Alan R. Light, Monroe, North Carolina, June 1997.
This list of books written by Robert Service is probably incomplete, possibly incorrect, but may serve as a starting point for those interested in his works.
Novels:
The Trail of '98—A Northland Romance (1910)
The Pretender
The Poisoned Paradise
The Roughneck
The Master of the Microbe
The House of Fear (1927)
Autobiography:
Ploughman of the Moon (1945) | A two-volume
Harper of Heaven (1948) | autobiography.
Miscellaneous:
Why Not Grow Young
Verse:
* The Spell of the Yukon (1907) a.k.a. Songs of a Sourdough
* Ballads of a Cheechako (1909)
[Note: A Sourdough is an old-timer, while a Cheechako is a newbie.]
* Rhymes of a Rolling Stone (1912)
* Rhymes of a Red Cross Man (1916)
* Ballads of a Bohemian (1921)
Bar-room Ballads (1940)
The Complete Poems (The first 6 books)
Songs of a Sunlover
Rhymes of a Roughneck
Lyrics of a Low Brow
Rhymes of a Rebel
The Collected Poems
Songs For My Supper (1953)
Rhymes For My Rags (1956)
* Books marked by an asterisk are presently online.
About the Author
Robert William Service was born 16 January 1874 in Preston, England, but also lived in Scotland before emigrating to Canada in 1894. Service went to the Yukon Territory in 1904 as a bank clerk, and became famous for his poems about this region, which are mostly in his first two books of poetry. He wrote quite a bit of prose as well, and worked as a reporter for some time, but those writings are not nearly as well known as his poems. He travelled around the world quite a bit, and narrowly escaped from France at the beginning of the Second World War, during which time he lived in Hollywood, California. He died 11 September 1958 in France.
Incidentally, he played himself in a movie called "The Spoilers", starring John Wayne and Marlene Dietrich.