Author | Gilbert Parker |
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Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publication date | 1898 |
Media type | Print ( hardcover) |
Pages | 466 pp |
The Battle of the Strong is an 1898 novel by Gilbert Parker. It was first published in serial format in The Atlantic Monthly starting in January 1898, [1] and as a single volume late in the same year. It was ranked as the tenth-highest best selling book overall in the United States for 1898, [2] and appeared as high as Number 2 on the monthly bestseller list published in The Bookman in early 1899. [3] The book is set in the Channel Islands, primarily during the period 1781-95, and opens with attempted invasion of Jersey by France in the Battle of Jersey. [4] [5] [6]
The title is derived from Ecclesiastes 9:11, "the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong." [7]
Willis Steell and Edward Everett Rose adapted the novel into a play in 1900, which starred Maurice Barrymore and Marie Burroughs. [8] Of the play, Parker later remarked that "the adaption, however, was lacking much, and though Miss Marie Burroughs and Maurice Barrymore played in it, success did not attend its dramatic life." [9]
Author | Gilbert Parker |
---|---|
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publication date | 1898 |
Media type | Print ( hardcover) |
Pages | 466 pp |
The Battle of the Strong is an 1898 novel by Gilbert Parker. It was first published in serial format in The Atlantic Monthly starting in January 1898, [1] and as a single volume late in the same year. It was ranked as the tenth-highest best selling book overall in the United States for 1898, [2] and appeared as high as Number 2 on the monthly bestseller list published in The Bookman in early 1899. [3] The book is set in the Channel Islands, primarily during the period 1781-95, and opens with attempted invasion of Jersey by France in the Battle of Jersey. [4] [5] [6]
The title is derived from Ecclesiastes 9:11, "the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong." [7]
Willis Steell and Edward Everett Rose adapted the novel into a play in 1900, which starred Maurice Barrymore and Marie Burroughs. [8] Of the play, Parker later remarked that "the adaption, however, was lacking much, and though Miss Marie Burroughs and Maurice Barrymore played in it, success did not attend its dramatic life." [9]