The Hour-Glass
This early work by Robert Barr was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. The short story The Hour-Glass, recounts a surprising history of a special hour-glass. Robert Barr was born on 16th September 1849 in Glasgow, Scotland, but he and his parents emigrated to Upper Canada when he was just four years old. He attended Toronto Normal School to train as a teacher and this career path led him to become headmaster of the Central School of Windsor, Ontario. During his time as a headteacher he began to contribute short stories to the Detroit Free Press, a publication for whom he left th…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4733-2551-7
- EAN: 9781473325517
- Produktnummer: 17782913
- Verlag: Read Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 30 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.2 cm 53 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 53
Über den Autor
Robert Barr (1849 - 1912) was a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1881 Barr decided to vamoose the ranch, as he stated, and relocated to London, to establish there the weekly English edition of the Detroit Free Press. In 1892 he founded the magazine The Idler, choosing Jerome K. Jerome as his collaborator (wanting, as Jerome said, a popular name). He retired from its co-editorship in 1895. In London of the 1890s Barr became a more prolific author-publishing a book a year-and was familiar with many of the best-selling authors of his day, including Bret Harte and Stephen Crane. Most of his literary output was of the crime genre, then quite in vogue.
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