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2022/01/17:
RUDYARD KIPLING'S VERY FIRST BOOK OF STORIES !!
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
[Anglo-Indian novelist and poet; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1907]
Wikipedia
Plain Tales from the Hills
(1888)
Wikipedia
[Kipling's first collection of stories, many of them written in Lahore
for the Civil and Military Gazette, where Kipling was hired at
the impressively young age of sixteen! Still more impressive: these
stories became instant and permanent classics, whose fame endures to
this day. Set in various parts of British India, including the hill
station of Simla, their high reputation shows just how much impact
truly short stories can have!]
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2022/01/14:
WHAT BETTER READING FOR A WINTER WEEKEND THAN A MYSTERY BY THE
LEGENDARY SCOTTISH NOVELIST JOSEPHINE TEY ?
Tey, Josephine [Elizabeth MacKintosh] (1896-1952) [Scottish novelist and playwright]
Wikipedia
To Love and Be Wise (1950)
[Mystery novel, featuring Inspector Alan Grant. It is part of
human nature to be at least initially suspicious of those from
distant places. So it is hardly surprising that the celebrity
photographer Leslie Searle is received coolly in the small English
village of Salcott St Mary upon his arrival from Hollywood. Still,
murder seems an overreaction, if it was a murder. It's a good thing
that Inspector Grant is there to help out!]
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2022/01/10:
H. G. WELLS HAS A UNIQUE PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
FICTION -- BUT HE DID SO MUCH MORE! AS TODAY'S EBOOK WILL SHOW:
PERHAPS THE FINEST OF HIS MANY NOVELS !!
Wells, H. G. [Herbert George] (1866-1946)
[English novelist and historian]
Wikipedia
Kipps. The Story of a Simple Soul.
(1905)
Wikipedia
[Novel (nothing to do with science fiction!), with a high reputation:
the inspiration for the musical Half a Sixpence
Wikipedia
Most would say that sudden wealth is a good thing, but it is a rupture
with one's previous life that risks creating a social/economic distance
from those one has always known. This novel tells the story of Artie
Kipps: raised in poverty, in his mid twenties he unexpectedly comes into
a major inheritance. We learn how he reacts to this change, and what
then happens. Wells (lucky him! And lucky us!) was famous not only
for his science fiction, but also for his social novels in the tradition
of Dickens: this novel shows why.]
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2022/01/06:
ALBERT EINSTEIN DISCOVERED THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY -- AND WON THE NOBEL PRIZE! NO ONE COULD EXPLAIN THIS THEORY BETTER THAN EINSTEIN'S FELLOW NOBEL LAUREATE, LORD BERTRAND RUSSELL !!
Russell, Bertrand [Arthur William], 3rd Earl Russell
[Welsh philosopher, mathematician, and peace activist;
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1950] (1872-1970)
Wikipedia
The A B C of Relativity
(1925)
["Everybody knows that Einstein has done something astonishing," remarks
Bertrand Russell at the start of this book, "but very few people know
exactly what it is that he has done." Russell was writing only ten years
after Einstein's discovery of general relativity, but his statement is
certainly still true today. And who better to discuss relativity in a
readable and comprehensible way than the famous mathematician and winner
of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature?]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #67104]
2022/01/04:
IN MID DECEMBER WE PRESENTED YOU WITH ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE NEW YEAR WE COMPLETE THE PAIRING, WITH
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. BOTH EBOOKS COME WITH SIR JOHN
TENNIEL'S WONDERFUL ILLUSTRATIONS !!
Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge] (1832-1898)
[English mathematician, logician, and author]
Wikipedia
Through the Looking-Glass
(1871)
Wikipedia
[Or, to give Carroll's full title, Through the Looking-Glass, and
What Alice Found There. Published six years after Alice in
Wonderland, and generally read in conjunction with the earlier
novel, it is written at the same high level, and has some very famous
episodes: Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Jabberwocky, Humpty Dumpty...
In any case, here it is for you to enjoy, complete with the wonderful
illustrations by
Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914)
from the 1871 first edition, as well as a preface added by Carroll in 1896!]
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2022/01/01:
HAPPY PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY -- AUTHORS FROM 1971 HAVE NOW JOINED THE
CANADIAN PUBLIC DOMAIN!
BUT IF TR*MP'S COERCIVE COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS ARE IMPOSED BY PARLIAMENT
THIS YEAR, THERE WILL BE A TWENTY-YEAR FREEZE ON OUR PUBLIC
DOMAIN -- UNTIL 2042.
FORTUNATELY,
THESE EXTENSIONS ARE ON HOLD
BECAUSE THE U.S. HAS INITIATED A TRADE QUARREL WITH CANADA.
THESE EXTENSIONS MUST BE CANCELLED IMMEDIATELY AND PERMANENTLY
EVEN IF THAT QUARREL IS PATCHED OVER.
THE CANADIAN PUBLIC DOMAIN BELONGS TO THE CANADIAN PEOPLE, EACH ONE OF US.
IT DOES NOT BELONG TO FOREIGN AUTOCRATS AND FOREIGN CORPORATIONS.
Hilton, James (1900-1954) [English novelist]
Wikipedia
Morning Journey
(1951)
[Novel, centred around the making of a film called Morning Journey,
and the interactions between its director, Paul Saffron, and his leading
lady, Irish-born Carey Arundel. In the course of the novel we learn not
only about Hollywood, but also Dublin's Abbey Theatre, London's West End,
and New York's Broadway. This was the world in which Hilton lived: Mrs.
Miniver won him the 1942 Academy Award for best adapted screenplay!]
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2021/12/24:
SEASON'S GREETINGS! OUR CHRISTMAS GIFT TO YOU IS A NOVELLA
BY CHARLES DICKENS, NO LESS! AND ONE WHICH SPEAKS
TO ALL OF US AS WE DEAL WITH THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC AFTERMATH
OF COVID !!
Dickens, Charles [Charles John Huffam] (1812-1870)
[English novelist, editor, and social activist]
Wikipedia
The Chimes
(1844)
Wikipedia
[Or, to give the novella its full title, "The Chimes: A Goblin
Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In".
An impassioned plea for social justice for the poor, with a message
that hasn't dated with the years, we can safely say, as we survey
the deep social and economic divisions in Canada and elsewhere.
The novella was published the year after A Christmas Carol
(also available from Project Gutenberg Canada -- in several languages!)
to which it certainly bears a family resemblance: there are, for
example, ghosts (goblins), each attached to a bell in a local bell
tower. Our hero, Toby ("Trotty") Veck sees "in every Bell a bearded
figure of the bulk and stature of the Bell". The Goblin of the Great
Bell takes Toby through a series of visions of the unfortunate lives
of those around him, until he awakes at the arrival of the New Year.
Are his visions only dreams, or are they realities, which can yet be
changed?]
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2021/12/22:
OUR REFRESHED JOSEPHINE TEY SERIES CONTINUES, TODAY'S OFFERING IS
BRAT FARRAR -- WE NOW OFFER TWO SEPARATE DIGITAL EDITIONS OF
THIS TRULY CLASSIC MYSTERY NOVEL !!
Tey, Josephine [Elizabeth MacKintosh] (1896-1952) [Scottish novelist and playwright]
Wikipedia
Brat Farrar (1949)
Wikipedia
[Mystery novel. Latchetts is an estate in southern England, near the
Channel. It is not the grandest of estates (there is no butler), but
the Ashby family has owned it for centuries, and it is solvent, although
expensive to run. But there's some money to be inherited, as well as the
estate itself, and a new claimant shows up, the mysterious Brat Farrar.
The novel involves intrigue, and indeed murder, or rather murders!]
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2021/12/20:
A FINE ALBUM OF DRAWINGS FOR CHILDREN BY WALTER CRANE !!
Crane, Walter (1845-1915) [English artist and illustrator]
Wikipedia
Legends for Lionel in Pen & Pencil (1887)
[The "legends", as you might guess, are drawings, accompanied by short
texts in the spirit of nursery rhymes. The drawings are gorgeous, as
you would expect from Walter Crane, and were originally created for
his son Lionel. "This book of sketches," wrote Crane. "the offspring
of the odd half hours of winter evenings, was originally intended
strictly for home consumption. One thing, however, leads to another,
just as the sketches did, following one by one as fancy led, till
they filled the book." A friend admired the book and passed it to
the publisher Cassell, who duly published it, thus enabling us to
enjoy the pictures today!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66966]
2021/12/16:
OUR VERY SPECIAL GIFT TO YOU -- LEWIS CARROLL'S ALICE'S
ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, COMPLETE WITH SIR JOHN TENNIEL'S
FAMOUS ILLUSTRATIONS !!
Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge] (1832-1898)
[English mathematician, logician, and author]
Wikipedia
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
(1865)
Wikipedia
[It is a hot summer afternoon, and Alice is sitting with her
sister, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes runs close
by her. This is no ordinary rabbit, however: it is speaking to
itself ("Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!"), and then it
takes a watch out of its pocket! And the adventures keep coming
in this evergreen satirical classic, famous in every country: it
is so much more than a children's book! Our EPUB includes the
famous illustrations by the English cartoonist and illustrator
Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914)
Wikipedia.
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Henri Bué (1843-1929)
Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles
(1869)
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Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS no 55456]
2021/12/12:
TODAY, OUR REFRESHED OFFERING OF JOSEPHINE TEY'S THE FRANCHISE
AFFAIR -- WE NOW OFFER TWO SEPARATE DIGITAL EDITIONS OF THIS
TRULY CLASSIC MYSTERY NOVEL !!
Tey, Josephine [Elizabeth MacKintosh] (1896-1952) [Scottish novelist and playwright]
Wikipedia
The Franchise Affair (1948)
Wikipedia
[As this mystery novel opens, we meet Robert Blair, a solicitor in the
quiet market town of Milford. But it's not completely quiet -- not when
Marion Sharpe and her mother, the eminently respectable residents of The
Franchise, "the house out on the Larborough road", find themselves accused
of kidnapping! Which is why the Sharpes are consulting Robert Blair. As
the plot develops, others show up -- including Inspector Alan Grant!]
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2021/12/10:
TODAY, A NEW AUTHOR -- SWEDEN'S SELMA LAGERLÖF, THE FIRST FEMALE AUTHOR
TO RECEIVE THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE !!
Lagerlöf, Selma [Selma Ottilia Lovisa] (1858-1940)
[Swedish teacher and author; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1909]
Wikipedia
Mårbacka
(1922 [Swedish original]; 1925 [this translation])
[Autobiography, translated by
Velma Swanston Howard (1868-1937).
Mårbacka
Wikipedia
is the country home where Selma Lagerlöf was born; it had been in the
family since 1801. Financial problems arose which led to the sale of
Mårbacka in 1889, but once Lagerlöf had become an established international
author and won the Nobel Prize, these problems vanished, and she was able
to acquire ownership of her beloved childhood home, and stay there for the
rest of her life. This memoir is an evocative account of Lagerlöf's
childhood at Mårbacka, and of Swedish country life at the height of
the nineteenth century. What better way could be imagined of escaping
for a while the crises of our own age than reading this fine memoir?]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66906]
2021/12/07:
TODAY, THE THIRD AND FINAL EBOOK IN THE WONDERFUL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL
TRILOGY WITH WHICH LEO TOLSTOY MADE HIS TRIUMPHANT DEBUT IN
WORLD LITERATURE !!
Tolstoy, Leo [Lev Nikolayevich] (1828-1910)
[Russian novelist and social thinker]
Wikipedia
Youth
(1857 [original novel]; 1912 [this translation])
Wikipedia
[The third and final novel in Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy,
translated by
Charles James Hogarth (1869-1945).
As the novel opens, our hero and narrator, Nicola Irtenieff, is sixteen
years of age, about to take his university entrance exams (which he duly
passes), and is experiencing the pleasures and trials of his increased
personal autonomy, as he meets and sometimes becomes close friends with
people outside his immediate family circle. The novel takes him to the
end of his time at university and to the threshold of manhood.]
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2021/12/05:
FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE DURING THE HOLIDAYS, A MAGNIFICENT ALBUM
OF TRULY AMAZING ETCHINGS FROM ACROSS FIVE CENTURIES. THEY'LL
LOOK WONDERFUL ON YOUR TABLET OR MONITOR !!
Carrington, Fitzroy (1869-1954)
[American art historian]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Art Historians
Engravers and Etchers
(1917)
["Six Lectures Delivered on the Scammon Foundation at the Art
Institute of Chicago, March 1916", says the title page, but this
doesn't come even close to describing this magnificent book and
its 133 beautiful illustrations from the fifteenth to the twentieth
centuries. "My sole aim," says Carrington, "has been to share with
my audience the stimulation and pleasure which certain prints by the
great engravers and etchers have given me." He is too modest: his
book is very easy to read but full of learning. For those wanting
even more information, tucked away at the end of each chapter are
admirably complete bibliographical notes by
Adam E. M. Paff (1891-1932)
of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66848]
2021/12/01:
WE FOLLOW OUR EBOOK OF LEO TOLSTOY'S CHILDHOOD WITH ITS
FAMOUS SEQUEL BOYHOOD -- THEREBY DOUBLING THE SIZE OF OUR
TOLSTOY COLLECTION! WHAT A WAY TO START DECEMBER !!
Tolstoy, Leo [Lev Nikolayevich] (1828-1910)
[Russian novelist and social thinker]
Wikipedia
Boyhood
(1854 [original novel]; 1912 [this translation])
Wikipedia
[Tolstoy's second novel, translated by
Charles James Hogarth (1869-1945)
.
It is a sequel to Childhood, and has the same narrator, who is
now naturally somewhat older. As the novel starts he is starting the
long trip to Moscow from the village of Petrovskoe, where his mother
has just died: he discovers that her passing has affected the lives
of many people, in particular his own. Still, he is very young, and
most of his life lies ahead. In the course of the novel he learns
much about his family, about himself, and about his beloved tutor Karl
Ivanitch, who played such an important role in the earlier novel.]
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2021/11/26:
IT'S TIME TO LAUNCH OUR RUSSIAN LITERATURE SERIES!
WHAT BETTER AUTHOR TO START WITH THAN LEO TOLSTOY,
AND WHAT BETTER PLACE TO START THAN TOLSTOY'S VERY
FIRST NOVEL ??
Tolstoy, Leo [Lev Nikolayevich] (1828-1910)
[Russian novelist and social thinker]
Wikipedia
Childhood
(1852 [original novel]; 1912 [this translation])
Wikipedia
[Tolstoy's first novel, translated by
Charles James Hogarth (1869-1945)
Wikipedia.
A wondrously evocative description of early childhood, clearly based on
Tolstoy's own memories. As it starts, the tutor Karl Ivanitch is waking his
charge, the youngest of the family, "just three days after my tenth birthday,
when I had been given such wonderful presents". Perhaps you are already
captivated, and simply must continue reading!]
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2021/11/22:
TODAY'S SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL WAS A BLAZING COMET OF ORIGINALITY WHEN IT
FIRST APPEARED IN 1920, AND AT FIRST WAS ONLY APPRECIATED BY A LIMITED
NUMBER OF ADMIRERS -- BUT THESE CONNOISSEURS INCLUDED C.S. LEWIS AND
J.R.R. TOLKIEN !!
Lindsay, David (1876-1945)
[British science fiction author]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
A Voyage to Arcturus
(1920)
Wikipedia
[Science fiction novel, accurately described by its title.
But this is no ordinary science fiction novel: the other
worlds described are well and truly "other" -- life as
transacted on them is completely different from Earth.
The book was greatly admired by J.R.R. Tolkien and by
C.S. Lewis, whose science fiction novels (which you will
find in the Project Gutenberg Canada catalogue) show its
influence: they are not as uncompromising as Lindsay's
novel, which is a challenging read, although its style
and vocabulary are impeccable. Few novels are so entirely
original.]
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2021/11/20:
OUR REFRESH OF PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA'S JOSEPHINE TEY
SERIES CONTINUES -- WHAT A LUXURY FOR YOU AND FOR US! WE
NOW OFFER TWO SEPARATE DIGITAL EDITIONS OF ONE OF THE
MOST FAMOUS NOVELS BY THAT SCOTTISH MISTRESS OF MYSTERY !!
Tey, Josephine [Elizabeth MacKintosh] (1896-1952) [Scottish novelist and playwright]
Wikipedia
A Shilling for Candles (1936)
Wikipedia
[Mystery novel, a famous one, featuring Inspector Alan Grant.
The life of a film actress can be glamorous -- and short!
We now offer two editions of the novel: our original ebook,
and also the elegant EPUB from the University of Adelaide.]
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2021/11/18:
TODAY, THE FIRST VOLUME OF E. K. CHAMBERS' FOUR-PART
ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH STAGE IN THE TIME OF ELIZABETH I --
THE PERFECT AMALGAM OF READABILITY AND SCHOLARSHIP !!
Chambers, E. K. [Edmund Kerchever] (1866-1954)
[English literary historian]
Wikipedia
The Elizabethan Stage, vol. 1 (1923)
[Literary history, done well, does not date. E.K. Chambers was
astoundingly well read: who today could surpass his direct knowledge
of the history of early English theatre? Add to this a remarkable
elegance of style, and you have a classic for the ages, and a very
attractive read. This first volume is an account of the court of
Elizabeth I, with particular attention to the stage. Note:
The ample bibliography appears at the start of the book, not the end.
The table of contents will take you to the main text of the book.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66003]
2021/11/16:
THERE ARE MYSTERY NOVELS, AND THEN THERE ARE CLASSIC
MYSTERY NOVELS. AND THEY DON'T COME MORE CLASSIC THAN THE
NOVELS OF JOSEPHINE TEY! IT'S OUR PLEASURE TO OFFER
NOT ONE BUT TWO DIGITAL EDITIONS OF HER FIRST NOVEL, FEATURING
HER FAMOUS CREATION INSPECTOR ALAN GRANT !!
Tey, Josephine [Elizabeth MacKintosh] (1896-1952) [Scottish novelist and playwright]
Wikipedia
The Man in the Queue (1929)
[Josephine Tey's first mystery novel, in which she introduced
her famous detective, Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard.
The queue of the title is a theatre queue in London's
West End: as it turns out, a dangerous place to be.
"This exceptionally good detective story is worked out
carefully enough so that even the Scotland Yard inspector
who takes charge of the case strikes the reader as a
human being, something rare enough among the Scotland
Yarders of fiction... It is recommended to all detective
story addicts" (Saturday Review, 12 October 1929).
We now offer two editions of the novel: our original ebook,
and also the elegant EPUB from the University of Adelaide.]
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2021/11/14:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS THE NOVEL THAT MADE MINNESOTA'S SINCLAIR LEWIS
FAMOUS -- AND WON HIM THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE !!
Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930]
Wikipedia
Nobelprize.org
Bill Kauffman (Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture,
August 1992)
Main Street
(1920)
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[Sinclair Lewis was born in the small Minnesota town of Sauk Centre,
which clearly served as the basis for Gopher City, where this
satirical novel takes place. Its main character is Carol Milford, born
in the larger town of Mankato, somewhat to the south, not far from the
Iowa border. As the novel opens, she has just arrived in Gopher City,
having attended a college "on the edge of Minneapolis", and then gone
to Chicago for a year to study librarianship. She is educated and
has a considerable knowledge of the wider world -- so Gopher City
comes as a shock! The novel is particularly accessible to Canadian
readers, since Minnesota shares not only a border but much of its
history and social structure with Canada, from the time not so long
ago when immigration from one country to the other was easy, and
before the friendly border turned into a militarized frontier. This
novel recalls this earlier, happier era. And it is wickedly funny!]
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2021/11/11:
IT'S REMEMBRANCE DAY, AND WE'VE CHOSEN A FINE CANADIAN WAR NOVEL TO
MARK IT! THE BEST WAY THAT WE CAN HONOUR THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR OUR
FREEDOMS IS BY INSISTING OUR POLITICIANS DO THE SAME --
BY NOT ALLOWING
A FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TO DICTATE OUR COPYRIGHT AND TRADE LAWS!
LESS TIME IN TOFINO, JUSTIN, AND MORE TIME SERVING CANADIANS BY
FIXING THE MESS YOU MADE !!
Allen, Ralph (1913-1966) [Canadian journalist, historian, and novelist]
Wikipedia
The High White Forest
(1964)
[The Belgium most people know is the country's fertile coastal plain,
where Brussels, Antwerp, and other famous cities are located. But
there is another Belgium, the eastern section, geographically the
larger part of the country. Here can be found the Forest of the
Ardennes, the "high white forest" of the title, which has many
mountains, rivers, and swamps, a small population, and severe winter
weather. It proved a nightmare for military operations during the
Battle of the Bulge
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which is the backdrop for this fine war novel, told from the
perspective of members of the Canadian, German, and American armies.
Ralph Allen knew what he was talking about: throughout the war he
reported from Europe for Toronto's Globe and Mail, and his
easy expertise and ample knowledge is apparent throughout the novel.]
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2021/11/06:
A FEW DAYS AGO, IT WAS OUR PRIVILEGE TO OFFER YOU LAURENCE STERNE'S
A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY. TODAY, FOR YOUR WEEKEND READING PLEASURE,
WE OFFER HIS MOST FAMOUS WORK OF ALL, TRISTRAM SHANDY !!
Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) [Anglo-Irish priest,
anti-slavery activist, and novelist]]
Wikipedia
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
(1759-1767)
Wikipedia
[Sterne's most famous novel, a satirical travelogue: it was a huge,
instantaneous and lasting success, and has often been translated:
we offer not only the English-language original, but also a French
translation from 1803. From the beginning, it was published as a
serial, nine volumes, which appeared at intervals, the last of them
being published the year before Sterne's passing. Not surprisingly,
there is no particular indication that this was the end: no doubt
Sterne might well have carried the novel further had he lived longer.
But this does no harm to the novel, which is not an account of Tristram
Shandy's life, but his observations on the people and incidents around
him: his father and his uncle Toby play a major part in these anecdotes.
The novel jumps back and forth as new distractions shift the narrative,
but is not difficult to read, in spite of its age, and its vocabulary
is straightforward, even if the first line of Sterne's dedication
happens to present us with "wight", that is, "human being"! Sterne
was very familiar with the great Renaissance satirists Rabelais and
Cervantes, and he has joined their number as a European classic and
a uniquely entertaining author.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
Traduction anonyme française
Vie et opinions de Tristram Shandy
(1803)
fr.wikipedia
Tome premier:
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS no 61772]
Tome second:
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS no 61816]
Tome troisième:
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS no 61856]
Tome quatrième:
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS no 61905]
2021/10/31:
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HERE AT PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA, WE DON'T
OFFER TRICKS -- WE LEAVE THOSE TO OUR POLITICIANS, WHOSE BIGGEST TRICK
HAS SURELY BEEN THEIR TWENTY YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS. (THANKS,
JUSTIN! THANKS, CHRYSTIA! AND PASS OUR THANKS ON TO YOUR BUDDY
DONALD!) BUT WE LEAVE THE TRICKS TO THE TRICKSTERS, WHILE WE FOCUS
ON TREATS FOR OUR READERS -- WONDERFUL FREE EBOOKS! TODAY'S TREAT
IS BY IRELAND'S LAURENCE STERNE !!
Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) [Anglo-Irish priest,
anti-slavery activist, and novelist]]
Wikipedia
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
(1768)
Wikipedia
[Sterne's second and final novel, in the form of a travelogue: it was a
huge and lasting success with the public. More than a century later, it
inspired the similarly titled Our Sentimental Journey through France
and Italy by Joseph and Elizabeth Pennell, which you will find in
our catalogue. The journey is "sentimental" because as the journey
progresses Sterne focuses on the sentiments (feelings) of himself and
those around him, rather than giving a dry recitation of geographical
and historical information about the places he visits. A decision for
which posterity thanks him!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
Traduction anonyme française
Le Voyage sentimental
(1803)
fr.wikipedia
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS no 62013]
2021/10/26:
A TRAVEL BOOK BY THE JOURNALIST ELIZABETH PENNELL AND HER HUSBAND,
THE FAMOUS ARTIST JOSEPH PENNELL, WHO CONTRIBUTED A HUGE NUMBER OF
HIS WONDERFUL DRAWINGS. THIS IS A TRAVEL BOOK FOR THE AGES !!
Pennell, Joseph (1857-1926)
[American artist]
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons
The Victorian Web
with
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (1855-1936)
[American travel writer, art critic, biographer and gastronome]
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Our Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
(1893 version)
[Travel book, inspired by the all but identically named
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768)
by Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), which you will also find in the
Project Gutenberg Canada catalogue. But unlike Laurence Sterne,
the Pennells travelled on a tandem tricycle. And Joseph Pennell
created a huge and dazzling set of drawings to illustrate their
book! Really, these drawings are the main reason we have added
this book to our catalogue.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #56438]
2021/10/21:
EMILY BRONTË WROTE ONLY ONE NOVEL, BUT NO SEQUEL IS NEEDED WHEN THE
NOVEL IN QUESTION IS... WUTHERING HEIGHTS !!
Brontë, Emily [Emily Jane] (1818-1848)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Wuthering Heights
(1847)
Wikipedia
[Emily Brontë's only novel, controversial when published because of
its language and subject matter, but now long established as one of
the great English classics. The novel is set in (very) rural Yorkshire;
as it opens Mr Lockwood, a new tenant, is making a call on his not very sociable landlord, Mr Heathcliff. In the course of the novel we shall
learn much about Heathcliff's tumultuous life and how he has affected
those around him. "Wuthering Heights... is passionate and profoundly
moving; it has the depth and power of a great poem. To read it is not
like reading a work of fiction, in which, however absorbed, you can
remind yourself, if need be, that it is only a story; it is to have
a shattering experience in your own life." (W. Somerset Maugham,
Books and You). NOTE: As a special bonus, the EPUB we offer
includes the fascinating 1850 biographical notice by Charlotte
Brontë (1816-1855) discussing her famous sisters and their works.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
Traduction française par
Téodor de Wyzewa (1862-1917)
fr.wikipedia
Un amant
(1892)
fr.wikipedia
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS no 63193]
2021/10/18:
TODAY, GREAT EXPECTATIONS -- OUR FOURTH EBOOK BY CHARLES DICKENS !!
Dickens, Charles [Charles John Huffam] (1812-1870)
[English novelist, editor, and social activist]
Wikipedia
Great Expectations
(1861)
Wikipedia
[Really a novel about class and money -- have things really changed
in England? Or elsewhere, for that matter. Perhaps this universal
theme explains the amazing success of this novel and of the fine movie
adaptations it has inspired. In any case, our hero Pip is an orphan,
living on the coast of Kent with his older sister and her husband,
Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. Pip has no particular career prospects
until the wealthy Miss Havisham becomes his patroness, paying for
his apprenticeship as a blacksmith. But then he receives a gift
from an anonymous benefactor, enough to make him financially
independent. But will this enormous gift truly change his life?
And if so, will it be for the better?]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
Traduction française par
Charles Bernard-Derosne (1825-1904)
fr.wikipedia
Les grandes espérances
(1863)
fr.wikipedia
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #17565]
2021/10/15:
FALL IS NOW DEEPENING INTO WINTER: PERFECT READING WEATHER! AND WHAT
BETTER READING THAN A CLASSIC NOVEL BY CHARLES DICKENS ?
