smart Set) (novel)
  • "The Anatomy of Love" (1916 Aug, Smith's) (novel)
Poems
  • "Stories in Verse" in Harper's Monthly Mar 1899
  • "Easter in the City" in The Smart Set Jun 1900
  • "Undersongs" in The Smart Set Jul 1903
  • "Night Travel" in The Smart Set Sept 1903
  • "The Outbound Ships" in The Smart Set Feb 1904
  • "The Snowflake" (1905 Apr, Smart Set) (pm)
  • "At the End of Wooing" in Cosmopolitan Dec 1905
  • "At the Wharf End" (1905 Dec, Smart Set)
  • "At the End of Wooing" (1905 Dec, Cosmopolitan)
  • "My Friend, the Enemy" in Appleton's, 1906
  • "My Friend, the Enemy" (1906, Appleton's)
  • "The Final Lesson" (1907 Jan, Smart Set)
  • "A Poet and a Woman" (1910 Nov, Smart Set)

Plays

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.

The author died in 1950, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 
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