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1 y separately published work icon "Lights Out!" Robert Overton , New York (City) : Hurst , 1897 Z1354770 1894 selected work children's fiction children's adventure Lights Out! is a collection of short stories. It is set in a boys' school where each night, in the hour after lights out at 9pm, each boy takes a turn at telling a story. The adventure stories cover topics such as smugglers, wayward sons, sea voyages, war stories, life boats and shipwrecks, truancy, bicycles, and dogs. They often have a moral lesson indicating how a boy should properly behave according to the expectations of the time.
1 y separately published work icon The King's Pardon! or, The Boy Who Saved His Father : A Story of Land and Sea Robert Overton , New York (City) : Hurst , 1895-1900 Z1354581 1895 single work children's fiction children's adventure historical fiction

The story of a plucky schoolboy who sets out to save his missing father.
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