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2015/09/16: OUR FIFTH NOVEL BY JOHN TAINE TAKES PLACE IN A MYSTERY-SHROUDED REGI
ON OF CENTRAL ASIA!
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Taine, John [Bell, Eric Temple] (1883-1960) [American mathematician and science
fiction author] Wikipedia
The Purple Sapphire (1924) [Adventure/science fiction novel, starting in England
but moving to India and Central Asia. The daughter of a British general has bee
n kidnapped. The search for her leads to the discovery of a lost super-civilizat
ion, somewhere north of Tibet. Naturally sapphires, large and valuable ones, com
e into the story!]
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2015/09/12: OUR FOURTH SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC BY THE SCOTTISH-AMERICAN MATHEMAT
ICIAN JOHN TAINE TAKES PLACE IN ANTARCTICA!
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Taine, John [Bell, Eric Temple] (1883-1960) [American mathematician and science
fiction author] Wikipedia
The Greatest Adventure (1929) [Science fiction novel. A ship runs over a weird m
onster in Antarctic waters and finds that it's in the middle of a huge oil slick
with hundreds of dead monsters. A wealthy American scientist finances a followup expedition, which encounters millions more of the monsters, live and undergro
und. But when and how did these creatures arise?]
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2015/09/08: FROM THE CLOSE OF THE JAZZ AGE, A BRILLIANT COLLECTION OF SHORT STOR
IES BY LOUIS BROMFIELD WHO HAD WON THE PULITZER PRIZE IN 1927!
The Iron Star (1930) Wikipedia [Novel. An expedition to Africa culminates in the
discovery that "evolution" is not a one-way process.] HTML HTML zipped Text Tex
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2015/08/16: A JAMES BOND NOVEL, AND A FINE ONE MOONRAKER! IDEAL READING FOR YOUR
SUMMER VACATION!!
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CT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY IAN FLEMING UNTIL 2035 !!
Fleming, Ian [Ian Lancaster] (1908-1964) [English intelligence officer and novel
ist] Wikipedia
Moonraker (1955) Wikipedia [The third James Bond novel. It is set in England, sp
ecifically the county of Kent. It features a rocket ("The Moonraker"), a fine vi
llain (Sir Hugo Drax), a famous game of bridge, and much else. The 1979 film Wik
ipedia is quite different from the novel: read the novel and decide which you pr
efer. (Speaking personally, we like the novel!)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipp
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2015/08/12: TODAY SINCLAIR LEWIS ENTERS OUR CATALOGUE THE FIRST AMERICAN AUTHOR
TO WIN THE NOBEL PRIZE!
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CT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY SINCLAIR LEWIS UNTIL 2022 !!
Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930]
Wikipedia Nobelprize.org
Ann Vickers (1933) Wikipedia [Novel, the basis for the 1933 movie Wikipedia with
Irene Dunne and Walter Huston. We follow Ann Vickers from her childhood in Waub
anakee, Illinois through to her later years in Manhattan, with much happening al
ong the way. Sinclair Lewis, as always, instructs while he entertains: we learn
about prison life, settlement houses Wikipedia and many other aspects of the soc
ial movements of the time. "It is his skill in blending such ardent propaganda f
or prison reform with a series of penetrating studies of men and women that make
s "Ann Vickers" one of the most important and fascinating novels that Mr. Lewis
has written." (Edgar Holt, The Bookman [U.K.], February 1933)]
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2015/08/03: OUR LATEST TITLE BY EDGAR WALLACE IS HIS FASCINATING AUTOBIOGRAPHY P
ERFECT SUMMERTIME READING !
Wallace, Edgar [Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar] (1875-1932) [English novelist, p
laywright, and screenplay writer] Wikipedia BFI screenonline
Edgar Wallace. A Short Autobiography. (1926) [Original title: People. A Short Au
tobiography., but renamed for the 1929 edition. As you might guess, it is Edgar
Wallace's autobiography. "He has told the tale in a breezy, straightaway fashion
... It is really not long enough. One regrets that Mr. Wallace stopped having ad
ventures in order to write of imaginary ones." (Saturday Review, 11 May 1929)] H
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2015/07/30: OUR THIRD NOVEL BY B. A. McKELVIE IS SET IN BRITISH COLUMBIA DURING
THE FRASER CANYON GOLD RUSH! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXT
ENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY B. A.
McKELVIE UNTIL 2031 !!
McKelvie, Bruce Alistair (1889-1960) [Canadian journalist, historian, and noveli
st] ABCBookworld
The Black Canyon. A Story of '58. (1927) [Novel, set in British Columbia during
the 1858 gold rush Wikipedia. A teenage boy, Neil Alexander, comes to Fort Victo
ria, and travels up the Fraser with a friend and some miners. But this was the p
eriod of the Fraser Canyon War Wikipedia, and the boys find themselves in the mi
ddle of some dangerous and exciting events!]
CAUTION: certain passages in this novel may seem racist by the standards of toda
y.
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2015/07/25: A NEW AUTHOR TODAY: SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR JOHN TAINE OUR INAUGURAL
WORK BY HIM IS HIS CLASSIC NOVEL THE TIME STREAM!!
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CT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY JOHN TAINE UNTIL 2031 !!
Taine, John [Bell, Eric Temple] (1883-1960) [American mathematician and science
fiction author] Wikipedia
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2015/07/22: OUR EIGHTH MYSTERY TITLE BY CYRIL HARE INVOLVES (1) HIS FAMOUS SLEUT
H, FRANCIS PETTIGREW, (2) AN ORCHESTRA, AND (3) A MURDER!
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CT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY OF OUR EIGHT CYRIL HARE EBOOKS UNTIL 2029 !!
Hare, Cyril [Clark, Alfred Alexander Gordon] (1900-1958) [English judge and nove
list] Wikipedia
When the Wind Blows (1949) [Mystery novel; some editions use the alternative tit
le The Wind Blows Death. After giving some legal assistance to the local amateur
orchestra, Francis Pettigrew finds himself named the orchestra's treasurer, whi
ch complicates his otherwise idyllic existence. A murder then occurs, making thi
ngs even more complicated.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1262]
2015/07/17: TODAY'S EBOOK BY CYRIL HARE IS AN ENDURING CLASSIC: IT'S AN EXCELLEN
T MYSTERY, AND MARKS THE FIRST APPEARANCE IN LITERATURE OF HARE'S FAMOUS LAWYERSLEUTH FRANCIS PETTIGREW!
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CT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY OF OUR SEVEN CYRIL HARE EBOOKS UNTIL 2029 !!
Hare, Cyril [Clark, Alfred Alexander Gordon] (1900-1958) [English judge and nove
list] Wikipedia
Tragedy at Law (1942) [Mystery novel. Even in wartime, the justice system
ues its operations. Which explains how London barrister Francis Pettigrew
himself travelling from town to town on the assize circuit Wikipedia. Far
d from London he may be, but Pettigrew discovers that life on the circuit
from dull!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1261]
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2015/07/12: OUR FOURTH CLASSIC CHILDREN'S NOVEL BY EDWARD EAGER! FIGHT THE TRANS
-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE CO
ULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY EDWARD EAGER UNTIL 2035 !!
Eager, Edward [Edward McMaken] (1911-1964) [American novelist, librettist, and t
ranslator] Wikipedia
Seven-Day Magic (1962) [The seventh and final novel in the series initiated by H
alf Magic. Several children are in the local public library, and one of the girl
s finds a small red book, well used. The librarian tells them they can keep the
book for only seven days. The book grants wishes, but only for the seven days th
ey're allowed to have it. Adventures ensue...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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2015/07/11: A CLASSIC NOVEL FOR CHILDREN (THE THIRD IN OUR CATALOGUE!) BY EDWARD
EAGER! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE
IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY EDWARD EAGER UNTIL 2035 !!
Eager, Edward [Edward McMaken] (1911-1964) [American novelist, librettist, and t
ranslator] Wikipedia
Magic or Not? (1959) [Novel, fifth in the series initiated by Half Magic. This t
ime, there are four children to whom odd things are happening, but... they're no
t sure if it's actual magic making things happen, or if things just work out in
the best possible way!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1259]
2015/07/07: TODAY'S EBOOK IS AN ENHANCED DIGITAL EDITION OF CHARLES NORDHOFF'S T
HE PEARL LAGOON WE NOW INCLUDE CHARLES NORDHOFF'S PREFACE, AND THE ORIGINAL ILLU
STRATIONS BY ANTON OTTO FISCHER! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT
EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY C
HARLES NORDHOFF UNTIL 2018, OR ANY EBOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY ANTON OTTO FISCHER UNTI
L 2033 !!
Nordhoff, Charles Bernard (1887-1947) [American novelist] Wikipedia
The Pearl Lagoon (1924) [Novel for teenagers, set in the South Seas. A young boy
, Charlie Selden, is taken by his uncle to the South Pacific on a pearl-hunting
trip: encounters with sharks and pirates ensue. Includes a preface by Nordhoff,
and illustrations by Anton Otto Fischer (1882-1962) Wikipedia]
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2015/07/04: TODAY'S EBOOK IS A VERY GREAT CLASSIC ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S FIRST AND P
ERHAPS FINEST NOVEL! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS!
IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY ERNEST HEMING
WAY UNTIL 2032 !!
Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 195
4] Wikipedia Nobelprize.org
The Sun Also Rises (1926) Wikipedia [Novel, following the progress of a group of
friends as they travel from Paris, cross the Pyrenees, and end up in Pamplona,
Spain. "Written in terse, precise, and aggressively fresh prose, and containing
some of the finest dialogue yet written in this country, the story achieves a vi
vidness and a sustained tension that make it unquestionably one of the events of
a year rich in interesting books" (Cleveland B. Chase, Saturday Review, 11 Dece
mber 1926)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1257]
2015/06/18: OUR SECOND NOVEL BY EDWARD EAGER CONTINUES THE STORY HE BEGAN IN HAL
F MAGIC WHICH YOU WILL ALSO FIND IN OUR CATALOGUE! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTN
ERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER Y
OU ANY EBOOKS BY EDWARD EAGER UNTIL 2035 !!
Eager, Edward [Edward McMaken] (1911-1964) [American novelist, librettist, and t
ranslator] Wikipedia
Knight's Castle (1956) [Novel, second in the series initiated by Half Magic. Fou
r children discover a magic item, an enchanted toy soldier. But an act of magic
can happen only every three days!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #
1256]
2015/06/17: TODAY WE'RE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT OUR VERY FIRST TITLE BY THE CELEBRA
TED COLLABORATORS NORDHOFF AND HALL! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYR
IGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS
BY NORDHOFF AND HALL UNTIL 2022 !!
Nordhoff, Charles Bernard (1887-1947) [American novelist] Wikipedia
with: Hall, James Norman (1887-1951) [American novelist] Wikipedia
Men Without Country (1942) [The novel opens early in World War II, just after th
e fall of France. An American reporter is in London to get stories on Frenchmen
who have fled France to fight with Charles de Gaulle. He meets with a Captain Fr
eycinet, who has quite a story to tell, a story which begins in the Caribbean. "
The famous authors of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' have passed a neat, small miracle.
In a little over a hundred pages, in small format and good large type, they have
told a tale of escape, patriotism, French Guiana, Vichy, Free France, everythin
g tight and right and thrilling. This is old craftsmanship at work, spinning a y
arn of the most contemporary flavor..." (N. L. Rothman, Saturday Review, 27 June
1942)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1255]
2015/06/14: TODAY, WE CONGRATULATE AND THANK THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESEN
TATIVES FOR THEIR APPARENT SUCCESS IN BLOCKING THE TYRANNICAL "TRANS-PACIFIC PAR
TNERSHIP": LET'S HOPE IT STAYS BLOCKED! HERE IN CANADA, OUR POLITICAL PARTIES JU
ST DON'T SEEM TO CARE, WITH ONE EXCEPTION THANK YOU, GREEN PARTY OF CANADA !!
TO CELEBRATE THIS VICTORY FOR THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, WE'RE POSTING A VERY SPECIAL EB
OOK, A BRILLIANTLY IMAGINATIVE CHILDREN'S NOVEL BY EDWARD EAGER! FIGHT THE TRANS
-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE CO
ULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY EDWARD EAGER UNTIL 2035 !!
