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The Count's Apology

The Count's Apology

Barr, Robert

Paperback

General FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 147332548X
ISBN13: 9781473325487
Publisher: White Pr
Published: Feb 11 2015
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This early work by Robert Barr was originally published in 1896 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. The Count's Apology is a short story following the Count of Winneburg, a bluff and generous-hearted giant, who would stand by his friends against all comers. 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 the teaching profession to become a staff member in 1876. He wrote for them under the pseudonym Luke Sharp, a name he found amusing on a sign reading Luke Sharpe, Undertaker that he used to pass on his daily commute to work. He eventually rose to the position of news editor at the publication. In 1881 he left Canada for London to establish a weekly English edition of the Detroit Free Press. During the 1890's he began to increase his literary production, writing mainly in the popular crime genre of the day. The success of his contemporary, Arthur Conan Doyle, and his super sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, inspired him to write the first Holmes parody The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs. Despite this jibe Barr and Doyle remained on very good terms. Robert Barr died from heart disease on October 21, 1912, at his home in Woldingham, a small village to the south-east of London.

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