Dickens, Charles [Charles John Huffam] (1812-1870)
[English novelist, editor, and social activist]
Wikipedia
Bleak House
(1853)
Wikipedia
[If you're considering launching a lawsuit, you might want to read
Bleak House first! Lawsuits can go on year after year and
produce little except huge legal bills, as with Jarndyce and Jarndyce,
the legal case at the centre of this novel, which touches the lives of
many people. The title may be bleak, but the novel is not, and has
remained a favourite with the public (in particular with lawyers)
up to the present day.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/10/14:
WE CELEBRATED THANKSGIVING BY POSTING THE TIME MACHINE -- NOW
WE MARK THE END OF THANKSGIVING WEEK WITH ANOTHER SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC
BY H. G. WELLS !!
Wells, H. G. [Herbert George] (1866-1946)
[English novelist and historian]
Wikipedia
The War of the Worlds
(1898)
Wikipedia
[Science fiction novel, which has given rise to many adaptations,
but none of these adaptations surpasses the original, with its famous
opening words: "No one would have believed in the last years of the
nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely
by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own..."
It's difficult to exaggerate the influence of this classic novel,
not only on science fiction, but on the actual development of modern
space travel: Wells had the original vision which started it all!
But it would be an injustice to focus on Wells as a mere influence
on others: this is a truly immortal classic, beautifully written.
If you would like to see the famous illustrations created by Henrique
Alvim Corrêa, greatly admired by Wells himself, have a look at the
French translation listed below!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
Traduction française par
Henry-D. Davray (1873-1944)
fr.wikipedia
avec les célèbres illustrations par
Henrique Alvim Corrêa (1876-1910)
fr.wikipedia
La Guerre des mondes
(1906)
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #60656]
2021/10/08:
OUR THANKSGIVING OFFERING TO YOU IS A VERY SPECIAL ONE: PERHAPS
THE MOST FAMOUS WORK OF SCIENCE FICTION EVER WRITTEN !!
Wells, H. G. [Herbert George] (1866-1946)
[English novelist and historian]
Wikipedia
The Time Machine
(1895)
Wikipedia
[Science fiction novella. Wells not only wrote the book, he actually
invented the term "time machine", which has entered the language.
And of course all subsequent time travel novels, films, and stories
are derived from or influenced by Wells' masterpiece, which may be
the most famous science fiction creation of them all. It's not just
science fiction, but also social commentary: the narrator (the unnamed
"Time Traveller") finds that class divisions, which we have certainly
seen widen in the age of COVID-19, will not diminish with the passage
of centuries: instead, the rich and the poor will apparently evolve
into two separate species! Over the course of more than a century,
Wells' great work has not dated at all.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/10/06:
JUST AT THE MOMENT, NONE OF US REALLY HAVE TIME TO SPARE FOR THE
FUTURE -- PRESENT EVENTS ARE EXCITING ENOUGH! THE ENVIRONMENT,
THE PANDEMIC, THE POLITICIANS -- THINGS ARE PRETTY BAD ALREADY.
ACTUALLY, THEY'RE A TOTAL MESS AND A COMPLETE CATASTROPHE.
BUT THINGS USED TO BE DIFFERENT! THROUGHOUT HIS VERY LONG LIFE
H. G. WELLS NEVER LOST HIS LOVE OF FORETELLING THE FUTURE.
WHETHER TODAY'S NOVEL WAS AN ACCURATE FORECAST, WE LEAVE TO YOU.
BUT AS ALWAYS WITH WELLS, IT'S BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN AND FULL OF
FASCINATING IDEAS !!
Wells, H. G. [Herbert George] (1866-1946)
[English novelist and historian]
Wikipedia
The Shape of Things to Come
(1933)
Wikipedia
[Science fiction novel. The diplomat Dr Philip Raven dies unexpectedly
in 1930, but not before entrusting to Wells "a collection of papers and
writings... a Short History of the World for about the next century and
a half." Its origins are suspect: "For some years," Raven told our
author, "off and on -- between sleeping and waking -- I've been -- in
effect -- reading a book. A non-existent book. A dream book if you
like. It's always the same book. Always. And it's a history." A history
which includes the future, from 1933 to 2106! But actual world events
between 1933 and 1936 had matched Raven's book precisely. And so Wells
decided to publish the book!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/10/03:
JACK LONDON'S NOVELS ARE FAMOUS WORLDWIDE, BUT IT CAN EASILY BE
ARGUED THAT HIS SHORT STORIES ARE EVEN BETTER! TODAY'S SHORT STORY
COLLECTION CONTAINS THE MOST FAMOUS STORY OF THEM ALL !!
London, Jack (1876-1916)
[American novelist, political activist, and journalist]
Wikipedia
Lost Face
(1910)
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[A collection of short stories, sometimes quite graphic! This was
noticed at the time: "Mr. London... seems willing to spare us nothing."
(The Nation, 21 April 1910). And it includes the most famous
story Jack London ever wrote, which certainly has an impact: the 1908
version of To Build a Fire. In most of Canada's vast geography,
it is a very bad idea to go for a walk without a companion, particularly
in winter. The more isolated the area, the worse the idea. And few
places are more isolated than the forests of the Yukon!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/10/01:
HAPPY OCTOBER! WE START THE MONTH WITH A COLLECTION OF FIFTEEN TALES
OF THE "UNEXPECTED" -- BY H. G. WELLS, NO LESS !!
Wells, H. G. [Herbert George] (1866-1946)
[English novelist and historian]
Wikipedia
Tales of the Unexpected
(1922)
[Science fiction stories, fifteen of them, where seemingly fantastic
things happen: Wells heightens their impact by placing them firmly
in the world we know. For example, in the first story, The Remarkable
Case of Davidson's Eyes, Sidney Davidson is working in the larger
laboratory at Harlow Technical College, when suddenly something happens
to his eyes. He doesn't lose his eyesight or anything like that, but he
does not see the things actually in the laboratory; instead, he sees
"the sun just rising, and the yards of the ship, and a tumbled sea,
and a couple of birds flying. I never saw anything so real. And I'm
sitting up to my neck in a bank of sand." Quite an opening! And this
is just the first of the stories, with fourteen more to follow!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66409]
2021/09/29:
IN 1902, CALIFORNIA'S JACK LONDON VISITED, WELL, LONDON,
AND SPENT A MONTH LIVING WITH THE POOREST OF THE POOR IN THAT
CITY. HIS ACCOUNT IS AN ENDURING MASTERPIECE, AND MORE RELEVANT
TODAY THAN EVER, AS WE GRAPPLE WITH THE HUGE CLASS DIFFERENCES
THAT COVID-19 HAS LAID BARE !!
London, Jack (1876-1916)
[American novelist, political activist, and journalist]
Wikipedia
The People of the Abyss
(1903)
Wikipedia
["The experiences related in this volume," writes Jack London in
his preface, "fell to me in the summer of 1902. I went down into
the under-world of London with an attitude of mind which I may best
liken to that of the explorer. I was open to be convinced by the
evidence of my eyes, rather than by the teachings of those who had
not seen, or by the words of those who had seen and gone before."
His explorations were successful, to say the least, and resulted
in this enduring classic, a very readable classic: after all, we're
talking about Jack London! "Mr. London understands and is in
fullest sympathy with the poor and the outcast and hopeless people
he writes about, and records his personal experiences amidst them
with a vivid and unflinching actuality." (The Bookman [UK],
January 1904)]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/09/24:
THE ELECTION'S OVER! IT (1) SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN HELD,
(2) CHANGED NOTHING, AND (3) SHOWED US SOME UNFORTUNATE ASPECTS OF
CANADIAN POLITICAL CULTURE.
IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE! LET'S HEAD BACK TWO CENTURIES, TO A NOVEL
THAT HAS NEVER LOST ITS FRESHNESS AND NEVER WILL: JANE AUSTEN'S
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE !!
Austen, Jane (1775-1817) [English novelist]
Wikipedia
Pride and Prejudice
(1813)
Wikipedia
[Novel, perhaps the most famous novel in the English language, and
certainly one of the most popular. The Bennet family is wealthy, but
their wealth is transient, since the five daughters will not inherit
anything: the estate can only go to a male heir. Hence there is huge
pressure for one of the daughters to marry well, or rather, to marry
someone with serious money. The "pride" is that of Mr Darcy, whose
initial impression of the Bennets is that they are not the sort of
family he wants to be involved with. The "prejudice" is that of
Elizabeth Bennet, who quickly begins to dislike Mr Darcy. The
Project Gutenberg US ebook we present is drawn from an impeccable
source, the 1923 edition of Austen's novels by the textual scholar
R. W. Chapman (1881-1960)
Wikipedia.
For Pride and Prejudice, Chapman principally relied on the 1813
first edition, and included some illustrations from Jane Austen's era.
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #42671]
2021/09/16:
ONLY FOUR DAYS UNTIL THE ELECTION!
ON MONDAY,
VOTE THE LIBERALS OUT OF OFFICE.
THIS IS THE FIRST STEP IN CANCELLING THEIR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS, AND
ENDING CANADA'S STATUS AS A U.S. PUPPET STATE !!
THESE DAYS, CANADA'S PUBLIC DOMAIN FEELS LIKE KABUL'S AIRPORT. WE'RE
TRYING TO RESCUE THE FINAL AUTHORS AVAILABLE BEFORE
THE TR*MP/TRUDEAU
COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS DESCEND ON US, AND JUSTIN TRUDEAU SLAMS THE DOOR
SHUT FOR TWENTY YEARS!
THE ENGLISH NOVELIST E. M. FORSTER IS ONE OF THE FINAL REFUGEES WHO
MADE IT TO THE AIRPORT. TODAY'S EBOOK WAS PUBLISHED IN 1910, AND HAS
BEEN UNDER COPYRIGHT FOR AN INCREDIBLE
ONE HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS.
OF COURSE, IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE. UNDER THE PREPOSTEROUS
TR*MP/TRUDEAU NAFTA SCHEME, IT WOULD BE UNDER COPYRIGHT FOR
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS
-- UNTIL
2041
!
COPYRIGHTS SHOULD BE SHORTER, NOT LONGER. AND THEY SHOULD CERTAINLY
NOT BE IMPOSED ON CANADIANS AGAINST OUR WILL, BY JUSTIN TRUDEAU
AND THE WHITE HOUSE AUTOCRAT TR*MP.
Forster, E. M. [Edward Morgan] (1879-1970)
[English novelist, travel writer, and critic]
Wikipedia
Howards End (1910)
Wikipedia
[Novel, set in England, and involving three families of notably different
economic classes and social views. The book is hugely admired by Forster connoisseurs, and involves many complex and interesting human interactions
in the course of its forty-four chapters! It was the inspiration for the
1992 Merchant/Ivory film
Wikipedia with a formidable cast, including Emma Thompson, who
won the Academy Award for Best Actress.]
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[PGUS #2946]
2021/09/14:
ON SEPT 20, VOTE THE LIBERALS OUT OF OFFICE.
THIS IS THE FIRST STEP IN CANCELLING THEIR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS, AND
ENDING CANADA'S STATUS AS A U.S. PUPPET STATE !!
THESE DAYS, CANADA'S PUBLIC DOMAIN FEELS LIKE KABUL'S AIRPORT. WE'RE
TRYING TO RESCUE THE FINAL AUTHORS AVAILABLE BEFORE
THE TR*MP/TRUDEAU
COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS DESCEND ON US, AND JUSTIN TRUDEAU SLAMS THE DOOR
SHUT FOR TWENTY YEARS!
THE ENGLISH NOVELIST E. M. FORSTER IS ONE OF THE FINAL REFUGEES WHO
MADE IT TO THE AIRPORT. TODAY'S EBOOK WAS PUBLISHED IN 1908, AND HAS
BEEN UNDER COPYRIGHT FOR AN INCREDIBLE
ONE HUNDRED AND TWELVE YEARS.
OF COURSE, IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE. UNDER THE PREPOSTEROUS
TR*MP/TRUDEAU NAFTA SCHEME, IT WOULD BE UNDER COPYRIGHT FOR
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-TWO YEARS
-- UNTIL
2041
!
COPYRIGHTS SHOULD BE SHORTER, NOT LONGER. AND THEY SHOULD CERTAINLY
NOT BE IMPOSED ON CANADIANS AGAINST OUR WILL, BY JUSTIN TRUDEAU
AND THE WHITE HOUSE AUTOCRAT TR*MP.
Forster, E. M. [Edward Morgan] (1879-1970)
[English novelist, travel writer, and critic]
Wikipedia
A Room with a View (1908)
Wikipedia
[Novel, set in Florence: The view in question is of the river
Arno, which flows through Florence, and the main characters are
a group of well-off English tourists. The novel is not as sedate
as you might think: there is, for example, a murder! The novel
has achieved enduring fame, and is the inspiration for the famous
1985 Merchant/Ivory film of the same name
Wikipedia.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #2641]
2021/09/12:
THESE DAYS, CANADA'S PUBLIC DOMAIN FEELS LIKE KABUL'S AIRPORT. WE'RE
TRYING TO RESCUE THE FINAL AUTHORS AVAILABLE BEFORE THE TR*MP/TRUDEAU
TWENTY YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS DESCEND ON US, AND THE DOOR
SLAMS SHUT.
OF COURSE CANADIANS WANTED NO PART OF THIS GARBAGE, BUT WE DON'T
MATTER: TRUDEAU PAID CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE AMERICAN AUTOCRAT
TR*MP, AND NONE AT ALL TO THE PEOPLE OF CANADA. BUT THE ONE TIME
THE POLITICIANS CANNOT IGNORE THE CITIZENS IS A GENERAL ELECTION.
ON SEPT 20, VOTE THE LIBERALS OUT OF OFFICE.
LET'S END CANADA'S STATUS AS A U.S. PUPPET STATE AND GET OUR PUBLIC
DOMAIN BACK !!
THE FAMOUS PHILOSOPHER, MATHEMATICIAN, AND PEACE ACTIVIST BERTRAND
RUSSELL IS ONE OF THE FINAL REFUGEES WHO MADE IT TO THE AIRPORT ON
JAN 1ST OF THIS YEAR. TODAY'S EBOOK, A LECTURE BY RUSSELL ON FREE
THOUGHT VS. PROPAGANDA, IS EXCELLENT READING AT ELECTION TIME -- JUST
LOOK AT THE POWER GRAB IN JUSTIN TRUDEAU'S OUTRAGEOUS
BILL C-10,
WHICH HUGELY EXTENDS GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF INTERNET CONTENT, INCLUDING
YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA POSTINGS !!
Russell, Bertrand [Arthur William], 3rd Earl Russell
[Welsh philosopher, mathematician, and peace activist;
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1950] (1872-1970)
Wikipedia
Free Thought and Official Propaganda
(1922)
[The 1922 Conway Memorial Lecture
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with a short and fine introduction by the psychologist and social activist
Graham Wallas (1858-1932)
Wikipedia.
With the advent of the internet and of social media, government
propaganda has greater penetration and power than ever before, and
society has entered a crisis from which it is not clear we shall
escape anytime soon: this lecture from 1922 is more relevant today
than ever. Profound thought, ease of reading, and brevity are
qualities not usually found together, but Bertrand Russell knew
how to combine the three, as this lecture demonstrates!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #44932]
2021/09/10:
THESE DAYS, CANADA'S PUBLIC DOMAIN FEELS LIKE KABUL'S AIRPORT. WE'RE
TRYING TO RESCUE THE FINAL AUTHORS AVAILABLE BEFORE THE TR*MP/TRUDEAU
TWENTY YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS DESCEND ON US, AND THE DOOR
SLAMS SHUT.
THE AMERICAN POET AND NOVELIST JOHN DOS PASSOS IS ONE OF THE
FINAL REFUGEES WHO MADE IT TO THE AIRPORT ON JAN 1ST OF THIS YEAR.
OF COURSE CANADIANS WANTED NO PART OF THIS GARBAGE, BUT WE DON'T
MATTER: TRUDEAU PAID CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE AMERICAN AUTOCRAT
TR*MP, AND NONE AT ALL TO THE PEOPLE OF CANADA. BUT THE ONE TIME
THE POLITICIANS CANNOT IGNORE THE CITIZENS IS A GENERAL ELECTION.
ON SEPT 20, VOTE THE LIBERALS OUT OF OFFICE. THIS IS THE FIRST STEP IN CANCELLING THEIR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS, AND
ENDING CANADA'S STATUS AS A U.S. PUPPET STATE !!
Dos Passos, John [American novelist and poet]
(1896-1970)
Wikipedia
Three Soldiers
(1921)
Wikipedia
[War novel, which Dos Passos was certainly in a position to write,
having seen the First World War close up, as a volunteer ambulance
driver in France and Italy. The three soldiers in question are the
narrator, the sensitive and highly educated John Andrews from New York,
who is by no means enthusiastic about the war, and two of his close
companions. The war turns out badly for Andrews. "There are those
who think that John Dos Passos ought to be sent to jail and others
who hail him as the first of native authors to tell the truth about
the war." (Heywood Broun, The Bookman [US], 5 October 1921)]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #6362]
2021/09/06:
THESE DAYS, CANADA'S PUBLIC DOMAIN FEELS LIKE KABUL'S AIRPORT!
WE'RE TRYING TO RESCUE THE FINAL AUTHORS AVAILABLE BEFORE THE
TR*MP/TRUDEAU TWENTY YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS DESCEND ON US.
THE FAMOUS PHILOSOPHER, MATHEMATICIAN, AND PEACE ACTIVIST BERTRAND
RUSSELL IS ONE OF THE FINAL REFUGEES WHO MADE IT TO THE AIRPORT ON
JAN 1ST OF THIS YEAR, BUT IT WILL SHORTLY CLOSE FOR TWENTY YEARS
WHEN THE TR*MP/TRUDEAU COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS GO INTO FULL FORCE.
OF COURSE CANADIANS WANTED NO PART OF THIS GARBAGE, BUT WE DON'T
MATTER: TRUDEAU PAID CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE AMERICAN AUTOCRAT
TR*MP, AND NONE AT ALL TO THE PEOPLE OF CANADA. BUT THE ONE TIME
THE POLITICIANS CANNOT IGNORE THE CITIZENS IS A GENERAL ELECTION.
ON SEPT 20, VOTE THE LIBERALS OUT OF OFFICE. THIS IS THE FIRST STEP IN CANCELLING THEIR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS, AND
ENDING CANADA'S STATUS AS A U.S. PUPPET STATE
Russell, Bertrand [Arthur William], 3rd Earl Russell
[Welsh philosopher, mathematician, and peace activist;
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1950] (1872-1970)
Wikipedia
Icarus, or The Future of Science
(1924)
[Philosophical/political monograph. Lord Russell considers the
role that the sciences play in accelerating the pace of change
in society. But he also considers whether this acceleration
has been a good thing, and concludes that "Men's collective
passions are mainly evil; far the strongest of them are hatred
and rivalry directed towards other groups. Therefore at present
all that gives men power to indulge their collective passions
is bad. That is why science threatens to cause the destruction
of our civilization." Those of us who have witnessed the growing
social disorder in the US, the UK, and elsewhere have to agree.
And Russell was writing this a century ago!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66225]
2021/09/03:
FOR THE LABOUR DAY WEEKEND, WE PRESENT YOU WITH A MAGNIFICENT ALBUM
OF PAINTINGS BY THE GERMAN ARTIST (YES, HE WAS BORN IN BAVARIA)
EDWARD HARRISON COMPTON !!
A COLONY-WIDE ELECTION HAS BEEN CALLED FOR SEPT 20. ONCE UPON A
TIME WE CALLED THESE "FEDERAL" ELECTIONS, BUT AFTER THE FIVE OTTAWA
PARTIES FORCED THE NEW NAFTA ON CANADIANS, WE CAN HARDLY CALL CANADA
A SOVEREIGN STATE ANY MORE.
SOVEREIGN STATES DON'T LET FOREIGN POWERS REWRITE THEIR COPYRIGHT
LAWS OR OTHER DOMESTIC LEGISLATION.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE DOORMAT ("OPPOSITION") PARTIES NEED TO RE-ESTABLISH
THEIR COUNTRY AND THEMSELVES BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY PUT IN
NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL OF CANADIANS --
IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
Compton, Edward Harrison (1881-1960)
[German painter]
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Chester Water-Colours
(1916)
[Watercolour album. Chester
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(from "castrum", Latin for "army base") is located in Cheshire, not
far from the Welsh border. As its name indicates, it was founded
by the Romans, and was relatively prosperous throughout the Middle
Ages. Watergate Street, included in this collection, was laid out
as part of the Roman encampment, and substantial sections of the
city's walls survive from Roman times. As you will see, this famous
old city provided excellent material for Compton to paint. In spite
of his name, Compton was a German artist: his father had emigrated
from England to Upper Bavaria where he became a famous mountain climber
and painter, married, and had his family. The son followed his father's
example and became a painter. He trained in England, exhibited his
paintings there, and was presumably in England throughout the First World
War, for this fine portfolio was published in May 1916. The reproductions
are all in colour: if there were wartime production issues, there are certainly no traces of them in this beautiful album.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66086]
2021/08/29:
A LATE MASTERPIECE BY JOSEPH CONRAD, CERTAINLY INVOLVING
THE SEA, BUT PRINCIPALLY TAKING PLACE ON LAND -- THE FRENCH PORT
OF MARSEILLES, TO BE SPECIFIC! SMUGGLING IS INVOLVED, AND CIVIL
WAR IN SPAIN !!
A COLONY-WIDE ELECTION HAS BEEN CALLED FOR SEPT 20. ONCE UPON A
TIME WE CALLED THESE "FEDERAL" ELECTIONS, BUT AFTER THE FIVE OTTAWA
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A SOVEREIGN STATE ANY MORE.
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Conrad, Joseph [Korzeniowski, Józef Teodor Konrad]
(1857-1924) [Polish mariner and novelist]
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The Arrow of Gold. A Story Between Two Notes.
(1919)
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[Historical novel, set in Marseilles, but principally concerned with
Spain, in particular the Third Carlist War
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There is a direct line from the Carlist Wars to the Spanish Civil
War of 1936-39 and indeed to the question of Catalan independence
which continues to roil Spanish politics today, and there is a
direct line back to the Middle Ages, when Spain was far from being
a unitary state, but was a group of independent kingdoms
with very distinct religions, languages, and nationalities. So
the Third Carlist War (1872-76) settled nothing, but was a dispute
between two claimants to the Spanish throne, the not particularly
popular Amadeo I, from Italy, and Carlos VII, who was opposed to
liberalism, but in favour of the traditional autonomy of Catalonia,
Aragon, and Valencia: this autonomy had been suppressed many years
before by Philip V at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession.
But Conrad's novel is not about the great themes of Spanish history,
but about individuals, mostly in Marseilles, who are involved in
various ways with smuggling weapons to the Carlist forces in Spain.
The chief of these characters is Doña Rita, born in Spain, but
resident for many years in France, where she takes a chief role
in the smuggling. "The murky intrigues of a royalist uprising
form only the background for a tale of love triumphant, brooded
over by the magic and mystery of the sea. There is something direct
and elemental in the artless infatuation of the young sailor, known
only as Monsieur George, palpitating on the threshold of his first
love, and the experienced Doña Rita... whose youth and innocence
still make answer to the youth and innocence of her lover."
(Literary Digest, 11 October 1919)]
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2021/08/26:
A CLASSIC NOVEL BY JACK LONDON -- IT STARTS IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY,
BUT THE ACTION RANGES ACROSS THE NORTH PACIFIC ABOARD A SEALING SCHOONER
(ITS CREW HUNTS SEAL). ITS CAPTAIN IS THE DECIDEDLY TOUGH WOLF LARSEN,
AND ABOARD THE SHIP IS THE NOT SO TOUGH HUMPHREY VAN WEYDEN, RICH BY
INHERITANCE AND NOT WELL VERSED IN THE WAYS OF THE WORLD. BUT HE'S
TOUGHER THAN HE SEEMS !!
A COLONY-WIDE ELECTION HAS BEEN CALLED FOR SEPT 20. ONCE UPON A
TIME WE CALLED THESE "FEDERAL" ELECTIONS, BUT AFTER THE FIVE OTTAWA
PARTIES FORCED THE NEW NAFTA ON CANADIANS, WE CAN HARDLY CALL CANADA
A SOVEREIGN STATE ANY MORE.
SOVEREIGN STATES DON'T LET FOREIGN POWERS REWRITE THEIR COPYRIGHT
LAWS OR OTHER DOMESTIC LEGISLATION.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE DOORMAT ("OPPOSITION") PARTIES NEED TO RE-ESTABLISH
THEIR COUNTRY AND THEMSELVES BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY PUT IN
NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL OF CANADIANS --
IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
London, Jack (1876-1916)
[American novelist, political activist, and journalist]
Wikipedia
The Sea-Wolf
(1904)
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[Novel. The "sea-wolf" of the title is not an actual wolf, such as
can be found in the other works of Jack London, but Captain Wolf Larsen,
captain of a schooner which scours the North Pacific hunting seals.
When in San Francisco Bay he rescues Humphrey "Hump" Van Weyden,
a young man who is wealthy by inheritance, from the shipwreck in the
San Francisco fog of a ferry on its way from Sausalito to the city.
The Martinez does not drop Van Weyden off at San Francisco,
but continues the voyage it has started. There is much conflict
between the two men, and Larsen certainly has the more powerful
position, but he is more complicated than at first appears.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/08/20:
FROM 1941, A BOOK BY MARGERY ALLINGHAM THAT IS NOT ONE OF
HER FAMOUS MYSTERY NOVELS. INSTEAD, IT'S AN ACCOUNT OF LIFE IN
HER VILLAGE ON THE NORTH SEA COAST WHEN A GERMAN INVASION OF
ENGLAND SEEMED IMMINENT !!
A COLONY-WIDE ELECTION HAS BEEN CALLED FOR SEPT 20. ONCE UPON A
TIME WE CALLED THESE "FEDERAL" ELECTIONS, BUT AFTER THE FIVE OTTAWA
PARTIES FORCED THE NEW NAFTA ON CANADIANS, WE CAN HARDLY CALL CANADA
A SOVEREIGN STATE ANY MORE.
SOVEREIGN STATES DON'T LET FOREIGN POWERS REWRITE THEIR COPYRIGHT
LAWS OR OTHER DOMESTIC LEGISLATION.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE DOORMAT ("OPPOSITION") PARTIES NEED TO RE-ESTABLISH
THEIR COUNTRY AND THEMSELVES BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY PUT IN
NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL OF CANADIANS --
IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
Allingham, Margery [Youngman Carter, Margery Louise]
(1904-1966) [English mystery novelist]
Wikipedia
The Oaken Heart
(1941)
[Memoir; not a mystery novel! In 1941 a German invasion of England
was a strong possibility, and the village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy
Wiktionary
on the Essex coast was at particularly high risk. And it is in that
village (called "Auburn" in the book), that Allingham and her husband
Philip lived. This is her account of village life under these very
unusual circumstances. Her writing has an authenticity which is
refreshing after the manufactured history and manufactured debate
we've seen coming out of England in recent years. After all, Allingham
was faced with the very real threat of a foreign occupation, rather than
the decidedly less concrete threat posed by "Brussels bureaucrats"!]
