OUTRAGE!!!
The new federal budget (Bill C-59) includes a stealth proposal to extend copyright on sound recordings by
TWENTY YEARS !
Suppose someone staying at your house took some of your property
— would you invite them back?
Suppose a government took some of the public domain (YOUR property) just before an election
— would you vote for them?
And would you vote for any opposition party that failed to speak up?
— of course not!
Tell the government and the other parties:
NO WAY! HANDS OFF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
No support for YOUR rights means NO VOTE FOR THEM in the October election!
Contact your Member of Parliament!
And while you're at it (a sentence or two will do)
— Contact the Minister of Canadian Heritage,
Shelly Glover
— Contact the Minister of Industry,
James Moore
They're the ones behind this copyright grab!
And when the election starts and canvassers come to your door, tell them NO SUPPORT and NO VOTE
unless their party PROTECTS the public domain, instead of giving it away!
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2015/07/12: OUR FOURTH CLASSIC CHILDREN'S NOVEL BY EDWARD EAGER!
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Eager, Edward [Edward McMaken] (1911-1964) [American novelist, librettist, and translator]
Wikipedia
Seven-Day Magic
(1962)
[The seventh and final novel in the series initiated by Half Magic.
Several children are in the local public library, and one of the girls
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 they're allowed to have it. Adventures ensue...]
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2015/07/11: A CLASSIC NOVEL FOR CHILDREN (THE THIRD IN OUR CATALOGUE!)
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Eager, Edward [Edward McMaken] (1911-1964) [American novelist, librettist, and translator]
Wikipedia
Magic or Not?
(1959)
[Novel, fifth in the series initiated by Half Magic. This time,
there are four children to whom odd things are happening, but...
they're not sure if it's actual magic making things happen,
or if things just work out in the best possible way!]
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2015/07/07: TODAY'S EBOOK IS AN ENHANCED DIGITAL EDITION OF CHARLES NORDHOFF'S
THE PEARL LAGOON — WE NOW INCLUDE CHARLES NORDHOFF'S PREFACE, AND THE ORIGINAL
ILLUSTRATIONS BY ANTON OTTO FISCHER!
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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 PERHAPS FINEST NOVEL!
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Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1954]
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
vividness 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 December 1926)]
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2015/06/18: OUR SECOND NOVEL BY EDWARD EAGER CONTINUES THE STORY HE
BEGAN IN HALF MAGIC — WHICH YOU WILL ALSO FIND IN
OUR CATALOGUE!
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Eager, Edward [Edward McMaken] (1911-1964) [American novelist, librettist, and translator]
Wikipedia
Knight's Castle
(1956)
[Novel, second in the series initiated by Half Magic. Four children discover
a magic item, an enchanted toy soldier. But an act of magic can happen only every three days!]
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2015/06/17: TODAY WE'RE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT OUR VERY FIRST TITLE BY THE
CELEBRATED COLLABORATORS NORDHOFF AND HALL!
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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 the 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 Freycinet, 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,
everything tight and right and thrilling. This is old craftsmanship at work,
spinning a yarn of the most contemporary flavor..."
(N. L. Rothman, Saturday Review, 27 June 1942)]
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2015/06/14: TODAY, WE CONGRATULATE AND THANK THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FOR THEIR APPARENT
SUCCESS IN BLOCKING THE TYRANNICAL "TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP":
LET'S HOPE IT STAYS BLOCKED!
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WITH ONE EXCEPTION — THANK YOU, GREEN PARTY OF CANADA !!
TO CELEBRATE THIS VICTORY FOR THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, WE'RE POSTING
A VERY SPECIAL EBOOK, A BRILLIANTLY IMAGINATIVE CHILDREN'S NOVEL
BY EDWARD EAGER!
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Eager, Edward [Edward McMaken] (1911-1964) [American novelist, librettist, and translator]
Wikipedia
Half Magic
(1954)
[Does magic really exist? Four children are wondering this, when suddenly...
Well, we're not going to give the story away, but we will say that this is
a genuine children's classic!
"This story belongs to the E. Nesbit school of fantasy, in which magic pursues its inevitable course... a book whose total contribution is one of fun and relaxation."
(Elizabeth Nesbitt, Saturday Review, 15 May 1954)]
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2015/06/12: A CLASSIC COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY!
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Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1954]
Wikipedia
Nobelprize.org
Winner Take Nothing
(1933)
Wikipedia
[Fourteen short stories, some of them extremely famous: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,
for example, and The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio]
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2015/06/01: OUR FIRST THREE TITLES BY LOUIS BROMFIELD WERE NOVELS; OUR FOURTH IS AN EXTREMELY
ATTRACTIVE COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES!
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Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956)
[American novelist, journalist, and organic farmer]
Wikipedia
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 showing Louis Bromfield's creative
powers and unobtrusively excellent style of writing.]
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2015/05/25: OUR THIRD TITLE BY LOUIS BROMFIELD — A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN FAMILY SAGA!
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Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956)
[American novelist, journalist, and organic farmer]
Wikipedia
Mrs. Parkington (1943)
[Novel: the basis for the 1944 film of the same name
Wikipedia.
Mrs. Parkington, born in Leaping Rock, Nevada, has ascended
the social ladder and is now a lady of great wealth. But the
children of the wealthy often lack the qualities of their forebears.
"'Mrs. Parkington' is in the old and rich tradition of Thackeray
and Trollope, Howells and Mrs. Wharton... if the book is tuned
to the familiar theme from shirt-sleeves to shirt-sleeves in three
generations, the melody is full-blooded, the interest does not flag."
(Howard Mumford Jones, Saturday Review, 9 January 1943)]
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2015/05/24: A YEAR AFTER FINISHING HIS FAMOUS BEAU GESTE TRILOGY, P. C. WREN PUBLISHED
A FURTHER VOLUME — NOT A NOVEL, BUT A FINE SET OF STORIES !
Wren, P. C. [Percival Christopher] (1885-1941)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Good Gestes. Stories of Beau Geste, his Brothers, and
certain of their Comrades in the French Foreign Legion.
(1929)
[Twelve short stories, accurately described by the book's title.
"The Geste brothers figure again in a series of gruesome short
stories of the Foreign Legion. Each one is a masterpiece of
adventure and horror." (The Bookman [U.S.] September 1929)]
CAUTION: certain language in these stories may seem racist by the standards of today.
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2015/03/15: OUR FIRST EBOOK BY IRELAND'S MAURICE WALSH IS HIS MOST FAMOUS
SHORT STORY, THE QUIET MAN: IT INSPIRED THE CLASSIC 1952 MOVIE!
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Walsh, Maurice (1879-1964)
[Irish novelist]
Wikipedia
The Quiet Man
(1933)
[Short story, the basis for the 1952 film
Wikipedia
of the same name,
directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara.
Shawn Kelvin had left Ireland at age twenty, but fifteen years
later he returns to the land of his birth. As the story's title
suggests, he is a quiet man, and a quiet life is what he is seeking.
But his arrival back is not free of incident!]
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2015/05/11: AS OF TODAY, WE OFFER YOU ALL THREE TITLES IN P. C. WREN'S BEAU GESTE TRILOGY !
Wren, P. C. [Percival Christopher] (1885-1941)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Beau Ideal
(1928)
[The third of the three central novels of the Beau Geste series.
John Geste, whom we met in the first novel, is missing in Africa.
Isobel Rivers asks a wealthy American friend, Otis Vanbrugh, to find him.
The obvious first step: Otis must join the French Foreign Legion!]
CAUTION: certain language in the novel may seem racist by the standards of today.
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2015/05/02: IN 1926, TWO YEARS AFTER HIS SMASH HIT BEAU GESTE, P. C. WREN
PUBLISHED THIS SEQUEL, SET ONCE AGAIN IN THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION,
BUT THIS TIME FEATURING NOT AN ENGLISHMAN, BUT MAJOR DE BEAUJOLAIS,
AN OFFICER IN THE LEGION !
Wren, P. C. [Percival Christopher] (1885-1941)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Beau Sabreur
(1926)
[Novel, the first sequel to Beau Geste, and like its famous
predecessor set in the French Foreign Legion. But there are some
major differences! Our hero is Major Henri de Beaujolais,
a veteran of the Spahis
Wikipedia
and of the French Secret Service. Mind you, he is an Old Etonian
Wikipedia!
"We unreservedly recommend 'Beau Sabreur' as one of the most eminently
readable books of recent years."
(Saturday Review, 21 August 1926)]
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2015/04/13: P. C. WREN'S CLASSIC TALE OF ADVENTURE IN THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION !
Wren, P. C. [Percival Christopher] (1885-1941)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Beau Geste
(1924)
[The first and most famous novel in Wren's Beau Geste trilogy, reflecting
the views of its time, but an evergreen classic nonetheless. The three orphaned
Geste brothers leave England to join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa:
much adventure ensues. The novel was followed by two sequels, and four film adaptations.]
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2015/04/03: OUR FOURTH TITLE BY ROBERT E. HOWARD! !
Howard, Robert E. [Robert Ervin] (1906-1936) [American
fantasy and horror author]
Wikipedia
Skull-Face
(October-December 1929)
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[Novella, set in London, but Atlantis comes into the picture; also hashish!]
CAUTION: certain elements of plot and language may seem racist by
the standards of today.
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2015/03/31: WE CELEBRATE THE LAST DAY OF MARCH BY BRINGING YOU THE FOURTH AND
FINAL NOVEL IN FORD MADOX FORD'S PARADE'S END CYCLE !
Ford, Ford Madox [Hueffer, Ford Madox] (1873-1939)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Last Post
(1928)
Wikipedia
[The fourth and final novel in the Parade's End tetralogy.
Christopher Tietjens is now living in rural Sussex, making his
living as a dealer in old furniture. The novel is somewhat
separate from the earlier three, since we are now well and truly
in peacetime. But memories of the War linger on; and Tietjens'
family ensures that his life is not unduly peaceful.]
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2015/03/29: TODAY, WE'RE DELIGHTED TO BRING TO OUR CATALOGUE THE THIRD NOVEL IN
FORD MADOX FORD'S PARADE'S END CYCLE !
Ford, Ford Madox [Hueffer, Ford Madox] (1873-1939)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
A Man Could Stand Up—. A Novel.
(1926)
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[The third novel of the Parade's End cycle.
The First World War is ending, and life continues, but
it is not the same life as before. Christopher Tietjens
must now adjust his personal life and his professional
life to the changes that peacetime has brought.]
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2015/03/24: TODAY'S EBOOK IS THE SECOND NOVEL IN FORD MADOX FORD'S PARADE'S END CYCLE!
YES, THAT PARADE'S END — THE ONE MADE INTO A BBC TELEVISION SERIES WRITTEN BY TOM STOPPARD,
AND STARRING BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH!
LOOK IN OUR CATALOGUE AND YOU'LL FIND THE NOVEL WHICH STARTS THE CYCLE, SOME DO NOT... !
Ford, Ford Madox [Hueffer, Ford Madox] (1873-1939)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
No More Parades. A Novel.
(1925)
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[The second of the Parade's End novels, set behind the front lines
in France in 1915. Christopher Tietjens is now a Captain in charge of
some major logistics operations. These operations include moving a group of railway
workers, volunteers from Canada! Captain Tietjens is more of an idealist
at the novel's start than at its end.]
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2015/03/19: TODAY'S EBOOK IS NEVIL SHUTE'S FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL,
AND THE TWELFTH OF HIS NOVELS TO JOIN OUR CATALOGUE!
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OF NEVIL SHUTE'S NOVELS UNTIL 2031 !!
Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Marazan
(1951 [1952] revised edition of the 1926 original version,
with a new Author's Note)
Wikipedia
[Shute's first published novel, republished with minor revisions,
and a new introduction by our author. The plot involves aviation,
drug smuggling, Italy... also Marazan Sound, in the Isles of Scilly
Wikipedia, off Cornwall.]
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2015/03/12: IN 1932, THE SWORD IN THE STONE STILL LAY IN T. H. WHITE'S FUTURE.
BUT IT WAS AN AGE OF CLASSIC MYSTERY NOVELS — NO WONDER HE WAS
INSPIRED TO WRITE TODAY'S EBOOK — THE FOURTH OF HIS TITLES
TO JOIN OUR CATALOGUE!
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White, T. H. [Terence Hanbury] (1906-1964)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Darkness at Pemberley
(1932)
[Mystery novel, partly set at Cambridge University, where White himself
had recently studied, but also at Pemberley, in Derbyshire. If you are
an admirer of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, you might surmise
that the name of Darcy comes into the novel. You will be right!]
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2015/03/09: OUR LATEST NOVEL BY NEVIL SHUTE HAS TWO LOCALES:
AUSTRALIA AND OREGON!
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Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Beyond the Black Stump
(1956)
Wikipedia
[Novel. An American geologist, Stanton Laird, arrives in
a very remote area of Western Australia, and meets Mollie
Regan. There is a mutual attraction, but also some degree
of cultural conflict. We'd tell you more, but we don't
want to give away the plot — if you're curious and not
very patient, check the Wikipedia article!]
CAUTION: Certain language in this ebook today would be considered racist.
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2015/03/05: AS OF TODAY, WE OFFER SIX OF MAZO DE LA ROCHE'S
MAGNIFICENT JALNA NOVELS — CANADIAN CLASSICS, AND MARVELLOUS READING !
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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 their twenties,
a complicated time of life for anyone, but particularly for Whiteoaks.
Family members of various ages, from the formidable Adeline down,
participate fully in the turbulent but generally happy life of Jalna.]
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2015/02/26: AFTER COMPLETING THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING,
T. H. WHITE PUBLISHED THIS FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF HIS STAY IN THE WEST OF IRELAND —
THE THIRD OF HIS WORKS TO JOIN OUR CATALOGUE!
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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 criticism... And the mind that controls the style is educated and intelligent,
humorous, reflective, and entirely engaging." (Leonard Wibberley, Saturday Review, 13 June 1959)]
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2015/02/23: OUR TENTH NOVEL BY NEVIL SHUTE IS A CLASSIC WARTIME
ESCAPE ADVENTURE, AND WAS AN IMMEDIATE HIT WHEN PUBLISHED!
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Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist]
Wikipedia
Australian 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 begun! Getting to France proves easy, but
the return trip to England is a very different matter
— especially since he's no longer travelling alone!
The film adaptation
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starring Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, and Anne Baxter,
was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.]
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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. In the course
of the search, somewhere in the jungles of South America, Vulmea and the
captain encounter hostile savages, escaped slaves, and a giant
anaconda. The thrill count is high, as is the body count.]
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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!
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Haldane, J. B. S. [John Burdon Sanderson] (1892-1964)
[Indian geneticist and statistician]
Wikipedia
My Friend Mr Leakey
(1937)
[Six marvellously witty stories for children, famous to this day]
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2015/02/14: OUR VALENTINE'S DAY PRESENT TO YOU: A NOVEL BY T. H. WHITE,
FAMOUS FOR THE SWORD IN THE STONE, AND AUTHOR OF MANY OTHER
WONDERFUL WORKS — SUCH AS TODAY'S EBOOK!
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EBOOKS BY T. H. WHITE UNTIL 2035 !!
White, T. H. [Terence Hanbury] (1906-1964)
[English novelist]
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Mistress Masham's Repose
(1946)
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[Novel. Maria is ten years old, and lives in a gigantic house, or
rather palace, in rural England, which is gradually collapsing:
its name is Malplaquet. She is an orphan, and has a guardian,
Mr. Hater, and a governess, Miss Brown, neither of them easy to
get along with. Perhaps you are hooked already! Here's what a
contemporary reviewer, Basil Davenport, had to say:
"When all is said, 'Mistress Masham's Repose' is a book like no other.
All its extravagances hang together, like the rococo and chinoiserie
in which the builders of Malplaquet delighted."
(Saturday Review, 28 September 1946)]
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2015/02/08: MYSTERY CONNOISSEURS ADMIRE THE NOVELS OF CYRIL HARE — AND SO DO WE!
WE NOW OFFER SIX OF HIS CLASSIC NOVELS !
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IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY OF THESE SIX
EBOOKS UNTIL 2029 !!
Hare, Cyril [Clark, Alfred Alexander Gordon] (1900-1958)
[English judge and novelist]
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Suicide Excepted
(1939)
[Mystery novel. Whether a death was a suicide or not can be very important to
insurance companies. "Brainy and brisk." (Saturday Review, 11 December 1954)]
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2015/01/29: WE NOW OFFER FIVE NOVELS FROM MAZO DE LA ROCHE'S
MASTERPIECE, THE JALNA SERIES !
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IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU THIS
EBOOK UNTIL 2032 !!
de la Roche, Mazo (1879-1961)
[Canadian novelist and playwright]
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Mary Wakefield
(1949)
[The third Jalna novel, taking place in the 1890s,
years before the events described in Jalna and Whiteoaks.
The recently widowed Philip Whiteoak has two young children,
and needs a governess: the young and beautiful Mary
Wakefield, freshly arrived from England. Her arrival
naturally causes great commotion at Jalna.
"Sometimes we have thought we had been given a little too much
of Jalna... this volume convinces us that we really needed
more of the chronicle. Taken as a whole, the work begins
to stand up as one of the best achievements of Canadian literature".
(Allan Nevins, Saturday Review, 29 January 1949).
The novel is dedicated to the celebrated Canadian sculptor
Walter Allward (1876-1955)
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Vimy Memorial in France.]
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2015/01/26: AN ESSAY ON JAMAICA BY IAN FLEMING!
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EBOOK UNTIL 2035 !!
Fleming, Ian [Ian Lancaster] (1908-1964)
[English intelligence officer and novelist]
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Jamaica
(December 1947)
[One of a series of articles in Horizon
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by different authors, about the advantages of living in various
places around the world. Ian Fleming contributed this essay on
Jamaica, where he had just built his house, Goldeneye
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2015/01/21: OUR FIFTH CLASSIC MYSTERY NOVEL BY CYRIL HARE !
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EBOOK UNTIL 2029 !!
Hare, Cyril [Clark, Alfred Alexander Gordon] (1900-1958)
[English judge and novelist]
Wikipedia
He Should Have Died Hereafter
(1958)
[Mystery novel; some editions use the alternate title Untimely Death.
Francis Pettigrew is now retired from his law practice.
But retiring from sleuthing is not so easy, as he
discovers on what was supposed to be a holiday to
remote and beautiful Exmoor
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2015/01/13: IT'S A PLEASURE TO WELCOME JAMES BOND TO OUR CATALOGUE!
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EBOOK UNTIL 2035 !!
Fleming, Ian [Ian Lancaster] (1908-1964)
[English intelligence officer and novelist]
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Goldfinger
(1959)
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[Novel. James Bond encounters Mr Auric Goldfinger, who is
passionate about gambling, golf, and of course, gold.
That's where Fort Knox
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comes in!]
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2015/01/12: OUR VIRGINIA WOOLF SERIES CONTINUES WITH HER CELEBRATED 1929
STUDY OF WOMEN AND LITERATURE, A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN !!
Woolf, Virginia [Adeline Virginia] (1882-1941)
[English novelist and essayist]
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A Room of One's Own
(1929)
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[Woolf's famous, influential, and wide-ranging treatise on
women and fiction, written in an easy and very readable style,
reflecting its origins as a pair of public readings]
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2015/01/08: IAN FLEMING (NEW TO THE CANADIAN PUBLIC DOMAIN, AND TO OUR CATALOGUE)
LIKED CARS: HE EVEN WROTE AN ESSAY ABOUT HIS THUNDERBIRD!
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IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU THIS
EBOOK UNTIL 2035 !!
Fleming, Ian [Ian Lancaster] (1908-1964)
[English intelligence officer and novelist]
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Automobilia
(April 1958)
[Essay. Ian Fleming, like his creation James Bond, was fond of cars.
Here he fondly describes his Ford Thunderbird — and gives an
account of going for a drive in Jamaica with his friend Noël Coward!]
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2015/01/05: WE BEGIN 2015 WITH A GREAT CLASSIC WHICH ARRIVED IN
THE CANADIAN PUBLIC DOMAIN ON JANUARY 1ST—
T. H. WHITE'S THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING.
IF THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP "FREE TRADE"
PROPOSALS WERE IN EFFECT TODAY AND COPYRIGHTS WERE EXTENDED, YOU'D HAVE TO
WAIT ANOTHER TWENTY YEARS FOR THIS EBOOK.
IT'S ELECTION YEAR IN CANADA — TELL YOUR CANDIDATES THAT
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN BELONGS 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]
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The Once and Future King
(1958)
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[White's famous tetralogy: four novels about the early
life and subsequent reign of King Arthur. The first
three novels had previously appeared separately,
but the first of them, The Sword in the Stone,
was revised substantially for this 1958 republication.
The novels, like life itself, are a mixture of tragedy
and comedy.]
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2014/12/31: WE WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR! TO ADD TO YOUR
PLEASURE, WE'RE DELIGHTED TO OFFER YOU C.S. LEWIS'S THIRD AND
FINAL SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL, WHICH COMPLETES 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 theologian]
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That Hideous Strength. A modern fairy-tale for grown-ups.
(1945)
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Lewisiana (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.]
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2014/12/25: FOR THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS IT IS OUR PLEASURE TO OFFER
YOU TWELVE 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]
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Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
(1910)
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[Twelve mystery stories. Early on the narrator comments that
"we shouldn't have half so many undetected crimes if some 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 demonstrates how true this is.
(And while introducing Lady Molly, let us suggest another
celebrated female sleuth from the Project Gutenberg Canada
catalogue: Hulbert Footner's Madame Storey!)]
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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]
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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
of 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 being what they are,
some of the poems are surprisingly topical even today.]
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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 theologian]
Wikipedia
Perelandra
(1943)
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Lewisiana (notes by Arend Smilde)
[The second of Lewis's three science fiction novels: the alternative
title Voyage to Venus is found in some editions. Dr. Elwin Ransom
is called upon to make a second interplanetary voyage, this time to Venus,
which turns out to be something close to paradise. But he has been summoned
there for a reason...]
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2014/12/06: A NOVEL BY BARONESS ORCZY, SET DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION,
AND FEATURING THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL !
Baroness Orczy [Orczy, Emmuska] (1865-1947)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Sir Percy Hits Back
(1927)
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[Historical novel, the ninth in the Scarlet Pimpernel series.
We are in France, during the Reign of Terror: the young and
innocent Fleurette Chauvelin, only just turned eighteen, must
be saved from the guillotine. The situation clearly calls
for the unique talents of Sir Percy Blakeney, the elusive
Scarlet Pimpernel.]
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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]
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Canada, an American Nation
(1935)
["American" as in "North American" — three lectures delivered by Dafoe
in 1934 at Columbia University and published in the following year with some
additional material. Dafoe "thought the time and occasion opportune 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 professional
journalist with a deep knowledge of history and politics: hence, no doubt,
the honour of the invitation from Columbia to deliver these lectures.]
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2014/11/26: A COLLECTION OF TALKS AND SERMONS BY C. S. LEWIS —
SELECTED FOR PUBLICATION BY LEWIS HIMSELF !
Lewis, C. S. [Clive Staples] (1898-1963)
[Irish critic, novelist, poet, and theologian]
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 conversational style
appropriate to the circumstances of their creation, but full of
substance, as one expects from Professor Lewis.]
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2014/11/22: OUR NINTH NOVEL BY NEVIL SHUTE IS SET IN THE NOVELIST'S TWO
HOMES — AUSTRALIA AND ENGLAND !
Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist]
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
Requiem for a Wren
(1955)
[Novel. Alan Duncan is returning to his native Australia
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 himself, she had been in England and
served in the military, as a Wren
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Before the novel ends, Duncan learns much more about her.]
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2014/11/16: OUR SECOND CLASSIC STORY BY ROBERT E. HOWARD !
Howard, Robert E. [Robert Ervin] (1906-1936) [American
fantasy and horror author]
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Worms of the Earth
(November 1932)
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[Short story, set in Roman Britain. The Picts, led by Bran Mak Morn, are confronting the Romans.
And Bran is considering using the "worms of the earth" in this battle. Dangerous allies, it
would seem. And hard to track down!]
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2014/11/14: IN 1937, CYRIL HARE LAUNCHED HIS ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER AS A MYSTERY
NOVELIST WITH TODAY'S TITLE — FINE READING FOR A NOVEMBER WEEKEND !
Hare, Cyril [Clark, Alfred Alexander Gordon] (1900-1958)
[English judge and novelist]
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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
part of his estate. But what is a tenant for death? Mr. Colin James
may be an example: 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 Mallett of Scotland Yard.]
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2014/11/07: WE'RE DELIGHTED TO INTRODUCE ROBERT E. HOWARD TO OUR CATALOGUE —
BY PUBLISHING ONE OF HIS MOST FAMOUS HORROR STORIES !
Howard, Robert E. [Robert Ervin] (1906-1936) [American
fantasy and horror author]
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Pigeons from Hell
(May 1938)
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[Mystery and fear in a house that is large, old, abandoned, and on an
old plantation in the American South. One of Howard's most famous stories.]
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2014/11/02: OUR FOURTH JALNA NOVEL, BY MAZO DE LA ROCHE —
THE SAGA OF THE WHITEOAK FAMILY CONTINUES !
de la Roche, Mazo (1879-1961)
[Canadian novelist and playwright]
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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 things 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 — the strongest-willed of all since the
passing of old Gran... he presides at the mansion, raises
horses, decides vital family issues, and keeps the clan together."
(Allan Nevins, Saturday Review, 16 September 1933)]
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2014/10/29: AT PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA, WE AIM TO PLEASE!
IN PARTICULAR, WE TRY TO MAKE OUR EBOOKS READABLE EVERYWHERE
— ON YOUR MOBILE PHONE, FOR EXAMPLE, OR YOUR TABLET.
THAT'S WHY WE'RE PRESENTING YOU TODAY WITH AN UPDATED
EPUB VERSION OF THIS FINE NOVEL BY NEVIL SHUTE !
Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Far Country
(1952)
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[Novel. Our heroine, Jennifer Morton, emigrates to Australia,
escaping a life of poverty in England.
But her new life in Australia is by no means free of incident.]
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2014/10/24: IN 1947, C.S. LEWIS HAD PUBLISHED HIS THREE FAMOUS SCIENCE FICTION
NOVELS, 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 theologian]
Wikipedia
On Stories
(1947)
[Essay. "It is astonishing", Professor Lewis writes, "how little 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!]
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2014/10/22: A NOVEL BY NEVIL SHUTE WHICH DEMONSTRATES HIS STRENGTHS
AS A NOVELIST: SKILFUL WRITING, STRONG BELIEFS, COMBINED
WITH A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF HOW SOCIETY WORKS AND HOW
PEOPLE THINK !
Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Ruined City
[U.S. title: Kindling]
(1938)
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[Novel, with some elements which are timeless. Henry Warren is "successful":
he is the head of a London financial 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 things start happening.]
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14/10/18: TOAY'S EBOOK IS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE LEGENDARY
ANGLO-AMERICAN CRITIC LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH —
THE FOURTH OF HIS BOOKS TO JOIN OUR CATALOGUE !
Smith, Logan Pearsall (1865-1946)
[American essayist and editor]
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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 by 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 of America, and of a sophisticated and
expatriate America-in-Europe... nobody could fail to be charmed by
the delicious savor of this exquisite and economical writing."
(Irwin Edman, Saturday Review, 31 December 1938)]
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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 screenplay writer]
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Playback
(1958)
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[The last Philip Marlowe mystery novel completed by Chandler,
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.]
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2014/10/07: TODAY WILLIAM FAULKNER JOINS OUR CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS,
WITH THIS SCINTILLATING SHORT PIECE ABOUT HIS NATIVE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI !
Faulkner, William (1897-1962)
[American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1949]
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Nobelprize.org
Mississippi
(October 1954)
[Faulkner on his native state. Not an essay, but an original creative work, as you will see.]
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2014/10/05: TODAY WE COMPLETE OUR DIGITAL EDITION
OF EDGAR WALLACE'S "EDUCATED EVANS" TRILOGY !
Wallace, Edgar
[Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar] (1875-1932)
[English novelist, playwright, 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"]
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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
Frederik 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 both, if you belong to the Order, and have to deal with
difficult situations...]
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2014/09/27: A. G. MACDONELL WAS NOT ONLY A NOVELIST, BUT ALSO A PLAYWRIGHT AND
DRAMA CRITIC — WHO BETTER TO DISCUSS THAT TRANSCENDENT FIGURE
OF LONDON'S WEST END, NOËL 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 Noël Coward
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who was still in his early thirties, but already the author of such classics as
The Vortex, Hay Fever, and Private Lives — all of which Macdonell discusses.]
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2014/09/25: EDGAR WALLACE'S FIRST BOOK FEATURING THAT
EMINENT RACETRACK AUTHORITY, EDUCATED EVANS !
Wallace, Edgar
[Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar] (1875-1932)
[English novelist, playwright, and screenplay writer]
Wikipedia
BFI screenonline
Educated Evans
(1924)
[Thirteen "episodes" set in the world of horse-racing, a world 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".]
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2014/09/19: OUR CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND ON THEIR VIGOROUSLY DEBATED
REFERENDUM — A FINE EXERCISE IN DEMOCRACY! WE THOUGHT TODAY WOULD
BE AN EXCELLENT TIME TO RECOMMEND FROM OUR CATALOGUE THIS CLASSIC SCOTTISH NOVEL — WITH
AN UPDATED AND IMPROVED EPUB EDITION FOR YOUR TABLET/SMARTPHONE CONVENIENCE !
Macdonell, A. G. [Archibald Gordon] (1895-1941)
[Scottish journalist, playwright, and novelist]
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England, Their England
(1933)
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[A classic humour novel, winner of the 1933 James Tait Black Memorial Prize
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for fiction. Our hero, Donald Cameron, is a soldier who is recovering from war wounds.
He is invited by a publisher to write a book about England, but from the viewpoint of a foreigner,
i.e. a Scotsman.]
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2014/09/16: IT IS A PRIVILEGE TO INTRODUCE TO OUR CATALOGUE
THE TITANIC FIGURE OF 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 ninetieth birthday.
Age had not dimmed his passion and insight. One wonders what he
would say about the world today!]
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2014/09/14: TODAY'S EBOOK IS BY C. S. LEWIS — A FASCINATING
PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL STUDY OF "LOVE" !
Lewis, C. S. [Clive Staples] (1898-1963)
[Irish critic, novelist, poet, and theologian]
Wikipedia
The Four Loves
(1960)
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[Philosophical/theological monograph: a study of love. But the single
English word "love" is used for several quite different things, as
Professor Lewis demonstrates with his customary clarity and brilliance.]
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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, playwright, 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.]
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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 FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF HER FURTHER TRAVELS IN IRAN !
Sackville-West, Vita [Victoria Mary] (1892-1962)
[English novelist, poet, essayist, gardener, and travel writer]
Wikipedia
Twelve Days. An account of a journey across the
Bakhtiari Mountains in South-western Persia.
(1928)
[Travel book, with photographs. Our author and several friends decide to travel
across the Bakhtiari Mountains of Iran: a difficult but fascinating journey...]
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2014/09/02: NOUS ACCUEILLONS... M. ARSÈNE LUPIN !
Leblanc, Maurice (1864-1941) [Romancier français]
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L'Agence Barnett et Cie
(1928)
fr.wikipedia
[Huit nouvelles. « Qu'était-ce que ce curieux personnage qui avait nom
Jim Barnett ? » demande notre romancier dans sa préface,
et fournit lui-même la réponse : M. Arsène Lupin
fr.wikipedia,
semble-t-il...]
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2014/08/25: TODAY WE INTRODUCE A CHARACTER WHO IS ONE OF
EDGAR WALLACE'S MOST MEMORABLE CREATIONS —
EDUCATED EVANS !
Wallace, Edgar
[Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar] (1875-1932)
[English novelist, playwright, and screenplay writer]
Wikipedia
BFI screenonline
More Educated Evans
(1926)
[A series of tales about horse-racing or, more particularly, gambling on horse-racing,
featuring Wallace's famous character Educated Evans. Humour rather than
suspense: an unexpected and delightful side of Edgar Wallace!]
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2014/08/20: TODAY WE INTRODUCE TO OUR CATALOGUE JAMES HILTON —
AND HIS FAMOUS CREATION, THE ENGLISH SCHOOLMASTER MR. CHIPS !
Hilton, James (1900-1954) [English novelist]
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Good-bye, Mr. Chips
(1934)
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[Novel: an enduringly popular twentieth-century classic, later adapted to screen and stage.
A young schoolmaster arrives at an English school, and, without quite planning it, finds
his lifetime vocation.]
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2014/08/17: WITH TODAY'S EBOOK, WE OFFER ALL FOUR OF THE ORIGINAL MISS PICKERELL NOVELS !
MacGregor, Ellen (1906-1954) [American librarian and novelist]
Wikipedia
Miss Pickerell Goes to the Arctic
(1954)
[Novel for children. Miss Pickerell meets a retired bush pilot, and matters proceed from there.
The novel expertly intertwines an interesting plot with a surprising amount of scientific information.]
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2014/08/09: WE NOW OFFER NO FEWER THAN THREE NOVELS FEATURING THE REDOUBTABLE MISS PICKERELL !
MacGregor, Ellen (1906-1954) [American librarian and novelist]
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Miss Pickerell and the Geiger Counter
(1953)
[Novel for children. Miss Pickerell, accompanied by her two nephews, Homer and Harry,
is on her way to the state capital to see the circus, and also an atomic energy exhibit.
The book is of its era, and shows no scepticism about nuclear energy and its risks.
But Miss Pickerell would have been most interested to learn that today some
countries are phasing out nuclear power: solar power would have fascinated her!]
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2014/08/08: TODAY'S EBOOK IS THE VERY FIRST OF ELLEN MACGREGOR'S
NOVELS FOR CHILDREN, FEATURING MISS PICKERELL !
MacGregor, Ellen (1906-1954) [American librarian and novelist]
Wikipedia
Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars
(1951)
[Novel for children, the first to feature Miss Pickerell.
The title summarizes the plot; but this agreeable
work skilfully presents a good deal of actual science as its plot develops.]
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2014/08/04: HERE'S ONE VERY GOOD REASON TO OPPOSE THE
TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S ABSURD PROPOSAL
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IF WE KEEP OUR OWN COPYRIGHT RULES, INSTEAD OF LETTING
FOREIGN GOVERMENTS CHANGE THEM FOR US, EVELYN WAUGH'S NOVELS
WILL ENTER THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, AS THEY SHOULD, ON 1 JANUARY 2017, NOT 2037
— YES, YOU READ THAT RIGHT: 2037! IN THE MEANTIME,
IT'S OUR PLEASURE TO OFFER YOU A FINE ESSAY ABOUT WAUGH
BY ROSE MACAULAY — WHO KNEW WAUGH PERSONALLY !
Macaulay, Dame Rose [Emilie Rose] (1881-1958)
[English novelist and essayist]
Wikipedia
Evelyn Waugh
(December 1946)
[Essay: a beautifully written and surprisingly comprehensive survey of the works of
Evelyn Waugh
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up to and including the then recently published Brideshead Revisited
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2014/08/02: TODAY A VERY SPECIAL NAME JOINS THE PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA
CATALOGUE — THE POET ROBERT FROST! AND TODAY'S
EBOOK CONTAINS FOUR MAGNIFICENT WOODCUTS BY 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]
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West-Running Brook
(1928)
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[Collection of lyric poems, with four beautiful woodcuts by J. J. Lankes (1884-1960)
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Vanderbilt University,
a personal 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 repose, the banked emotion, the nicely blended
tenderness and humor are everywhere."
(Louis Untermeyer
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Saturday Review, 28 December 1928)]
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2014/07/31: FIRST CAME PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA, THEN CAME THE EPUB STANDARD
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TO PRESENT OUR EPUB VERSION OF THESE FINE TRAVEL ESSAYS BY STELLA BENSON !
Benson, Stella (1892-1933)
[English novelist]
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The Little World
(1925)
[Travel essays, describing our author's visits to numerous 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 respects, a disappointment;
she is too expert a journalist to fail the readers who for her sake alone will wander
through India and China, and go across the American continent, and touch Africa,
and swelter in Aden."
(Saturday Review, 5 December 1925)]
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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]
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Some Do Not...
(1924)
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[Novel, the first of the four Parade's End novels
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We are introduced to Christopher Tietjens, the main character.
Tietjens works in Britain's Imperial Department
of Statistics. Society appears calm and well-ordered:
but the First World War lies just around the corner...]
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2014/06/20: IF YOU WERE TO LOSE ANY OF YOUR PROJECT GUTENBERG
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SIMPLY VISIT US AND DOWNLOAD FREE REPLACEMENTS
— WE'RE HERE TO HELP! IN 1942, THINGS WEREN'T SO SIMPLE,
AS ROSE MACAULAY TESTIFIES !
Macaulay, Dame Rose [Emilie Rose] (1881-1958)
[English novelist and essayist]
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Book-Building after a Blitz
(June 1942)
[Essay. In 1942, our author lost her entire personal library when a
bomb landed on her London flat. She had a new project in front
of her: recreating her collection! Surprisingly optimistic in tone, all
things considered: perhaps Macaulay sensed that her most famous
creation, The Towers of Trebizond, lay ahead of her!]
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2014/07/14: HERE AT PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA, WE LOVE THE
USING THE EPUB EBOOK FORMAT (ESPECIALLY ON TABLETS),
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THE EPUB THAT MUCH HANDSOMER, SO TODAY'S "NEW RELEASE"
IS THAT NEW AND IMPROVED EPUB — ENJOY !
Raverat, Gwen [Gwendolen Mary] (1885-1957)
[English artist]
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Period Piece. A Cambridge Childhood.
(1952)
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[Autobiography, marvellously written and profusely illustrated by its author. Raverat was a granddaughter of Charles Darwin
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2014/07/12: OUR FIRST NOVEL BY ANNA BUCHAN, SISTER OF JOHN BUCHAN:
— HER OWN NOVELS, 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 University (Helen C)
[Novel, set in Scotland, with a focus on the events of everyday life —
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 sensational events found in her brother's action novels are quite
foreign to the sympathetic world of Anna Buchan.]
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2014/07/06: NEVIL SHUTE WROTE TODAY'S NOVEL SHORTLY BEFORE HIS
PASSING — WHEN CLEARLY HE WAS AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS LITERARY POWERS !
Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Trustee from the Toolroom
(1960)
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[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!]
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2014/07/04: HERE AT PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA WE TRY TO GET OUR EBOOKS
EXACTLY RIGHT. THIS CARE AND ATTENTION SOMETIMES DELAYS
OUR PUBLICATION DATES — WHICH EXPLAINS WHY THE EBOOK
WE INTENDED FOR CANADA DAY (OUR SITE'S SEVENTH BIRTHDAY!)
IS ACTUALLY 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 Southern Ontario
to his adulthood as a forester in British Columbia. H. R. Macmillan
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de la Roche's cousin, and a central figure in the history of British Columbia's
forest industry, appears to have inspired the novel!]
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You will find thousands of other interesting titles at Project Gutenberg's
US and
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 will find a large catalogue of excellent titles in French
at Ebooks Libres et Gratuits,
who have also kindly made their catalogue available to us.
Nous tenons à remercier nos partenaires,
Projet Gutenberg US,
Ebooks libres et gratuits
et Projet Gutenberg Australie,
qui vous offrent des milliers de livres captivants.
Les deux premiers possèdent un vaste catalogue de
titres en français. Ce sont nos partenaires qui se sont
occupés de numériser de nombreux documents ci-dessous.
Anonymous
Select Comic Tales. From the Best Authors.
(ca. 1808)
[A collection of tales, mostly anonymous, selected by an anonymous editor, but including stories by
François Blanchet (1707-1784)
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and Charles Johnstone (ca.1719 - ca.1800)
Compendium of Irish Biography.
Colour frontispiece and title page by an anonymous artist. All in all, a work with a good deal of anonymity.]
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Aunt Ann's Lesson-Book, for Very Young Children.
In Words of One and Two Syllables.
(1822)
[Vignettes intended to entertain and instruct young children, "by a friend to little children."
Includes colour illustrations by an anonymous artist.]
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Tales and Novels for Youth of Both Sexes
(1831)
[Tales and historical accounts from French history and culture, published in Paris in 1831, but written in English.
The illustrations include an engraved frontispiece reproducing a work by Charles-Abraham Chasselat (1782-1843).]
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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
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[Traditional children's poem
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nicely illustrated by an unknown hand]
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Dan Drake's Rhymes and Dame Duck's Jingles
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[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?)
[Alphabet book and children's story: includes illustrations by
G. H. Thompson (fl. 1833-1884)
and Louis Wain (1860-1939)
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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!]
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Metropolitan Cook Book, Edition of Aug. 1954
(1954)
[Cookbook. published by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company]
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Abbott, John Stevens Cabot (1805-1877) [American historian]
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The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle
and his Companions in their explorations of
the prairies, forests, lakes, and rivers, of the New
World, and their interviews with the savage tribes,
two hundred years ago.
(1875)
[History, mostly concerning René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
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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 Septuagint
translation of the Old Testament to represent their Hebrew counterparts]
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page to navigate to the appropriate pages. As an alternative,
you can download the scans in DjVu format (15 megabytes)
or as a PDF file (54 megabytes).
Acland, Peregrine Palmer (1890-1963)
[Canadian novelist]
The Dusty Bookcase (Brian Busby)
Field Punishment No.1 (James Calhoun)
All Else Is Folly. A Tale of War and Passion.
(1929)
[One of the most famous Canadian novels about the First World War,
describing the experiences of a young soldier, 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 English
country house, Bendip Towers. No less a figure than Ford Madox Ford
(1873-1939)
Wikipedia
contributed the preface:
"Major Acland's is, I imagine, the first 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 if the book is not read enormously widely. And that is the truth."]
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Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
[English essayist and playwright]
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NNDB
Cato. A Tragedy.
(1713)
[Tragedy, extremely popular throughout the eighteenth century,
describing the last days of Cato the Younger (95-46 B.C.)
Wikipedia, a leading opponent of Julius Caesar.
Our edition includes some introductory remarks by the
playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821)
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Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 B.C.)