Eager, Edward [Edward McMaken] (1911-1964) [American novelist, librettist, and t
ranslator] Wikipedia
Half Magic (1954) [Does magic really exist? Four children are wondering this, wh
en suddenly... Well, we're not going to give the story away, but we will say tha
t this is a genuine children's classic! "This story belongs to the E. Nesbit sch
ool of fantasy, in which magic pursues its inevitable course... a book whose tot
al contribution is one of fun and relaxation." (Elizabeth Nesbitt, Saturday Revi
ew, 15 May 1954)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1254]
2015/06/12: A CLASSIC COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY! FIGHT THE
TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY,
WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY UNTIL 2032 !!
Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 195
4] Wikipedia Nobelprize.org
Winner Take Nothing (1933) Wikipedia [Fourteen short stories, some of them extre
mely famous: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, for example, and The Gambler, the Nun,
and the Radio] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1253]
2015/06/01: OUR FIRST THREE TITLES BY LOUIS BROMFIELD WERE NOVELS; OUR FOURTH IS
AN EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PA
RTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFE
R YOU ANY EBOOKS BY LOUIS BROMFIELD UNTIL 2027 !!
VELS CANADIAN CLASSICS, AND MARVELLOUS READING ! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNER
SHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU
ANY EBOOKS BY MAZO DE LA ROCHE UNTIL 2032 !!
de la Roche, Mazo (1879-1961) [Canadian novelist and playwright] Wikipedia
Young Renny (1935) [The fourth Jalna novel. Renny and Meg Whiteoak are now in th
eir twenties, a complicated time of life for anyone, but particularly for Whiteo
aks. Family members of various ages, from the formidable Adeline down, participa
te fully in the turbulent but generally happy life of Jalna.] HTML HTML zipped T
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2015/02/26: AFTER COMPLETING THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING, T. H. WHITE PUBLISHED THI
S FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF HIS STAY IN THE WEST OF IRELAND THE THIRD OF HIS WORKS
TO JOIN OUR CATALOGUE! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSION
S! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY T. H. WHITE
UNTIL 2035 !!
White, T. H. [Terence Hanbury] (1906-1964) [English novelist] Wikipedia
The Godstone and the Blackymor (1959) [Travel memoir. Our author visits the West
of Ireland, where the distant past is not so distant. "The style is beyond crit
icism... And the mind that controls the style is educated and intelligent, humor
ous, reflective, and entirely engaging." (Leonard Wibberley, Saturday Review, 13
June 1959)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1237]
2015/02/23: OUR TENTH NOVEL BY NEVIL SHUTE IS A CLASSIC WARTIME ESCAPE ADVENTURE
, AND WAS AN IMMEDIATE HIT WHEN PUBLISHED! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S
COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY O
F NEVIL SHUTE'S NOVELS UNTIL 2031 !!
Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist] Wikipedia A
ustralian Dictionary of Biography
Pied Piper (1942) Wikipedia [Novel. An elderly Englishman, retired from the law,
goes to France for a holiday. But it's April 1940 and World War II has just beg
un! Getting to France proves easy, but the return trip to England is a very diff
erent matter especially since he's no longer travelling alone! The film adaptati
on Wikipedia, starring Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, and Anne Baxter, was nomin
ated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.] HTML HTML zipped Text Tex
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2014/11/19: A PIRATE STORY BY ROBERT E. HOWARD !
Howard, Robert E. [Robert Ervin] (1906-1936) [American fantasy and horror author
] Wikipedia
Black Vulmea's Vengeance (November 1938) [Story. The pirate Black Terence Vulmea
encounters a cruel British Navy captain who kills his crew, takes him prisoner,
and threatens to hang him. Vulmea tempts him with a story of buried treasure. I
n the course of the search, somewhere in the jungles of South America, Vulmea an
d the captain encounter hostile savages, escaped slaves, and a giant anaconda. T
he thrill count is high, as is the body count.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zippe
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2015/02/17: A CLASSIC AND WONDERFUL BOOK FOR CHILDREN FROM AN UNEXPECTED AUTHOR
THE LEGENDARY GENETICIST AND STATISTICIAN J. B. S. HALDANE! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACI
FIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'
T OFFER YOU THIS EBOOK UNTIL 2035 !!
NGS TO US, THE PEOPLE OF CANADA, AND WE EXPECT OUR GOVERNMENT TO STAND UP FOR US
AND DEFEND OUR PUBLIC DOMAIN AGAINST ATTACKS BY FOREIGN CORPORATIONS AND THEIR
GOVERNMENTS !
White, T. H. [Terence Hanbury] (1906-1964) [English novelist] Wikipedia
The Once and Future King (1958) Wikipedia [White's famous tetralogy: four novels
about the early life and subsequent reign of King Arthur. The first three novel
s had previously appeared separately, but the first of them, The Sword in the St
one, was revised substantially for this 1958 republication. The novels, like lif
e itself, are a mixture of tragedy and comedy.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zippe
d EPUB [PGC #1225]
2014/12/31: WE WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR! TO ADD TO YOUR PLEASURE, WE'RE DE
LIGHTED TO OFFER YOU C.S. LEWIS'S THIRD AND FINAL SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL, WHICH C
OMPLETES THE STORY BEGUN IN OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET AND CONTINUED IN PERELANDRA
. ALL THREE NOVELS ARE SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS, AND YOU WILL FIND ALL THREE IN
OUR CATALOGUE !
Lewis, C. S. [Clive Staples] (1898-1963) [Irish critic, novelist, poet, and theo
logian] Wikipedia
That Hideous Strength. A modern fairy-tale for grown-ups. (1945) Wikipedia Lewis
iana (notes by Arend Smilde) [The final of the three stories in Lewis's science
fiction trilogy. The story which began on Mars and was continued on Venus comes
to its conclusion on Earth.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1224]
2014/12/25: FOR THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS IT IS OUR PLEASURE TO OFFER YOU TWE
LVE MYSTERY STORIES (ONE FOR EACH DAY!) BY BARONESS ORCZY, FEATURING LADY MOLLY
ROBERTSON-KIRK BETTER KNOWN AS LADY MOLLY OF SCOTLAND YARD !
Baroness Orczy [Orczy, Emmuska] (1865-1947) [English novelist] Wikipedia
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (1910) Wikipedia [Twelve mystery stories. Early on t
he narrator comments that "we shouldn't have half so many undetected crimes if s
ome of the so-called mysteries were put to the test of feminine investigation."
Over the course of the twelve stories Lady Molly Robertson-Kirk amply demonstrat
es how true this is. (And while introducing Lady Molly, let us suggest another c
elebrated female sleuth from the Project Gutenberg Canada catalogue: Hulbert Foo
tner's Madame Storey!)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1223]
2014/12/20: TODAY'S EBOOK IS POETRY (RATHER GOOD LIGHT VERSE) FROM AN UNEXPECTED
SOURCE THE VANCOUVER BOARD OF TRADE !
Beeman, Herbert (d. 1931) [Canadian businessman and poet] ABCBookworld
For Our Bureau. Being the Bureau Ballads contributed to Volumes One and Two of "
Via Vancouver," the journal of the Foreign Trade Bureau of the Vancouver Board o
f Trade, by the Secretary, Herbert Beeman. (1924) [Expertly written light poems,
taking as their inspiration the subject matter of the weekly Luncheon Lectures
at the Foreign Trade Bureau of the Vancouver Board of Trade. Trade patterns bein
g what they are, some of the poems are surprisingly topical even today.] HTML HT
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2014/12/11: A SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC BY C. S. LEWIS !
Lewis, C. S. [Clive Staples] (1898-1963) [Irish critic, novelist, poet, and theo
logian] Wikipedia
Perelandra (1943) Wikipedia Lewisiana (notes by Arend Smilde) [The second of Lew
is's three science fiction novels: the alternative title Voyage to Venus is foun
d in some editions. Dr. Elwin Ransom is called upon to make a second interplanet
ary voyage, this time to Venus, which turns out to be something close to paradis
e. But he has been summoned there for a reason...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zi
pped EPUB [PGC #1221]
2014/12/06: A NOVEL BY BARONESS ORCZY, SET DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, AND FEA
TURING THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL !
Baroness Orczy [Orczy, Emmuska] (1865-1947) [English novelist] Wikipedia
Sir Percy Hits Back (1927) Wikipedia [Historical novel, the ninth in the Scarlet
Pimpernel series. We are in France, during the Reign of Terror: the young and i
nnocent Fleurette Chauvelin, only just turned eighteen, must be saved from the g
uillotine. The situation clearly calls for the unique talents of Sir Percy Blake
ney, the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC
#1220]
2014/12/02: THREE INTERESTING AND VERY READABLE LECTURES ON CANADIAN HISTORY AND
POLITICS BY THE LEGENDARY J. W. DAFOE !
Dafoe, John Wesley (1866-1944) [Canadian journalist] Wikipedia
Canada, an American Nation (1935) ["American" as in "North American" three lectu
res delivered by Dafoe in 1934 at Columbia University and published in the follo
wing year with some additional material. Dafoe "thought the time and occasion op
portune to discuss... the common foundation of early North American feeling and
belief upon which the structures of government in both countries rest." As these
lectures show, Dafoe combined the writing and speaking skills of a fine profess
ional journalist with a deep knowledge of history and politics: hence, no doubt,
the honour of the invitation from Columbia to deliver these lectures.] HTML HTM
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2014/11/26: A COLLECTION OF TALKS AND SERMONS BY C. S. LEWIS SELECTED FOR PUBLIC
ATION BY LEWIS HIMSELF !
Lewis, C. S. [Clive Staples] (1898-1963) [Irish critic, novelist, poet, and theo
logian] Wikipedia
Transposition and other Addresses (1949) [Three sermons and two talks delivered
by Lewis during and shortly after the Second World War. Written in a conversatio
nal style appropriate to the circumstances of their creation, but full of substa
nce, as one expects from Professor Lewis.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPU
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2014/11/22: OUR NINTH NOVEL BY NEVIL SHUTE IS SET IN THE NOVELIST'S TWO HOMES AU
STRALIA AND ENGLAND !
Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist] Wikipedia A
ustralian Dictionary of Biography
Requiem for a Wren (1955) [Novel. Alan Duncan is returning to his native Austral
ia after years spent in England during the Second World War, in which he served
and was wounded. No sooner is he off the plane in Melbourne when he learns that
there has just been a mysterious death in the family household: of a housemaid.
But this housemaid is connected to our hero more closely than he thinks: like hi
mself, she had been in England and served in the military, as a Wren Wikipedia.
Before the novel ends, Duncan learns much more about her.] HTML HTML zipped Text
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2014/10/24: IN 1947, C.S. LEWIS HAD PUBLISHED HIS THREE FAMOUS SCIENCE FICTION N
OVELS, BUT THE NARNIA SERIES STILL LAY IN THE FUTURE. WHAT AN EXCELLENT TIME FOR
HIM TO WRITE THIS ESSAY ON STORIES !
Lewis, C. S. [Clive Staples] (1898-1963) [Irish critic, novelist, poet, and theo
logian] Wikipedia
On Stories (1947) [Essay. "It is astonishing", Professor Lewis writes, "how litt
le attention critics have paid to Story considered in itself." His essay pays a
great deal of attention to this question. Itself a fine piece of writing, along
the way it provides some very good reading suggestions!] HTML HTML zipped Text T
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2014/10/22: A NOVEL BY NEVIL SHUTE WHICH DEMONSTRATES HIS STRENGTHS AS A NOVELIS
T: SKILFUL WRITING, STRONG BELIEFS, COMBINED WITH A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF HOW SO
CIETY WORKS AND HOW PEOPLE THINK !
Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist] Wikipedia A
ustralian Dictionary of Biography
Ruined City [U.S. title: Kindling] (1938) Wikipedia [Novel, with some elements w
hich are timeless. Henry Warren is "successful": he is the head of a London fina
ncial firm. But he is in the middle of a divorce, and needs barbiturates to get
to sleep. A set of curious incidents lands Warren in a northern town which is in
a state of economic collapse after the closure of the local shipyard. Then thin
gs start happening.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1211]
14/10/18: TOAY'S EBOOK IS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE LEGENDARY ANGLO-AMERICAN CRIT
IC LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH THE FOURTH OF HIS BOOKS TO JOIN OUR CATALOGUE !