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IN THE CALL OF THE WILD, JACK LONDON HAD TOLD THE STORY OF A
DOG THAT JOINED A PACK OF WOLVES. IN WHITE FANG, HE TELLS
THE STORY OF A HYBRID WOLF-DOG WHO WENT THE OTHER WAY. BORN ON THE
BANKS OF THE MACKENZIE RIVER, HE IS PARTIALLY DOMESTICATED BY AN
ABORIGINAL, AND STARTS ON A LONG AND ARDUOUS PERSONAL JOURNEY !!
A COLONY-WIDE ELECTION HAS BEEN CALLED FOR SEPT 20. ONCE UPON A
TIME WE CALLED THESE "FEDERAL" ELECTIONS, BUT AFTER THE FIVE OTTAWA
PARTIES FORCED THE NEW NAFTA ON CANADIANS, WE CAN HARDLY CALL CANADA
A SOVEREIGN STATE ANY MORE.
SOVEREIGN STATES DON'T LET FOREIGN POWERS REWRITE THEIR COPYRIGHT
LAWS OR OTHER DOMESTIC LEGISLATION.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE DOORMAT ("OPPOSITION") PARTIES NEED TO RE-ESTABLISH
THEIR COUNTRY AND THEMSELVES BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY PUT IN
NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL OF CANADIANS --
IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
London, Jack (1876-1916)
[American novelist, political activist, and journalist]
Wikipedia
White Fang
(1906)
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[Novel, the classic sequel to The Call of the Wild, to which
it bears many resemblances, except the title character is not
a domestic dog that heads to Northern Canada and joins a pack of
wolves, but a wolf-dog hybrid born wild in Northern Canada near
the Mackenzie River, who is gradually domesticated, and goes on
some very long travels, first to the Yukon, and then to the south.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/08/12:
TODAY, A TRANSBORDER TALE LARGELY SET IN THE YUKON AND ALASKA
IN A HAPPIER TIME, WHEN THE UNITED STATES WAS A CLOSER NEIGHBOUR
THAN IN OUR OWN SAD DAYS. YES, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CALL
OF THE WILD, WHICH BROUGHT JACK LONDON INSTANT FAME WHEN IT
WAS PUBLISHED -- A FAME WHICH ENDURES TODAY, AND SHOWS NO SIGN
OF FADING !!
A COLONY-WIDE ELECTION IS COMING. ONCE UPON A TIME WE CALLED THEM
"FEDERAL" ELECTIONS, BUT AFTER THE FIVE OTTAWA PARTIES FORCED THE
NEW NAFTA ON CANADIANS, WE CAN HARDLY CALL CANADA A SOVEREIGN STATE
ANY MORE.
SOVEREIGN STATES DON'T LET FOREIGN POWERS REWRITE THEIR COPYRIGHT
LAWS OR OTHER DOMESTIC LEGISLATION.
OUR SUGGESTION: THE GOVERNMENT AND THE DOORMAT ("OPPOSITION") PARTIES
NEED TO RE-ESTABLISH THEIR COUNTRY AND THEMSELVES BY GETTING RID OF
THE ABOMINATIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL OF CANADIANS --
IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
London, Jack (1876-1916)
[American novelist, political activist, and journalist]
Wikipedia
The Call of the Wild
(1903)
Wikipedia
[For the millions who love Canada and the United States, the last
twenty-five years have been a complete nightmare. Our friendly
border is now a militarized frontier, where passports are now
demanded (for centuries, until 2004, less than twenty years ago,
they were not) and hostile interrogations by border guards have
taken the place of friendly chats with border agents. Still
worse, the Thirteen Colonies have become an oppressive military
empire, which has used a "free trade agreement" to make Canada an
American puppet state, rewriting Canada's domestic legislation against
the will of Canadians: hence the copyright extensions we so often
discuss on this site, and will continue discussing, until these
extensions, imposed by the White House autocrat and weakly agreed
to by Congress and Parliament, are completely and permanently removed.
But the nightmare we see today was only created recently, as will
be seen from the pages of this famous novel, an enduring classic
famous worldwide which takes place partly in Canada, and partly in
the United States.
The story starts in California, in Santa Clara County, where Buck lives.
Buck is a dog, a very large dog, of some one hundred and forty pounds,
who lives on the vast agricultural estate of Judge Miller, where he is
well treated and likes his existence. But this happy environment
was not to endure, "Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had
found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies
were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland.
These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with
strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from
the frost." So Buck is kidnapped and finds himself first in Alaska
and then in the Yukon during the Klondike gold rush! As the story
proceeds, Buck feels himself less and less attached to humans and more
and more attracted towards the wolf packs he encounters. He is, in fact,
hearing the Call of the Wild.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/08/08:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS A MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF PEN AND PENCIL
DRAWINGS FROM THE FIFTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES -- THEY'LL
LOOK WONDERFUL ON YOUR TABLET OR MONITOR !!
A COLONY-WIDE ELECTION IS COMING. ONCE UPON A TIME WE CALLED THEM
"FEDERAL" ELECTIONS, BUT AFTER THE FIVE OTTAWA PARTIES FORCED THE
NEW NAFTA ON CANADIANS, WE CAN HARDLY CALL CANADA A SOVEREIGN STATE
ANY MORE.
SOVEREIGN STATES DON'T LET FOREIGN POWERS REWRITE THEIR COPYRIGHT
LAWS OR OTHER DOMESTIC LEGISLATION.
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NEED TO RE-ESTABLISH THEIR COUNTRY AND THEMSELVES BY GETTING RID OF
THE ABOMINATIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL OF CANADIANS --
IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
Holme, Charles Geoffrey (1887-1954)
[Anglo-American art historian]
Drawings in Pen & Pencil from Dürer's Day to Ours
(1922)
["The Studio"
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was a London art magazine published between 1893 and 1964. Its
founder was Charles Holme (1848-1923), who was succeeded as editor
by his son, Charles Geoffrey Holme. In addition to its regular issues,
The Studio from time to time published magnificently illustrated
monographs, some of them, such as this one, very large: it includes
drawings from the end of the fifteenth to the start of the twentieth
century. The drawings were selected by Holme, and supplied with lively
and informative "notes and appreciations" by English painter and designer
George Sheringham (1884-1937)
Wikipedia.
The individual artists are too many to discuss here, but are listed
at the start of the book; most of them have substantial articles at
Wikipedia.]
Project Gutenberg US
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2021/08/05:
TODAY'S EBOOK BY RUDYARD KIPLING IS SET NOT IN EUROPE OR
ASIA, BUT IN NORTH AMERICA -- NOT JUST THAT, BUT MUCH OF IT TAKES
PLACE IN THE GRAND BANKS OFF NEWFOUNDLAND. YES, WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT "CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS" !!
A COLONY-WIDE ELECTION IS COMING. ONCE UPON A TIME WE CALLED THEM
"FEDERAL" ELECTIONS, BUT AFTER THE FIVE OTTAWA PARTIES FORCED THE
NEW NAFTA ON CANADIANS, WE CAN HARDLY CALL CANADA A SOVEREIGN STATE
ANY MORE.
SOVEREIGN STATES DON'T LET FOREIGN POWERS REWRITE THEIR COPYRIGHT
LAWS OR OTHER DOMESTIC LEGISLATION.
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IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
[Anglo-Indian novelist and poet; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1907]
Wikipedia
Captains Courageous. A Story of the Grand Banks.
(1897)
Wikipedia
[Rudyard Kipling is often thought of as a supporter of imperialism.
But how then do we explain the pro-Indian feelings so predominant
in Kim? And if he was such an upholder of the privileges of
the propertied classes, how do we explain Captains Courageous?
It is the story of an American rich kid whose character is transformed.
The rich kid is Harvey Cheyne, the son of a California millionaire:
"Built one place at San Diego, the old man has; another at Los Angeles;
owns half a dozen railroads, half the lumber on the Pacific slope,
and lets his wife spend the money..." Harvey is washed overboard
while he and his family are crossing the Atlantic, but he is rescued
by Manuel, a Portuguese seaman who is part of the crew of the fishing
schooner We're Here, sailing out of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Harvey works on the schooner, and his formerly difficult character
is completely changed by the time he reaches port. Readers of the
novel will be instructed as well as entertained, for it contains
much information about the cod fishery, as well as an enduringly
famous account of how Harvey's parents managed to get from San Diego
to Boston with astonishing speed. If you're a railroad magnate, you
can make some very special arrangements! We present two digital
editions of this immortal classic: an elegant EPUB from the
University of Adelaide, and an illustrated digital edition from
Project Gutenberg US, based on the 1897 Macmillan edition, which
includes twenty-two drawings by Massachusetts artist
Isaac Walton Taber (1857-1933)
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[University of Adelaide]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #2225]
2021/08/02:
WE CONCLUDE THE AUGUST LONG WEEKEND AS WE STARTED IT -- WITH A NOVELLA
BY NATHANAEL WEST !!
A FALL ELECTION IS LIKELY. OUR PARTIES ARE GOOD AT BOASTING, BUT NOT
SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD (1) DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. AND (2)
REESTABLISH CANADA'S SOVEREIGNTY, BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY
PUT IN NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL
OF CANADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
West, Nathanael [Weinstein, Nathan] (1903-1940)
[American novelist and screenwriter]
Wikipedia
Miss Lonelyhearts
(1933)
Wikipedia
[West's famous novella set in the newspaper industry. In spite of her
name "Miss Lonelyhearts" is in fact a man, a not particularly happy one,
who runs the personal advice column at a New York newspaper. He finds
his job stressful, since after a while it is difficult to come up with
original answers for situations which come up time and time again. And
the letters he gets from readers are invariably sad ones, involving often
intractable situations.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/07/30:
AS WE HAVE LEARNED DURING THE PANDEMIC, FILM AND VIDEO NOW PLAY AN EVEN
LARGER PART IN OUR LIVES THAN BEFORE. SO WE NOW OFFER TWO DIGITAL EDITIONS OF NATHANAEL WEST'S FAMOUS 1939 NOVEL ABOUT LIFE AS IT ACTUALLY
WAS LIVED IN HOLLYWOOD IN THE THIRTIES -- FINE SUMMER READING FOR THE
AUGUST LONG WEEKEND !!
A FALL ELECTION IS LIKELY. OUR PARTIES ARE GOOD AT BOASTING, BUT NOT
SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD (1) DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. AND (2)
REESTABLISH CANADA'S SOVEREIGNTY, BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY
PUT IN NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL
OF CANADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
West, Nathanael [Weinstein, Nathan] (1903-1940)
[American novelist and screenwriter]
Wikipedia
The Day of the Locust
(1939)
Wikipedia
[Novel about life as it was actually lived in and around Hollywood, where
West himself worked as a screenwriter, filmed in 1975 by John Schlesinger
Wikipedia.
The US Declaration of Independence famously cites as a basic human
right not actual happiness, but the pursuit of happiness.
Many have moved to California seeking happiness, yet have not
found it. And our hero Tod Hackett discovers that many of those
he encounters "had come to California to die": this is the
world he sets out to explore. He is himself a new arrival,
hired by a studio on the basis of his work as a student at
the Yale School of Fine Arts.]
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OUR ARTHUR GASK INITIATIVE IS DRAWING TO A CLOSE WITH TODAY'S
SHORT STORY. WE NOW OFFER TWENTY-EIGHT TITLES BY ADELAIDE'S
WORLD-FAMOUS MYSTERY AUTHOR !!
A FALL ELECTION IS LIKELY. OUR PARTIES ARE GOOD AT BOASTING, BUT NOT
SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD (1) DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. AND (2)
REESTABLISH CANADA'S SOVEREIGNTY, BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY
PUT IN NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL
OF CANADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Hatton Garden Crime
(1945)
[A short story, which does not feature Gask's famous sleuth
Gilbert Larose! Hatton Garden
Wikipedia
is an area of central London that has long been famous as a centre
of the jewellery trade. "For many years," the story begins, "Reuben
Leyden had been one of the best-known diamond dealers in Hatton
Garden... almost fabulous sums of money had at times, in the course
of a few minutes, changed hands in his modest suite of rooms." One
day... no, let's stop right there! To learn more, just read this
very short story. Hint: there may be a murder!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/07/25:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS A VERY GREAT NOVEL AND AN ETERNAL CLASSIC: THACKERAY'S
"VANITY FAIR" -- WITH THE AUTHOR'S OWN ILLUSTRATIONS !!
A FALL ELECTION IS LIKELY. OUR PARTIES ARE GOOD AT BOASTING, BUT NOT
SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD (1) DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. AND (2)
REESTABLISH CANADA'S SOVEREIGNTY, BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY
PUT IN NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL
OF CANADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)
[English novelist, journalist, and illustrator]
Wikipedia
Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero.
(1848)
Wikipedia
[Thackeray's most celebrated novel, a true panorama of English society
in the early nineteenth century. In the novel's prologue we find
ourselves in a travelling fair ("Vanity Fair") at which Thackeray has
been presenting his Show; he acknowledges "the kindness with which
it has been received in all the principal towns of England through
which the Show has passed". (The novel had been published as a serial,
and would have been read throughout England.) The Fair represents life
as it is actually lived, and is "not a moral place certainly; nor a
merry one, though very noisy." And the Show is Thackeray's "novel
without a hero". It is not a comedy: Thackeray commenting on his
own role as stage manager comments that "a feeling of profound
melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place."
But this should not deter you from reading the novel! It has
infinite energy, sparkling narrative, and unforgettable characters.
And within its pages people do what people do: plot for their own
advantage, with little thought of others except insofar as it serves
their own interests. Perhaps it should be mandatory reading in our
high schools, since the novel certainly prepares its readers for the
world around them, where few people can be relied on. Certainly not
our politicians, as was shown in 2020 by the "new NAFTA" (yes, we're
talking about the copyright extensions, but much more) and by the
shocking history of the COVID pandemic, where the vast gulf between
the rich and the poor became even clearer than before. As the novel's
main narrative begins, Becky Sharp is graduating from Miss Pinkerton's
academy for young ladies. She is much poorer than her classmates, and
is well aware that she will have to rely on her own wits through the
years to come: there will be no one to help her. Fortunately she is
talented, motivated, and ruthless. And things proceed from there! The
Adelaide EPUB we are presenting to you contains the fine illustrations
created for the novel by Thackeray himself -- classics in their own right!]
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[University of Adelaide]
Traduction française par
Georges-Maurice Guiffrey (1827-1887)
fr.wikipedia
La foire aux vanités, Tome I
(1884)
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #19112]
La foire aux vanités, Tome II
(1884)
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #20864]
fr.wikipedia
2021/07/22:
OUR SECOND EBOOK BY WILLIAM MORRIS CARRIES THE STORY FORWARD FROM
HIS TALE OF THE HOUSE OF THE WOLFINGS !!
A FALL ELECTION IS LIKELY. OUR PARTIES ARE GOOD AT BOASTING, BUT NOT
SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD (1) DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. AND (2)
REESTABLISH CANADA'S SOVEREIGNTY, BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY
PUT IN NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL
OF CANADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
Morris, William (1834-1896)
[English novelist, poet, painter, textile designer,
and social activist]
Wikipedia
The Roots of the Mountains
(1889)
Wikipedia
[Novel, "Wherein is told somewhat of the lives of the men of Burgdale
their friends their neighbours their foemen and their fellows in arms."
It is a continuation of the Tale of the House of the Wolfings:
the descendants of the Wolfings show up as the Sons of the Wolf. As
with the earlier novel, there are many elements in common with The
Lord of the Rings, for which it was clearly a source. Morris's
language has a deliberate antique grandeur, but he ensures that his
meaning is always clear. For example, he renders the first sentence
of the novel that much more accessible by saying "town or thorp" rather
than just "thorp": "Once upon a time amidst the mountains and hills and
falling streams of a fair land there was a town or thorp in a certain
valley." Yes, this sounds a lot like Rivendell!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/07/20:
WILLIAM MORRIS DIDN'T REALLY CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE
MODERN FANTASY. IT'S TRUER TO SAY THAT HE INVENTED IT !!
A FALL ELECTION IS LIKELY. OUR PARTIES ARE GOOD AT BOASTING, BUT NOT
SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD (1) DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. AND (2)
REESTABLISH CANADA'S SOVEREIGNTY, BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY
PUT IN NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL
OF CANADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
Morris, William (1834-1896)
[English novelist, poet, painter, textile designer,
and social activist]
Wikipedia
A Tale of the House of the Wolfings
and All the Kindreds of the Mark
(1889)
Wikipedia
[Novel, which largely created the modern fantasy novel. Its influence
can clearly be seen in The Lord of the Rings: both novels have
a place called Mirkwood, and in both dwarfs play an important role. No
hobbits, though! It is written in a deliberately archaic style, with many
words and usages from early English and other Germanic languages. With
astounding skill and judgment Morris ensures that his archaic language
is consistent, comprehensible, and beautiful to the ear. From the
moment of its appearance to the present day the novel has always had
many admirers, starting with Oscar Wilde!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/07/18:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS A MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF FAR MORE THAN A
THOUSAND WOODCUTS FROM THE RENAISSANCE -- THEY'LL LOOK ABSOLUTELY
GORGEOUS ON YOUR SCREEN !!
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SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
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OF CANADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
Jennings, Oscar (ca. 1850-1914)
[Anglo-French medical researcher and bibliographer]
Early Woodcut Initials
(1908)
[Monograph "containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of
ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,
selected and annotated by Oscar Jennings, M.D., Member of the
Bibliographical Society". Because of the many illustrations,
this ebook may take some extra time to load. Dr. Jennings
had a deep knowledge of the history of printing, as is obvious
from this classic work, which at times comes close to being a
history of the invention and early development of printing, with
more than a hundred mentions of Johannes Gutenberg, the patron
of Project Gutenberg Canada! But these studies were not the only
or even the primary field in which Oscar Jennings worked! "For many
years he practised in Paris, and won a considerable reputation by his
writings on the mechanical treatment of diseases of the spinal cord,
and particularly on the treatment of the morphine habit, on which he
wrote several monographs. He was an enthusiastic believer in the
virtues of cycle exercise and, we believe, very successfully reduced
his own weight by this means." (Obituary, British Medical Journal
19 December 1914).]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #65847]
2021/07/16:
TODAY'S EBOOK BY RUDYARD KIPLING INCLUDES FOUR GHOST STORIES...
AND THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING !!
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SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
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CANADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
[Anglo-Indian novelist and poet; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1907]
Wikipedia
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories
(1888)
Wikipedia
["Other Eerie Stories", according to some early editions, and
indeed four of the five stories are ghost stories: The Phantom
Rickshaw (it looks like a rickshaw, but is it real?), My Own
True Ghost Story (why should mere death interfere with a passion
for billiards?), The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes (sometimes
it's really not a good idea to go out at night in an area you don't
know, even if the sound of dogs baying at the moon is annoying you), and
"The Finest Story in the World" (Charlie Mears "lived in the
north of London, coming into the City every day to work in a bank.
He was twenty years old and suffered from aspirations." Needless
to say, some strange things start happening to Charlie.) Yet the
most famous story of all, The Man Who Would Be King
Wikipedia,
does not involve ghosts, but personal ambition and imperial overreach.
Two enterprising individuals in British India decide to seek their
fortune over the border, in Kafiristan, part of modern Afghanistan.
They have plans to set up their own kingdom, and at first this
preposterous scheme seems to work, until things go wrong. Very
wrong. Of course, in Afghanistan the collapse of the dreams of
empire is a familiar story, as is shown by the failed attempts at
conquest over the past two centuries by the British Empire, the
Soviet Union, and, as recently as 2021, the United States. Perhaps
the Soviets and the Americans should have read their Kipling! Of
course, you don't have to physically invade a country to make it
your colony, as the US's successful takeover of Canada demonstrates:
the 2020 version of NAFTA, which coercively imposed American copyright
durations and other outrages on our country, is certainly the act
of an aggressive imperial power. Perhaps the Americans will learn
their Afghanistan lesson, and start treating other countries, Canada
included, as their equals, not their subjects. Not a moment too soon!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/07/13:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS FROM OHIO'S LOUIS BROMFIELD AND IS
A FAMILY EPIC SET IN MASSACHUSETTS. IN 1927 IT BROUGHT ITS
AUTHOR THE PULITZER PRIZE !!
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SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
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REESTABLISH CANADA'S SOVEREIGNTY, BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS PUT IN
NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AND AGAINST THE WILL OF
CANADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956)
[American novelist, journalist, and organic farmer]
Wikipedia
Early Autumn
(1926)
Wikipedia
[A novel from near the beginning of Bromfield's career -- it won him
the 1927 Pulitzer Prize! It is a family epic, set in the old but
fictional Massachusetts town of Durham, where the Pentland family
has roots dating back to the seventeenth century. But now it's the
twentieth century, Durham has changed and grown, and the Pentlands,
it turns out, are not immune to the problems which can beset
long-established families dependent on inherited wealth. The novel
features old John Pentland, his alarming sister Cassie, and his son
Anson, who had married Olivia, whom Cassie "had never quite forgiven...
for being an outsider who had come into the intricate web of life at
Pentlands out of (of all places) Chicago." Still, when she arrived,
so did her substantial fortune. By this point you probably get the
picture. Now try the novel, written with Louis Bromfield's typical
combination of elegance and approachability!]
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"THE RICH GET RICHER, AND THE POOR GET POORER" -- THE COVID-19 MESS
HAS BRUTALLY EXPOSED HOW TRUE THIS IS. JUST LOOK AT THE STOCK MARKET'S
RECORD HIGHS. THEN LOOK AT AVERAGE INCOMES! NO ONE UNDERSTOOD THESE
THINGS BETTER THAN UPTON SINCLAIR, THE AUTHOR OF TODAY'S EBOOK !!
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SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
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NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AND AGAINST THE WILL OF
CANADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
Sinclair, Upton (1878-1968)
[American novelist, journalist, and politician]
Wikipedia
Letters to Judd, an American Workingman
(1926)
[No one has ever had a clearer view of how the economic system really
works than Upton Sinclair. "This book is written and published," says
the author, "as an act of love for America. It is made out of faith
in our country, and in you." He discusses theory versus reality. And
here's the reality: "Well, the first thing the big corporation financier
does is to seek out some form of special privilege, some opening through
which he knows that he can make quick and certain profits." We certainly
see this in the COVID era. Why such vast public subsidies for corporations?
Why did the citizens pay for developing the COVID vaccines, but private
interests ended up owning the patents, with guaranteed monopoly profits
for many years into the future? And why were American commercial interests
allowed to hijack our copyright laws, using open coercion? The
government and all the "opposition" parties just rolled over and played
dead! Excessive copyright lengths are economically harmful, are an
attack on the poor, and do not benefit the original creators, who are (how
shall we put this?) dead. As PGC readers know, public domain ebooks cost
less than those under copyright, because there is no longer a monopoly,
but an open competitive market. Speaking of copyright, there never was a
copyright on Upton Sinclair's fine book: "This book is an act of service,
not of money-making. The work is not copyrighted, and any one may reprint
it. If you want a large edition, the author's plates are at your service
free of cost. Read, and do your part."]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #65818]
2021/07/08:
OUR FIRST EBOOK BY THEODORE DREISER IS NOT ONE OF
HIS CELEBRATED NOVELS, BUT AN ACCOUNT OF HIS TRAVELS IN
EUROPE -- WITH MARVELOUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY PHILADELPHIA'S
WILLIAM GLACKENS !!
A FALL ELECTION IS LIKELY. OUR PARTIES ARE GOOD AT BOASTING, BUT NOT
SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING EXCEPT TAKING ORDERS FROM TR*MP,
THE U.S. AUTOCRAT. WHY SHOULD CANADIANS VOTE FOR ANY OF THE PARTIES?
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD (1) DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. AND (2)
REESTABLISH CANADA'S SOVEREIGNTY, BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS PUT IN
NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AND AGAINST THE WILL OF
CANADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
FOR EXAMPLE EXTENDING COPYRIGHT DURATIONS, YOU'RE THEIR COLONY!
Dreiser, Theodore [Theodore Herman Albert] (1871-1945)
[American journalist, poet, and novelist]
Wikipedia
A Traveler at Forty
(1913)
[Dreiser's delightfully written memoir of an extended trip to Europe.
And what a time to go! Europe was at its prewar height, and no one
suspected the catastrophe that was about to engulf the continent.
The places he visited included England, France, Italy, the Vatican,
Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands. Wow! What more need be
said? How about this: the book includes drawings by the fabulously
talented American artist
William Glackens (1870-1938)
Wikipedia!
Reviewers noticed that the book, unlike many travel narratives, paid
close attention to all social classes. The Nation (18 December
1913) seems to have liked this well enough: "In the pursuit of knowledge
Mr. Dreiser showed enterprise. His London contacts were carefully arranged, but he managed to quiz a street-walker on his own account. At Paris such
investigations were naturally part of the programme. Into all his
observations Mr. Dreiser carries a keen, quiet curiosity that is pretty
close to sympathy. There is an odd reverence about what can only be
described as prying tactics." But in The Bookman (February 1914),
Stuart Henry was less positive: "Instead of bringing to notice men who are worth while or entertaining, he acquaints us rather with those who can
guide through night haunts of immorality, have sex on the brain or desire
to "lick" foreigners. And for the women of Europe we are freely offered
examples from the various tenderloins who, even for their class, do
not propose much in the way of edification or esprit." But what else
can we we expect or would we want than a balanced view of all sectors
of society? And who better to provide it than the author of Sister
Carrie and An American Tragedy?]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #65765]
2021/07/04:
A MYSTERY NOVEL BY ARTHUR GASK, TAKING PLACE IN 1925, FOUR YEARS
AFTER GILBERT LAROSE HAS MOVED TO ENGLAND TO TAKE UP A NEW
POST IN LONDON !!
A FALL ELECTION IS LIKELY. OUR PARTIES ARE GOOD AT BOASTING, BUT NOT
SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING EXCEPT TAKING ORDERS FROM TR*MP,
THE U.S. AUTOCRAT. WHY SHOULD CANADIANS VOTE FOR ANY OF THE PARTIES?
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. (IT'S
THE FOURTH OF JULY!) BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS PUT IN NAFTA
AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AND AGAINST THE WILL OF CANADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
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FOR EXAMPLE EXTENDING COPYRIGHT DURATIONS, YOU'RE THEIR COLONY!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Marauders by Night
(1951)
[A Gilbert Larose novel, set in 1925! As the novel opens, a very
serious conference is underway at Scotland Yard. In the Eastern
Counties (Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk) there have been no fewer
than five major robberies. In attendance is Gilbert Larose, "then
in his twenty-ninth year and the youngest Detective Inspector at
Scotland Yard... a good-looking young fellow with a pleasant smiling
face. Transferred from Australia to the Criminal Investigation
Department in London, in four years he had earned an almost legendary
reputation." And Larose's achievements in this case will only
increase this reputation!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/07/01:
NORMALLY, NATIONAL HOLIDAYS CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE. HERE IN
CANADA, OUR POLITICAL PARTIES OPERATE A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY --
SO HERE WE ARE OBSERVING THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF CANADA'S
RECOLONIZATION (THE "NEW NAFTA") -- IMPOSED BY THE UNITED
STATES, WITH THE ACTIVE ASSISTANCE OF CANADA'S FEDERAL POLITICIANS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
FOR EXAMPLE EXTENDING COPYRIGHT DURATIONS, YOU'RE THEIR COLONY!