[Athenian playwright]
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Translations by
Murray, Gilbert [George Gilbert Aimé] (1866-1957)
[English classical scholar]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) [in German]
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The Persians
(472 B.C. [Greek original], 1939 [this translation])
[The oldest surviving Greek tragedy. It deals with a contemporary event:
the reaction of the Persian court to the news of the Greek victory over the
Persians at Salamis
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The tone of the play is surprisingly sympathetic to the Persians.]
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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
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arrive as refugees in Argos, seeking protection from forced marriage in Egypt.]
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Prometheus Bound
(fifth century B.C. [Greek original], 1931 [this translation])
[Tragedy. Prometheus
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has given mankind the gift of fire. Zeus in anger has
chained him to a mountain in the Caucasus. Two millennia after the original,
Shelley wrote a famous sequel, Prometheus Unbound
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Alain-Fournier, pseudonyme de Fournier, Henri Alban (1886-1914) [Romancier français]
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Le Grand Meaulnes (1913) [Roman]
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Albani, Emma (1847-1930)
[Canadian opera singer]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Library and Archives Canada
La Scena Musicale (article by Gilles Potvin)
The Virtual Gramophone (recordings!)
The Virtual Gramophone (biography)]
Forty Years of Song
(1911)
[Albani's own account, profusely illustrated, of her sensational rise to international fame
in the world of opera and oratorio]
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Voir aussi:
Legendre, Napoléon (1841-1907) [Journaliste canadien]
fr.wikipedia
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Albani (Emma Lajeunesse)
(1874)
[Biographie de la cantatrice Emma Albani (1847-1930)
fr.wikipedia
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
La Scena Musicale (article par Gilles Potvin)]
Le Gramophone virtuel (enregistrements!)
Le Gramophone virtuel (biographie)]
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Allen, Grant [Charles Grant Blairfindie] (1848-1899) [Canadian scientist, novelist, and historian]
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Peter Morton's Grant Allen website
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Philistia (1884) [Novel]
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Biographies of Working Men (1884) [Short biographies of Thomas Telford, George Stephenson, John Gibson, William Herschel, Jean-François Millet, James Garfield, and Thomas Edward]
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Falling in Love, with other essays on more exact branches of science (1889) [Essays on science]
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What's Bred in the Bone (1890) [Novel]
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The Great Taboo (1890) [Novel]
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Recalled to Life (1891) [Novel]
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Anglo-Saxon Britain (1891) [History]
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Science in Arcady (1892) [Essays on science]
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Michael's Crag (1893) [Novel]
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Post-Prandial Philosophy (1893) [Light essays]
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The British Barbarians (1895) [Science fiction novel]
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The Woman Who Did
(1895)
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[Novel, controversial at the time of its publication.
Herminia Barton is very well educated, rather poor, and
thinks for herself: she does not wish to marry, a fact which
largely determines the course of the novel.
We include the 1895 title page, which was created
by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)
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An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay (1897) [Detective short stories]
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Twelve Tales, with a Headpiece, a Tailpiece, and an Intermezzo:
Being Select Stories by Grant Allen, Chosen and Arranged by the Author
(1899)
[Allen's own selection of his personal favourites among the many
short stories he created. In the very interesting introduction he
explains how, essentially by accident, he became 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 chapters completed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)]
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Alloway, Mary Wilson (1848-1919)
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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 novel set during the 1775 attack on Quebec
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by American forces led by
Richard Montgomery
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
and Benedict Arnold
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
successfully repulsed by the British garrison under the command of Guy Carleton
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
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Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875)
[Danish writer and poet; écrivain et poète danois]
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Contes merveilleux - Tome I
[Contes]
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Stories from Hans Andersen (1911)
[Stories: illustrated by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)
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Tales from Hans Andersen Forty-Two Stories (1930)
[Stories: translated from the Danish by M. R. James (1862-1936)
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Andrews, Roy Chapman (1884-1960)
[American explorer]
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An Explorer Comes Home.
Further Adventures of Roy Chapman Andrews.
(1947)
[The author's account of his life in Colebrook, Connecticut
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after his decades of exploration in the Far East]
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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]
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Beyond Adventure. The Lives of Three Explorers.
(1954)
[Biographical sketches of the Arctic explorer Robert Peary (1856-1920)
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of the African explorer Carl Akeley (1864-1926)
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and of the author himself.
These short biographies originally appeared in True, The Man's Magazine
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Field & Stream (David E. Petzal)
before they were collected in this book.]
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Anet, Claude [pseudonyme de Jean Schopfer] (1868-1931)
[Journaliste et romancier français]
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Ariane, jeune fille russe (1920)
[Roman: la source de deux films célèbres:
Ariane, jeune fille russe (1932, Paul Czinner)
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Ariane [Love in the Afternoon] (1957, Billy Wilder, avec Audrey
Hepburn, Gary Cooper, et Maurice Chevalier)
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Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918) [Romancier et poète français]
fr.wikipedia
Les Onze Mille Verges (1907) [Roman érotique]
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Aristophanes (445 B.C. or earlier - ca. 385 B.C.)
[Athenian playwright]
Wikipedia
Translations by:
Murray, Gilbert [George Gilbert Aimé] (1866-1957)
[English classical scholar]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) [in German]
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The Knights
(424 B.C. [Greek original], 1956 [this translation])
[Comedy about the political scene in Athens during the Peloponnesian War
Wikipedia.
A sausage seller becomes a political rival to Cleon
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a prominent Athenian politician (and an opponent of Aristophanes).
The "knights" of the title are not the mediaeval 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.]
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F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart's 1907 edition of the original Greek text:
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The Birds
(414 B.C. [Greek original], 1950 [this translation])
[Comedy. The birds of the world band together to take over
control of the universe from the Olympian gods. The
Wikipedia
article on the play provides a helpful guide to its many
contemporary allusions.]
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ancient-literature.com
F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart's 1907 edition of the original Greek text:
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Arkell, Reginald (1882-1959)
[English novelist and poet]
Wikipedia
Old Herbaceous
(1950)
[The celebrated light novel, featuring Bert Pinnegar, a rather special gardener.
Beautifully illustrated by John Minton (1917-1957).
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Tate Collection]
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Arlen, Michael (1895-1956)
[English novelist, playwright, and essayist]
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Ghost Stories
(1932)
[Seven ghost stories by a famous master]
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Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)
[English poet and critic]
Wikipedia
NNDB
St. Paul and Protestantism, with an essay on Puritanism and the Church of England
(1870)
[Two essays on St. Paul's teachings, as they have been conceived, and misconceived]
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Aubert, Albert
[Écrivain français]
L'Horloge qui chante. Nouvelle américaine.
(1843)
[Conte. L'histoire de l'horloger Daniel, originaire de la Nouvelle-Écosse,
et Louise Saunders, une jeune fille de Cleveland.]
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[PG Canada no 955]
Aubert de Gaspé, Philippe (1814-1841) [Romancier canadien]
Encyclopédie canadienne
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L'influence d'un livre (1837) [Roman]
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Auzias-Turenne, Raymond (1861-1940) [Écrivain et
diplomate français]
(gendre de Louis Beaubien [1837-1915]
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada)
République Royale
(1894)
[Essai politique]
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Babcock, John Pease (1855-1936)
[Canadian naturalist and author]
University of Washington
Peace River Joe
(1924)
[A prize-winning short story, dedicated by its author "to my friends in remembrance of many
happy days spent on the waters and in the woods of British Columbia."]
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Bainville, Jacques (1879-1936)
[Historien et journaliste français]
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Académie Française
Comment s'est faite la Restauration de 1814
(1914)
[Monographie sur le retour des Bourbons en 1814]
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[PGC no 829]
Napoléon
(1931)
[Biographie du soldat et homme d'État français
fr.wikipedia]
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[PGC no 739]
Barrie, J. M. [James Matthew] (1860-1937)
[Scottish playwright]
Wikipedia
The New Yorker (Anthony Lane)
Quality Street
(1901)
[Comedy. Our ebook is based on an edition assigned to 1913 which included a marvellous
set of colour illustrations by Hugh Thomson (1860-1920)
Ulster History Circle]
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Half an Hour
(1913 [first performance]; 1928 [first publication])
[A one-act play, unusually sardonic in tone for Barrie, as can be seen from his introduction to the play:
"Mr. Garson, who is a financier, and his young wife, the lovely Lady
Lilian, are in their mansion near Park Lane, but they are not at home
this evening to the public eye; they are in the midst of a brawl..."]
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Half an Hour : An Aspect of J. M. Barrie's View of Womankind (Yashima Tanabe, 1974)
Half Hours
(1914)
[Four one-act plays]
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Shall We Join the Ladies?
(1928)
[A one-act play. Barrie's description: "For the past week the hospitable Sam Smith
has been entertaining a country house party, and we choose to raise the curtain
on them towards the end of dinner...Smith is a little old bachelor, and sits there
beaming on his guests like an elderly cupid. So they think him, but they are to be
undeceived."]
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Barrière, Théodore (1821-1877) [Dramaturge canadien],
Decourcelle, Adrien (1824-1892) [Dramaturge canadien],
Grangé, Eugène (1810-1887) [Dramaturge canadien], et
Roy, Régis (1864-1944) [Dramaturge canadien]
La tête de Martin: Comédie en un acte (1900) [Comédie]
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Barry, Philip [Philip Jerome Quinn] (1896-1949)
[American playwright]
Wikipedia
Georgetown University
Time (cover), 25 January 1932
The Animal Kingdom. A Comedy.
(1932)
[Comedy; one of Barry's greatest hits]
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Time, 25 January 1932
Bateman, Reginald John Godfrey (1883-1918)
[Canadian university teacher and military officer]
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Wikipedia
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 Thompson
(1859-1907)
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J. M. Synge (Bateman was from Ireland), Browning, Wordsworth,
Dickens and Thackeray, some skilfully written poems, and some
wartime items.]
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[PGC #1056]
Bealby, John Thomas (1858-1943/1944)
[Canadian fruit rancher and author]
Fruit Ranching in British Columbia
(1909)
[The author's account of his emigration from England to Nelson, B.C. and his subsequent
adventures as a successful fruit rancher. Includes 32 photographs.]
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Beaugrand, Honoré (1848-1906) [Journaliste canadien]
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Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Encyclopédie de l'Agora
Anita: Souvenirs d'un contre-guerillas (ca. 1874)
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Jeanne la Fileuse: épisode de l'émigration franco-canadienne aux États-Unis (1878) [Roman]
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Six mois dans les Montagnes-Rocheuses: Colorado—Utah—Nouveau-Mexique (1890)
[Récit de voyage]
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La chasse galerie: légendes canadiennes (1900) [Récits]
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Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616)
[English playwright]
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Fletcher, John (1579-1625)
[English playwright]
Wikipedia
The Knight of the Burning Pestle
(1613)
[Parodic drama, certainly influenced by Don Quixote, first presented in 1607 and published
six years later. We present the 1898 annotated edition by Frederic William Moorman (1872-1919)
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notable for its deep but unobtrusive learning.]
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Wikipedia
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
of 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 being what they are,
some of the poems are surprisingly topical even today.]
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Beerbohm, Max [Henry Maximilian] (1872-1956)
[English satirist, critic, and caricaturist]
Wikipedia
The Victorian Web
The Works of Max Beerbohm (1896)
[Essays: bibliography by John Lane (1854-1925)]
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Yet Again (1909)
[Essays]
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Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story (1911)
[Novel]
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A Christmas Garland (1912)
[Parody]
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And Even Now (1920)
[Parody]
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Lytton Strachey (1943) [Lecture]
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Belcourt, Napoléon-Antoine
(1860-1932)
[Canadian politician]
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Bilingualism: Address Delivered before the Quebec Canadian Club (1916)
[Lecture]
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Bellamy, Edward (1850-1898) [American novelist and social theorist]
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Looking Backward 2000-1887 (1888)
[Novel: introduction by Heywood Broun (1888-1939)
Wikipedia;
biographical sketch by Sylvester Baxter (1850-1927)]
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New York Times (article by Warren Sloat)
Benchley, Robert Charles (1889-1945)
[American essayist, critic, and actor]
Wikipedia
National Review Online (S. T. Karnick)]
Review of Gordon Daviot's play "Richard of Bordeaux"
(1934) [Review of the New York production of the West End hit
Richard of Bordeaux, written by Elizabeth MacKintosh using the pen name of Gordon Daviot.
MacKintosh's famous mystery novels were written using the pen name of Josephine Tey; and it is under
Tey's name that you will find PG Canada's digital edition of Richard of Bordeaux!]
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Benchley Beside Himself
(1943)
[Satirical essays]
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[PGC #662]
Benét, Stephen Vincent (1898-1943)
[American author and poet]
Wikipedia
From Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds (1937) [Short stories]
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By the Waters of Babylon
[Post-apolocalyptic story
Wikipedia. One of Benét's most famous works.]
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[PGC #689]
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The Blood of the Martyrs
[Professor Malzius has been condemned to death; interesting events ensue.]
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[PGC #714]
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The King of the Cats
[The world is a different place for those with tails.]
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[PGC #715]
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A Story by Angela Poe
[A tale of the world of publishing in New York City]
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The Treasure of Vasco Gomez
[Captain Gomez has been marooned by his crew...]
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[PGC #734]
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The Curfew Tolls
[Are historical outcomes inevitable? To what extent are they determined
by chance? This story, set in France before the Revolution, addresses these questions.
The story's title is taken from the opening line of Thomas Gray's Elegy in a Country
Churchyard
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The Sobbin' Women
[A story from the American frontier]
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The Devil and Daniel Webster
[A very famous short story, made into a 1941 film
Wikipedia.
A New Hampshire farmer makes an agreement with a mysterious stranger,
profitable in the short term; then things start happening! In the course of the story Benét demonizes, as it were, a number of historical figures considered in Canada as being among the Loyalists
Wikipedia
who founded English Canada: Walter Butler (1752-1781)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
Simon Girty (1741-1818)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
and Benedict Arnold (1741-1801)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
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Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent
[A second Benét story involving Daniel Webster
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[PGC #780]
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Glamour
[A budding author moves to Brooklyn and there discovers glamour.]
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[PGC #794]
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Everybody Was Very Nice
[Life, love, and family in the American bourgeoisie]
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A Death in the Country
[A New York lawyer visits the rural town where he grew up. Things are not
as they once were.]
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Blossom and Fruit
[The predictions of youth are not the same as the outcomes of maturity.]
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From Tales before Midnight (1939) [Short stories]
Nightmare at Noon
(1940)
[Poem, written around the time that the U.S. entered the Second World War]
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[PGC #818]
Bengough, John Wilson (1851-1923) [Canadian cartoonist and publisher]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Bengough's Chalk-Talks.
A Series of Platform Addresses on various topics,
with reproductions of the impromptu Drawings with
which they were illustrated.
(1922)
[Illustrated lectures]
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"A Pioneer Canadian Cartoonist" on Bengough in
Hector Charlesworth's The Canadian Scene (1927),
which includes essays on many other things Canadian.
Charlesworth's fine book is available to you from this site
as a PG Canada ebook, with our compliments!
Bennet, Robert Ames (1870-1954)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
University of Wyoming
The Desert Girl
(probably ca. 1928: certainly before 1958)
[Novel (Western)]
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[English novelist]
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Literary Heritage West Midlands
Friendship and Happiness
(1912)
[Reflections on happiness, with special reference to friendship
and to the importance of Christmas]
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Things That Have Interested Me
(1921)
[A journal of day-by-day reflections on a multitude of subjects. A type of writing more common
in French literature than English, but none the worse for that, especially coming from Arnold Bennett.]
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Things That Have Interested Me. Second Series.
(1923)
[Further essays and reflections. Includes a review of James Joyce's recently published Ulysses
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[PGC #858]
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 fiction.]
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[PGC #1006]
Elsie and the Child. A Tale of Riceyman Steps and Other Stories.
(1924)
[Thirteen tales about various residents of London, the first of them
being Elsie Sprickett, the domestic servant who had already appeared
in Arnold's well received 1923 novel Riceyman Steps.]
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[PGC #1004]
Things That Have Interested Me. Third Series.
(1926)
[Essays]
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The Strange Vanguard: A Fantasia
(1928)
[Novel]
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Accident
(1929)
[Novel]
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The Night Visitor and Other Stories
(1931)
[Short stories]
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Benson, E. F. [Edward Frederic] (1867-1940)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Visible and Invisible
(1923)
[Stories of the supernatural]
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[PGC #1003]
Spook Stories
(1928)
[Ghost stories, as you might guess.]
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[PGC #809]
Charlotte Brontë
(1932)
[A biography of the famous author of Jane Eyre, with a fine selection of contemporary illustrations]
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More Spook Stories
(1934)
[Further ghost stories, written as a sequel to Spook Stories,
which had appeared six years earlier]
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[PGC #1030]
Benson, Louis FitzGerald (1855-1930)
[American church historian and hymnologist]
Princeton Theological Seminary
The Hymnody of the Christian Church
[The Stone Lectures, 1926, Princeton Theological Seminary]
(1927)
[Lectures on various aspects of the use of hymns in Christian worship]
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Benson, Stella (1892-1933)
[English novelist]
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The Little World
(1925)
[Travel essays, describing our author's visits to numerous 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 respects, a disappointment;
she is too expert a journalist to fail the readers who for her sake alone will wander
through India and China, and go across the American continent, and touch Africa,
and swelter in Aden."
(Saturday Review, 5 December 1925)]
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[PGC #267]
Goodbye, Stranger
(1926)
[Novel]
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The Man Who Missed the 'Bus
(1928)
[Short story]
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Worlds Within Worlds
(1928)
[Travel essays]
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Hope Against Hope and Other Stories
(1931)
[Short stories]
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Bernanos, Georges (1888-1948) [Romancier français]
fr.wikipedia
L'Imposture (1927) [Roman]
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Saint Dominique (1928) [Biographie]
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La joie (1929) [Roman]
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Un crime (1935) [Roman policier]
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Journal d'un curé de campagne (1936)
[Roman: Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, 1936]
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Nouvelle histoire de Mouchette (1937) [Roman]
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Réflexions sur le cas de conscience français (1943) [Conférence faite à Rio-de-Janeiro le 15 Octobre 1943]
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Monsieur Ouine (1946) [Roman]
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Lord Berners
(Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, fourteenth Baron Berners)
(1883-1950)
[English composer, painter, and novelist]
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New Criterion (article by Joseph Epstein)
The Guardian (article by Gavin Bryars)
First Childhood (1934)
[Autobiography]
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Bernier, Hector (1886-1947) [Romancier canadien]
Au large de l'Écueil (1912) [Roman]
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Ce que disait la flamme (1913) [Roman]
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Besier, Rudolf (1878-1942)
[English playwright]
Wikipedia
The Barretts of Wimpole Street. A Comedy in Five Acts.
(1930)
[Play about the initial meeting of the poets Elizabeth Barrett
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and Robert Browning
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and the events that ensued]
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[PGC #861]
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Bibaud, François-Maximilien (1823-1887) [Écrivain canadien]
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Biographie des Sagamos illustres de l'Amérique Septentrionale (1848)
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Biedermann, Woldemar von (1817-1903)
[German literary historian / historien littéraire allemand]
de.wikipedia
Goethe und die Fikentscher (1878)
[Biographical essay in German / Essai biographique en allemand]
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Learn German!
Apprenez l'allemand!
Bindloss, Harold (1866-1945)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
The Cattle-Baron's Daughter
(1906)
[Novel: illustrated by David Axel Ericson (1869-1946)
mnartists.org (article by Thomas O'Sullivan)
Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth
St. George Serbian Orthodox Church, Duluth]
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The Dust of Conflict
(1907)
[Novel: frontispiece by Dunton, W. Herbert (1878-1936)
The W. Herbert "Buck" Dunton Online Exhibit.
Bernard Appleby, a poor but talented young Englishman, arrives in Cuba
on the eve of the Spanish-American War
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Masters of the Wheat-Lands
[United Kingdom title:
Hawtrey's Deputy]
(1910)
[Novel: illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo (1879-1916)
Cuneo Society]
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The Protector
(1911)
[Novel, with a frontispiece by an anonymous artist.
Wallace Vane is a successful immigrant to British Columbia, the basis of this success
being a mineral discovery. We follow his adventures in British Columbia, and in the North of England,
which he visits for the first time since his departure at age eighteen.]
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Prescott of Saskatchewan
[United Kingdom title:
The Wastrel]
(1913)
[Novel: frontispiece by Dunton, W. Herbert (1878-1936)
The W. Herbert "Buck" Dunton Online Exhibit]
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Brandon of the Engineers
[United Kingdom title:
His One Talent]
(1916)
[Novel: frontispiece by Cyrus Cuneo (1879-1916)
Cuneo Society]
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The Wilderness Mine
[United Kingdom title:
Stayward's Vindication]
(1920)
[Novel]
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The Dark Road
(1927)
[Novel]
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The Lone Hand
(1928)
[Novel; U.K. title The Firm Hand. Mark Crozier has spent his entire life so far in the
(English/Scottish) Borders region — what does his future hold?
Canada shows up in a supporting role.]
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[PGC #994]
Larry of Lonesome Lake
(1929)
[Novel; U.K. title The Harder Way. Lawrence (Larry) Bethune, formerly of England,
is now a rancher near Lonesome Lake in British Columbia. Lonesome the lake may be,
but his life is eventful, and not without romantic interests.]
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You will find other titles by Harold Bindloss at Project Gutenberg's
US site.
Birmingham, George A. [Hannay, James Owen] (1865-1950)
[Irish priest and novelist]
Wikipedia
King Tommy
(1923)
[Light novel, somewhat similar in tone to the works of P. G. Wodehouse.
The Marquis of Norheys, a young and not particularly responsible aristocrat,
becomes a candidate for the throne of Lystria, a country in central Europe.
A country with oil...]
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Bishop, William Avery ["Billy"] (1894-1956)
[Canadian aviator]
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with:
Stuart-Wortley, Rothesay (1892-1926)
[English aviator]
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The Flying Squad
(1927)
[Novel. Two students at Upper Canada College
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discover that their Greek instructor was a pilot during the Great War:
he offers to teach them to fly. During the training,
a pilot friend of their instructor stumbles into a criminal
gang while he's out flying...]
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Blot, Pierre (1818-1874)
[French chef, teacher, and author]
Feeding America (Michigan State University)
Hand-Book of Practical Cookery,
for Ladies and Professional Cooks. Containing the
Whole Science and Art of Preparing Human Food.
(1867)
[A full set of recipes intended, in the author's words, to explain
"how to arrange a bill of fare for every season,
to suit any number of guests, at a greater or less expense..."]
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Bosse, Sara [née Eaton] (1868-1940)
[Canadian author]
Michigan State University
Watanna, Onoto [Reeve, Winnifred Eaton:
née Eaton, Winnifred] (1875-1954)
[Canadian novelist]
The Winnifred Eaton Digital Archive
Michigan State University
University of Calgary
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University of Minnesota
Ryerson University
Glenbow Museum (photograph)
Chinese-Japanese Cook Book
(1914)
[Cookbook]
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[Journaliste canadien]
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Université du Québec à Montréal
Dictionnaire des barbarismes et des solécismes
les plus ordinaires en ce pays, avec le mot propre ou leur
signification (1855)
[Dictionnaire]
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
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The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People (1881) [Historical essays]
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Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 (1900) [History]
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Lord Elgin (1903) [Biography]
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Bower, B. M. [Bower, Bertha Muzzy] (1871-1940)
[American author of Westerns]
Wikipedia (B. M. Bower)
University of Oklahoma (Kate Baird Anderson)
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Wikipedia (Westerns)
The Parowan Bonanza
(1923) [Novel about prospectors in Nevada.
Includes a frontispiece by the American artist Frank Tenney Johnson (1874-1939)
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Sid Richardson Museum
National Museum of Wildlife Art
Christie's]
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[PGC #556]
Points West
(1928) [Western novel. Cole is the son of wealth, but through no fault of
his own this wealth has disappeared. He must take action...]
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Hay-Wire
(1928) [Novel]
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Rodeo
(1929) [Western]
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Tiger Eye
(1930) [Western]
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[PGC #553]
Fool's Goal
(1930) [Western]
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The Flying U Strikes
(1933) [Western]
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Trails Meet
(1933) [Western novel. Our hero, Jess Robison, a cowboy with talents as an
artist, turns out to have talents as a detective as well.]
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University of Oklahoma
[PGC #666]
Brazil, Angela (1868-1947)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Literary Heritage West Midlands
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
An Exciting Term
(1936)
[Novel]
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[English boys' novelist]
The Wee Web
The River Riders: An Exciting Lumberjack Story
(1892)
[Novel]
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Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956)
[American novelist, journalist, and organic farmer]
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Night in Bombay (1940)
[Novel about the guests in a hotel in India: one might say, 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 for surfaces, and the greatest skill in writing for pure entertainment."
(Jonathan Daniels, Saturday Review, 11 May 1940)]
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[PGC #1170]
Mrs. Parkington (1943)
[Novel: the basis for the 1944 film of the same name
Wikipedia.
Mrs. Parkington, born in Leaping Rock, Nevada, has ascended
the social ladder and is now a lady of great wealth. But the
children of the wealthy often lack the qualities of their forebears.
"'Mrs. Parkington' is in the old and rich tradition of Thackeray
and Trollope, Howells and Mrs. Wharton... if the book is tuned
to the familiar theme from shirt-sleeves to shirt-sleeves in three
generations, the melody is full-blooded, the interest does not flag."
(Howard Mumford Jones, 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 showing Louis Bromfield's creative
powers and unobtrusively excellent style of writing.]
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Colorado (1947)
[Novel about money and family. Richard Meaney returns to his native Colorado
after three years at Oxford, accompanied by his tutor, Mr. Chatsworthy.
"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... But it is no small tribute to Mr. Bromfield's
vivid storytelling that the reader can 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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Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Shirley
(1849)
[Novel, set in Yorkshire during the Industrial Revolution
Wikipedia]
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Brooke, Frances (1724-1789) [English novelist]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
The History of Emily Montague (1769) [Novel: in fact, the first novel written in Canada]
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Brooke, Leonard Leslie (1862-1940)
[English children's artist and writer]
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Harwell Parish
Johnny Crow's Garden (1903)
[Story book with pictures]
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The Story of the Three Little Pigs (1904)
[Story book with pictures]
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The Golden Goose Book, being the stories of
The Golden Goose, The Three Bears, The 3 Little Pigs,
Tom Thumb, with numerous Drawings in Colour and
Black-and-White
(1905)
[Stories with pictures]
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Nursery Rhymes I. Songs and Ditties.
(ca. 1916)
[the first in a set of three volumes of the traditional rhymes, with Brooke's marvellous illustrations]
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[PGC #580]
Ring O' Roses: A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book
with numerous Drawings in Colour and Black-and-White
(1923)
[Story book with pictures]
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Brooker, Bertram (1888-1955)
[Canadian painter and novelist]
Wikipedia
University of Manitoba
CyberMuse
Think of the Earth
(1936)
[Novel: winner in the year of its publication of the first Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
ever awarded. An expatriate Englishman has a weekend of self-discovery in Manitoba:
he falls in love, and realizes that he must become less introspective than formerly.]
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[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.]
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[PGC #1013]
Broughton, Rhoda (1840-1920)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Literary Heritage West Midlands
Doctor Cupid. A Novel.
(1886)
[Novel. Social and romantic doings in Victorian England.
At the novel's beginning stands one of many versions
of a famous four-line poem from late mediaeval Germany
Wikipedia
de.wikipedia]
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[PGC #757]
Browning, Robert (1812-1889)
[English poet]
Wikipedia
Academy of American Poets
Strafford: An Historical Tragedy
(1837)
[Play]
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Bruce, James, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine (1811-1863) [Governor General of the Province of Canada 1847-54]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin (1872) [Historical essays]
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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 University (Helen C)
[Novel, set in Scotland, with a focus on the events of everyday life —
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 sensational events found in her brother's action novels are quite
foreign to the sympathetic world of Anna Buchan.]
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Unforgettable, Unforgotten
(1945)
[A memoir of the author's family, especially her beloved brother John, the celebrated
novelist and fifteenth Governor General of Canada, whom Anna visited in Canada.
Illustrated with five nicely chosen photographs.]
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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 Sieur de Rohaine.
(1895)
[Buchan's first novel (or rather, novella: it is quite short):
the Sieur de Rohaine has fallen on hard times, and leaves
his native France 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 Bookman, December 1895).
Includes a frontispiece by New Jersey artist Walter Conant Greenough (d. 1898)]
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[PGC #1049]
A Lost Lady of Old Years. A Romance.
(1899)
[Historical novel, described by Buchan as an "auld Highland story",
taking place during the tumultuous events of 1745, when Bonnie Prince Charlie
Wikipedia
landed in Scotland and set in play the events that led to
the disastrous Battle of Culloden.]
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[PGC #1007]
A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys
(1922 [original edition]; 1925 [this edition])
[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, and includes a new set of illustrations, and
an epilogue by an anonymous author containing questions for discussion.]
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[PGC #945]
The Three Hostages
(1924)
[Thriller, the fourth in the Richard Hannay series
Wikipedia]
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[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.]
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[PGC #764]
The Dancing Floor
(1926)
Wikipedia
[Buchan's third novel featuring Scottish barrister Sir Edward Leithen:
intrigue in the glamorous setting of the Greek Islands]
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[PGC #1012]
Witch Wood
(1927)
Wikipedia
[Novel about mysterious events in seventeenth-century 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 country 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 Review, 13 August 1927)]
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[PGC #1044]
The Runagates Club
(1928)
[Twelve stories told at the monthly meetings of a (fictional) London dining club,
whose members included some famous figures from Buchan's novels,
such as Richard Hannay!]
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[PGC #1101]
The Blanket of the Dark
(1931)
[Historical novel, set in England during the reign of Henry VIII,
vividly depicting both high life and low in the society of that time.
Written in an easy and natural style, not something to
taken for granted in such novels.]
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[PGC #935]
Sir Walter Scott
(1932)
[A biography of the Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Wikipedia,
published by Buchan on the hundredth anniversary of the passing of his fellow Scotsman
and fellow novelist.
Includes as frontispiece a portrait of Scott by Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-1873)
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons]
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[PGC #960]
The Magic Walking-Stick
(1932)
[Novel for children. A young boy, Bill, buys a walking stick from a roadside
pedlar. He discovers that it's a magic stick that will take the owner
to anywhere he wishes. Adventures ensue...]
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[PGC #1113]
The King's Grace 1910-1935
(1935)
[A profile of the life and times of George V
Wikipedia,
published in celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary
of that monarch's accession to the throne. The few but well-chosen illustrations
include photographs by the W. & D. Downey studio
Wikipedia,
and E. O. Hoppé (1878-1972)
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #878]
The House of the Four Winds
(1935)
Wikipedia
[The third and final Dickson McCunn novel: political intrigue and daring deeds
in the central European country of Evallonia, with some Scottish visitors playing
a crucial role. Buchan's monarchist beliefs show through — beliefs
most appropriate in someone about to be become the Governor General of Canada!]
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[PGC #1047]
The Island of Sheep
(1936)
Wikipedia
[Novel featuring Buchan's most famous character, Richard Hannay
Wikipedia,
who is no longer young but whose talents have by no means deserted him,
as we discover. The novel starts in London, but then moves to the Norland Isles
in the arctic seas: one of these isles is the Island of Sheep. Dark doings are afoot,
a considerable challenge even for Richard Hannay.]
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[PGC #1011]
Memory Hold-the-Door
[U.S. title: Pilgrim's Way. An Essay in Recollection.]
(1940)
Wikipedia
[Memoir of those incidents and aspects of Buchan's life
which he thought most significant.
"This book is a journal of certain experiences," writes Buchan,
"not written in the experiencing moment, but rebuilt out of memory...
It is not a book of reminiscences in the ordinary sense,
for my purpose has been to record only a few selected experiences."
That said, the book covers the whole span of Buchan's varied life.
It was one of the favourite books of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Includes illustrations by B. C. Boulter (died 1960)
Church of Saint Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town,
Sholto Johnstone Douglas (1871-1958),
Charles Gere (1869-1957),
Sir William Orpen (1878-1931),
and photographs by Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002).]
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[PGC #1160]
Sick Heart River
(1941)
[Buchan's last novel, published posthumously.
American title: Mountain Meadow.
With an introduction by the novelist and biographer
Howard Swiggett (1891-1957).
Sir Edward Leithen
Wikipedia,
the hero of four earlier Buchan novels, is no longer young.
He receives some bad news, and in its aftermath heads to
Canada, where he learns a great deal about our country
and about himself.
"John Buchan could write the English language and his
descriptions of Canada from the woods of Quebec to the
desolation of the Arctic muskeg are beautiful and exciting."
(The American Mercury, April 1941)]
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[PGC #1052]
Buckley, Arabella Burton (1840-1929)
[English science writer]
The Fairy-Land of Science (1878)
[Science lectures for children: includes one anonymous
engraving, and many others supervised by English engraver
James Davis Cooper (1823-1904)
Darwin Correspondence Project]
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Burdett, Osbert (1885-1936)
[English literary critic and biographer]
W. E. Gladstone
(1927)
[A beautifully written biography of the Victorian statesman
William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898)
Wikipedia,
who served as Prime Minister no fewer than four times,
a record unequalled in British history.]
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[PGC #1126]
Burpee, Lawrence Johnstone (1873-1946)
[Canadian historian and librarian]
Wikipedia
Pratt Library
Archives de Montréal
Recent Canadian Fiction
(1899)
[Overview of Canadian novels in English published in the 1890s. Many of the authors discussed
are represented in the Project Gutenberg Canada collection.]
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[PGC #485]
A Little Book of Canadian Essays (1909)
[Essays on Canadian authors
Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850-1887)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
Charles Heavysege (1816-1876)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
Archibald Lampman (1861-1899)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
George Thomas Lanigan (1845-1886),
Catharine Parr Traill (1802-1899)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
John Hunter-Duvar (1821-1899)
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, and
George Frederick Cameron (1854-1885)
Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
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Humour of the North (1912)
[Anthology]
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Contributors:
De Mille, James (1833-1880)
[Canadian classical scholar and novelist]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
Drummond, William Henry (1854-1907)
[Canadian physician and poet]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
Duncan, Sara Jeannette [Mrs Everard Cotes] (1861-1922)
[Canadian journalist and novelist]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler (1796-1865)
[Canadian essayist and humorist]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
Howe, Joseph (1804-1873)
[Canadian journalist and politician]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Lanigan, George Thomas (1845-1886)
[Canadian journalist and poet]
McCarroll, James (1814-1892)
[Canadian journalist, inventor, and poet]
On the Old Athabaska Trail (1926)
[A retracing of the famous Athabasca Pass fur route
Parks Canada.
The nineteen illustrations include works by Canadian painter Paul Kane (1810-1871)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
and British military officer Sir Henry James Warre (1819-1898)
University of Washington
Oregon History Project
American Antiquarian Society]
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[PGC #450]
Busch, Heinrich Christian Wilhelm (1832-1908)
[German caricaturist and poet / caricaturiste et poète allemand]
Wikipedia
fr.wikipedia
de.wikipedia
Wilhelm Busch Geburtshaus
Wilhelm-Busch-Museum
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Zu guter Letzt
(1904)
[Poems in German: the last of Busch's works published during his lifetime
/ Poèmes en allemand: le dernier livre de Busch publié de son vivant]
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[PGC #530/no 530]
Learn German!
Apprenez l'allemand!
Translation:
Plish and Plum
(1882 [[German original], 1883 [this translation])
[Busch's beautifully illustrated collection of light verse Plisch und Plum, translated by Charles T. Brooks (1813-1883)
Wikipedia.
The publisher's advertisements at the end of the book include illustrations by
Sol Eytinge, Jr. (1833-1905)
The Victorian Web
The Vault at Pfaff's (Lehigh University)
and Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938)
Wikipedia
Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission (Casey Bush).]
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[PGC #706]
Byrne, Donn [Brian Oswald Donn] (1889-1928)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
Changeling and Other Stories
(1923)
[Short stories, with a focus on Ireland]
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[PGC #817]
Blind Raftery and his Wife, Hilaria
(1924)
[A short and wonderful novel set in Ireland during the time of the
South Sea Bubble (1711-1720)
Wikipedia.
Raftery is a blind Irish poet/folk-singer who marries Hilaria, a Spanish woman.
Then they start their travels...]
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[PGC #776]
Time, 29 September 1924
An Alley of Flashing Spears and other stories
(1933)
[A collection of nine of Byrne's stories, published posthumously]
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[PGC #779]
Cagna, Achille Giovanni (1847-1931)
[Italian playwright and novelist / Dramaturge et romancier italien]
Sapere.it
Università degli studi di Pavia [Microsoft Word]
Contrada dei Gatti. Proiezioni. (1924)
[Novel in Italian / Roman en italien]
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[PGC #519/no 519]
Learn Italian! / Apprenez l'italien!
Cameron, David Young (1865-1945)
[Scottish etcher and painter]
Wikipedia
National Galleries of Scotland
Tate Collection
with:
Salaman, Malcolm Charles (1855-1940)
[English art historian and critic]
Wikipedia
Sir D.Y. Cameron, R.A.
(1925)
[Monograph on the famous Scottish artist, profusely illustrated]
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[PG Canada ebook #426]
Campbell, Duncan (1818-1886)
[Canadian historian]
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
History of Prince Edward Island
(1875)
[A history of Prince Edward Island
Wikipedia from 1763 (when it passed from France to Britain)
to 1873 (when it joined Confederation)]
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[PGC #812]
Campbell, Roy (1901-1957)
[South African poet]
Wikipedia
National Review, 15 August 1986 (Thomas P. McDonnell)
with:
Freedman, Barnett (1901-1958)
[English painter]
Wikipedia
Barnett Freedman Archive
Tate Collection
Choosing a Mast
(1931)
[Poem, with two illustrations, one in colour]
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Cantù, Cesare (1804-1895)
[Historien et romancier italien]
fr.wikipedia
cesarecantu.it (en italien)
Margherita Pusterla
(1838 [en italien]; 1843 [cette traduction])
[Roman historique, dont l'action se déroule en Lombardie vers 1340.
Nous vous offrons la traduction contemporaine publiée par L'Illustration en 1843,
avec plusieurs belles gravures.
Project Gutenberg US
vous offre le texte italien du roman.]
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[PG Canada no 942]
Carman, Bliss [William Bliss] (1861-1929)
[Canadian poet]
Wikipedia
jrank.org
Far Horizons
(1925)
[Poems]
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[PGC #614]
Sanctuary. Sunshine House Sonnets.
(1929)
[Poems]
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[PGC #635]
Wild Garden (1929)
[Poems]
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[PGC #609]
Carr, Emily (1871-1945) [Canadian painter and writer]
Wikipedia
Canadian Encyclopedia
Klee Wyck (1941) [Memoirs]
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Cartier, Jacques (1491-1557) [Explorateur français]
fr.wikipedia
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Encyclopédie canadienne
Relation Originale du Voyage de Jacques Cartier au Canada en 1534 (1534)
[Histoire: éd. Henri-Victor Michelant (1811-1890) et Alfred Ramé (1826-1886)]
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Voyage de J. Cartier au Canada: relation originale de Jacques Cartier (1545) [Histoire]
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Cary, Joyce [Arthur Joyce Lunel] (1888-1957)
[Irish novelist]
Wikipedia
Paris Review interview with Cary
New York Review of Books (Brad Leithauser)
Mister Johnson
(1939 [novel]; 1952 [prefatory essay])
Wikipedia
[The adventures and misadventures of a young Nigerian in the British colonial civil service]
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[PGC #968]
Casgrain, Henri-Raymond (1831-1904) [Historien canadien]
fr.wikipedia
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
encyclobec.ca (article par Jacques Saint-Pierre)
Un contemporain — F. X. Garneau (1866)
[Biographie de François-Xavier Garneau
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
fr.wikipedia]
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de Garneau, son Histoire du Canada
Cather, Willa (1873-1947)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
Biography by James Woodress
Shadows on the Rock
(1931)
[Historical novel, set in New France during the time of Frontenac
Wikipedia, telling the story of the physician Euclide Auclair,
and his daughter Cécile]
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[PGC #860]
Wikipedia
Centlivre, Susanna (ca. 1669-1723)
[English playwright]
Wikipedia
The Stolen Heiress; or, The Salamanca Doctor Outplotted. A Comedy.
(1702 [first performance]; 1703 [first publication])
[Comedy]
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Chambers, Robert William (1865-1933)
[American painter and novelist]
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yankeeclassic.com
The Literary Gothic
Wikimedia [painting]
The Maids of Paradise
(1902)
[Novel: includes several illustrations of unknown authorship,
and one illustration by Ludovico Marchetti (1853-1909)
Art Gallery of Ballarat
Government Art Collection [UK]
Fine Art Dealers Association]
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Champlain, Samuel de (vers 1570-1635) [Explorateur français]
fr.wikipedia
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Encyclopédie canadienne
Oeuvres de Champlain
[Histoire: éd. C.-H. Laverdière (1826-73: Dictionnaire biographique du Canada)]
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Chandler, Raymond [Raymond Thornton] (1888-1959)
[American novelist and screenplay writer]
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The Big Sleep
(1939)
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[Chandler's first full-length crime novel. Private investigator Philip Marlowe,
making his first appearance in literature, takes on a case of blackmail,
and finds that matters are even murkier than they seem.]
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Farewell, My Lovely
(1940)
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[Crime novel. The manager of a Los Angeles club is murdered,
and no one seems to care. No one, that is, except Philip Marlowe...]
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The High Window
(1942)
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[Crime novel. A wealthy widow calls in Philip Marlowe to investigate the
disappearance of a rare and valuable coin, a matter mysterious enough in
itself, but this is only the beginning... ]
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The Lady in the Lake
(1943)
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[Crime novel. The wife of a wealthy Los Angeles businessman has mysteriously disappeared,
having last been seen at Little Fawn Lake. Definitely a case for Philip Marlowe...]
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Playback
(1958)
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[The last Philip Marlowe mystery novel completed by Chandler,
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.]
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Chant, Joseph Horatio
(1837-1928)
[Canadian poet]
Gleams of Sunshine: optimistic poems (1915)
[Poetry]
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Charlesworth, Hector Willoughby (1872-1945)
[Canadian journalist and essayist]
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Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
Empire Club of Canada (1932 address by Charlesworth)
Cybermuse (portrait of Charlesworth by Arthur Lismer [1885-1969])
The Canadian Scene. Sketches : Political and Historical.
