“For model, one must go back as far as Richard Carvel, but Mr. Roberts has written a better story and a better history. Quite possibly he deserves recognition as having written America’s finest historical novel, certainly one of the best.”

NEW YORK TIMES:

“Arundel is an achievement: a really fine and stirring historical novel. It has a vigor and simplicity seldom achieved. Kenneth Roberts has succeeded splendidly in capturing a fragrance belonging to the past, a faint but indispensable aroma which is the chief charm of a historical novel, and which most American historical novels have notably lacked.”

NEW YORK TRIBUNE:

“In Arundel we have the pure romance of adventure presented with all that force and fire which De Quincey reveals in his Flight of a Tartar Tribe. We shall see a thousand silly sex novels before we see another story so well told as this.”

NEW YORK TELEGRAM:

“If your blood hasn’t been stirred by recent fiction, Arundel will do it.”

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR:

“As a heroic chronicle of a gallant adventure, and as a fascinating story, Arundel is a book of special importance.”

MARGARET DELAND:

“When I think of the thin, tinny novels which tumble from the press to-day, to be forgotten within a few months, I feel that Arundel is a permanent contribution to the literature of this country. I go around telling people to read it, but I despair—until they have read it—of making them realize its quality. It seems to me like a perfectly splendid plum pudding! No, I think it is more than that; I think it is brown bread, and roast beef, and beer! It is the real stuff, and while I congratulate the author upon having written it, I congratulate all of us novel-reading folk even more heartily. How anybody can lap up whipped cream when he can get Arundel, I don’t understand!”

DETROIT NEWS:

“Arundel is one of the best of all novels of the Revolution, and one which will rank with anything ever written about that period.”

CHRONICLES OF ARUNDEL

THE LIVELY LADY

NEW YORK TIMES:

“The Lively Lady is a record of stirring and gallant adventure—one which will be long read and remembered.”

BOSTON AMERICAN:

“The Lively Lady is a little fighting Odyssey of the sea; but the sea episodes, fine as they are, are almost forgotten in those great chapters that bring back to memory the tragic-comic epic of the Dartmoor stone prison and No. 4 house where the gigantic Negro, King Dick, rules and befriends the hero. It is not often a novelist can create an absolutely original figure, alive from top to toe. He is even better than the famous Cap Huff of Arundel, and that is saying a good deal.”

—Prof. Robert E. Rogers.

NEW YORK WORLD:

“The American historical novel is exemplified at its best in The Lively Lady. The book, in our opinion, is a well-nigh perfect performance.”

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