SO FOR CANADA DAY WE OFFER YOU AN EBOOK BY THE FAMOUS BENGALI AUTHOR
RABINDRANATH TAGORE (NOBEL PRIZE, 1913), A FIERCE OPPONENT OF
BRITISH RULE IN INDIA. EXCELLENT READING, AND AN INSPIRATION TO
CANADIANS AS WE SEEK TO RECLAIM OUR COUNTRY'S INDEPENDENCE !!
Tagore, Rabindranath (1861-1941)
[Bengali novelist, poet, and painter; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913]
Wikipedia
Glimpses of Bengal. Selected from the letters of
Sir Rabindranath Tagore, 1885 to 1895.
(1921)
["The letters translated in this book," writes our author, "span the
most productive period of my literary life, when, owing to great good fortune, I was young and less known.... It so happened that selected
extracts from a large number of such letters found their way back to
me years after they had been written. It had been rightly conjectured
that they would delight me by bringing to mind the memory of days when,
under the shelter of obscurity, I enjoyed the greatest freedom my life
has ever known." The letters were written from various cities in Bengal
and also from the Tagore family's country house at Shelidah (Shilaidaha)
Wikipedia,
which is now a museum commemorating our author. The translation was done
by "one who, among all those whom I know, was best fitted to carry it out",
namely the author's nephew, the political activist, author, and entrepreneur
Surendranath Tagore (1872-1940)
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Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #7951]
2021/06/27:
WHAT BETTER CHOICE FOR LIGHT SUMMER READING THAN THE IMMORTAL
"FATHER BROWN" STORIES OF G. K. CHESTERTON ??
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CANADA OF
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-- GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT !!
Chesterton, G. K. [Gilbert Keith] (1874-1936)
[English author, journalist, and theologian]
Wikipedia
The Complete Father Brown
(1911-1935)
[Father Brown is G. K. Chesterton's famous priest-detective
Wikipedia.
The stories are famous worldwide, and have often been reprinted and
adapted. The five individual collections published between 1911 and
1935 are available from Project Gutenberg Canada as individual ebooks,
but it is our pleasure to offer all five of these books in an elegant
single EPUB edition from the University of Adelaide.]
EPUB
2021/06/25:
IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE WE'VE OFFERED YOU AN EBOOK ON THEOLOGY.
AND IT'S ALSO BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE WE'VE OFFERED YOU AN EBOOK
BY G. K. CHESTERTON. SO... TODAY WE'RE OFFERING YOU A
VERY FAMOUS BOOK OF THEOLOGY BY G. K. CHESTERTON -- BEAUTIFULLY
WRITTEN, AS YOU WOULD EXPECT FROM CHESTERTON !!
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CANADA OF
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Chesterton, G. K. [Gilbert Keith] (1874-1936)
[English author, journalist, and theologian]
Wikipedia
The Everlasting Man
(1925)
Wikipedia
[Theological work, written for a general audience, and published
three years after Chesterton had joined the Roman Catholic church,
of which he became a strong advocate. It is an overview of human
history from a theological perspective. "The view suggested is
historical rather than theological, and does not deal directly
with a religious change which has been the chief event of my own
life... Much of it is devoted to many sorts of Pagans rather than
any sort of Christians". The book has been greatly admired by
many, including C. S. Lewis, and is written in Chesterton's
characteristically vigorous style, full of illuminating paradoxes.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #65688]
2021/06/22:
A MYSTERY NOVEL BY ARTHUR GASK SET IN THE ENGLISH COUNTY OF NORFOLK.
DOES IT FEATURE GASK'S FAMOUS SLEUTH GILBERT LAROSE?
WELL, OF COURSE !!
CANADA DAY IS COMING UP -- THE PERFECT TIME FOR OUR POLITICIANS TO RID
CANADA OF
THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA AT TR*MP'S COMMAND
-- GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT !!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Vaults of Blackarden Castle
(1950)
[Not a Gothic novel, as the title might suggest, but a mystery novel.
The castle is located in Norfolk: this might lead you to believe that
it featurea Gask's famous sleuth Gilbert Larose, who has long since
moved from Australia and has been living the good life in Norfolk: he
is now rather well off. Not that Larose shows any sign of giving up
his detective work, as this story demonstrates!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/06/20: TODAY, A FINE NEW ADDITION TO OUR ROBERT LOUIS
STEVENSON COLLECTION: HIS ACCOUNT OF HIS FIRST DISCOVERY OF
THE SOUTH SEAS !!
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CANADA OF
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Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
[Scottish novelist]
Wikipedia
RLS Website
In the South Seas
(1896)
[Travel memoirs, posthumously published, "being an account of
experiences and observations in the Marquesas, Paumotus and Gilbert
Islands in the course of two cruises on the yacht "Casco" (1888)
and the schooner "Equator" (1889)". These two voyages led to
a third, with Stevenson eventually moving to Samoa, where he stayed
for the rest of his life. Clearly he had liked what he saw during
the first two voyages! The Marquesas Islands are a very remote part
of French Polynesia, about 1400 kilometres northeast of Tahiti;
the Tuamotu Archipelago, as it is now called, is a huge archipelago
in French Polynesia, northeast of Tahiti. The Gilbert Islands today
form part of the independent republic of Kiribati (a name derived
from "Gilbert"), situated at the midpoint between Papua New Guinea
and Hawaii. Stevenson's arrival in the Gilberts was no mere visit
by an outsider, but a historical event of considerable importance:
the ninetieth anniversary of his arrival was chosen as the day when
Kiribati formally came into being as an independent republic!
So these memoirs are not only fine writing, but an important historical
source. Entertainment plus instruction equals ideal
recreational reading -- enjoy!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/06/17:
A MYSTERY NOVEL BY ARTHUR GASK FEATURING GILBERT LAROSE,
WHICH TAKES PLACE IN ENGLAND, BUT IN WHICH FRANCE ALSO PLAYS A
ROLE, PARTICULARLY THE ANCIENT AND BEAUTIFUL CITY OF BORDEAUX !!
CANADA DAY IS COMING UP -- THE PERFECT TIME FOR OUR POLITICIANS TO RID
CANADA OF
THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA AT TR*MP'S COMMAND
-- GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT !!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Storm Breaks
(1949)
[Mystery novel, featuring Gilbert Larose. The young and impressionable
Mary Hinks meets Birtle Dane, who is "with a big firm of wine merchants
in the wonderful city of Bordeaux", where he lives "in a big house upon
the bank of the beautiful Garonne river". He tells her that life there
is "much brighter and gayer than in England", and events move fast,
particularly because Mary's father is much impressed by the apparent
wealth of his prospective son-in-law. If you think that Mary's father
is a poor judge of character, and that trouble lies ahead, you may well
be right! And if Gilbert Larose is present, anything is possible!]
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[University of Adelaide]
2021/06/15:
OUR FIRST EBOOK BY THE LEGENDARY ENGLISH JOURNALIST AND HISTORIAN
SIR PHILIP GIBBS !!
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Gibbs, Philip [Philip Armand Hamilton] (1877-1962)
[English journalist and historian]
Wikipedia
Adventures in Journalism
(1923)
[Gibbs' account of his early years as a journalist. And what years
they were! He published his first newspaper article while still a
teenager, and in this beautifully written memoir recounts the final
years of what had seemed an unshakeable peace, the subsequent outbreak
and disastrous course of the First World War, and the shaky "peace"
that followed. He visited post-war Vienna, for example ("Ladies of
good family could not buy underclothing or boots. Professional men,
aristocrats, Ministers of State, lived on thin soup, potatoes, war
bread, and the very nurses in the hospitals were starving.") and
Turkey, where the "victorious" powers learned the limits of their
power. Gibbs seems to have met everyone: for example he was the
first journalist to interview the Pope -- yes, in this book he
tells how he obtained the interview!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #65577]
2021/06/10:
A MYSTERY BY ARTHUR GASK (FEATURING GILBERT LAROSE, NATURALLY),
SET IN ENGLAND AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR. THE WORLD HAS CHANGED,
BUT HUMAN NATURE HAS NOT -- LAROSE'S VERY SPECIAL SKILLS ARE DEFINITELY
STILL NEEDED !!
CANADA DAY IS COMING UP -- THE PERFECT TIME FOR OUR POLITICIANS TO RID
CANADA OF
THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA AT TR*MP'S COMMAND
-- GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT !!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The House with the High Wall
(1948)
[Mystery novel, written in the aftermath of the Second World War.
To judge from the opening words, Arthur Gask certainly did not
believe that war solves anything: "The aftermath of war is always
terrible. Peace is only for the dead, while unrest and disillusionment
are the portion of the living. With the bloodshed dying down, the
highways of the world are thronged with bewildered men and women
walking aimlessly where once they trod with such resolution and
such strength." Certainly in this novel we learn that the end of
the war did not mark the end of murders -- and of theft! In this
case, of an emerald necklace. There is indeed a house, located in
Suffolk, and after the war it was supplied with a high wall: six
feet high and four miles long! And behind this wall lives Mrs.
Dona Bianca and her peacocks. She is from South America, and is
said to be rich -- how else could she afford the peacocks? No need
to say more, except that Gilbert Larose turns up opportunely. He is
now almost fifty, "a smiling, happy-looking man, carrying his age well."
One thing has not changed: his ability to solve mysteries and ensure
that the truth comes out!]
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[University of Adelaide]
2021/06/08:
TODAY'S NOVEL IS A TRUE BLOCKBUSTER! WRITTEN BY UPTON SINCLAIR,
IT IS SET WITHIN CALIFORNIA'S OIL INDUSTRY, AND WEARS ITS YEARS VERY
LIGHTLY, SINCE (1) LARGE COMPANIES ACT MUCH THE SAME WAY NOW AS
100 YEARS AGO, AND (2) THEN AS NOW, SERIOUS MONEY TENDS TO PRODUCE
SERIOUS SQUABBLES WITHIN FAMILIES -- THE MORE THE MONEY, THE MORE
SERIOUS THE SQUABBLES !!
CANADA DAY IS COMING UP -- THE PERFECT TIME FOR OUR POLITICIANS TO RID
CANADA OF
THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA AT TR*MP'S COMMAND
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Sinclair, Upton (1878-1968)
[American novelist, journalist, and politician]
Wikipedia
Oil!
(1927)
Wikipedia
[Novel, written and published by Sinclair shortly after his arrival
in California, and described by its author as "a picture of civilization
in Southern California, as the writer has observed it during eleven
years' residence. The picture is the truth, and the great mass of
detail actually exists." As the novel opens, James Arnold Ross and
his son James Arnold Ross Jr ("Bunny") are headed to "Beach City".
It is the height of the oil boom, and Ross Sr is interested in acquiring
an oil property. The novel skilfully combines family sagas (the wealthier
the family, the more prone it is to conflict) with an analysis of how
the oil business actually works. Who could write such a work more
effectively than Upton Sinclair?]
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2021/06/04:
TODAY'S MYSTERY BY ARTHUR GASK, FEATURING OF COURSE HIS FAMOUS SLEUTH
GILBERT LAROSE, HAS A CLOSE CONNECTION NOT WITH LAROSE'S NATIVE AUSTRALIA,
BUT WITH THE CHINESE ISLAND OF HAINAN !!
CANADA DAY IS COMING UP -- THE PERFECT TIME FOR OUR POLITICIANS TO RID
CANADA OF
THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA AT TR*MP'S COMMAND
-- GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT !!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Dark Mill Stream
(1947)
["At eight and thirty years of age," this Gilbert Larose mystery begins,
"Chester Hardacre was a well set-up, good-looking man, with good features
and large, fearless blue eyes... Of strong personality, he was a well-known
character in Hoichow, the chief seaport of Hainan Island, only a few miles
distant from the mainland of China, where he had been a trader for fifteen
years." But if he earned a lot, he also spent a lot. And he has a sinister
personal reputation. Can he improve his life by moving to faraway England?]
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[University of Adelaide]
2021/06/02:
TODAY, A NOVEL BY JOSEPH CONRAD, A FAMOUS ONE --
AND ONE WHICH WAS PARTICULARLY LIKED BY ITS AUTHOR !!
CANADA DAY IS COMING UP!
NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR OUR POLITICIANS TO RID CANADA OF
THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA
AT TR*MP'S COMMAND !!
Conrad, Joseph [Korzeniowski, Józef Teodor Konrad]
(1857-1924) [Polish mariner and novelist]
Wikipedia
Lord Jim
(1900)
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[Novel, set largely amidst the islands of the Malay Archipelago.
It can be read as a cautionary tale, showing how important it
can be to resist peer pressure. Very early on in his seafaring
career the title character makes the disastrous error of following
the rest of his crew in abandoning his ship during a storm. Not
just the ship, but its passengers! In a 1917 Author's Note included
in this Adelaide digital edition, Conrad wrote, "As a matter of principle
I will have no favourites; but I don't go so far as to feel grieved and
annoyed by the preference some people give to my Lord Jim." Conrad
thereby has let the cat out of the bag -- it seems that he in fact
had a favourite novel, and that novel is called Lord Jim!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/06/01:
HAPPY JUNE! WE START THE MONTH WITH A CLASSIC STORY BY
EDGAR ALLAN POE !!
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
[American poet, editor, and author of novels and short stories]
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The Fall of the House of Usher
(1839)
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[One of Poe's most famous works, included in his 1840 collection
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, whose title nicely
describes the character of this eternal classic. The narrator
of the story has received a letter from his childhood friend
Roderick Usher: "The writer spoke of acute bodily illness -- of
a mental disorder which oppressed him -- and of an earnest desire
to see me, as his best, and indeed his only personal friend, with
a view of attempting, by the cheerfulness of my society, some
alleviation of his malady." Naturally he visits his friend of
former years, and on his arrival is shocked by what he finds! The
University of Adelaide digital edition includes two fine illustrations,
from 1909 one in colour by the British artist Byam Shaw (1872-1919)
Wikipedia
and another one from 1919 in black and white by the Irish illustrator
and stained glass artist Harry Clarke (1889-1931)
Wikipedia.]
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[University of Adelaide]
2021/05/26:
ARTHUR GASK'S FAMOUS DETECTIVE GILBERT LAROSE IS NOW LIVING NOT IN
AUSTRALIA, BUT IN A SEEMINGLY IDYLLIC PART OF ENGLAND, NAMELY NORFOLK.
BUT AS LAROSE DISCOVERS, STRANGE AND ALARMING THINGS CAN HAPPEN IN EVEN
THE LEAST LIKELY OF LOCATIONS !!
NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR OUR POLITICIANS
TO RID CANADA OF THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS
THEY PUT IN NAFTA AT TR*MP'S COMMAND!
THAT WAY, THEY CAN HAVE A CLEAN CONSCIENCE IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION --
KNOWING THEY'VE MADE CANADA
A SOVEREIGN NATION
ONCE AGAIN !!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Man of Death
(1945)
[Mystery novel, which opens as follows: "'Mr. Larose, I am being
watched,' said the small, scholarly-looking man with the high forehead.
'I live alone in a lonely house on a lonely shore, and I do not know
what it means. I am concerned about what is going to happen next.'"
Gilbert Larose's visitor, or should we say client, is Professor Mildmay,
who had practiced medicine before becoming Professor of Anthropology
at Cambridge University, and for the past eight years has been living
on his own at Blackstone Gap, Norfolk. Larose is inclined at first
to think his visitor a crank, but quickly changes his opinion!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/05/19:
OUR LATEST MYSTERY BY AUSTRALIA'S ARTHUR GASK! IT FEATURES HIS FAMOUS
CREATION, DETECTIVE GILBERT LAROSE, AND TAKES PLACE IN NORFOLK !!
NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR OUR POLITICIANS
TO RID CANADA OF THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS
THEY PUT IN NAFTA AT TR*MP'S COMMAND!
THAT WAY, THEY CAN HAVE A CLEAN CONSCIENCE IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION --
KNOWING THEY'VE MADE CANADA
A SOVEREIGN NATION
ONCE AGAIN !!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
His Prey was Man
(1942)
[A Gilbert Larose mystery. It's hard to imagine anyone in a more
fortunate position than Colonel Basil Hilary: "apart from his beautiful
young wife and baby, he was in perfect health, of ample means, and the
proud possessor of many hundreds of acres of good and fertile land in
the county of Norfolk." But trouble comes, in the form of the Colonel's
new game-keeper who, it appears, knows some things about the young
Mrs Hilary that she would rather be kept secret. Blackmail and murder
are now on the horizon -- it's a good thing that the famous Australian
detective Gilbert Larose now also lives in Norfolk!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/05/16:
FOR SUMMER READING, WE SUGGEST A MYSTERY BY HAMILTON'S OWN
HULBERT FOOTNER IN WHICH THE TALENTS OF HIS FAMOUS CREATION
MANHATTAN SLEUTH AMOS LEE MAPPIN ARE PUT FULLY TO THE
TEST -- A TEST WHICH HE OF COURSE FULLY PASSES !!
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TO RID CANADA OF THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS
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THAT WAY, THEY CAN HAVE A CLEAN CONSCIENCE IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION --
KNOWING THEY'VE MADE CANADA
A SOVEREIGN NATION
ONCE AGAIN !!
Footner, Hulbert (1879-1944)
[Canadian novelist and playwright]
Wikipedia
The House with the Blue Door
(1942)
[Mystery novel, featuring that Manhattan sophisticate and
sleuth extraordinaire Amos Lee Mappin. As the novel opens,
Mappin receives a phone call from his friend, the socialite
Mrs. Nicholas Cassells. He gets the call in the morning!
Since when has Sandra Cassells phoned anyone before noon?
Something big must be going on!]
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2021/05/15:
BY 1941, ARTHUR GASK, A DENTIST WHEN HE FIRST ARRIVED IN ADELAIDE,
HAD BEEN WRITING MYSTERY NOVELS FOR TWENTY YEARS, AND WAS
FAMOUS WORLD WIDE -- AS WAS HIS DETECTIVE, GILBERT LAROSE !!
NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR OUR POLITICIANS
TO RID CANADA OF THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS
THEY PUT IN NAFTA AT TR*MP'S COMMAND!
THAT WAY, THEY CAN HAVE A CLEAN CONSCIENCE IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION --
KNOWING THEY'VE MADE CANADA
A SOVEREIGN NATION
ONCE AGAIN !!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Beachy Head Murder
(1941)
[Mystery novel, in which Gask's famous sleuth Gilbert Larose
makes his appearance, but takes a lesser role than usual.
The narrator is the eminently respectable Jason Brown:
"I open Flower Shows, I give away prizes at the local sports
and I am on the Boards of Management of several public institutions."
However: "But I was not always so esteemed. I was a hunted man once."
Clearly there's a story waiting to be told!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/05/11:
YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA'S MOVIE APOCALYPSE NOW. THAT CLASSIC OF THE CINEMA WAS BASED ON JOSEPH CONRAD'S AGELESS CLASSIC,
HEART OF DARKNESS, WHICH WE PRESENT TO YOU TODAY !!
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THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA
AT TR*MP'S COMMAND !!
Conrad, Joseph [Korzeniowski, Józef Teodor Konrad]
(1857-1924) [Polish mariner and novelist]
Wikipedia
Heart of Darkness
(1899)
Wikipedia
[Rarely have an author's personal experiences been so powerfully
transformed into literature: Conrad himself had captained a boat on
the Congo River, and eight years later he gave the world this classic
novella. In essence, it is an attack on the catastophes that European
colonialism brought to Africa, and centres on the life and death of Mr.
Kurtz, who runs a trading post in a very remote area upriver in central
Africa, and is both feared and worshipped by the people in his trading
area. Not all of the story takes place in Africa. At the beginning
of the story, the narrator, an English seaman named Charles Marlow,
describes how he crosses the Channel to sign his contract, and duly
arrives "in a city that always makes me think of a whited sepulchre...
I had no difficulty in finding the Company's offices. It was the biggest
thing in the town, and everybody I met was full of it. They were going
to run an over-sea empire, and make no end of coin by trade." At the
end of the novel Marlow finds himself back in Europe, and his outlook
has been permanently changed by the appalling things he has seen. If this
happens to remind you of Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now
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that is no coincidence, for this famous novella inspired that famous film!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/05/07:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS A CLASSIC MYSTERY NOVEL BY ARTHUR GASK, AND, YES, IT
FEATURES GASK'S FAMOUS SLEUTH GILBERT LAROSE !!
NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR OUR POLITICIANS TO RID CANADA OF
THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA
AT TR*MP'S COMMAND !!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Tragedy of the Silver Moon
(1940)
[Mystery novel, featuring Gask's famous sleuth Gilbert Larose.
It begins in what seems to be a medical practice, but Professor
Paris Starbuck is not a doctor! "The Professor was a man of
varied attainments, and in his time had been a chemist's errand boy,
an employee in the Zoological Gardens, a kennelman to a veterinary
surgeon, a conjurer, and a chauffeur and handyman to an East End
practitioner of medicine. From the experiences gained in these
occupations he now carried on a very successful practice as a quack
doctor, styling himself 'Professor' to avoid trouble with the police."
Of course, this kind of deception becomes difficult to maintain if
a customer dies!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/05/05:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS JOSEPH CONRAD'S SECOND NOVEL, SET IN THE EASTERN
PART OF THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO !!
NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR OUR POLITICIANS TO RID CANADA OF
THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA
AT TR*MP'S COMMAND !!
Conrad, Joseph [Korzeniowski, Józef Teodor Konrad]
(1857-1924) [Polish mariner and novelist]
Wikipedia
An Outcast of the Islands
(1896)
Wikipedia
[Conrad's second novel, a sequel to Almayer's Folly. The
islands in question are the Malay Archipelago (modern Indonesia),
where Almayer's Folly had been set. Like its predecessor,
the novel's focus is on a European, in this case Peter Willems.
"The man who suggested Willems to me," wrote Conrad in his 1919
Author's Note, included in our ebook, "was not particularly
interesting in himself. My interest was aroused by his dependent
position, his strange, dubious status of a mistrusted, disliked,
worn-out European living on the reluctant toleration of that
Settlement hidden in the heart of the forest-land, up that sombre
stream which our ship was the only white men's ship to visit."
And, really, there you have the novel. Like its predecessor, it is
a careful examination of what men will do when tempted or pressured,
particularly if the colonial system puts them in a position of privilege.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/05/03:
OUR LATEST NOVEL BY AUSTRALIAN MYSTERY AUTHOR ARTHUR GASK
-- A TRULY CLASSIC AUTHOR, ADMIRED BY H. G. WELLS, BERTRAND
RUSSELL, AND MANY OTHERS. HE CERTAINLY DESERVES HIS PLACE OF
HONOUR IN THE PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA CATALOGUE !!
NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR OUR POLITICIANS TO RID CANADA OF
THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA
AT TR*MP'S COMMAND !!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The House on the Fens
(1940)
[As this mystery novel opens, Dr Methuen, who has his practice
in Wimpole Street, a very fashionable address then and now, has
just had the difficult experience of breaking to a patient the
sad news that the patient's prospects for survival are not good.
The patient is now angry with his "smiling, sleek, complacent
friends" who will presumably outlive him. There is a change
of scene: we are now in Hampstead, where Sir George and Lady
Almaine are giving a party, one of the guests being his old
friend Major Henry Sampon. By the end of the evening, Major
Sampon is dead! How did this happen? And is there a connection
with Dr Methuen and his patient? This all sounds very complicated,
but fortunately Gilbert Larose is one of the guests -- who better
to solve this mystery than that legendary Australian sleuth?]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/05/02:
OUR FIRST EBOOK FOR MAY IS A MYSTERY NOVEL BY CANADA'S OWN
HULBERT FOOTNER !!
NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR OUR POLITICIANS TO RID CANADA OF
THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA
AT TR*MP'S COMMAND !!
Footner, Hulbert (1879-1944)
[Canadian novelist and playwright]
Wikipedia
The Death of a Celebrity
(1938)
[When was the modern concept of the "celebrity" invented?
Most likely in the nineteenth century, with the rise of mass
media. Certainly the actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)
and the singer Jenny Lind (1820-1887) were celebrities
of that time and are still celebrities today. The celebrity in
this mystery is Gavin Dordress, a very successful Broadway
playwright on Broadway -- a world that Footner knew very well,
being himself an actor and playwright. In any case, Dordress
is found dead in his Madison Avenue apartment, a gun on the
floor beside him. A suicide? Amos Lee Mappin, an accomplished
sleuth and an old friend of Dordress, has his doubts!]
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2021/04/29: SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE IS BEING SPOKEN OF ONCE AGAIN,
AND EVENTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY NOW SEEM VERY RELEVANT -- WHAT
AN EXCELLENT TIME TO READ KIDNAPPED, SET IN THE TUMULTUOUS
YEARS THAT FOLLOWED BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE'S 1745 UPRISING !!
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Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
[Scottish novelist]
Wikipedia
RLS Website
Kidnapped
(1886)
Wikipedia
[Historical novel, loosely based on real events, set in Scotland
in the aftermatch of Bonnie Prince Charlie's unsuccessful attempt in
1745 to restore the Stuart monarchy. Perhaps the best summary is that
provided by Stevenson himself in his full title for the book:
"Kidnapped. Being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour
in the year 1751. How he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings
in a desert isle; his journey in the wild Highlands; his acquaintance
with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites;
with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer
Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called."
If Treasure Island is Stevenson's most popular adventure
novel, surely Kidnapped is a very close second. The University
of Adelaide EPUB we offer includes the 1905 preface by Stevenson's widow,
Frances ("Fanny") Van de Grift Stevenson (1840-1914)
Wikipedia,
explaining how the novel came to be written, and the interest it
aroused
("For several years my husband received letters of expostulation or commendation from members of the Campbell and Stewart clans.")]
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[University of Adelaide]
If you would like to read an illustrated edition, we can offer you
the lavishly illustrated 1921 edition by Anglo-American artist
Louis Rhead (1857-1926)
Wikipedia
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #421]
and the 1922 edition illustrated by American artist
N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945)
Wikipedia
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #56562],
2021/04/26:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS JOSEPH CONRAD'S VERY FIRST NOVEL
-- AND HIS GENIUS IS ALREADY ON FULL DISPLAY !!
NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR OUR POLITICIANS TO RID CANADA OF
THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA
AT TR*MP'S COMMAND !!
Conrad, Joseph [Korzeniowski, Józef Teodor Konrad]
(1857-1924) [Polish mariner and novelist]
Wikipedia
Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River.
(1895)
Wikipedia
[Conrad's first novel, in which his peculiar strengths are already
evident. He wrote English beautifully, and yet he was not from an
English-speaking country, but from Poland, which through almost
his entire life was not an independent country, but a region, split
between the Russian, German, and Austrian empires: in fact, a colony.
This put Conrad in an excellent position to observe and understand
the colonial experience. Almayer's Folly demonstrates this
nicely. It is the first of Conrad's three Malay novels, set in what
is now Indonesia, but at the time was a Dutch colony. Kaspar Almayer
is a Dutch trader who lives with his Malayan wife, by whom he has had
a daughter, Nina. In anticipation of a British annexation of the area
(which never happens), and the resulting increase in business (which
also never happens), he puts up a preposterously large half-finished
house ("Almayer's Folly") as a venue for his business affairs. But
Almayer's delusions are not limited to commerce: his wife is secretly
determined that under no circumstances will their daughter Nina marry
a European. Nina is, in fact, strictly opposed to the European colonial
dream/nightmare, in which Almayer is so deeply invested.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/04/20:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS FROM ADELAIDE'S OWN ARTHUR GASK, AND OF COURSE
FEATURES GASK'S FAMOUS CREATION GILBERT LAROSE. BUT IT'S
1939, AND THE WORLD IS CHANGING: ENGLAND IS AT RISK! IF THERE
WAS EVER A TIME THAT LAROSE'S TALENTS WERE NEEDED, IT'S NOW !!
NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR OUR POLITICIANS TO RID CANADA OF
THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA
AT TR*MP'S COMMAND !!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Vengeance of Larose
(1939)
[Gilbert Larose is of course unrivalled as a criminal investigator.
But given the way the world has been going in the late 1930s, his
talents can now have an impact not just on local investigations but
on international affairs as well. Which turns out to be the case.
England is in danger: Larose takes to his new assignment like a duck to
water. H.G. Wells, no less, considered this to be Gask's finest novel!]
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[University of Adelaide]
2021/04/12:
HERE AT PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA WE THINK IT'S AN AVANTAGE THAT OUR
FOCUS IS ON BOOKS NOT OF THE PRESENT DAY -- FOR SO MANY REASONS!
ONE OF THEM IS THAT THESE BOOKS ALLOW OUR VISITORS TO LEAVE TODAY'S
PROBLEMS BEHIND AND VISIT ANOTHER TIME AND PLACE. TODAY'S EBOOK
OFFERS YOU EXACTLY THIS OPPORTUNITY -- IT'S A FINE MYSTERY NOVEL
FROM 1938 BY ADELAIDE'S ARTHUR GASK !!
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Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Grave-Digger of Monks Arden
(1938)
[A Gilbert Larose mystery novel. The gravedigger of the title is
named Daunt, and the name was appropriate, for "he gave to many who
encountered him in the country lanes at night the suggestion of
a prowling beast of prey." He was gravedigger "of the ancient
church of St. Benedict, in the little village of Monks Arden,
about three miles from Saffron Walden", a small and historic
town in the northwest corner of Essex. Some strange events
have been happening: events calling for the supreme talents
of Gilbert Larose, who seems doomed never to fully leave
behind his former career as a detective, much as he might wish
to enjoy in peace his new status as a country squire in the pleasant
solitude of Carmel Abbey.]
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[University of Adelaide]
2021/04/11:
THE VACCINES ARE HERE, BUT SO IS COVID-19'S THIRD WAVE. TIME TO
GO TRAVELLING -- WITH DR JOHN DOLITTLE, NO LESS! NO COVID-19 TEST
REQUIRED, AND NO QUARANTINE. ALL YOU NEED IS (1) TODAY'S FREE EBOOK,
AND (2) YOUR COMPUTER, MOBILE PHONE, OR TABLET !!
THE PROJECT GUTENBERG US EBOOK, ADDED TO OUR CATALOGUE TODAY, COMPLETES
OUR DIGITAL OFFERING BY PROVIDING YOU WITH AN EPUB VERSION OF
THE NOVEL!
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Lofting, Hugh [Hugh John] (1886-1947) [English civil engineer,
poet, illustrator, and writer of stories for children]
Wikipedia
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922)
Wikipedia
[Winner of the 1923 Newbery Medal for children's literature. As you
might expect, this second Doctor Dolittle book is about the Doctor's
travels outside England, including such places as Spain, Africa, and South
America. It is narrated by Tommy Stubbins, like the Doctor a resident
of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, but at nine and a half years of age much
younger than the Doctor! Tommy is describing from the perspective of
old age (for many years have passed) "that part of the great man's life
which I myself saw and took part in". And what a lot he had seen!
The novel is much longer than The Story of Doctor Dolittle,
lavishly illustrated by Lofting himself, and is full of information
about Doctor Dolittle's adventures outside England. For a summary
of the book, have a look at the Wikipedia article; better yet, download
the ebook and start reading! We offer two digital editions; the Project
Gutenberg US edition includes an EPUB version.
CAUTION: Certain elements of plot and language may seem racist
by the standards of today.]
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2021/04/04:
OUR EASTER PRESENT TO YOU IS AN IMMORTAL LITERARY CLASSIC,
AND A POWERFUL PLEA FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS. YES, TODAY WE'RE ADDING
ANNA SEWELL'S BLACK BEAUTY TO OUR CATALOGUE !!
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Sewell, Anna (1820-1878) [English social activist and
novelist]
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Black Beauty: his Grooms and Companions.
The Autobiography of a Horse.
Translated from the Original Equine by Anna Sewell.
(1877)
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[Anna Sewell's only novel, published in the last year of her life:
a towering and permanent literary classic. It is the account of the
life of a horse, Black Beauty, told from the perspective of Black Beauty
himself: in the course of the novel we meet a wide range of horses and
humans. The novel was written for adults, and is in essence a highly
effective plea for animal rights and the proper treatment of horses,
but its wonderfully pure classical English and short chapter lengths
make it relatively easy reading for children as well.
"The cover is from the 1897 Henry Altemus edition", according to the
University of Adelaide's complete HTML digital edition. No artist's
name is given.]
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[University of Adelaide]
2021/03/31:
WHAT BETTER COUNTRY TO VISIT THAN SPAIN? AND WHAT BETTER TRAVEL
COMPANION TO HAVE THAN W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM ??
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Maugham, W. Somerset [William Somerset] (1874-1965)
[English novelist and playwright]
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The Land of The Blessed Virgin. Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia.
(1905)
[Travel book, beautifully written (what else would you expect from
this wonderful author?) and full of interesting information on
the southernmost part of Spain, its history, and its people.
Project Gutenberg Canada offers you another famous travel book,
Pagan Spain, written half a century later by Richard Wright.
Books different in so many ways, but both of the highest excellence
-- that's why they have each found their place in our catalogue!]
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[PGUS #27252]
2021/03/27:
IT'S BEEN A WEEK OR TWO -- TIME FOR A MYSTERY NOVEL BY AUSTRALIA'S
ARTHUR GASK !!
NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR OUR POLITICIANS TO RID CANADA OF
THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA
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Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Night of the Storm
(1937)
[Mystery novel, featuring Gilbert Larose, of course! A man has
been killed, of that there is no doubt: his name was Edwin Asher
Toller, and he lived in the village of Stratford St Mary, six
miles from the ancient city of Colchester: he was the bailiff
(estate manager) of "the Priory", most definitely a Stately Home
of England, complete with butler, gardener, and four servants.
"The place has been in the possession of the Brabazon-Fanes,
who are one of the best county families round here, for hundreds
of years... The late General Brabazon-Fane, the last male of the
line, died two years ago and the property descended to his three
daughters Beatrice, Eva, and Margaret." All three sisters are
suspects -- what a mess! Can Gilbert Larose lend a helping hand?
Of course he can!]
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[University of Adelaide]
2021/03/25:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS BY JOSEPH CONRAD, NO LESS -- SET IN
SOUTH AMERICA, PUBLISHED IN 1904, AND, LIKE ALL OF CONRAD'S
NOVELS, ABSOLUTELY OF OUR TIME AND PLACE !!
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Conrad, Joseph [Korzeniowski, Józef Teodor Konrad]
(1857-1924) [Polish mariner and novelist]
Wikipedia
Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard.
(1904)
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[Novel, with an Author's Note added by Conrad in 1917. It marks
a transition point in his extraordinary writing career, being
preceded by various sea novels and stories (Lord Jim,
Youth, Typhoon), and followed by the political
novels (The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes).
Nostromo is an adventure novel, set in a South American
country named Costaguana, which is fictional, but bears an
obvious resemblance to Colombia. There are many shenanigans,
both political and financial, as was the case with Colombia
during the exciting period of the US annexation of the Panama
Canal Zone. The central character, Nostromo, originally from
Italy, is at the same time an important figure in Costaguana, and
yet somewhat apart from its people. "Perhaps the nearest approach
to a brief analysis of the complex web of this book is to say that
it tells how this Nostromo, whose pride and joy, whose whole
stock-in-trade in life, is his integrity, his unblemished
reputation, becomes a thief..." (Frederic Taber Cooper,
The Bookman [US], November 1904)]
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MANNING COLES' SECOND CLASSIC ESPIONAGE NOVEL FEATURING
TOMMY HAMBLEDON !!
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Coles, Manning [pseudonym of English author Adelaide Frances Oke Manning
(1891-1959) and British intelligence agent Cyril Henry Coles (1899-1965)]
Wikipedia
Pray Silence
(1940)
[It's hard to give a more accurate and concise summary than the one
provided by the Saturday Review in their 10 May 1941 issue:
"British spy loses memory and turns up decade later as high Nazi
police official. He makes up for lost time." Yes, it's Tommy
Hambledon, of course, in the second Manning Coles novel to feature him,
a novel known in the United States as A Toast to Tomorrow, an
excellent title, since it nicely parallels the title of the first novel,
Drink to Yesterday, which was set during the First World War.
Be that as it may, our hero is as far behind German lines as could be
imagined: Hitler himself shows up as a character!]
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TODAY'S EBOOK IS A COLLECTION OF STORIES, SOME SHORT,
OTHERS NOT SO SHORT, FROM ALDOUS HUXLEY !!
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Huxley, Aldous [Aldous Leonard] (1894-1963) [English novelist and essayist]
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Little Mexican and Other Stories
(1924)
[Huxley's third collection of stories. The first and longest,
Uncle Spencer, is nearly half the book. "My Uncle Spencer,"
says the narrator, "was a man of about forty when first I came
from my preparatory school to stay with him." But Uncle Spencer,
in spite of his English name, lives in eastern Belgium, which is
where the story begins. The final story, Young Archimedes,
twice adapted to film, is set in Italy, near the Apennines, and
centres on a boy who starts showing signs of an exceptional musical
talent. Little Mexican, the title story, is not about someone
from Mexico, but about a hat, apparently a Mexican one, which as hats
go was in fact very large. The narrator bought it in Ravenna, during
his first visit to Italy, "and my shadow on the pavements of Ravenna
was like the shadow of an umbrella pine." But it brought an unexpected benefit. Without it, people would never have thought he was a painter.
"And I should never, in consequence, have seen the frescoes, never have talked with the old Count, never heard of the Colombella. Never....
When I think of that, the little Mexican seems to me more than ever
precious." Three shorter stories fill out the volume: we leave them
to you to explore!]
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2021/03/12:
TODAY, THE NOVEL THAT STARTED IT ALL! THAT IS, THE SPY NOVEL (THE
FIRST OF MANY) THAT INTRODUCED TOMMY HAMBLEDON TO THE WORLD !!
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Coles, Manning [pseudonym of English author Adelaide Frances Oke Manning
(1891-1959) and British intelligence agent Cyril Henry Coles (1899-1965)]
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Drink to Yesterday
(1940)
[Neighbours Adelaide Manning, who had worked in the War Office
during the First World War, and Cyril Coles, a career officer in British
Intelligence, in 1940 jointly wrote their first novel (many were to follow)
featuring Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon
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It is set during the First World War: Hambledon is nominally a teacher,
but in fact the important part of his work takes place during the
vacations -- when he is in Germany! This work behind German lines
is presumably based on Coles' own experience: he joined up as a
teenager, had a phenomenal ability to learn languages quickly, and
did indeed work behind German lines! "Tremendously effective and
entirely thrilling tale of man whose split nationality and tragically
divided personal loyalties changed his whole life." (Saturday
Review, 15 February 1941)]
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2021/03/04:
TODAY WE WELCOME SCOTLAND'S KENNETH GRAHAME TO OUR CATALOGUE!
YES, WE NOW OFFER THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS -- WITH
MAGNIFICENT COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS BY PAUL BRANSOM, THE CELEBRATED
AMERICAN WILDLIFE PAINTER !!
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Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
[Scottish banker and novelist]
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The Wind in the Willows
(1908)
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[Novel. No ordinary novel, but one which has become permanently
famous around the world. And yet Grahame had trouble finding
publishers! It was published in the U.S. only after Theodore
Roosevelt, president at the time, persuaded Scribners to accept
the book, a decision we can all be sure they never regretted.
Another famous admirer was A. A. Milne, author of Winnie the
Pooh, who adapted part of it into a play. The main characters
are animals, living alongside a river in southern England: Mole,
Rat (technically a water vole, not a rat), Badger, and of course
Mr Toad. For more details, simply check out the excellent Wikipedia article. Or, still better, why not take the plunge and start reading
the book immediately? Once you've started reading, you won't want
to stop! "It is difficult to describe the impression made by this beautifully written book, or to determine whether it was intended
for children, for grown people, or for grown-up children--perhaps
it was meant for all. It is full of dewy nature, breathes the open
air of field, winding river, and forest." (The Nation,
24 December 1908) The Adelaide ebook comes with a superb set of colour illustrations
by the American wildlife painter
Paul Bransom
(1885-1979)
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which we consider fully the equal of the famous 1931 illustrations
by Ernest H. Shepard, which are still under copyright as of 2021,
and were supposed to be entering the public domain in 2027, not so
long from now.
The Tr*mp/Trudeau copyright extensions, an act of cultural vandalism,
will keep the Shepard illustrations under copyright until 2047.
]
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2021/03/02:
WHAT A WAY FOR UPTON SINCLAIR TO ENTER OUR CATALOGUE!
HERE'S HIS FAMOUS 1920 ANALYSIS OF HOW MEDIA COMPANIES OPERATE
-- IT'S ALL STILL TRUE TODAY. ACTUALLY, LET'S FACE IT, THINGS
ARE EVEN WORSE! SINCLAIR CONSIDERED THIS THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK
HE HAD EVER WRITTEN !!
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Sinclair, Upton (1878-1968)
[American novelist, journalist, and politician]
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The Brass Check. A Study of American Journalism.
(1920)
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[In 1920 Upton Sinclair published his brilliant analysis of American
journalism, which he considered to be dangerously hostile to the
American public: "During the war our industrial autocracy has learned
to organize for propaganda; it has learned the arts of hate. Today
all the energies which were directed against the Kaiser have been
turned against the radicals; also the spy-system which the government
developed for the war has been turned against the radicals."
The preface by
Romain Rolland
(1866-1944)
[Nobel Prize for Literature, 1915]
showed his understanding of the position Sinclair found himself in:
"I am happy to see you always so burning with energy, but your next
book prepares for you some rude combats. It requires a bold courage
to dare, when one is alone, to attack the monster, the new Minotaur,
to which the entire world renders tribute: the Press." And the hostile reception given the book largely demonstrated how correct Sinclair
and Rolland both were. Even though he was an extremely famous author,
he could not find a publisher, so published it himself: and getting
paper was a problem! When the book appeared, there were very few
reviews. And paid advertisements were refused as well! A century
after the book appeared, we can safely say that the media crisis has
if anything only gotten worse. Sinclair's continuing importance was
recognized in the 2020 Netflix film Mank, in which Bill Nye
plays Sinclair: it was nominated for no fewer than six Golden Globes!]
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[PGUS #64657]
2021/03/01:
WHAT BETTER WAY TO START OFF MARCH THAN WITH A NOVEL BY AUSTRALIA'S
ARTHUR GASK? BUT WHAT'S THIS? IT'S MORE OF A SPY NOVEL THAN A
MYSTERY -- AND A FINE SPY NOVEL IT IS !!
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Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Master Spy
(1936)
[Not a standard mystery novel, although murder is mentioned, and
Gilbert Larose takes centre stage. But he is not the Gilbert Larose
we have learned to love! He is "the one time international detective,
now a country squire and married to the beautiful and wealthy widow,
who up to the time of her marriage with him had been Lady Helen Ardane".
Yet he is not living a life of total leisure: the British Secret Service
needs his help! Does the novel deliver the espionage adventure promised
by the title? And does Larose still possess his remarkable sleuthing
abilities? The answer to both questions: Definitely!]
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2021/02/28:
TODAY, AN ACTION NOVEL BY "MANNING COLES", NO LESS, SET
IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, AND FEATURING
AGENT TOMMY HAMBLEDON -- WHO IS CARRYING OUT A DANGEROUS
MISSION WITHIN THE SOVIET UNION !! !!
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Coles, Manning [pseudonym of English author Adelaide Frances Oke Manning
(1891-1959) and British intelligence agent Cyril Henry Coles (1899-1965)]
Wikipedia
Alias Uncle Hugo
(1952)
[Novel of intrigue and espionage. Tommy Hambledon's latest
assignment takes him to the Soviet Union. The Second World
War is now over, but much intrigue is underway. Kaspar,
the orphaned son of an Eastern European monarch, is living
in the Soviet Union being sheltered by his tutor, who is
passing him off as his great-nephew. This is not a situation
that can last: fortunately Kaspar's Uncle Hugo shows up!
But who exactly is Uncle Hugo, and what is he planning?]
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OUR FIRST EBOOK BY SAMUEL JOHNSON IS HIS WONDERFUL ACCOUNT
OF THE JOURNEY HE MADE TO THE MOST DISTANT CORNERS OF SCOTLAND !!
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Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
[English lexicographer, essayist, and poet]
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
(1775)
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[Travel book, recognized on its publication as a classic, and
famous to this day. In 1773, already in early old age, the eminent lexicographer and critic, who had travelled very little during the
earlier part of his life, undertook an extremely strenuous journey
of almost three months to Scotland, including some very remote parts
of the Highlands and of the Hebrides. You'll often be using Wikipedia
to find out more about the places he visits! His focus throughout is on
what he sees each day, and his account is straightforward and always
interesting. It is certainly relevant to Canadians, for he was
visiting Scotland when the massive waves of emigration to Canada
were already underway: given that our first two prime ministers
were named Macdonald and Mackenzie, and were both born in Scotland,
who can deny that modern Canada is largely a Scottish foundation?
So for many Canadians this book will serve as an introduction to
the Scotland which their ancestors knew. Note: The Adelaide
ebook's title refers to the Western Isles, which is used
quite often, but the 1775 first edition gives Islands.]
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[University of Adelaide]
2021/02/26:
IN TODAY'S EBOOK, WE FIND ARTHUR GASK'S FAMOUS DETECTIVE
GILBERT LAROSE IN NORFOLK (NOT THAT FAR FROM SANDRINGHAM!);
HE HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN BY SCOTLAND YARD TO DEAL NOT WITH A MURDER,
BUT WITH A THREATENED KIDNAPPING !!
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Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Poisoned Goblet
(1935)
[As this mystery novel opens, Gilbert Larose is in his private office at Scotland Yard, deep in conversation with a senior investigator, Naughton Jones, who is about to go on medical leave. Larose learns to his amazement that he will be Jones' replacement! How did this happen? Through the intervention of Lady Helen Ardane, the wealthy American widow of a whiskey distiller, who lives in Norfolk (not that far from Sandringham!). She is extremely rich, twenty-seven years of age, and has a son, four years of age, who is at imminent risk of being kidnapped. Expertise is needed: hence
her procuring Larose's assignment to the case!]
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[University of Adelaide]
2021/02/21:
WE'RE DELIGHTED TO OFFER A MYSTERY NOVEL BY ADELAIDE'S ARTHUR GASK!
DARK DOINGS ARE AFOOT AT AN ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE -- WHO BETTER
TO CALL IN THAN THAT AUSTRALIAN MASTER SLEUTH, GILBERT LAROSE ??
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Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Judgment of Larose
(1934)
[Mystery novel, featuring Gilbert Larose. Sir James Marley likes
to have guests at Southdown Court in Eastbourne, on the Sussex Coast,
but this decidedly grand house party is the unexpected scene of a murder!
Just before his murder, Captain Dane had won more than two thousand pounds
at the nearby Goodwood Racecourse, and the circumstances certainly need
scrutiny. Who better to undertake this scrutiny than Gilbert Larose?]
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[University of Adelaide]
2021/02/18:
IN OUR CONTINUING EFFORT TO GIVE YOU SOME RELIEF FROM COVID AND THE
POLITICIANS, TODAY WE PRESENT OUR FIRST EBOOK BY LAURENCE BINYON;
ACTUALLY, THE FIRST BOOK HE EVER PUBLISHED. IT'S A BEAUTIFULLY
ILLUSTRATED ART MONOGRAPH, WHICH WILL LOOK FABULOUS ON YOUR TABLET,
MOBILE PHONE, OR MONITOR -- ENJOY !!
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Binyon, Laurence [Robert Laurence] (1869-1943)
[English poet, translator, and art historian]
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Dutch Etchers of the Seventeenth Century
(1895)
[Art monograph. Laurence Binyon is best known today for his poetry,
but in his early adulthood he worked at the British Museum, specializing
in prints and drawings, and this is his first published work: learned
and yet easy reading. Many illustrations, ideal for displaying on
your monitor or mobile device!]
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[PGUS #64570]
2021/02/17:
TODAY, RUDYARD KIPLING'S SECOND JUNGLE BOOK -- FEATURING
SOME FINE ARTWORK BY KIPLING'S FATHER !!
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Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
[Anglo-Indian novelist and poet; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1907]
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The Second Jungle Book
(1895)
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[Stories and poems, similar in subject and style to those in
the original Jungle Book, of which it is naturally a
continuation. If you liked the first book, you'll probably
like the second! "Decorated by" the author's father,
John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911)
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who had made similar contributions to the original Jungle Book.]
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[PGUS #37364]
2021/02/16:
TODAY, AN EBOOK BY RUDYARD KIPLING! WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
THE JUNGLE BOOK -- AND OUR EBOOK INCLUDES MANY OF
THE FIRST EDITION'S WONDERFUL ILLUSTRATIONS !!
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Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
[Anglo-Indian novelist and poet; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1907]
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The Jungle Book
(1894)
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[One of Kipling's most famous works, whose fame and influence show no
signs of diminishing. It is a set of animal fables, published individually
and then as this collection, mostly set in India, and strongly influenced
by the ancient classical literature of Kipling's native India. The Adelaide
ebook includes many drawings selected from the 1894 original edition of
The Jungle Book, which was richly illustrated by no fewer than
three artists: the author's father,
John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911)
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American artist
William Henry Drake (1856-1926)
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and American artist
Paul Frenzeny (d. 1902)
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Traduction française par
Louis Fabulet (1862-1933)
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et
Robert d'Humières (1868-1915)
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Le Livre de la Jungle
(1899)
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[PGUS #54183]
2021/02/14:
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!! OUR PRESENT TO YOU IS A FINE NEO-GOTHIC
DETECTIVE NOVEL BY ARTHUR GASK! IF YOU WANT TO GIVE US A VALENTINE'S
PRESENT IN TURN (THANK YOU!), SIMPLY KEEP UP AND STEP UP YOUR OPPOSITION TO
TR*MP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS, WHICH HAVE NO PLACE IN CANADA !!
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Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Hidden Door
(1934)
[Gothic detective novel. Yes, seriously! Here's the opening sentence:
"Grim and grey was Thralldom Castle. Eight hundred years and more its
mighty walls had reared their heights to Heaven, scorched by the suns,
buffeted by the tempests and fretted by the lashing rains." And that's
just the beginning! Is there more to be said? Well yes! Arthur Gask
once again shows his mastery of the writer's craft, and his detective,
Gilbert Larose, yet again shows that he is equal to any kind of challenge!]
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[University of Adelaide]
2021/02/11:
OUR LATEST MYSTERY BY ARTHUR GASK FINDS DETECTIVE GILBERT
LAROSE FIGHTING A MAJOR CASE OF BLACKMAIL, INVOLVING A RICH NEW
YORK BANKER NEWLY ARRIVED IN BRITAIN !!
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Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Gentlemen of Crime
(1932)
[Mystery novel. Gilbert Larose is back, and this time he's fighting
blackmail! Mr Ephraim Smith, after a successful banking career in
New York City, has moved to the United Kingdom and has been happily
engaged in a lavish lifestyle: a house in Park Lane, a castle in the
English countryside, an estate in Scotland, and so on. Then he gets
a letter demanding that he make a relatively small donation to the
Norwich Children's Hospital. "If you fail to do so within three days,
the consequences will be unpleasant." He does not make the donation,
and arson ensues, costing him three thousand pounds. Things get worse
from then on. It's a good thing that Gilbert Larose is on the case!]
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2021/02/10:
OUR CONTRIBUTION TO BLACK HISTORY MONTH IS RICHARD WRIGHT'S
FAMOUS ACCOUNT OF HIS CHILDHOOD IN MISSISSIPPI !!
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Wright, Richard [Richard Nathaniel] (1908-1960)
[American novelist, poet, and essayist]
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Black Boy. A Record of Childhood and Youth.
(1945 version)
[An immortal classic, often surrounded by controversy since its first
publication, in which Wright recounts his earliest years in Mississippi,
ending with his departure in 1925 for Memphis and his later move to Chicago.
Wright's original manuscript had included six further chapters dealing with
his life in Memphis and Chicago: after discussions with his publisher, Wright
omitted these chapters from the 1945 first edition, which is the basis for
our ebook; they were not published in full until 1977. We include, however,
the first edition's Introductory Note by
Dorothy Fisher Canfield (1879-1958)
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"[Wright] does not care whether you read "Black Boy" as a novel, an autobiography,
or a case study, provided you read him. And read him you must."
(Howard Mumford Jones, Saturday Review, 3 March 1945)]
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OUR LATEST NOVEL BY ADELAIDE'S ARTHUR GASK FINDS HIS FAVOURITE
DETECTIVE GILBERT LAROSE NOT IN AUSTRALIA, BUT IN LONDON!
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Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The House on the Island
(1931)
[The start of this mystery finds Gilbert Larose not in Adelaide,
nor in any part of his beloved Australia, but in London, Scotland Yard
to be specific, in the office of the Chief Commissioner. Yes, he is
now internationally famous! "Why, it's proverbial in Australia that
Larose can reason back as quickly as he can reason forward, and they
say that when a murder's been committed, no matter how long after,
he can still see the very shadow that the murderer cast upon the wall."
He has been brought in to deal with a crime wave in the East Counties
that has been going on for six months. But immediately on landing in
England he makes it clear that he is no ordinary detective, by foiling
a pickpocket who was attempting to rob him. Did he turn the pickpocket
in? No, he took him to dinner, persuaded him that he also was a
pickpocket, and over that dinner learned a great deal about the
realities of crime in the capital: "it was such an opportunity for me to
learn from the opposite camp how you gentlemen here work, for I was able
to go into places I could not have got into in any other way." Talk about
a quick study! That's the end of the trailer; for the main feature,
download the ebook!]
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2021/02/07:
TODAY'S EBOOK BY JACK LONDON IS BASED ON HIS PERSONAL
EXPERIENCES (AND STRUGGLES) WITH ALCOHOL -- AN ISSUE THAT CONTINUES
TODAY, BUT WAS MORE HONESTLY DISCUSSED IN LONDON'S TIME THAN NOW !!
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London, Jack (1876-1916)
[American novelist, political activist, and journalist]
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John Barleycorn
(1913)
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[Novel. One of the mysteries of our age is the disappearance of
the temperance movement. The ravages of alcohol continue, with
immense harm to the social fabric, but are no longer commented on.
Things were quite different a hundred years ago! But London's
novel, with its focus on alcohol, is quite nuanced. John Barleycorn
is a traditional name for barley, and by extension for the alcohol
derived from barley. "His way leads to truth naked, and to death.
He gives clear vision, and muddy dreams. He is the enemy of life,
and the teacher of wisdom beyond life's wisdom. He is a red-handed
killer, and he slays youth." But every aspect of society, particularly
male society, is heavily biased towards alcohol. That hasn't changed!
So Jack London has created a classic autobiographical novel that has
lost none of its relevance since its first appearance. His conclusion?