(1927)
[Essays on Canadian history and literature]
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Chase, Alvin Wood (1817-1885)
[American physician and entrepreneur]
Ann Arbor District Library (article by Grace Shackman)
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Dr. Chase's New Receipt Book (1889)
[Self-help manual]
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Chesterton, G. K. [Gilbert Keith] (1874-1936)
[English author, journalist, and theologian]
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The Innocence of Father Brown
(1911)
[Mystery stories. The first of the five Father Brown
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collections, introducing the celebrated priest-detective.]
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The Wisdom of Father Brown
(1914)
[Mystery stories. The second of Chesterton's five collections featuring the priest-detective Father Brown.]
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The Incredulity of Father Brown
(1926)
[Mystery stories. The third of Chesterton's five collections featuring the priest-detective Father Brown.]
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The Secret of Father Brown
(1927)
[Mystery stories. The fourth of Chesterton's Father Brown collections, constructed as eight individual stories within a story.]
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The Scandal of Father Brown
(1935)
[Mystery stories. Chesterton's fifth and final Father Brown collection.]
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With:
Gill, Eric [Arthur Eric Rowton] (1882-1940)
[English artist and type designer]
Wikipedia
National Archives (UK)
Identifont
Gloria in Profundis
(1927)
[Poem, with two wood engravings]
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Chevalier, Henri-Émile (1828-1879) [Romancier canadien]
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
La fille des indiens rouges (1856) [Roman]
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L'enfer et le paradis de l'autre monde (1857) [Roman]
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Les Nez-Percés (1862) [Roman]
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La Tête-Plate (1863) [Roman]
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Les derniers Iroquois (1863) [Roman]
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Peaux-rouges et Peaux-blanches (1864) [Roman]
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Jacques Cartier (1868) [Roman]
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Poignet-d'acier ou Les Chippiouais (1875) [Roman]
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Le chasseur noir (1877) [Roman]
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La capitaine (1878) [Roman]
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La fille du pirate (1878) [Roman]
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L'île de sable (1878) [Roman]
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Le gibet (1879) [Roman]
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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]
With:
Sparkes, Boyden (1890-1954)
[American journalist]
Life of an American Workman
(1950 edition with new postscript by Sparkes;
original edition published in1937)
[Autobiography of the automotive engineer and founder of
the Chrysler Corporation]
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Clynes, John Robert
(1869-1949)
[English trade unionist and politician]
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When I Remember... (1940)
[Pamphlet: history of Britain's social service and income support programs]
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Cody, Hiram Alfred (1872-1948) [Canadian priest, novelist, and biographer]
University of New Brunswick (see under "Cody")
The Trail of the Golden Horn
(1923)
[Mystery novel, with elements of romance, set in Northern
Canada (Cody lived in the Yukon for some years).
A trapper finds an empty cabin, with evidence of
a crime. We are introduced to a nurse, then to a Mountie,
and matters proceed from there.]
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The Master Revenge
(1924)
[Christian morality play done in the form of a novel]
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Songs of a Bluenose
(1925)
[Poetry]
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[PGC #622]
The Crimson Sign
(1935)
[Historical novel, set in Acadia
Wikipedia
towards the end of the seventeenth century.]
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[PGC #946]
Fighting Stars
(1937 edition)
[Novel]
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Colby, Charles William (1867-1955) [Canadian historian]
Colby Curtis Museum, Stanstead
The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain
(1915)
[Biography of Samuel de Champlain
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography:
vol. 3 of "The Chronicles of Canada".
Illustrations by Champlain himself, and by
C. W. Jefferys (1869-1951)
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Library and Archives Canada,
Balthazar Moncornet (ca. 1600-1668),
and John David Kelly (1862-1958)
Ontario's Historical Plaques]
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Colden, Cadwallader (1688-1776)
[Scottish physician; governor of New York 1769-71]
Wikipedia
The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada
(in two volumes)
(1747 [expanded second edition];
1727 [original edition])
[The first full account in English of the Iroquois League
Wikipedia;
Colden had the advantage of considerable direct contact
with the League as a negotiator for the British government.
Our ebook is based on the 1747 London edition.]
Volume 1:
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Conference on the Medical Services in Canada (1924)
Report of the Conference on the Medical Services
in Canada held at Ottawa, December 18, 19, 20, 1924
(1925)
[Transcript of conference]
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Connor, Ralph [pen name of Rev. Charles William Gordon] (1860-1937) [Canadian clergyman and novelist]
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Canadian Encyclopedia
Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks (1898) [Novel]
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Gwen's Canyon
(1898)
["Gwen was undoubtedly wild and, as the Sky Pilot said, wilful and wicked."
This short story describes her transformation.]
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The Sky Pilot: a Tale of the Foothills (1899) [Novel]
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Michael McGrath, Postmaster (1900) [Novel]
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The Prospector (1901) [Novel]
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The Man from Glengarry: a Tale of the Ottawa (1901) [Novel]
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Glengarry School Days: a Story of Early Days in Glengarry (1902) [Novel]
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The Doctor: a Tale of the Rockies (1906) [Novel]
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The Foreigner: a Tale of Saskatchewan (1909) [Novel]
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Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police: a Tale of the Macleod Trail (1912) [Novel]
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The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail (1914) [Novel]
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The Major (1919) [Novel]
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The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land (1919) [Novel]
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To Him That Hath: a Novel of the West of Today (1921) [Novel]
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The Girl from Glengarry (1933) [Novel]
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[English classical scholar]
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Microcosmographia Academica. Being a Guide for the Young Academic Politician.
(1908)
[Monograph on political practices within universities, continually famous since its anonymous
publication in 1908]
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Courage, James Francis (1903-1963)
[New Zealand novelist]
Te Ara (Grant Harris)
Christchurch City Libraries (Virginia Clegg, Courage's niece)
From a Balcony
(1926)
[Short story. Major (retd.) Lionel Pratts is living happily
in a fashionable area of London, along with his (female)
dog Tommy. And he has a friend, Miss Mildred Gannet...]
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Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock (1826-1887)
[English author]
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"Dinah Mulock Craik" [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)
[English artist]
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[Fairy tales, some very familiar, others somewhat out of the ordinary]
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Crane, Walter (1845-1915) [English artist and illustrator]
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The Absurd ABC (1874) [Picture book]
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An Alphabet of Old Friends (1874) [Picture book]
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The Frog Prince and Other Stories (1874) [Picture book]
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The Song Of Sixpence Picture Book
containing Sing a Song of Sixpence;
Princess Belle etoile; An Alphabet of Old Friends:
with the original
Coloured Designs By
Walter Crane
including a preface and
other embellishments
(1909) [Picture book]
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[Scottish children's writer]
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A Christmas Child. A Sketch of a Boy-Life.
(1880)
[Children's novel by Mrs. Molesworth, with illustrations by English artist and illustrator Walter Crane ,
engraved by Joseph Swain (1820-1909)
The website of Bob Speel
British Museum, or an unnamed assistant]
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The Adventures of Herr Baby
(1881)
[Children's novel by Mrs. Molesworth, with illustrations by Crane]
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Crowe, Catherine Ann (1790-1872)
[English novelist and playwright]
Wikipedia
University 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 north of England, where we had a succession of visitors, and all manner of amusements." Among these
amusements were ghost stories...]
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Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander (1854-1939)
[Canadian historian]
Library and Archives Canada
The Administration of Lieut.-Governor Simcoe,
Viewed in his Official Correspondence
(1891)
[Lecture on various interesting details of the early history of Upper Canada
(Ontario) which can be found in the official correspondence of John Graves Simcoe
Wikipedia]
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The Story of Butler's Rangers and the Settlement of Niagara
(1893)
[History of the Loyalist regiment
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founded by John Butler (1728-1796)
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
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and their eventual settlement in and around the future town
of Niagara-on-the-Lake
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The Life of Sir Henry Morgan. With an account of the
English settlement of the island of Jamaica (1655-1688).
(1935)
[A very interesting biography of the Welsh privateer
Wikipedia.
The PG Canada catalogue includes The Privateer, a historical novel about
Sir Henry, published in 1952 by Josephine Tey using the pen name Gordon Daviot:
in her Author's Note, Tey describes Cruikshank's work as the "definitive biography
of Henry Morgan...It is dispassionate, exhaustive, and accurate, and will prove an
excellent corrective to both fictional biographies and biographical fictions."]
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[PGC #767]
Cullum, Ridgwell [Burghard, Sidney Groves] (1867-1943)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
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.]
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Cummings, Ray [Raymond King] (1887-1957)
[American science fiction author]
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The Man Who Mastered Time
(1929)
[Science fiction novel. Time travel can be helpful if you're on a rescue mission!]
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[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 not bring in any of the usual channels. It does, however,
reveal a mysterious girl, and a mysterious tower. What do these visions portend?
Time travel, it would seem...]
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Curwood, James Oliver (1878-1927)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
Shiawassee Regional 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 preface pays tribute to the memory of his friend Sir William Price (1867-1924)
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Centre d'histoire Sir William Price]
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[PGC #465]
The Black Hunter. A Novel of Old Quebec.
(1926)
[Novel, illustrated by Arthur Ernst 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 living in the wilderness
of New France. Anne is sent to Quebec City to be introduced into Quebec society;
she convinces David to follow her. Intendant Bigot
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
and his cronies see Anne and decide to plot to have her fall into his clutches
and to get rid of David. Matters proceed from there...]
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[PGC #718]
The Plains of Abraham
(1928)
[Historical novel, set around 1750. A young boy's parents are killed
in a Mohawk raid. He and a girl in a similar plight are adopted by
the Senecas. They have many adventures, and he ends up as a
participant in the famous battle. This ebook includes the
endpapers, illustrated by an anonymous artist.]
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D'Annunzio, Gabriele (1863-1938) [Italian playwright and novelist/ Dramaturge et romancier italien]
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La città morta. Tragedia. (1898)
[Play in Italian / Pièce de théâtre en italien]
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[PG Canada #432/no 432]
Learn Italian! / Apprenez l'italien!
Dafoe, John Wesley (1866-1944)
[Canadian journalist]
Wikipedia
Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics (1922)
[History and political analysis]
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Canada, an American Nation
(1935)
["American" as in "North American" — three lectures delivered by Dafoe
in 1934 at Columbia University and published in the following year with some
additional material. Dafoe "thought the time and occasion opportune 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 professional
journalist with a deep knowledge of history and politics: hence, no doubt,
the honour of the invitation from Columbia to deliver these lectures.]
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Dantzig, Tobias (1884-1956)
[American mathematician]
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Henri Poincaré, Critic of Crisis.
Reflections on his universe of discourse.
(1954)
[Essays on the philosophy of the French mathematician
and physicist Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)
Wikipedia, intended for the
general reader]
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Davis, William Stearns (1877-1930)
[American historian and novelist]
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The Beauty of the Purple. A Romance of Imperial Constantinople Twelve Centuries Ago.
(1924)
[Historical novel about the astounding career of the eighth-century
Byzantine emperor Leo the Isaurian
Wikipedia.
"This romance attempts to show forth," our novelist remarks,
"something of the brilliancy, magnificence and teeming life of
Christian Constantinople in an age when London and Paris
were little better than squalid villages."]
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[PGC #1144]
de la Mare, Walter (1873-1956) [English poet, novelist, and writer of stories]
Wikipedia
Stories from the Bible
(1929) [Stories from the Old Testament, retold in modern English]
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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 children's stories.]
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[PGC #992]
Mr. Bumps and his Monkey (1942) [Novella for children]
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Collected Stories for Children (1947)
Inward Companion
(1950)
[Lyric poems]
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[PGC #908]
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 following titles from the sixteen novels in the series:
Mary Wakefield
(1949)
[The third Jalna novel, taking place in the 1890s,
years before the events described in Jalna and Whiteoaks.
The recently widowed Philip Whiteoak has two young children,
and needs a governess: the young and beautiful Mary
Wakefield, freshly arrived from England. Her arrival
naturally causes great commotion at Jalna.
"Sometimes we have thought we had been given a little too much
of Jalna... this volume convinces us that we really needed
more of the chronicle. Taken as a whole, the work begins
to stand up as one of the best achievements of Canadian literature".
(Allan Nevins, Saturday Review, 29 January 1949).
The novel is dedicated to the celebrated Canadian sculptor
Walter Allward (1876-1955)
Wikipedia, creator of the Canadian National
Vimy Memorial in France.]
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[PGC #1231]
Young Renny
(1935)
[The fourth Jalna novel. Renny and Meg Whiteoak are now in their twenties,
a complicated time of life for anyone, but particularly for Whiteoaks.
Family members of various ages, from the formidable Adeline down,
participate fully in the turbulent but generally happy life of Jalna.]
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[PGC #1238]
Jalna
(1927)
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[The novel which launched the Jalna series.
We are introduced to the Whiteoak family, and their estate, Jalna,
located on the shore of Lake Ontario.]
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Whiteoaks
(1929)
[Novel: the sequel to Jalna, and featuring the same brilliant
set of characters. "The chapters which describe the last days of old
Gran, and which hold us in suspense to learn upon which member of
the great Jalna clan she has bestowed her hoarded fortune, would
alone make the book a welcome acquisition."
(Allan Nevins, Saturday Review, 21 September 1929)]
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Finch's Fortune
(1931)
[Novel. Finch Whiteoak, grandson of Adeline Whiteoak, turns twenty-one,
and receives an enormous legacy under the terms of his grandmother'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)]
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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 things 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 — the strongest-willed of all since the
passing of old Gran... he presides at the mansion, raises
horses, decides vital family issues, and keeps the clan together."
(Allan Nevins, Saturday Review, 16 September 1933)]
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[PGC #1213]
Other works by Mazo de la Roche:
Whiteoaks. A Play.
(1936)
[Play adapted by de la Roche from her 1929 novel of the same name
in the Jalna series. An enormous hit in London's West End, it
was subsequently produced on Broadway.]
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Growth of a Man
(1938)
[Novel, which follows Shaw Manifold from his boyhood in Southern Ontario
to his adulthood as a forester in British Columbia. H. R. Macmillan
Wikipedia,
de la Roche's cousin, and a central figure in the history of British Columbia's
forest industry, appears to have inspired the novel!]
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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]
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Lost in the Fog (1871)
[Novel]
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Cord and Creese (1871)
[Novel]
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The American Baron (1872)
[Novel]
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The Treasure of the Seas (1872)
[Novel for teenagers]
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Oak Island, Nova Scotia:
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Oak Island Treasure
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The Living Link (1874)
[Novel]
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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888)
[Novel]
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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
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Contributor:
Humour of the North (1912)
[Anthology]
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Decorde, Jean-Eugène (1811-1881)
[Curé, historien et lexicographe français]
Dictionnaire du patois du pays de Bray (1852)
[Dictionnaire: Decorde était curé de Bures
fr.wikipedia,
pays de Bray
fr.wikipedia, Normandie
fr.wikipedia
entre 1836 et 1870. Le français que nous parlons
aujourd'hui au Canada trouve ses origines
en Normandie.]
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Histoire de Bures-en-Bray (1872)
[Histoire: Decorde était curé de Bures
fr.wikipedia,
pays de Bray
fr.wikipedia, Normandie
fr.wikipedia
entre 1836 et 1870]
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Deeping, Warwick [George Warwick] (1877-1950)
[English physician and novelist]
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Countess Glika and Other Stories
(1919)
[A collection of five short(ish) stories, all in a setting of
intrigue, revolution, or war, all ending in romance. For example, the
second story (The Red Shirt) is set in the mid-1800's, during the
Italian Revolution, when the French were attacking Rome.]
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[PGC #1051]
DeGuise, Charles (1827-1884) [Romancier canadien]
Le Cap au Diable, Légende Canadienne (1863) [Conte]
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Hélika: Mémoire d'un vieux maître d'école (1872) [Roman]
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Delafield, E. M.
[Dashwood, Edmée Elizabeth Monica, née de la Pasture]
(1890-1943)
[English novelist and essayist]
Wikipedia
To See Ourselves. A Domestic Comedy in Three Acts.
(1930 [first performance]; 1931 [first publication])
[Comedy. Freddie and Catherine
Allerton live in what might appear to be perfect happiness in their country house in South Devon.
But their reality is a little more nuanced than at first appears!]
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[PGC #884]
Gay Life
(1933)
[Novel. Hilary and Angie Moon, now married for two years and somewhat bored, arrive penniless
on the Côte d'Azur
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Then things start happening...]
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[PGC #815]
General Impressions
(1933)
[Light-hearted anecdotes drawn from our author's daily life, with dialogue]
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[PGC #852]
Late and Soon
(1943)
[Delafield's final novel. Valentine Arbell, widowed for twelve years,
is the mistress of a gigantic, dilapidated, and mostly empty English
country house. But her life is not as fully settled as she might think...]
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[PGC #1020]
Dent, John Charles (1841-1888)
[Canadian biographer, historian, and short story writer]
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1 (1880)
[Biography]
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The Canadian Portrait Gallery
[A four-volume set of biographies,
many of them illustrated using photographs by William Notman (1826-1891)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
McCord Museum
and W. J. Topley (1845-1930)
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
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Volume I (1880):
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The Story of the Upper Canadian Rebellion, Volume 1 (1885)
[History]
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The Story of the Upper Canadian Rebellion, Volume 2 (1885)
[History]
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The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales (1888)
[Short stories]
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Denton, Vernon Llewllyn (1881-1944)
[Canadian teacher and historian]
University of Victoria
The Nova Scotia Eatons
The Far West Coast (1924)
[History of the exploration of the coast of British Columbia to the end of the eighteenth century]
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Simon Fraser (1928)
[An introduction to the life and achievements of the explorer Simon Fraser (1776-1862)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
Includes an illustration by C. W. Jefferys (1869-1951)
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McMaster University (Eric Weichel)
Library and Archives Canada.]
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[PGC #605]
Dionne, Narcisse-Eutrope (1848-1917)
[Historien, lexicographe et bibliothécaire canadien]
fr.wikipedia
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Historique de l'église Notre-Dame des Victoires,
basse-ville de Québec: deuxième centenaire, 1688-1888
(1923)
[Monographie sur l'église Notre-Dame-des-Victoires
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Les églises de Québec
Université du Québec]
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Djurklou, Nils Gabriel, friherre (1829-1904)
[Swedish author]
sv.wikipedia (in Swedish)
runeberg.org (in Swedish)
Fairy Tales from the Swedish of Baron G. Djurklou
(1901)
[Fairy tales: translated by Hans Lien Brækstad (1845-1915);
illustrated by Theodor Severin Kittelsen, (1857-1914)
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Lauvlia (Kittelsen's home),
Erik Werenskiold (1855-1938)
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and Carl Larsson (1853-1919)
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Carl and Karin Larsson Family Association]
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Doin, Ernest (1809-1891) [Dramaturge canadien]
Le divorce du tailleur. Pièce archi-comique en un acte (1873)
[Comédie]
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Le dîner interrompu ou Nouvelle farce de Jocrisse. Farce comique en un acte (1873)
[Comédie]
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Le pacha trompé ou Les deux ours. Pièce comique en un acte (1878) [Comédie]
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Le Conscrit ou Le Retour de Crimée. Drame comique en deux actes (1878) [Comédie]
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Douglas, Amanda Minnie (1831-1916)
[American novelist and poet]
New Jersey Historical Society
A Modern Cinderella
(1913)
[Novel]
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Du Bois, Louis [Louis-François] (1773-1855)
[Écrivain et polymathe français]
Travers, Julien (1802-1888)
[Biographe français]
Glossaire du patois normand
(1856)
[Glossaire, avec une vie de Louis Du Bois par Travers. Le français
que nous parlons aujourd'hui au Canada trouve ses origines en Normandie.]
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[PGC no #458]
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 ninetieth birthday.
Age had not dimmed his passion and insight. One wonders what he
would say about the world today!]
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Duguay, Camille (1882-1936) [Écrivain canadien]
La Veillée de Noël: pièce du terroir en deux actes et un tableau
(1926)
[Pièce de théâtre]
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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 which 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 in England, Germany, and North America,
and the many literary and theatrical luminaries he knew. Includes a photograph of the author
by Howard Coster (1885-1959)
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[PGC #926]
Duncan, Isadora (1877-1927)
[American dancer]
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My Life
(1927)
[The autobiography of the celebrated dancer, written shortly before her premature passing,
and published shortly thereafter: a principal source of the 1968 film Isadora
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Includes a preface by her publisher, Horace Liveright (1886?-1933)
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and photographs, some of them iconic, by
the Munich studio Atelier Elvira
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founded by Anita Augspurg (1857-1943)
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and Sophia Goudstikker (1865-1924)
de.wikipedia,
the Parisian photographer Paul Berger,
Arnold Genthe (1869-1942)
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Otto Wegener (1849-1922)
Pär Rittsel,
the New York photographer Jacob Schloss (1857-1938),
and Edward Steichen (1879-1973)
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[PGC #941]
Duncan, Norman McLean (1871-1916)
[Canadian journalist and novelist]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
jrank.org
The Measure of A Man. A Tale of The Big Woods.
(1911)
[Novel, set in northern Minnesota: illustrated by George Matthews Harding (1882-1959)
U.S. Army Center of Military History]
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Duncan, Sara Jeannette (1861-1922)
[Canadian journalist and novelist]
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
A Daughter of Today (1894)
[Novel]
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The Story of Sonny Sahib (1894)
[Novel]
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A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the
experiences of 'An American girl in London') (1897)
[Novel]
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Hilda: A Story of Calcutta (1898)
[Novel]
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The Path of a Star (1899)
[Novel]
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The Pool in the Desert (1903)
[Novel]
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The Imperialist (1904)
[Novel]
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Humour of the North (1912)
[Anthology]
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Duncan-Jones, Arthur Stuart
(1879-1955)
[English theologian and church historian]
The Crooked Cross (1940)
[Pamphlet: history of the Confessional Movement in Nazi Germany]
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Dunham, Bertha Mabel (1881-1957)
[Canadian librarian and novelist]
Libraries Today (University of Guelph)
The Trail of the Conestoga (1925)
[Novel about the early history of Waterloo, Ontario
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with a preface by William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950),
tenth Prime Minister of Canada
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
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Dunn, Oscar (1845-1885) [Journaliste et lexicographe canadien]
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Glossaire franco-canadien et vocabulaire de locutions vicieuses usitées au Canada (1880)
[Glossaire]
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Lord Dunsany
[Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett,
eighteenth Baron Dunsany] (1878-1957)
[Irish author and playwright]
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A Night at an Inn. A Play in One Act.
(1916)
[Play]
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The King of Elfland's Daughter
(1924)
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[The classic fantasy novel. The Lord of Erl sends
his son to Elfland to seek a bride: much ensues.]
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[PGC #1127]
Seven Modern Comedies
(1928)
[Seven short plays with small casts:
Atalanta in Wimbledon,
The Raffle,
The Journey of the Soul,
In Holy Russia,
His Sainted Grandmother,
The Hopeless Passion of Mr. Bunyon, and
The Jest of Hahalaba]
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[PGC #1090]
Guerrilla (1944)
[Novel]
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Dupuy, Paul (1831-1891) [Biographe canadien]
Trois Héros de la colonie de Montréal (1887)
[Biographies de Jacques Le Maître et Guillaume Vignal, prêtres de Saint-Sulpice,
et du major Lambert Closse]
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Eager, Edward [Edward McMaken] (1911-1964) [American novelist, librettist, and translator]
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Half Magic
(1954)
[Does magic really exist? Four children are wondering this, when suddenly...
Well, we're not going to give the story away, but we will say that this is
a genuine children's classic!
"This story belongs to the E. Nesbit school of fantasy, in which magic pursues its inevitable course... a book whose total contribution is one of fun and relaxation."
(Elizabeth Nesbitt, Saturday Review, 15 May 1954)]
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[PGC #1254]
Knight's Castle
(1956)
[Novel, second in the series initiated by Half Magic. Four children discover
a magic item, an enchanted toy soldier. But an act of magic can happen only every three days!]
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[PGC #1256]
Magic or Not?
(1959)
[Novel, fifth in the series initiated by Half Magic. This time,
there are four children to whom odd things are happening, but...
they're not sure if it's actual magic making things happen,
or if things just work out in the best possible way!]
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[PGC #1259]
Seven-Day Magic
(1962)
[The seventh and final novel in the series initiated by Half Magic.
Several children are in the local public library, and one of the girls
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 they're allowed to have it. Adventures ensue...]
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[PGC #1260]
Eddington, Arthur Stanley (1882-1944)
[English astronomer and physicist]
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The Nature of the Physical World
(1928)
[Eddington's celebrated explanation of the discoveries of Einstein
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and Rutherford
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intended for a general audience.
The book is based on Eddington's Gifford Lectures
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delivered in Edinburgh in 1927, and exhibits the attractive
conversational style of the original lectures.]
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[PGC #1097]
Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849)
[Irish novelist]
Wikipedia
NNDB
The Modern Griselda. A Tale.
(1804)
[Novel. Unlike the traditional folk character Griselda
Wikipedia, the new Griselda is impatient
and arrogant.]
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[PGC #638]
Review, from 1804, of the first edition!
Orlandino
(1848)
[Novel for children, illustrating various virtues and the social problems they prevent:
these problems include drunkenness and high personal debt, which were apparently as prevalent
in 1848 as they are today. With a preface and epilogue by the Scottish publisher
William Chambers (1800-1883)
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[PG Canada #659]
Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
[German physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1921 / physicien allemand; prix Nobel de physique, 1921]
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fr.wikipedia
Gemeinschaft und Persönlichkeit
(1934)
[Essay in German on the relationship between individuals and society
/ Essai en allemand sur les liens entre l'individu et son milieu]
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[PGC #583/no 583]
Learn German!
Apprenez l'allemand!
Eliot, George [Evans, Mary Anne] (1819-1880)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
The Victorian Web
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
(1861)
[Novel, set in the early 19th century: largely about the effect of money on human behaviour.
Our edition includes the illustrations published in 1907 by Hugh Thomson (1860-1920)
Ulster History Circle]
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[PGC #491]
Espanca, Florbela (1894-1930) [Portuguese poet / Poétesse portugaise]
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Vidas Lusófonas
Sonetos Completos (1934)
[Poems in Portuguese; Italian translations by Guido Battelli (1869-1955);
frontispiece sculpture by Diogo de Macedo (1889-1959)
/ Poèmes en portugais; traductions italiennes par Guido Battelli (1869-1955);
la sculpture du frontispice par Diogo de Macedo (1889-1959)]
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Livro de Mágoas [Máguas] (1919)
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Livro de Sóror Saüdade (1923)
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Charneca em flor (1931)
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Reliquiæ (1931)
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Learn Portuguese !
BBC
EasyPortuguese
sonia-portuguese.com
WordReference.com Portuguese-English (beta)
WordReference.com Portugués-español
with/avec:
Guido Battelli (1869-1955) [Italian translator / Traducteur italien]
Dizionario Biografico dei Parmigiani (Roberto Lasagni) [Basalei-Beiliardi]
Traduções [italianas] (1934)
[Poems in Italian / Poèmes en italien]
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Euripides (ca. 480-406 B.C.)
[Athenian playwright]
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Translations by
Murray, Gilbert [George Gilbert Aimé] (1866-1957)
[English classical scholar]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) [in German]
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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 some years when Rhesus, King of Thrace, arrives to help the Trojans.]
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Murray's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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Medea
(431 B.C. [Greek original], 1906 [this translation])
[Tragedy. The marriage of Jason
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the Argonaut
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and his foreign wife Medea
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ends badly. Very badly.]
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Wikipedia
ancient-literature.com
David Kovacs' edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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The Trojan Women
(415 B.C. [Greek original], 1905 [this translation])
[Tragedy, centred on the fate of the women of Troy after the destruction of their city.
Often thought to be a protest by Euripides against the Peloponnesian War
Wikipedia]
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ancient-literature.com
Murray's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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Ion
(ca. 413 B.C. [Greek original], 1954 [this translation])
[Technically a tragedy, but in fact a drama with a pleasantly optimistic tone.
We meet Ion at the temple of Apollo at Delphi, where he has lived from his
earliest years. As the play begins, he is unaware of who his parents are...]
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[PGC #722]
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ancient-literature.com
Murray's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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Bacchae
(405 B.C. [Greek original], 1906 [this translation])
[Euripides' most famous tragedy, originally presented the year following his death.
Pentheus, King of Thebes, does not recognize the limits of his power, nor the
limits of pure rationality. For this mistake he pays a heavy price.]
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Murray's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
Ewald, Carl (1856-1908)
[Danish author]
dk.wikipedia (in Danish)
My Little Boy
(1899 [Danish original (Min lille Dreng)]; 1906 [this translation]; 1935 [Alexander Woollcott's afterword])
[The author's charming, sincere, and interesting observations of the daily events of his son's
earliest years. The son, Jesper Ewald (1893-1969)
Wikipedia, would himself become a celebrated author. Translated by
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (1865-1921), and with an afterword by the American critic
Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943)
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[PGC #777]
Fagan, James Bernard (1873-1933)
[Irish playwright]
Wikipedia
The Improper Duchess. A modern comedy in three acts.
(1931)
[A comedy, set in Washington, D.C.! The first act takes place in the Poldavian embassy.
Written with an agreeably light touch, the play was made into a film in 1936
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #881]
Falconer, Sir Robert Alexander (1867-1943)
[Canadian New Testament philologist and historian;
President of the University of Toronto 1907-32]
Wikipedia
Marianopolis College
(biography by Damien-Claude Bélanger)
Canadian Encyclopedia
The Quality of Canadian Life (1917)
[Lecture: published in The Federation of Canada 1867-1917.
Four Lectures delivered in the University of Toronto in
March, 1917, to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary
of the Federation
(1917), along with lectures by
George M. Wrong (1860-1948),
Sir John Willison (1856-1927),
and Z. A. Lash (1846-1920)]
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Faribault, George Barthélémy (1789-1866) [Bibliographe canadien]
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Catalogue d'Ouvrages sur l'Histoire de l'Amérique,
et en particulier sur celle du Canada, de la Louisiane,
de l'Acadie, et autres lieux, ci-devant connus sons le nom de Nouvelle-France;
avec des Notes Bibliographiques, Critiques, et Littéraires
(1837)
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Farnol, [John] Jeffery (1878-1952)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
knol (Pat Bryan)
Literary Heritage West Midlands
Jeffery Farnol Appreciation Society
The Money Moon, A Romance
(1911)
[Romantic novel, set in England before the First World War]
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The Loring Mystery
(1924)
[Mystery novel set in the mid-1800s: involves an
amnesiac, a detective, a murder, and a romance]
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The Quest of Youth
(1927)
[A romance intertwined with a murder mystery. Set in London at about the
same time as The Loring Mystery, it features Mr. Shrig,
the detective from the earlier novel]
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Another Day
(1929)
[Novel. A boy meets an English girl, and falls in love with her. So far, so good.
But... back in the U.S. he may be guilty of a murder — he is a fugitive!
Will love and justice triumph?]
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[PGC #750]
Over the Hills. A Romance of the Fifteen.
(1930)
[Historical novel set in Scotland during the 1715 uprising
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against the newly arrived Hanoverian king, George I,
the successor to the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne.]
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[PGC #1098]
The Way Beyond
(1933)
[Novel. Boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, and things really
start happening, including a murder. At this point, Detective Shrig appears on the scene...]
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[PGC #781]
Winds of Fortune
(1934)
[Historical novel, set in Spanish America during the colonial era. Pirates are mentioned;
Incas play a role. All of this is narrated by Ursula Revell, 23 years of age, and a participant
in the various adventures she recounts.]
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[PGC #906]
Adam Penfeather, Buccaneer: his Early Exploits
(1940)
[Historical novel,
"Being a curious and intimate relation of his (Adam Penfeather's)
tribulations, joys and triumphs taken from notes of his Journal
and pages from his Ship's Log, and here put into complete narrative"]
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The Lost Club Journal (Colin Langeveld)
Heritage Perilous
(1946)
[Historical novel, set in the Napoleonic era. Sam Felton, a plain-spoken sailor,
discovers that he has succeeded to the title (and fortune) of Earl of Wrybourne.
Then things get complicated...]
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[PGC #477]
My Lord of Wrybourne
(1948)
[Historical novel: the sequel to Farnol's 1946 novel Heritage Perilous.
The new Earl of Wrybourne is living in peace with his beautiful wife and their
recently born son. Who could wish him ill? His old enemy Sir Robert Chalmers,
perhaps, but he has vanished from the scene. Or has he?]
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[PGC #1131]
Farquhar, George (1676/7-1707)
[Irish playwright]
Wikipedia
NNDB
Dictionary of Ulster Biography
Ulster History Circle
The Constant Couple, or, A Trip to the Jubilee
(1700)
[Comedy.
Our edition includes some introductory remarks by the
playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821)
Wikipedia]
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New York Times (review by Anne Midgette of the 2007 New York production)
[PG Canada ebook #531]
Faucher de Saint-Maurice, Narcisse-Henri-Édouard (1844-1897)
[Journaliste canadien]
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Les îles. Promenades dans le golfe Saint-Laurent: une partie
de la Côte Nord, l'île aux Oeufs, l'Anticosti, l'île Saint-Paul,
l'archipel de la Madeleine (1887)
[Récit de voyage]
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Faulkner, William (1897-1962)
[American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1949]
Wikipedia
Nobelprize.org
Mississippi
(October 1954)
[Faulkner on his native state. Not an essay, but an original creative work, as you will see.]
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[PGC #1208]
Fea, Rev. Samuel
(1872-1943)
[Canadian writer]
Irish Ned, The Winnipeg Newsy (1910)
[Novella]
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Fearing, Kenneth (1902-1961)
[American poet and novelist]
Wikipedia
Modern American Poetry Site (MAPS)
The Big Clock
(1946)
[Fearing's most famous crime novel. George Stroud lives in New York City,
and is the editor of Crimeways magazine. He is
asked by his publisher to investigate the murder of the publisher's
girlfriend: not a simple request to fulfil, as it turns out!]
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[PGC #1107]
Féval, Paul (1816-1887)
[Romancier français]
fr.wikipedia
Le dernier chevalier
(1877 ou avant)
[Roman]
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Fewster, Ernest Philip (1868-1947) [Canadian physician and poet]
City of Vancouver Archives
Canadian Poetry (See bottom note)
My Garden Dreams
(1926)
[A book about flowers. The author describes his flower garden (one flower per essay), his
philosophy about each flower, his care and tending of it, and occasional
daydreams triggered by it.]
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[PGC #981]
The Immortal Dweller
(1938)
[Book of short poems]
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[PGC #979]
Field, Eugene (1850-1895)
[American author and poet]
Wikipedia
From A Little Book of Profitable Tales (1889)
[Stories for children; musical samples arranged by Theodore Thomas (1835-1905)
Wikipedia,
founder of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Wikipedia]
Firbank, Ronald (1886-1926)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
glbtq.com (Corinne E. Blackmer)
jrank.org
Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli
(1926)
[Novella about the startling behaviour of a Cardinal who, it would appear, has little
interest in being (1) celibate, or (2) heterosexual.]
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[PGC #657]
Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Francis Scott Key] (1896-1940)
[American novelist and essayist]
Wikipedia
Echoes of the Jazz Age
(November 1931)
[Essay: the author, himself one of the most famous figures of the Jazz Age of the 1920s
Wikipedia,
describes the period from its beginning to its then quite recent end.
A neat and witty piece of writing.]
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[PGC #1183]
Flammenberg, Lorenz [Kahlert, Karl Friedrich] (1765-1813)
[German lawyer, playwright, and novelist]
The Necromancer: or The Tale of the Black Forest.
Founded on Facts.
(1792 [German original]; 1794 [translation]; 1927 [preface])
[Free translation by Peter Teuthold of Flammenberg's original Gothic novel
Der Geisterbanner; with a preface by Montague Summers (1880-1948)
Wikipedia
The novel is mentioned by Jane Austen in her novel Northanger Abbey
Wikipedia.
It relates mysterious and sinister events in the Black Forest.]
Wikipedia
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[PGC #1005]
Fleming, Archibald Lang (1883-1953) [Canadian bishop and missionary]
Canadian Encyclopedia
Canadian Museum of Civilization
For Us. Meditations on the Seven Words from the Cross.
(1927 or earlier, probably 1924)
[Meditations]
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Fleming, Ian [Ian Lancaster] (1908-1964)
[English intelligence officer and novelist]
Wikipedia
Novels and stories featuring James Bond:
Goldfinger
(1959)
Wikipedia
[Novel. James Bond encounters Mr Auric Goldfinger, who is
passionate about gambling, golf, and of course, gold.
That's where Fort Knox
Wikipedia
comes in!]
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[PGC #1228]
Essays and articles:
Jamaica
(December 1947)
[One of a series of articles in Horizon
Wikipedia,
by different authors, about the advantages of living in various
places around the world. Ian Fleming contributed this essay on
Jamaica, where he had just built his house, Goldeneye
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #1230]
Automobilia
(April 1958)
[Essay. Ian Fleming, like his creation James Bond, was fond of cars.
Here he fondly describes his Ford Thunderbird — and gives an
account of going for a drive in Jamaica with his friend Noël Coward!]
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[PGC #1226]
Fleming, May Agnes (1840-1880)
[Canadian novelist]
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Magdalen's Vow
(1871)
[Novel]
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[PGC #610]
A Mad Marriage. A Novel.
(1875)
[Novel]
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[PGC #634]
Norine's Revenge, and Sir Noel's Heir
(1875)
[Two novels]
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[PGC #626]
One Night's Mystery. A Novel.
(1876)
[As the novel starts, our heroine Sydney Owenson is a pupil in a school for young ladies
in the Canadian town of Petit St. Jacques. She is unaware of the events that lie in her
future...]
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[PGC #726]
Carried by Storm. A Novel.
(1879)
[Novel]
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[PGC #512]
Sharing Her Crime. A Novel.
(1883)
[Novel. It is Christmas Eve: the mysterious Madge Oranmore summons Dr. Wiseman,
and offers him an enormous fee for some rather specialized professional services...]
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[PGC #732]
The Actress' Daughter. A Novel.
(1885)
[Novel.]
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[PGC #790]
Edith Percival. A Novel.
(1893)
[Novel]
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[PGC #529]
Fletcher, Joseph Smith (1863-1935) [English novelist and historian]
Wikipedia
Yorkshire Post (Sarah Freeman)
gadetection
The Charing Cross Mystery
(1923)
[As you might guess, a mystery novel set in London!]
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[PGC #647]
gadetection
Flygare-Carlén, Emilie (1807-1892)
[Swedish novelist]
Wikipedia
sv.wikipedia
Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon (1906) [in Swedish]
Ivar: or, The Skjuts-Boy
(1841 [Swedish original], 1852 [this translation])
[Translation of the novel Skjutsgossen
by Prof. Alex. L. Krause (fl. 1852-1854), with illustrations by Edmund Evans (1826-1905)
Wikipedia.
Prof. Krause also contributed a interesting introduction to the novel.]
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[PGC #480]
The Bride of Omberg
(1845 [Swedish original], 1853 [this translation])
[Translation of the novel Bruden på Omberg
by Prof. Alex. L. Krause (fl. 1852-1854) and Elbert Perce (1831-1869)]
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[PGC #464]
Footner, Hulbert (1879-1944)
[Canadian novelist and playwright]
Wikipedia
New Rivers of the North. The yarn of two amateur explorers.
(1927)
[Hulbert's account, with many photographs by Hulbert and his travel companion
Auville Eager, of his travels along three major rivers of British Columbia and
Alberta: the Fraser
Wikipedia,
the Peace
Wikipedia,
and the Hay
Wikipedia,
with particular attention to Alexandra Falls
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #943]
The Shanty Sled
(1925)
[Novel. A young woman decides to travel from New York to north-western Canada
to see her mother, who had sent her to New York twenty years before.
She falls in love with a local trapper, then an evil fur trader tries to
interfere. But things work out, as they generally do, in novels at least.]
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[PGC #584]
The Under Dogs
(1925)
[Mystery novel. Mme. Rosika Storey confronts the challenges and dangers presented by
a New York-based crime organization.]
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[PGC #498]
Madame Storey
(1926)
[Four mystery novellas featuring Madame Storey]
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[PGC #517]
The Velvet Hand. New Madame Storey Mysteries.
(1928)
[Four mystery novellas featuring Madame Storey]
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[PGC #536]
The Doctor Who Held Hands. A Madame Storey Novel.
(1929)
[Madame Storey receives a letter asking for her help in stopping
the pseudo-psychological activities of a doctor who has set himself up as a
"psycho-synthetist", seemingly to help his patients, but in fact to use what
he's being told to blackmail them. She decides to intervene. A twist ending!]
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[PGC #552]
Easy to Kill
(1931)
[Mystery novel]
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The Kidnapping of Madame Storey and Other Stories
(1936)
[Five mystery stories featuring the redoubtable Madame Storey]
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[PGC #588]
The Almost Perfect Murder. A Case Book of Madame Storey.
(1937)
[Five tales featuring Madame Storey]
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[PGC #577]
Sinfully Rich
(1940)
[Mystery novel]
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Orchids to Murder
(1945)
[Footner's final mystery novel, published posthumously,
featuring Amos Lee Mappin. Includes a personal memoir
of Footner by his friend, the novelist, critic,
and Sherlock Holmes authority Christopher Morley (1890-1957)
Wikipedia
Christopher Morley Knothole Assoc.]
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[PGC #513]
Ford, Ford Madox [Hueffer, Ford Madox] (1873-1939)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Joseph Conrad. A Personal Remembrance.
(1924)
[A personal memoir of literary titan Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Wikipedia,
a close friend of Ford's. Includes as an appendix the short
obituary (in French) published by Ford in Paris when he received
the news of Conrad's passing. Also includes a photograph of
Conrad by Will Cadby (1866-1937) and a photograph of
the famous sculpture of Conrad by Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #1054]
The four Parade's End novels:
Some Do Not...
(1924)
Wikipedia
[Novel, the first of the four Parade's End novels
Wikipedia.
We are introduced to Christopher Tietjens, the main character.
Tietjens works in Britain's Imperial Department
of Statistics. Society appears calm and well-ordered:
but the First World War lies just around the corner...]
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[PGC #1191]
No More Parades. A Novel.
(1925)
Wikipedia
[The second of the Parade's End novels, set behind the front lines
in France in 1915. Christopher Tietjens is now a Captain in charge of
some major logistics operations. These operations include moving a group of railway
workers, volunteers from Canada! Captain Tietjens is more of an idealist
at the novel's start than at its end.]
