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Best of Robert Service

Author Robert Service
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Penguin Adult HC/TR | TarcherPerigee
On sale Jan 27, 1989 | 224 Pages | 9780399550089
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Here, collected in a single volume, are the most popular verses of the great English-born Canadian poet. His famous ballads of the Klondike are here:
“The Shooting of Dan McGrew,” “The Spell of the Yukon,” and “The Cremation of Sam McGee.”
 
Also included are unforgettable portrayals of the artists, grisettes, and models of the merry, tragic life of bohemian Paris, and other verses inspire by the First World War, during which Service drove an ambulance in France.
 
And not to be overlooked are the many expressions of the poet’s own homespun philosophy—his comments on women, on life and death, ambition, and success and failure, which strike a responsive chord in the reader’s heart.
 
Gaiety, humor, nostalgia, and pathos fill every page, along with the genuine Service ring of virility which has made his verse loved throughout the English reading world.
Often referred to as the "Bard of the Yukon," Robert Service was a prolific novelist and poet, publishing numerous poetry collections, two autobiographies, and six novels during his lifetime. Though he was born in England, he is best known for his writings set in Northwest Canada featuring the Klondike Gold Rush. Service died in 1958, and has since been honored on a Canadian postage stamp and has had various schools in Canada named after him. View titles by Robert Service
The Absinthe Drinkers
Ant Hill
Athabaska Dick
The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill
The Ballad of Casey's Billy-Goat
The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike
The Ballad of the Black Fox Skin
The Battle of the Bulge
Bill the Bomber
The Bohemian
Britannica
Brother Jim
The Bruiser
The Butcher
Clancy of the Mounted Police
Compensation Pete
Contentment
The Cremation of Sam McGee
Dark Pine
Dauntless Quest
Dirt
Duello
Dyspeptic Clerk
L'escargot D'or
Finistere
Funk
God's Skallywags
Going Home
Grandad
The Harpy
The Hat
Heart O' the North
Hobo
I Believe
Inspiration
It Is Later than You Think
The Joy of Being Poor
Just Think
The Land of Beyond
Laughter
The Law of the Yukon
The Little Old Log Cabin
The Logger
The Lost Master
Making Good
The March of the Dead
Maternity
Men of the High North
The Men that Don't Fit in
Moderation
Mongrel
The Mountain and the Lake
Muquet
My Friends
My Future
My Highland Home
My Job
My Madonna
My Masterpiece
My Piney Wood
Nature Man
Normandy Peasant
Odette
An Olive Fire
The Ordinary Man
The Outlaw
Pantheist
Premonition
The Prospector
Pullman Porter
The Quest
The Quitter
The Reckoning
Repentance
Resentment
Riviera Honeymoon
The Rover
Security
Sentimental Shark
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
A Song of Success
The Song of the Mouth-Organ
The Song of the Wage-Slave
The Spell of the Yukon
The Squaw Man
Stamp Collector
Take It Easy
Tea on the Lawn
The Three Voices
The Tramps
The Twins
The Under-Dogs
Unforgotten
Victory Stuff
The Wanderlust
The Wedding Ring
While the Bannock Bakes
The Woman and the Angel
The Wonderer
Yellow
Your Poem

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Here, collected in a single volume, are the most popular verses of the great English-born Canadian poet. His famous ballads of the Klondike are here:
“The Shooting of Dan McGrew,” “The Spell of the Yukon,” and “The Cremation of Sam McGee.”
 
Also included are unforgettable portrayals of the artists, grisettes, and models of the merry, tragic life of bohemian Paris, and other verses inspire by the First World War, during which Service drove an ambulance in France.
 
And not to be overlooked are the many expressions of the poet’s own homespun philosophy—his comments on women, on life and death, ambition, and success and failure, which strike a responsive chord in the reader’s heart.
 
Gaiety, humor, nostalgia, and pathos fill every page, along with the genuine Service ring of virility which has made his verse loved throughout the English reading world.

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Often referred to as the "Bard of the Yukon," Robert Service was a prolific novelist and poet, publishing numerous poetry collections, two autobiographies, and six novels during his lifetime. Though he was born in England, he is best known for his writings set in Northwest Canada featuring the Klondike Gold Rush. Service died in 1958, and has since been honored on a Canadian postage stamp and has had various schools in Canada named after him. View titles by Robert Service

Table of Contents

The Absinthe Drinkers
Ant Hill
Athabaska Dick
The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill
The Ballad of Casey's Billy-Goat
The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike
The Ballad of the Black Fox Skin
The Battle of the Bulge
Bill the Bomber
The Bohemian
Britannica
Brother Jim
The Bruiser
The Butcher
Clancy of the Mounted Police
Compensation Pete
Contentment
The Cremation of Sam McGee
Dark Pine
Dauntless Quest
Dirt
Duello
Dyspeptic Clerk
L'escargot D'or
Finistere
Funk
God's Skallywags
Going Home
Grandad
The Harpy
The Hat
Heart O' the North
Hobo
I Believe
Inspiration
It Is Later than You Think
The Joy of Being Poor
Just Think
The Land of Beyond
Laughter
The Law of the Yukon
The Little Old Log Cabin
The Logger
The Lost Master
Making Good
The March of the Dead
Maternity
Men of the High North
The Men that Don't Fit in
Moderation
Mongrel
The Mountain and the Lake
Muquet
My Friends
My Future
My Highland Home
My Job
My Madonna
My Masterpiece
My Piney Wood
Nature Man
Normandy Peasant
Odette
An Olive Fire
The Ordinary Man
The Outlaw
Pantheist
Premonition
The Prospector
Pullman Porter
The Quest
The Quitter
The Reckoning
Repentance
Resentment
Riviera Honeymoon
The Rover
Security
Sentimental Shark
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
A Song of Success
The Song of the Mouth-Organ
The Song of the Wage-Slave
The Spell of the Yukon
The Squaw Man
Stamp Collector
Take It Easy
Tea on the Lawn
The Three Voices
The Tramps
The Twins
The Under-Dogs
Unforgotten
Victory Stuff
The Wanderlust
The Wedding Ring
While the Bannock Bakes
The Woman and the Angel
The Wonderer
Yellow
Your Poem
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