Smith, Logan Pearsall (1865-1946) [American essayist and editor] Wikipedia
Unforgotten Years (1938) [Smith's autobiography. "But the story he tells is more
than his own; it constitutes a picture of a vanished world, the one inhabited b
y his Quaker family in Germantown, and by Henry James in England, and Santayana
and Bernard Berenson on the Continent, the scene of a provincial Quaker corner o
f America, and of a sophisticated and expatriate America-in-Europe... nobody cou
ld fail to be charmed by the delicious savor of this exquisite and economical wr
iting." (Irwin Edman, Saturday Review, 31 December 1938)] HTML HTML zipped Text
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2014/10/11: A RAYMOND CHANDLER RARITY HIS LAST COMPLETED NOVEL FEATURING PHILIP
MARLOWE !
Chandler, Raymond [Raymond Thornton] (1888-1959) [American novelist and screenpl
ay writer] Wikipedia
Playback (1958) Wikipedia [The last Philip Marlowe mystery novel completed by Ch
andler, set in a resort town on the coast of California. Marlowe is to follow a
woman named Eleanor King, newly arrived in Los Angeles. Whether this is her real
name is only one of the mysteries in store for Marlowe.] HTML HTML zipped Text
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2014/10/07: TODAY WILLIAM FAULKNER JOINS OUR CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS, WITH THIS SCI
NTILLATING SHORT PIECE ABOUT HIS NATIVE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI !
Faulkner, William (1897-1962) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 194
9] Wikipedia Nobelprize.org
Mississippi (October 1954) [Faulkner on his native state. Not an essay, but an o
riginal creative work, as you will see.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB
[PGC #1208]
2014/10/05: TODAY WE COMPLETE OUR DIGITAL EDITION OF EDGAR WALLACE'S "EDUCATED E
VANS" TRILOGY !
Wallace, Edgar [Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar] (1875-1932) [English novelist, p
laywright, and screenplay writer] Wikipedia BFI screenonline
Good Evans! Being Further Adventures of Educated Evans. (1927) [Wallace's third
and final book featuring Educated Evans, "The World's Chief Turf Adviser"] HTML
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2014/10/02: A CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION STORY BY C. M. KORNBLUTH !
Kornbluth, Cyril M. (1924-1958) [American writer of science fiction] Wikipedia F
rederik Pohl blog entry (20 April 2009)
That Share of Glory (January 1952) [One of Kornbluth's most famous stories. Life
in the future may be somewhat monastic, or it may be wild and untameable. Or bo
th, if you belong to the Order, and have to deal with difficult situations...] H
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2014/09/27: A. G. MACDONELL WAS NOT ONLY A NOVELIST, BUT ALSO A PLAYWRIGHT AND D
RAMA CRITIC WHO BETTER TO DISCUSS THAT TRANSCENDENT FIGURE OF LONDON'S WEST END,
NOL COWARD ?
Macdonell, A. G. [Archibald Gordon] (1895-1941) [Scottish journalist, playwright
, and novelist] Wikipedia
The Plays of Mr. Noel Coward (November 1931) [An essay by Macdonell on the works
of his fellow playwright Nol Coward Wikipedia, who was still in his early thirti
es, but already the author of such classics as The Vortex, Hay Fever, and Privat
e Lives all of which Macdonell discusses.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPU
B [PGC #1205]
2014/09/25: EDGAR WALLACE'S FIRST BOOK FEATURING THAT EMINENT RACETRACK AUTHORIT
Y, EDUCATED EVANS !
Wallace, Edgar [Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar] (1875-1932) [English novelist, p
laywright, and screenplay writer] Wikipedia BFI screenonline
Educated Evans (1924) [Thirteen "episodes" set in the world of horse-racing, a w
orld with which Wallace was personally familiar. They mark the first appearance
in literature of Wallace's famous character Educated Evans, "The World's Premier
Turf Prophet".] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1204]
2014/09/19: OUR CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND ON THEIR VIGOROUSLY DE
BATED REFERENDUM A FINE EXERCISE IN DEMOCRACY! WE THOUGHT TODAY WOULD BE AN EXCE
LLENT TIME TO RECOMMEND FROM OUR CATALOGUE THIS CLASSIC SCOTTISH NOVEL WITH AN U
PDATED AND IMPROVED EPUB EDITION FOR YOUR TABLET/SMARTPHONE CONVENIENCE !
Macdonell, A. G. [Archibald Gordon] (1895-1941) [Scottish journalist, playwright
, and novelist] Wikipedia
England, Their England (1933) Wikipedia [A classic humour novel, winner of the 1
933 James Tait Black Memorial Prize Wikipedia for fiction. Our hero, Donald Came
ron, is a soldier who is recovering from war wounds. He is invited by a publishe
r to write a book about England, but from the viewpoint of a foreigner, i.e. a S
cotsman.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #695]
2014/09/16: IT IS A PRIVILEGE TO INTRODUCE TO OUR CATALOGUE THE TITANIC FIGURE O
F W. E. B. DU BOIS !
Du Bois, W. E. B. [William Edward Burghardt] (1868-1963) [American historian and
civil rights leader] Wikipedia
Life Seen at Ninety (1958) [An essay written by Du Bois on the occasion of his n
inetieth birthday. Age had not dimmed his passion and insight. One wonders what
he would say about the world today!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC
#1203]
2014/09/14: TODAY'S EBOOK IS BY C. S. LEWIS A FASCINATING PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEO
LOGICAL STUDY OF "LOVE" !
Lewis, C. S. [Clive Staples] (1898-1963) [Irish critic, novelist, poet, and theo
logian] Wikipedia
The Four Loves (1960) Wikipedia [Philosophical/theological monograph: a study of
love. But the single English word "love" is used for several quite different th
ings, as Professor Lewis demonstrates with his customary clarity and brilliance.
] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1202]
2014/09/10: OUR TWELFTH TITLE BY EDGAR WALLACE IS OUR FIRST TITLE FEATURING HIS
FAMOUS CHARACTER MR. COMMISSIONER SANDERS !
Wallace, Edgar [Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar] (1875-1932) [English novelist, p
laywright, and screenplay writer] Wikipedia BFI screenonline
Sanders [U.S. title: Mr. Commissioner Sanders] (1926) [Novel, one in a series of
novels featuring Wallace's famous creation Mr. Commissioner Sanders, a colonial
administrator in Africa.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1201]
2014/09/06: TWO YEARS AFTER THE APPEARANCE OF PASSENGER TO TEHERAN (WHICH IS IN
PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA'S CATALOGUE), VITA SACKVILLE-WEST PUBLISHED THIS FASCIN
ATING ACCOUNT OF HER FURTHER TRAVELS IN IRAN !
Sackville-West, Vita [Victoria Mary] (1892-1962) [English novelist, poet, essayi
st, gardener, and travel writer] Wikipedia
Twelve Days. An account of a journey across the Bakhtiari Mountains in South-wes
tern Persia. (1928) [Travel book, with photographs. Our author and several frien
ds decide to travel across the Bakhtiari Mountains of Iran: a difficult but fasc
inating journey...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1200]
2014/09/02: NOUS ACCUEILLONS... M. ARSNE LUPIN !
Leblanc, Maurice (1864-1941) [Romancier franais] fr.wikipedia
L'Agence Barnett et Cie (1928) fr.wikipedia [Huit nouvelles. Qu'tait-ce que ce cu
rieux personnage qui avait nom Jim Barnett ? demande notre romancier dans sa prfa
ce, et fournit lui-mme la rponse : M. Arsne Lupin fr.wikipedia, semble-t-il...] HTM
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2014/08/25: TODAY WE INTRODUCE A CHARACTER WHO IS ONE OF EDGAR WALLACE'S MOST ME
MORABLE CREATIONS EDUCATED EVANS !
Wallace, Edgar [Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar] (1875-1932) [English novelist, p
Evelyn Waugh (December 1946) [Essay: a beautifully written and surprisingly comp
rehensive survey of the works of Evelyn Waugh Wikipedia, up to and including the
then recently published Brideshead Revisited Wikipedia.] HTML HTML zipped Text
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2014/08/02: TODAY A VERY SPECIAL NAME JOINS THE PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA CATALOG
UE THE POET ROBERT FROST! AND TODAY'S EBOOK CONTAINS FOUR MAGNIFICENT WOODCUTS B
Y HIS CLOSE FRIEND, J. J. LANKES, WHO WAS GEOGRAPHICALLY ALMOST A CANADIAN BORN
IN BUFFALO, ACROSS THE RIVER FROM FORT ERIE, ONTARIO !
Frost, Robert [Robert Lee] (1874-1963) [American poet] Wikipedia
West-Running Brook (1928) Wikipedia [Collection of lyric poems, with four beauti
ful woodcuts by J. J. Lankes (1884-1960) Wikipedia Vanderbilt University, a pers
onal friend of the poet. "Here... is the metaphysical lyric as no one but Robert
Frost could write it. And so it is throughout 'West-Running Brook.' The ripe re
pose, the banked emotion, the nicely blended tenderness and humor are everywhere
." (Louis Untermeyer Wikipedia, Saturday Review, 28 December 1928)] HTML HTML zi
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2014/07/31: FIRST CAME PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA, THEN CAME THE EPUB STANDARD WHI
CH MEANS THAT SOME FINE EARLY TITLES HAVEN'T BEEN AVAILABLE IN EPUB. FIVE YEARS
AFTER THEIR FIRST APPEARANCE ON OUR SITE, WE'RE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT OUR EPUB VE
RSION OF THESE FINE TRAVEL ESSAYS BY STELLA BENSON !
Benson, Stella (1892-1933) [English novelist] Wikipedia
The Little World (1925) [Travel essays, describing our author's visits to numero
us exotic locations. "Have no fears that "The Little World " is not interesting
and well-written and clever and alive. Stella Benson is never, in any of these r
espects, a disappointment; she is too expert a journalist to fail the readers wh
o for her sake alone will wander through India and China, and go across the Amer
ican continent, and touch Africa, and swelter in Aden." (Saturday Review, 5 Dece
mber 1925)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #267]
2014/06/26: TODAY'S EBOOK IS THE FIRST OF FORD MADOX FORD'S CLASSIC PARADE'S END
NOVELS !
Ford, Ford Madox [Hueffer, Ford Madox] (1873-1939) [English novelist] Wikipedia
Some Do Not... (1924) Wikipedia [Novel, the first of the four Parade's End novel
s Wikipedia. We are introduced to Christopher Tietjens, the main character. Tiet
jens works in Britain's Imperial Department of Statistics. Society appears calm
and well-ordered: but the First World War lies just around the corner...] HTML H
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2014/06/20: IF YOU WERE TO LOSE ANY OF YOUR PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA EBOOKS TO F
IRE OR ANY OTHER ACCIDENT, NO PROBLEM: SIMPLY VISIT US AND DOWNLOAD FREE REPLACE
MENTS WE'RE HERE TO HELP! IN 1942, THINGS WEREN'T SO SIMPLE, AS ROSE MACAULAY TE
STIFIES !
Macaulay, Dame Rose [Emilie Rose] (1881-1958) [English novelist and essayist] Wi
kipedia
Book-Building after a Blitz (June 1942) [Essay. In 1942, our author lost her ent
ire personal library when a bomb landed on her London flat. She had a new projec
t in front of her: recreating her collection! Surprisingly optimistic in tone, a
ll things considered: perhaps Macaulay sensed that her most famous creation, The
Towers of Trebizond, lay ahead of her!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB
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2014/07/14: HERE AT PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA, WE LOVE THE USING THE EPUB EBOOK F
ORMAT (ESPECIALLY ON TABLETS), AND WE ALSO LOVE GWEN RAVERAT'S WONDERFUL AND WON
DERFULLY ILLUSTRATED MEMOIR PERIOD PIECE, WHICH WE PUBLISHED BACK IN 2011! WE'VE
NOTICED THAT A FEW LITTLE CHANGES WOULD MAKE THE EPUB THAT MUCH HANDSOMER, SO T
ODAY'S "NEW RELEASE" IS THAT NEW AND IMPROVED EPUB ENJOY !