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[PGC #1242]
A Man Could Stand Up—. A Novel.
(1926)
Wikipedia
[The third novel of the Parade's End cycle.
The First World War is ending, and life continues, but
it is not the same life as before. Christopher Tietjens
must now adjust his personal life and his professional
life to the changes that peacetime has brought.]
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[PGC #1243]
Last Post
(1928)
Wikipedia
[The fourth and final novel in the Parade's End tetralogy.
Christopher Tietjens is now living in rural Sussex, making his
living as a dealer in old furniture. The novel is somewhat
separate from the earlier three, since we are now well and truly
in peacetime. But memories of the War linger on; and Tietjens'
family ensures that his life is not unduly peaceful.]
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[PGC #1244]
New York is not America. Being a Mirror to the States.
(1927)
[Reflections on New York, a city which Ford loved the way other
authors have loved Paris.
"He has loved and understood its energy and arrogance,
its freedom, its display, even its cooking. It has vastly amused
and entertained him; he enjoys it enormously
and comes back to it inevitably, after absence; he can do
everything but work there. So he writes of its gaieties
and its conversations, its dinners and its future,
its spectacle and its metaphysic.
There have been few finer tributes."
(Bernard De Voto, Saturday Review, 18 February 1928)]
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Foster, Robert Frederick (1853-1945)
[Scottish authority on card games]
Time, 11 January 1926
New York Times (article by Alan Truscott)
NYT: Alan Truscott on the Foster Echo
Foster's Skat Manual
(1922 version)
[Manual for the card game Skat
Wikipedia]
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Fournier, Marc (1818-1879)
[Journaliste et auteur français]
Le Major Anspech
(1843)
[Nouvelle, avec deux gravures contemporaines.
Il y a quarante ans, le major Anspech «était l'un des plus beaux mousquetaires
gris du régiment de Monsieur ... Mais quarante années changent légèrement un homme».
Sa vie quotidienne reste pourtant assez intéressante...]
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[PG Canada no 885]
France, Anatole [Thibault, François-Anatole] (1844-1924)
[Romancier français; prix Nobel de littérature, 1921]
fr.wikipedia
Académie Française
Les dieux ont soif
(1912)
[Roman. L'histoire d'un jeune peintre à l'époque de la Terreur
fr.wikipedia]
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[PG Canada no 813]
fr.wikipedia
Frankau, Gilbert (1884-1952) [English novelist and poet]
Wikipedia
The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton
(1922)
[Novel, involving the disparate themes of love, fox-hunting, divorce, and murder.
Quite a combination!]
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[PGC #1178]
Royal Regiment. A Drama of Contemporary Behaviours.
(1938)
[Novel. What happens when a British career officer is attracted to the wife of his commanding officer?
In the background is the story of Edward VIII and Mrs Wallis Simpson.]
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[PGC #1177]
Fraser, Alexander (1860-1936)
[Canadian journalist and historian; Archivist of Ontario from 1903 to 1935]
Clan Fraser Society of Canada (Marie Fraser)
Nova Scotia: The Royal Charter of 1621 to Sir William Alexander
(1922)
[Monograph on the establishment of New Scotland (Nova Scotia) as a Scottish
(not English) colony by William Alexander, first Earl of Stirling (ca. 1577-1640)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
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[PGC #712]
The Last Laird of MacNab. An Episode in the
Settlement of MacNab Township, Upper Canada.
(1899)
[An account of the controversial Canadian career of Archibald MacNab (ca. 1781-1860), 17th Chief
of Clan MacNab
Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
and his role in the early history of Renfrew County
Wikipedia,
the town of Arnprior
Wikipedia,
and the township of McNab
Wikipedia]
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[PGC #782]
Fréchette, Louis (1839-1908) [Journaliste canadien]
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Félix Poutré. Drame historique en quatre actes (1862)
[Drame]
Texte
Le retour de l'exilé. Drame en cinq actes et huit tableaux (1880)
[Drame]
Texte
Freedman, Barnett (1901-1958)
[English painter]
Wikipedia
Barnett Freedman Archive
Tate Collection
with:
Campbell, Roy (1901-1957)
[South African poet]
Wikipedia
National Review, 15 August 1986 (Thomas P. McDonnell)
Choosing a Mast
(1931)
[Poem, with two illustrations, one in colour]
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Friel, Arthur Olney (1885-1959) [American journalist and novelist]
Wikipedia
Tiger River
(1923)
[Novel: high adventure in the South American jungle.
The tigres in the novel are "tigers" (jaguars), but in Spanish.]
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[PGC #1008]
Frost, Robert [Robert Lee] (1874-1963)
[American poet]
Wikipedia
West-Running Brook
(1928)
Wikipedia
[Collection of lyric poems, with four beautiful woodcuts by J. J. Lankes (1884-1960)
Wikipedia
Vanderbilt University,
a personal 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 repose, the banked emotion, the nicely blended
tenderness and humor are everywhere."
(Louis Untermeyer
Wikipedia,
Saturday Review, 28 December 1928)]
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[PGC #1192]
Fyleman, Rose Amy (1877-1957)
[English children's author]
Wikipedia
Fairies and Chimneys
(1918)
[Poems: with a colour frontispiece by an anonymous artist]
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The Rainbow Cat and other stories
(1922)
[Children's stories]
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Forty Good-Night Tales
(1923)
[Bedtime stories for children]
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Folk-Tales from Many Lands
(1939)
[Folk tales]
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Gág, Wanda (1893-1946) [American artist and children's author]
Wikipedia
Snippy and Snappy (1931)
[Story book with pictures]
Wanda Gág's original black and white version:
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)
[Fairy tale "freely translated and illustrated"]
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Gailly de Taurines, Charles (1857-1941)
[Historien français]
fr.wikipedia
Site Charles Gailly de Taurines
La Nation canadienne.
Étude historique sur les populations françaises du nord de l'Amérique.
(1894)
[Le premier ouvrage historique du grand historien français. Son livre rappelle assez
souvent les oeuvres de Tocqueville
fr.wikipedia.]
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[PGC no 746]
Garneau, François-Xavier (1809-1866)
[Historien et poète canadien]
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
fr.wikipedia
Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte
jusqu'à nos jours, Tome I de IV. (1845)
[Histoire]
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Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte
jusqu'à nos jours, Tome II de IV. (1846)
[Histoire]
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Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte
jusqu'à nos jours, Tome III de IV. (1848)
[Histoire]
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Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte
jusqu'à nos jours, Tome IV de IV. (1852)
[Histoire]
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Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)
[English novelist and biographer]
Wikipedia
The Gaskell Web
The Gaskell Society
The Grey Woman and Other Tales
(1865)
[Short stories, with a few illustrations by
George Du Maurier (1834-1896)
[grandfather of the novelist Daphne Du Maurier]
Wikipedia
and Joseph Swain (1820-1909)
The website of Bob Speel]
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You will find many other ebooks by Mrs. Gaskell at Project
Gutenberg's
US site.
Gibb, Sir George Duncan (1821-1876)
[Canadian physician]
Osler Library, McGill University
Odd Showers: or, An Explanation of the Rain of
Insects, Fishes, and Lizards; Soot, Sand, and Ashes;
Red Rain and Snow; Meteoric Stones; and other Bodies
(1870)
[Brief historical and scientific treatise, with a poem;
published under the pseudonym "Carribber"]
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Gibson, Wilfrid [Wilfrid Wilson] (1878-1962)
[English poet]
Wikipedia
Islands
(1932)
[A collection of poems written by Gibson between 1930 and 1932]
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[PGC #1045]
Coldknuckles
(1947)
[Narrative poem. A young boy (Isaac Bell, nicknamed Coldknuckles)
is on his way home to his family's sheep farm, and happens to see
a travelling circus on the road. He decides to run away to the circus,
after which event his life takes some unexpected turns.]
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[PGC #1040]
Gide, André
(1869-1951)
[Romancier français; prix Nobel de littérature, 1947]
fr.wikipedia
alalettre.com
Retour de l'U.R.S.S. (1936)
[Récit de voyage]
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Gilchrist, Anne (1828-1885)
[English biographer and essayist]
Wikipedia
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Mary Lamb (1883)
[Biography of English author Mary Anne Lamb (1764-1847)
Wikipedia]
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You will find various titles by Mary Lamb at Project Gutenberg's
US site.
Gill, Eric [Arthur Eric Rowton] (1882-1940)
[English artist and type designer]
Wikipedia
National Archives (UK)
Identifont
With:
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936)
[English journalist and theologian]
Wikipedia
The American Chesterton Society
Gloria in Profundis
(1927)
[Poem, with two wood engravings]
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[PGC #440]
Gingras, Jules Fabien
(1826-1884)
[Traducteur et lexicographe canadien]
Recueil des expressions vicieuses et des anglicismes et les plus fréquents
(1861)
[Dictionnaire]
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Gobineau, Arthur de (1816-1882)
[Écrivain et diplomate français]
fr.wikipedia
www.tocqueville.culture.fr
Voyage à Terre-Neuve
(1861)
[Récit de voyage]
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[PGC no 506]
Goldoni, Carlo (1707-1793)
[Italian playwright]
Wikipedia
it.wikipedia
The Servant of Two Masters
(1745 [Italian original], 1928 [this translation])
[Translation of Goldoni's most famous comedy
Il servitore di due padroni, translated by the celebrated
English musicologist Edward Joseph Dent (1876-1957)
Wikipedia
arts.jrank.org.]
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[PGC #606]
The original Italian play, from Liber Liber:
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The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni
(1760-76 [Italian and French originals], 1892 [this translation])
[Translations by Helen Zimmern (1846-1934)
Wikipedia
of Goldoni's
A Curious Mishap (Un curioso accidente, 1760),
The Beneficent Bear (Le bourru bienfaisant, 1771),
The Fan (Il ventaglio, 1765),
and The Spendthrift Miser (L'avare fastueux, 1776).
These were based on earlier translations, three of them
by unknown hands, the fourth being a German translation
published around 1875 by Theophil Zolling (1849-1901)
de.wikipedia.
Includes an introduction by Zimmern.]
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[PGC #596]
We also offer Zimmern's translations as individual ebooks:
A Curious Mishap
(1760 [Italian original], 1892 [this translation])
[Translation of the comedy Un curioso accidente.
A revision by Helen Zimmern (1846-1934)
Wikipedia
of an earlier translation by an unknown hand.]
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[PGC #538]
The Fan
(1765 [Italian original], 1892 [this translation])
[Translation of Goldoni's celebrated comedy Il ventaglio
it.wikipedia,
translated into German around 1875 by Theophil Zolling (1849-1901)
de.wikipedia
using the pseudonym "G. Ritter"; Zolling's German translation
Der Fächer
served as the basis for this translation into English
by Helen Zimmern (1846-1934)
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #543]
Text [in Italian] (Liber Liber)
RTF [in Italian] (Liber Liber)
The Beneficent Bear
(1771 [French original], 1892 [this translation])
[Translation of Le bourru bienfaisant
fr.wikipedia,
written by Goldoni in French in celebration of the marriage of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette.
A revision by Helen Zimmern (1846-1934)
Wikipedia
of an earlier translation by an unknown hand.]
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[PGC #540]
The Spendthrift Miser
(1776 [French original], 1892 [this translation])
[Translation of L'avare fastueux
fr.wikipedia,
the second comedy written by Goldoni in French.
A revision by Helen Zimmern (1846-1934)
Wikipedia
of an earlier translation by an unknown hand.]
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[PGC #537]
Goncourt, Edmond de (1822-1896) [Écrivain français]
fr.wikipedia
Goncourt, Jules de (1830-1870) [Écrivain français]
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Quelques créatures de ce temps
(1856 [Une voiture de masques (titre original)];
1878 [nouvelle édition, avec la préface d'Edmond de Goncourt])
[Nouvelles. «Voici vingt-deux comédiens de la troupe du bon Dieu: des hommes.
Ils ont ôté leurs masques, et vont vous conter leur histoire.» (postface de 1856)]
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Graham, George Rex (1813-1894) [Publisher]
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Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII, No. 2
(February 1848)
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[Literary magazine: includes
contributions by
Park Benjamin, Sr. (1809-1864)
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William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
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Robert T. Conrad (1810-1858),
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
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Enna Duval [Anne Hampton Brewster] 1818-1892,
Elizabeth J. Eames (1813-1856)
Library Company of Philadelphia,
Henry William Herbert (1807-1858),
Henry Beck Hirst (1813-1874),
Angele de V. Hull,
Alice G. Lee [Alice Bradley Haven] (1827-1863)
Library Company of Philadelphia,
Joseph Clay Neal (1807-1847),
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
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Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore,
Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872)
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Lydia Howard Sigourney (née Huntley) (1791-1865)
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The Victorian Web,
Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903)
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Alfred Billings Street (1811-1881)
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J. Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)
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Bayard Taylor Memorial Library,
H. Marion Ward [H. Marion Stephens] (1823-1858),
and Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867)
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illustrations by
Robert Balmanno (1779-1861),
Alice Lossing Barritt (ob. 1855),
John Hayter (1800-1891),
Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873)
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Benson John Lossing (1813-1891)
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New York State Library,
A. B. Ross,
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Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII, No. 3
(March 1848)
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[Literary magazine: includes
contributions by
Mrs. A. M. F. Annan,
Charles Washington Baird (1828-1887),
Frank Byrne,
Robert T. Conrad (1810-1858),
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
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Jane R. Dana,
Enna Duval [Anne Hampton Brewster] (1818-1892),
Elizabeth J. Eames (1813-1856)
Library Company of Philadelphia,
Louisa M. Green,
Henry Beck Hirst (1813-1874),
William Howe Cuyler Hosmer (1814-1877),
Mary Lockhart Lawson,
Elizabeth Lyon Linsley,
Donald Grant Mitchell [Ik. Marvel] (1822-1908)
Wikipedia,
George Pope Morris (1802-1864)
Wikipedia,
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
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Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore,
Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872)
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Alfred Billings Street (1811-1881)
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J. Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)
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Bayard Taylor Memorial Library,
and Tomlin, John;
a song with words and music by
Matthias Keller (1813-1875)
illustrations by
J. Addison
and John Hayter (1800-1891)]
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Granville-Barker, Harley (1877-1946)
[English playwright, actor, critic, and translator]
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Three Plays by Granville Barker
(1909)
[The three plays are Granville-Barker's first play, The Marrying of Ann Leete, which premiered in 1902, his most famous work,
The Voysey Inheritance (1905),
and Waste (1907)
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Grenfell, Sir Wilfred (1865-1940)
[English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador]
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Canadian Encyclopedia
Adrift on an Ice-Pan (1909)
[Memoir]
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A Labrador Doctor: The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell M.D. (Oxon.), C.M.G. (1919)
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Gréville, Henry [pseudonyme
d'Alice-Marie-Céleste Durand-Gréville, née Fleury] (1842-1902)
[Romancière française]
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New York Times (1879)
La fille de Dosia (1876)
[Roman]
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L'expiation de Savéli (1876)
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Suzanne Normis, roman d'un père (1877)
[Roman]
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Marier sa fille (1878)
[Roman. Une mère assez pauvre cherche un beau-fils
assez riche.]
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La Niania (1878)
[Roman]
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Croquis (1879)
[Roman]
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Lucie Rodey (1879)
[Roman sur les inconvénients des mariages arrangés: la convoitise, la cupidité...]
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L'héritage de Xénie (1880)
[Roman]
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Louis Breuil, histoire d'un pantouflard (1883)
[Roman: étude de la bourgeousie française à l'époque de
la guerre franco-prussienne
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et de la bataille de Sedan
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L'Ingénue (1883)
[Roman: l'action se déroule à Paris et à Dieppe]
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Un crime (1884)
[Roman]
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Idylles (1885)
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Le mors aux dents
(1885)
[«Ce roman renferme l'histoire d'un mari inconstant
et joueur qui trompe sa femme, mange sa dot, et après l'avoir
ruinée et désespérée se tue dans un accès de repentir, pour lui
rendre la possibilité du bonheur et celle de changer contre un
autre son nom déshonoré.» (synopsis qu'en fait la
Revue Internationale, le 10 février 1885)]
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Clairefontaine (1885)
[Roman]
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Nikanor (1887)
[Roman]
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Grey, Zane (1872-1939)
[American novelist]
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Under the Tonto Rim (1926)
[Novel. Lucy Watson, newly graduated from normal school
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takes up her first assignment, in the wilderness community
of Cedar Ridge: "The only instructions given Lucy were that she was
to go among the families living in the backwoods between Cedar Ridge
and what was called the Rim Rock and to use her abilities to the best
advantage in teaching them to have better homes." Lucy takes full
advantage of this very wide mandate.]
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Valley of Wild Horses (1927 [U.S copyright date; published in book form in 1947])
[Western novel, which opens with the birth (in the Texas Panhandle
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of our cowboy hero, Panhandle Smith ("Pan"),
and follows his adventures through to manhood.
These adventures take him westward...]
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"Nevada". A Romance of the West. (1928)
[Western novel. "Nevada" is the name of the novel's hero, not
of the homonymous state, where he originally came from.]
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The Shepherd of Guadaloupe (1930)
[Novel. After military service in Europe, Clifton Forrest returns to his native New Mexico,
where surprises await him.]
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30,000 on the Hoof (1940)
[Western novel, about the adventures of Logan Huett, a young soldier (and then ex-soldier) in Arizona at
the end of the nineteenth century. Cattle ranching plays a role, as you might guess.]
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Grey Owl [Belaney, Archibald Stansfeld] (1888-1938)
[Canadian naturalist and author]
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Parks Canada
The Men of the Last Frontier
(1931)
[An account of life in the Canadian wilderness. Grey Owl's first book.]
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Pilgrims of the Wild
(1934)
[Tales of the Canadian wilderness, profusely illustrated by the author and others.
Our ebook includes Grey Owl's "Special Preface to his English Readers" from October 1935,
as well as the 1934 foreword by the celebrated Canadian literary editor Hugh S. Eayrs (1894-1940)
Quill & Quire, May 1940
jrank.org]
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The Adventures of Sajo and her Beaver People (1935)
[Short stories, with many illustrations by the author]
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Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl (1785-1863)
[German philologist / philologue allemand]
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Grimm, Wilhelm Carl (1786-1859)
[German philologist / philologue allemand]
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Kinder und Hausmärchen gesammelt durch die Brüder Grimm
(1857 [Große Ausgabe. Siebente Auflage.]) [Tales / contes]
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1. Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich
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[The Frog Prince
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Le Roi Grenouille
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[PGC #784/no 784]
2. Katze und Maus in Gesellschaft
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[Cat and Mouse in Partnership
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Chat et souris associés
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[PGC #786/no 786]
3. Marienkind
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[Mary's Child
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L'Enfant de Marie
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4. Mährchen von einem, der auszog das Fürchten zu lernen
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[The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was
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Conte de celui qui s'en alla pour connaître la peur
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[PGC #797/no 797]
5. Der Wolf und die sieben jungen Geislein
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[The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
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Le Loup et les Sept Chevreaux
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[PGC #801/no 801]
6. Der treue Johannes
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[Trusty John
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Jean-le-Fidèle]
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[PGC #810/no 810]
7. Der gute Handel
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[PGC #816/no 816]
8. Der wunderliche Spielmann
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[The Wonderful Musician
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Le Merveilleux Ménétrier]
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[PGC #826/no 826]
9. Die zwölf Brüder
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[The Twelve Brothers
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Les Douze Frères
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[PGC #831/no 831]
10. Das Lumpengesindel
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[The Pack of Ragamuffins
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De la racaille]
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[PGC #847/no 847]
11. Brüderchen und Schwesterchen
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[Brother and Sister
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Frérot et Soeurette
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[PGC #851/no 851]
12. Rapunzel
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[Rapunzel
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Raiponce
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[PGC #907/no 907]
13. Die drei Männlein im Walde
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[The Three Little Men in the Wood
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Les Trois Petits Hommes de la forêt
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[PGC #920/no 920]
14. Die drei Spinnerinnen
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[The Three Spinners
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Les Trois Fileuses]
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[PGC #936/no 936]
15. Hänsel und Grethel
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[Hansel and Gretel
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Hansel et Gretel
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16. Die drei Schlangenblätter
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[The Three Snake-Leaves /
Les Trois Feuilles du serpent]
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[PGC #944/no 944]
17. Die weiße Schlange
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[The White Snake
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Le Serpent blanc
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[PGC #932/no 932]
18. Strohhalm, Kohle und Bohne
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[The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean
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Bout de paille, braise et haricot]
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[PGC #951/no 951]
Learn German!
Apprenez l'allemand!
Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm (1886)
[Stories: translated by Lucy Crane (1842-1882);
illustrated by Walter Crane (1845-1915)]
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Griswold, Hattie Tyng (1840-1909)
[American author and social activist]
Home Life of Great Authors
(1886)
[Interesting and informative essays on the domestic life of more than thirty
famous European and American authors]
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Grove, Frederick Philip (1879-1948)
[Canadian novelist, poet, and essayist]
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Canadian Encyclopedia
Over Prairie Trails (1922)
[Essays]
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Settlers of the Marsh (1925)
[Novel]
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A Search for America (1927)
[Autobiographical novel]
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Our Daily Bread (1928)
[Novel]
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It Needs to be Said...
(1929)
[Lectures on literature, art, and politics]
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The Yoke of Life
(1930)
[Novel]
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Fruits of the Earth (1933)
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The Master of the Mill (1944)
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Consider Her Ways (1947)
[Novel]
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Guest, Edgar Albert (1881-1959)
[American poet]
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The Passing Throng
(1923)
[A collection of poetry, much of it light verse, written in the
easy and very approachable style which made Guest
one of the most widely read poets of his time.]
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[PGC #1034]
Guinot, Eugène (1812-1861)
[Journaliste et vaudevilliste français]
La Cour du Grand-Duc
(1843)
[Nouvelle, avec deux gravures contemporaines.
«La fin de l'année dramatique avait ramené à Paris les troupes licenciées
des théâtres de province...»]
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[PG Canada no 844]
Haldane, J. B. S. [John Burdon Sanderson] (1892-1964)
[Indian geneticist and statistician]
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My Friend Mr Leakey
(1937)
[Six marvellously witty stories for children, famous to this day]
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Haliburton, Thomas Chandler (1796-1865)
[Canadian essayist and humorist]
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
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The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville (1836)
[Stories]
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The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Vol. 1 (1843)
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The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Vol. 2 (1844)
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The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete (1844)
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Nature and Human Nature (1844)
[Stories]
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Hall, James Norman (1887-1951)
[American novelist]
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Nordhoff, Charles Bernard (1887-1947)
[American novelist]
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Men Without Country
(1942)
[The novel opens early in World War II, just after the 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 Freycinet, 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,
everything tight and right and thrilling. This is old craftsmanship at work,
spinning a yarn of the most contemporary flavor..."
(N. L. Rothman, Saturday Review, 27 June 1942)]
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Hamilton, James Cleland (1836-1907)
[Canadian lawyer]
The Georgian Bay. An account of its position,
inhabitants, mineral interests, fish, timber and other
resources. Papers read before the Canadian Institute.
(1893)
Royal Canadian Institute
[Lectures: sketches by Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Simon Fraser University,
photograph by Richard Scougall Cassels (1859-1935)
Library and Archives Canada,
map by H. J. Browne (fl. 1862-78)]
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Osgoode Hall - Reminiscences of the Bench and Bar
(1904)
[History]
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Hare, Cyril [Clark, Alfred Alexander Gordon] (1900-1958)
[English judge and novelist]
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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
part of his estate. But what is a tenant for death? Mr. Colin James
may be an example: 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 Mallett of Scotland Yard.]
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[PGC #1215]
Suicide Excepted
(1939)
[Mystery novel. Whether a death was a suicide or not can be very important to
insurance companies. "Brainy and brisk." (Saturday Review, 11 December 1954)]
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[PGC #1232]
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:
"Sharp, pointed instruments... They are used for piercing holes in bundles of papers for filing."
Murder weapons, perhaps? We leave the larger mystery in the capable hands of our barrister.]
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[PGC #1165]
An English Murder
(1951)
[Mystery novel. The murder may be English, but one of the main characters
taught at the University of Prague!]
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[PGC #593]
That Yew Tree's Shade
(1954)
[Mystery novel. Francis Pettigrew has retired from his legal practice in London
to what he expects to be an agreeable and uneventful existence
in the rural paradise of Yew Hill, Markshire. Life there is indeed
agreeable, but not uneventful -- especially after Pettigrew is asked
to substitute for an ailing local magistrate.]
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[PGC #1024]
He Should Have Died Hereafter
(1958)
[Mystery novel; some editions use the alternate title Untimely Death.
Francis Pettigrew is now retired from his law practice.
But retiring from sleuthing is not so easy, as he
discovers on what was supposed to be a holiday to
remote and beautiful Exmoor
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[PGC #1229]
Harrison, Charles Yale (1898-1954)
[Canadian journalist and novelist]
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The Canadian Encyclopedia
Generals Die in Bed
(1930)
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Sarah Ellis (Quill & Quire, Feb 2002)
[Harrison's most famous novel: an unnamed young Canadian
soldier's account of warfare, both in the trenches and behind the
lines, in France during the First World War. The novel is
graphic in its description of warfare.]
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[PGC #1150]
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
[American novelist]
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With Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900-1931)
[American illustrator]
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Tanglewood Tales
(1853 [text] 1921 [illustrations])
[Greek myths retold for children]
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Hay, Ian [Beith, John Hay] (1876-1952)
[English novelist and playwright]
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Half a Sovereign. An Improbable Romance.
(1926)
[Satiric novel, with an unexpected turn, about passengers on a cruise.
"There is good historical precedent for Ian Hay's choice of a Ship of Fools
as the medium of his humorous satire, and there are many obvious advantages
which this framework affords. For the fools may thus be studied intensively,
and the presence of landlubbers on board a yacht is full of comic possibilities.
Needless to say Ian Hay has made fine use of his opportunity."
(The Bookman [U.K.], October 1926)]
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[PGC #1119]
Heine, Thomas Theodor (1867-1948)
[German writer and caricaturist / écrivain et caricaturiste allemand]
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Der Teufel im Warenhaus
(1935)
[Satiric tale, with the author's illustrations / conte satirique, illustré par l'auteur]
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[PGC #602/no 602]
Lusi
(1935)
[Satiric tale, with the author's illustrations / conte satirique, illustré par l'auteur]
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[PGC #608/no 608]
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Heming, Arthur Henry Howard (1870-1940)
[Canadian painter and writer]
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National Gallery of Canada
Florence Griswold Museum
The Drama of the Forests
(1921)
[Novel]
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Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1954]
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The Sun Also Rises
(1926)
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[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
vividness 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 December 1926)]
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Winner Take Nothing
(1933)
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[Fourteen short stories, some of them extremely famous: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,
for example, and The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio]
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[PGC #1253]
Green Hills of Africa
(1935)
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Review by John Chamberlain [New York Times, 25 Oct 1935]
Review by C. G. Poore [New York Times, 27 Oct 1935]
[Not a novel, but an account of Hemingway's 1933 visit to what is now Tanzania.
It includes both safari lore and literary criticism.]
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[PGC #1081]
Across the River and Into the Trees
(1950)
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Review by John O'Hara [New York Times, 10 Sept 1950]
[Novel. An American colonel is visiting the Adriatic coast
shortly after World War II. He has much to think about,
including a young Italian woman named Renata.]
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[PGC #996]
The Old Man and the Sea
(1952)
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[One of Hemingway's most famous novels. The old fisherman Santiago has caught nothing for eighty-four days. Then things change.]
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[PGC #948]
Hémon, Louis (1880-1913) [Romancier français]
fr.wikipedia
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Encyclopédie canadienne
en.wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
Maria Chapdelaine (1913) [Roman]
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Maria Chapdelaine (1913)
[Novel: translated (1921) into English by W. H. Blake (1861-1924)]
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Henderson, Daniel (1880-1955) [American author]
The Golden Bees. The Story of Betsy Patterson and The Bonapartes.
(1928)
[Historical novel about Elizabeth Patterson (1785-1879)
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the Baltimore-born first wife of Jérôme Bonaparte, Napoleon's youngest brother]
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[PGC #915]
Herbst, Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm (1825-1882)
[German historian / historien allemand]
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie [de.wikisource: unkorrigiert]
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie [Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: Fraktur (Leipzig, 1905)]
Goethe in Wetzlar. 1772.
Vier Monate aus des Dichters Jugendleben. (1881)
[History in German / Histoire en allemand]
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Hilton, James (1900-1954) [English novelist]
Wikipedia
Good-bye, Mr. Chips
(1934)
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[Novel: an enduringly popular twentieth-century classic, later adapted to screen and stage.
A young schoolmaster arrives at an English school, and, without quite planning it, finds
his lifetime vocation.]
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[PGC #1197]
Hodgson, William Hope (1877-1918) [English novelist and poet]
Wikipedia
Men of the Deep Waters
(1914)
[Short stories]
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The Voice of the Ocean
(1921)
[Poem]
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Hofland, Barbara (1770-1844)
[English novelist and children's author]
University of Nebraska (Alex Toews)
English Poetry 1579-1830
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
The Daughter-in-law, her Father, & Family
(1812)
[Novel, dealing with relationships within families, the moral questions which can arise, and
their resolution: themes that would be typical of Mrs. Hofland's later novels.
Our edition includes a frontispiece by Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848)
Burney Centre, McGill University,
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
Tate Collection
Friends of Claines]
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[PGC #677]
The Son of a Genius; A Tale, for the Use of Youth.
(1812)
[Novel. Our hero, Ludovico, overcomes many adversities and becomes a son worthy of his admirable father.
Mrs. Hofland wrote this novel for her own son Frederic, to whom the work is dedicated. Includes a frontispiece
by an unnamed artist.]
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[PGC #522]
The Clergyman's Widow, and her Young Family
(1812)
[Novel. A widow and her family living in England during the Napoleonic Wars confront the many obstacles that lie in their path.]
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[PGC #598]
The History of a Merchant's Widow and her Young Family
(1814)
[Novel. How Mrs. Daventree deals with the loss of her husband and of her fortune.
Our edition includes a frontispiece by Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848)
Burney Centre, McGill University,
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
Tate Collection
Friends of Claines]
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[PGC #680]
The Affectionate Brothers
(1816)
[Novel. The story of Charles and Thomas Harewood, two brothers quite different
in temperament, but similar in their admirable conduct towards each other, their
widowed mother, and others. Our edition includes a frontispiece by
Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848)
Burney Centre, McGill University,
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
Tate Collection
Friends of Claines]
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[PGC #653]
Decision, a Tale
(1824)
[Novel]
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[PGC #591]
Patience, a Tale
(1824)
[Novel, with a frontispiece by
Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848)
Burney Centre, McGill University,
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
Tate Collection
Friends of Claines]
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[PGC #607]
Moderation, a Tale
(1825)
[Novel about the virtue of Moderation, as illustrated in the life of our heroine, Emma Carysford]
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[PGC #650]
The Young Pilgrim, or Alfred Campbell's Return to the East;
and his Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Asia Minor, Arabia Petræa, &c. &c.
(1826)
[A travel novel, drawing from the writings
of Captain James Mangles R.N. (1786-1867)
The Jewish Magazine (Jay Levinson)
and others. Includes illustrations
by an unknown hand. A sequel to Mrs. Hofland's 1825 travel novel
Alfred Campbell, the Young Pilgrim; Containing Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land.]
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[PGC #587]
The Good Grandmother, and her Offspring. A Tale. Second Edition with Additions.
(1828 [this expanded version], 1817 [original shorter version])
[Novel, described by its author as "the history of an humble family, from the depths of poverty and affliction to a situation of comparative competence". Our edition includes a frontispiece by
Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848)
Burney Centre, McGill University,
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
Tate Collection
Friends of Claines]
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[PGC #663]
Rich Boys and Poor Boys, and Other Tales
(1833)
[Six short stories for the young, often dealing with questions of ethics. The collection's title
could mislead some: the third story, The Passionate Little Girl, features a girl,
Sophia Daventree, as its main character.]
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[PGC #652]
William and his Uncle Ben.
A Tale Designed for the Use of Young People.
(1826)
[Novella for children, with a frontispiece by
Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848)
Burney Centre, McGill University,
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
Tate Collection
Friends of Claines]
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[PGC #504]
The Stolen Boy, an Indian Tale
(1828 [this expanded version], 1827 [original shorter version])
[Novel, based, our author says, on actual events. Our hero Manuel, eight years of age,
is living in San Antonio, when events take an unexpected turn. Our edition includes a frontispiece by
Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848)
Burney Centre, McGill University,
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
Tate Collection
Friends of Claines]
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[PGC #668]
The Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy
(1829)
[Novel. At the novel's opening, Charles Crusoe, thirteen years of age, asks his mother if
he is related to the famous Robinson Crusoe, and is told that he is not. His future adventures,
however, strongly resemble those of the earlier Crusoe.]
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[PGC #671]
The Young Cadet [1836 version]
(1836 [this revised version]; 1827 [original version])
[Novel, set in India during the period of the East India Company
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We include the fine frontispiece by S. Williams from the 1856 edition
on which our ebook is based.]
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[PGC #879]
Choice Library for Young People. Tales for Youth. [Volume 3 of 5]
(ca. 1850-1867)
[Collection of stories for children, anonymously edited. Includes three stories by Mrs. Hofland,
five anonymous or pseudonymous stories, and individual stories by
James Bird (1788-1839),
Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849)
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William Henry Harrison (ca. 1795-1878),
Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855)
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Jane Margaret Strickland (1800-1888)]
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Hogg, James (1770-1835)
[Scottish novelist and poet]
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NNDB
The Shepherd's Calendar (Volume 1 of 2)
(1829)
[A collection of stories by Hogg, most of them originally published in
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
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[PGC #683]
The Shepherd's Calendar (Volume 2 of 2)
(1829)
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[PGC #685]
Hokusai [Katsushika Hokusai] (1760-1849)
[Japanese artist]
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Wikimedia Commons
with:
Salaman, Malcolm Charles (1855-1940)
[English art historian and critic]
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Hokusai
(1930)
[Monograph on the celebrated Japanese artist, illustrated in colour]
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Hooper, James W. (born 1827)
[American schoolteacher]
Three Score and Ten in Retrospect
(1900)
[Autobiography]
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Housman, Laurence (1865-1959)
[English playwright and social activist]
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Stories from The Arabian Nights
(1911 edition)
[Six of the famous Arabian Nights stories
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retold by the famous playwright,
with many colour illustrations by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)
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[PGC #1057]
Howard, Brian [Brian Christian de Claiborne] (1905-1958)
[English poet and journalist]
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circa-club.com
glbtq
Evelyn Waugh Newsletter (Robert Murray Davis)
God Save the King
(1931)
[Poems]
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Howard, Robert E. [Robert Ervin] (1906-1936) [American
fantasy and horror author]
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Skull-Face
(October-December 1929)
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[Novella, set in London, but Atlantis comes into the picture; also hashish!]
CAUTION: certain elements of plot and language may seem racist by
the standards of today.
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[PGC #1245]
Worms of the Earth
(November 1932)
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[Short story, set in Roman Britain. The Picts, led by Bran Mak Morn, are confronting the Romans.
And Bran is considering using the "worms of the earth" in this battle. Dangerous allies, it
would seem. And hard to track down!]
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[PGC #1216]
Pigeons from Hell
(May 1938)
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[Mystery and fear in a house that is large, old, abandoned, and on an
old plantation in the American South. One of Howard's most famous stories.]
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[PGC #1214]
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. In the course
of the search, somewhere in the jungles of South America, Vulmea and the
captain encounter hostile savages, escaped slaves, and a giant
anaconda. The thrill count is high, as is the body count.]
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[PGC #1235]
Hutcheson, Francis (1694-1746)
[Irish philosopher]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Ulster Biography
Ulster History Circle
The International Association for Scottish Philosophy
GASHE
History of Economic Thought
An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas
of Beauty and Virtue, In Two Treatises
(1725)
[Hutcheson's most famous work of moral philosophy. Our ebook is based on the fourth edition,
published in London in 1738.]
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Ibáñez, Vicente Blasco (1867-1928)
[Spanish novelist / romancier espagnol]
Wikipedia
fr.wikipedia
es.wikipedia
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Oriente (1907)
[Travel book / Récit de voyage]
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Learn Spanish ! / Apprenez l'espagnol !
Cursos:
BBC
Spanish Language & Culture
Diccionarios bilingües:
WordReference.com Spanish-English
WordReference.com Espagnol-Français
Diccionarios españoles:
CLAVE
Real Academia Española
Ichak, Frida (1879-1952)
[Lithuanian author and translator / écrivain et traductrice lituanienne]
de.wikipedia
Wer war wer in der DDR?
Ludwig Rubiner - Ein Dichter des Expressionismus
Das Perpetuum mobile
(1914)
[Monograph in German on the history of the concept of perpetual motion
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/ Monographie en allemand sur l'histoire du concept du mouvement perpétuel
fr.wikipedia]
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"L'Illustration" (1843-1944)
[Hebdomadaire français]
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Le Rat amoureux
(1843)
[Conte, dont l'action se déroule dans le Maine (France).
L'auteur n'est identifié que par ses initiales: A. S.]
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[PGC no 641]
La Vengeance des Trépassés
(1843)
[Nouvelle (avec cinq illustrations contemporaines) qui conte l'histoire de Léonor,
une jeune fille espagnole, nièce d'un archevêque. L'auteur n'est identifié que par ses initiales: F. G.]
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[PGC no 727]
Innis, Harold Adams (1894-1952)
[Canadian political economist]
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Canadian Encyclopedia
A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway
(1923)
[A study of the CPR
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without the usual focus on the memorable personalities involved in its building.
Instead, Innis examines the geographical and political circumstances surrounding
the CPR's creation, and the resulting economic and social revolution in Western Canada.
The first of Innis's classic studies of the interaction of geography, communications,
and economics.]
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[PGC #800]
Peter Pond - Fur Trader and Adventurer (1930)
[Biography]
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
National Archives of Canada
Peter Pond's 1785 map (National Archives of Canada / NMC 8433)
An Introduction to the Economic History of Ontario
from Outpost to Empire (1935)
[Essay]
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Minerva's Owl (1947)
[Presidential Address to the Royal Society of Canada:
an overview of the central role of communications throughout history]
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A Plea for Time (1950)
[Lecture delivered at the University of New Brunswick,
commemorating the 150th anniversary of UNB's founding]
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Roman Law and the British Empire (1950)
[Lecture delivered at the University of New Brunswick,
commemorating the 150th anniversary of UNB's founding]
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Empire and Communications (1950)
[History from the viewpoint of communications]
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The Strategy of Culture (1952)
[Essays]
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Irwin, Will [William Henry] (1873-1948)
[American novelist]
Online Archive of California
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The Readjustment (1910) [Novel]
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Isle, June (active around 1864)
[American children's author]
Happy Hearts
(1864)
[Christmas story for children: with illustrations
attributed to contemporary engravers
John D. Felter (active between 1861 and 1879)
and Elias James Whitney (b. 1827)]
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James, Montague Rhodes (1862-1936)
[English mediaevalist and writer of ghost stories]
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Ghosts & Scholars
The Five Jars (1922)
[Novel]
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The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James
(1931)
[Omnibus edition of James' famous ghost stories, incorporating his four
earlier collections, with some additional items not included in these earlier volumes.]
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[PGC #1099]
Ebooks of individual titles from The Collected Ghost Stories:
- Canon Alberic's Scrap-book (1894)
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- Lost Hearts (ca. 1894)
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[PGC #34]
- The Mezzotint
(1904)
[Mezzotints
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are a special type of engraving.
This story is about a "rather indifferent" mezzotint
which turns out not to be so very ordinary.]
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[PGC #1069]
- The Ash-tree
(1904)
[Beside an old country house in Suffolk there stood an old tree...]
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[PGC #1064]
- Number 13
(1904)
[A ghost story set in the mediaeval Danish city of Viborg.
James knew Denmark and the Danish language well;
you will find in our catalogue many of his fine translations
of stories by Hans Christian Andersen.]
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[PGC #1070]
- Count Magnus
(1904)
[Strange things can happen in Sweden.]
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[PGC #1065]
- "Oh, Whistle, and I'll come to you, My Lad"
(1904)
[Archaeological investigations, even amateur ones conducted during golfing vacations,
can have unexpected outcomes.]
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[PGC #1071]
- The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
(1904)
[History records that a sixteenth-century abbot concealed a large amount of gold
somewhere on the monastery grounds. But history failed to record its precise
whereabouts.]
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- A School Story
(1911)
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- The Rose-Garden (1911)
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[PGC #452]
- The Tractate Middoth
(1911)
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[PGC #461]
- Casting the Runes
(1911)
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- The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral (1910)
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[PGC #453]
- Martin's Close
(1911)
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[PGC #469]
- Mr. Humphreys and his Inheritance
(1911)
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[PGC #470]
- The Residence at Whitminster
(1919)
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[PGC #475]
- The Diary of Mr. Poynter
(1919)
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[PGC #488]
- An Episode of Cathedral History
(1914)
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[PGC #486]
- The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance
(1913)
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- Two Doctors
(1919)
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[PGC #476]
- The Haunted Dolls' House
(1923)
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[PGC #492]
- The Uncommon Prayer-book
(1921)
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[PGC #493]
- A Neighbour's Landmark
(1924)
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[PGC #533]
- A View from a Hill
(1925)
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[PGC #535]
- A Warning to the Curious
(1925)
[Strange doings in East Anglia, the former Anglo-Saxon kingdom]
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[PGC #1079]
- An Evening's Entertainment
(1925)
[A fireside story, and an unusual one]
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[PGC #1068]
- There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
(1924)
[In Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale a story is told but quickly interrupted:
the entire text of the story is "There was a man dwelt by a churchyard..."
But M. R. James knew what happened next!]
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[PGC #1066]
- Rats
(1929)
[When a ghost story's title is Rats, no summary is needed!]
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[PGC #1075]
- After Dark in the Playing Fields
(1924)
[The playing fields in question are those of Eton
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where James was Provost.]
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[PGC #1063]
- Wailing Well
(1928)
[A member of a Scout troop visiting a rural area wants to use
an abandoned well, a well with an evil reputation...]