"I wish my forefathers had banished John Barleycorn before my time...
else I should not have made his acquaintance."]
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[PGUS #318]
2021/02/05:
NOT ALL KILLINGS ARE MURDERS, BUT THIS FACT, ALTHOUGH EASILY
STATED, IS NOT SO EASILY PROVED TO BE THE CASE. IT'S A GOOD THING
THAT GILBERT LAROSE IS ON HAND IN OUR LATEST MYSTERY FROM
AUSTRALIA'S ARTHUR GASK!
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Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Shadow of Larose
(1930)
[Mystery novel, featuring Gilbert Larose, "the star of all the detectives
of the great Commonwealth of Australia, the prince of all the trackers of
crime". Charlie Edis, the Adelaide bank clerk at the centre of the story,
is undoubtedly a killer, in fact he's killed twice. But a killer is not
always a murderer. A tricky situation, which certainly justifies bringing
in Gilbert Larose from Sydney!]
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[University of Adelaide]
2021/02/02:
TODAY'S MYSTERY NOVEL BY ARTHUR GASK TAKES HIS DETECTIVE,
GILBERT LAROSE, TO THE BEAUTIFUL BUT ISOLATED SHORES OF
SOUTH AUSTRALIA. BUT IF LAROSE THOUGHT HE WAS ON HOLIDAY,
HE SOON DISCOVERS HIS MISTAKE!
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THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA
AT TR*MP'S COMMAND !!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Lonely House
(1929)
[One of Arther Gask's most popular mystery novels. The house in
question is indeed lonely, being located on a remote part of South Australia's coast, far from any roads. It would be hard to imagine
a more isolated location. But as it happens Gilbert Larose, "the
best known of all the detectives of the great Commonwealth of
Australia", normally a resident of Sydney, is visiting the area.
He is recovering from typhoid fever, and the quiet and law-abiding
lifestyle of South Australia will, it is thought, help his
convalescence. He arrives "expecting to be intensely bored and
wondering gloomily how he would be able to fill in his time." Well,
boredom turns out not to be a problem at all. Quite the contrary!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/01/30:
TODAY WE'RE DELIGHTED TO INTRODUCE E. M. FORSTER TO OUR
CATALOGUE! HE ENTERED THE CANADIAN PUBLIC DOMAIN IN JANUARY,
A HUGE 96 YEARS AFTER THE BOOK WAS PUBLISHED -- PREPOSTEROUS!
IF TR*MP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS WERE FULLY IN PLACE (THEY SOON
WILL BE), IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN 116 YEARS FOR THIS NOVEL TO
ENTER THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. PREPOSTEROUS, AND COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE!
TR*MP HAS BEEN DUMPED BY THE AMERICANS; NOW IT'S TIME FOR CANADA TO DUMP
TR*MP AS WELL,
AND FOR PARLIAMENT TO DECLARE CANADA'S INDEPENDENCE AND ANNUL
TR*MP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS !!
Forster, E. M. [Edward Morgan] (1879-1970)
[English novelist, travel writer, and critic]
Wikipedia
A Passage to India (1924)
Wikipedia
[One of Forster's most famous novels, and the last one published during
his lifetime. It takes place in British India, centres on Dr. Aziz
and on a group of English expatriates, and fully recognizes the ethnic
and religious differences of the time (and, to be honest, of our time).
There have been many discussions of the biases in the novel, but let's
get real! It is by no means Anglocentric, something remarkable in a
novel published by an Englishman long before the end of British India.
The book was well received when it was published, and was awarded the 1924
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #61221]
2021/01/26:
OUR SIXTH NOVEL BY ADELAIDE'S ARTHUR GASK, AND OUR SECOND ONE
FEATURING HIS SLEUTH, GILBERT LAROSE! NOT INCIDENTALLY,
UNDER DONALD TR*MP'S SCANDALOUS COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS, ARTHUR
GASK'S NOVELS WOULD STILL BE LOCKED AWAY UNDER COPYRIGHT.
TR*MP'S IMPEACHMENT CONTINUES: NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR
OUR POLITICIANS TO CLEANSE CANADA OF
THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA
AT TR*MP'S COMMAND !!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Dark Highway
(1928)
[Mystery novel, marking the second appearance in literature of Gask's
sleuth Gilbert Larose. "A man still under thirty, he was by far the
greatest detective that the Commonwealth had ever known... In his ideas
he was a poet, an artist, and a dreamer--in fact, he was almost the last
man one would have associated in any way with crime, yet crime in all
its phases was the study and obsession of his life." The dark highway
in the title is a desolate stretch of the road between Adelaide and
Melbourne. "To the traveller, this part of the Adelaide-Melbourne route
has always been the one most dreaded--because of its drifting sands, its
loneliness, and the absence of all help should help be required." An
appropriate setting for some sinister events! Murders, actually, which
seem to have everything to do with horse-racing, in particular the race
for the Christmas Cup at the Port Adelaide Racing Club!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/01/20:
OUR FIFTH NOVEL BY ADELAIDE'S ARTHUR GASK IS A VERY SPECIAL ONE
-- IT MARKS THE ARRIVAL OF HIS FAVOURITE SLEUTH, GILBERT LAROSE!
OH YES, TODAY THE AMERICANS GOT RID OF DONALD TR*UMP -- HE'S DOWN
IN MAR-A-LAGO, WE HEAR! NOW IT'S TIME FOR OUR POLITICIANS TO REMOVE
THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA
AT TR*MP'S COMMAND !!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Cloud the Smiter
(1926)
[Mystery novel, marking the first appearance of Gilbert Larose,
Gask's favourite sleuth in the many mystery novels he was to write
in the years to come. The novel begins innocently enough. A young
medical student from Sydney is taking a short holiday in Adelaide,
and takes his bicycle for a solitary ride outside the city. Since he
is alone, and in an area he does not know, naturally he has some
problems with his tires and his lamp. He encounters two strangers
who, it turns out, are up to no good. They seem to be part of a gang
headed by someone called the Smiter. Lots of things are happening,
clearly. And we're only in the first chapter! As the novel proceeds,
we learn much more about what the gang is up to -- think big, think
evil! Inspector Romilly of the Adelaide police gets involved, and
decides that expert help is needed, so sends an urgent telegram to
Sydney: "He had a personal friend there in the Head Detective Office, the great Gilbert Larose..." And that is how we meet Larose, who immediately
became and remained Gask's favourite sleuth through the rest of his life
(and novels). Does Larose's intervention make a difference? Of course
it does! "Another capital Australian mystery story... It is a story that
you won't want to put down until finished." (The World's News
[Sydney], 3 July 1926)]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/01/15:
LET'S GET AWAY FROM IT ALL!
BEGONE, COVID-19! BEGONE, DONALD TR*MP AND YOUR MINIONS! BEGONE,
YOUR TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS IMPOSED ON CANADIANS BY YOUR
OTTAWA MINIONS!
INSTEAD, LET'S HEAD OFF TO ENGLAND JUST BEFORE THE REIGN OF VICTORIA,
AND VISIT THE VILLAGE OF PUDDLEBY-ON-THE-MARSH, THERE TO MAKE THE
ACQUAINTANCE OF... DOCTOR JOHN DOLITTLE !!
THE PROJECT GUTENBERG US EBOOK, ADDED TO OUR CATALOGUE TODAY, COMPLETES
OUR DIGITAL OFFERING BY PROVIDING YOU WITH AN EPUB VERSION OF
THE NOVEL!
Lofting, Hugh [Hugh John] (1886-1947) [English civil engineer,
poet, illustrator, and writer of stories for children]
Wikipedia
The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920)
Wikipedia
[Or, to give its full title, The Story of Doctor Dolittle.
Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing
Adventures in Foreign Parts. Never before Printed.
The first of Lofting's children's novels about the famous
doctor from Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, with many illustrations
by Lofting himself, and a preface written for the tenth printing
(1922) by PG Canada author
Hugh Walpole (1884-1941).
As the story begins we are introduced to John Dolittle, M.D., who
is finding as time passes that he increasingly prefers his animal
patients to his human ones, and so becomes a veterinarian, and much
more: he masters the languages of many species. "There is poetry here
and fantasy and humor... I don't know how Mr. Lofting has done it;
I don't suppose that he knows himself. There it is--the first real
children's classic since 'Alice.'" (Hugh Walpole). We offer two
digital editions; the Project Gutenberg US edition includes an
EPUB version.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #501]
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2021/01/13:
FORGET COVID, FORGET TR*MP, AND
FORGET OUR POLITICIANS, WHO DID
SO LITTLE TO RESIST HIM -- INSTEAD, LET'S HEAD OFF TO THE BAHAMAS,
AROUND THE TIME JAMES BOND WAS ACTIVE IN JAMAICA! BOND HIMSELF
IS NOT IN THIS NOVEL -- IN FACT, IAN FLEMING WAS TO INVENT HIM
TWO YEARS LATER! INSTEAD, WE HAVE CHEYNEY'S GREAT BELGIAN-BORN
CREATION ERNEST GUELVADA WHO AFTER MYSTERIOUS AND DANGEROUS
WARTIME SERVICE IS NOW A BRITISH CITIZEN AND AN INTERNATIONAL
AGENT, APPEARING IN PLACES WHERE HIS SERVICES ARE NEEDED -- SUCH
AS THE ISLAND OF "DARK BAHAMA" !!
Cheyney, Peter [Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse] (1896-1951)
[English poet and novelist]
Wikipedia
Dark Bahama
(1950)
[The "Dark" in the title is a tipoff: this spy novel is part of
Cheyney's "Dark" series of espionage novels, not so very far removed
from the works of Ian Fleming, his contemporary. And just as
Fleming used Jamaica in some of his most famous James Bond stories,
so Cheyney has here used the Bahamas. The island of Dark Bahama,
our novelist tells us, is beautiful, and the people living there
devote their lives to pleasure. But if Cheyney's mysterious Ernest
Guelvada is there, chances are that there is trouble. And indeed
there is: murder, to start with, and assorted intrigues.
"Pseudo-sophistication, cliché culture", commented the Saturday
Review (3 Feb 1951), but what's wrong with that? Yet the
novel also features "taut narrative and plausible surprise to
last sentence" -- that sounds good! All in all, if you like the
spy stories of Fleming and his contemporaries, you may find this
very much to your taste!]
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2021/01/08: THIS WEEK CONGRESS DUMPED TR*MP! CANADA'S TURN NOW TO
DUMP HIS NAFTA COLONIALIST CLAPTRAP -- 20-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS INDEED!
HE CAN PUT THOSE UP HIS MAR-A-LAGO!
HERE AT PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA, WE LOVE AMERICANS, AND WE LOVE
AMERICAN AUTHORS! TODAY'S EBOOK IS BY CALIFORNIA'S JACK LONDON.
IT'S HIS STUNNING 1908 NOVEL THE IRON HEEL, WHICH HAS NOT
DATED IN THE LEAST -- IT IS A STORY OF THE UNITED STATES BECOMING A
CRUEL TOTALITARIAN STATE WHICH OPPRESSES THE POOR, CODDLES THE
MILITARY, AND EMPOWERS THE RICH !!
London, Jack (1876-1916)
[American novelist, political activist, and journalist]
Wikipedia
The Iron Heel
(1908)
Wikipedia
[Novel, set in Northern California, and told from the perspective
of centuries from now, of the social turmoil in the early part of
the twentieth century and its culmination: "appalling alike to us
who look back and to those that lived at the time, capitalism,
rotten-ripe, sent forth that monstrous offshoot, the Oligarchy...
a fact established in blood, a stupendous and awful reality."
The Oligarchy was also known as the Iron Heel, as it was seen to
be "descending upon and crushing mankind." In particular, the Iron
Heel oppressed the poor, destroyed unions, politicized the military,
and carefully promoted the interests of the rich. All of which
sounds like a certain American president of the early 21st century.
Sad to say, just as in 2020 every single one of Canada's
federal parties actively promoted Tr*mp's colonialist takeover of
Canada's laws, so in the novel Canada "crushed her own socialist
revolution, being aided in this by the Iron Heel... The result was
that the Iron Heel was firmly established in the New World. It had
welded into one compact political mass the whole of North America
from the Panama Canal to the Arctic Ocean." Sounds a lot like the
2020 version of NAFTA! A fine novel, and an amazingly prescient
view from 1908 of future events that lay hidden from most...
but not from Jack London!]
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[University of Adelaide]
2021/01/06:
AUSTRALIAN NOVELIST ARTHUR GASK WAS KNOWN FOR HIS
EXCELLENT MYSTERY NOVELS, OF WHICH HE WROTE MANY.
BUT IN 1936, HE TOOK A BREAK FROM MYSTERIES AND INSTEAD
GAVE US AN EXCEPTIONALLY ENTERTAINING FANTASY/SATIRE ON
LIFE IN ADELAIDE. EXCELLENT LIGHT READING DURING THE
DIFFICULT PERIOD WE ARE ALL TRAVERSING !!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Jest of Life
(1936)
[Novel, but not a mystery novel; instead, a light-hearted satire of life
in Adelaide. As the novel opens, we are introduced to "Mr. Montague Twiggs,
dental surgeon of Adelaide, South Australia". Sounds like Gask wrote a
self-portrait! Or did he? If this is a self-portrait, Gask had some quite
unusual experiences. For example, it turns out that Mr Twiggs' spirit could
migrate into the bodies of other people. Archdeacon Bottleworthy to start
with, of Adelaide Cathedral! Merriment ensues.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/01/04:
OUR SECOND NOVEL OF THE NEW YEAR IS FROM AUSTRALIA! IT'S FROM
THE PEN OF ARTHUR GASK, WHO SET HIS NOVELS IN AND AROUND
HIS BELOVED CITY OF ADELAIDE. THESE NOVELS MAY HAVE BEEN SET IN
AUSTRALIA, BUT THEY QUICKLY ACQUIRED A WORLDWIDE REPUTATION !!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Secret of the Garden
(1924)
[Novel, narrated by its chief character, John Archibald Cups, "aged
thirty-two, ledger clerk of ten years' standing in the Consolidated
Bank of South Australia", who is framed by his employer and sentenced
to five years in jail -- with hard labour! His account of the trial
shows little respect for the justice system, and is a nicely written
piece of mockery. He is sentenced, but the warder taking him to prison
has a medical episode which our hero takes full advantage of, so instead
of being bundled off to prison he finds himself taking a tram to the
suburb of North Adelaide. Here he finds shelter in an unexpected place,
and help from an unexpected person -- "the eccentric recluse. Dr Robert Carmichael". And that's just the beginning of the adventure!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/01/01:
HAPPY NEW YEAR! OUR NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS ARE SIMPLE:
(1) REVERSE TR*MP'S COPYRIGHT GRAB LAST YEAR,
(2) GET RID OF HIS TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS, AND
(3) MAKE IT CLEAR THAT CANADIANS, NOT FOREIGN CORPORATIONS,
CONTROL OUR COPYRIGHT LAWS
LIFE CONTINUES, HOWEVER, AND WE CONTINUE TO SERVE YOU, ALWAYS!
OUR FIRST OFFERING OF 2021 IS A NOVEL BY LOUIS BROMFIELD,
SET IN NEW ORLEANS DURING THE CIVIL WAR OF 1861-1865 !!
Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956)
[American novelist, journalist, and organic farmer]
Wikipedia
Wild is the River
(1941)
[Novel. The "river" of the title is the Mississippi, in New Orleans,
where things are indeed wild, since it is no longer controlled by the
Confederacy, but has fallen to the Union Army. Which does not mean
that things have calmed down, either at the political level or in
the lives of those living in what is still a largely French-speaking
city. The novel is quite a read! "It is entertaining, it has enormous
gusto, swagger, voodoo mysteries, wonderful black women who devise love
potions for good American dollars, aristocratic Creoles, moonlight, fever,
sultry heat... and lots and lots of sex."
(Bess Jones, Saturday Review, 29 November 1941)]
CAUTION: Certain elements of plot and language may seem racist by the standards of today.
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2020/12/29: WHAT ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S FINEST BOOK WAS,
WHO CAN SAY? HE WROTE SO WELL IN SO MANY TYPES OF LITERATURE!
SO LET'S ASK A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT QUESTION: OF ALL HIS BOOKS,
WHICH IS THE MOST FAMOUS, IN EVERY COUNTRY AND IN EVERY AGE?
THAT'S EASY -- TREASURE ISLAND, OF COURSE !!
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
[Scottish novelist]
Wikipedia
RLS Website
Treasure Island
(1883)
Wikipedia
[Unquestionably the most influential of Stevenson's works: to this day
it continues to shape popular culture. It is written with marvellous
grace and skill, and as to the plot, the action never stops!
The period is the eighteenth century and the narrator is Jim Hawkins,
whose father runs the Admiral Benbow inn, located some distance west
of Bristol in an isolated area. This isolation seems to delight "the
brown old seaman with the sabre cut" who happens across the inn and
becomes a long-term guest. But he is not entirely at ease even in
this idyllic location, far removed from society: he pays Jim a silver fourpenny each month if he keeps his "weather-eye open for a seafaring
man with one leg". Clearly their guest has a past, as becomes abundantly
clear as the novel moves forward. Yes, there is definitely a treasure,
and an island as well. The rest we leave to you to discover!]
The University of Adelaide ebook includes a fine set of illustrations
from 1915 by the Anglo-American artist
Louis Rhead (1857-1926)
Wikipedia.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2020/12/27: AS YOU MIGHT GUESS, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S MORE NEW
ARABIAN NIGHTS FROM 1885 IS A SEQUEL TO HIS NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS
PUBLISHED THREE YEARS BEFORE -- WHICH WAS OUR CHRISTMAS GIFT TO YOU !!
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
[Scottish novelist]
Wikipedia
RLS Website
More New Arabian Nights -- The Dynamiter
(1885)
Wikipedia
[Stevenson's second collection of stories, written in collaboration
with his wife, the American writer
Frances ("Fanny") Van de Grift Stevenson (1840-1914)
Wikipedia.
The stories in the book are interconnected with each other and with the
stories in the earlier volume.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2020/12/23: MERRY CHRISTMAS! FOR HOLIDAY READING, OUR PRESENT TO YOU IS
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S FIRST SET OF STORIES, WHICH HAVE A
WONDERFUL TITLE -- NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS !!
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
[Scottish novelist]
Wikipedia
RLS Website
New Arabian Nights
(1882)
Wikipedia
[Stevenson's first collection of stories, with a 1905 preface
by Stevenson's widow, Frances ("Fanny") Van de Grift Stevenson (1840-1914)
Wikipedia.
The book contains two sets of stories, the very famous and often adapted
The Suicide Club
Wikipedia
and
The Rajah's Diamond
Wikipedia.
All of the stories first appeared in a magazine called The London,
which Fanny Stevenson described as "foredoomed to failure", since
it was underfinanced. And indeed it only lasted from 1875 to 1879.
But they were five glorious years! Stevenson's cousin, the art critic
Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson (1847-1900)
Wikipedia,
contributed to the stories in two ways. First, many of them
originated from prolonged speculative discussions between the cousins.
Second, "Whenever my husband wished to depict a romantic, erratic,
engaging character, he delved into the rich mine of his cousin's
personality. Robert Alan served, not only for the young man with the
cream tarts [at the start of The Suicide Club], but as Paul Somerset
in The Dynamiter and appeared in certain phases of Prince Otto
[Stevenson's 1885 novel]." The stories are full of action, and take
place in a Victorian universe not so very different from that of Sherlock Holmes: hardly a coincidence, since Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes' creator, were fellow Scotsmen who knew each other,
and who both attended the University of Edinburgh!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
Traduction française par
Thérèse Bentzon (1840-1907)
fr.wikipedia
Les Nouvelles Mille et Une Nuits
(1890)
fr.wikipedia
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #18123]
2020/12/19: WHO WOULD CHOOSE TO GO TO A REMOTE AND MOUNTAINOUS REGION OF
CENTRAL FRANCE WITH WINTER CLOSE AT HAND, GO ON A WALKING TRIP
ACCOMPANIED ONLY BY HIS DONKEY MODESTINE, AND THEN WRITE A CLASSIC
TRAVEL BOOK? WHY, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, OF COURSE !!
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
[Scottish novelist]
Wikipedia
RLS Website
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
(1879)
Wikipedia
[Really, a road movie in book form. In the latter part of 1878 Stevenson
spent a month in Le Monastier, a small town (smaller now than when
Stevenson visited it) in a remote part of central France. But he was
not there specifically to see Le Monastier, but to prepare for a
twelve-day trip through the rugged and desolate Cévennes mountains.
He chose a strange time of year for this challenging expedition, namely
October, with summer a fading memory. And the terrain was difficult:
"It was like the worst of the Scottish Highlands, only worse; cold,
naked, and ignoble, scant of wood, scant of heather, scant of life."
This naturally raises the question of why Stevenson would want to
make such a trip, to which he replies, "For my part, I travel not
to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake." But his
account of this trip is fascinating, and remains famous to this day.
And few transient visitors have had such an effect on the place they
visited: the route he took is known to this day as the
Chemin de Stevenson!
fr.wikipedia]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2020/12/16:
CHRISTMAS IS ALMOST HERE! IT'S BEEN A DIFFICULT YEAR FOR
EVERYONE; WHAT BETTER TIME TO READ A CHRISTMAS CAROL,
THE MOST FAMOUS CHRISTMAS STORY OF THEM ALL !!
Dickens, Charles [Charles John Huffam] (1812-1870)
[English novelist, editor, and social activist]
Wikipedia
A Christmas Carol
(1843)
Wikipedia
[Or, to give its full title, A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being
A Ghost Story of Christmas. This short novel by Dickens is surely
the most famous of his works. Is a summary really needed? Perhaps
not, but here goes! Ebenezer Scrooge ("scrooge" has long since become
a word in the English language) is the surviving partner of the financial
firm of Scrooge and Marley. It is Christmas Eve, but Scrooge is not an
admirer of that holiday, and tells his nephew, who has different opinions,
that "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips,
should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly
through his heart." But then Scrooge encounters the ghost of his late
partner Jacob Marley, who warns him that he must change his ways. Over
the next three days he will be visited by three spirits, each with
a message for him!
It is our pleasure to offer three digital editions,
each beautifully illustrated by a famous artist of the time:
From the 1843 first edition, illustrations in colour and in
black and white by
John Leech (1817-1864)
Wikipedia
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #46]
From a 1905 edition, illustrations in colour and in
black and white by American artist
George Alfred Williams (1875-1932)
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #19337]
From a 1915 edition, illustrations in colour and in black and white by
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939)
Wikipedia
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #24022]
Traduction française sous la direction de
Paul Lorain (1799-1861)
par
Mlle de Saint-Romain
et
André de Goy (*-1864)
:
Cantique de Noël [Le Chant de Noël]
(1857)
fr.wikipedia
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #16021]
Die treffliche Übersetzung von
Julius Seybt (*-1871)
de.wikipedia:
Der Weihnachtsabend. Eine Geistergeschichte.
(1877)
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2020/12/14: ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S SECOND "TRAVEL" BOOK DIDN'T TAKE
HIM VERY FAR AFIELD -- IT'S ABOUT EDINBURGH, WHERE HE WAS BORN.
BUT WHAT A BOOK IT IS !!
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
[Scottish novelist]
Wikipedia
RLS Website
Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
(1878)
Wikipedia
[Stevenson's second book was an account of his native Edinburgh.
But it is a balanced account of the city he knew, and while not
lacking in praise of the city describes some of the city's less
glamorous areas, and recounts some of its less illustrious
historical moments. And is often very witty! The book is
organized by city district, starting with the Old Town and
ending in the Pentland Hills overlooking the south end of the
city. An undying classic, by perhaps Scotland's finest author,
and a fine reading choice if you would like to know more about
"the Athens of the North".]
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[University of Adelaide]
2020/12/12:
OUR FIRST EBOOK BY THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN NOVELIST, ESSAYIST
AND POET RICHARD WRIGHT !!
Wright, Richard [Richard Nathaniel] (1908-1960)
[American novelist, poet, and essayist]
Wikipedia
Pagan Spain
(1957)
[Travel memoir. Richard Wright was born in Mississippi, grew up
in Chicago, but in 1946 had moved to France (by way of Canada!),
and stayed there for the rest of his life, even becoming a French
citizen. In August 1954 he was travelling in the far south of
France, when he took a snap decision, turned his car south, and
crossed the Pyrenee mountains into Spain. His encounter with
Franco's Spain led to this famous memoir, which remains relevant
to this day, for many of the issues Wright discusses remain
unresolved today. Few travel books are as interesting and as witty.]
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2020/12/10:
EACH OF EDGAR ALLAN POE'S THREE MYSTERY STORIES IS AN
ENDURING CLASSIC. TODAY WE ARE DELIGHTED TO PUBLISH THE
THIRD OF THESE STORIES, AND CAN NOW OFFER YOU THE
ENTIRE SET !!
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
[American poet, editor, and author of novels and short stories]
Wikipedia
The Purloined Letter
(1844)
Wikipedia
[The final mystery story by Edgar Allan Poe, considered by
its author perhaps the best of his "tales of ratiocination",
as he called his mysteries. Once again, the Prefect of the
Paris police calls on the services of C. Auguste Dupin for help
with a puzzling case -- the theft of a letter from the royal
apartments, which contains compromising information. But
where can the letter be found?]
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[University of Adelaide]
2020/12/08:
OUR SECOND CLASSIC MYSTERY BY EDGAR ALLAN POE, FEATURING
THE CHEVALIER C. AUGUSTE DUPIN !!
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
[American poet, editor, and author of novels and short stories]
Wikipedia
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
(1842)
Wikipedia
[Mystery story, "A Sequel to 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'".
As the story opens, things have calmed down in Paris, or, as
Poe's narrator puts it, "continuing to occupy our chambers in
the Faubourg Saint Germain, we gave the Future to the winds,
and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world
around us into dreams." Needless to say, this calm state of
affairs does not continue. For the Paris police are now very
much aware of the talents of the Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin,
and now often consult him in difficult cases, for example the
one involving Marie Roget. This sequel to The Murders in
the Rue Morgue, the first modern mystery story, is
independently famous, being the first mystery story based on a
historical event, to be specific the 1841 death, under circumstances
mysterious to this day, of Mary Rogers of New York City.
Note: We have retained the ebook's spelling "Roget",
and have not added a circumflex accent.]
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[University of Adelaide]
2020/12/06:
WE KNOW OUR READERS LIKE MYSTERY STORIES. THAT'S WHY WE OFFER
SO MANY OF THEM! TODAY, IT'S OUR PLEASURE TO PRESENT THE STORY
THAT STARTED IT ALL -- BY EDGAR ALLAN POE !!
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
[American poet, editor, and author of novels and short stories]
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
(1841)
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[What was the first modern mystery story, and where was it written?
Well, it wasn't written in England, but in the United States, by
Edgar Allan Poe, no less! And it has remained famous ever since
its first appearance. It features C. Auguste Dupin who is "of an
illustrious family", but has little money, and therefore readily
accepts the narrator's offer of covering the rent and maintenance
for both of them in "a time-eaten and grotesque mansion, long
deserted... and tottering to its fall in a retired and desolate
portion of the Faubourg St. Germain." Shortly afterwards they
(and the rest of Paris) learn of the shocking murders in the
Rue Morgue, which interest Dupin greatly. But he is not satisfied
with merely reading reports about the police investigation: "The
Parisian police, so much extolled for acumen, are cunning, but no more."