Raverat, Gwen [Gwendolen Mary] (1885-1957) [English artist] Wikipedia
Period Piece. A Cambridge Childhood. (1952) Wikipedia [Autobiography, marvellous
ly written and profusely illustrated by its author. Raverat was a granddaughter
of Charles Darwin Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #741]
2014/07/12: OUR FIRST NOVEL BY ANNA BUCHAN, SISTER OF JOHN BUCHAN: HER OWN NOVEL
S, NOT AT ALL SIMILAR TO THOSE OF HER BROTHER, ENJOYED GREAT SUCCESS !
Buchan, Anna Masterton [Douglas, O.] (1877-1948) [Scottish novelist] Wikipedia
Jane's Parlour (1937) Leaves & Pages Reading 1900-1950 Sheffield Hallam Universi
ty (Helen C) [Novel, set in Scotland, with a focus on the events of everyday lif
e not necessarily a bad thing, as the novels of Jane Austen demonstrate. Written
in a classic and elegant style, as befits the sister of John Buchan. But the se
nsational events found in her brother's action novels are quite foreign to the s
ympathetic world of Anna Buchan.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1
189]
2014/07/06: NEVIL SHUTE WROTE TODAY'S NOVEL SHORTLY BEFORE HIS PASSING WHEN CLEA
RLY HE WAS AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS LITERARY POWERS !
Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist] Wikipedia A
ustralian Dictionary of Biography
Trustee from the Toolroom (1960) Wikipedia [Novel, published shortly after Shute
's passing. Keith Stewart is a technical writer, specializing in model machinery
. He is swept into a world of intrigue, involving family, mysterious wealth, and
exotic locales!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1188]
2014/07/04: HERE AT PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA WE TRY TO GET OUR EBOOKS EXACTLY RI
GHT. THIS CARE AND ATTENTION SOMETIMES DELAYS OUR PUBLICATION DATES WHICH EXPLAI
NS WHY THE EBOOK WE INTENDED FOR CANADA DAY (OUR SITE'S SEVENTH BIRTHDAY!) IS AC
TUALLY APPEARING ON THE NATIONAL HOLIDAY OF A CERTAIN OTHER COUNTRY! IT'S A VERY
CANADIAN NOVEL BY ONTARIO'S MAZO DE LA ROCHE, BASED, IT WOULD SEEM, ON THE LIFE
OF HER FAMOUS COUSIN, H. R. MACMILLAN A LEGENDARY FIGURE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA !
de la Roche, Mazo (1879-1961) [Canadian novelist and playwright] Wikipedia
Growth of a Man (1938) [Novel, which follows Shaw Manifold from his boyhood in S
outhern Ontario to his adulthood as a forester in British Columbia. H. R. Macmil
lan Wikipedia, de la Roche's cousin, and a central figure in the history of Brit
ish Columbia's forest industry, appears to have inspired the novel!] HTML HTML z
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You will find thousands of other interesting titles at Project Gutenberg's US an
d Australian websites. Many of the Canadian ebooks listed below were originally
created for these two sites, which have kindly made them available to us. You wi
ll find a large catalogue of excellent titles in French at Ebooks Libres et Grat
uits, who have also kindly made their catalogue available to us.
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tuits et Projet Gutenberg Australie, qui vous offrent des milliers de livres cap
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nt nos partenaires qui se sont occups de numriser de nombreux documents ci-dessous
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Select Comic Tales. From the Best Authors. (ca. 1808) [A collection of tales, mo
stly anonymous, selected by an anonymous editor, but including stories by Franois
Blanchet (1707-1784) fr.wikipedia and Charles Johnstone (ca.1719 - ca.1800) Com
pendium of Irish Biography. Colour frontispiece and title page by an anonymous a
rtist. All in all, a work with a good deal of anonymity.] HTML HTML zipped Text
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Aunt Ann's Lesson-Book, for Very Young Children. In Words of One and Two Syllabl
es. (1822) [Vignettes intended to entertain and instruct young children, "by a f
riend to little children." Includes colour illustrations by an anonymous artist.
] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #515]
Tales and Novels for Youth of Both Sexes (1831) [Tales and historical accounts f
rom French history and culture, published in Paris in 1831, but written in Engli
sh. The illustrations include an engraved frontispiece reproducing a work by Cha
rles-Abraham Chasselat (1782-1843).] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #549
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The Broken Vase, and Other Stories; for Children and Youth. (1847) [Stories for
children, with illustrations]
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Story of Simple Simon (this edition ca. 1850-1864) [Traditional children's poem
Wikipedia, nicely illustrated by an unknown hand] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zip
ped [PGC #514]
Dan Drake's Rhymes and Dame Duck's Jingles (1859) [Illustrated poems]
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Ball-Room Dancing Without a Master, and complete guide to the Etiquette, Toilet,
Dress and Management of the ball-room; with all the Principal Dances in Popular
Use. (1872) [Manual]
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Comic Animals and their Adventures. With Alphabet and Rhymes. (ca. 1880?) [Alpha
bet book and children's story: includes illustrations by G. H. Thompson (fl. 183
3-1884) and Louis Wain (1860-1939) Wikipedia]
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WAAC: The Woman's Story of the War (1930) [Autobiography: an intimate account of
the writer's personal experience of the First World War. Not your standard war
memoir!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Metropolitan Cook Book, Edition of Aug. 1954 (1954) [Cookbook. published by the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Abbott, John Stevens Cabot (1805-1877) [American historian] Wikipedia
The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and his Companions in their explorat
ions of the prairies, forests, lakes, and rivers, of the New World, and their in
terviews with the savage tribes, two hundred years ago. (1875) [History, mostly
concerning Ren-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadia
n Biography] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Abbott-Smith, George (1864-1947) [Canadian theologian and philologist]
A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1937 [third edition: first edition
published in 1921, second edition in 1923]) [Dictionary of New Testament Greek,
with many references to how Greek words in the New Testament were used in the Se
ptuagint translation of the Old Testament to represent their Hebrew counterparts
] HTML zipped DjVu PDF
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w typography of the printed edition, we present this monument of scholarship as
a downloadable set of scans approximately 42 megabytes in size. You should downl
oad the file, unzip it, and use the main HTML page to navigate to the appropriat
e pages. As an alternative, you can download the scans in DjVu format (15 megaby
tes) or as a PDF file (54 megabytes).
Acland, Peregrine Palmer (1890-1963) [Canadian novelist] The Dusty Bookcase (Bri
an Busby) Field Punishment No.1 (James Calhoun)
All Else Is Folly. A Tale of War and Passion. (1929) [One of the most famous Can
adian novels about the First World War, describing the experiences of a young so
ldier, Alexander Falcon, who finds himself transported from a ranch in southern
Alberta to the battlefields of France, with part of the novel being set at an En
glish country house, Bendip Towers. No less a figure than Ford Madox Ford (18731939) Wikipedia contributed the preface: "Major Acland's is, I imagine, the firs
t really authentic work of imaginative writing dealing with the War to come out
of one of the great British Dominions... it will be little less than a scandal i
f the book is not read enormously widely. And that is the truth."] HTML HTML zip
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Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) [English essayist and playwright] Wikipedia NNDB
Cato. A Tragedy. (1713) [Tragedy, extremely popular throughout the eighteenth ce
ntury, describing the last days of Cato the Younger (95-46 B.C.) Wikipedia, a le
ading opponent of Julius Caesar. Our edition includes some introductory remarks
by the playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) Wikipedia] HTML HT
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Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 B.C.) [Athenian playwright] Wikipedia
Translations by Murray, Gilbert [George Gilbert Aim] (1866-1957) [English classic
al scholar] Wikipedia Australian Dictionary of Biography Biographisch-Bibliograp
hisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) [in German]
The Persians (472 B.C. [Greek original], 1939 [this translation]) [The oldest su
rviving Greek tragedy. It deals with a contemporary event: the reaction of the P
ersian court to the news of the Greek victory over the Persians at Salamis Wikip
edia, a battle in which Aeschylus is believed to have fought. The tone of the pl
ay is surprisingly sympathetic to the Persians.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipp
ed [PGC #752] Wikipedia ancient-literature.com H. W, Smyth's edition of the orig
inal Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
The Suppliant Women (ca. 463 B.C. [Greek original], 1930 [this translation]) [A
very early Greek tragedy, notable for the importance of the chorus in the drama.
The daughters of Danaus Wikipedia arrive as refugees in Argos, seeking protecti
on from forced marriage in Egypt.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #841]
Twelve Tales, with a Headpiece, a Tailpiece, and an Intermezzo: Being Select Sto
ries by Grant Allen, Chosen and Arranged by the Author (1899) [Allen's own selec
tion of his personal favourites among the many short stories he created. In the
very interesting introduction he explains how, essentially by accident, he becam
e a writer of fiction.]
CAUTION: Certain language in this ebook today would be considered grossly racist
.