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Edited by M. R. James:
Le Fanu, Joseph Thomas Sheridan (1814-1873)
[Irish novelist and writer of tales]
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Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery
(1923)
[Mystery tales]
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Jarvis, William Henry Pope (1876-1944)
[Canadian journalist and novelist]
The Letters of a Remittance Man to his Mother
(1908)
[Novel in the form of letters written by an English remittance man
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recently arrived in Canada.
With a frontispice by Ontario artist Alfred Morton Wickson (1882-1947)
City of Toronto Art Collection:
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Trent University Art Collection.]
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[PGC #518]
The Great Gold Rush. A Tale of the Klondike.
(1913)
[A novel with a difference. In essence, an account of the Klondike Gold Rush
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only lightly fictionalized,
by someone who was there!]
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[PGC #742]
Don Quixote in Finance, or Has Canada a Medici?
A Tale of Treasons, Stratagems and Spoils.
(probably 1920; no later than 1923)
[Subtitled "For Circulation amongst the Legislators of Canada."
Political pamphlet attacking the conduct of Canada's financial elite, and the undue power Jarvis believed they held over the governments of his day. Similar attacks are made today, but rarely with such eloquence. Illustrated with many personal anecdotes from Jarvis's wide experience.]
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[PGC #1043]
Jenkins, Herbert George (1876-1923)
[English publisher and author]
Mrs Bindle. Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles.
(1922)
[Humour]
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[PGC #637]
The Bindles on the Rocks. Some Further Incidents in the Life of Mr and Mrs Bindle.
(1924)
[Novel. Joseph Bindle has lost his job and has fallen on hard times, but he and Mrs. Bindle
rise to the challenge.]
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[PGC #692]
Jennings, Amelia Clotilda (d. 1895) [Canadian poet and novelist]
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Isabel Leicester, A Romance (1874)
[Novel]
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Jerome, Jerome Klapka (1859-1927)
[English author, editor, and playwright]
Wikipedia
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
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An interesting and entertaining account of a life led in the literary circles of the
Victorian and Edwardian eras.]
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Johnson, Clifton (1865-1940)
[American author and photographer]
Jones Library, Amherst, Massachusetts
The Picturesque St. Lawrence (1910)
[Geographical and historical survey, with many
of Johnson's own photographs]
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Johnson, Emily Pauline [Tekahionwake (Mohawk name)] (1861-1913) [Canadian poet and writer]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
Canadian Born
(1903)
[Johnson's second published collection of verse]
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Legends of Vancouver (1911)
[Stories]
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Flint and Feather (1912)
[Poetry; introduction by Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832-1914)]
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The Moccasin Maker (1913)
[Stories; introduction by Gilbert Parker (1862-1932), appreciation by Charles Mair (1838-1927)]
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The Shagganappi (1913)
[Stories; introduction by Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946)]
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Johnson, Owen McMahon (1878-1952)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
Time Magazine (31 March 1924)
The Wasted Generation
(1921)
[Novel]
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Johnston, Alva (1888-1950)
[American journalist; Pulitzer Prize for reporting, 1923]
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Kings of the Talkies
(1928)
[A profile of the Warner brothers of film studio fame
Wikipedia,
published the year after the premiere of The Jazz Singer
Wikipedia and the beginning of the era of films with sound]
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Johonnot, James (1823-1888)
[American educational writer]
Wikipedia
Book of Cats and Dogs, and Other Friends, for Little Folks
[Natural History Series—Book First]
(1884)
[Children's book]
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Neighbors with Wings and Fins and Some Others,
for Young People. [Natural History Series—Book Third] (1885)
[Children's book]
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Some Curious Flyers, Creepers, and Swimmers
[Natural History Series—Intermediate Book]
(1887)
[Children's book, lavishly illustrated, and with poems by
Lewis Jacob Cist (1818-1885)
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore,
Helen Hunt Jackson ["H. H."] (1830-1885)
Wikipedia
Colorado College,
Margaret Junkin Preston (1820-1897)
University of North Carolina
Civil War Letters and Diaries
Find A Grave,
John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)
Wikipedia
Strangers to Us All: Lawyers and Poetry,
Celia Thaxter (1835-1894)
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Representative Poetry Online (U of T),
Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894),
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The Constance Fenimore Woolson Society,
and some anonymous pieces]
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Kaye-Smith, Sheila (1887-1956) [English novelist and biographer]
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The Tramping Methodist
(1908)
[Novel]
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Spell Land. The Story of a Sussex Farm.
(1910)
[Novel]
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[PGC #523]
Willow's Forge and other poems
(1914)
[Poetry]
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Green Apple Harvest
(1920)
[Novel]
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Joanna Godden (1921) [Novel]
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The End of the House of Alard (1923) [Novel]
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Joanna Godden Married and Other Stories (1926) [Short stories]
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Saints In Sussex. Poems and Plays by Sheila Kaye-Smith.
(1926)
[Ten poems and two plays, all with a religious theme]
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Iron and Smoke (1928) [Novel]
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A Wedding Morn, a Story
(1928)
[Short story]
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Shepherds in Sackcloth (1930) [Novel]
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Susan Spray (1931) [Novel]
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Gipsy Waggon. The Story of a Ploughman's Progress.
[apparent United Kingdom title:
The Ploughman's Progress]
(1933)
[Novel]
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Superstition Corner
(1934)
[Historical novel about the Recusants
(Wikipedia)
of Sussex at the time of the Spanish Armada: includes
two illustrations of unknown authorship]
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Gallybird (1934) [Novel]
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Selina
[United Kingdom title:
Selina is Older]
(1935)
[Novel]
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Markwick Gardens Association
Rose Deeprose
(1936)
[Novel]
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Faithful Stranger And Other Stories
(1938)
[Short stories]
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Ember Lane. A Winter's Tale.
(1940)
[Novel, featuring a character that can see into the past]
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The Secret Son
[United Kingdom title:
The Hidden Son]
(1941)
[Novel]
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The Happy Tree
[United Kingdom title:
The Treasures of the Snow]
(1949)
[Novel]
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Mrs. Gailey
(1951)
[Novel]
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Quartet in Heaven (1953) [Biographies of Caterina Fiesca Adorna,
Cornelia Connelly, Isabella Rosa de Santa Maria de Flores,
and Thérèse Martin]
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The View from the Parsonage
(1954)
[Novel]
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All the Books of My Life (1956) [Autobiography]
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Kennedy, Roderick Stuart (1889-1953)
[Canadian journalist and novelist]
The Road South
(1947)
[Novel about the adventures, military and non-military, of some Canadian soldiers
in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe.]
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[PGC #760]
Ker, William Paton (1855-1923)
[Scottish literary critic and philologist]
Wikipedia
University of Glasgow
Medieval English Literature
(1912)
[A great classic. In the words of Ker's colleague
R. W. Chambers (1874-1942)
Wikipedia,
"there is hardly a paragraph in it which
demands any serious addition or alteration. It is a classic of English criticism, and any attempt to alter it, or 'bring it up to date', either now or in future years, would be futile."
But we include Chambers' Supplementary Note, written in 1942 and published in 1945!]
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[PGC #819]
Keynes, John Maynard (first Baron Keynes)
(1883-1946)
[English economist]
Wikipedia
maynardkeynes.org
History of Economic Thought
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) [Treatise]
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The Great Slump of 1930 (1930)
[Essay]
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Essays in Persuasion (1931)
[A fascinating collection of essays and articles written by Keynes between 1919 and 1931.
These beautifully written essays on economics were intended for a general audience,
and are notably free of academic jargon.]
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[PGC #833]
The Means to Prosperity (1933)
[Pamphlet]
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King, Basil [William Benjamin Basil] (1859-1928)
[Canadian priest and novelist]
Wikipedia
jrank.org
The Giant's Strength
(1907)
[Novel: the interplay of money, love, and morality among the expatriates of Monte Carlo and Paris]
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[PGC #676]
Abraham's Bosom
(1918)
[Novel. Our hero, Berkeley Noone, embarks on a voyage of personal discovery after being diagnosed
with a serious illness.]
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[PGC #661]
Kirby, William (1817-1906) [Canadian novelist]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
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Dictionnaire biographique du Canada;
The Golden Dog (1896)
[Novel]
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Le Chien d'Or (1884-85; édition de 1926)
[Roman: traduit par Pamphile Le May (1837-1918)
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée nationale;
préface et notes historiques par
Benjamin Sulte (1841-1923)
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Kjelgaard, Jim [James Arthur] (1910-1959)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
Kjelgaard website by Gary L. Charter
Jim Kjelgaard, A Daughter's Memoir (Karen Kjelgaard)
Buckskin Brigade
(1947)
[Novelized accounts of various episodes of North American history, with a focus on the
history of the United States, but with considerable coverage of New France as well.
Like most of Kjelgaard's books, directed towards teenage readers; beautifully illustrated
by Ralph Ray, Jr. (1920-1952)
North Carolina History Project (Donald Beagle)
Gaston Gazette (Bernie Petit).]
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[PGC #901]
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.]
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[PGC #882]
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. (1920-1952)
North Carolina History Project (Donald Beagle)
Gaston Gazette (Bernie Petit).]
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[PGC #930]
The Explorations of Père Marquette
(1951)
[A biography for teenagers of the Jesuit missionary and explorer Jacques Marquette (1637-1675)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
written in the style of a novel]
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[PGC #924]
Fire-Hunter
(1951)
[Novel for teenagers, set in the prehistoric era. Lavishly illustrated by
Ralph Ray, Jr. (1920-1952)
North Carolina History Project (Donald Beagle)
Gaston Gazette (Bernie Petit).]
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[PGC #744]
The Coming of the Mormons
(1953)
[A history of the migration of the Mormons
Wikipedia
to Utah, and their early years in their new home.
Skilfully written in a novelistic style, and, like most of Kjelgaard's books, written with teenagers in mind. Includes an index.]
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[PGC #806]
Outlaw Red, Son of Big Red
(1953)
[A sequel to Kjelgaard's 1945 novel Big Red.
Outlaw Red, a rather special dog, is a son of that famous Irish Setter.]
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[PGC #937]
The Spell of the White Sturgeon
(1953)
[Novel for teenagers, taking place in the fisheries of Lake Michigan,
and featuring the mysterious White Sturgeon]
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[PGC #965]
Cracker Barrel Trouble Shooter
(1954)
[Novel for teenagers. Bill Rawls is a college 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 his life significantly.]
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[PGC #887]
The Lost Wagon (1955)
[Novel for adults. Joe Tower, a capable but not very prosperous Missouri farmer, decides to
take his family to the West, following the Oregon Trail
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Many adventures follow.]
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[PGC #704]
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 circumstances. After some wandering, he falls in with Jeff Tarrant,
a young and ambitious door-to-door salesman. Dog and human become fast friends.]
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[PGC #989]
Desert Dog
(1956)
[Novel for teenagers. Tawny the greyhound makes an unexpected transition
from the racetrack to living in the wild.]
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[PGC #904]
Double Challenge
(1957)
[Novel for teenagers, taking place in a wilderness paradise which, paradise though it is,
nonetheless does not shield the teenager Ted Harkness from life's complexities.
His father wants him to go to college, but Ted's inclinations lie elsewhere.]
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[PGC #966]
Wolf Brother
(1957)
[Novel for teenagers, set in Arizona in 1884.
Jonathan, an Apache orphan now sixteen years
of age, has to choose between conflicting loyalties.]
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[PGC #1083]
The Black Fawn
(1958)
[Novel for teenagers. The young Bud Sloan, who has been living in an orphanage,
is adopted by an elderly couple in the countryside. Shortly after arriving in his new
home, he discovers a black fawn, which seems, like him, to be without either mother or father...]
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[PGC #773]
The Land is Bright
(1958)
[Novel. Judge Colin Campbell retires from the bench, only to be swept up
in the events of the American Civil War.]
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[PGC #919]
The Story of Geronimo
(1958)
[A biography for teenagers of the Apache leader Geronimo (1829-1909)
Wikipedia,
written in the style of a novel]
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[PGC #923]
Stormy
(1959)
[Novel for teenagers. On a cold November day, Allan Marley sees a retriever break through
the ice on a partially frozen lake, and rescues the dog. This dog is Stormy...]
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[PGC #913]
Knister, Raymond (1899-1932)
[Canadian novelist and poet]
Wikipedia
Pratt Library
jrank.org
University of Toronto English Library
White Narcissus
(1929)
[Richard Milne returns to the farming area in Southwestern Ontario where he had grown up,
seeking his childhood friend Ada Lethen...]
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[PGC #863]
Studies in Canadian Literature (Paul Denham)
Knox, Ronald Arbuthnott
(1888-1957)
[English theologian, translator, and detective novelist]
Wikipedia
Ronald Knox Society of North America
The Three Taps: A detective story without a moral (1927) [Mystery novel]
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The Footsteps at the Lock (1928) [Mystery novel]
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Nazi and Nazarene (1940)
[Pamphlet]
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Kornbluth, Cyril M. (1924-1958) [American
writer of science fiction]
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Frederik Pohl blog entry (20 April 2009)
The Little Black Bag
(1950)
[Science fiction story]
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The Marching Morons
(April 1951)
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[Science fiction novella. Forward movement in time does
not imply "progress" in the sense of "improvement".]
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[PGC #1174]
With These Hands
(December 1951)
[Science fiction story. There has always been an interplay between
technology and the plastic arts. Of course, technology makes
advances in unexpected directions...]
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[PGC #1180]
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 both, if you belong to the Order, and have to deal with
difficult situations...]
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[PGC #1206]
The Luckiest Man in Denv
(June 1952)
[Science fiction story. Political rivalries within the military will last into the far future, it seems.]
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[PGC #1176]
The Altar at Midnight
(November 1952)
[Science fiction story. Career choices have consequences.]
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[PGC #1172]
Not This August
(1955)
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[Science fiction novel, reflecting the era it was written in. The United States (and Canada!)
are at grave risk of invasion...]
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[PGC #827]
MS. Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie
(1957)
[Science fiction story. Before emails, there were fortune cookies...]
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[PGC #969]
Kuhn, Isobel (1901-1957)
[Canadian missionary]
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By Searching
(1957)
[Autobiography]
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La Blanchère, Henri de (1821-1880) [Naturaliste et photographe français]
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Le trésor de Montcalm (1878)
[Roman]
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Lambert, Leonard Constant (1905-1951) [English composer and conductor]
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Naxos
Guardian (article by Mike Ashman)
New York Times (article by Terry Teachout)
Music Ho! A study of music in decline.
(1934)
[Survey of music in the early twentieth century]
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LaRue, Hubert (1833-1881)
[Médecin et écrivain canadien]
fr.wikipedia
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Voyage sentimental sur la rue Saint-Jean
(1879)
[Historiettes de la Vieille Capitale]
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[PGC no 520]
Lash, Zebulon Aiton (1846-1920)
[Canadian jurist]
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
The Working of Federal Institutions in Canada
(1917)
[Lecture: published in The Federation of Canada 1867-1917.
Four Lectures delivered in the University of Toronto in
March, 1917, to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary
of the Federation
(1917), along with lectures by
George M. Wrong (1860-1948),
Sir John Willison (1856-1927),
and R. A. Falconer (1867-1943)]
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Laski, Harold Joseph
(1893-1950)
[English economist and political scientist]
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London School of Economics
Spartacus
Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham (1920) [Treatise]
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The Rights of Man (1940)
[Pamphlet]
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Laut, Agnes Christina (1871-1936)
[Canadian historian, novelist, and journalist]
Manitoba Historical Society
The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay:
A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North
(1914)
[History of the Hudson's Bay Company
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Hudson's Bay Company Archives:
vol. 17 of "The Chronicles of Canada".
With a photograph by Reginald Walter Brock (1874-1935)
University of Hong Kong
UBC Archives
Library and Archives Canada,
and illustrations by
John Closterman (1660-1711)
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National Portrait Gallery (UK),
John Collier (1850-1934)
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Tate Collection,
Peter Lely (1618-1680)
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National Portrait Gallery (UK),
and John Riley (1646-1691)
National Portrait Gallery (UK)]
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Cadillac.
Knight Errant of the Wilderness, Founder of Detroit,
Governor of Louisiana from the Great Lakes to the Gulf.
(1931)
[A lavishly illustrated biography of Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac (1658-1730)
Wikipedia,
the founder of Detroit and governor of Louisiana.
Laut takes a very positive view of this controversial figure.]
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[PGC #1132]
Lawler, James (1868-1945) [Canadian silviculturist]
The Talking Trees and Canadian Forest Trees
(1921)
[Short story for children, followed by a manual on the trees of Canada]
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Lawrence, D. H. (1885-1930) [English novelist]
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University of Nottingham
You will find many other titles by D. H. Lawrence at Project Gutenberg's
US and
Australian websites.
The Boy in the Bush (1924) [Novel: with M. L. Skinner (1876-1955)]
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[Lawrence's translation of Novelle Rusticane
(1883) by Italian novelist
Giovanni Verga (1840-1922)
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Liber Liber (in Italian)]
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Lawrence, Gertrude (1896-1952) [Star of the West End and of Broadway]
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A Star Danced (1945) [Autobiography]
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Lawson, Robert (1892-1957)
[American author and illustrator]
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McWhinney's Jaunt
(1951)
[Children's novel, lavishly illustrated by the author]
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[PGC #639]
Le Fanu, Joseph Thomas Sheridan (1814-1873)
[Irish novelist and writer of tales]
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The Tenants of Malory. A Novel. (Volume 1 of 3)
(1867)
[Mystery novel]
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[PGC #487]
The Tenants of Malory. A Novel. (Volume 2 of 3)
(1867)
[Mystery novel]
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[PGC #688]
The Tenants of Malory. A Novel. (Volume 3 of 3)
(1867)
[Mystery novel]
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[PGC #711]
The Wyvern Mystery (Volume 1 of 3)
(1869)
[Novel]
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[PGC #353]
The Wyvern Mystery (Volume 2 of 3)
(1869)
[Novel]
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[PGC #391]
The Wyvern Mystery (Volume 3 of 3)
(1869)
[Novel]
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[PGC #631]
Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery
(1923)
[Mystery tales, selected and edited by M. R. James (1862-1936)
Wikipedia]
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Le May, Pamphile
(1837-1918)
[Bibliothécaire et écrivain canadien]
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée nationale
Essais poétiques (1865)
[Poèmes]
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Les vengeances — Poème canadien (1875)
[Poème]
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Les vengeances — Drame en six actes (1876)
[Drame]
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Le Pèlerin de Sainte Anne (1877)
[Roman]
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Picounoc le maudit (1878)
[Roman]
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La chaîne d'or (1879)
[Poème]
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Une gerbe — Poésies (1879)
[Poèmes]
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L'affaire Sougraine (1884)
[Roman]
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Fables (1882 et 1891)
[Poèmes]
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Rouge et bleu (1891)
[Trois comédies: Sous les bois, En livrée, et Rouge et bleu]
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Fêtes et corvées (1898)
[Récits]
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Contes vrais (1899; deuxième édition [1907], revue et augmentée)
[Contes, illustrés par
Raoul Barré (1874-1932)
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BD Québec,
Albert-Samuel Brodeur (1862-1904)
BD Québec,
Georges Delfosse (1869-1939)
fr.wikipedia,
Charles Huot (1855-1930)
fr.wikipedia
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada,
Henri Julien (1852-1908)
fr.wikipedia
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
BD Québec
Musée McCord,
Joseph Labelle (1857-1939),
Jean-Baptiste Lagacé (1868-1946)
Ville de Montréal,
Ulric Lamarche (1867-1921),
Georges Latour (1877-1946),
Ozias Leduc (1864-1955)
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Fédération des sociétés d'histoire du Québec
Compass (en anglais),
Edmond-Joseph Massicotte (1875-1929)
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada,
et Jobson Paradis (1871-1926)]
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Bataille d'âmes (1899-1900)
[Roman]
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Les Gouttelettes — Sonnets (1904)
[Poèmes]
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Les Épis — Poésies fugitives et petits poèmes (1914)
[Poèmes]
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Reflets d'antan (1916)
[Poèmes]
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Traductions:
Évangéline. Traduction du poème acadien de Longfellow. (1865; rev. 1870)
[Poème]
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Le Chien d'Or (1884-85; édition de 1926)
[Roman par William Kirby (1817-1906)
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Dictionnaire biographique du Canada;
préface et notes historiques par
Benjamin Sulte (1841-1923)]
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Le Moine [Lemoine], Sir James MacPherson (1825-1912)
[Écrivain et avocat canadien]
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Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Les rues de Québec
(1875)
[Monographie sur l'histoire des rues de Québec]
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Leacock, Stephen Butler (1869-1944) [Canadian economist and humorist]
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National Library of Canada
Canadian Encyclopedia
Stephen Leacock: A Reappraisal (David Staines, 1986) —
University of Ottawa Press
Baldwin, Lafontaine, Hincks: Responsible Government
(1907)
[A history of the two governments of the United Province of Canada
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formed by Robert Baldwin (1804-1858)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
and Louis-Philippe La Fontaine (1807-1864)
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which, with the support of Sir Francis Hincks (1807-1885)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
encouraged the evolution of Canada from a military colony to a representative democracy.]
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Literary Lapses (1910)
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912)
[Leacock's most famous work: a collection of short stories about the fictional small Ontario town of Mariposa
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The colour frontispiece is by Cyrus Cuneo (1879-1916)
Cuneo Society.]
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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (1914) [Humour]
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The Dawn of Canadian History:
A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada and
the coming of the White Man
(1914)
[History: vol. 1 of "The Chronicles of Canada".
Illustrations by
C. W. Jefferys (1869-1951)
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Library and Archives Canada,
Edmund Montague Morris (1871-1913)
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theCanadaSite.com;
photographs by
Robert Bell (1841-1917)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Museum of Civilization,
Albert Peter Low (1861-1942)
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Natural Resources Canada,
James Alexander Teit (1864-1922)
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Canadian Museum of Civilization;
sculpture by
John Cassidy (1860-1939)
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John Cassidy: Manchester Sculptor
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The Mariner of St Malo:
A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier
(1914)
[History: vol. 2 of "The Chronicles of Canada".
Illustrations by
Théophile Hamel (1817-1870)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
C. W. Jefferys (1869-1951)
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Library and Archives Canada,
Andrew Morris (fl. 1848-1850)
Library and Archives Canada,
and François Riss (1804-1886);
Map by James White (1863-1928)
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Adventurers of the Far North (1914; vol. 20 of Chronicles of Canada, edited by George M. Wrong [1860-1948] and H. H. Langton [1862-1953]) [History]
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Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy (1915)
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Frenzied Fiction (1918) [Humour]
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The Hohenzollerns in America (1919) [Humour]
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Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels (1920) [Humour]
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My Discovery of England (1922) [Humour]
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Winnowed Wisdom (1926) [Humour]
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The Pursuit of Knowledge: A Discussion of Freedom and Compulsion in Education (1934) [Essay]
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My Discovery of the West. A Discussion of East and West in Canada.
(1937)
[Leacock's entertaining and instructive account of an extended lecture tour
he made in Western Canada. Winner of the 1937 Governor General's Award
for English-language non-fiction.]
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Model Memoirs and Other Sketches from Simple to Serious
(1938)
[Memoirs, essays, and radio monologues]
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Too Much College, or, Education Eating Up Life.
With Kindred Essays in Education and Humour.
(1939)
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My Remarkable Uncle and other Sketches (1942) [Humour]
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but including one by the English artist George Henry Andrews (1816-98)
Charleston Renaissance Gallery
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AskART]
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Our Heritage of Liberty: Its Origin, Its Achievement, Its Crisis. A Book for War Time.
(1942)
[A short collection of articles and essays on various aspects of economics and history]
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The Boy I Left Behind Me
(1946)
[Leacock's own account of his youth in England and Canada, published posthumously: the first
part of the autobiography which he did not live to complete]
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We also offer an attractive short biography of Leacock
by Canadian journalist
Peter Gilchrist McArthur (1866-1924)
Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
which includes a selection of stories by Leacock:
Stephen Leacock
(1923)
[McArthur's short biography of Leacock and personal selection
of Leacock stories, starting with My Financial Career]
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Leblanc, Maurice (1864-1941) [Romancier français]
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L'Agence Barnett et Cie
(1928)
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[Huit nouvelles. « Qu'était-ce que ce curieux personnage qui avait nom
Jim Barnett ? » demande notre romancier dans sa préface,
et fournit lui-même la réponse : M. Arsène Lupin
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semble-t-il...]
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[PGC #1199]
Lee, Vernon [Paget, Violet]
(1856-1935)
[English novelist, essayist, and poet]
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infinity plus (article by Brian Stableford)
John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery
Belcaro: Being Essays on Sundry Æsthetical Questions
(1881)
[A miscellany of essays on music, art, and literature, with an emphasis on Italy]
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The Countess of Albany
(1910 edition; originally published in 1884)
[Biography of the Countess of Albany (1752-1824)
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born Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern,
wife of Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie" (1720-1788)
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unattributed paintings from the era of the Countess.]
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Vanitas. Polite Stories.
(1892)
[Three stories, describing "three frivolous women" and the different courses of their lives]
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[PGC #649]
Renaissance Fancies and Studies: Being a Sequel to Euphorion
(1895)
[Essays on the Italian Renaissance]
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[PGC #433]
Hortus Vitae. Essays on the gardening of life. (1904)
[Essays]
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The Spirit of Rome
(1906)
[Travel diary]
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Laurus Nobilis. Chapters on Art and Life.
(1909)
[Essays]
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The Handling of Words, and Other Studies in Literary Psychology
(1923)
[Essays on aspects of literature, particularly nineteenth-century English literature]
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Legendre, Napoléon (1841-1907) [Journaliste canadien]
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Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Albani (Emma Lajeunesse)
(1874)
[Biographie de la cantatrice Emma Albani (1847-1930)
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Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
La Scena Musicale (article par Gilles Potvin)]
Le Gramophone virtuel (*enregistrements*)
Le Gramophone virtuel (biographie)]
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Legouvé, Ernest (1807-1903)
[Romancier et auteur dramatique français]
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Académie Française
Le Curé médecin
(1843)
[Conte, publié lors du lancement du célèbre hebdomadaire L'Illustration
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en 1843.]
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[PGC no 594]
Leprohon, Rosanna Eleonora (1829-1879) [Romancière et poète canadienne; Canadian poet and novelist]
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Antoinette de Mirecourt, ou Mariage secret et chagrins cachés (1864)
[Roman: traduit de l'anglais (1865) par J. A. Genand]
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Armand Durand, ou la promesse accomplie (1868)
[Roman: traduit de l'anglais (1869) par J. A. Genand]
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Poetical Works (1881)
[Poetry]
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Leroux, Gaston (1868-1927)
[Romancier français]
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Le Fantôme de l'Opéra
(1910 [roman]; 1926 [photographies tirées du film avec Lon Chaney])
[Le Palais Garnier
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cache un être mysterieux...]
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[PG Canada no 713]
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Livre audio:
litterature audio.com
The 1925 Lon Chaney silent film The Phantom of the Opera
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remains famous to this day.
The Internet Archive offers both the
1925
and
1929
versions of the film; you will also find the 1925 version in Flash format at
Google Videos.
Lescarbot, Marc (vers 1570-1642) [Avocat et voyageur français]
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Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Encyclopédie canadienne
Adieu à la France.
Sur l'embarquement du sieur de Poutrincourt et de son
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France Occidentalle
(1606) [Poème]
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La Defaite des Sauvages Armouchiquois
par le Sagamo Membertou et ses alliez Sauvages,
en la Nouvelle France, au mois de Juillet
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Conversion des Sauvages qui ont esté baptizés
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Histoire de la Nouvelle France
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Relation derniere de ce qui s'est passé au voyage du sieur
de Poutrincourt en la Nouvelle France depuis 10 mois ença
(1612) [Histoire]
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Les Muses de la Nouvelle France
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Histoire de la Nouvelle-France
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Lewis, C. S. [Clive Staples] (1898-1963)
[Irish critic, novelist, poet, and theologian]
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The science fiction trilogy:
Out of the Silent Planet
(1938)
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Lewisiana (notes by Arend Smilde)
[Lewis's first science fiction novel: an ageless classic.
Elwin Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is on a walking holiday
in rural England, when he is abducted, to the planet of Malacandra (Mars),
where he and his kidnappers encounter intelligent beings, of more than one species.
Interesting events ensue, for good and for ill.]
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Perelandra
(1943)
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Lewisiana (notes by Arend Smilde)
[The second of Lewis's three science fiction novels: the alternative
title Voyage to Venus is found in some editions. Dr. Elwin Ransom
is called upon to make a second interplanetary voyage, this time to Venus,
which turns out to be something close to paradise. But he has been summoned
there for a reason...]
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That Hideous Strength. A modern fairy-tale for grown-ups.
(1945)
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Lewisiana (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.]
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The seven children's novels
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about the land of Narnia,
in the order of the events they describe:
The Magician's Nephew
(1955)
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[Novel for children.
"It is a very important story," Professor Lewis comments,
"because it shows how all the comings and goings between
our own world and the land of Narnia first began."
Two children, Polly and Digory, are spending their
summer in London. But a chance encounter with Digory's
Uncle Andrew takes them far from that city...]
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. A Story for Children.
(1950)
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[Novel for children. The four Pevensie children are living in a
large house in the country, a house with many rooms, which
are filled with many things. But one of the rooms is absolutely
empty, except for a single piece of furniture: a large wardrobe.
It is a wardrobe, the children discover, which has magical properties.
(Our ebook is based on Macmillan's New York edition,
and therefore includes certain minor changes made by Lewis
after the London edition had been published. These changes
are described in the
Wikipedia
article on the book.)]
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The Horse and his Boy
(1954)
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[Novel for children.
"This is the story," explains Professor Lewis, "of an adventure
that happened in Narnia and Calormen and the lands between,
in the Golden Age when Peter was High King in Narnia and his
brother and his two sisters were King and Queens under him."
Shasta, an orphan boy in the empire of Calormen, wants to
escape to Narnia, which is situated to the north. His first
ally in this venture is Bree, a horse from Narnia who wishes
to return to the land of his birth. But a long and perilous
journey awaits the two travellers...]
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Prince Caspian. The Return to Narnia.
(1951)
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[Novel for children.
Centuries have passed since the Pevensie children were the kings and queens of Narnia, and the country has greatly changed — not for the better. Prince Caspian, the rightful heir to the throne, is in flight from his evil uncle. Who can set things right?]
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
(1952)
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[Novel for children.
It is the third year of the reign of King Caspian of Narnia. The new King sails
east in search of seven lords of Narnia, friends of his father, who years before
sailed east but never returned. Many adventures occur along the way.
(Our ebook gives the text used by Lewis's London publisher, before
certain changes were made by the author for the New York edition.
These changes are described in the
Wikipedia
article on the novel.)]
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The Silver Chair
(1953)
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[Novel for children.
King Caspian is now well on in years, and has a son and heir, Prince Rilian.
Rilian, however, disappeared from Narnia under mysterious and sinister
circumstances, and has been missing for some years. He must be found...]
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The Last Battle
(1956)
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[Novel for children, with strong elements of theology and philosophy.
The history of Narnia comes to its end. But an ending is also a beginning...
Winner of the 1956 Carnegie Medal.]
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Theological works:
The Problem of Pain
(1940)
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catholiceducation.org (Jacek Bacz)
[Lewis's first book of theology: an examination of
physical pain and mental suffering, and their place
in the universe.]
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The Screwtape Letters
(1942)
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Lewisiana (notes by Arend Smilde)
[Theology, in the form of a series of letters purportedly written by
the old and cunning devil Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood, on
the subject of how to distract humans from God and the path of
salvation. "This admirable, diverting, and remarkably original work...
the most exciting piece of Christian apologetics that has turned up in
a long time... a book for which believer and unbeliever alike may give thanks."
(Leonard Bacon, Saturday Review, 17 April 1943)]
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Transposition and other Addresses
(1949)
[Three sermons and two talks delivered by Lewis during and shortly
after the Second World War. Written in a conversational style
appropriate to the circumstances of their creation, but full of
substance, as one expects from Professor Lewis.]
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The Four Loves
(1960)
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[Philosophical/theological monograph: a study of love. But the single
English word "love" is used for several quite different things, 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 little 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!]
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Lewis, Percy Wyndham (1882-1957)
[Canadian writer and painter]
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Cybermuse
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
The Guardian/London Review of Books (David Trotter)
The Independent (Tom Lubbock)
The Wild Body. A Soldier of Humour and Other Stories. (1927) [Short stories and essays]
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The individual stories:
Rotting Hill (1951) [Short stories]
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Self Condemned (1954)
Article in The Walrus (Adam Hammond)
[Satirical novel. It is 1939: Professor René Harding resigns his academic post
in England and moves to Canada, a true voyage of discovery, as it turns out.]
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Lighthall, William Douw (1857-1954)
[Canadian lawyer, politician, historian, novelist,
philosopher, and poet]
Library and Archives Canada
University of Western Ontario
Montreal After 250 Years
(1892)
[History of Montreal: includes a number of illustrations]
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Lindsey, Charles (1820-1908) [Canadian journalist]
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
The Life and Times of Wm. Lyon Mackenzie,
with an account of the Canadian rebellion of 1837,
and the subsequent frontier disturbances, chiefly
from unpublished documents. Vol. I [of 2]
(1862)
[Biography of William Lyon Mackenzie (1795-1861)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
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Locke, William John (1863-1930)
[English novelist]
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The Great Pandolfo
(1925)
[Novel, set in Britain and France a few years after WW I.
Sir Victor Pandolfo, a wealthy industrialist, meets and falls in
love with Paula Field, a young widow who has lost her husband in the war.
He is more interested in her than she is in him...]
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Lofting, Hugh (1886-1947) [English writer of stories for children]
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920) [Novel;
with an introduction (1922) by novelist Hugh Walpole (1884-1941)
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The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922) [Novel]
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Doctor Dolittle's Post Office (1923) [Novel]
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Dr. Dolittle's Circus (1924) [Novel]
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Dr. Dolittle's Garden (1927) [Novel]
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Dr. Dolittle in the Moon (1928) [Novel]
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Dr. Dolittle's Return (1933) [Novel]
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Loti, Pierre [Viaud, Julien] (1850-1923) [Écrivain et officier de marine français]
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Académie Française
Un pèlerin d'Angkor
(1912)
[Récit de voyage. L'auteur visite les ruines d'Angkor
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[PG Canada no 789]
Lowndes, Marie Belloc (1868-1947)
[English novelist; sister of Hilaire Belloc]
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The Story of Ivy
(1927)
[One of Lowndes' most famous novels: the basis of the 1947 film Ivy
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starring Joan Fontaine.
Ivy Lexton is beautiful, but her husband has little money — not a satisfactory state of affairs.
"This is one of Mrs. Lowndes's best stories. It has a strong vein of mystery and sensation,
and yet gives us a variety of true characterization and some shrewd commentary on modern life."
(Spectator, 19 November 1927)]
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Lyall, Edna [Bayly, Ada Ellen] (1857-1903)
[English novelist]
Literary Heritage West Midlands
Victorian Popular Novels
Doreen. The Story of a Singer.
(1894)
[Novel]
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US site.
McArthur, Peter Gilchrist (1866-1924) [Canadian journalist]
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Leacock, Stephen Butler (1869-1944) [Canadian economist and humorist]
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Stephen Leacock
(1923)
[McArthur's short biography of Leacock and personal selection
of Leacock stories, starting with My Financial Career]
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Macaulay, Dame Rose [Emilie Rose] (1881-1958)
[English novelist and essayist]
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Book-Building after a Blitz
(June 1942)
[Essay. In 1942, our author lost her entire personal library when a
bomb landed on her London flat. She had a new project in front
of her: recreating her collection! Surprisingly optimistic in tone, all
things considered: perhaps Macaulay sensed that her most famous
creation, The Towers of Trebizond, lay ahead of her!]
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[PGC #1190]
Evelyn Waugh
(December 1946)
[Essay: a beautifully written and surprisingly comprehensive survey of the works of
Evelyn Waugh
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up to and including the then recently published Brideshead Revisited
Wikipedia.]
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MacCarthy, Sir Desmond (1877-1952)
[English critic and journalist]
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Leslie Stephen (1937)
[Lecture]
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McClung, Nellie Letitia (1873-1951) [Canadian social activist and novelist]
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British Columbia Archives
Library and Archives Canada
Canadian Encyclopedia
Sowing Seeds in Danny (1908) [Novel]
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The Black Creek Stopping-House and Other Stories (1912) [Novel]
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The Next of Kin: Those who Wait and Wonder (1917) [Novel]
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Three Times and Out (1918) [History: World War I memoir]
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Purple Springs (1921) [Novel]
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Painted Fires
(1925)
[Novel. A young Finnish girl is brought to Western Canada by her aunt,
who dies just as when Helmi arrives. Helmi is faced by many challenges
as she establishes her new life in Canada.]
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[PGC #672]
Be Good to Yourself. A Book of Short Stories.
(1930)
[Vignettes and poems]
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[PGC ebook #643]
Flowers for the Living. A Book of Short Stories.
(1931)
[Short stories]
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Clearing in the West. My Own Story.
(1935)
[McClung's account of her early life in Ontario's Grey County,
her family's move to Manitoba, her career as a schoolteacher,
and her 1896 marriage to Robert Wesley McClung.]
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[PGC #771]
Leaves from Lantern Lane
(1936)
[A collection of short articles about the author's life in Victoria, her family, her neighbours,
with descriptions of her travels: Vancouver, women's conventions, Hollywood...]
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[PGC #675]
More Leaves from Lantern Lane
(1937)
[Short essays originally published in various Canadian newspapers,
now collected by their author]
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[PGC #645]
The Stream Runs Fast. My Own Story.
(1945)
[The second and final volume of McClung's autobiography,
taking us from her 1896 marriage in Manitoba through to her
1935 move to Victoria, covering the years in which she achieved
the fame which clearly has lasted to this day, since here we
are, publishing her autobiography!]
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McCulley, Johnston (1883-1958)
[American novelist]
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The Black Star. A Detective Story.
(1921)
[Novel, with a frontispiece by Edgar Franklin Wittmack (1894-1956)
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Who can challenge the elusive criminal genius known as the Black Star?
No one, it seems... except, perhaps, that young and fashionable millionaire, Mr. Roger Verbeck!]
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[PGC #794]
MacDonald, Betty Bard (1908?-1958)
[American author (and farmer)]
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Seattle Press On Line (Paula Becker)
The Egg and I
(1945)
[An entertaining account of the author's experience as a poultry farmer in Washington state, which
became a huge bestseller. Its film adaptation
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led to nine sequels]
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[PGC #497]
Onions in the Stew
(1955)
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[Autobiography. The author and her family cannot find a place to live in or near Seattle,
so move to Vashon Island
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Numerous adventures ensue.]
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[PGC #956]
Macdonell, Alexander (1762-1842)
[Canadian soldier, administrator, and politician]
Diary of Gov. Simcoe's Journey from Humber Bay
to Matchetache Bay, 1793
(published in 1890)
[An account of an expedition of Lt.-Gov. John Graves Simcoe
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Upper Canada, written by a member of his staff. The edition contains
an admirably written short biography of Macdonell by an anonymous author.]
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Macdonell, A. G. [Archibald Gordon] (1895-1941)
[Scottish journalist, playwright, and novelist]
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The Plays of Mr. Noel Coward
(November 1931)
[An essay by Macdonell on the works of his fellow playwright Noël Coward
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who was still in his early thirties, but already the author of such classics as
The Vortex, Hay Fever, and Private Lives — all of which Macdonell discusses.]
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[PGC #1205]
England, Their England
(1933)
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[A classic humour novel, winner of the 1933 James Tait Black Memorial Prize
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for fiction. Our hero, Donald Cameron, is a soldier who is recovering from war wounds.
He is invited by a publisher to write a book about England, but from the viewpoint of a foreigner,
i.e. a Scotsman.]
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[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 many photographs) of a set of lectures presented at the
invitation of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.
Includes an introduction by the eminent agricultural researcher, entrepreneur, and administrator
James Wilson Robertson (1857-1930)
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[PGC #644]
MacGregor, Ellen (1906-1954) [American librarian and novelist]
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Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars
(1951)
[Novel for children, the first to feature Miss Pickerell.
The title summarizes the plot; but this agreeable
work skilfully presents a good deal of actual science as its plot develops.]
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[PGC #1194]
Miss Pickerell and the Geiger Counter
(1953)
[Novel for children. Miss Pickerell, accompanied by her two nephews, Homer and Harry,
is on her way to the state capital to see the circus, and also an atomic energy exhibit.
The book is of its era, and shows no scepticism about nuclear energy and its risks.
But Miss Pickerell would have been most interested to learn that today some
countries are phasing out nuclear power: solar power would have fascinated her!]
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[PGC #1195]
Miss Pickerell Goes Undersea
(1953)
[The intrepid Miss Pickerell in a science adventure novel for children
— this one involving a salvage at sea!]
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[PGC #1082]
Miss Pickerell Goes to the Arctic
(1954)
[Novel for children. Miss Pickerell meets a retired bush pilot, and matters proceed from there.
The novel expertly intertwines an interesting plot with a surprising amount of scientific information.]
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[PGC #1196]
McIlwraith, Jean Newton (1859-1938)
[Canadian author and editor]
The Making of Mary (1895) [Novel]
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[Children's book: part of the series The Children's Study]
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Mackay, George Eric (1851-1898) [English poet]
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A Lover's Litanies
(1888)
[Poems]
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MacKay, William Alexander (1842-1905)
[Canadian clergyman and author]
Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad, or, How to Succeed
(1900)
[Biographical sketches, with illustrations, of twenty-four prominent sons of
the Ontario farming community of Zorra
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This small area of Oxford County produced an amazing number of prominent Canadians,
among them PG Canada author Ralph Connor.]
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[PGC #550]
McKelvie, Bruce Alistair (1889-1960)
[Canadian journalist, historian, and novelist]
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Huldowget. A Story of the North Pacific Coast.
(1926)
[Novel. A missionary (Father David) encounters a shaman (Caleb Thompson)...]
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[PGC #917]
Pelts and Powder. A Story of the West Coast in the Making.
(1929)
[Novel, beginning in Boston shortly after the American Revolution.
Our hero, Lawrence Drake, decides 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 voyage...]