He would rather make up his own mind, after a personal examination
of the evidence. Fortunately he knows the Prefect of Police
"and shall have no difficulty in obtaining the necessary permission."
Which turns out to be the case, and matters preceed from there!
The University of Adelaide ebook includes a famous 1895 illustration by
Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)
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[University of Adelaide]
2020/12/01:
WE BEGIN DECEMBER WITH OUR FIRST TITLE BY JACK LONDON,
A TRULY FINE AMERICAN AUTHOR, WITH WIDE-RANGING TALENTS -- AS TODAY'S SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL WILL SHOW YOU !!
London, Jack (1876-1916)
[American novelist, political activist, and journalist]
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The Star Rover
(1915)
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[Science fiction novel, one of the many types of writing in which Jack
London excelled. The novel's narrator is Darrell Standing, a sometime
professor at the University of California, Berkeley, wrongly imprisoned
for the murder of another professor. He is harshly treated, to say the
least, during his years of imprisonment at San Quentin Prison, founded
in 1852 and operating to this day, in Marin County across the bay from
Berkeley: during these violent episodes he finds that he is able to
escape his pain by focusing his attention and entering an altered state,
during which he experiences interstellar travel, and much else.]
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[University of Adelaide]
2020/11/28:
WE NOW OFFER ALL NINE OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S NOVELS AND
STORY COLLECTIONS FEATURING SHERLOCK HOLMES !!
Doyle, Arthur Conan
(1859-1930) [Scottish physician and author; creator of Sherlock Holmes]
Wikipedia
His Last Bow
(1917)
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["The friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes", remarks Dr Watson in his preface
to this collection, "will be glad to learn that he is still alive and well, though somewhat crippled by occasional attacks of rheumatism." And indeed
we are glad! He is in fact living in Eastbourne, on the Sussex coast,
then as now a town attractive to the elderly. Despite its title, this is not the last set of Sherlock Holmes short stories, for ten years later The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes was to appear! Doyle had a remarkable ability to sustain the quality of his Sherlock Holmes stories as the series grew. His personal favourites among the Sherlock Holmes stories included two from this collection: "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" and "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans". Note: the University of Adelaide edition includes "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" in this collection rather than in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, where it had first appeared in 1893.]
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[University of Adelaide]
2020/11/26:
WHEN PROFESSOR MORIARTY IS INVOLVED, SHERLOCK HOLMES KNOWS THAT ALL
OF HIS VAST CAPACITIES WILL BE FULLY TESTED -- AS IN TODAY'S NOVEL,
THE VALLEY OF FEAR !!
Doyle, Arthur Conan
(1859-1930) [Scottish physician and author; creator of Sherlock Holmes]
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The Valley of Fear
(1915)
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[The fourth and final Sherlock Holmes mystery novel. Holmes receives
what today we would call an encrypted note, but not the cipher (key) needed
to read it. Will Holmes be able to decrypt the note? Well, really, what
an absurd question to ask! Soon enough, Holmes and Watson arrive
at the village of Birlstone, "a small and very ancient cluster of
half-timbered cottages on the northern border of the county of Sussex."
For at the ancient Manor House a murder has just occurred.]
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[University of Adelaide]
2020/11/24: LATER IN HIS LIFE, SCOTTISH AUTHOR ROBERT LOUIS
STEVENSON WOULD TRAVEL FAR AFIELD -- SAN FRANCISCO, HAWAII, AND
FINALLY SAMOA! BUT HIS FIRST TRAVEL BOOK WAS SET CLOSER TO HOME --
THE RIVERS AND CANALS OF BELGIUM AND FRANCE !!
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
[Scottish novelist]
Wikipedia
RLS Website
An Inland Voyage
(1878)
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[Travel narrative. In 1876 Stevenson and his friend Sir Walter
Grindlay Simpson (1843-1898) went on a canoe trip (one canoe for
each, equipped with a sail) along the rivers and canals of Belgium
and France, starting from Antwerp, and ending at the ancient city
of Pontoise, now an outer suburb of Paris. Most of the trip was
on or near the river Oise. The book has become a classic, with its
many vignettes of our travellers' experiences along the way. You'll
likely find yourself consulting Wikipedia frequently to find out more
about the many interesting places our travellers visit!]
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2020/11/22:
WHEN IN 1893 SHERLOCK HOLMES' DEATH WAS ANNOUNCED, FANS WERE NOT PLEASED. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE WAS LUCKY THAT SOCIAL MEDIA HAD NOT YET BEEN INVENTED -- WHAT A TWITTERSTORM THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN! BUT THE FIGHT WAS NOT AN EQUAL
ONE, AND DOYLE RESUMED WRITING STORIES ABOUT SHERLOCK HOLMES, AS TODAY'S
EBOOK DEMONSTRATES !!
Doyle, Arthur Conan
(1859-1930) [Scottish physician and author; creator of Sherlock Holmes]
Wikipedia
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
(1905)
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[Doyle had killed Holmes off in "The Final Problem", the story which had
concluded the second collection, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
But the fans were not happy with his departure, so Doyle relented, and
wrote the stories in this collection, in the first of which, "The Adventure
of the Empty House", Holmes reappears in London, to the consternation and
delight of Dr Watson. This was among Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes
stories, as were several other stories in this book: "The Adventure of
the Dancing Men", "The Adventure of the Priory School", and "The Adventure
of the Second Stain".]
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[University of Adelaide]
2020/11/19: TODAY'S EBOOK IS ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S LAST COMPLETE NOVEL, SET IN THE SOUTH SEAS -- AND WHAT A NOVEL IT IS !!
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
[Scottish novelist]
Wikipedia
RLS Website
The Ebb-Tide
(1894)
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[Stevenson's final complete novel, written in collaboration with
his American stepson
Lloyd Osbourne (1868-1947)
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who at the time was living in Samoa with his mother and stepfather.
The novel is very far from being an idyllic portrayal of life in
the South Seas, as can be seen from its opening sentence:
"Throughout the island world of the Pacific, scattered men of many
European races and from almost every grade of society carry activity
and disseminate disease." (As you might guess, Stevenson was vehemently opposed to the annexation of the Pacific islands, Samoa in particular,
by the colonial powers.) If the occasion demanded Stevenson could write
for children, and write very well. But he was definitely an author for adults, and a very great one: his reputation has never faded.]
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[University of Adelaide]
2020/11/17:
AT PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA, IT'S A PLEASURE TO OFFER OUR READERS
FROM TIME TO TIME A CHOICE OF DIFFERENT DIGITAL EDITIONS OF THE SAME
WORK -- PARTICULARLY WHEN IT'S SOMETHING AS SPECIAL AS THE CASE-BOOK
OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S FINAL COLLECTION
OF STORIES ABOUT THE BAKER STREET LEGEND! WE'VE OFFERED OUR OWN
EBOOK FOR FIVE YEARS NOW; IT'S A PLEASURE TO OFFER AS WELL THE EPUB
FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE'S MAGNIFICENT EBOOK COLLECTION !!
Doyle, Arthur Conan
(1859-1930) [Scottish physician and author; creator of Sherlock Holmes]
Wikipedia
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
(1927)
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[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's final collection of stories featuring Sherlock Holmes: published forty years after Holmes' first appearance in print!
All twelve of the stories were published in the Strand Magazine
between 1921 and 1927. Doyle himself thought that "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane" and "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client", both in this
collection, were among the best stories he had ever written about Holmes.]
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2020/11/16: OUR SECOND TITLE BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON REMAINS HIS
MOST FAMOUS WORK TO THIS DAY !!
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
[Scottish novelist]
Wikipedia
RLS Website
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
(1886)
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[Novel (the title as given by Stevenson does indeed omit "The", although
it shows up in many later editions, including the Adelaide ebook), written
as a straight narrative, but then rewritten after discussions with his wife
Fanny, all of this at great speed, especially considering that Stevenson was
sick in bed at the time. As to the novel, "Jekyll and Hyde" has long since
entered the English language as a phrase meaning the quite different good
and evil aspects that can be observed in a single person in when social
situations change. The University of Adelaide ebook that we present
includes the 1904 illustrations by the American illustrator and filmmaker
Charles Raymond Macauley (1871-1934)
Wikipedia]
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[University of Adelaide]
2020/11/14:
1N 1902, AFTER A GAP OF NINE YEARS, SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
PUBLISHED A NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES BOOK -- THIS TIME
NOT A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, BUT A FULL-LENGTH NOVEL --
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES !!
Doyle, Arthur Conan
(1859-1930) [Scottish physician and author; creator of Sherlock Holmes]
Wikipedia
The Hound of the Baskervilles
(1902)
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[Novel, perhaps the most famous adventure of Mr Sherlock Holmes.
In the moorlands of Devonshire, a mysterious gigantic hound seems
to be active. And Sir Charles Baskerville, who had recently taken
up residence in Baskerville Hall, has just died under mysterious
circumstances. Could these two facts be connected? Could the
hound be none other than the fabled Hound of the Baskervilles,
feared for centuries?]
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[University of Adelaide]
2020/11/12:
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S SECOND COLLECTION OF STORIES
ABOUT SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DR WATSON! TWELVE MORE STORIES,
TWELVE MORE CLASSICS !!
Doyle, Arthur Conan
(1859-1930) [Scottish physician and author; creator of Sherlock Holmes]
Wikipedia
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
(1893)
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[Doyle's second collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, twelve in number,
all of them, as in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, initially
published in The Strand Magazine, and all of them famous to this
day: each of them has its own Wikipedia article.) Doyle intended
this to be the end of his involvement with Sherlock Holmes, although
this turned out not to be the case. But some years were to pass before
the appearance of The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1902.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #834]
(includes The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
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which was part of the first edition, but was omitted from many later editions)
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[University of Adelaide]
(omits The Adventure of the Cardboard Box)
2020/11/11:
AFTER SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE PUBLISHED HIS FIRST TWO SHERLOCK
HOLMES NOVELS, INDIVIDUAL SHORT STORIES STARTED APPEARING IN
THE NEWLY FOUNDED STRAND MAGAZINE -- EACH OF THEM AN
ENDURING CLASSIC, FAMOUS WORLDWIDE !!
Doyle, Arthur Conan
(1859-1930) [Scottish physician and author; creator of Sherlock Holmes]
Wikipedia
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
(1892)
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[Twelve short stories, all of them published in The Strand Magazine
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in 1891 and 1892, and then published as a book, the first Sherlock Holmes
collection: an instant and permanent classic. There is probably no
such thing as a Sherlock Holmes story that is not well known, but the
book does include some especially famous stories: The Adventure of
the Speckled Band, for example, Doyle's personal favourite among
all the stories he wrote about Sherlock Holmes, and A Scandal in
Bohemia. The Project Gutenberg US ebook we use includes the
contemporary illustrations by Sidney Paget (1860-1908)
Wikipedia]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #48320]
2020/11/09:
TODAY, LET'S KEEP OUR THOUGHTS A GOOD LONG DISTANCE FROM
THINGS LIKE COVID-19 -- OR AMERICAN POLITICS! WHAT BETTER
FORM OF ESCAPE THAN READING ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S SECOND
NOVEL FEATURING SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DR WATSON ??
Doyle, Arthur Conan
(1859-1930) [Scottish physician and author; creator of Sherlock Holmes]
Wikipedia
The Sign of the Four
(1890)
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[The second of the four full-length Sherlock Holmes novels.
It was first published in Lippincott's Magazine as
The Sign of the Four, which seems to be the standard
form used these days, but it was first published in book form
as The Sign of Four. Be that as it may, the story
begins when Miss Mary Morstan visits 221B Baker Street to
consult Sherlock Holmes on the mysterious disappearance of
her father some years before, and the strange events which
followed, which seem to be linked to her father's military
service in India. All this, of course, is masterfully
resolved by Mr Sherlock Holmes with the able assistance
of Dr Watson.]
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2020/11/07:
WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK FROM POLITICS -- WE'VE HEARD MORE
THAN ENOUGH FROM AND ABOUT TR*MP OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS.
INSTEAD, ESCAPE TO THINGS OF VALUE, AND WE MEAN PERMANENT
VALUE! TODAY'S EBOOK WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1887 AND IS AN
IMMORTAL CLASSIC FOR OBVIOUS REASONS: IT IS THE VERY FIRST
APPEARANCE IN LITERATURE OF MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND,
OF COURSE, DR. WATSON !!
Doyle, Arthur Conan
(1859-1930) [Scottish physician and author; creator of Sherlock Holmes]
Wikipedia
A Study in Scarlet
(1887)
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[Few literary events of such magnitude have been as quiet as this
mystery novel's introduction to the world of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
Arthur Conan Doyle was not yet a professional author, but
a physician living in Southsea when he published this novel in
the Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887. It is narrated
by John H. Watson, "Late of the Army Medical Department": Watson
was indeed a veteran, wounded in Afghanistan -- some things
really don't change! Anyway, like many before and after him,
he finds London expensive, and is trying "to solve the problem
as to whether it is possible to get comfortable rooms at a
reasonable price" when he learns that Mr. Sherlock Holmes is
trying to solve exactly the same problem. They are introduced,
and agree to save money by sharing lodgings. Dr Watson naturally
has no idea that his new roommate is a consulting detective
("I suppose I am the only one in the world"): the famous partnership
of Holmes and Watson begins!]
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[University of Adelaide]
2020/11/04:
CHARLES JACKSON'S CLASSIC 1944 NOVEL OF A WEEKEND IN THE LIFE
OF AN ALCOHOLIC -- FAMOUS IN ITS TIME, AND FAMOUS TODAY !!
Jackson, Charles [Charles Reginald] (1903-1968)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
The Lost Weekend
(1944)
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[Charles Jackson's first and most famous novel, about an altogether
too exciting weekend experienced by a New York writer named Don Birnam,
who has an alcohol problem, to say the least. That alone makes it
relevant to Canada today! It was made into an equally famous movie
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which however omitted the novel's strong gay element, which is unfortunate,
since gay bars were central to gay culture throughout the twentieth
century: writers are notoriously prone to alcohol problems, gays as well,
so gay writers (such as Jackson himself) are presumably at double risk.
In any case, the novel remains famous to this day, as does the film,
which won the 1944 Academy Award for Best Picture.]
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2020/11/01:
TOXIC NATIONALISM IS A LETHAL DANGER TODAY, AND THE SAME WAS TRUE
EIGHTY YEARS AGO. GEORGE ORWELL'S NOTES ON NATIONALISM ARE
A BRILLIANT ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION IN HIS DAY -- AND IN OURS !!
Orwell, George [Blair, Eric Arthur] (1903-1950)
[English journalist, political thinker, and novelist]
Wikipedia
Notes on Nationalism
(1945)
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[Consider the horrifying consequences of the phrase "Make America
Great Again" and you will immediately understand why this famous
essay, written during the collapse of the Nazi regime, is so relevant
today. George Orwell delivers his very serious message with his
typical energy, clarity, and indeed brilliance. "Nationalism is
power-hunger tempered by self-deception. Every nationalist is
capable of the most flagrant dishonesty, but he is also -- since
he is conscious of serving something bigger than himself -- unshakeably certain of being in the right... The nationalist not only does
not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."]
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[University of Adelaide]
2020/10/30:
NEVER HAS THE STUDY OF HISTORY BEEN MORE RELEVANT THAN IN THE YEAR 2020 -- THE TRAGIC HISTORY OF THE FASCIST DICTATORSHIPS OF NINETY YEARS AGO SEEMS TO BE REPEATING ITSELF. WHO BETTER TO COMMENT THAN GEORGE ORWELL ??
Orwell, George [Blair, Eric Arthur] (1903-1950)
[English journalist, political thinker, and novelist]
Wikipedia
Looking Back on the Spanish War
(1943)
[Five years after publishing Homage to Catalonia, Orwell looked back at the Spanish Civil War as he had experienced it. It's an interesting read, and very relevant today, for politics as now conducted in certain countries, democracies in name, has important and disturbing parallels to the Spanish Civil War, how it was fought, and how it was reported: "Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie."]
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[University of Adelaide]
2020/10/27:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS AN ESSAY BY GEORGE ORWELL, WHICH BECAME
AN INSTANT CLASSIC ON ITS PUBLICATION IN 1946 -- AND HAS
SPECIAL IMPORTANCE TODAY, WITH THE RISE OF DESPOTS WORLDWIDE !!
Orwell, George [Blair, Eric Arthur] (1903-1950)
[English journalist, political thinker, and novelist]
Wikipedia
Politics and the English Language
(1946)
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[This essay was first published in April 1946, after the collapse
of Europe's fascist dictatorships. In a world where we are facing
a massive resurgence of fascism, it retains all of its force. For
current misuse of English, simply watch press conferences from Washington,
London, or for that matter Ottawa, much as we like to think that Canada
is somehow exempt from political doubletalk. If only! But this
marvellous essay is particularly famous for its six rules of clear
writing, given at the end, which any author would be wise to follow.]
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[University of Adelaide]
2020/10/23:
OUR FIRST EBOOK BY CHARLES JACKSON IS AN EARLY EXAMPLE
OF THE GENUINE ARTICLE -- AN AMERICAN GAY NOVEL !!
Jackson, Charles [Charles Reginald] (1903-1968)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
The Fall of Valor
(1946)
[There were gay elements in Charles Jackson's famous first novel,
The Lost Weekend, but in his second novel these elements
dominate. John Grandin is a successful academic in New York City:
he has been promoted to a full professorship, Scribners has just
accepted a book of his for publication, and so on. And yet, "John
Grandin had lately found himself living under an emotional suspense.
For hours, sometimes, he had a sense that something was about to
happen to him, something untoward, perverse, impossible to fit into
his comfortably ordered life." Which turns out to be precisely the
case. Our young professor and his wife (to whom he has not been
paying a great deal of attention) go on vacation to Nantucket,
Massachusetts. And on the boat from New Bedford to Nantucket, they
meet Cliff Hauman, a captain in the Marines, newly married.
And Professor Grandin finds that he is thinking more or more of
Cliff's "resplendent young manhood". Where does all this lead, if
anywhere? To find out, read the novel!]
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2020/10/16:
IN 1911, FOUR YEARS AFTER "THE SECRET AGENT", JOSEPH CONRAD
PUBLISHED "UNDER WESTERN EYES", A NOVEL DEALING WITH CONSPIRACY,
ASSASSINATION, AND POLITICS, TAKING PLACE IN ST PETERSBURG AND
GENEVA. FORTY YEARS AGO, THIS WOULD ALL HAVE SEEMED INTERESTING, BUT
FROM A PAST AGE. IN THE YEAR 2020 IT SEEMS VERY MUCH OF OUR TIME !!
Conrad, Joseph [Korzeniowski, Józef Teodor Konrad]
(1857-1924) [Polish mariner and novelist]
Wikipedia
Under Western Eyes
(1911)
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[This is a novel of politics, intrigue, and assassination, taking
place in Geneva and St Petersburg, and centred on Kirylo Sidorovitch
Razumov, a Russian university student with a mysterious background.
The "Western Eyes" of the title belong to the novel's narrator, an
elderly teacher of languages who is a longtime resident of Geneva.
"A whole quarter of that town, on account of many Russians residing
there, is called La Petite Russie -- Little Russia. I had a rather
extensive connexion in Little Russia at that time. Yet I confess
that I have no comprehension of the Russian character." Conrad's
father and grandfather had been politically active, which no doubt
explains why in his 1921 Author's Note he said that "My greatest
anxiety was in being able to strike and sustain the note of scrupulous
impartiality... 'Under Western Eyes' on its first appearance in England
was a failure with the public, perhaps because of that very detachment."
But the book ended up a success for Conrad: in particular it went through
many editions in Russia, and has become an enduring classic. Conrad drily
noted in 1921 that "by the mere force of circumstances 'Under Western Eyes'
has become already a sort of historical novel dealing with the past"; that
is, the First World War and the Russian Revolution had changed everything.
But this simply demonstrates how clear Conrad's vision was of where society
was headed. For us today it has special relevance, given the shadowy world
that has unexpectedly emerged around us: autocracies and oligarchies
worldwide, massive state surveillance even in what are claimed to be liberal
democracies, "black ops" and secret prisons, and the rest of it.]
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[University of Adelaide]
2020/10/14:
JOSEPH CONRAD WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN AT ALL SURPRISED BY
THE SUDDEN RISE OF FASCISM IN THE LAST FEW YEARS. WHAT BETTER
TIME TO ADD SOME OF HIS CLASSIC NOVELS TO OUR CATALOGUE ?
Conrad, Joseph [Korzeniowski, Józef Teodor Konrad]
(1857-1924) [Polish mariner and novelist]
Wikipedia
The Secret Agent
(1907)
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[One of Conrad's most famous novels, but its fame was late in
coming: when published in 1907 it did not sell extremely well,
and reviews were mixed. How things have changed! Now it is
one of Conrad's most famous novels, and it is easy to see why.
It is quite different from Conrad's earlier novels of seafaring,
and instead deals with the very modern world of espionage,
conspiracy, and police surveillance -- with a good dose of
incompetence mixed in. Need more be said?]
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2020/10/09:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS BY GEORGE ORWELL! IT IS (1) HIS FIRST FULL-LENGTH
BOOK, (2) THE FIRST WORK HE PUBLISHED UNDER THE NAME "GEORGE ORWELL",
AND (3) A FASCINATING FIRST-HAND DESCRIPTION OF THE LIFE OF THE
POOR IN THE CAPITAL CITIES OF TWO VERY WEALTHY NATIONS !!
Orwell, George [Blair, Eric Arthur] (1903-1950)
[English journalist, political thinker, and novelist]
Wikipedia
Down and Out in Paris and London
(1933)
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[In 1927 Eric Blair returned from Burma (where he had been a policeman)
to London, and in the following year went to live and work in Paris.
In both cities he lived in a considerable degree of poverty, and this
book describes his experiences in and observations of the two capital
cities. It was the first work Blair published under the name by which he
would henceforth be known: George Orwell !]
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2020/10/06:
THE LATEST ADDITION TO OUR ALBERT CAMPION MYSTERY SERIES !!
Allingham, Margery [Youngman Carter, Margery Louise]
(1904-1966) [English mystery novelist]
Wikipedia
Coroner's Pidgin
(1945)
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[The twelfth mystery in the Albert Campion series. "Pidgin" in the
title and in the novel carries its secondary meaning of "A person's business, occupation, work, or trade"
Wiktionary.
The American publisher chose, perhaps wisely, to use a different title,
Pearls Before Swine.
Now let's discuss the novel! Mr Campion has been out of the country
for three years on a government mission "so secret that he had never found out quite what it was". (Or perhaps the disorder we see at Westminster
these days stretches back to the days of Albert Campion!) In any case, he's back from the mission, even the trip itself lasted a full eight weeks, and
he is taking a bath, having been in London for a whole hour and ten minutes.
Then a murder happens!]
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2020/10/05:
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S THIRD AND FINAL NOVEL FEATURING
PROFESSOR CHALLENGER !!
Doyle, Arthur Conan
(1859-1930) [Scottish physician and author; creator of Sherlock Holmes]
Wikipedia
The Land of Mist
(1926)
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[After the First World War, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who had
lost several close male relatives in that war, became interested
in Spiritualism
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and that interest is reflected in this third and final Professor
Challenger novel, which is quite different from its two predecessors.
The Professor is indeed back, although no longer quite the ultimate
alpha male of former years. This change was induced by the death
of his wife in the flu epidemic: "Life had much yet to teach him,
but he was a little less intolerant in learning." Similarly, Edward
Malone is back, "but life had toned him down also, and made him a more
subdued and thoughtful man... his mind was deeper and more active.
The boy was dead and the man was born." The two attend a raucous public
lecture at a Spiritualist Church off Edgware Road, and they start their
investigations into the spiritual world.]
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2020/09/30:
IN 1936 GEORGE ORWELL WENT TO THREE INDUSTRIAL TOWNS IN NORTHERN
ENGLAND. HIS REPORT ON WHAT HE FOUND IS FAMOUS TO THIS DAY, AND
THE ISSUE OF ECONOMIC REPRESSION MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER NOW THAT
WE LIVE IN THE WORLD OF COVID-19, WHERE THE TRULY ESSENTIAL WORKERS
ARE OFTEN THE WORST PAID !!
Orwell, George [Blair, Eric Arthur] (1903-1950)
[English journalist, political thinker, and novelist]
Wikipedia
The Road to Wigan Pier
(1937)
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[A book of reporting and sociological analysis. In 1936 Orwell
left London to do first-hand research on economic and social
conditions in three economically depressed communities in
Northern England, the principal one being Wigan, Lancashire,
a town whose economy at the time was based on coal mining.
Orwell's report on what he found forms the first part of this
book. The second part discusses why social attitudes allow
economic inequality on this scale to exist. This controversy
certainly continues today, not just in England but in Canada
and elsewhere!]
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[University of Adelaide]
2020/09/27:
TODAY, WE INTRODUCE A CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR
TO OUR CATALOGUE -- JOHN WYNDHAM !!
Wyndham, John [Harris, John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon] (1903-1969)
[English science fiction writer]
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The Chrysalids
(1955)
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[Science fiction post-apocalyptic novel, set in Canada, more specifically
Labrador. The region's isolation from the rest of the world has allowed
some communities to survive: intolerant and fearful places to live,
particularly if you have any mutations, even minor ones, which do occur
after something like a nuclear war. Physical mutations are bad enough --
you get sent to the Fringes. (We won't even talk about the Badlands!)
But what happens if your mutation is major, but not immediately obvious
to others. Something like telepathy, for example!]
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2020/09/25:
OUR FIRST EBOOK BY THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER RUDYARD KIPLING !!
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
[Anglo-Indian novelist and poet; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1907]
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Kim
(1900-01)
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[Kipling is often called an English author, but he is more accurately
described as Anglo-Indian: he was born in Bombay, where the first language
he mastered was Hindi. This famous novel, principally intended for an
adult audience, centers around Kim, a young orphan who is of Irish
descent, but makes his own living on the streets of Lahore, and is in
no way connected to the rulers of British India. At the start of the
novel, Kim becomes the servant of a Tibetan lama who is on a pilgrimage,
and so in the following chapters he sees both the plains and the mountains
of India, and is profoundly influenced by Teshoo Lama's Buddhist teachings.
There is much more for you to discover in this wonderful novel.]
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2020/09/21:
AN EPIC NOVEL (WE DO NOT USE THIS TERM LIGHTLY) BY
MANCHESTER'S LOUIS GOLDING, PAINTED ON A VAST
CANVAS OF TIME AND PLACE !!
Golding, Louis (1895-1958)
[English novelist]
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Five Silver Daughters
(1934)
[Novel, on a truly epic scale.
Mr Sam Silver lives on Oleander Street in Manchester;
his neighbour and close friend Isaac Emmanuel (hero of
Mr. Emmanuel, also in our catalogue) is often
to be found in his kitchen. Messrs Silver and Emmanuel
are eminently respectable; in fact, Mr Silver in the
course of the novel rises to a position of truly
spectacular wealth. Which makes him an odd person to
open his kitchen to the anarchists and other political
types who gathered there. Of course, his five daughters
were part of the reason that the anarchists were fond
of visiting. And this is the story of these five very
different daughters and how they fared in adult life,
in England and elsewhere.]