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Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose (1900) [Posthumous novel; final cha
pters completed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)] HTML and Text
Alloway, Mary Wilson (1848-1919) [Canadian novelist and historian]
Famous Firesides of French Canada (1899) [Essays on the history of French Canada
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Crossed Swords. A Canadian-American Tale of Love and Valor. (1912) [Historical n
ovel set during the 1775 attack on Quebec Wikipedia by American forces led by Ri
chard Montgomery Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography and Benedict Arnold
Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography, successfully repulsed by the British
garrison under the command of Guy Carleton Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Bio
graphy] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #660]
Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875) [Danish writer and poet; crivain et pote dano
is] Wikipedia fr.wikipedia
Contes merveilleux - Tome I [Contes] HTML et Texte
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Stories from Hans Andersen (1911) [Stories: illustrated by Edmund Dulac (1882-19
53) Wikipedia] HTML and Text
Tales from Hans Andersen Forty-Two Stories (1930) [Stories: translated from the
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The Dauntless Tin Soldier HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped HTML ['Den standhaft
ige Tinsoldat' (1838) Danish] (The Royal Library of Denmark)
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Heart of Asia. True Tales of the Far East. (1951) [Autobiographical essays about
various adventures of the author during his celebrated expeditions to China and
Mongolia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #886]
Beyond Adventure. The Lives of Three Explorers. (1954) [Biographical sketches of
the Arctic explorer Robert Peary (1856-1920) Wikipedia, of the African explorer
Carl Akeley (1864-1926) Wikipedia, and of the author himself. These short biogr
aphies originally appeared in True, The Man's Magazine Wikipedia Field & Stream
(David E. Petzal) before they were collected in this book.] HTML HTML zipped Tex
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Anet, Claude [pseudonyme de Jean Schopfer] (1868-1931) [Journaliste et romancier
franais] fr.wikipedia
Ariane, jeune fille russe (1920) [Roman: la source de deux films clbres: Ariane, j
eune fille russe (1932, Paul Czinner) IMDb et Ariane [Love in the Afternoon] (19
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y, unusually sardonic in tone for Barrie, as can be seen from his introduction t
o the play: "Mr. Garson, who is a financier, and his young wife, the lovely Lady
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La tte de Martin: Comdie en un acte (1900) [Comdie] HTML et Texte
Barry, Philip [Philip Jerome Quinn] (1896-1949) [American playwright] Wikipedia
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The Animal Kingdom. A Comedy. (1932) [Comedy; one of Barry's greatest hits] HTML
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Bateman, Reginald John Godfrey (1883-1918) [Canadian university teacher and mili
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Reginald Bateman, Teacher and Soldier. A Memorial Volume of Selections from his
Lectures and Other Writings. (1922) [An anthology, edited and with a preface by
unnamed friends and students of Bateman at the University of Saskatchewan, where
Bateman taught English. The anthology includes lectures and essays on Francis T
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The Blood of the Martyrs [Professor Malzius has been condemned to death; interes
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story Bent demonizes, as it were, a number of historical figures considered in Ca
nada as being among the Loyalists Wikipedia who founded English Canada: Walter B
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Blossom and Fruit [The predictions of youth are not the same as the outcomes of
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From Tales before Midnight (1939) [Short stories]
Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer [Johnny Pye is a young boy, and an impressionable
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O'Halloran's Luck [Many Irishmen have emigrated across the Atlantic. But what ab
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Jacob and the Indians [A pious young German Jew arrives in eighteenth-century Ph
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The Die-Hard [The American Civil War ended in 1865...or did it? Not, it seems fr
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Doc Mellhorn and the Pearly Gates [Can a country GP ever retire?] HTML HTML zipp
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The Story about the Anteater [Not a story about an anteater, but a story about a
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Nightmare at Noon (1940) [Poem, written around the time that the U.S. entered th
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Bengough, John Wilson (1851-1923) [Canadian cartoonist and publisher] Wikipedia
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Bengough's Chalk-Talks. A Series of Platform Addresses on various topics, with r
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The Desert Girl (probably ca. 1928: certainly before 1958) [Novel (Western)] HTM
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Friendship and Happiness (1912) [Reflections on happiness, with special referenc
e to friendship and to the importance of Christmas] HTML HTML zipped Text Text z
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Things That Have Interested Me (1921) [A journal of day-by-day reflections on a
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nglish, but none the worse for that, especially coming from Arnold Bennett.] HTM
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Things That Have Interested Me. Second Series. (1923) [Further essays and reflec
tions. Includes a review of James Joyce's recently published Ulysses Wikipedia]
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Riceyman Steps (1923) Wikipedia [Novel about a London secondhand bookseller, his
wife, and his maid. Winner of the 1923 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fict
ion.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1006]
Elsie and the Child. A Tale of Riceyman Steps and Other Stories. (1924) [Thirtee
n tales about various residents of London, the first of them being Elsie Spricke
tt, the domestic servant who had already appeared in Arnold's well received 1923
novel Riceyman Steps.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1004]
Things That Have Interested Me. Third Series. (1926) [Essays] HTML HTML zipped T
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The Strange Vanguard: A Fantasia (1928) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zippe
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Visible and Invisible (1923) [Stories of the supernatural] HTML HTML zipped Text
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Spook Stories (1928) [Ghost stories, as you might guess.] HTML HTML zipped Text
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Charlotte Bront (1932) [A biography of the famous author of Jane Eyre, with a fin
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More Spook Stories (1934) [Further ghost stories, written as a sequel to Spook S
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Benson, Louis FitzGerald (1855-1930) [American church historian and hymnologist]
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The Hymnody of the Christian Church [The Stone Lectures, 1926, Princeton Theolog
ical Seminary] (1927) [Lectures on various aspects of the use of hymns in Christ
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The Little World (1925) [Travel essays, describing our author's visits to numero
us exotic locations. "Have no fears that "The Little World " is not interesting
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ican continent, and touch Africa, and swelter in Aden." (Saturday Review, 5 Dece
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Goodbye, Stranger (1926) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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Hope Against Hope and Other Stories (1931) [Short stories] HTML HTML zipped Text
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Journal d'un cur de campagne (1936) [Roman: Grand Prix du roman de l'Acadmie franai
se, 1936] HTML (Ebooks libres et gratuits)
Nouvelle histoire de Mouchette (1937) [Roman] HTML (Ebooks libres et gratuits)
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First Childhood (1934) [Autobiography] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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ipedia (B. M. Bower) University of Oklahoma (Kate Baird Anderson) Wikipedia (Wes
tern fiction) Wikipedia (Westerns)
The Parowan Bonanza (1923) [Novel about prospectors in Nevada. Includes a fronti
spiece by the American artist Frank Tenney Johnson (1874-1939) Wikipedia Sid Ric
hardson Museum National Museum of Wildlife Art Christie's] HTML HTML zipped Text
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Points West (1928) [Western novel. Cole is the son of wealth, but through no fau
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Hay-Wire (1928) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped University of Oklahoma
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Trails Meet (1933) [Western novel. Our hero, Jess Robison, a cowboy with talents
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Brazil, Angela (1868-1947) [English novelist] Wikipedia Literary Heritage West M
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An Exciting Term (1936) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956) [American novelist, journalist, and organic farmer]
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Awake and Rehearse (1929) [Short stories, originally published separately, now c
ollected in book form by the already famous novelist, taking place in various lo
cales. "These are stories, for the most part, of women. And what women! Hogarth
and Daumier might have battled for them as models...hags, harlots, spinsters, ho
ofers, jeunes filles, grandes dames, priestesses..." (Gladys Graham, Saturday Re
view, 1 June 1929)]
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Night in Bombay (1940) [Novel about the guests in a hotel in India: one might sa
y, Grand Hotel moved to the subcontinent. "This is fiction for fun. And as such
it is done with sophistication, good meaty sentimentality, a shrewd seeing eye f
or surfaces, and the greatest skill in writing for pure entertainment." (Jonatha
n Daniels, Saturday Review, 11 May 1940)]
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Mrs. Parkington (1943) [Novel: the basis for the 1944 film of the same name Wiki
pedia. Mrs. Parkington, born in Leaping Rock, Nevada, has ascended the social la
dder and is now a lady of great wealth. But the children of the wealthy often la
ck the qualities of their forebears. "'Mrs. Parkington' is in the old and rich t
radition of Thackeray and Trollope, Howells and Mrs. Wharton... if the book is t
uned to the familiar theme from shirt-sleeves to shirt-sleeves in three generati
ons, the melody is full-blooded, the interest does not flag." (Howard Mumford Jo
nes, Saturday Review, 9 January 1943)]
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The World We Live In (1944) [Nine short stories, set in various locales (the U.S
., Monte Carlo, Switzerland...) and with various sets of characters, but all sho
wing Louis Bromfield's creative powers and unobtrusively excellent style of writ
ing.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1252]
Colorado (1947) [Novel about money and family. Richard Meaney returns to his nat
ive Colorado after three years at Oxford, accompanied by his tutor, Mr. Chatswor
thy. "As swift in pace and as highly colored as a first-rate Western movie, Mr.
Bromfield's latest story rushes with great gusto through most of the situations
which Hollywood has taught us to look for in tales of rowdy, frontier days... Bu
t it is no small tribute to Mr. Bromfield's vivid storytelling that the reader c
an put down the book almost convinced that he has seen rather than read a great
part of the novel." (Pamela Taylor, Saturday Review, 1 November 1947)]
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Bront, Charlotte (1816-1855) [English novelist] Wikipedia
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Brooke, Frances (1724-1789) [English novelist] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian
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Canada] HTML and Text
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The Golden Goose Book, being the stories of The Golden Goose, The Three Bears, T
he 3 Little Pigs, Tom Thumb, with numerous Drawings in Colour and Black-and-Whit
e (1905) [Stories with pictures] HTML and Text
Nursery Rhymes I. Songs and Ditties. (ca. 1916) [the first in a set of three vol
umes of the traditional rhymes, with Brooke's marvellous illustrations] HTML HTM
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Brooker, Bertram (1888-1955) [Canadian painter and novelist] Wikipedia Universit
y of Manitoba CyberMuse
Think of the Earth (1936) [Novel: winner in the year of its publication of the f
irst Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction ever awarded. An expatriate E
nglishman has a weekend of self-discovery in Manitoba: he falls in love, and rea
lizes that he must become less introspective than formerly.] HTML HTML zipped Te
xt Text zipped EPUB [PGC #765]
The Robber. A Tale of the Time of the Herods. (1949) [Historical novel, based on
the figure of Barabbas Wikipedia in the Gospel.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zip
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Broughton, Rhoda (1840-1920) [English novelist] Wikipedia Literary Heritage West
Midlands
Doctor Cupid. A Novel. (1886) [Novel. Social and romantic doings in Victorian En
gland. At the novel's beginning stands one of many versions of a famous four-lin
e poem from late mediaeval Germany Wikipedia de.wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text
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Browning, Robert (1812-1889) [English poet] Wikipedia Academy of American Poets
Strafford: An Historical Tragedy (1837) [Play] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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Bruce, James, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine (1811-1863) [Governo
r General of the Province of Canada 1847-54] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Bi
ography Canadian Encyclopedia
Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin (1872) [Historical essays] T
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Buchan, Anna Masterton [Douglas, O.] (1877-1948) [Scottish novelist] Wikipedia
Jane's Parlour (1937) Leaves & Pages Reading 1900-1950 Sheffield Hallam Universi
ty (Helen C) [Novel, set in Scotland, with a focus on the events of everyday lif
e not necessarily a bad thing, as the novels of Jane Austen demonstrate. Written
in a classic and elegant style, as befits the sister of John Buchan. But the se
nsational events found in her brother's action novels are quite foreign to the s
ympathetic world of Anna Buchan.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1
189]
Unforgettable, Unforgotten (1945) [A memoir of the author's family, especially h
er beloved brother John, the celebrated novelist and fifteenth Governor General
of Canada, whom Anna visited in Canada. Illustrated with five nicely chosen phot
ographs.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #850]
Buchan, John [first Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield] (1875-1940) [Scottish novelist
; Governor General of Canada 1935-1940] Wikipedia Queens University Archives
Sir Quixote of the Moors. Being Some Account of an Episode in the Life of the Si
eur de Rohaine. (1895) [Buchan's first novel (or rather, novella: it is quite sh
ort): the Sieur de Rohaine has fallen on hard times, and leaves his native Franc
e to live for a while in the Scottish Highlands. "We understand that this is the
first piece of fiction by a new writer. If so, it is a decidedly promising bit
of work, full of humour and vitality, and it deserves to be successful" (The Boo
kman, December 1895). Includes a frontispiece by New Jersey artist Walter Conant
Greenough (d. 1898)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1049]
A Lost Lady of Old Years. A Romance. (1899) [Historical novel, described by Buch
an as an "auld Highland story", taking place during the tumultuous events of 174
5, when Bonnie Prince Charlie Wikipedia landed in Scotland and set in play the e
vents that led to the disastrous Battle of Culloden.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text
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A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys (1922 [original edition]; 1925 [this edit
ion]) [A series of essays on twelve famous escapes, ranging from the seventeenth
to the twentieth centuries, and from Central Asia to the New World. Our future
Governor General's abilities as a writer and as a historian are on full display.
The 1925 edition we used as the basis of our ebook was meant for school use, an
d includes a new set of illustrations, and an epilogue by an anonymous author co
ntaining questions for discussion.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC
#945]
The Three Hostages (1924) [Thriller, the fourth in the Richard Hannay series Wik
ipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #678] Wikipedia
Lord Minto. A Memoir. (1924) [Biography of Buchan's fellow Scotsman Gilbert John
Elliot (1845-1914), fourth Earl of Minto, Governor General of Canada from 1898
to 1904 Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography. It was through Lord Minto's
efforts that the National Archives of Canada came into being.] HTML HTML zipped
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The Dancing Floor (1926) Wikipedia [Buchan's third novel featuring Scottish barr
ister Sir Edward Leithen: intrigue in the glamorous setting of the Greek Islands
] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1012]
Witch Wood (1927) Wikipedia [Novel about mysterious events in seventeenth-centur
y rural Scotland. At the time the novel appeared, Samuel Merwin commented that "
His [Buchan's] knowledge and his sense of the past seem to me to find their best
outlet in this new book... He has taken an old border legend, of a gentle count
ry minister, supposed to have been spirited away by the fairies in the dark wood
of Melanudrigill, and has breathed an astonishing life into it." (Saturday Revi
ew, 13 August 1927)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped UTF-8 text UTF-8 text zip
ped EPUB [PGC #1044]
The Runagates Club (1928) [Twelve stories told at the monthly meetings of a (fic
tional) London dining club, whose members included some famous figures from Buch
an's novels, such as Richard Hannay!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PG
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The Blanket of the Dark (1931) [Historical novel, set in England during the reig
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Sir Walter Scott (1932) [A biography of the Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walte
r Scott (1771-1832) Wikipedia, published by Buchan on the hundredth anniversary
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The Magic Walking-Stick (1932) [Novel for children. A young boy, Bill, buys a wa
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The King's Grace 1910-1935 (1935) [A profile of the life and times of George V W
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The Island of Sheep (1936) Wikipedia [Novel featuring Buchan's most famous chara
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History of Prince Edward Island (1875) [A history of Prince Edward Island Wikipe
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The Big Sleep (1939) Wikipedia [Chandler's first full-length crime novel. Privat
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Chrysler, Walter Percy (1875-1940) [American automotive engineer] Wikipedia Time
, 7 January 1929 [Man of the Year article] Time, 7 January 1929 [Man of the Year
cover] Time, 26 August 1940 [obituary]
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Life of an American Workman (1950 edition with new postscript by Sparkes; origin
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When I Remember... (1940) [Pamphlet: history of Britain's social service and inc
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Cody, Hiram Alfred (1872-1948) [Canadian priest, novelist, and biographer] Unive
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The Trail of the Golden Horn (1923) [Mystery novel, with elements of romance, se
t in Northern Canada (Cody lived in the Yukon for some years). A trapper finds a
n empty cabin, with evidence of a crime. We are introduced to a nurse, then to a
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The Master Revenge (1924) [Christian morality play done in the form of a novel]
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The Crimson Sign (1935) [Historical novel, set in Acadia Wikipedia towards the e
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Fighting Stars (1937 edition) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PG
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Colby, Charles William (1867-1955) [Canadian historian] Colby Curtis Museum, Sta
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ook includes a frontispiece by the Scottish artist Muirhead Bone (1876-1953) Wik
ipedia.]