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[PGC #921]
MacKenzie, James Bovell (1851-1919)
[Canadian ethnographer]
Ontario Court of Common Pleas (1884)
A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians (1882)
[Ethnography and sociology]
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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)
[History: 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)
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Library and Archives Canada,
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830)
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Wikimedia Commons,
National Gallery (UK)
William Notman (1826-1891)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
McCord Museum
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Head-Waters of Canadian Literature
(1924)
[An outstanding short survey of the history of Canadian literature from its beginnings up to the author's own era. Notable for its attention to literature in both of Canada's official languages.]
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[PGC #737]
Macmillan, Cyrus John
(1880-1953)
[Canadian academic and politician]
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McGill University Archives
Canadian Wonder Tales
(1918)
[Folk tales: illustrations by
George Sheringham (1884-1937)
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Tate Collection,
foreword by Sir William Peterson (1856-1921)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
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MacMurchy, Marjory Jardine Ramsay
[Lady Marjory Willison: married to journalist
Sir John Stephen Willison (1856-1927)
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(1870-1938)
[Canadian journalist and author]
The Canadian Girl at Work: A Book of Vocational Guidance
(1919)
[Textbook "Prepared at the Instance of the Minister of Education
for Use in Ontario School Libraries"]
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Macpherson, Hector Copland (1888-1956)
[Scottish clergyman and astronomer]
Astronomical Society of Edinburgh (Graham Rule)
Herschel
(1919)
[A biography of the astronomer Sir William Herschel (1738-1822)
Wikipedia,
whose epoch-making discoveries included the planet Uranus and
many other celestial objects: he also discovered the existence of
infrared radiation. This biography includes as its frontispiece
a contemporary portrait of Herschel by Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760?-1802)
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #963]
Mann, Thomas
(1875-1955)
[Romancier allemand]
fr.wikipedia
Traduction:
Tonio Kröger
[Tonio Kröger (1903)]
, suivi de
Le petit monsieur Friedemann
[Der kleine Herr Friedemann (1898)]
, Heure difficile
[Schwere Stunde (1905)]
, L'enfant prodige
[Das Wunderkind (1903)]
, Un petit bonheur
[Ein Glück (1904)]
(1923)
[Nouvelles:
traduit par Geneviève Maury
(traductrice et romancière suisse, décédée en 1956),
avec une preface par Edmond Jaloux
(romancier français, 1878-1949)
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Académie Française]
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Marmette, Joseph (1844-1895) [Romancier canadien]
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Le Chevalier de Mornac. Chronique de la Nouvelle-France 1664 (1873) [Conte]
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La fiancée du rebelle. Épisode de la Guerre des Bostonnais, 1775 (1875) [Roman]
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François de Bienville.
Scènes de la vie canadienne au XVIIe siècle.
(1883 [deuxième édition]; 1870 [première édition])
[Roman historique, basé sur la carrière militaire de François de Bienville (1666-1691)
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada]
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[PG Canada no 793]
Marquand, John P. [John Phillips] (1893-1960)
[American novelist]
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Notable American Unitarians
Washington Post (Jonathan Yardley)
The Black Cargo
(1925)
[One of Marquand's earliest novels. Charles Jervaile, a young sailor,
is hired by a shipowner for a decidedly dubious assignment.
But Charles gets cold feet, and things start to unravel, particularly
when the nature of the mysterious cargo becomes clear.]
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[PGC #864]
Ming Yellow
(1935)
[Novel, similar in style to Marquand's famous Mr. Moto novels.
A newspaperman, Rodney Jones, who is working in China,
encounters a rich American and his daughter.
The American is in Peking to buy several pieces of Ming dynasty porcelain,
known as Ming Yellow for their particular shade of yellow.
Subsequent developments feature Chinese bandits,
a warlord/general, and assorted double-dealing.
And, there's romance along the way!]
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[PGC #939]
The six novels featuring the Japanese agent Mr. Moto
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No Hero
(1935)
[The first of the six Mr. Moto novels: also known as Your Turn, Mr. Moto
and Mr. Moto Takes a Hand.
Casey Lee, a former military pilot, has been offered a chance to fly a
Japanese-built plane from Japan to the U.S. While in Tokyo, he encounters
Mr. Moto and soon finds himself kidnapped and in China, mixed up in
international espionage involving Japan (represented by Mr. Moto),
Russia (a beautiful young Russian woman named Sonya Karaloff),
and the U.S. (Naval Commander Driscoll).]
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[PGC #888]
Thank You, Mr. Moto
(1936)
[A young American, Tom Nelson, who is acquainted with Mr. Moto
Wikipedia,
runs into him at a party in Peking. At the same party, he runs into two other friends:
a young woman, Eleanor Joyce, and an ex-British Army Major Jameson Best.
There is a murder, and new characters enter the scene: a Chinese rebel leader,
an art thief, a Chinese prince, and a Japanese political agitator...]
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[PGC #877]
Think Fast, Mr. Moto
(1937)
[Novel. Our hero, Wilson Hitchings, who works at his uncle's
Shanghai-based trading company and bank, is sent to Hawaii
to investigate a problem with the company's branch there.
He discovers a currency smuggling operation
that Mr. Moto is also investigating.]
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[PGC #832]
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 join up with an archaeology
expedition. He encounters Mr. Moto on a ship travelling
from Japan to Korea. As his travels continue, he finds
himself involved in Japanese, Chinese, and Russian
border intrigue...]
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[PGC #897]
Last Laugh, Mr. Moto
(1942)
[Novel, set in the Caribbean, late in 1940. Robert Bolles, an ex-US Navy
man, finds himself mixed up in the efforts of a Japanese agent (Mr. Moto),
and a couple of Vichy French agents, who are allied with a German agent,
all trying to recover a secret device from an aircraft that was on a French
freighter that was lost/wrecked. Events proceed from there...]
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[PGC #892]
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, hunting a Russian agent.
He's travelling with a female American agent: the two are posing as a couple.
In Japan, they encounter Mr. Moto, who's also after the Russian agent...]
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[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]
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[PGC #1017]
Marryat, Frederick (1792-1848)
[English naval officer and novelist]
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Settlers in Canada (1844)
[Novel]
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Marshall, Archibald (1866-1934)
[English novelist]
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Morrow, George (1869-1955)
[Irish cartoonist]
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Simple Stories from "Punch"
(1930)
[Humour]
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The Birdikin Family
(1932)
[Humour]
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[PGC #636]
May, Phil [May, Philip William] (1864-1903) [English caricaturist]
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
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 bonus:
an interesting handwritten note, first published in 2007,
from May to the famous Irish baritone and author Harry Plunket
Greene (1865-1936)
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Harry Plunket Greene in Hurstbourne Priors]
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Fifty Hitherto Unpublished Pen-and-Ink Sketches
(1900)
[Drawings]
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Pictures by Phil May
(1907)
[Drawings: posthumous collection selected by an anonymous editor]
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by Punch cartoonist James Thorpe (1876-1949):
Phil May
(1948)
[Monograph, with many drawings by Phil May]
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Melville, Frederick John (1882-1940)
[British philatelist]
Antigua
(1929)
[Monograph: no. 26 of The Melville Stamp Books]
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Miller, Alice Duer (1874-1942)
[American novelist and poet]
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The White Cliffs
(1940)
[Narrative poem, a huge success at the time of its publication, and the inspiration for
the 1944 movie The White Cliffs of Dover.
An American girl visits London just before the First World War, marries,
and stays in England during the succeeding years, including the start of the Second World
War.]
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[PGC #905]
Molesworth, Mary Louisa (1839-1921)
[Scottish children's writer]
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A Christmas Child. A Sketch of a Boy-Life.
(1880)
[Children's novel by Mrs. Molesworth, with illustrations by English artist and illustrator Walter Crane (1845-1915)
Wikipedia,
engraved by Joseph Swain (1820-1909)
The website of Bob Speel
British Museum, or an unnamed assistant]
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[PGC #630]
The Adventures of Herr Baby
(1881)
[Children's novel by Mrs. Molesworth, with illustrations by English artist and illustrator Walter Crane (1845-1915)
Wikipedia]
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The Palace in the Garden
(1887)
[Novel. Three children move from London to Rosebuds, a house in the English countryside.
One of the children, Gussie (Gustava), "the naughty one of the family", tells us what ensues.]
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[PGC #830]
Four Ghost Stories
(1888)
[Ghost stories]
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[PGC #456]
The Man with the Pan-Pipes and other stories
(1892)
[Stories by Mrs. Molesworth, with illustrations by English artist and illustrator Walter Jenks Morgan (1847-1924)
The Victorian Web]
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[PGC #912]
The Thirteen Little Black Pigs and other stories
(1893)
[Stories by Mrs. Molesworth, with illustrations by English artist and illustrator Walter Jenks Morgan (1847-1924)
The Victorian Web]
CAUTION: One of the stories in this ebook contains a name that today would be considered grossly racist.
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[PGC #425]
Uncanny Tales
(1896)
[Six stories, varying in their degree of uncanniness, but similar in their attractive style,
typical of Mrs. Molesworth]
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[PGC #766]
Monck, Frances Elizabeth Owen (d. 1919)
[Irish memoirist]
(Wife of Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck [1819-1894;
Governor-General of British North America from 1861 to
1867, and of Canada from 1867 to 1868]
Dictionary of Canadian Biography)
My Canadian Leaves: an account of a visit
to Canada in 1864-1865
(1891 version)
[Travel journal]
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Montgomery, L. M. (1874-1942)
[Canadian novelist]
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Canadian Encyclopedia
Anne of Green Gables (1908)
[Novel]
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Anne of Avonlea (1909)
[Novel]
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Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910)
[Novel]
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The Story Girl
(1911)
[Novel: frontispiece and cover illustration by George Gibbs (1870-1942)]
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Chronicles of Avonlea (1912)
[Short stories]
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The Golden Road (1913)
[Novel]
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Anne of the Island (1915)
[Novel]
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The Watchman and other Poems (1916)
[Poetry]
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Anne's House of Dreams (1917)
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Rainbow Valley
(1919)
[Novel: frontispiece by Maria Louise Kirk
(born 1860; died no later than 1939, probably in 1938)]
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Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920)
[Short stories]
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Rilla of Ingleside (1921)
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Emily of New Moon (1923) [Novel]
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Magic for Marigold (1929) [Novel]
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Pat of Silver Bush (1933) [Novel]
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Anne of Windy Poplars (1936) [Novel]
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[PG Canada ebook #551]
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Jane of Lantern Hill (1937) [Novel]
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Moodie, Susanna (1803-1885) [Canadian memoirist and novelist]
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Poetry Archive
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Canadian Encyclopedia
The Little Quaker; or, The triumph of virtue. A tale for the instruction of youth. (ca. 1826-27)
[Children's novel]
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Roughing It in the Bush (1852) [Memoirs]
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Mark Hurdlestone: or, The Two Brothers (1853) [Novel]
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The Monctons (1853) [Novel]
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Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life.
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[Novel]
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[PG Canada ebook #570]
Roughing it in the Bush; or, Forest Life in Canada
(1871 version)
[The first Canadian edition of Moodie's classic account of her life in Upper Canada, issued
nineteen years after its first publication in London. Includes new material by Moodie,
and some fine illustrations by Charles F. Damoreau (fl. ca. 1856-1871) and the Toronto artist Seymour]
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[PGC #725]
George Leatrim; or, The Mother's Test
(1875)
[Novel for children: catalogue at end of book includes
an illustration by William Small (1843-1931)
Tate Collection]
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Life in the Backwoods (1887) [Memoirs]
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Moore, George Augustus (1852-1933) [Irish novelist]
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Sister Teresa (1909 version)
(1909: earlier version published in 1901)
[Novel]
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Hail and Farewell
(1925)
[Autobiography: earlier separate versions of the three parts
first published in 1911 (Ave), 1912 (Salve),
and 1914 (Vale)]
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[English religious writer, abolitionist, and playwright]
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The Twickenham Museum
Percy. A Tragedy. (1778)
[Neo-Shakespearian tragedy]
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Morice, Adrien-Gabriel (1859-1938)
[Missionnaire, explorateur, ethnologue et lexicographe canadien /
Canadian missionary, explorer, ethnologist, and lexicographer]
fr.wikipedia
Wikipedia
ABCBookWorld
The History of the Northern Interior of British Columbia
(formerly New Caledonia) [1660 to 1880]
(1905 [third edition: first edition published in 1904])
[History, with many illustrations, including the first published portrait
of the explorer Simon Fraser [1776-1862]
Wikipedia]
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L'abbé Émile Petitot et les découvertes géographiques
au Canada: étude géographico-historique (1923)
[Monographie sur le missionaire-explorateur Émile Petitot
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada]
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Souvenirs d'un missionnaire en Colombie Britannique
(1933)
[Autobiographie]
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[PGC no 600]
Morrow, George (1869-1955)
[Irish cartoonist]
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Marshall, Archibald (1866-1934)
[English novelist]
Simple Stories from "Punch"
(1930)
[Humour]
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[Scottish (Orkadian) poet]
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Journeys and Places
(1937)
[Poems. The Journeys, our poet remarks, "deal more or less with movements in time", and
the Places "with places reached and the character of such places".]
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[PGC #859]
Munro, William Bennett
(1875-1957)
[Canadian historian]
Marianopolis College
(biography by Damien-Claude Bélanger)
The Seigneurs of Old Canada:
A Chronicle of New-World Feudalism
(1914)
[History: vol. 5 of "The Chronicles of Canada".
Illustrations by
Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674)
Wikipedia
Musée du Louvre,
Charles Huot (1855-1930)
Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
Cornelius Krieghoff (1815-1872)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
and W. W. Smith (ca. 1855)]
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Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik (1857-1949)
[Swedish physician and author]
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Letters from a Mourning City (Naples. Autumn, 1884)
(1887)
[When the author (a physician by trade) arrived in Naples intending
to take a holiday, he found that there had been a major outbreak of cholera.
This book, his account of what he experienced as a first-hand witness,
first appeared as a series of articles published in the Stockholm newspaper
Dagblad
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Our author modestly remarks that they "were
written under circumstances scarcely favourable to literary pursuits", but it
is difficult to see any shortcomings. The translation from Swedish was by
the English composer Maude Valérie White (1855-1937)
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The Independent (Sophie Fuller).]
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Vagaries
(1898)
[The celebrated collection of essays and reflections
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by the famous Swedish physician and author.
In later years, Munthe was to issue revised versions of the collection:
for our ebook, we have used the text of the 1898 first edition.]
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Red Cross & Iron Cross, by A Doctor in France
(1916)
[Novel about the First World War, published while the war was still raging,
based on Munthe's own war experiences within a British ambulance corps
when he was already in his late fifties]
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Murray, Gilbert [George Gilbert Aimé] (1866-1957)
[English classical scholar]
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) [in German]
Carlyon Sahib. A Drama in Four Acts.
(1900)
[A play set in England and in British India: it created some degree of controversy. This printed edition includes the minor revisions Murray made following the play's first production in 1899.]
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Andromache. A Play In Three Acts.
(1900)
[An original play about Andromache
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Murray's verse translations of ancient Greek plays are famous:
many of them are offered by PG Canada.
But this is an original play in prose: Murray described it as
"a simple historical play, with as little convention as possible, placed in the
Greek Heroic Age, and dealing with one of the ordinary heroic stories."
Includes a preface by Murray addressed to William Archer (1856-1924)
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the friend of Shaw and translator of Ibsen.]
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Euripides and his Age
(1913)
[The original 1913 version of Murray's famous introduction to the works
of the ancient Athenian playwright Euripides (ca. 480-406 B.C.)
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The United States and the War
(1916)
[Three articles, published at the end of August 1916. Murray believed it was clear that
the U.S would not enter the First World War, but he was wrong — eight months
later the U.S. declared war on Germany! Nonetheless, an interesting and informative
set of articles.]
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[PGC #792]
From Faith, War, and Policy. Addresses and Essays on the European War. (1917):
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First Thoughts on the War
(1914)
[Reflections on the outbreak of the First World War]
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How can War ever be Right?
(1914)
[An essay defending Britain's declaration of war on Germany]
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Herd Instinct and the War
(1915)
[Lecture on the attitudes surrounding the First World War, and the desirability of a rational approach
to the topic]
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India and the War
(1915)
[An address to Indian students, delivered in March 1915.]
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[PGC #870]
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The Evil and the Good of the War
(1915)
[An address delivered to the Congress of Free Churches. Among all the evils of war, Murray
discerned some elements of good, particularly in the spirit of sacrifice for the sake of others
which he believed had become apparent.]
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Democratic Control of Foreign Policy
(1916)
[A review of the 1915 book Democracy and Diplomacy: A Plea for Popular Control of Foreign Policy, by Arthur Ponsonby (1871-1946)
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Spartacus Educational,
who, unlike Murray, was opposed to Britain's participation
in the First World War.
In essence, a discussion of a perpetual issue in representative democracies:
how to allow elected governments reasonable freedom in foreign policy,
while ensuring that they respect the will and interests of the citizens they represent.]
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How We Stand Now
(1916)
[Lecture. Murray explains his strong belief that the German government was responsible for
triggering the First World War, a belief unlikely to have encountered much disagreement among
the members of the Fight for Right League, to whom this address was originally delivered.]
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Andrew Lang, the Poet
(1948)
[The 1947 Andrew Lang Lecture
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on the poetry of Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
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better known in 1947 and today as a folklorist and historian than as a poet.]
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[PGC #604]
Translations of
Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 B.C.)
[Athenian playwright]
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The Persians
(472 B.C. [Greek original], 1939 [this translation])
[The oldest surviving Greek tragedy. It deals with a contemporary event:
the reaction of the Persian court to the news of the Greek victory over the
Persians at Salamis
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The tone of the play is surprisingly sympathetic to the Persians.]
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ancient-literature.com
H. W, Smyth's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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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
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arrive as refugees in Argos, seeking protection from forced marriage in Egypt.]
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ancient-literature.com
H. W, Smyth's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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Prometheus Bound
(fifth century B.C. [Greek original], 1931 [this translation])
[Tragedy. Prometheus
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has given mankind the gift of fire. Zeus in anger has
chained him to a mountain in the Caucasus. Two millennia after the original,
Shelley wrote a famous sequel, Prometheus Unbound
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Aristophanes (445 B.C. or earlier - ca. 385 B.C.)
[Athenian playwright]
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The Knights
(424 B.C. [Greek original], 1956 [this translation])
[Comedy about the political scene in Athens during the Peloponnesian War
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A sausage seller becomes a political rival to Cleon
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a prominent Athenian politician (and an opponent of Aristophanes).
The "knights" of the title are not the mediaeval warriors from a millennium
later, but the citizen cavalry of Athens.
The
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article on the play provides a helpful guide to its many
contemporary allusions; Murray provides a set of notes as well.]
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F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart's 1907 edition of the original Greek text:
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The Birds
(414 B.C. [Greek original], 1950 [this translation])
[Comedy. The birds of the world band together to take over
control of the universe from the Olympian gods. The
Wikipedia
article on the play provides a helpful guide to its many
contemporary allusions.]
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F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart's 1907 edition of the original Greek text:
Perseus Digital Library
Translations of
Euripides (ca. 480-406 B.C.)
[Athenian playwright]
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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 some years when Rhesus, King of Thrace, arrives to help the Trojans.]
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Murray's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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Medea
(431 B.C. [Greek original], 1906 [this translation])
[Tragedy. The marriage of Jason
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the Argonaut
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and his foreign wife Medea
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ends badly. Very badly.]
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David Kovacs' edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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The Trojan Women
(415 B.C. [Greek original], 1905 [this translation])
[Tragedy, centred on the fate of the women of Troy after the destruction of their city.
Often thought to be a protest by Euripides against the Peloponnesian War
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Ion
(ca. 413 B.C. [Greek original], 1954 [this translation])
[Technically a tragedy, but in fact a drama with a pleasantly optimistic tone.
We meet Ion at the temple of Apollo at Delphi, where he has lived from his
earliest years. As the play begins, he is unaware of who his parents are...]
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ancient-literature.com
Murray's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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Bacchae
(405 B.C. [Greek original], 1906 [this translation])
[Euripides' most famous tragedy, originally presented the year following his death.
Pentheus, King of Thebes, does not recognize the limits of his power, nor the
limits of pure rationality. For this mistake he pays a heavy price.]
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Murray's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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Sophocles (ca. 496-406 B.C.)
[Athenian playwright]
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Antigone ["The Antigone"]
(ca. 441 B.C. [Greek original], 1941 [this translation])
[Tragedy. The civil war at Thebes
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has resulted in the death of Antigone's
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two brothers Eteocles
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and Polynices
.
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The king, Creon
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has decided that
Polynices will not receive proper burial. Antigone does not accept this
decision...]
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Sir Richard Jebb's 1891 edition of the original Greek text:
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The Wife of Heracles [Trachiniae]
(ca. 430 B.C.? [Greek original], 1947 [this translation])
[Tragedy: the original title refers to the play's chorus
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which consisted of the
women of Trachis
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It recounts the passing of Heracles (Hercules)
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but in fact is largely concerned with his wife, Deianira
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hence the new name which Murray bestowed on the play.]
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Sir Richard Jebb's 1892 edition of the original Greek text (Wikisource)
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Oedipus at Colonus
(ca. 401 B.C. [Greek original; first performance], 1948 [this translation])
[Tragedy, written at the very end of Sophocles' life.
Oedipus
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after a life of suffering,
arrives in the village of Colonus, accompanied by his daughter Antigone
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for what turn out to be the culminating events of his life.]
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Sir Richard Jebb's 1889 edition of the original Greek text:
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Murray, William Henry Harrison (1840-1904)
[American clergyman, outdoorsman, and author]
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The Story that the Keg Told Me, and The Story of the Man Who Didn't Know Much
(1889)
[Two novellas, both set in the Adirondack Mountains
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of New York State. The novellas, both of which feature John Norton the Trapper, are the first
two parts of the Adirondack Tales: in the introduction, Murray explains the genesis of this
series.]
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The Mystery of the Woods, and The Man Who Missed It
(1891)
[Two novellas, both set in the Adirondack Mountains
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of New York State]
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Myrand, Ernest (1854-1921) [Écrivain canadien]
Encyclopédie canadienne
Une fête de Noël sous Jacques Cartier (1888) [Histoire]
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Nesbit, Edith ("E. Nesbit") [Bland, Edith] (1858-1924)
[English novelist, poet, and political activist]
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Number 17
(1910)
[Suspense story. Hotels generally have one or two rather special rooms...]
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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 Canadian Army's Directorate of Military Training.
It is because of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)
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that Spain today has a Bourbon king, descended from Louis XIV of France.
But the Sun King by no means gained everything that he had sought
(Spain remained a kingdom separate from France):
this was largely because of the brilliant military campaigns conducted
by John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough
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Lt.-Col. G. W. L. Nicholson, the Canadian military historian, has given
us this brilliantly written and wonderfully readable short history of the
war. The many illustrations include an outstanding series of maps by
Captain C. C. J. Bond.]
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Niven, Frederick John (1878-1944) [Canadian novelist]
ABCBookWorld
McMaster University Libraries
William H. New (Canadian Literature #32 [Spring 1967]),
The Island Providence
(1910)
[Historical novel, set in the late seventeenth century]
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A Wilderness of Monkeys
(1911)
[Novel: our edition includes an inscription from Frederick Niven to Daniel Rider]
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Hands Up!
(1913)
[Novel]
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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" between Ashcroft and Kamloops.]
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The Staff at Simson's
(1937)
[Novel about a family firm in Scotland]
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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 many other places.]
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The Transplanted
(1944)
[Novel]
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Nodier, Charles (1780-1844)
[Écrivain et bibliothécaire français]
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Académie Française
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Translator / traducteur:
Orts-Ramos, Tomás (1866-1939)
[Spanish journalist / journaliste espagnol]
El Pintor de Salzburgo (1919)
[Tales and essays in Spanish / Contes et essais en espagnol: translations of / traductions de
Des types en littérature (1830),
Le peintre de Salzbourg (1803),
Les méditations du cloître (1803) & Adèle (1820)]
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Learn Spanish ! / Apprenez l'espagnol !
Cursos:
BBC
Spanish Language & Culture
Diccionarios bilingües:
WordReference.com Spanish-English
WordReference.com Espagnol-Français
Diccionarios españoles:
CLAVE
Real Academia Española
Nordhoff, Charles Bernard (1887-1947)
[American novelist]
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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)
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Hall, James Norman (1887-1951)
[American novelist]
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Men Without Country
(1942)
[The novel opens early in World War II, just after the 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 Freycinet, 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,
everything tight and right and thrilling. This is old craftsmanship at work,
spinning a yarn of the most contemporary flavor..."
(N. L. Rothman, Saturday Review, 27 June 1942)]
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Notman, William McFarlane (1857-1913)
[Canadian photographer]
Canadian Encyclopedia
Through Mountains and Canyons. The Canadian Rockies.
(1906)
[A portfolio of photographs taken in the mountains of British Columbia
and Alberta, "photographed by Wm. Notman & Son Montreal".
We ascribe the book to William McFarlane Notman, son of the celebrated
Montreal photographer William Notman (1826-1891), because the younger
Notman is known to have travelled and photographed extensively in Western
Canada along the line of the newly completed Canadian Pacific Railway.]
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Noyes, Alfred (1880-1958)
[English poet and novelist]
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The Catholic World, January 1959 (Derek Stanford)
CatholicAuthors.com
The Sun Cure
(1929)
[Satirical novel, reminiscent of the early novels of Evelyn Waugh, which were written around the same period.
The Rev. Basil Strode is invited by his old friend Harry Dalston to go on vacation with him and return
to nature. He rashly accepts the invitation, not realizing what going back to nature might entail.]
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The Last Man
(1940)
[Science fiction novel. A death ray has been invented which largely wipes out
humanity. There are some survivors, however...]
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[PGC #903]
O'Connor, John (1870-1952)
[English priest and memoirist]
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St Michael's College, University of Toronto
Father Brown on Chesterton
(1937)
[Memoir of the journalist, mystery writer and Christian apologist
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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by the priest who was the model for the principal character in
the "Father Brown" mystery stories]
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O'Duffy, Eimar Ultan (1893-1935)
[Irish playwright, novelist, and economist]
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The Bird Cage
(1932)
[Mystery novel]
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[Canadian teacher, journalist, and poet]
Canadian Catholic Historical Association (James T. Hurley, 1950)
Songs of Heroic Days
(1916)
[A fine collection of poems, published during the First World War, and including
a letter from Jules Ingenbleek (1876-1953)
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De Grootste Breeënaar [Nederlands],
conveying to the poet the congratulations of Albert I of Belgium]
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[PGC #853]
Father Morice
(1928)
[A short biography of British Columbia missionary, explorer, and historian Adrien-Gabriel
Morice (1859-1938)
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you will find in the PG Canada catalogue.
This monograph was published as part of the Ryerson Canadian History Readers series.]
CAUTION: Certain statements in this ebook today would be considered grossly racist.
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Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant Wilson
(1828-1897)
[Scottish novelist]
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The Victorian Web
The Rector and The Doctor's Family
(1863)
[Two novellas]
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Phoebe, Junior
(1876)
[Novel]
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Sir Tom
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[Novel]
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A Country Gentleman and his Family
(1886)
[Novel]
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The Marriage of Elinor
(1892)
[Novel]
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Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
[Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet]
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The Rubáiyát
[Poems: 1859 version]
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FitzGerald, Edward (1809-1883)
[English translator]
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Illustrator:
MacManus [also spelt McManus], Blanche (1869-1935)
[American author and illustrator]
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Opie, Amelia Alderson (1769-1853)
[English novelist]
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A Wife's Duty
(1820)
[An elegantly written novel on domestic relations. As our narrator comments, similar events
affect different people in different ways: "as the rays
of light call forth different hues and gradations of colour, according
to the peculiar surfaces of the objects on which they fall, so common
circumstances vary in their results and their effects, according to the
different natures and minds of those to whom they occur."
We include a frontispiece created by Albert Henry Payne (1812-1902)
for the 1847 edition on which our ebook is based.]
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Oppenheim, Edward Phillips (1866-1946)
[English novelist]
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A Daughter of the Marionis
[U.S. title: To Win the Love He Sought]
(1895)
[Novel: a romance, involving a Sicilian oath of vengeance.
An English lord meets a Sicilian singer, Adrienne, and they fall in
love. But a Sicilian, Leonardo di Marioni, has already declared
his love for her! Much intrigue follows, in Italy and in England.]
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The Seven Conundrums
(1923)
[Seven short stories, all of them mysteries, or, if you will, conundrums.
Illustrated by New York artist Wallace Morgan (1873[1875?]-1948)
[U.S.] Army Art of World War I
Library of Congress]
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The Wrath to Come
(1924)
[Novel. A heady mixture of high society and international intrigue, elegantly presented.]
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[PGC #990]
The Passionate Quest
(1924)
[Novel. Family firms often have challenges.]
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[PGC #987]
The Inevitable Millionaires
(1925)
[Novel. Two sons inherit a London business: as time passes they become
even wealthier than their late father. The firm's accountant reports
that they are now worth a million pounds, a gigantic sum in that era.
But he also sends them a letter from their late father: towards the end of his life,
he realized that the rich have a social responsiblity to spend considerable sums.
He directs his sons to learn how to spend money.]
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Gabriel Samara, Peacemaker
(1925)
[Catherine Borans, of the Hotel Weltmore Typewriting and Secretarial Bureau,
is far from happy when presented with her newest client, Gabriel Samara,
a mysterious Russian. But events take many unexpected turns...]
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[PGC #1018]
The Golden Beast
(1926)
[Novel, set largely in Norfolk. Great wealth can be toxic to a family.
Israel, first Baron Honerton, who had achieved great success in the
pharmaceuticals business, was absolutely admirable.
But his descendants are a different story...]
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The Interloper
(1926)
[Novel, published in the U.K. as The Ex-Duke.
A priest in Italy turns out to have connections to England. Connections at the very highest level...]
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[PGC #1105]
The Million Pound Deposit
(1930)
[Novel about commercial intrigue involving Boothroyds, a manufacturing firm located near Leeds]
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The Ostrekoff Jewels
(1932)
[Novel, which opens in the Ostrekoff Palace in St. Petersburg; but the action soon
moves elsewhere.]
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[PGC #953]
Crooks in the Sunshine
(1932)
[Novel. Dark doings in the sunny surroundings of the French Riviera.]
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[PGC #986]
Murder at Monte Carlo
(1933)
[Novel]
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The Spy Paramount
(1935)
[Novel, set in Rome and other glamorous European locales.]
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The Battle of Basinghall Street
(1935)
[Novel. Financial intrigues in the City, i.e. the City of London]
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Ask Miss Mott
(1937)
[Ten short stories. Miss Mott is a newspaper columnist, offering advice to readers on various personal matters.
Is she now to become a consultant on crime? Of course, her uncle does work at Scotland Yard...]
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[PGC #1106]
Sir Adam Disappeared
(1939)
[Novel. When someone disappears, people generally
notice. Particularly in the case of someone as rich as
Sir Adam Blockton, a banker with a difference:
he actually owns his bank!]
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The Grassleyes Mystery
(1940)
[A mysterious stranger visits an estate agent in Nice: he wishes to find a place to live,
near Nice or Cannes, but as secluded as possible. From that point, the mystery deepens further...]
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[PGC #1023]
The Man Who Changed His Plea
(1942)
[Novel, set in London. The accused in a high-profile murder trial at the last moment changes his plea to guilty,
thereby receiving a life sentence, rather than being condemned to death, the likely outcome had he pled
not guilty. But that's just the beginning...]
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Baroness Orczy [Orczy, Emmuska] (1865-1947)
[English novelist]
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Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
(1910)
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[Twelve mystery stories. Early on the narrator comments that
"we shouldn't have half so many undetected crimes if some 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 demonstrates how true this is.
(And while introducing Lady Molly, let us suggest another
celebrated female sleuth from the Project Gutenberg Canada
catalogue: Hulbert Footner's Madame Storey!)]
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Sir Percy Hits Back
(1927)
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[Historical novel, the ninth in the Scarlet Pimpernel series.
We are in France, during the Reign of Terror: the young and
innocent Fleurette Chauvelin, only just turned eighteen, must
be saved from the guillotine. The situation clearly calls
for the unique talents of Sir Percy Blakeney, the elusive
Scarlet Pimpernel.]
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Marivosa
(1930)
[Novel. Timothy O'Clerigh, is cheated out of his inheritance by an unscrupulous woman.
His work to regain it leads him to South America and a mysterious cult leader.
He meets and falls in love with the cultist's daughter, and is taken prisoner by the cultist.,.]
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[PGC #1001]
A Joyous Adventure
(1932)
[Historical novel set in 1800, and revolving around Martin Saint-Denys, an
English nobleman fallen on financial hard times.
He's also suffering from extreme boredom, so puts up posters offering a
£5,000 reward to anyone who can relieve this boredom...]
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[PGC #974]
Sir Percy Leads the Band
(1936)
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[Intrigue and heroism in Revolutionary France.
One of the characters masquerades as a Canadian farmer!
The eighth of the Scarlet Pimpernel novels to be published,
but the plot follows immediately upon the first novel in the series
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which appeared in 1905.
Our ebook includes the two anonymous illustrations from the 1953 London edition.]
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[PGC #999]
Orwell, George [Blair, Eric Arthur] (1903-1950)
[English journalist, political thinker, and novelist]
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Animal Farm
(1945)
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[A critique of the totalitarian socialist states of the twentieth century, in the form of a fable.
Perhaps Orwell's finest creation.]
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
(1949)
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[Orwell's famous novel predicting a bleak totalitarian future.
Some believe that it has been largely fulfilled; others do not.]
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[PGC #949]
Otway, Thomas (1652-1685)
[English playwright]
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The Orphan; or The Unhappy Marriage
(1680)
[Tragedy set within the household of a nobleman, Acasto, and involving his two sons]
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[PGC #489]
Venice Preserved [Venice Preserv'd] (1682)
[An early "she-tragedy"
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featuring a suffering heroine, very shortly after actresses made their first
appearance on the English stage]
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[PGC #451]
Our Young Folks.
[American children's magazine published from 1865 to 1873]
Our Young Folks.
An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls.
Vol. I, No. I
(January 1865)
[Children's magazine, edited by
Gail Hamilton [Mary Abigail Dodge] (1833-1896)
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Lucy Larcom (1824-1893)
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John Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916)
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with contributions by the editors and by
Charles Carleton Coffin (1823-1896)
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Edmund Kirke [James Roberts Gilmore] (1822-1903)
Johns Hopkins University,
Dio [Diocletian] Lewis (1823-1886)
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Photothèque Homéopathique,
Edmund Morris (1804-1874),
[Thomas] Mayne Reid (1818-1883)
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Northern Illinois University
Handbook of Texas Online,
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
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John Weiss (1818-1879)
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Heralds of a Liberal Faith
Notable American Unitarians 1740-1900,
and contemporary illustrations by various
unidentified artists of the period]
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[American novelist, editor and playwright]
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About the Murder of a Startled Lady. A Thatcher Colt Detective Mystery.
(1935)
Death Can Read
[Mystery novel (published by Oursler using the name "Anthony Abbot").
Sometimes a detective is not enough: you really need a medium.
Dark doings on and off Long Island.]
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[PGC #991]
Owen, Will (1869-1957)
[British illustrator]
Old London Town
(1921)
[A description of various of the older corners of London, beautifully illustrated by the author]
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[PGC #599]
Packard, Frank Lucius (1877-1942) [Canadian mystery novelist]
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gadetection (Mike Grost)
MousePlanet (Wade Sampson)
The Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1917) [Mystery novel]
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The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1919) [Mystery novel]
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The Miracle Man (1914) [Novel]
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The White Moll (1920) [Novel]
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Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue
(1922 [U.S. copyright date])
[Mystery novel]
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The Four Stragglers
(1923)
[Novel. In the prologue we are introduced to four Allied soldiers who are lost somewhere
behind German lines. When the first chapter opens, the war is over,
and three of our ex-soldiers have now formed a high-class burglary ring:
the British and French police are at a loss as to the culprits in a string of robberies.
Events proceed apace...]
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[PGC #651]
The Red Ledger
(1926)
[Novel. The "Red Ledger" is a book of accounts kept by Henri Charlebois, in
which he has recorded the names of people who had done him good deeds or bad
when he was down and out many years earlier. These accounts
must be made to balance...]
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[PGC #627]
Jimmie Dale and the Blue Envelope Murder
(1930)
[Mystery novel]
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Paradis, Pierre-Paul (1841-1912)
[Poète canadien]
La fin du monde par un témoin oculaire (1895)
[Poème]
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Parker, Sir Gilbert (1862-1932)
[Canadian novelist and essayist]
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Pierre and his People (1892) [Novel]
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Mrs. Falchion (1892) [Novel]
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The Translation of a Savage (1893) [Novel]
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The Trespasser (1893) [Novel]
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The Trail of the Sword (1894) [Novel]
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When Valmond Came to Pontiac (1895) [Novel]
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A Lover's Diary (1896) [Novel]
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The Pomp of the Lavilettes (1896) [Novel]
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Romany of the Snows (1896) [Novel]
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The Seats Of The Mighty (1896)
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There Is Sorrow On The Sea (1896)
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The Battle Of The Strong (1898) [Novel]
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The Lane That Had No Turning (1900)
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Parables Of A Province (1900)
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The Right Of Way (1901)
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Donovan Pasha, And Some People Of Egypt (1902)
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The March Of The White Guard (1902)
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Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk (1904)
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The Weavers (1907) [Novel]
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Embers (1909) [Poetry]
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Northern Lights (1909) [Novel]
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At The Sign Of The Eagle (1913, or earlier) [Novel]
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John Enderby (1913, or earlier) [Novel]
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Michel And Angele (1913, or earlier) [Novel]
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The Judgment House (1913) [Novel]
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You Never Know Your Luck (1914) [Novel]
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The Money Master: being the curious history of Jean Jacques Barbille, his labours, his loves and his ladies (1915)
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The World For Sale (1916) [Novel]
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Wild Youth (1919) [Novel]
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No Defense (1920) [Novel]
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Carnac's Folly (1922) [Novel]
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The Power and the Glory (1925) [Novel]
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Pioneers of France in the New World (1865) [History]
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The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century (1867) [History]
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Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV (1877) [History]
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Montcalm and Wolfe (1884) [History]
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Historic Handbook of the Northern Tour.
Lakes George and Champlain; Niagara; Montreal; Quebec.
(1885)
[A selection made by Parkman from his celebrated historical books on
the intertwined histories of New France and New England in the 17th
and 18th centuries. Intended for the use of tourists visiting the famous
historical sites along the St. Lawrence Valley.]
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[PGC #796]
Pennell, Joseph (1857-1926)
[American artist]
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Wikimedia Commons
The Victorian Web
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Squire, J. C. [John Collings] (1884-1958)
[English poet and critic]
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A London Reverie. Fifty-six drawings
by Joseph Pennell arranged with an introductory
essay and notes by J. C. Squire (1928)
[Portfolio of drawings, with descriptions and introductory essay]
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La culotte du brigadier (1879)
[Conte]
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Phillpotts, Eden (1862-1960)
[English novelist]
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Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Lycanthrope. The Mystery of Sir William Wolf.
(1937)
[Detective novel. Mystery lovers will wolf this one down.]
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[PGC #993]
Saurus
(1938)
[Novel. If Earth were to receive a visitor from another world, that visitor might not
particularly resemble mankind, and might find our customs curious.]
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[PGC #952]
Pickthall, Marjorie Lowry Christie (1883-1922) [Canadian poet]
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
The Selected Poems of Marjorie Pickthall
(1957)
[Poems selected and with an introduction by Lorne Pierce (1890-1961)
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[PGC #934]
Pierce, Lorne Albert (1890-1961) [Canadian critic, biographer, and literary editor]
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Canadian Encyclopedia
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New History for Old.
Discussions on aims and methods in writing and teaching history.
(1931)
[An interesting set of lectures on Canadian literature and history, with particular reference
to education]
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[PGC #925]
Unexplored Fields of Canadian Literature
(1932)
[A brief, nicely written, and very well informed overview of Canadian literature in English]
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[PGC #911]
Three Fredericton Poets.
Writers of the University of New Brunswick
and the New Dominion.
Alumni Oration, Encaenia, May 19, 1933.
(1933)
[Lecture. It is a curious fact that three of the chief figures of Canadian poetry
in English were all born in the space of eleven years, and that all three
were students at the University of New Brunswick.
Pierce discusses these three famous poets:
Charles G. D. Roberts (1860-1943)
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New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia
University of New Brunswick,
Bliss Carman (1861-1929)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia,
and Francis Sherman (1871-1926)
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New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia
University of New Brunswick]
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Project Gutenberg Canada also offers Lorne Pierce's
1957 anthology of poems by Marjorie Pickthall (1883-1922),
which you will find in our catalogue under that author's name.
Pope, Sir Joseph
(1854-1926)
[Canadian civil servant and biographer]
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
The Day of Sir John Macdonald:
A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion
(1920)
[History/biography: vol. 29 of "The Chronicles of Canada"]
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Potter, Beatrix (1866-1943) [English children's writer and artist]
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) [Story book]
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The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (1903) [Story book]
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The Tailor of Gloucester (1903) [Story book]
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The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904) [Story book]
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The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (1905) [Story book]
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The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan (1905) [Story book]
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The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1906) [Story book]
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The Story of Miss Moppet (1906) [Story book]
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The Tale of Tom Kitten (1907) [Story book]
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The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (1908) [Story book]
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The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or, The Roly-Poly Pudding (1908) [Story book]
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The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (1909) [Story book]
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The Tale of Ginger and Pickles (1909) [Story book]
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The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse (1910) [Story book]
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The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes (1911) [Story book]
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The Tale of Mr. Tod (1912) [Story book]
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The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse (1918) [Story book]
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The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
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Pouchkine, Alexandre (1799-1837)
[Poète russe]
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Le Tourbillon de Neige
(1831 [version originale russe]), 1843 [cette traduction])
[Un beau conte, accompagné d'une très belle illustration. La fille d'un seigneur russe a «prêté l'oreille aux paroles galantes d'un pauvre enseigne qui était venu passer quelques jours de congé dans sa famille. Il va sans dire qu'il était lui-même très-amoureux de Marie...»]
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[PG Canada no 839]
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Pratt, Fletcher (1897-1956)
[American military historian and science fiction writer]
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The Battles that Changed History (1956)
[History]
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[Canadian physician and novelist]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, March 1931
The Mac's of '37. A Story of The Canadian Rebellion.
