Author:Robert Barr

Robert Barr
(1849/1850–1912)

Robert Barr

Works

• In the Midst of Alarms (1894, 1900, 1912) Project Gutenberg
• From Whose Bourne (1896) (external scan) : Project Gutenberg
• One Day's Courtship (external scan) : Project Gutenberg
• The Strong Arm (1900) (external scan) : Project Gutenberg
  • The Strong Arm, (sl, 1899-1900, Windsor's)
• A Woman Intervenes (1896) (external scan) Project Gutenberg
• Tekla: A Romance of Love and War (1898) (external scan) : Project Gutenberg
• Jennie Baxter, Journalist (1899) Project Gutenberg illustrator, Adolf Thiede
  • Jennie Baxter, Journalist (Windsor Magazine, 1897-98) (as by Cottrel Hoe)
• The Unchanging East (1900) (non-fiction) (external scan)
• The Victors (1901) (external scan)
• A Prince of Good Fellows (with Stephen Crane, 1902) (external scan) : Project Gutenberg
• The O'Ruddy, A Romance (with Stephen Crane, 1903) Frontispiece by C. D. Williams
• A Chicago Princess (1905-1912) Project Gutenberg aka The Tempestuous Petticoat (external scan)
• A Rock in the Baltic (1906) (external scan) Project Gutenberg
• The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont (1906) No scan
• The Measure of the Rule (1907) (external scan)
• The Sword Maker (1910) (external scan) : Project Gutenberg
• The Palace of Logs (1912)

Lord Stranleigh series

• Young Lord Stranleigh (1908) illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg No scan
• Stranleigh's Millions (1909) (transcription project) short stories
  • The Rise of the Bendale Stores — The Sarsfield-Mitcham Affair — Respect the Law — The Unrecorded Abduction — The Earl at Play — A Town in Pawn
• Lord Stranleigh, Philanthropist (1911) short stories
  • Borrowing Stranleigh's Name — The Music of the Sphere — "My Library Was Dukedom Large Enough" — A Disastrous Dash into the Fray — When Spades Were Trumps — Lord Stranleigh on Guard — The Napping of the Kid — The Wheat Pit — When Greek Meets Greek — The Romance Of The Golden Brick
• Lord Stranleigh Abroad (1913) Project Gutenberg : (external scan)

Short stories and collections

• In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories (1892)
  • In a Steamer Chair — Mrs. Tremain — Share and Share Alike — An International Row — A Ladies' Man — A Story for the Reformation of Poker Players — The Man Who was not on the Passenger List — The Terrible Experience of Plodkins — A Case of Fever — How the Captain Got His Steamer Out — My Stowaway — The Purser's Story — Miss McMillan
• The Face and the Mask (1894) illustrated by Albert Hencke No scan
  • The Woman of Stone — The Chemistry of Anarchy — The Fear of It — The Metamorphoses of Johnson — The Reclamation of Joe Hollends — The Type-Written Letter — The Doom of London — The Predicament of De Plonville — A New Explosive — The Great Pegram Mystery — Death Cometh Soon Or Late — High Stakes — "Where Ignorance Is Bliss" — The Departure of Cub Mclean — Old Number Eighty-Six — Playing with Marked Cards — The Bruiser's Courtship — The Raid on Mellish — Striking Back — Crandall's Choice — The Failure of Bradley — Ringamy's Convert — A Slippery Customer — The Sixth Bench
• Revenge! (1896)
  • An Alpine Divorce — Which Was the Murderer? — A Dynamite Explosion — An Electrical Slip — The Vengeance of the Dead — Over the Stelvio Pass — The Hour and the Man — "And the Rigour of the Game" — The Bromley Gibberts Story — Not According to the Code — A Modern Samson — A Deal on 'Change — Transformation — The Shadow of the Greenback — The Understudy — "Out of Thun" — A Dramatic Point — Two Florentine Balconies — The Exposure of Lord Stansford — Purification