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Cornford, F. M. [Francis Macdonald] (1874-1943) [English classical scholar] Wiki
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Microcosmographia Academica. Being a Guide for the Young Academic Politician. (1
908) Wikipedia [Monograph on political practices within universities, continuall
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Courage, James Francis (1903-1963) [New Zealand novelist] Te Ara (Grant Harris)
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From a Balcony (1926) [Short story. Major (retd.) Lionel Pratts is living happil
y in a fashionable area of London, along with his (female) dog Tommy. And he has
a friend, Miss Mildred Gannet...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #
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Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock (1826-1887) [English author] Wikipedia "Dinah Mulock C
raik" [1983 book by Sally Mitchell]
The Fairy Book. The Best Popular Fairy Stories Selected and Rendered Anew. (1863
[text], 1913 [illustrations]) Illustrated in colour by Warwick Goble (1862-1943
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[Fairy tales, some very familiar, others somewhat out of the ordinary] HTML HTML
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Crane, Walter (1845-1915) [English artist and illustrator] Wikipedia
The Absurd ABC (1874) [Picture book] HTML and Text
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The Song Of Sixpence Picture Book containing Sing a Song of Sixpence; Princess B
elle etoile; An Alphabet of Old Friends: with the original Coloured Designs By W
alter Crane including a preface and other embellishments (1909) [Picture book] H
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with Molesworth, Mary Louisa (1839-1921) [Scottish children's writer] Wikipedia
A Christmas Child. A Sketch of a Boy-Life. (1880) [Children's novel by Mrs. Mole
sworth, with illustrations by English artist and illustrator Walter Crane , engr
aved by Joseph Swain (1820-1909) The website of Bob Speel British Museum, or an
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The Adventures of Herr Baby (1881) [Children's novel by Mrs. Molesworth, with il
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Crowe, Catherine Ann (1790-1872) [English novelist and playwright] Wikipedia Uni
versity of Kent
Ghosts and Family Legends. A Volume for Christmas. (1859) ["It happened," writes
Mrs. Crowe, "that I spent the last winter in a large country mansion, in the no
rth of England, where we had a succession of visitors, and all manner of amuseme
nts." Among these amusements were ghost stories...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text z
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Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander (1854-1939) [Canadian historian] Library and Archiv
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The Administration of Lieut.-Governor Simcoe, Viewed in his Official Corresponde
nce (1891) [Lecture on various interesting details of the early history of Upper
Canada (Ontario) which can be found in the official correspondence of John Grav
es Simcoe Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #445]
The Story of Butler's Rangers and the Settlement of Niagara (1893) [History of t
he Loyalist regiment Wikipedia founded by John Butler (1728-1796) Dictionary of
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ure town of Niagara-on-the-Lake Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
The Life of Sir Henry Morgan. With an account of the English settlement of the i
sland of Jamaica (1655-1688). (1935) [A very interesting biography of the Welsh
privateer Wikipedia. The PG Canada catalogue includes The Privateer, a historica
l novel about Sir Henry, published in 1952 by Josephine Tey using the pen name G
ordon Daviot: in her Author's Note, Tey describes Cruikshank's work as the "defi
nitive biography of Henry Morgan...It is dispassionate, exhaustive, and accurate
, and will prove an excellent corrective to both fictional biographies and biogr
aphical fictions."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #767]
Cullum, Ridgwell [Burghard, Sidney Groves] (1867-1943) [English novelist] Wikipe
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The Bull Moose (1931) [Adventure novel, set in the Yukon (where Cullum had lived
). A mysterious and dangerous man known as the Bull Moose has been robbing gold
miners. People are concerned; the police are concerned.] HTML HTML zipped Text T
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Cummings, Ray [Raymond King] (1887-1957) [American science fiction author] Wikip
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The Man Who Mastered Time (1929) [Science fiction novel. Time travel can be help
ful if you're on a rescue mission!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC
#1061]
The Shadow Girl (1962 version) [The 1962 book version of Cummings' famous novel,
first published in 1929 in serialized form. A custom-built television set does
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rl, and a mysterious tower. What do these visions portend? Time travel, it would
seem...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1060]
Curwood, James Oliver (1878-1927) [American novelist] Wikipedia Shiawassee Regio
nal Chamber of Commerce
The Ancient Highway. A Novel of High Hearts and Open Woods. (1925) [Novel, with
four illustrations by Walt Louderback (1887-1941). The novel is set in the years
following the First World War, and describes the adventures of Clifton Brant, a
young war veteran, in the vast northern forests of Quebec. Curwood's brief pref
ace pays tribute to the memory of his friend Sir William Price (1867-1924) Dicti
onary of Canadian Biography Centre d'histoire Sir William Price]
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The Black Hunter. A Novel of Old Quebec. (1926) [Novel, illustrated by Arthur Er
nst Becher (1877-1960), taking place in 1755, on the eve of the Seven Years' War
, and telling the story of Anne St. Denis and David Rock, two young people livin
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Stories from the Bible (1929) [Stories from the Old Testament, retold in modern
English] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #441]
Best Stories of Walter de la Mare (1942) [The author's own favourites among his
stories for adults. Elsewhere in this catalogue you will find many of his childr
en's stories.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #992]
Mr. Bumps and his Monkey (1942) [Novella for children] HTML HTML zipped Text Tex
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Collected Stories for Children (1947)
Dick and the Beanstalk HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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de la Roche, Mazo (1879-1961) [Canadian novelist and playwright] Wikipedia
The Jalna novels, in the order of the events they describe. We offer the followi
ng titles from the sixteen novels in the series:
Mary Wakefield (1949) [The third Jalna novel, taking place in the 1890s, years b
efore the events described in Jalna and Whiteoaks. The recently widowed Philip W
hiteoak has two young children, and needs a governess: the young and beautiful M
ary Wakefield, freshly arrived from England. Her arrival naturally causes great
commotion at Jalna. "Sometimes we have thought we had been given a little too mu
ch of Jalna... this volume convinces us that we really needed more of the chroni
cle. Taken as a whole, the work begins to stand up as one of the best achievemen
ts of Canadian literature". (Allan Nevins, Saturday Review, 29 January 1949). Th
e novel is dedicated to the celebrated Canadian sculptor Walter Allward (1876-19
55) Wikipedia, creator of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France.] HTML H
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Young Renny (1935) [The fourth Jalna novel. Renny and Meg Whiteoak are now in th
eir twenties, a complicated time of life for anyone, but particularly for Whiteo
aks. Family members of various ages, from the formidable Adeline down, participa
te fully in the turbulent but generally happy life of Jalna.] HTML HTML zipped T
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Jalna (1927) Wikipedia [The novel which launched the Jalna series. We are introd
uced to the Whiteoak family, and their estate, Jalna, located on the shore of La
ke Ontario.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1028]
Whiteoaks (1929) [Novel: the sequel to Jalna, and featuring the same brilliant s
et of characters. "The chapters which describe the last days of old Gran, and wh
ich hold us in suspense to learn upon which member of the great Jalna clan she h
as bestowed her hoarded fortune, would alone make the book a welcome acquisition
." (Allan Nevins, Saturday Review, 21 September 1929)] HTML HTML zipped Text Tex
t zipped EPUB [PGC #1134]
Finch's Fortune (1931) [Novel. Finch Whiteoak, grandson of Adeline Whiteoak, tur
ns twenty-one, and receives an enormous legacy under the terms of his grandmothe
r's will. Naturally this changes his life, and also the life of those around him
. "From the first page to the last, Finch's Fortune holds the reader enthralled.
" (Myra M. Waterman, The Bookman, November 1931)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zip
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The Master of Jalna (1933) [Novel. Finch has returned from England and rejoined
the rest of the Whiteoak family at Jalna. Of course, this doesn't mean that thin
gs are quiet and settled after all, we're talking about the Whiteoaks! "In this
latest instalment, the family vicissitudes are dominated by red-haired Rennie th
e strongest-willed of all since the passing of old Gran... he presides at the ma
nsion, raises horses, decides vital family issues, and keeps the clan together."
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Other works by Mazo de la Roche:
Whiteoaks. A Play. (1936) [Play adapted by de la Roche from her 1929 novel of th
e same name in the Jalna series. An enormous hit in London's West End, it was su
bsequently produced on Broadway.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1
115]
Growth of a Man (1938) [Novel, which follows Shaw Manifold from his boyhood in S
outhern Ontario to his adulthood as a forester in British Columbia. H. R. Macmil
lan Wikipedia, de la Roche's cousin, and a central figure in the history of Brit
ish Columbia's forest industry, appears to have inspired the novel!] HTML HTML z
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De Mille, James (1833-1880) [Canadian classical scholar and novelist] Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography jrank.org
The "B. O. W. C." A book for boys. (1869) [Novel for teenagers] HTML HTML zipped
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Behind the Veil. A Poem. (1893) [Transcendental poem, influenced by the ideas of
the Greek philosopher Plato Wikipedia. Discovered among De Mille's papers after
his death, and published by Archibald McKellar MacMechan (1862-1933) Wikipedia,
his friend and colleague at Dalhousie University Wikipedia.] HTML HTML zipped T
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Humour of the North (1912) [Anthology] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Decorde, Jean-Eugne (1811-1881) [Cur, historien et lexicographe franais]
Dictionnaire du patois du pays de Bray (1852) [Dictionnaire: Decorde tait cur de B
ures fr.wikipedia, pays de Bray fr.wikipedia, Normandie fr.wikipedia entre 1836
et 1870. Le franais que nous parlons aujourd'hui au Canada trouve ses origines en
Normandie.] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip
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Simon Fraser (1928) [An introduction to the life and achievements of the explore
r Simon Fraser (1776-1862) Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Includes
an illustration by C. W. Jefferys (1869-1951) Wikipedia McMaster University (Eri
c Weichel) Library and Archives Canada.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB
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Dionne, Narcisse-Eutrope (1848-1917) [Historien, lexicographe et bibliothcaire ca
nadien] fr.wikipedia Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Historique de l'glise Notre-Dame des Victoires, basse-ville de Qubec: deuxime cente
naire, 1688-1888 (1923) [Monographie sur l'glise Notre-Dame-des-Victoires fr.wiki
pedia Les glises de Qubec Universit du Qubec] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip Texte UT
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Djurklou, Nils Gabriel, friherre (1829-1904) [Swedish author] sv.wikipedia (in S
wedish) runeberg.org (in Swedish)
Fairy Tales from the Swedish of Baron G. Djurklou (1901) [Fairy tales: translate
d by Hans Lien Brkstad (1845-1915); illustrated by Theodor Severin Kittelsen, (18
57-1914) Wikipedia Lauvlia (Kittelsen's home), Erik Werenskiold (1855-1938) Wiki
pedia, and Carl Larsson (1853-1919) Wikipedia Carl and Karin Larsson Family Asso
ciation]
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Le divorce du tailleur. Pice archi-comique en un acte (1873) [Comdie] HTML et Text
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Le dner interrompu ou Nouvelle farce de Jocrisse. Farce comique en un acte (1873)
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Le pacha tromp ou Les deux ours. Pice comique en un acte (1878) [Comdie] HTML et Te
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Douglas, Amanda Minnie (1831-1916) [American novelist and poet] New Jersey Histo
rical Society
A Modern Cinderella (1913) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Du Bois, Louis [Louis-Franois] (1773-1855) [crivain et polymathe franais]
Travers, Julien (1802-1888) [Biographe franais]
Glossaire du patois normand (1856) [Glossaire, avec une vie de Louis Du Bois par
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n Normandie.] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip Texte UTF-8 Texte UTF-8 zip [PGC no
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Du Bois, W. E. B. [William Edward Burghardt] (1868-1963) [American historian and
civil rights leader] Wikipedia
Life Seen at Ninety (1958) [An essay written by Du Bois on the occasion of his n
inetieth birthday. Age had not dimmed his passion and insight. One wonders what
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Duguay, Camille (1882-1936) [crivain canadien]
La Veille de Nol: pice du terroir en deux actes et un tableau (1926) [Pice de thtre] H
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Dukes, Ashley (1885-1959) [English playwright, producer, critic, and translator]
Wikipedia The Modernist Journals Project (Mark Gaipa)
The Man with a Load of Mischief. A Comedy in Three Acts. (1924) [Comedy, of whic
h the action takes place at an English country inn. Dukes' most famous play.]