(1910)
[Novel describing the adventures of our heroine, Marie MacAlpine, during the Rebellion of 1837
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[PGC #665]
Laura the Undaunted. A Canadian Historical Romance.
(1930)
[Historical novel about the beginnings of Upper Canada (Ontario),
centred on the early years of Laura Secord
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and culminating in the events of the War of 1812
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[PGC #684]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, March 1931
Writing under the name of Eric Bohn:
How Hartman Won. A Story of Old Ontario.
(1903)
[Novel, the hero of which, like our novelist, is a medical doctor!]
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[PGC #628]
Pringle, Henry Fowles (1897-1958)
[American journalist and biographer; Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 1932]
Britain's Best
(1931)
[Profile of the legendary Toronto-born star of the West End and Broadway,
Beatrice Lillie (1894-1989)
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memorable role with Julie Andrews in the 1967 film
Thoroughly Modern Millie
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[PGC #658]
Proust, Marcel
(1871-1922)
[Romancier français]
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À LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU
Du côté de chez Swann (1913)
[Roman]
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À l'ombre des jeune filles en fleurs
(1918)
[Roman]
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Le côté de Guermantes
(1921-22)
[Roman]
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Sodome et Gomorrhe
(1922-23)
[Roman]
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La Prisonnière
(1923)
[Roman: édition préparée par
Robert Proust (1873-1935) et
Jacques Rivière (1886-1925)
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Albertine disparue
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Le temps retrouvé
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[Écrivain anglais]
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La Bible d'Amiens
(1880 [version anglaise], 1904 [cette traduction])
[Traduction par Proust de The Bible of Amiens: histoire et philosophie]
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[PGC no 516]
You might also be interested in reading
Ruskin's original English version,
although it naturally lacks Proust's famous preface and notes.
Sésame et les Lys :
des trésors des rois, des jardins des reines
(1865 [version anglaise], 1906
[cette traduction])
[Traduction de de Sesame and Lilies :
Two lectures delivered at Manchester in 1864: regards sur la littérature et l'éducation.
Préface et commentaire par Proust.]
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[PG Canada no 700]
You can find Ruskin's work in the original English at
Project Gutenberg US.
Putman, John Harold (1866-1940)
[Canadian teacher and administrator]
J. H. Putman Public School, Ottawa (S. Fraser)
Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada
(1912)
[Biography of Egerton Ryerson
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
with a focus on his crucial role in creating the educational system of Ontario.]
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Raven-Hill, Leonard (1867-1942)
[English author and illustrator]
Tate Collection
Our Battalion. Being some slight impressions of
His Majesty's Auxiliary Forces, in Camp and Elsewhere.
(1902)
[A not entirely reverent account of aspects of life in the British armed forces, published by Punch magazine
Wikipedia: Raven-Hill was for many years a contributor to that celebrated weekly.]
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[PGC #640]
Raverat, Gwen [Gwendolen Mary] (1885-1957)
[English artist]
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Period Piece. A Cambridge Childhood.
(1952)
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[Autobiography, marvellously written and profusely illustrated by its author. Raverat was a granddaughter of Charles Darwin
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Read, David Breakenridge (1823-1904)
[Canadian lawyer, municipal politician, and historian]
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
The Lieutenant-Governors of Upper Canada and Ontario 1792-1899
(1913)
[Historical biographies: with many portraits of the viceregal luminaries
by Ontario illustrator James Everett Laughlin (1870-1944)]
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[PGC #629]
Reed, Charles Bert
(1866-1940)
[American obstetrician and historian]
Masters of the Wilderness
(1914; initial essay first published in 1909)
[Essays on the history of the Hudson's Bay Company, on the fur trade, and on Louisiana]
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Repplier, Agnes (1855-1950)
[American biographer and essayist]
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Père Marquette. Priest, Pioneer and Adventurer.
(1929)
[An elegantly written biography of the Jesuit missionary and explorer Jacques Marquette (1637-1675)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography, based on the author's own
wide knowledge and research]
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[PGC #1166]
Richardson, John (1796-1852) [Canadian novelist, poet, and memoirist]
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
Wacousta; or The Prophecy (1832)
[Novel]
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The Canadian Brothers; or, The Prophecy Fulfilled. A tale of the late American war. (1840)
[Novel]
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Hardscrabble; or, The Fall of Chicago. A Tale of Indian Warfare. (1850)
[Novel]
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Rinehart, Mary Roberts (1876-1958)
[American mystery novelist]
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The Frightened Wife and Other Murder Stories
(1953)
[Published near the end of Rinehart's illustrious career, and honoured in 1954 with a Special Edgar
Award
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by the Mystery Writers of America]
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[PGC #820]
Roberts, Sir Charles G. D. [Charles George Douglas] (1860-1943)
[Canadian poet, novelist, and historian]
Wikipedia
Canadian Encyclopedia
In Divers Tones (1886) [Poems]
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The Raid From Beauséjour; And How The Carter Boys Lifted The Mortgage (1894) [Novel]
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Earth's Enigmas (1896) [Short stories]
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New Poems
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[Poetry, chiefly lyric]
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Children of the Wild (1922) [Novel]
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The Vagrant of Time
(1927)
[A small anthology of Roberts' poetry. Includes a photograph of Roberts
by Vancouver photographer Walter Hughes Calder (1871-1953)]
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Robertson, Margaret Murray
(1823-1897)
[Canadian teacher and novelist; aunt of Ralph Connor]
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
The Orphans of Glen Elder: A Tale of Scottish Life
(ca. 1868)
[Novel]
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Robeson, Kenneth [Dent, Lester Bernard (1904-1959)]
[American pulp author]
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The Polar Treasure
(June 1933)
[Pulp adventure novel. Doc Savage and his companions
travel to the Arctic by submarine. But they are not
there as mere sightseers...]
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[PGC #1124]
The Phantom City
(December 1933)
[Pulp adventure novel. Mysterious events are reported in Arabia:
who better to investigate them than Doc Savage?]
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[PGC #1104]
The Thousand-Headed Man
(July 1934)
[Pulp adventure novel. Doc Savage is in London, on his way
back from settling a crisis in the Balkans. But in London he
learns of some recent events in Southeast Asia — events
involving a city in the jungle, and its mysterious single inhabitant,
a thousand-headed man. Naturally he and his men
must investigate...]
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[PGC #1128]
Fear Cay
(September 1934)
[Dark doings on a Caribbean island.
"Cay"
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often spelt "Key" these days, is the English equivalent
of the Spanish word cayo, as in "Key West"
(Spanish "Cayo Hueso"). Having explained the title,
we leave the novel's other mysteries in the capable hands of Doc Savage.]
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The Stone Man
(October 1939)
[Pulp adventure novel. Sinister events in the vast
spaces of Arizona draw the attention of Doc Savage
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and his companions.]
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Robson, Joseph
(fl. 1733-1763)
[English stonemason and surveyor]
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Prince of Wales Fort National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
An Account of Six Years Residence in Hudson's-Bay,
From 1733 to 1736, and 1744 to 1747.
(1752)
[Memoir]
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Roger, Charles
(1819-ca. 1878)
[Canadian journalist and historian]
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
The rise of Canada,
from barbarism to wealth and civilisation
(1856)
[History]
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Rohmer, Sax [Ward, Arthur Henry Sarsfield] (1883-1959)
[English novelist; creator of Fu Manchu]
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Seven Sins
(1943)
[Mystery novel, not involving Fu Manchu, set in wartime London,
and featuring Rohmer's famous creation, Anglo-French detective Gaston Max]
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[PGC #1038]
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)
[American lawyer and politician; 32nd President of the United States]
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Library of Congress
Looking Forward
(1933)
[A selection of his speeches and articles, chosen and introduced
by Roosevelt himself, and published in March 1933, his first month
in office: it includes his Inaugural Address delivered on March 4th]
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Rosny aîné, J.-H.
[pseudonyme de Joseph-Henri-Honoré Boex] (1856-1940)
[Romancier belge]
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Académie Goncourt
Mémoires de la vie littéraire.
L'Académie Goncourt.
Les salons–quelques éditeurs.
(1927)
[Mémoires]
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Rothenstein, Sir William (1872-1945) [English artist and memoirist]
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Twelve Portraits (1929) [Drawings]
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Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)
[English editor, translator, and playwright; Poet Laureate 1715-18]
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Jane Shore: A Tragedy (1714)
[Neo-Shakespearian tragedy, centred on the later years of Jane Shore (ca. 1445 - ca. 1527)
Wikipedia, mistress of Edward IV
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Sabatini, Rafael (1875-1950)
[Italian novelist]
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The Sea-hawk
(1915)
[Historical novel, set in the 16th century. Derring-do
among the Barbary Corsairs
Wikipedia!]
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[PGC #805]
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The Carolinian
(1925)
[Historical novel, set in the Carolinas (North and South) in the late eighteenth century,
shortly before the partition of British North America.]
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[PGC #961]
Bellarion the Fortunate. A Romance.
(1926)
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[Historical novel, set in Italy during the early Renaissance,
with a dazzling array of characters and events.
"Mr. Sabatini is a veritable master of the art of presenting
the colourful romance of history, and he has I think given
us nothing better of its kind than this story of
'Bellarion the Fortunate' in its vivid setting
of the Italy of the early fifteenth century."
(Walter Jerrold, (The Bookman [U.K.], October 1926)]
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[PGC #1181]
The Hounds of God. A Romance.
(1928)
[Historical novel, set in Elizabethan times]
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[PGC #802]
The King's Minion
(1930)
[Historical novel, taking place at the court of Scottish-born James I
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in the years following his accession to the English throne in 1603,
and vividly recounting the career of the king's favourite Robert Carr,
1st Earl of Somerset
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Sabatini does not hide his definite opinions of the people and events he describes.]
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[PGC #1025]
Scaramouche the King-Maker
(1931)
[Historical novel, set during the French Revolution: a sequel to Sabatini's celebrated 1921 historical novel Scaramouche
PG US]
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[PGC #1092]
Venetian Masque. A Romance.
(1934)
[Historical novel, set in Italy during the time of Napoleon.
Our hero is Marc-Antoine Villiers de Melleville, a French
nobleman (but English on his mother's side). His estates
in France have been confiscated, and he has been betrayed
by someone who should have been loyal. But the subsequent
destinies of the betrayer and the betrayed are curiously linked.]
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[PGC #1141]
Sackville-West, Vita [Victoria Mary] (1892-1962)
[English novelist, poet, essayist, gardener, and travel writer]
Wikipedia
The Land
(1926)
[A book-length poem describing the seasons of the year,
with beautiful scenes of the English countryside during
the different seasons: a congenial project for a poet and
gardener as fine as Sackville-West. The poem often has the feel of
classical Latin poetry, in particular Virgil's Georgics
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #1085]
Passenger to Teheran
(1926)
[Travel book, with photographs. The famous poet and novelist describes her
trip to Persia (Iran), where she witnesses the coronation of Reza Khan
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as Shah of Iran.]
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[PGC #1130]
Twelve Days. An account of a journey across the
Bakhtiari Mountains in South-western Persia.
(1928)
[Travel book, with photographs. Our author and several friends decide to travel
across the Bakhtiari Mountains of Iran: a difficult but fascinating journey...]
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[PGC #1200]
Andrew Marvell
(1929)
[A fine monograph on the seventeenth-century English poet Andrew Marvell
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who shared Sackville-West's passions for poetry and for gardens]
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[PGC #1073]
Country Notes
(1939)
[Sackville-West's column "Country Notes", describing her life in the country
(with an emphasis on gardening), appeared regularly in the New Statesman and Nation
Wikipedia.
This is a collection of her columns from 1938 and 1939, including a few on country life in France and Italy, abundantly
illustrated with black-and-white photographs by Bryan Westwood (1909-1990) and Norman Charles Westwood (1912-2008).]
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[PGC #1118]
Country Notes in Wartime
(1940)
[Sackville-West's column "Country Notes", observations
on life in the English countryside, appeared regularly
in the New Statesman and Nation
Wikipedia.
This is a collection of her columns from the early years
of the Second World War.]
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[PGC #1072]
Grand Canyon
(1942)
[Novel, featuring a panorama of characters at a resort hotel in Arizona.
The Second World War has resulted in Germany defeating the U.K.,
and the United States defeating Japan. But that's not the end of the story...]
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[PGC #1076]
The Garden
(1946)
[Poem, or rather cycle of poems, the first on the topic of The Garden,
the remaining four on the year's seasons: similar in organization to
The Land, written twenty years earlier, but quite different
in feeling. The earlier poem had a clear connection to classical Latin poetry,
the later one is more contemporary, and quotes T. S. Eliot!]
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[PGC #1184]
Sagard, Gabriel [Theodat] (c.1580-c.1636) [missionaire, historien, et ethnographe français]
fr.wikipedia
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Le grand voyage du pays des Hurons (1632)
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Histoire du Canada et voyages que les Freres Mineurs
Recollects y ont faicts pour la conversion des Infidelles
(1636)
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Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de (1900-1944) [Aviateur et écrivain français]
fr.wikipedia
Courrier sud (1928) [Roman]
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Le Petit Prince (1943) [Conte]
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Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman
(1845-1933)
[English literary critic, translator, and oenophile]
Wikipedia
A Consideration of Thackeray
(1931)
[Essays on the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
Wikipedia:
a slightly revised version of the introductions Saintsbury wrote
for the 1908 Oxford edition of the works of Thackeray.]
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Saintsbury
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Thackeray
at Project Gutenberg's US site.
Salaman, Malcolm Charles (1855-1940)
[English art historian and critic]
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Cameron, David Young (1865-1945)
[Scottish etcher and painter]
Wikipedia
National Galleries of Scotland
Tate Collection
Sir D.Y. Cameron, R.A.
(1925)
[Monograph on the famous Scottish artist, profusely illustrated]
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Hokusai [Katsushika Hokusai] (1760-1849)
[Japanese artist]
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons
Hokusai
(1930)
[Monograph on the celebrated Japanese artist, illustrated in colour]
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Sale, Charles (1885-1936)
[American actor and author]
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The Specialist
(1929)
[Humour. A carpenter decides to specialize in the construction of outhouses.]
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[PGC #654]
Sapper [McNeile, Herman Cyril] (1888-1937)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
The Third Round
[1924] (U.S. copyright date)
[Novel]
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Word of Honour
(1926)
[A collection of short stories on defending/protecting personal honour]
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[PGC #854]
The Saving Clause
(1927)
[Nine short stories, different in subject, but all showing the author's characteristic narrative force.
Notable for the first appearance in literature of Sapper's famous creation Ronald Standish.]
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[PGC #1122]
Tiny Carteret
(1930)
[Novel]
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The Island of Terror
(1931)
[Action novel. Jim Maitland, that intrepid world adventurer,
finds himself in London after an absence of some years.
But new excitement awaits him...]
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[PGC #1015]
Bulldog Drummond at Bay
[1935]
[Novel, featuring Bulldog Drummond]
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[PGC #422]
Saunders, Margaret Marshall (1861-1947) [Canadian novelist]
Wikipedia
Canadian Encyclopedia
Beautiful Joe (1894) [Novel]
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Saxe, John Godfrey (1816-1887)
[American poet]
Wikipedia
Selections From the Poems of John Godfrey Saxe
(1905)
[A selection of Saxe's marvellous light poetry, chosen by an unnamed editor.
Our HTML edition reproduces some of the graphic elements of the printed edition,
which was designed by the American typographer Bruce Rogers (1870-1957)
Wikipedia
Harvard University]
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[PGC #547]
Sayers, Dorothy L. [Dorothy Leigh]
(1893-1957)
[English theologian, translator, playwright, and novelist]
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New York Times obituary
The Dorothy L Sayers Society
Whose Body? (1923; revised 1935)
[Mystery novel]
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Clouds of Witness (1926; revised 1935)
[Mystery novel]
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Strong Poison
(1930)
[Mystery novel. Lord Peter Wimsey encounters a lady in distress:
she has been wrongly accused of murder. This lady is none
other than Harriet Vane
Wikipedia,
the writer of mystery novels, and one of Dorothy Sayers' most
famous creations: this novel marks her first appearance in literature.]
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[PGC #1032]
The Five Red Herrings
(1931)
[Mystery novel, set in the Galloway
Wikipedia
region of Scotland, where, our novelist tells us, "one either fishes or paints."
A local painter is found dead under suspicious circumstances.
Fortunately, Lord Peter Wimsey is visiting the area...]
CAUTION: Certain language in this ebook today would be considered grossly racist.
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[PGC #1137]
Murder Must Advertise. A Detective Story. (1933)
[Mystery novel. Dorothy Sayers had herself worked some years as a copywriter at an advertising agency.]
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Busman's Honeymoon.
A Love Story with Detective Interruptions.
(1937)
[Mystery novel. Lord Peter Wimsey gets married, and then...]
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[PGC #460]
The Greatest Drama Ever Staged (1938)
[Two essays on theology]
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Strong Meat (1939)
[Two essays on theology]
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The Lost Tools of Learning (1948)
[Lecture]
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A Treasury of Sayers Stories
(1958)
[Twenty-four mystery stories, many of them featuring Lord Peter Wimsey
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and Montague Egg
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A few of the stories have illustrations which do play a part in the plot:
these illustrations are naturally omitted from the Text versions of the ebook,
but are included in the HTML edition.]
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[PGC #891]
Scadding, Henry (1813-1901) [Canadian priest and historian]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Toronto of Old
(1873)
[A marvellously interesting book, accurately described by its famous author as
"collections and recollections illustrative of the
early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario"]
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[PGC #749]
The Revived Significance of the Initials "U. E."
A paper read before the Pioneer and Historical
Society of the County of York, July, 1892.
(1892)
[Lecture on the initials U.E., used to honour United Empire Loyalists
Wikipedia,
who founded New Brunswick and Upper Canada (Ontario) after the partition
of the British colonies in North America]
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[PGC #835]
Surveyor-General Holland (1896)
[Annotated edition of a 1792 letter from Samuel Holland (1728-1801),
first Surveyor-General of British North America
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
to John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor
of Upper Canada]
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Scott-Moncrieff, Ann (1914-1943) [Scottish novelist]
Auntie Robbo (1941) [Novel: children and teenagers]
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Sedgwick, Henry Dwight, Jr. (1861-1957)
[American lawyer, historian, and essayist]
Wikipedia
Samuel de Champlain (1902)
[Biography of Champlain
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography;
with an illustration by Théophile Hamel (1817-1870)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
after an original by Balthazar Moncornet (ca. 1600-1668)]
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Ségur, Sophie de (1799-1874)
[French children's author]
Wikipedia
with:
Sterrett, Virginia Frances (1900-1931)
[American illustrator]
vfsterrett.com
Old French Fairy Tales
(1857 [French original] 1920 [this translation])
[Fairy tales: a translation by an unknown hand of Ségur's
Nouveaux contes de fées pour les petits enfants]
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Seltzer, Charles Alden (1875-1942)
[American author of Western novels]
Wikipedia
The Trail to Yesterday (1913) [Novel]
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Service, Robert William (1874-1958)
[Scottish poet and novelist]
Wikipedia
Life of Service, by Dan Duffy
Ballads of a Cheechako
(1909)
[Poems set in the Yukon. Our ebook, based on a copy of the the 1911 Toronto edition,
includes photographs of the Yukon, and Robert Service's autograph.]
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[PGC #611]
The Pretender. A Story of the Latin Quarter.
(1914)
[Novel. A rich young New Yorker infiltrates the literary circles of Paris.]
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[PGC #655]
The Poisoned Paradise, A Romance of Monte Carlo
(1922)
[Novel, set in the South of France]
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[PGC #482]
Ploughman of the Moon. An Adventure into Memory.
(1945)
[Autobiography: Service's account of his upbringing in Scotland and his early years of adulthood,
culminating in his arrival in the Yukon.]
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[PGC #733]
Sewell, Helen (1896-1957)
[American artist]
Wikipedia
Ortakales.com
University of Minnesota
Illustrator:
Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1867-1957)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
Minnesota Historical Society
Little House in the Big Woods (1932) [Novel]
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Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
[English playwright and poet]
Wikipedia
Open Source Shakespeare
The Tempest (ca. 1610)
[Play: Cambridge Shakespeare edition (1863), edited by
William George Clark (1821-1878)
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and John Glover]
Wikipedia
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La Tempête
(version de 1864)
[traduction française par François Guizot (1787-1874)
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Der Sturm.
Ein Schauspiel von Shakspear, für das Theater bearbeitet.
(1796)
[German translation (with a preface) by
Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853)
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/ traduction allemande (avec une préface) par
Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853)
fr.wikipedia]
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Learn German!
Apprenez l'allemand!
Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)
[Irish playwright and critic]
Wikipedia
The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home. A Lecture.
(1933)
[Let us be very clear. Shaw did not borrow a time machine from his friend H. G. Wells
and visit the United States as we now know that country. In this lecture, he discussing that country
as it existed in 1933.]
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[PGC #759]
Shay, Frank (1888-1954)
[American author]
Mary Read: the Pirate Wench
(1934)
[A biography, written in the style of a novel, of
Mary Read (d. 1721)
Wikipedia,
the female pirate.
Includes as frontispiece a contemporary engraving by B. Cole.
If you are interested in pirates and privateers, PG Canada
also offers you two books about Sir Henry Morgan:
E. A. Cruikshank's biography, and Josephine Tey's historical novel
The Privateer.]
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[PGC #967]
Sheard, Virna (ca. 1865-1943)
[Canadian poet and novelist]
A Maid of Many Moods
(1902)
[Novel, set in the time of Shakespeare. Debora Thornbury's brother
Darby is an actor who has drinking and gambling habits. Things get
to the point where he's incapable of taking the stage for the opening
night of Romeo and Juliet. And then...]
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[PGC #846]
Carry On!
(1917)
[Lyric poems, written during the First World War, and reflecting the time of their writing]
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[PGC #814]
The Ballad of The Quest
(1922)
[Lyric poems]
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[PGC #804]
Candle Flame
(1926)
[Poems, with a wide variety of themes]
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[PGC #811]
Fairy Doors
(1932)
[Lyric poems, full of optimism and imagination, written in
a deliberately simple and straightforward style]
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[PGC #821]
Leaves in the Wind
(1938)
[Lyric poems on a wide variety of subjects]
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[PGC #824]
Sherwood, Robert Emmet (1896-1955)
[American playwright]
Wikipedia
Reunion In Vienna. A Play in Three Acts.
(1932)
[Sherwood's fourth play, about the curious events that transpire at a gathering of ancien régime aristocrats
celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Emperor Franz Joseph I
Wikipedia.
It was the basis for the 1933 film of the same name
New York Times (29 April 1933); review by Mordaunt Hall
IMDb,
starring John Barrymore]
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[PG Canada ebook #509]
Idiot's Delight
(1936)
[The lively interactions of a group of guests in the cocktail
lounge in a hotel in the Italian Alps, near Switzerland and Austria.
The play that won the first of Sherwood's four Pulitzer Prizes
The Pulitzer Project.
Sherwood later wrote the screenplay of 1939 film version
New York Times (3 February 1939)
starring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable.]
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[PGC #929]
Shiel, Matthew Phipps (1865-1947)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Children of the Wind
(1923)
[Novel]
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[PGC #613]
Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Marazan
(1951 [1952] revised edition of the 1926 original version,
with a new Author's Note)
Wikipedia
[Shute's first published novel, republished with minor revisions,
and a new introduction by our author. The plot involves aviation,
drug smuggling, Italy... also Marazan Sound, in the Isles of Scilly
Wikipedia, off Cornwall.]
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[PGC #1241]
So Disdained
(1928; revised 1951)
Wikipedia
[Thriller, involving Fascists, Bolsheviks, and aviation]
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[PGC #931]
Lonely Road
(1932 [novel], 1951 [Author's Note])
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[Novel, combining romance, political intrigue, and gun-running]
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[PGC #1161]
Ruined City
[U.S. title: Kindling]
(1938)
Wikipedia
[Novel, with some elements which are timeless. Henry Warren is "successful":
he is the head of a London financial 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 things start happening.]
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[PGC #1211]
What Happened to the Corbetts
(1939)
Wikipedia
[A novel about the Second World War, written before that war actually started!
The adventures of the family of Peter Corbett, a Southampton solicitor, after the bombing of that
famous seaport. Aptly titled Ordeal in its American edition.]
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[PGC #976]
Landfall. A Channel Story.
(1940)
Wikipedia
[Novel about a pilot patrolling the English Channel in the early days of the Second World War.
"It is a straightforward, convincing story, and I shall keep an eye open for Mr Shute's books in future.
What makes it interesting is that it brings out the essential peculiarity of war, the mixture of heroism
and meanness... He sees the young airman's point of view, because, presumably, he has at some time
shared his experiences. He can stand inside him as well as outside him and realize that he is heroic as
well as childish, competent as well as silly. The result is a good, simple story, pleasantly free from
cleverness, and at times genuinely moving."
(George Orwell, New Statesman and Nation, 7 December 1940)]
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[PGC #1173]
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 begun! Getting to France proves easy, but
the return trip to England is a very different matter
— especially since he's no longer travelling alone!
The film adaptation
Wikipedia,
starring Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, and Anne Baxter,
was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.]
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[PGC #1236]
A Town Like Alice
(1950)
Wikipedia
[Novel. The experiences of Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, in Malaya during the
Second World War, and in Australia after the war's end.]
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[PGC #909]
The Far Country
(1952)
Wikipedia
[Novel. Our heroine, Jennifer Morton, emigrates to Australia,
escaping a life of poverty in England.
But her new life in Australia is by no means free of incident.]
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[PGC #947]
Requiem for a Wren
(1955)
[Novel. Alan Duncan is returning to his native Australia
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 himself, she had been in England and
served in the military, as a Wren
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Beyond the Black Stump
(1956)
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[Novel. An American geologist, Stanton Laird, arrives in
a very remote area of Western Australia, and meets Mollie
Regan. There is a mutual attraction, but also some degree
of cultural conflict. We'd tell you more, but we don't
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CAUTION: Certain language in this ebook today would be considered racist.
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Trustee from the Toolroom
(1960)
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[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!]
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Simcoe, John Graves (1752-1806) [English military officer
and governor]
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Letter to Sir Joseph Banks,
(President of the Royal Society of Great Britain)
written by Lieut.-Governor Simcoe, in 1791,
prior to his departure from England for the purpose
of organizing the new province of Upper Canada;
to which is added five official speeches delivered by him
at the opening or closing of Parliament in the same province
(Letter written in 1791; first published in 1890, in a collection edited
by Henry Scadding [1813-1901]
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
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[An interesting letter sent by Simcoe to the celebrated scientist and
explorer Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
Scadding's small but very interesting collection also includes five official speeches
delivered by Simcoe, three memorial inscriptions, a second letter by Simcoe, and
an account by military chaplain George Jenkins of the death in 1812 of Simcoe's
eldest son Francis Gwillim Simcoe (after whom Toronto's Castle Frank is named
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at the siege of Badajoz
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A Proclamation, To such as are desirous to Settle on
the Lands of the Crown in the Province of Upper Canada
(1792)
[The famous Proclamation of 1792, issued by Simcoe after his
arrival at Quebec, but before his arrival in Upper Canada]
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Library and Archives Canada
Canadian Encyclopedia
The Canadian Dominion; a Chronicle of our Northern Neighbor (1919) [History]
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Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier (Volume I) (1921)
[Biography of Canada's seventh Prime Minister
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
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[Biography of Canada's seventh Prime Minister
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
Includes numerous photographs, and some political cartoons by Henri Julien (1852-1908)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
www.ourheritage.net
Wikimedia Commons.]
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Skinner, M. L. (1876-1955) [Australian novelist]
Australian Dictionary of Biography
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The Boy in the Bush (1924) [Novel: with D. H. Lawrence (1876-1955)]
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[American essayist and editor]
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The Youth of Parnassus and Other Stories
(1895)
[Our author's first book: stories about Oxford,
no doubt rooted in Smith's own experiences as a student there.
These early pieces already show the hand of a master.]
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[PGC #1039]
The English Language
(1912)
[An overview of the English language and its history, by a master of English prose]
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[PGC #1093]
All Trivia
(1945)
[The collected edition of Smith's famous aphorisms (memorably worded short reflections)
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includes
Trivia (1902),
More Trivia (1921),
Afterthoughts (1931),
and Last Words,
as well as some additional material written especially for this edition]
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[PGC #1016]
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 by 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 of America, and of a sophisticated and
expatriate America-in-Europe... nobody could fail to be charmed by
the delicious savor of this exquisite and economical writing."
(Irwin Edman, Saturday Review, 31 December 1938)]
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[PGC #1210]
Snaith, John Collis (1876-1936)
[English novelist]
Surrender
(1928)
[Novel involving the French Foreign Legion. The action moves from the
Sahara to Cairo and finally to London.]
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Sophocles (ca. 496-406 B.C.)
[Athenian playwright]
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Translations by:
Murray, Gilbert [George Gilbert Aimé] (1866-1957)
[English classical scholar]
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) [in German]
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Antigone ["The Antigone"]
(ca. 441 B.C. [Greek original], 1941 [this translation])
[Tragedy. The civil war at Thebes
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has resulted in the death of Antigone's
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two brothers Eteocles
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The king, Creon
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has decided that
Polynices will not receive proper burial. Antigone does not accept this
decision...]
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ancient-literature.com
Sir Richard Jebb's 1891 edition of the original Greek text:
Perseus Digital Library
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The Wife of Heracles [Trachiniae]
(ca. 430 B.C.? [Greek original], 1947 [this translation])
[Tragedy: the original title refers to the play's chorus
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which consisted of the
women of Trachis
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It recounts the passing of Heracles (Hercules)
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but in fact is largely concerned with his wife, Deianira
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hence the new name which Murray bestowed on the play.]
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ancient-literature.com
Sir Richard Jebb's 1892 edition of the original Greek text (Wikisource)
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Oedipus at Colonus
(ca. 401 B.C. [Greek original; first performance], 1948 [this translation])
[Tragedy, written at the very end of Sophocles' life.
Oedipus
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after a life of suffering,
arrives in the village of Colonus, accompanied by his daughter Antigone
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for what turn out to be the culminating events of his life.]
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ancient-literature.com
Sir Richard Jebb's 1889 edition of the original Greek text:
Perseus Digital Library
Souday, Paul (1869-1929) [Critique littéraire français]
Amis et Passionnés du Père-Lachaise
Marcel Proust
(1927)
[Articles sur le romancier français Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
fr.wikipedia]
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chef-d'oeuvre de Proust, À la recherche du temps perdu
André Gide
(1927)
[Articles sur le romancier français André Gide (1869-1951)
fr.wikipedia]
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Paul Valéry
(1927)
[Articles sur le poète français Paul Valéry (1871-1945)
fr.wikipedia]
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[PG Canada no 783]
Les Livres du Temps (deuxième série)
(1929)
[Feuilletons sur plusieurs écrivains: Gobineau, Barrès, Faguet, Stendhal, Rolland...]
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[PGC no 619]
Les Livres du Temps (troisième série)
(1930)
[Feuilletons sur plusieurs écrivains: Malherbe, Régnier, Rostand, Stendhal, Taine...]
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[PG Canada no 721]
Southworth, E.D.E.N. [Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte] (1819-1899)
[American novelist]
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When Shadows Die. A Sequel to "Love's Bitterest Cup"
(1882)
[Novel]
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Sparkes, Boyden (1890-1954)
[American journalist]
with
Chrysler, Walter Percy (1875-1940)
[American automotive engineer]
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Time, 7 January 1929 [Man of the Year article]
Time, 7 January 1929 [Man of the Year cover]
Time, 26 August 1940 [obituary]
Life of an American Workman
(1950 edition with new postscript by Sparkes;
original edition published in1937)
[Autobiography of the automotive engineer and founder of
the Chrysler Corporation]
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Squire, J. C. [John Collings] (1884-1958)
[English poet and critic]
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Pennell, Joseph (1857-1926)
[American artist]
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons
The Victorian Web
A London Reverie. Fifty-six drawings
by Joseph Pennell arranged with an introductory
essay and notes by J. C. Squire (1928)
[Portfolio of drawings, with descriptions and introductory essay]
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Stead, Robert James Campbell (1880-1959)
[Canadian poet and novelist]
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Manitoba Historical Society
Songs of the Prairie (1911)
[Ballads in much the same style as Robert Service. Our ebook is based on the 1912
New York edition, from which we reproduce the colour frontispiece by the American
painter Elizabeth Aline Colborne (1887-1948).]
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[PGC #701]
The Bail Jumper
(1914)
[The first of Stead's celebrated prairie novels; at the start of each chapter he quotes from
his 1908 poems Prairie Born and The Empire Builders]
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[PGC #768]
Neighbours
(1922)
[Novel. In rural Canada, your neighbours are important.]
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[PGC #735]
The Smoking Flax
(1924)
["'The Smoking Flax' is a simple tale, chronicling the quest of a young sociologist
into the Canadian prairies for health, wherein he also finds romance and adventure.
There are all of the makings of melodrama... But the picture of farm life is sincere
and true, the characters, most of the time, are people, and an occasional bit of
description rises soaringly." (Saturday Review of Literature, 10 January 1925)]
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[PGC #1080]
Grain
(1926)
[Stead's most famous novel, which takes place on a grain farm in Manitoba]
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[PGC #845]
Stephen, Alexander Maitland (1882-1942) [Canadian journalist, poet, and novelist]
ABCBookWorld
The Kingdom of the Sun. A Romance of the Far West Coast.
(1927)
[Novel, taking place in the 16th century.
A young man, Richard Anson, is a crewman on board Sir Francis Drake's
"Golden Hind", which is travelling north to the coast of what will one day
become British Columbia. And it is there that things become really exciting,
with the Haida
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and the Salish
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playing major roles.]
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[PGC #1021]
The Gleaming Archway
(1929)
[Novel. Craig Maitland, a Vancouver newspaperman, takes a break from his news
work, and visits the Squamish Valley. He encounters a local, Bud
Powers, who's an union organizer for local waterfront labourers.
In the course of the novel there's romance, treachery, journalism, and a happy ending.]
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[PGC #983]
Sterrett, Virginia Frances (1900-1931)
[American illustrator]
vfsterrett.com
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Ségur, Sophie de (1799-1874)
[French children's author]
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Old French Fairy Tales
(1857 [French original] 1920 [this translation])
[Fairy tales: a translation by an unknown hand of Ségur's
Nouveaux contes de fées pour les petits enfants]
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vous offre une belle édition numérique de la version originale de ces contes!
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) [American novelist]
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eldritchpress.org
Tanglewood Tales
(1853 [text] 1921 [illustrations])
[Greek myths retold for children]
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Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
[Scottish novelist]
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RLS Website
A Lowden Sabbath Morn
(1887 [text], 1909 [illustrations])
[Poem, illustrated by
Alexander Stuart Boyd (1854-1930)
[Scottish artist]
with black and white drawings and a colour frontispiece.
The poem was first published as part of Stevenson's 1887 poetry collection Underwoods
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The poem is written in Scots
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Dictionary of the Scots Language.]
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Stitch, Wilhelmina [Collie, Ruth] (ca. 1888-1936)
[British poet]
The Fragrant Minute for Every Day
[Daily Graphic—Series No. 1]
(1925)
[Meditations]
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Stockton, Frank Richard
(1834-1902)
[American author]
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The Associate Hermits (1898)
[Novel: illustrations by A. B. Frost (1851-1928)
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Wikimedia Commons]
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Strachey, Lytton [Giles Lytton] (1880-1932)
[English critic and author]
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Queen Victoria
(1921)
[Strachey's celebrated biography of the monarch, beautifully illustrated with contemporary
paintings and photographs]
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[PGC #837]
Elizabeth and Essex. A Tragic History.
(1928)
[A history of the stormy political and personal relationship between
Elizabeth I
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and the Earl of Essex
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Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays
(1931)
[Eighteen biographical essays about various literary and historical figures
of England, France, and Scotland, some very famous, others less so.
The essays are written in the same sparkling style as Strachey's celebrated longer biographies.]
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[PGC #988]
Strang, Herbert [Ely, George Herbert (1866-1958),
and L'Estrange, Charles James (1867-1947)]
[English editors and authors of novels for teenagers]
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SFE
Honour First. A Tale of the 'Forty-five.
(1923)
[Historical novel for teenagers about the adventures of a young man
just before and during the Battle of Culloden of 1746
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the culminating event of the Jacobite Rising
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during which Bonnie Prince Charlie
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landed in Scotland with the help of the French, invaded England,
and tried to take the British Crown.]
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[PGC #1091]
Strickland, Agnes (1796-1874)
[English historian and children's writer]
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NNDB
Stories from History
(1878 or earlier)
[Stories from history, for children, with 24 anonymous engravings]
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Tales from English History. For Children.
(1889 or earlier)
[Stories for children based on episodes of English history]
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Strickland, Samuel (1804-1867) [Canadian memoirist]
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West. The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) (1853) [Memoir]
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Stuart-Wortley, Rothesay (1892-1926)
[English aviator]
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Bishop, William Avery ["Billy"] (1894-1956)
[Canadian aviator]
Wikipedia
The Flying Squad
(1927)
[Novel. Two students at Upper Canada College
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discover that their Greek instructor was a pilot during the Great War:
he offers to teach them to fly. During the training,
a pilot friend of their instructor stumbles into a criminal
gang while he's out flying...]
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[PGC #914]
Suckow, Ruth (1892-1960) [American author]
Wikipedia
Ruth Suckow Memorial Association
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University of Iowa
Country People
(1924)
[Novel about daily life in rural Iowa: Suckow's first novel]
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[PGC #918]
Sullivan, Alan (1868-1947) [Canadian journalist, poet, and novelist]
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Under the Northern Lights (1926)
[Novel]
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Three Came to Ville Marie (1941)
[Novel: Governor General's Literary Award, 1941]
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Sulte, Benjamin (1841-1923) [Historien canadien]
fr.wikipedia
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
L'expédition militaire de Manitoba 1870 (1871)
[Histoire de l'expédition de Wolseley
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
fr.wikipedia
en.wikipedia]
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Le Canada en Europe (1873)
[Monographie]
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Au coin du feu -- Histoire et fantaisie
(1877)
[Conte]
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Chants Nouveaux (1880)
[Poèmes]
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Histoire de Montferrand, l'athlète canadien (1884)
[Biographie de Joseph Montferrand (1802-1864)
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
fr.wikipedia
en.wikipedia]
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L'Organisation militaire du Canada 1636-1648 (1896)
[Monographie]
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La bataille de Châteauguay
(1899)
[Histoire:
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Parcs Canada
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada]
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Historiettes et Fantaisies (1910)
[Essais et poèmes]
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Tardivel, Jules-Paul
(1851-1905)
[Journaliste canadien]
fr.wikipedia
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
L'anglicisme, voilà l'ennemi (1880)
[Conférence]
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Pour la Patrie (1895)
[Roman]
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Taylor, Fennings [John Fennings] (1817-1882)
[Canadian civil servant, biographer, and constitutional authority]
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Thos. D'Arcy McGee: Sketch of his Life and Death
(1868)
[A short biography of the journalist and politician Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825-1868)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
published just after McGee's untimely death by assassination.
Includes as its frontispiece a photograph of McGee by William Notman (1826-1891)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
McCord Museum.]
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[PGC #927]
Are Legislatures Parliaments? A Study and Review.
(1879)
[A surprisingly interesting examination of the extent of the powers of the
legislatures of Canada prior to Confederation. At the time of writing,
Taylor was Deputy Clerk of the Senate of Canada.]
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Tey, Josephine [Elizabeth MacKintosh] (1896-1952) [Scottish novelist and playwright]
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Miss Pym Disposes (1946) [Mystery novel]
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Brat Farrar (1949) [Mystery novel]
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To Love and Be Wise (1950) [Mystery novel]
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The Daughter of Time
(1951)
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[Historical research in the form of a novel: perhaps the most famous
of Tey's celebrated mystery novels. Inspector Grant has broken
his leg and is in hospital. And from his hospital bed he conducts
an investigation of a case from history: the case of Richard III
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Did that king actually commit the crimes he was accused of?]
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[PGC #1129]
The Singing Sands (1952) [Mystery novel]
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Works written by Elizabeth MacKintosh
using the pen name Gordon Daviot:
Kif: An Unvarnished History (1929)
[This early work is not a mystery novel! It is the story of how our very young Scottish hero
joins the army in 1914, and of the events that follow.]
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[PGC #716]
Richard of Bordeaux. A Play in Two Acts. (1933)
[Play about Richard II (1367-1400)
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and his Queen, Anne of Bohemia (1366-1394)
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A smash hit in the West End, it starred John Gielgud
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in one of his most famous roles, and Gwen Ffrangçon-Davies
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[PGC #546]
You might also enjoy this contemporary review by Robert Benchley (1889-1945)
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National Review Online (S. T. Karnick)]
of the 1934 New York production:
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The Privateer (1952)
[Historical novel about Sir Henry Morgan
Wikipedia.
In an Author's Note, our novelist gives high praise to Canadian historian
E. A. Cruikshank's 1935 biography of Henry Morgan. This excellent work
is available for download from Project Gutenberg Canada!]
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Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)
[Welsh poet, writer of stories, and playwright]
Wikipedia
Welsh Biography Online
BBC Wales
A Child's Christmas in Wales (ca. 1950-51)
[Story]
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[English playwright, novelist, translator, and political activist]
The Open University
jrank.org
Atonement. A play of modern India, in four acts.
(1924)
[Play set in India towards the end of the British Raj
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presenting the
issues of the day from the different perspectives of the various characters]
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[PGC #866]
Thompson, Flora [Flora Jane] (1876-1947)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
John Owen Smith
Winton Community Forum
The Twickenham Museum
Friends of Flora Thompson
Lark Rise
(1939 [novel] 1945 [introduction])
[Novel: the first part of the trilogy
Lark Rise to Candleford. Includes the 1945 introduction
by H. J. Massingham (1888-1952)
Wikipedia]
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Over to Candleford
(1941)
[Novel: the second part of the trilogy
Lark Rise to Candleford]
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Candleford Green
(1943)
[Novel: the third part of the trilogy
Lark Rise to Candleford]
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The Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy in a single ebook:
Lark Rise to Candleford
(1945)
[Trilogy consisting of the novels
Lark Rise (1939), Over to Candleford (1941),
and Candleford Green (1943), with the 1945 introduction
to the trilogy by H. J. Massingham (1888-1952)
Wikipedia]
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Still Glides the Stream
(1948)
[Novel, set in Oxfordshire]
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Thompson, Samuel (1810-1886)
[Canadian journalist]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Reminiscences of a Canadian Pioneer for the
Last Fifty Years. An Autobiography.