Short works from magazines

• "A Deal on 'Change" (1894 English Illustrated)
• "Sunshine Johnson, Murderer" (1894 Short Stories) ss
• "The Understudy" in The Strand Magazine, 10 (60) (1895).
• "A Dramatic Point" (1896, Pearson's) (ss)
• "The Shadow of the Greenback" (1896, Pearson's) (ss)
• "The Archbishop's Christmas Gift" (1897 McClure's)
• "Gentlemen, the King!" (1897 McClure's) ss
• "The Grindstone Question" (1897 McClure's)
• "A Man fights Best in His Own Township" (1897 McClure's)
• "The Prince Disguises Himself" (1897 Windsor) ss
• "An Unjust Accusation" (1897 McClure's)
• "The Actress of the Chateau" (1898 McClure's)
• "The Long Ladder" (1898 McClure's) ss
• "Within an Ace of the End of the World" (1900 Windsor) ss
• "A Matter of Motives" (1901-02, Windsor's) (ss)
• "A Deputation to the King" (1901-02, Windsor's) (ss)
• "The Curse of Positano" (1902 American)
• "A Question of Money" (1902 Windsor) ss
• "The Christmas Picture" (1903 Idler)
• "The Countess Decides" (1903 Windsor) ss
• "Gang Aft Agley" (English Illustrated 1903) ss
• "The Kidnapping of Rockervelt" (1903 Windsor) ss
• "The Mystery of the Five Hundred Diamonds" (1904 Windsor) ss
• "The Speculations of Jack Steele" (1905 Windsor) novelette
• "Two and a Motor" (1905 Windsor) ss
• "A Wild Boar Rampant" (1907 Windsor) ss
• "An Extra Turn" (1909 American) ss
• "The Cousin from Canada" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1909
• "The Scientist and the Shop-Girl" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1909-10
• "The Obstacle" (1912 Windsor) ss
• "The Mill on the Kop" (1920, in The Miller's Holiday) (1900, The Northwestern Miller)
• "Dorothy of the Mill" (1920, in The Miller's Holiday) (1904, The Northwestern Miller)

Non-fiction

• "Wanting the Earth" (1896, Pearson's) (n-f)
• "Samuel L. Clemens, "Mark Twain". A Character Sketch" (1898 McClure's)
• "The Closing of the Shutters" (1902 McClure's)
• "Beats the Dutch" (1903 Idler)
• "Humorists and "The Idler"" (1903 Idler) editorial
• "John Joy Bell" (1903, Idler)
• "Making the Pound Do Its Utmost" (1909-10 Windsor Magazine)

Included in In a Steamer Chair (1894)

• "My Stowaway" (1893 Short Stories)
• "Not on the Passenger List" (1892 Short Stories)

Included in The Face and the Mask, (1894)

• "Death Cometh Soon or Late" (1892 Short Stories)
• "The Fear of It" (1893 Idler)
• "The Reclamation of Joe Hollends" (1893 Idler)
• "The Type-written Letter" (1894 Short Stories)

Included in Revenge! (1896)

• "Tales of Revenge" English Illustrated Magazine, 1893-94 (short stories)

1. "An Alpine Divorce" (Oct 1893)
2. "A Modern Samson" (Nov 1893)
3. "Which Was the Murderer?" (Dec 1893)
4. "A Dynamite Explosion" (Mar 1894)
5. "An Electrical Slip" (Apr 1894)
6. "The Vengeance of the Dead" (May 1894)
7. "The Driver With His Back to the Horses" (Jul 1894)
8. "The Hour and the Man" (Aug 1894)

• "A Dramatic Point" (1896, Pearson's) (ss)
• "The Shadow of the Greenback" (1896, Pearson's) (ss)
• "The Understudy" (1895, Strand) (ss)

Included in The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont (1906)

• "The Absent-Minded Coterie" (1905-06, Windsor)
• "Lady Alicia's Diamonds" (1905-06, Windsor)

Notes

• Robert Barr was also the founder and co-editor (with Jerome K. Jerome) of The Idler, an illustrated monthly magazine whose contributors included some of the best authors and illustrators of that time.