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The Scene is Changed (1942) [Dukes' account of his brilliant theatrical career i
n England, Germany, and North America, and the many literary and theatrical lumi
naries he knew. Includes a photograph of the author by Howard Coster (1885-1959)
Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #926]
Duncan, Isadora (1877-1927) [American dancer] Wikipedia
My Life (1927) [The autobiography of the celebrated dancer, written shortly befo
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f the 1968 film Isadora Wikipedia. Includes a preface by her publisher, Horace L
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n original]; 1794 [translation]; 1927 [preface]) [Free translation by Peter Teut
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nslation of the novel Skjutsgossen by Prof. Alex. L. Krause (fl. 1852-1854), wit
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ser Wikipedia, the Peace Wikipedia, and the Hay Wikipedia, with particular atten
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Le Major Anspech (1843) [Nouvelle, avec deux gravures contemporaines. Il y a qua
rante ans, le major Anspech tait l'un des plus beaux mousquetaires gris du rgiment
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France, Anatole [Thibault, Franois-Anatole] (1844-1924) [Romancier franais; prix N
obel de littrature, 1921] fr.wikipedia Acadmie Franaise
Les dieux ont soif (1912) [Roman. L'histoire d'un jeune peintre l'poque de la Ter
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The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton (1922) [Novel, involving the disparate themes
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Royal Regiment. A Drama of Contemporary Behaviours. (1938) [Novel. What happens
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? In the background is the story of Edward VIII and Mrs Wallis Simpson.] HTML HT
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Fraser, Alexander (1860-1936) [Canadian journalist and historian; Archivist of O
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The Last Laird of MacNab. An Episode in the Settlement of MacNab Township, Upper
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, and his role in the early history of Renfrew County Wikipedia, the town of Arn
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Grove, Frederick Philip (1879-1948) [Canadian novelist, poet, and essayist] Wiki
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list] Wikipedia
Tenant for Death (1937) [Cyril Hare's first mystery novel. Hare was a magistrate
, learned in the law, and therefore familiar with the term "tenant for life" -the holder of a property only while alive: that is, the property does not form p
art of his estate. But what is a tenant for death? Mr. Colin James may be an exa
mple: as the novel starts, he has mysteriously disappeared from the house he had
rented, and gone to France. There is a murder, needless to say; also Inspector
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Suicide Excepted (1939) [Mystery novel. Whether a death was a suicide or not can
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Tragedy at Law (1942) [Mystery novel. Even in wartime, the justice system contin
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d from London he may be, but Pettigrew discovers that life on the circuit is far
from dull!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1261]
With a Bare Bodkin (1946) [Mystery novel. You may ask, what is a bodkin? That is
a mystery easily solved. Francis Pettigrew, barrister and sleuth, explains: "Sh
arp, pointed instruments... They are used for piercing holes in bundles of paper
s for filing." Murder weapons, perhaps? We leave the larger mystery in the capab
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When the Wind Blows (1949) [Mystery novel; some editions use the alternative tit
le The Wind Blows Death. After giving some legal assistance to the local amateur
orchestra, Francis Pettigrew finds himself named the orchestra's treasurer, whi
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Spain. "Written in terse, precise, and aggressively fresh prose, and containing
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Hmon, Louis (1880-1913) [Romancier franais] fr.wikipedia Dictionnaire biographique
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Good-bye, Mr. Chips (1934) Wikipedia [Novel: an enduringly popular twentieth-cen
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Rich Boys and Poor Boys, and Other Tales (1833) [Six short stories for the young
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Choice Library for Young People. Tales for Youth. [Volume 3 of 5] (ca. 1850-1867
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s by James Bird (1788-1839), Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) Wikipedia, William Henr
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Three Score and Ten in Retrospect (1900) [Autobiography]
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Howard, Brian [Brian Christian de Claiborne] (1905-1958) [English poet and journ
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Worms of the Earth (November 1932) Wikipedia [Short story, set in Roman Britain.
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Pigeons from Hell (May 1938) Wikipedia [Mystery and fear in a house that is larg
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Black Vulmea's Vengeance (November 1938) [Story. The pirate Black Terence Vulmea
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n the course of the search, somewhere in the jungles of South America, Vulmea an
d the captain encounter hostile savages, escaped slaves, and a giant anaconda. T
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Hutcheson, Francis (1694-1746) [Irish philosopher] Wikipedia Dictionary of Ulste
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An Introduction to the Economic History of Ontario from Outpost to Empire (1935)
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Minerva's Owl (1947) [Presidential Address to the Royal Society of Canada: an ov
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A Plea for Time (1950) [Lecture delivered at the University of New Brunswick, co
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Roman Law and the British Empire (1950) [Lecture delivered at the University of
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Happy Hearts (1864) [Christmas story for children: with illustrations attributed
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th a frontispice by Ontario artist Alfred Morton Wickson (1882-1947) City of Tor
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The Great Gold Rush. A Tale of the Klondike. (1913) [A novel with a difference.
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Don Quixote in Finance, or Has Canada a Medici? A Tale of Treasons, Stratagems a
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a's financial elite, and the undue power Jarvis believed they held over the gove
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Mrs Bindle. Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles. (1922) [Humour
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Jennings, Amelia Clotilda (d. 1895) [Canadian poet and novelist] Dictionary of C
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edia The Jerome K Jerome Society Literary Heritage West Midlands
My Life and Times (1925) [The memoirs of the celebrated author of Three Men in a
Boat Wikipedia, one of the great classics of English humour. An interesting and
entertaining account of a life led in the literary circles of the Victorian and
Edwardian eras.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #557]
Johnson, Clifton (1865-1940) [American author and photographer] Jones Library, A
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) [Treatise] HTML and Text
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King, Basil [William Benjamin Basil] (1859-1928) [Canadian priest and novelist]
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The Giant's Strength (1907) [Novel: the interplay of money, love, and morality a
mong the expatriates of Monte Carlo and Paris] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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Abraham's Bosom (1918) [Novel. Our hero, Berkeley Noone, embarks on a voyage of
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Buckskin Brigade (1947) [Novelized accounts of various episodes of North America
n history, with a focus on the history of the United States, but with considerab
le coverage of New France as well. Like most of Kjelgaard's books, directed towa
rds teenage readers; beautifully illustrated by Ralph Ray, Jr. (1920-1952) North
Carolina History Project (Donald Beagle) Gaston Gazette (Bernie Petit).] HTML H
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Kalak of the Ice (1949) [Novel for teenagers, about Kalak the polar bear and her
cub. Humans come into the picture as the plot proceeds.] HTML HTML zipped Text
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Chip, the Dam Builder (1950) [Novel about the life of Chip the beaver and other
animals. Human beings appear in supporting roles. Like most of Kjelgaard's books
, directed towards teenage readers; beautifully illustrated by Ralph Ray, Jr. (1
920-1952) North Carolina History Project (Donald Beagle) Gaston Gazette (Bernie
Petit).] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #930]
The Explorations of Pre Marquette (1951) [A biography for teenagers of the Jesuit
missionary and explorer Jacques Marquette (1637-1675) Wikipedia Dictionary of C
anadian Biography, written in the style of a novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text z
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Fire-Hunter (1951) [Novel for teenagers, set in the prehistoric era. Lavishly il
lustrated by Ralph Ray, Jr. (1920-1952) North Carolina History Project (Donald B
eagle) Gaston Gazette (Bernie Petit).] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [P
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The Coming of the Mormons (1953) [A history of the migration of the Mormons Wiki
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ovelistic style, and, like most of Kjelgaard's books, written with teenagers in
mind. Includes an index.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #806]
Outlaw Red, Son of Big Red (1953) [A sequel to Kjelgaard's 1945 novel Big Red. O
utlaw Red, a rather special dog, is a son of that famous Irish Setter.] HTML HTM
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The Spell of the White Sturgeon (1953) [Novel for teenagers, taking place in the
fisheries of Lake Michigan, and featuring the mysterious White Sturgeon] HTML H
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Cracker Barrel Trouble Shooter (1954) [Novel for teenagers. Bill Rawls is a coll
ege student, studying architecture. He learns that by inheritance he is now the
owner of a general store in a village named Elk Shanty. This discovery changes h
is life significantly.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #887]
The Lost Wagon (1955) [Novel for adults. Joe Tower, a capable but not very prosp
erous Missouri farmer, decides to take his family to the West, following the Ore
gon Trail Wikipedia. Many adventures follow.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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Trading Jeff and his Dog (1956) [Novel for teenagers. A dog of mixed breeds, all
of them large (so he is large), is orphaned: his human dies under suspicious ci
rcumstances. After some wandering, he falls in with Jeff Tarrant, a young and am
bitious door-to-door salesman. Dog and human become fast friends.] HTML HTML zip
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Desert Dog (1956) [Novel for teenagers. Tawny the greyhound makes an unexpected
transition from the racetrack to living in the wild.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text
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Double Challenge (1957) [Novel for teenagers, taking place in a wilderness parad
ise which, paradise though it is, nonetheless does not shield the teenager Ted H
arkness from life's complexities. His father wants him to go to college, but Ted
's inclinations lie elsewhere.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #966
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Wolf Brother (1957) [Novel for teenagers, set in Arizona in 1884. Jonathan, an A
pache orphan now sixteen years of age, has to choose between conflicting loyalti
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The Black Fawn (1958) [Novel for teenagers. The young Bud Sloan, who has been li
ving in an orphanage, is adopted by an elderly couple in the countryside. Shortl
y after arriving in his new home, he discovers a black fawn, which seems, like h
im, to be without either mother or father...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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The Land is Bright (1958) [Novel. Judge Colin Campbell retires from the bench, o
nly to be swept up in the events of the American Civil War.] HTML HTML zipped Te
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The Story of Geronimo (1958) [A biography for teenagers of the Apache leader Ger
onimo (1829-1909) Wikipedia, written in the style of a novel] HTML HTML zipped T
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his brother and his two sisters were King and Queens under him." Shasta, an orp
han boy in the empire of Calormen, wants to escape to Narnia, which is situated
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t but never returned. Many adventures occur along the way. (Our ebook gives the
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Theological works:
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first book of theology: an examination of physical pain and mental suffering, a
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The Screwtape Letters (1942) Wikipedia Lewisiana (notes by Arend Smilde) [Theolo
gy, in the form of a series of letters purportedly written by the old and cunnin
g devil Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood, on the subject of how to distract huma
ns from God and the path of salvation. "This admirable, diverting, and remarkabl
y original work... the most exciting piece of Christian apologetics that has tur
ned up in a long time... a book for which believer and unbeliever alike may give
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Transposition and other Addresses (1949) [Three sermons and two talks delivered
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The Four Loves (1960) Wikipedia [Philosophical/theological monograph: a study of
love. But the single English word "love" is used for several quite different th
ings, as Professor Lewis demonstrates with his customary clarity and brilliance.