(1884)
[Memoir of someone well placed to describe Canada's history in the mid-nineteenth century.
Thompson arrived in Canada from England in 1833 at the age of thirteen, and settled in
Toronto four years later, just in time for the Rebellion of 1837. He then had a long and varied
career as a newspaper editor.]
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[PGC #775]
Thorpe, James (1876-1949)
[English cartoonist]
Phil May
(1948)
[Monograph, with many drawings by Phil May (1864-1903)]
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Canada offers a number of books of drawings by Phil May —
look under his name in our catalogue!
Thurber, James (1894-1961)
[American journalist, essayist, and cartoonist]
Wikipedia
My Life and Hard Times
(1933)
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[Thurber's famous account of his early years in Columbus, Ohio: rich in satire.
Illustrated with cartoons by Thurber himself.]
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[PGC #1121]
Further Fables for Our Time
(1956)
[Short, instructive, and very entertaining modern fables, with many cartoons drawn
by the author in his unique style]
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[PGC #1055]
Tieck, Johann Ludwig (1773-1853)
[German novelist and poet / romancier et poète allemand]
Wikipedia
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Translation / Traduction:
Der Sturm [The Tempest (La Tempête)]
Ein Schauspiel von Shakspear, für das Theater bearbeitet.
(1796)
[Translation by Tieck, with a preface, of Shakespeare's play (ca. 1610)
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/ traduction par Tieck, avec une préface, de la pièce de théâtre
de Shakespeare (vers 1610)
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Apprenez l'allemand!
You will find a digital edition of the celebrated 1863 Cambridge
Shakespeare edition of The Tempest at Project Gutenberg's
US site.
Projet Gutenberg US vous offre une belle édition numérique
de la célèbre traduction de La Tempête par François Guizot
(1787-1874)
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Töpffer, Rodolphe (1799-1846)
[Pédagogue et politicien suisse; inventeur de la bande dessinée]
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Histoire de Mr. Jabot
(1833)
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[Album illustré satirique: «l'histoire véritable de Monsieur Jabot, et comme
quoi, rien que par ses manières comme il faut et sa bonne tenue, il sut
réussir dans le monde.»]
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[PG Canada no 1035]
Les amours de Mr. Vieux Bois
(1837)
[Album illustré, créé en 1827, dix ans avant sa parution: la première bande dessinée.
«Ci-derrière commence l'histoire véritable des amours de Mr. Vieux Bois, et comme quoi,
après bien des vicissitudes, il épousa l'objet aimé.»]
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[PG Canada no 1050]
Mr. Crépin [Histoire de Mr. Crépin]
(1837)
[Album illustré.
«L'histoire véritable de Monsieur Crépin, et comme
quoi il n'éleva pas ses onze fils sans bien des vicissitudes provenant
de la supériorité des méthodes de la tâterie phrénologique, et des
engouemens de Madame son épouse.»]
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[PG Canada no 964]
Histoire de Mr. de Vertpré et de sa ménagère aussi
(1840)
[Album illustré sur les difficultés qu'un «Monsieur de la grande ville» retraité
éprouve à s'adapter aux douceurs de la vie pastorale]
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[PG Canada no 1053]
Monsieur Pencil
(1840)
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[Album illustré. «Ci derrière commencent les
Aventures de Monsieur et de Madame Jolibois,
simples particuliers, combinées avec les faits et gestes du Docteur, et
les choses merveilleuses relatives au Bourgeois et à Mr. Pencil. Le tout
mêlé aux drôleries du temps présent...»]
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[PG Canada no 1062]
Le Docteur Festus [Voyages et aventures du Docteur Festus]
(1840)
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[Album illustré. «Étant entré un soir dans son écurie le Docteur Festus y trouve un fort joli petit mulet.
Ayant attendu quatre ans, pour laisser grandir le mulet, le Docteur Festus part pour son grand voyage d'instruction...».
À NOTER: La bande 18 manque dans notre document source,
et par conséquent dans cette édition numérique.]
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[PG Canada no 1031]
Essai de Physiognomonie
(1845)
[Essai, avec plusieurs illustrations.
«L'on peut écrire des histoires», dit notre auteur,
«avec des successions de scènes représentées graphiquement: c'est de la
littérature en estampes ... elle admet avec la
richesse des détails, une extrême concision relative.»]
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[PG Canada no 957]
Histoire d'Albert
(1845)
[Album illustré satirique: «Ci-contre, et rien qu'à tourner les pages,
l'on verra figurée au naturel toute l'histoire d'Albert, et comme quoi,
n'étant bon à rien, il finit par trouver sa vocation.»]
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[PG Canada no 1037]
Histoire de M. Cryptogame
(1846)
[Album illustré.
«Ci-derrière commence l'histoire véritable de Mr.
Cryptogame, et comme quoi ce ne fut pas sans bien des vicissitudes
qu'après s'être marié dans le ventre de la baleine, il se garda de la
bigamie, et devint le père de huit enfants d'un premier lit.»]
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[PG Canada no 982]
Toudouze, Gustave (1847-1904)
[Romancier français]
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Le mystère de la chauve-souris
(1900)
[Roman]
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Traill, Catharine Parr (1802-1899) [Canadian memoirist and novelist]
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Trent University
Canadian Encyclopedia
Little Downy; or, The History of a Field-Mouse.
(1822)
[Children's book, with colour pictures by an anonymous illustrator]
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The Tell-Tale: An original collection
of moral and amusing stories
(1823)
[Stories for children, with some anonymous illustrations]
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Fables for the Nursery: Original and Select
(1825)
[Fables for children, with 19 anonymous illustrations]
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The Step-Brothers. A tale.
(1828)
[Novel for children]
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The Backwoods of Canada (1836) [Letters]
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Canadian Crusoes (1852) [Novel]
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Lady Mary and her Nurse: or, A Peep into the Canadian Forest (1856) [Novel]
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Canadian Wild Flowers
(1868)
[Manual: illustrated in colour by Traill's niece
Agnes Dunbar FitzGibbon, née Moodie (1833-1913)]
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Afar in the Forest; or, Pictures of life and scenery
in the wilds of Canada
(1869)
[Stories for children, with illustrations by "P. Perrice",
"Jackson", and other unsigned artists. A revised version of
Lady Mary and her Nurse (1856), which was in turn
based on a twelve-part serial "The Governor's Daughter
or, Rambles in the Canadian Forest" published in the Montreal
magazine Maple Leaf in 1853]
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In the Forest: or, Pictures of Life and Scenery in the Woods of Canada (1881) [Novel]
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Lost in the Backwoods: A Tale of the Canadian Forest (1882) [Novel]
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Pearls and Pebbles; or, Notes of an Old Naturalist.
(1894)
[Personal essays, with a biographical sketch of the author by
Mary Agnes FitzGibbon (1851-1915)]
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Cot and Cradle Stories
(1895)
[Children's stories, edited by
Mary Agnes FitzGibbon (1851-1915)]
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Studies of Plant Life in Canada:
Wild Flowers, Flowering Shrubs, and Grasses
(1906 "new and revised edition",
edited by Traill's niece
Agnes Dunbar Chamberlin, née Moodie [1833-1913]:
original edition published in 1885)
[Manual: illustrated and edited by
Agnes Dunbar Chamberlin (1833-1913)]
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Train, Arthur Cheney (1875-1945)
[American lawyer and novelist]
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The Blind Goddess
(1926 [novel]; 1941 [introduction])
[Novel, described by Train in his 1941 introduction as "certainly my most
comprehensive novel depicting the inner workings of the criminal courts
and district attorney's office. In fact I know of no other book that attempts
to cover the whole panorama from arrest to conviction in the same way."]
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[PGC #1095]
Old Man Tutt
(1938)
[Eleven stories featuring Arthur Train's famous creation Ephraim Tutt,
a lawyer who is experienced, resourceful, and a champion of justice.
What more could one ask for?]
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[PGC #1096]
Trevelyan, Janet Penrose (1879-1956)
[English biographer and historian]
The Life of Mrs. Humphry Ward
(1923)
[Biography of the novelist, critic, and social activist Mrs. Humphry Ward
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Literary Heritage West Midlands
Spartacus Educational by her daughter,
with illustrations by Mrs. Ward herself, and by
Ethel M. Arnold (1865-1930),
Alexander Bassano (1829-1913),
Bertha Jane Johnson (1846-1927)
St Anne's College, Oxford,
and Dorothy Mary Ward (1874-1964), sister of the biographer]
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Turnbull, Margaret (d. 1942) [Scottish screenwriter, novelist, and playwright]
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The Left Lady (1926)
[Novel]
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Tyrrell, Joseph Burr (1858-1957)
[Canadian geologist, explorer, palaeontologist, horticulturist, and historian]
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University of Toronto Libraries
Canadian Mining Hall of Fame]
David Thompson, Canada's Greatest Geographer: An Appreciation
(1922)
[Short address about the explorer David Thompson (1770-1857)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
given by Tyrrell "in connection with the opening of the David Thompson
Memorial Fort at Lake Windermere, B.C., August 30th, 1922."]
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Van Dine, S. S. [Wright, Willard Huntington] (1888-1939)
[American mystery novelist]
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The Benson Murder Case. A Philo Vance Story.
(1926)
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[Mystery novel, marking the first appearance in literature of Philo Vance.
Alvin H. Benson, a notable figure on Wall Street, is found murdered
at home. The police make little progress on the case. But then
art connoisseur Philo Vance comes on the scene...
(We include the 1930 New York edition's frontispiece: a drawing of Philo Vance by
Herbert Morton Stoops [1888-1948]
Society of Illustrators!)]
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[PGC #1146]
The Bishop Murder Case. A Philo Vance Story.
(1929)
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[Mystery novel: we include from the 1930 New York edition
a frontispiece by Herbert Morton Stoops (1888-1948)
Society of Illustrators.
A serial murder calling himself the Bishop is at work.
To each of his corpses he attaches a note quoting from
a nursery rhyme. The Bishop has hidden himself well:
can Philo Vance track him down?]
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[PGC #1145]
The Scarab Murder Case. A Philo Vance Story.
(1930)
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[Mystery novel. Benjamin H. Kyle, an eminent patron of the arts, is
found murdered in the Bliss Museum of Egyptian Antiquities.
Fortunately Philo Vance possesses not only superb skills as a detective,
but also an advanced knowledge of Egyptology.
"'The Scarab Murder Case' might almost serve
as a handbook on Egyptology. Yet the story rushes
on to a series of exciting climaxes, carefully planned,
artistically constructed, and ingeniously baffling.
It is a joy to read and ranks number one in the season's mysteries"
(Eugene Reynal, Saturday Review, 24 May 1930).
The fine frontispiece is by Raymond Sisley (1892-1963)
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a colleague of Herbert Morton Stoops (1888-1948)
Society of Illustrators
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Stoops illustrated other books in the same 1930 collected edition of the Philo Vance novels: he is believed
by some to have produced works under the name of "Raymond Sisley": if so, the frontispiece may be his.]
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[PGC #1147]
The Kennel Murder Case. A Philo Vance Story.
(1933)
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[Mystery novel. Philo Vance is, among other things, a breeder
of Scotch terriers. His specialized knowledge of dogs and his
expertise in Chinese ceramics prove crucial in deciphering
the mysterious events surrounding and following the death
of the collector Mr Archer Coe.]
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[PGC #1148]
The Casino Murder Case. A Philo Vance Story.
(1934)
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[Novel. Several mysterious murders occur almost simultaneously,
the first of them in "Kinkaid's famous gambling Casino in
West 73rd Street". But even before the murders start,
Philo Vance is on the case: for he has received a letter
from an unknown sender, warning that trouble is on its way!]
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[PGC #1182]
The Gracie Allen Murder Case. A Philo Vance Story.
(1938)
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[Mystery novel, lighthearted in tone, including characters named
Gracie Allen and George Burns: not the famous comedians of the day
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but apparently inspired by them.]
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[PGC #1087]
The Winter Murder Case. A Philo Vance Story.
(1939)
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[Van Dine's final mystery novel, posthumously published.
His friend and editor Maxwell Perkins (1884-1947)
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reports in his fine preface that the novel in its second draft was complete,
and was published with no changes whatsoever. It is
somewhat shorter and faster-moving than the earlier
Philo Vance novels, the reason being that Van Dine
did not live to create the third and final version of the novel,
with the usual last minute polishings and supplements.]
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[PGC #1042]
Vautel, Clément
[pseudonyme de Clément-Henri Vaulet]
(1875 [ou 1876]-1954)
[Journaliste français]
Voyage au pays des snobs
(1928)
[Roman]
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Verga, Giovanni (1840-1922) [Italian novelist]
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Liber Liber (in Italian)
Lawrence, D. H. [David Herbert] (1885-1930) [English novelist]
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University of Nottingham
Little Novels of Sicily
(1925 [Lawrence's translation];
1883 [Verga's original])
[Novellas]
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HTML ['Novelle Rusticane' — Italian] (Liber Liber)
Verne, Jules (1828-1905) [Romancier français]
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Voyage au centre de la terre (1864 [édition originale]
1867 [édition augmentée])
[Roman: vignettes par
Édouard Riou (1833-1900)
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Le pays des fourrures (1871-72) [Roman: l'action se situe dans le Grand-Nord canadien]
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Le tour de monde en quatre-vingts jours (1873)
[Roman: dessins par
Léon Benett (1839-1916)
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et Alphonse de Neuville (1836-1885)
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Viardot, Louis (1800-1883)
[Journaliste et traducteur français]
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Les musées de France - Paris
(1855)
[«Guide et memento de l'artiste et du voyageur»]
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[PGC no 612]
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel (1814-1879) [Architecte français]
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Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle (1854-68)
[Dictionnaire historique, avec plusieurs centaines d'illustrations]
Tome premier [Abaque - Aronde]
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Tome troisième [Charnier - Console]
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Tome cinquième [Dais - Fût]
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Tome septième [Palais - Puits]
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Tome huitième [Quai - Synagogue]
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Tome neuvième [Tabernacle - Zodiaque]
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Voss, John Claus (1858-1922)
[Canadian sailor]
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Maritime Museum of BC
The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss
(1913)
[Captain Voss's own account of his celebrated voyages in small boats across extremely
perilous seas. Our ebook is based on the 1930 London edition, and includes some
elements not found in the 1913 first edition.]
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[PGC #624]
Wallace, Edgar
[Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar] (1875-1932)
[English novelist, playwright, and screenplay writer]
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The Green Archer
(1923)
[Mystery novel, featuring an enigmatic bowman with an unusual wardrobe]
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[PGC #838]
Educated Evans
(1924)
[Thirteen "episodes" set in the world of horse-racing, a world 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".]
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[PGC #1204]
A King by Night
(1925)
[Mystery novel, centering around the latest in a series of murders.
The plot thickens until the last two chapters, when all is revealed.]
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[PGC #597]
The Strange Countess
(1925)
[Mystery novel. At its beginning, Lois Reddle learns
that on the coming Monday she will start
her employment as resident secretary to the
Countess of Moron. Interesting events follow.]
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[PGC #1159]
The Square Emerald
(1926)
[Mystery novel]
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[PGC #595]
More Educated Evans
(1926)
[A series of tales about horse-racing or, more particularly, gambling on horse-racing,
featuring Wallace's famous character Educated Evans. Humour rather than
suspense: an unexpected and delightful side of Edgar Wallace!]
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[PGC #1198]
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.]
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[PGC #1201]
Good Evans! Being Further Adventures of Educated Evans.
(1927)
[Wallace's third and final book featuring Educated Evans,
"The World's Chief Turf Adviser"]
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[PGC #1207]
Terror Keep
(1927)
[Mystery novel, with an element of romance.
J. G. Reeder is a crime consultant working with
Scotland Yard in the pursuit of John Flack,
a brilliant arch-criminal, and his gang.]
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[PGC #1019]
The Forger
[U.S. title: The Clever One]
(1927)
[Mystery novel: a huge success when published,
immediately translated into French and German,
and adapted to the screen
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The novel has had a lasting success: in 1961 a film was made
of it in Germany
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The plot involves a marriage in which money has played a
major part, and various crimes of finance and of violence.
Fortunately Superintendant Bourke of Scotland Yard
appears on the scene!
"It is the best Wallace we have come across. It is very good."
(Saturday Review, 20 October 1928.]
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[PGC #1136]
Again the Ringer
(1929)
[Mystery novel]
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The Black
(No later than 1930; generally assigned to 1929)
[Mystery novel]
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The Clue of the Silver Key
[U.S. title: The Silver Key]
(1930)
[Mystery novel, written with Wallace's typical vigour, and
set in some glamorous social circles of Britain at the end
of the twenties.]
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[PGC #1158]
Circumstantial Evidence and Other Stories
(1934)
[Mystery stories: selected by an anonymous editor, perhaps Wallace]
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Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour (1884-1941)
[English novelist, playwright, and essayist]
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Jeremy at Crale. His Friends, his Ambitions and his One Great Enemy.
(1927)
[The third and final novel in the Jeremy series, describing the experiences
of the young Jeremy Cole at his school, Crale.]
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[PGC #1022]
Wintersmoon. Passages in the Lives of
Two Sisters, Janet and Rosalind Grandison.
(1928)
[The fourth and final novel in Walpole's series The Rising City,
a portrait of England from 1900 to 1927. Wintersmoon requires
no knowledge of the earlier novels: it has its own heroine, Janet Grandison,
and begins with her marriage. Subsequent action is divided between London
and the "country", as in "country house": Wintersmoon is actually the Wintersmoon estate.]
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[PGC #1029]
Judith Paris. A Novel.
(1931)
[Historical novel, set in northern England towards the start of the
nineteenth century. The second of the four novels forming
the Herries series, describing the history of that
family across the years. It can, however, according to Walpole,
be read independently of the other books in the series.]
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[PGC #1112]
The Inquisitor. A Novel.
(1935)
[Walpole's fourth and final novel about the cathedral city of Polchester,
giving a panorama of the life of various citizens of that city.
The author declared in his preface that he was "not afraid of melodrama."]
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[PGC #1067]
The Blind Man's House. A Quiet Story.
(1941)
[Walpole's last novel, written with his customary polish. Julius Cromwell,
a blind war veteran, returns to Garth House in Glebeshire, where he had spent his youth.
But accompanying him is his new wife, who is fifteen years younger.
This is a major event in the peaceful existence of the village of Garth...]
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Walsh, Maurice (1879-1964)
[Irish novelist]
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The Quiet Man
(1933)
[Short story, the basis for the 1952 film
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of the same name,
directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara.
Shawn Kelvin had left Ireland at age twenty, but fifteen years
later he returns to the land of his birth. As the story's title
suggests, he is a quiet man, and a quiet life is what he is seeking.
But his arrival back is not free of incident!]
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Walshe, Elizabeth Hely (1835?-1869)
[Irish novelist]
Cedar Creek, from the Shanty to the Settlement.
A Tale of Canadian Life.
(ca. 1863)
[Novel aboout a young Irishman's experiences after emigrating to Canada]
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Ward, Mrs. Humphry [Mary Augusta] (1851-1920)
[English novelist, critic, and social activist]
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Literary Heritage West Midlands
Spartacus Educational
The Brontë Prefaces
(1899-1900)
[Essays on the novels
Jane Eyre (1847)
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Shirley (1849)
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Villette (1853),
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The Professor (1857)
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by Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
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Wuthering Heights (1847)
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by Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
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and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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by Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
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Ward, Leslie (1851-1922)
[English artist]
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Forty Years of 'Spy'
(1915)
[The autobiography of the artist, who was especially famous for his drawings published under the
name of 'Spy' in the London magazine Vanity Fair
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Includes dozens of drawings and paintings by Ward, some in colour, in addition to portraits by
George Richmond (1809-1896)
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William Charles Ross (1794-1860)
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A. G. Witherby (1856-1937),
and a medal by Edoardo Rubino (1871-1954)
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museoTorino.]
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Watson, Jean Logan (1835-1885)
[Scottish author]
The Water-Cress Boy, or Johnnie Moreland
(1882)
[Inspirational novella: also includes a story
Dick Cave, The Ragged-School Boy,
and two anonymous drawings]
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Watson, Robert (1882-1948)
[Canadian novelist and poet]
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The Girl of O. K. Valley. A Romance of the Okanagan.
(1919)
[Novel, set in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, written while the author was
working as an accountant at the Hudson's Bay Company store in Vernon!]
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[PGC #670]
Gordon of the Lost Lagoon. A Romance of the Pacific Coast.
(1924)
[A coming of age novel set in Vancouver (portrayed as a working seaport rather than an international tourist destination) and up the British Columbia coast. The lagoon of the title is not the one in Stanley Park!]
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CAUTION: Certain language in this ebook today would be considered grossly racist.
Watanna, Onoto [Reeve, Winnifred Eaton:
née Eaton, Winnifred] (1875-1954)
[Canadian novelist]
The Winnifred Eaton Digital Archive
Michigan State University
University of Calgary
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University of Minnesota
Ryerson University
Glenbow Museum (photograph)
Bosse, Sara [née Eaton] (1868-1940)
[Canadian author]
Michigan State University
Chinese-Japanese Cook Book
(1914)
[Cookbook]
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Weir, Harrison William
(1824-1906)
[English author and illustrator]
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The Victorian Web
The Conceited Pig (1848 or earlier)
[Children's book: illustrations by Weir, text by anonymous author]
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Favourite Fables, In Prose and Verse. (1870)
[Children's book: illustrations by Weir, text by anonymous author]
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Wells, H. G. [Herbert George] (1866-1946)
[English novelist and historian]
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Meanwhile: The Picture of a Lady (1927)
[Novel, set in Ventimiglia
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The King Who Was a King. The Book of a Film. (1929)
[A very interesting discussion of various aspects of cinema, such as the differences
between novels and films. Wells uses this discussion to frame his creation
of a surprisingly detailed screenplay outline.]
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[PGC #697]
Experiment in Autobiography.
Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866).
(1934)
[Autobiography, "with drawings by the Author"]
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Wentworth, Patricia [Elles, Dora Amy] (1878-1961)
[English novelist]
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The Case is Closed
(1937)
[Mystery novel, featuring Miss Maud Silver
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The case is closed, and justice has been done. Or has it?
"Here's a lot of precious villainy, some pleasing sentiment, sundry stretchings of the probabilities, and a hair-raising finish."
(Saturday Review, 27 March 1937)]
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The Clock Strikes Twelve
(1944)
[Mystery novel. James Paradine, managing partner of the Paradine-Moffat Works, dies
under mysterious circumstances. And it's not just his death that is mysterious: there's
the question of the missing blueprints! Clearly Miss Silver's services are required.
"Miss Silver's detective work will please readers who like their mysteries to
be leisurely and very genteel." (New Yorker, 29 April 1944)]
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The Key
(1944)
[Mystery novel, taking place during the Second World War.
Michael Barsch is an Austrian-Jewish refugee living in the village of Bourne.
He is the inventor of harschite, an explosive. His presence is meant to be
secret, but a local newspaper mentions his name. A death ensues, and
matters become complex. Clearly the situation calls for the talents of Miss Silver!]
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[PGC #1125]
The Catherine-Wheel
(1949)
[Mystery novel. A Catherine wheel is a type of children's toy that spins
in the wind, or a type of firework. But the title refers to an inn
called the Catherine-Wheel, where mysterious events have been
occurring — events requiring the attention of Miss Silver!]
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The Brading Collection
(1950)
[Mystery novel. Miss Silver has a new client, Mr. Lewis Brading.
Mr. Brading she does not know, but she has certainly heard of
and is interested in his famous Brading Collection, with its
"articles of jewelry which have some connection with crime".
But are these crimes all in the past, or do some lie in the future?]
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The Silent Pool
(1954)
[Mystery novel. Someone seems to be attempting to
murder the famous actress Adriana Ford -- but who?
Miss Silver investigates. "Like her heroine, Miss Wentworth
is at the top of her form, and the result is highly satisfactory."
(New Yorker, 22 May 1954)]
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The Fingerprint
(1956)
[Mystery novel. Where there's a will, there's family, it has been said,
and when the will is that of a rich childless uncle who has died under
mysterious circumstances, there's also police. Fortunately, there
is also Miss Maud Silver to sort things out!]
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The Alington Inheritance
(1958)
[Mystery novel. Where a large inheritance is involved, things can become a little tricky. The Alington
inheritance includes Alington House — need we say more? Well, perhaps we should:
there's a murder, an apparently false accusation, and, we are happy to say, Miss Maud Silver, who
takes charge of the whole situation.]
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Werth, Léon (1878-1955) [Romancier français]
fr.wikipedia
Une soirée à l'Olympia (1927) [Récit]
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[English boys' novelist]
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The Flying Submarine
(1912)
[Novel. A mysterious flying craft is seen over Wales, and
Sub-Lieutenant Reginald Holmsby is sent to investigate.
He takes his friend, Dick Tresillian, with him. They find
the craft and its inventor, and their adventure ensues.]
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[PGC #774]
The Buccaneers of Boya
(1925)
[Novel, with illustrations by William Rainey (1852-1936).
A voyage to the South Pacific on a chartered Spanish yacht leads to unexpected adventures...]
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[PGC #954]
Annesley's Double
(1926)
[Adventure novel. A young British naval officer, Peter Annesley, is
stationed on a British gunboat in China. While there, he is given
permission by the ship's captain to search for two gold vases that a
Chinese ruler had given to his great-grandfather many years earlier...]
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[PGC #1089]
The Amir's Ruby
(1932)
[Adventure novel. A young airman, Colin Standish, must fly to
the fictional country of Bakhistan to retrieve a priceless
ruby. He selects a co-pilot and a flight engineer, and they make the
trip, encountering assorted bandits, corrupt policemen, etc.,
etc. This leads to a surprise ending.]
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[PGC #1100]
Standish Gets His Man
(1938)
[Novel: a sequel to Westerman's 1935 Standish of the Air Police; more Standish novels
would follow. The books' titles are good reflections of their subject matter!]
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[PGC #720]
White, Stewart Edward (1873-1946)
[American novelist, writer of the outdoors, and spiritualist]
Wikipedia
SpiritWritings.com
Skookum Chuck. A Novel.
(1925)
[Episodic novel, set in various places up and down the B.C. coast.
Our hero is suffering from extreme boredom with life in general.
One day, while walking in Vancouver, he sees a sign advertising
a "Healer of Souls", and agrees to the Healer's terms of treatment. And then...]
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Secret Harbour
(1926)
[Novel: the sequel to Skookum Chuck.
Marshall (now married to Anaxagoras' sister Betsy) encounters Anaxagoras,
unannouncedly back from the Himalayas, in the same place as in Skookum Chuck.
They decide to cruise the north coast of B.C. in Marshall's yacht. Things start happening...]
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White, T. H. [Terence Hanbury] (1906-1964)
[English novelist]
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Darkness at Pemberley
(1932)
[Mystery novel, partly set at Cambridge University, where White himself
had recently studied, but also at Pemberley, in Derbyshire. If you are
an admirer of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, you might surmise
that the name of Darcy comes into the novel. You will be right!]
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[PGC #1240]
Mistress Masham's Repose
(1946)
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[Novel. Maria is ten years old, and lives in a gigantic house, or
rather palace, in rural England, which is gradually collapsing:
its name is Malplaquet. She is an orphan, and has a guardian,
Mr. Hater, and a governess, Miss Brown, neither of them easy to
get along with. Perhaps you are hooked already! Here's what a
contemporary reviewer, Basil Davenport, had to say:
"When all is said, 'Mistress Masham's Repose' is a book like no other.
All its extravagances hang together, like the rococo and chinoiserie
in which the builders of Malplaquet delighted."
(Saturday Review, 28 September 1946)]
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The Once and Future King
(1958)
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[White's famous tetralogy: four novels about the early
life and subsequent reign of King Arthur. The first
three novels had previously appeared separately,
but the first of them, The Sword in the Stone,
was revised substantially for this 1958 republication.
The novels, like life itself, are a mixture of tragedy
and comedy.]
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[PGC #1225]
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 criticism... And the mind that controls the style is educated and intelligent,
humorous, reflective, and entirely engaging." (Leonard Wibberley, Saturday Review, 13 June 1959)]
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Whitney, Adeline Dutton Train (1824-1906)
[American novelist and poet]
Wikipedia
The Gayworthys. A Story of Threads and Thrums
(1865)
[Novel: includes frontispiece, endpaper, and cover illustration
of unknown authorship]
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1867-1957)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
Minnesota Historical Society
Little House in the Big Woods (1932) [Novel]
Original PG Canada edition:
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Helen Sewell (1896-1957)
[American artist]
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Ortakales.com
University of Minnesota:
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[English novelist, theologian, and poet]
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The Charles Williams Society
War in Heaven
(1930)
[Williams' first novel. The Holy Grail ("Graal", as Williams calls it)
Wikipedia,
surfaces in England, with exciting consequences.
"...because it is a much younger Williams writing in the Twenties,
we find many more sardonic and outrageously funny lines
here than in the later books... We could attend a Black Mass
with Charles Williams and come away with him laughing
through our bewitchment."
(Richard McLaughlin, Saturday Review, 1 October 1949)]
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Many Dimensions
(1931)
[Novel. The disreputable Sir Giles Tumulty steals the
"Stone of Suleiman" in Baghdad and brings it to England.
This stone has mysterious powers...]
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[PGC #756]
The Place of the Lion
(1931)
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[Theological novel. Why has a lioness appeared in Hertfordshire?
Much action and much philosophy ensue.]
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[PGC #1103]
The Greater Trumps
(1932)
[Theological thriller, in which Tarot cards play a major role.
"The book is a kaleidoscope of ideas," says William Lindsay Gresham
in his introduction to the 1950 New York edition.
"It's a slam-bang action-fantasy melodrama too! Williams
is one of those rare authors one longs to know and query
in person about important things."]
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Descent into Hell
(1937)
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[Novel about an amateur theatrical production and those involved in it.
But this is a Charles Williams novel, ranging from past to present,
dealing with things seen and unseen. "The ideas are fresh and
resonant, and they are set forth in prose that is often poetry,
and that is shot through with allusiveness and allusions (ranging
from Dante to Shelley). It is a novel that requires rereading, that
penetrates deeply into the worlds of the imagination with the
wisdom, even with something of the inspired frenzy of the true poet."
(Robert Halsband, Saturday Review, 23 April 1949)]
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All Hallows' Eve
(1945)
[Williams' final novel. Spirits from the past walk among the living in postwar London.
"One has to admit that for sheer imaginative writing there has been
nothing like this novel in years. Although Williams employs the usual
props of the ghost story — demons, vampires, magicians, evil spells — we
never find that the total effect of his novel is merely one of cumulative
horror... For in a profound sense, he is a writer of religious thrillers."
(Richard McLaughlin, Saturday Review, 23 October 1948)]
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Williams, Valentine (1883-1946)
[English novelist]
gadetection (Mike Grost)
The Return of Clubfoot
(1923)
[A novel, featuring Secret Service agent Desmond Okewood, with everything you could want in a thriller: an exotic locale in Central America, a hidden treasure, a figure from our hero's past,
a desert island in the Pacific...]
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[PGC #669]
The Pigeon House
(1926)
[The novel begins in Paris on the wedding night of Sally and Rex
Garrett. Rex mysteriously disappears: this turns out to have everything
to do with his past service in the French Foreign Legion. The action then
moves to Spain...]
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The Crouching Beast
(1928)
[Novel. It is 1914, but war has not yet broken out. Olivia Dunbar is working in Germany
as a private secretary. She obtains secret military information, and is interrogated
by German authorities, including Dr. Grundt, the notorious Clubfoot. Soon an agent of the
recently founded MI5
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Includes a 1936 preface by Valentine Williams discussing
how the Clubfoot novels came into being.]
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[PGC #707]
The Gold Comfit Box
(1932)
[Novel, set in 1913, featuring Major Clavering of the British Secret Service
and his adversary Doktor Grundt (Clubfoot). The gold comfit
(candy Wikipedia) box is
thought to contain a list of British agents in northern Germany, and
has mysteriously disappeared: the chase is on! As a special bonus,
our ebook includes a 1936 preface by Valentine Williams discussing
how the Clubfoot novels came into being.]
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[PGC #681]
The Fox Prowls
(1939)
[Novel, set sometime between the two World Wars. Stephen Selmar
and his daughter Melissa are lured by fraud into Rumania by an arms dealer (The Fox)
as part of a plot to boost the arms industry by fomenting a war between Rumania and Russia.
Enter the British Secret Service...]
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Courier to Marrakesh
(1944)
[Novel, set in Italy in late 1943/early 1944 when the Allies are
approaching Rome from the south. Andrea Hallam, an American
singer sent over to Europe to entertain the troops, is swept into
a plot to destroy/blackmail Hitler with some secret documents. But that
enterprising villain Clubfoot (Dr. Grundt), wants to retrieve these documents...]
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Willison, Sir John Stephen (1856-1927)
[Canadian journalist and historian]
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
Some Political Leaders in the Canadian Federation
(1917)
[Lecture: published in The Federation of Canada 1867-1917.
Four Lectures delivered in the University of Toronto in
March, 1917, to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary
of the Federation
(1917), along with lectures by
George M. Wrong (1860-1948),
Z. A. Lash (1846-1920),
and R. A. Falconer (1867-1943)]
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Wolfe, Thomas Clayton (1900-1938)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
University of North Carolina (C. Hugh Holman)
Look Homeward, Angel. A Story of the Buried Life.
(1929)
[Wolfe's celebrated autobiographical novel about boyhood and youth in the American South]
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[PGC #573]
Wood, William Charles Henry (1864-1947) [Canadian historian]
In the Heart of Old Canada
(1913)
[Essays on the history of Quebec]
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The Winning of Canada: A Chronicle of Wolfe
(1914)
[A biography of James Wolfe (1727-1759)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
a central figure in the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War (1756-63)
Wikipedia:
vol. 11 of "The Chronicles of Canada".
Illustrations include portraits by
Richard Brompton (1734-1783)
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
Wikimedia Commons,
Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)
Wikipedia,
Wikimedia Commons
National Portrait Gallery (UK), and
Benjamin West (1738-1820)
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Wikimedia Commons.]
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The Great Fortress: A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760
(1915)
[History of Louisbourg
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Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site:
vol. 8 of "The Chronicles of Canada".
Illustrations by
Joseph Highmore (1692-1780)
Wikipedia
Library and Archives Canada
Portrait Gallery of Canada,
C. W. Jefferys (1869-1951)
Wikipedia
Library and Archives Canada,
Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)
Wikipedia
National Portrait Gallery (UK), and
John Smibert (1688-1751)
Wikipedia
museuma.com,
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The Father of British Canada: A Chronicle of Carleton
(1915)
[Biography of Sir Guy Carleton, first Baron Dorchester (1724-1808)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
St. Swithuns Church, Nately Scures, Hampshire:
vol. 12 of "The Chronicles of Canada".
Includes two maps by Jonathan Carver (1710-1780)
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and illustrations by
C. W. Jefferys (1869-1951)
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Library and Archives Canada
and Alexander Hay Ritchie (1822-1895)
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Woolf, Virginia [Adeline Virginia] (1882-1941)
[English novelist and essayist]
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A Room of One's Own
(1929)
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[Woolf's famous, influential, and wide-ranging treatise on
women and fiction, written in an easy and very readable style,
reflecting its origins as a pair of public readings]
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[PGC #1227]
Walter Sickert: A Conversation
(1934)
[A brief set of reflections on the English painter Walter Sickert (1860-1942)
Wikipedia.
Includes a cover drawn by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #997]
Wren, P. C. [Percival Christopher] (1885-1941)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Stepsons of France
(1917)
[Stories about the French Foreign Legion, featuring
many of the characters from Wren's 1916 novel The Wages of Virtue
PG US
with obvious links to Wren's most famous work, Beau Geste]
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[PGC #1048]
Beau Geste
(1924)
[The first and most famous novel in Wren's Beau Geste trilogy, reflecting
the views of its time, but an evergreen classic nonetheless. The three orphaned
Geste brothers leave England to join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa:
much adventure ensues. The novel was followed by two sequels, and four film adaptations.]
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[PGC #1246]
Beau Sabreur
(1926)
[Novel, the first sequel to Beau Geste, and like its famous
predecessor set in the French Foreign Legion. But there are some
major differences! Our hero is Major Henri de Beaujolais,
a veteran of the Spahis
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and of the French Secret Service. Mind you, he is an Old Etonian
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"We unreservedly recommend 'Beau Sabreur' as one of the most eminently
readable books of recent years."
(Saturday Review, 21 August 1926)]
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Beau Ideal
(1928)
[The third of the three central novels of the Beau Geste series.
John Geste, whom we met in the first novel, is missing in Africa.
Isobel Rivers asks a wealthy American friend, Otis Vanbrugh, to find him.
The obvious first step: Otis must join the French Foreign Legion!]
CAUTION: certain language in the novel may seem racist by the standards of today.
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[PGC #1248]
Good Gestes. Stories of Beau Geste, his Brothers, and
certain of their Comrades in the French Foreign Legion.
(1929)
[Twelve short stories, accurately described by the book's title.
"The Geste brothers figure again in a series of gruesome short
stories of the Foreign Legion. Each one is a masterpiece of
adventure and horror." (The Bookman [U.S.] September 1929)]
CAUTION: certain language in these stories may seem racist by the standards of today.
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[PGC #1250]
Wright, Henrietta Christian (d. 1899)
[American children's author]
Wikipedia
Children's Stories in English Literature: From
Taliesin to Shakespeare (1889) [Literary history]
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Children's Stories in English Literature: From
Shakespeare to Tennyson (1891) [Literary history]
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Children's Stories in American Literature 1660-1860
(1895) [An overview for children of the first two centuries of American literature, including
profiles of sixteen major figures, including Irving, Cooper, Prescott, Poe and others. You will find many works
by these authors at Project Gutenberg's US site.]
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[PGC #524]
Children's Stories in American Literature 1861-1896
(1896) [An overview for children of the leading literary figures of the period. Some of
the names, Mark Twain for example, are still household names today; others are less familiar.]
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[PGC #525]
Wrong, Edward Murray (1889-1928)
[Canadian historian]
History of England 1688-1815
(1927)
[A history of seventeenth-century England, intended for the general reader:
very learned and yet very accessible]
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[PGC #1059]
Wrong, George MacKinnon (1860-1948)
[Canadian historian]
Wikipedia
Marianopolis College
(biography by Damien-Claude Bélanger)
Canadian Encyclopedia
The Creation of the Federal System in Canada
(1917)
[Lecture: published in The Federation of Canada 1867-1917.
Four Lectures delivered in the University of Toronto in
March, 1917, to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary
of the Federation
(1917), along with lectures by
George M. Wrong (1860-1948),
Sir John Willison (1856-1927),
Z. A. Lash (1846-1920),
and R. A. Falconer (1867-1943)]
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Yates, Dornford [Mercer, Cecil William] (1885-1960)
[English barrister and novelist]
Wikipedia
Valerie French
(1923)
[Novel: a sequel to Yates' 1921 novel Anthony Lyveden
PG US ebook.
The story of an amnesiac, who meets a woman named Valerie French,
whom he was apparently affianced to, but of whom he has no memory,
at least to start with.]
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[PGC #1027]
Yeats-Brown, Francis Charles Claypon (1886-1944)
[English military officer and author]
Wikipedia
Caught by the Turks
(1919)
[An account of the author's experiences in Mesopotamia and more particularly in Constantinople
(Istanbul) during the last years of the Ottoman Empire]
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[PGC #871]
Bengal Lancer
(1930)
[Reminiscences of the author's life in the pre-WWI Indian cavalry, his WWI
experiences as an airborne observer in Mesopotamia, his capture and
imprisonment by the Turks, his escape and re-capture, and his post-WWI
seeking of enlightenment through Hinduism.]
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[PGC #664]
Young, Edward (1683-1765)
[English poet, playwright, and essayist]
Wikipedia
The Revenge. A Tragedy (1733)
[Tragedy, with some resemblances to Shakespeare's Othello.
This edition from the early nineteenth century includes an extract from
a critical essay by John Hughes (ca. 1678-1720)]
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[PGC #430]
Young, George Malcolm (1882-1959)
[English historian]
Wikipedia
Burke
(1943)
[Lecture on Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
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the iconic statesman and political philosopher.
The 1943 Annual Lecture on a Master Mind, sponsored by
the Henriette Hertz Trust of the British Academy.]
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[PGC #798]
Charles I and Cromwell. An Essay.
(1950 [second edition]; 1935 [original edition])
[Wars don't generally start, let alone end, precisely as foreseen.
This was particularly true of the English Civil War
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Young's learned and attractively written monograph sheds light on what happened, and why.]
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[PGC #848]
Young, Gordon Ray (1886-1948)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
Seibert of the Island
(1924)
[South Seas novel, set on the island of Pulotu, and featuring Adolph Seibert,
a German plantation owner. "It reminds me, now of Conrad, now of Maugham,
and yet preserves a distinct quality of its own...
In a long time I have read no book I so thoroughly enjoyed."
(John Farrar, The Bookman, August 1925)
Young dedicated the book to the memory of the painter
Middleton Manigault (1887-1922)
Wikipedia,
who was born in London, Ontario, and started his career there.]
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[PGC #1140]
Zayas, Antonio de (1871-1945)
[Spanish poet / Poète espagnol]
es.wikipedia
Plus ultra. Poesías
(1924)
[Poems in Spanish / Poèmes en espagnol]
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[PGC #436/no 436]
Learn Spanish ! / Apprenez l'espagnol !
Cursos:
BBC
Spanish Language & Culture
Diccionarios bilingües:
WordReference.com Spanish-English
WordReference.com Espagnol-Français
Diccionarios españoles:
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Real Academia Española
Znosko-Borovsky, Eugene Alexandrovich (1884-1954) [Russian chess master]
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The Middle Game in Chess, Third Edition (1938)
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Zuccoli, Luciano (1868-1929) [Swiss novelist / romancier suisse]
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L'Amore di Loredana (1908)
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Farfui (1909)
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