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...hoof of Marengo, Napoleon's Arab charger, matched by a hoof of Wellington's Arundel...
...Quebec in 1775. He could not know, dictating these opening lines of his journal to his daughter thirty-five years after the expedition, that one day the exploits of Arnold and his men would be the background of one of the greatest of American historical novels--Keneth Roberts' "Arundel". In "Arundel", Arnold's march to Quebec forms the principle episode of a book alight with the fire and energy of the Revolutionary period, an episode which created such interest in the expedition itself, apart from any fictitious coloring, that Roberts decided to arrange the original diaries and letters...
...most aggressive U. S. provincial patriots have been the Southern regionalists (Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, et al.). But in his five Maine-grounded historical novels (Arundel, The Lively Lady, Captain Caution, Rabble in Arms, Northwest Passage) Kenneth Roberts has gradually overtaken them. In Trending Into Maine he definitely shows the Southerners his heels...
Northwest Passage, his latest book, is not another of his Chronicles of Arundel, but like them is based on preRevolutionary U. S. history. Narrator of the tale is one Langdon Towne, whose great ambition is to be an artist and paint pictures of Indians. But the real hero is Major Robert Rogers of Rogers' Rangers. Langdon was a bright lad and did so well at school that his family scraped together enough money to send him to Harvard College. A rum party in his room brought his brief career there to a close; his disappointed father...
...they may rate him higher than Walter Edmonds (Rome Haul), or Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind), will not give him a majority vote over James Boyd (Drums, Marching On, Long Hunt). Author Roberts' friends complain that he has never been given his due. However, the Chronicles of Arundel (Arundel, Rabble in Arms, The Lively Lady, Captain Caution) have sold more than 100.000 copies in the U. S. alone. Northwest Passage is Book-of-the-Month choice for July...