Author:Horatio Gilbert George Parker

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Horatio Gilbert George Parker
(1862–1932)

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1st Baronet; Canadian novelist and British politician, more commonly called Gilbert Parker; best remembered for his work The Lane that had No Turning (1900), a collection of short stories, considered by some as being in the tradition of such Gothic classics as Stoker's Dracula and James's The Turn of the Screw

Horatio Gilbert George Parker

Works

The Chief Factor: a tale of the Hudson's Bay Company, being the history of Master Andrew Venlaw, chief factor, Mistress Jean Fordie, and others, 1892
Round the Compass in Australia, 1892
Pierre and His People, 1893
Mrs. Falchion: a novel, 1893
The Trespasser, 1893
The Translation of a Savage, 1893
The Patrol of the Cypress Hills, 1893
A Lover's Diary, 1894
An Adventurer of the North. Being a continuation of the histories of "Pierre and his people," and the latest existing records of Pretty Pierre, 1895 (UK)
- US: A Romany of the Snows, 1898 (1896 first publication?) (short stories)
  - Across the Jumping Sandhills
  - A Lovely Bully
  - The Filibuster
  - The Gift of the Simple King • (1895)
  - Malachi • (1895)
  - The Lake of the Great Slave • (1895)
  - The Red Patrol • (1895)
  - The Going of the White Swan
  - At Bamber's Boom
  - The Bridge House
  - The Epaulettes
  - The Finding Of Fingall
  - Three Commandments in the Vulgar Tongue
  - Little Babiche
  - At Point o' Bugles • (1895)
  - The Spoil of the Puma
  - The Trail of the Sun Dogs
  - The Pilot of Belle Amour
  - The Cruise of the "Ninety-Nine"
  - A Romany of the Snows
  - The Plunderer
When Valmond Came to Pontiac, 1895
The Seats of the Mighty: being the memoirs of Captain Robert Moray, 1896 (transcription project)
The Pomp of the Lavilettes, 1896
The Battle of the Strong, 1898
The Trail of the Sword, 1898
Born with a Golden Spoon, 1899
The Liar, 1899
The Hill of Pains, 1899
Donovan Pasha and Some People of Egypt, 1900
The Lane that had No Turning: and other tales concerning the people of Pontiac., 1900 (short stories) (transcription project)
- The Lane that Had No Turning
- The Absurd Romance of P'tite Louison
- The Little Bell Of Honour
- A Son of the Wilderness
- A Worker in Stone
- The Tragic Comedy of Annette
- The Marriage of the Miller
- Mathurin
- The Story of the Lime-Burner
- The Woodsman's Story of the Great White Chief
- Uncle Jim
- The House with the Tall Porch
- Parpon the Dwarf
- Times Were Hard in Pontiac
- Medallion's Whim
- The Prisoner
- An Upset Price
- A Fragment of Lives
- The Man that Died at Alma
- The Baron of Beaugard
- Parables of a Province
  - The Golden Pipes
  - The Guardian of the Fire
  - By That Place Called Peradventure
  - The Singing of the Bees
  - There Was a Little City
  - The Forge in the Valley
Michel and Angèle: A Ladder of Swords, 1904 (first published as a 2-part serial in Harper's Magazine, 1900)
The Right of Way: being the story of Charley Steele and another, 1901
The March of the White Guard, 1901
Old Quebec: the fortress of New France, 1903
A Ladder of Swords: a tale of love, laughter and tears, 1904
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago, 1907
Northern Lights, 1909
Cumner's Son, and Other South Sea Folk, 1910
The Going of the White Swan, 1912
The Weavers: A Tale Of England And Egypt Of Fifty Years Ago, 1913
The Judgement House, 1913
Michel and Angèle; John Enderby; There is sorrow on the sea, 1913
You Never Know Your Luck: being the story of a matrimonial deserter, 1914
The United States and This War, 1915
Is England Apathetic?, 1915
The Money Master: being the curious history of Jean Jacques Barbille, his labours, his loves and his ladies, 1915
The World in the Crucible: an account of the origins & conduct of the great war, 1915
What is the Matter With England?: Criticism and a reply, 1915
Two years of War: interview with the Associated Press of the United States of America, 1916
The World for Sale, 1916
Wild Youth, 1919
Wild youth and Another, 1919
No Defence, 1920
The Promised Land: a story of David in Israel, 1920
Carnac's Folly, 1922
Carnac, 1922
Tarboe Tarboe: the story of a life, 1927
The Right of Way: Being the Story of Charley Steele and Another

Individual short stories

"Pretty Pierre" in English Illustrated, Vol 9, 1891-92
"A Castaway of the South" in English Illustrated, Vol 9, 1891-92
"Père Champagne" in Short Stories, vol 10, 1892
"The Flood," in Short Stories, vol 11, 1892
"The Cipher," in Short Stories, vol 13, 1893
"An Unpardonable Liar" in English Illustrated, Oct & Nov 1893
"Old Roses," in Short Stories, vol 15, 1894
"Barbara Golding," in Short Stories, vol 15, 1894
"The House With the Broken Shutter" in English Illustrated, Vol 12, 1894-95 (also included in A Romany of the Snows)
"The Baron of Beauguard," in The Idler, vol 6, 1894-95 (also included in The Lane that Had No Turning, 1900)
"The Gift of the Simple King," in The Idler, vol 6, 1894-95 (also included in A Romany of the Snows)
"The Lake of the Great Slave," in The Idler, Vol 6, 1894-95
"At Point o' Bugles," in The Idler, Vol 6, 1894-95 (included in A Romany of the Snows)
"Malachi" in English Illustrated, Vol 12, 1894-95
"The Red Patrol" in English Illustrated, Vol 12, 1894-95 (also included in A Romany of the Snows)
"At the Mercy of Tiberius," in Pall Mall Magazine, 1900
"The Flower of the Flock," in Pall Mall magazine, vol 22, 1900
'"The Light of Other Days",' in Pall Mall, vol 22, 1900
"Michel and Angèle," 2-part serial in Harper's Magazine, 1900 (book form 1904)* "A Man, a Famine, and a Heathen Boy" (1901-02, Windsor)
"The Error of the Day" (1906 July, Everybody's) (ss) (incl in Northern Lights, 1909)
"Watching the Rise of Orion" (1906-07, Windsor) (ss)
"As Deep As the Sea," in Windsor Magazine, Vol 26, 1907
"Norah," in Collier's, Dec 25, 1909
"The Stake and the Plumb-Line" (1906 Feb, Everybody's) (ss) (incl in Northern Lights, 1909)
"The Girl and the Anarch" (1910 Dec, Cosmopolitan) (ss)
"The Youngest of the McMahons," in The Blue Book, Aug 1916
"After the Ball," in Scribner's Magazine, May 1922

Also see: The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

Works about Gilbert

"Parker, Gilbert," in The Dictionary of Australasian Biography, by Philip Mennell, London: Hutchinson & Co. (1892)
"Parker, Gilbert," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
"Parker, (Horatio) Gilbert," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
"Parker, Horatio Gilbert," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1891)
"Parker, Sir Gilbert," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

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 1932, 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 80 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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