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Literary criticism:
On Stories (1947) [Essay. "It is astonishing", Professor Lewis writes, "how litt
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great deal of attention to this question. Itself a fine piece of writing, along
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Lewis, Percy Wyndham (1882-1957) [Canadian writer and painter] Wikipedia Cybermu
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The Wild Body. A Soldier of Humour and Other Stories. (1927) [Short stories and
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Inferior Religions [Reflections on creativity and human existence, with some ref
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The Meaning of the Wild Body [When is something absurd, and when is it comic? Br
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You Broke My Dream, or An Experiment with Time [The final story in the collectio
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Rotting Hill (1951) [Short stories] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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Ann Vickers (1933) Wikipedia [Novel, the basis for the 1933 movie Wikipedia with
Irene Dunne and Walter Huston. We follow Ann Vickers from her childhood in Waub
anakee, Illinois through to her later years in Manhattan, with much happening al
ong the way. Sinclair Lewis, as always, instructs while he entertains: we learn
about prison life, settlement houses Wikipedia and many other aspects of the soc
ial movements of the time. "It is his skill in blending such ardent propaganda f
or prison reform with a series of penetrating studies of men and women that make
s "Ann Vickers" one of the most important and fascinating novels that Mr. Lewis
has written." (Edgar Holt, The Bookman [U.K.], February 1933)]
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Lighthall, William Douw (1857-1954) [Canadian lawyer, politician, historian, nov
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Montreal After 250 Years (1892) [History of Montreal: includes a number of illus
trations]
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The Stream Runs Fast. My Own Story. (1945) [The second and final volume of McClu
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1935 move to Victoria, covering the years in which she achieved the fame which c
learly has lasted to this day, since here we are, publishing her autobiography!]
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McCulley, Johnston (1883-1958) [American novelist] Wikipedia
The Black Star. A Detective Story. (1921) [Novel, with a frontispiece by Edgar F
ranklin Wittmack (1894-1956) Wikipedia. Who can challenge the elusive criminal g
enius known as the Black Star? No one, it seems... except, perhaps, that young a
nd fashionable millionaire, Mr. Roger Verbeck!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zippe
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MacDonald, Betty Bard (1908?-1958) [American author (and farmer)] Wikipedia Seat
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ultry farmer in Washington state, which became a huge bestseller. Its film adapt
ation Wikipedia led to nine sequels] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped Wikipedia
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Onions in the Stew (1955) Wikipedia [Autobiography. The author and her family ca
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Macdonell, Alexander (1762-1842) [Canadian soldier, administrator, and politicia
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Diary of Gov. Simcoe's Journey from Humber Bay to Matchetache Bay, 1793 (publish
ed in 1890) [An account of an expedition of Lt.-Gov. John Graves Simcoe Wikipedi
a in the newly established Province of Upper Canada, written by a member of his
staff. The edition contains an admirably written short biography of Macdonell by
an anonymous author.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #462]
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The Plays of Mr. Noel Coward (November 1931) [An essay by Macdonell on the works
of his fellow playwright Nol Coward Wikipedia, who was still in his early thirti
es, but already the author of such classics as The Vortex, Hay Fever, and Privat
e Lives all of which Macdonell discusses.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPU
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England, Their England (1933) Wikipedia [A classic humour novel, winner of the 1
933 James Tait Black Memorial Prize Wikipedia for fiction. Our hero, Donald Came
ron, is a soldier who is recovering from war wounds. He is invited by a publishe
r to write a book about England, but from the viewpoint of a foreigner, i.e. a S
cotsman.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #695]
MacDougall, John (1859-1939) [Canadian social critic]
Rural Life in Canada, its Trend and Tasks (1913) [A study of the challenges and
opportunities presented by Canadian rural society. The published version (with m
CAUTION: certain passages in this novel may seem racist by the standards of toda
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Pelts and Powder. A Story of the West Coast in the Making. (1929) [Novel, beginn
ing in Boston shortly after the American Revolution. Our hero, Lawrence Drake, d
ecides to go to sea. He joins the crew of the Hope, which sets sail to the west
coast of British Columbia in the hunt for fur-seal pelts. It is an eventful voya
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MacKenzie, James Bovell (1851-1919) [Canadian ethnographer] Ontario Court of Com
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MacMechan, Archibald McKellar (1862-1933) [Canadian historian] jrank.org
The Winning of Popular Government: A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 (1915) [Hist
ory: vol. 27 of "The Chronicles of Canada". Illustrations by Alvah Bradish (1806
-1901) University of Michigan Wisconsin Historical Society, G. Browning, (fl. ca
. 1820-1830), C. W. Jefferys (1869-1951) Wikipedia Library and Archives Canada,
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K) William Notman (1826-1891) Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography McCord
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Head-Waters of Canadian Literature (1924) [An outstanding short survey of the hi
story of Canadian literature from its beginnings up to the author's own era. Not
able for its attention to literature in both of Canada's official languages.] HT
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Macmillan, Cyrus John (1880-1953) [Canadian academic and politician] Wikipedia M
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Canadian Wonder Tales (1918) [Folk tales: illustrations by George Sheringham (18
84-1937) Wikipedia Tate Collection, foreword by Sir William Peterson (1856-1921)
Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
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Sir John Stephen Willison (1856-1927) Dictionary of Canadian Biography] (1870-19
38) [Canadian journalist and author]
The Canadian Girl at Work: A Book of Vocational Guidance (1919) [Textbook "Prepa
red at the Instance of the Minister of Education for Use in Ontario School Libra
ries"] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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Herschel (1919) [A biography of the astronomer Sir William Herschel (1738-1822)
Wikipedia, whose epoch-making discoveries included the planet Uranus and many ot
her celestial objects: he also discovered the existence of infrared radiation. T
his biography includes as its frontispiece a contemporary portrait of Herschel b
y Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760?-1802) Wikipedia.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipp
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Mr. Moto Is So Sorry (1938) [Novel, set in the 1930's during Japan's takeover of
northern China. Calvin Gates, a young American, is travelling to Mongolia to jo
in up with an archaeology expedition. He encounters Mr. Moto on a ship travellin
g from Japan to Korea. As his travels continue, he finds himself involved in Jap
anese, Chinese, and Russian border intrigue...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zippe
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Last Laugh, Mr. Moto (1942) [Novel, set in the Caribbean, late in 1940. Robert B
olles, an ex-US Navy man, finds himself mixed up in the efforts of a Japanese ag
ent (Mr. Moto), and a couple of Vichy French agents, who are allied with a Germa
n agent, all trying to recover a secret device from an aircraft that was on a Fr
ench freighter that was lost/wrecked. Events proceed from there...] HTML HTML zi
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Stopover: Tokyo (1957) [Marquand's final novel featuring Mr. Moto, set in Japan
shortly after the Korean War. Jack Rhyce is an American secret agent in Japan, h
unting a Russian agent. He's travelling with a female American agent: the two ar
e posing as a couple. In Japan, they encounter Mr. Moto, who's also after the Ru
ssian agent...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #899]
Wickford Point (1939) [Satirical novel, telling the story of a family with deep
roots in New England, and their progress, or lack thereof] HTML HTML zipped Text
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Phil May's Gutter-Snipes. 50 original sketches in pen and ink. (1896) [Drawings]
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Songs and their Singers (1898) [Drawings. This PG Canada edition includes a bonu
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The White Cliffs (1940) [Narrative poem, a huge success at the time of its publi
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The Man with the Pan-Pipes and other stories (1892) [Stories by Mrs. Molesworth,
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The Thirteen Little Black Pigs and other stories (1893) [Stories by Mrs. Moleswo
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CAUTION: One of the stories in this ebook contains a name that today would be co
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Uncanny Tales (1896) [Six stories, varying in their degree of uncanniness, but s
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Monck, Frances Elizabeth Owen (d. 1919) [Irish memoirist] (Wife of Charles Stanl
ey Monck, 4th Viscount Monck [1819-1894; Governor-General of British North Ameri
ca from 1861 to 1867, and of Canada from 1867 to 1868] Dictionary of Canadian Bi
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My Canadian Leaves: an account of a visit to Canada in 1864-1865 (1891 version)
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How We Stand Now (1916) [Lecture. Murray explains his strong belief that the Ger
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ght League, to whom this address was originally delivered.] HTML HTML zipped Tex
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Andrew Lang, the Poet (1948) [The 1947 Andrew Lang Lecture Wikipedia on the poet
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The Persians (472 B.C. [Greek original], 1939 [this translation]) [The oldest su
rviving Greek tragedy. It deals with a contemporary event: the reaction of the P
ersian court to the news of the Greek victory over the Persians at Salamis Wikip
edia, a battle in which Aeschylus is believed to have fought. The tone of the pl
ay is surprisingly sympathetic to the Persians.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipp
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The Suppliant Women (ca. 463 B.C. [Greek original], 1930 [this translation]) [A
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The daughters of Danaus Wikipedia arrive as refugees in Argos, seeking protecti
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Prometheus Bound (fifth century B.C. [Greek original], 1931 [this translation])
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Translations of Aristophanes (445 B.C. or earlier - ca. 385 B.C.) [Athenian play
wright] Wikipedia
The Knights (424 B.C. [Greek original], 1956 [this translation]) [Comedy about t
he political scene in Athens during the Peloponnesian War Wikipedia. A sausage s
eller becomes a political rival to Cleon Wikipedia, a prominent Athenian politic
ian (and an opponent of Aristophanes). The "knights" of the title are not the me
diaeval warriors from a millennium later, but the citizen cavalry of Athens. The
Wikipedia article on the play provides a helpful guide to its many contemporary
allusions; Murray provides a set of notes as well.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text
zipped [PGC #894] ancient-literature.com F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart's 1907 edi
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The Birds (414 B.C. [Greek original], 1950 [this translation]) [Comedy. The bird
s of the world band together to take over control of the universe from the Olymp
ian gods. The Wikipedia article on the play provides a helpful guide to its many
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Rhesus (ca. 450 B.C.? [Greek original], 1913 [this translation]) [Tragedy, based
on the tenth book of Homer's Iliad. The siege of Troy has been underway for som
e years when Rhesus, King of Thrace, arrives to help the Trojans.] HTML HTML zip
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Medea (431 B.C. [Greek original], 1906 [this translation]) [Tragedy. The marriag
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Nesbit, Edith ("E. Nesbit") [Bland, Edith] (1858-1924) [English novelist, poet,
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Number 17 (1910) [Suspense story. Hotels generally have one or two rather specia
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Nicholson, Gerald William Lingen (1902-1980) [Canadian military historian]
Marlborough and the War of the Spanish Succession (1955) [History, published by
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e Spanish Succession (1701-1714) Wikipedia that Spain today has a Bourbon king,
descended from Louis XIV of France. But the Sun King by no means gained everythi
ng that he had sought (Spain remained a kingdom separate from France): this was
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the 1st Duke of Marlborough Wikipedia. Lt.-Col. G. W. L. Nicholson, the Canadia
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Wild Honey (1927) [Novel, perhaps one of Niven's finest, about railway laborers
in British Columbia. The action of the novel takes place in the "dry belt" betwe
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Coloured Spectacles (1938) [Autobiography. Niven's account of the course of his
life from Valparaiso, Chile to Nelson, British Columbia by way of Glasgow and ma
ny other places.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1000]
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Nodier, Charles (1780-1844) [crivain et bibliothcaire franais] fr.wikipedia Acadmie
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Translator / traducteur: Orts-Ramos, Toms (1866-1939) [Spanish journalist / journ
aliste espagnol]
El Pintor de Salzburgo (1919) [Tales and essays in Spanish / Contes et essais en
espagnol: translations of / traductions de Des types en littrature (1830), Le pe
intre de Salzbourg (1803), Les mditations du clotre (1803) & Adle (1820)] HTML HTML
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Learn Spanish ! / Apprenez l'espagnol ! Cursos: BBC
Spanish Language & Culture D
iccionarios bilinges: WordReference.com Spanish-English WordReference.com Espagno
l-Franais Diccionarios espaoles: CLAVE
Real Academia Espaola
O'Duffy, Eimar Ultan (1893-1935) [Irish playwright, novelist, and economist] Wik
ipedia
The Bird Cage (1932)