George Willard Bartlett

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George Willard Bartlett

b. 1857

Adventure, mystery, and old-school treasure hunting run through these early 20th-century novels, which often send ordinary people into dangerous and unexpected situations. Best known today through reprints and Project Gutenberg editions, the work has a brisk, plot-driven energy that still feels made for listening.

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King Solomon's Goat

King Solomon's Goat

by George Willard Bartlett

About the author

George Willard Bartlett was an American novelist born in 1857. His fiction includes adventure stories such as King Solomon's Goat and Murder Trail, and his books continue to circulate through library catalogs, reprint editions, and Project Gutenberg.

The surviving public record on Bartlett is fairly thin, so much of his life remains harder to pin down than his stories. What does come through clearly is a taste for fast-moving popular fiction, with titles that promise peril, pursuit, and faraway intrigue.

Because biographical details are limited, Bartlett is remembered mainly through the books themselves. For listeners who enjoy rediscovering overlooked writers from an earlier era, his work offers a glimpse of the lively storytelling that once filled magazine pages and inexpensive adventure novels.