Gilbert Frankau - Works

Novelist, born in London, UK. His early works were great successes, and he continued to write best sellers, for he had a flair for anticipating popular taste. His books include One of Us (1912), Peter Jackson, Cigar Merchant (1919), Men, Maids and Mustard-Pots (1923), and World Without End (1943).

Gilbert Frankau (April 21, 1884- 4 November 1952) was a popular British novelist. He was known also for verse (he was a war poet of World War I) including a number of verse novels, and short stories.

He served in the British Army from the outbreak of war in 1914, first in 9th Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment), and then with the rank of Captain as a gunner in 107th Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery, experience that he later used in novels.

Works

Eton Echoes (1901) poems The XYZ of Bridge (1906) Jack - One of Us: A Novel in Verse (1912) also as One of Us Tid'apa (What Does It Matter?) (1914) A Song of the Guns in Flanders (1916) poems How Rifleman Brown Came To Valhalla (1916) The Woman of the Horizon: A Romance of Nineteen-Thirteen. (1917) One of Them: A Novelette in Verse (1918) The Judgement of Valhalla (1918) The Other Side, and Other Poems (1918) The City of Fear and Other Poems (1918) Peter Jackson, Cigar Merchant: A Romance of Married Life (1919) The Seeds of Enchantment (1921) The Love Story of Aliette Brunton (1922) Men, Maids and Mustard Pot (1923) short stories Peter Jameson: A Modern Romance (1923) Poetical Works (1923) Gerald Cranston's Lady (1924) Life - and Erica: A Romance (1924) The Dominant Type Of Man (1925) non-fiction My Unsentimental Journey (1926) Masterson, a Story of an English Gentleman (1926) Twelve Tales (1927) So Much Good: A Novel in a New Manner (1928) Martin Make-Believe (1930) Dance, Little Gentleman! (1930) Concerning Peter Jackson and Others (c.1930) Christopher Strong (1932) Wine, Women And Waiters (1932) The Lonely Man: A Romance of Love and the Secret Service (1932) Secret Services: A Collection of Tales (1934) Everywoman (1934) A Century of Love Stories (c.1935) editor Farewell Romance (1936) Three Stories Of Romance (1936) with Warwick Deeping and Ethel Mannin Experiments in Crime and Other Stories (1937) More Of Us: Being the Present-Day Adventures of "One of Us": A Novel in Verse (1937) The Dangerous Years: A Trilogy (1937) Royal Regiment: A Drama of Contemporary Behaviours (1938) Gilbert Frankau's Self Portrait: A Novel of His Own Life (1940) Winter of Discontent (1942) as Air Ministry Room 28 (1942) in US World Without End (1942) Escape to Yesterday (1942) Selected Verses (1943) Three Englishman: A Romance of Married Lives (1944) Michael's Wife (1948) Son of the Morning (1949) Oliver Trenton K.C. (1951) Unborn Tomorrow: A Last Story (1953) The Peter Jackson Omnibus