Short Fiction Roberts, Sir Charles G.D: Earth's Enigmas, v1 23 Aug 2008

[Madam Broshkina]

Sir Charles G. D. Roberts (1860 - 1943) was a Canadian poet and writer. Roberts was one of the Confederation poets. His most famous works were In Divers Tones (1887) and Songs of the Common Day and Ave! An Ode for the Shelley Centenary (1893). Earth's Enigmas written in 1896 is a collection of short stories.

"Most of the stories in this collection attempt to present one or another of those problems of life or nature to which, as it appears to many of us, there is no adequate solution in sight. Others are the most literal transcript of dreams which seemed to me to have a coherency, completeness, and symbolic significance sufficiently marked to justify me in setting them down. The rest are scenes from simple life of Canadian backwoods and tide-country with which my earlier years made me familiar".

Includes:

Do Seek their Meat from God
The Perdu
"The Young Ravens that Call upon Him"
Within Sound of the Saws
The Butt of the Camp
In the Accident Ward
The Romance of an Ox-Team
A Tragedy of the Tides
At the Rough-and-Tumble Landing
An Experience of Jabez Batterpole
The Stone Dog
The Barn on the Marsh
Captain Joe and Jamie
Strayed
The Eye of Gluskâ

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