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2020/09/19:
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S SECOND PROFESSOR CHALLENGER NOVEL
REUNITES THE CHARACTERS OF THE LOST WORLD: THE ENTIRE
WORLD IS UNDER THREAT !!
Doyle, Arthur Conan
(1859-1930) [Scottish physician and author; creator of Sherlock Holmes]
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The Poison Belt
(1913)
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[Doyle's second novel to feature Professor Challenger, narrated
as before by reporter Edward Malone: three years after the earlier
adventure, it reunites the Professor with his companions from The
Lost World. But this time they are headed not for South America,
but for Professor Challenger's house in the London suburb of Surrey!
Here they will ride out Earth's passing through a belt of deadly poison.]
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2020/09/16:
TODAY THE NOVEL, FAMOUS TO THIS DAY, THAT INTRODUCED PROFESSOR
CHALLENGER TO THE WORLD! HINT: IT INVOLVES DINOSAURS !!
Doyle, Arthur Conan
(1859-1930) [Scottish physician and author; creator of Sherlock Holmes]
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The Lost World
(1912)
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[The first and most famous of the novels featuring Professor Challenger
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Edward Malone, a reporter, has a girl friend Gladys, who
is somewhat interested in marriage, but "If I marry, I do want to
marry a famous man!" Instead of wondering why he is wasting his
time on her, he asks his editor for an assignment involving
adventure and danger: that will impress her! And so he ends
up accompanying Professor George Edward Challenger to a remote
corner of South America. It's a shock when they encounter their
first pterodactyl
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-- and we mean a living pterodactyl, not a fossil! Much else follows.]
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2020/09/14:
OUR FIRST EBOOK FEATURING SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S FAMOUS CREATION PROFESSOR CHALLENGER !!
Doyle, Arthur Conan
(1859-1930) [Scottish physician and author; creator of Sherlock Holmes]
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The Disintegration Machine
(1929)
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[Science fiction short story. Professor Challenger
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is introduced to "a Latvian gentleman named Theodore Nemor... who claims to have invented a machine of a most extraordinary character which is capable of disintegrating any object placed within its sphere of influence. Matter dissolves and returns to its molecular or atomic condition. By reversing the process it can be reassembled." What if this claim turns out to be true?]
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2020/09/12:
FROM 1929, A NOVEL ABOUT THE LOST CONTINENT OF ATLANTIS, BY...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, NO LESS !!
Doyle, Arthur Conan
(1859-1930) [Scottish physician and author; creator of Sherlock Holmes]
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The Maracot Deep
(1929)
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[Fantasy novel. Professor Maracot and his companions, who are both learned
and intrepid, run into trouble during a deep-sea dive in the Atlantic, and
are rescued by strangers who seem to be descendants of an ancient and
mysterious race. Can our heroes find out who these strangers really are?]
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2020/09/06:
HAPPY LABOUR DAY! OUR HOLIDAY OFFERING IS THE SECOND MYSTERY NOVEL BY AUSTRALIAN MYSTERY AUTHOR ARTHUR GASK -- DARK DOINGS IN ADELAIDE !!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Red Paste Murders
(1923)
[Arthur Gask's first mystery novel The Secret of the Sandhills
proved successful not only in Australia but in London, where an English
edition was issued by Herbert Jenkins (famous as the publisher of PG
Wodehouse), who published his subsequent novels, starting with this one.
Like its predecessor, it was well received and sold well. The setting
once again, is Adelaide; there are murders, several of them; the mysterious
red paste comes from Colombo (Sri Lanka), where it is used by tiger hunters
"before they go into the jungle after tigers, and it makes a man afraid
of nothing in the world." Gask "has a sense of style, and of humour,"
commented The Register, an Adelaide newspaper (30 November 1923).
"This is distinctly a book to be read."]
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2020/09/04:
ANTHONY TROLLOPE WAS ENGLISH, BUT LIVED AND WORKED IN IRELAND.
A COUNTRY HE LOVED DEEPLY, AND WHERE HE ACHIEVED HIS FIRST CAREER
SUCCESSES. SO OUR FIRST EBOOK BY TROLLOPE, ONE OF ENGLAND'S
FINEST NOVELISTS, IS ABOUT PHINEAS FINN, BORN IN THE WEST OF IRELAND,
BUT WHO TO HIS OWN SURPRISE BECOMES A MEMBER OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT !!
Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882)
[English novelist and postal administrator]
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Phineas Finn, the Irish Member
(1867-68)
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[One of Trollope's most popular political novels. Phineas Finn,
the son of Dr Malachi Finn of County Clare, somewhat against his
father's wishes decides to study law in London rather than Dublin.
In London he does not achieve academic greatness, but he does acquire
a large number of influential friends, one of whom suggests that he
might wish to seek election to Parliament. He chooses the Irish
riding of Loughshane, "so small a place, that the expense would be
very little. There were altogether no more than 307 registered electors.
The inhabitants were so far removed from the world, and were so ignorant
of the world's good things, that they knew nothing about bribery."
He wins his seat, and his political career is launched. But life
is not straightforward for a rural Irish member of an essentially
English parliament in the metropolis of London.]
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2020/09/02:
TODAY'S EBOOK HARDLY NEEDS AN INTRODUCTION
-- IT'S BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA !!
Stoker, Bram [Abraham] (1847-1912)
[Irish novelist and theatre manager]
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Dracula
(1897)
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[The famous Gothic novel, many times adapted to film. Jonathan Harker,
an English lawyer, is visiting no ordinary client: Count Dracula, who
lives in a castle in the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe. As he
nears his destination, people start acting very strangely when they learn
who Harker is on his way to visit. It's not giving much away to report that
once he is there, vampires enter the picture and don't leave, even when
the action shifts to England. Parts of the novel are in not very standard English, which some may find difficult reading. But who are we to disagree with the warm reception the novel received on publication (from Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle among others), and its enduring popularity?]
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2020/08/28:
FEW OF GEORGE ORWELL'S WORKS ARE AS RELEVANT TODAY AS HIS
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF CATALONIA DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR !!
Orwell, George [Blair, Eric Arthur] (1903-1950)
[English journalist, political thinker, and novelist]
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Homage to Catalonia
(1938)
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[History, written by a participant: in December 1936 Orwell arrived in
Barcelona to fight on the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War
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and in June 1937 he crossed back into France, an older and a wiser man.
In the interim he had been in the front lines of the conflict, had been
badly injured, and had seen up front the deep and violent conflicts within
the Republican side. Once back in England he wrote this famous first-hand
account of the war, an enduring classic.]
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2020/08/26:
TODAY, A CLASSIC NOVEL OF THE SUPERNATURAL, SET IN THE WEST OF IRELAND!
IT'S OUR FIRST NOVEL BY WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON -- MORE ARE LIKELY
TO FOLLOW !!
Hodgson, William Hope (1877-1918)
[English novelist, poet, mariner, and fitness trainer]
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The House on the Borderland
(1908)
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[Hodgson's hugely famous and hugely influential novel
of supernatural horror. Two travellers in the West of Ireland
happen upon the ruins of a house beside a lake, and in
this house they find the journal of its final resident,
the Recluse.]
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2020/08/24:
OUR FIRST EBOOK BY AUSTRALIAN MYSTERY AUTHOR ARTHUR GASK
-- AMONG HIS FANS WERE H.G. WELLS AND BERTRAND RUSSELL, NO LESS !!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Secret of the Sandhills
(1921)
[In 1921, Arthur Gask, a UK-trained dentist who had arrived in
Adelaide the previous year, printed at his own expense one
thousand copies of this, his first novel -- and sold all of
them in the space of three weeks! Gask was to become a famous
mystery author, numbering H.G. Wells and Bertrand Russell
among his admirers, and this first novel does indeed involve
murder. It takes place, naturally, in and around Adelaide:
its oceanside suburbs of Glenelg and Henley Beach
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have some magnificent sand beaches.]
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2020/08/22:
OUR FIRST EBOOK BY CHARLES DICKENS WAS ITS AUTHOR'S
PERSONAL FAVOURITE. IT HAS BEEN ADAPTED TO FILM
MANY TIMES. THE 1999 BBC PRODUCTION MADE DANIEL
RADCLIFFE FAMOUS -- HE WENT ON TO PLAY HARRY POTTER!
THE LATEST ADAPTATION, BY ARMANDO IANNUCCI, IS CURRENTLY
BEING RELEASED IN THEATRES -- WHY NOT GET A HEAD START,
AND READ THE NOVEL WHICH STARTED IT ALL?
Dickens, Charles [Charles John Huffam] (1812-1870)
[English novelist, editor, and social activist]
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David Copperfield
(1850 [novel]; 1869 [preface])
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[Or, to give its full title "The personal history, adventures,
experience & observation of David Copperfield of Blunderstone
Rookery. (Which he never meant to be Published on any Account.)"
Dickens' eighth novel, probably his most famous one, and certainly
its author's personal favourite. A rich panorama of life in the
early Victorian era, largely inspired by Dickens' own early life.]
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2020/08/21:
HERE'S SOME FINE READING FOR A SUMMER WEEKEND: GEORGE ORWELL'S
FOURTH NOVEL, PUBLISHED ON THE EVE OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR!
ITS MAIN CHARACTER EXAMINES HIS DAILY LIFE IN THE PRESENT
AND COMPARES IT TO LIFE AS HE HAD EXPERIENCED IT IN A SMALL
OXFORDSHIRE TOWN IN THE GOLDEN YEARS BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR !!
Orwell, George [Blair, Eric Arthur] (1903-1950)
[English journalist, political thinker, and novelist]
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Coming Up for Air
(1939)
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[Orwell's fourth novel, set in the gloomy period just
before the Second World War, and narrated by its chief
character, George Bowling, who was born towards the end
of the reign of Victoria. Wondering whether he can
recapture the pleasant world of his youth, Bowling visits
the small town he grew up in: Lower Binfield, in Oxfordshire,
five miles from the banks of the Thames, a place where, it
seems to Bowling, "it was summer all the year round."]
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2020/08/19:
THIS IS OUR GEORGE ORWELL WEEK -- TODAY WE PRESENT HIS THIRD
NOVEL, WHICH DRAWS ON HIS EXPERIENCES AS A BOOKSTORE CLERK !!
Orwell, George [Blair, Eric Arthur] (1903-1950)
[English journalist, political thinker, and novelist]
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
(1936)
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[Orwell's third novel, set in London during the thirties.
Our hero, Gordon Comstock, believes that people pay too
much attention to money, which is obviously true, but only
up (or rather down) to a certain point, as he discovers
when he gives up a job in advertising, and starts a job
in a bookstore, which pays much less. You are perhaps
wondering what an aspidistra is. In literal terms, it
is a house plant that requires little care and can thrive
under difficult conditions
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But a century ago aspidistras had a connotation of social
respectability. Consequently our hero tells his girlfriend
that she wants to see him "earning a decent income again.
In a GOOD job, with four pounds a week and an aspidistra
in the window." An odd thing for him to say, since one of
the few things aspidistras struggle with is bright sunlight.]
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2020/08/17:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS THE FIRST NOVEL BY GEORGE ORWELL,
AND DRAWS ON HIS OWN EXPERIENCE AS A BRITISH COLONIAL OFFICER !!
Orwell, George [Blair, Eric Arthur] (1903-1950)
[English journalist, political thinker, and novelist]
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Burmese Days
(1934)
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[Orwell's first novel, set in Burma (Myanmar), where Orwell
had served as a member of the Indian Imperial Police.
A British teak merchant cannot accept what he sees of the
colonial system in action, but finds that integrating himself
into Burmese life is not so easy.]
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2020/08/16:
TO CELEBRATE THE HEIGHT OF SUMMER, SOME EXCELLENT SUMMER READING -- A CLASSIC NOVEL BY MARGERY ALLINGHAM, FEATURING ALBERT CAMPION !!
Allingham, Margery [Youngman Carter, Margery Louise]
(1904-1966) [English mystery novelist]
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Sweet Danger
(1933)
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[The fifth Campion novel, which starts in the opulent surroundings
of the French Riviera, and later shifts to a Suffolk village named Pontisbright. But Pontisbright is no ordinary village, and this is
no ordinary mystery novel! The Saturday Review (8 July 1933)
called it Albert Campion's "most hair-raising and side-splitting
adventure... this author makes witchcraft really exciting, a mythical
kingdom really romantic, a mystery both thrilling and hilarious."]
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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,
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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
(this edition ca. 1850-1864)
[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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this monument of scholarship as a downloadable set of scans
approximately 42 megabytes in size.
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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)
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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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Cato. A Tragedy.
(1713)
[Tragedy, extremely popular throughout the eighteenth century,
describing the last days of Cato the Younger (95-46 B.C.)
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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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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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Allen, Ralph (1913-1966) [Canadian journalist, historian, and novelist]
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Peace River Country
(1958)
[Novel. A family decides to moves to Peace River Country, the vast region
which straddles northwestern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia
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The move does not go smoothly, but transforms their lives completely!
If you or your family are from any part of Western Canada,
the world described by this novel may well seem familiar:
it is a past still not very distant.]
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The High White Forest
(1964)
[The Belgium most people know is the country's fertile coastal plain,
where Brussels, Antwerp, and other famous cities are located. But
there is another Belgium, the eastern section, geographically the
larger part of the country. Here can be found the Forest of the
Ardennes, the "high white forest" of the title, which has many
mountains, rivers, and swamps, a small population, and severe winter
weather. It proved a nightmare for military operations during the
Battle of the Bulge
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which is the backdrop for this fine war novel, told from the
perspective of members of the Canadian, German, and American armies.
Ralph Allen knew what he was talking about: throughout the war he
reported from Europe for Toronto's Globe and Mail, and his
easy expertise and ample knowledge is apparent throughout the novel.]
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Allingham, Margery [Youngman Carter, Margery Louise]
(1904-1966) [English mystery novelist]
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The Crime at Black Dudley
(1929)
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[Mystery novel: the first to feature Albert Campion
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as a character. Black Dudley is a large, old and mysterious
house in a remote area. Where better to hold a house
party? In the course of which the elderly Colonel Coombe
dies -- but not, it seems, of natural causes! The sleuth is
pathologist George Abbershaw; but among the guests is Albert
Campion, who to some extent steals the show. He was to appear
as the principal sleuth in many subsequent novels and stories
by our author.]
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Look to the Lady
(1931)
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[At the beginning of this, the third Campion novel, Mr Val Gyrth
is homeless and living in the streets of London, whence he is
retrieved by someone who has mysteriously good knowledge of his
circumstances. His rescuer is none other than Albert Campion!
What lies ahead? Mystery and intrigue, of course! All of it
involving a fabled family treasure; hence the novel's US title, The Gyrth Chalice Mystery.]
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Police at the Funeral
(1931)
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[The fourth mystery novel featuring Albert Campion, and taking place in Cambridge,
more specifically at a house named Socrates Close. The house's name is mysterious,
and so are the events taking place in and around it.]
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Sweet Danger
(1933)
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[The fifth Campion novel, which starts in the opulent surroundings
of the French Riviera, and later shifts to a Suffolk village named Pontisbright. But Pontisbright is no ordinary village, and this is
no ordinary mystery novel! The Saturday Review (8 July 1933)
called it Albert Campion's "most hair-raising and side-splitting
adventure... this author makes witchcraft really exciting, a mythical
kingdom really romantic, a mystery both thrilling and hilarious."]
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Dancers in Mourning
(1937)
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[Mystery novel, the eighth to feature Albert Campion, set within
the glamorous world of the British stage.]
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Mr. Campion: Criminologist
(1937)
[Mystery stories. "Bespectacled Albert ambles shrewdly through
one long, six short episodes involving murders, thefts, etc...
Verdict: Irreproachable" (Saturday Review, 20 November 1937).
The long story is The Case of the Late Pig, which we have
omitted for the simple reason that it is already available in our
catalogue as a separate ebook!]
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The Case of the Late Pig
(1937)
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[Mystery novel, featuring (and narrated by) Allingham's famous creation
Albert Campion
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Obituaries are normally published after someone's passing.
But the obituary for R. I. "Pig" Peters appeared in the newspaper;
then, some weeks later, he died. Naturally the situation
interests Campion: he and Pig had gone to school together!]
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The Fashion in Shrouds
(1938)
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[Mystery novel featuring Albert Campion. Not one murder
to solve, but three, with, as you might guess, considerable
attention to the world of high fashion!]
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The Oaken Heart
(1941)
[Memoir; not a mystery novel! In 1941 a German invasion of England
was a strong possibility, and the village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy
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on the Essex coast was at particularly high risk. And it is in that
village (called "Auburn" in the book), that Allingham and her husband
Philip lived. This is her account of village life under these very
unusual circumstances. Her writing has an authenticity which is
refreshing after the manufactured history and manufactured debate
we've seen coming out of England in recent years. After all, Allingham
was faced with the very real threat of a foreign occupation, rather than
the decidedly less concrete threat posed by "Brussels bureaucrats"!]
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Coroner's Pidgin
(1945)
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[The twelfth mystery in the Albert Campion series. "Pidgin" in the
title and in the novel carries its secondary meaning of "A person's business, occupation, work, or trade"
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The American publisher chose, perhaps wisely, to use a different title,
Pearls Before Swine.
Now let's discuss the novel! Mr Campion has been out of the country
for three years on a government mission "so secret that he had never found out quite what it was". (Or perhaps the disorder we see at Westminster
these days stretches back to the days of Albert Campion!) In any case, he's back from the mission, even the trip itself lasted a full eight weeks, and
he is taking a bath, having been in London for a whole hour and ten minutes.
Then a murder happens!]
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More Work for the Undertaker
(1949)
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[Mystery novel, featuring Albert Campion, taking place in an area
of London where people are known to disappear mysteriously.
A central role is played by the Palinode family, formerly rich,
more recently not so rich, but now some of their old wealth may
be coming back.]
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No Love Lost
(1954)
[Two mystery novellas. The Patient at Peacocks Hall, is narrated
by Ann Fowler, an assistant GP in a rural medical practice, who has to
deal not only with the challenges of her practice, but also with losing
her fiancé, John Linnett, to Francia Forde, a new and scintillating
starlet -- they'll even appear in a movie together! The narrator of the
second novella, Safer than Love, is Elizabeth Lane, newly married
to the headmaster of Buchanan House, in the town of Tinworth. But the
townspeople are puzzled -- Victor seems to be leading exactly the same kind
of independent life as before the arrival of his glamorous wife from the city.
Both novellas are written with Allingham's usual expertise and style, not
to mention an unusually wide view of the world and its doings: one of the
factors that gives her a special place among the classic mystery authors.]
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Word in Season. A Story for Christmas.
(1965 version)
[A very short story, set at Christmas and featuring Albert Campion
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An earlier version, A Word in Season, had appeared in 1955.]
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Alloway, Mary Wilson (1848-1919)
[Canadian novelist and historian]
Famous Firesides of French Canada
(1899)
[Essays on the history of French Canada]
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Crossed Swords. A Canadian-American Tale of Love and Valor.
(1912)
[Historical novel set during the 1775 attack on Quebec
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by American forces led by
Richard Montgomery
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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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[PGC #886]
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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fr.wikipedia]
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Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918) [Romancier et poète français]
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Les Onze Mille Verges (1907) [Roman érotique]
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Aristophanes (445 B.C. or earlier - ca. 385 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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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
Arkell, Reginald (1882-1959)
[English novelist and poet]
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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]
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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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Atiyah, Edward [Edward Selim] (1903-1964) [Lebanese political activist and novelist]
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The Cruel Fire
(1962)
[Mystery novel, notable in several respects: (1) it is set in Lebanon,
although there is a Hollywood connection, (2) it's not so much about
a murder as the attempt to conceal the murder, and (3) its author was not
primarily a novelist, but an Oxford-educated journalist and sometime secretary
of the Arab League. The novel is nicely written, and succeeds in offering
both entertainment and instruction.]
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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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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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Austen, Jane (1775-1817) [English novelist]
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Pride and Prejudice
(1813)
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[Novel, perhaps the most famous novel in the English language, and
certainly one of the most popular. The Bennet family is wealthy, but
their wealth is transient, since the five daughters will not inherit
anything: the estate can only go to a male heir. Hence there is huge
pressure for one of the daughters to marry well, or rather, to marry
someone with serious money. The "pride" is that of Mr Darcy, whose
initial impression of the Bennets is that they are not the sort of
family he wants to be involved with. The "prejudice" is that of
Elizabeth Bennet, who quickly begins to dislike Mr Darcy. The
Project Gutenberg US ebook we present is drawn from an impeccable
source, the 1923 edition of Austen's novels by the textual scholar
R. W. Chapman (1881-1960)
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For Pride and Prejudice, Chapman principally relied on the 1813
first edition, and included some illustrations from Jane Austen's era.
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #42671]
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]
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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
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[PGC no 739]
Barrie, J. M. [James Matthew] (1860-1937)
[Scottish playwright]
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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]
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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
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Reginald Bateman, Teacher and Soldier.
A Memorial Volume of Selections from his Lectures and Other Writings.
(1922)
[An anthology, edited and with a preface by unnamed friends
and students of Bateman at the University of Saskatchewan,
where Bateman taught English.
The anthology includes lectures and essays on Francis 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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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]
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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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Bechdolt, Jack [John Ernest] (1884-1954)
[American journalist, cartoonist, and science fiction author]
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The Torch
(1920)
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[Post-apocalyptic novel, not so very different in tone from any number of recent movies, in spite of its being first published almost a century ago. The "torch" in question is that held by the Statue of Liberty!]
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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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Beerbohm, Max [Henry Maximilian] (1872-1956)
[English satirist, critic, and caricaturist]
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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)
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biographical sketch by Sylvester Baxter (1850-1927)]
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Benchley, Robert Charles (1889-1945)
[American essayist, critic, and actor]
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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]
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From Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds (1937) [Short stories]
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By the Waters of Babylon
[Post-apolocalyptic story
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The Blood of the Martyrs
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The King of the Cats
[The world is a different place for those with tails.]
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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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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
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The Devil and Daniel Webster
[A very famous short story, made into a 1941 film
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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
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who founded English Canada: Walter Butler (1752-1781)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
Simon Girty (1741-1818)
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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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Glamour
[A budding author moves to Brooklyn and there discovers glamour.]
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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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Bengough, John Wilson (1851-1923) [Canadian cartoonist and publisher]
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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]
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University of Wyoming
The Desert Girl
(probably ca. 1928: certainly before 1958)
[Novel (Western)]
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[English novelist]
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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)
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[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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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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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)
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Imperial Palace
(1930)
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[Hotel novel (Bennett's final novel, and his longest), with a multitude
of plots and characters: "rich with good humor and understanding...
a book to be bought, to be read fast or slowly, to he kept and
read again." (Henry Williamson, Saturday Review,
12 December 1930). It was published at much the same time as
Vicki Baum's Menschen im Hotel (Grand Hotel):
both could be called forerunners of Canadian novelist Arthur Hailey's
1965 bestseller Hotel. Bennett must have been fond of
grand hotels: many years earlier, in 1902, he had published
The Grand Babylon Hotel, available as a free ebook from
Project Gutenberg US]
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[PGC #1447]
The Night Visitor and Other Stories
(1931)
[Short stories]
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Benson, E. F. [Edward Frederic] (1867-1940)
[English novelist]
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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]
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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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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]
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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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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]
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Goethe und die Fikentscher (1878)
[Biographical essay in German / Essai biographique en allemand]
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Biggers, Earl Derr (1884-1933) [American novelist]
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Love Insurance
(1914)
[Novel, adapted to film no fewer than three times
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A British Lord falls in love with an American heiress. He decides to
take out an insurance policy against her falling out of love with him
before the wedding. Assorted mayhem/hilarity ensues...]
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[PGUS #56077]
The House Without a Key
(1925)
Wikipedia
[The first of Biggers' six novels featuring Detective-Sergeant Charlie Chan
of the Honolulu police force. Miss Minerva Winterslip, of an old Boston family,
has lived in Hawaii for many years. Her nephew, John Quincy Winterslip, has been
visiting Hawaii, hoping to persuade his aunt to return to Boston. But a murder
happens, and the nephew takes a leading role in the investigation. CAUTION:
If anything, Biggers fought vigorously against the prejudices of his age. Nonetheless.
some degree of racial stereotyping does creep into the novel from time to time.]
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The Chinese Parrot
(1926)
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[The second novel featuring Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police,
interesting in various respects: (1) it takes place in California,
not Hawaii, (2) the parrot of the title itself becomes a murder viction,
and (3) Chan cleverly makes use of his ancestry to disguise himself
as a Chinese cook! CAUTION: some degree of racial stereotyping.]
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Fifty Candles
(1926)
[Mystery novella set in Honolulu, "a story that stretches
over twenty years, all the way from that bare Honolulu
court room to a night of fog and violence in San Francisco."
However, the novel does not feature Biggers'
famous Honolulu-based detective Charlie Chan!
"A murder mystery told in short space in a masterly manner."
(The Outlook, 7 April 1926)]
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Behind That Curtain
(1928)
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[The third Charlie Chan novel. Our detective is in California,
and so is Sir Frederic Bruce of Scotland Yard, pursuing a cold
case -- which now seems be heating up!
CAUTION: some degree of racial stereotyping.]
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The Black Camel
(1929)
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[Mystery novel. Film star Shelah Fane is vacationing in
Waikiki! Very glamorous... and very dangerous. It's
a good thing that famed detective Charlie Chan
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is with the Honolulu police!
CAUTION: Considerable racial stereotyping.
That said, Charlie Chan is after all the hero of the
novel, and is presented in a positive light.]
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Charlie Chan Carries On
(1930)
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[Mystery novel, involving a round the world cruise.
Inspector Duff of Scotland Yard begins the investigation,
which he eventually passes to his friend Charlie Chan
of the Honolulu police. "For continuous excitement,
masterfully presented, there is nothing better now on
tap than 'Charlie Chan Carries On,' by Earl Derr Biggers."
(Saturday Review, 3 January 1931) CAUTION:
some degree of racial stereotyping.]
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Keeper of the Keys
(1932)
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[The sixth and last of Biggers' Charlie Chan novels.
An opera singer spends a weekend at Lake Tahoe in the
company of four previous husbands, and a prospective
future one. Murder makes an appearance: calling Charlie Chan!
CAUTION: some degree of racial stereotyping.]
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Bindloss, Harold (1866-1945)
[English novelist]
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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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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.
Binyon, Laurence [Robert Laurence] (1869-1943)
[English poet, translator, and art historian]
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Dutch Etchers of the Seventeenth Century
(1895)
[Art monograph. Laurence Binyon is best known today for his poetry,
but in his early adulthood he worked at the British Museum, specializing
in prints and drawings, and this is his first published work: learned
and yet easy reading. Many illustrations, ideal for displaying on
your monitor or mobile device!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #64570]
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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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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Blixen, Karen [Dinesen, Isak] (1885-1962)
[Danish memoirist and novelist]
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Published under the pen-name Isak Dinesen:
Seven Gothic Tales
(1934)
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John Updike (New York Times, 23 Feb 1986)
[Seven novellas, all set in the nineteenth century, in various
parts of Europe, and all with a rich sense of the past and how
it affects the present. With an introduction by critic and author
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958)
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who took a major role in arranging the book's publication,
which brought the author enduring fame.]
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Anecdotes of Destiny
(1958)
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[Five late and excellent stories by Karen Blixen, with a wide variety
of subjects, but all displaying our author's characteristic gifts and style.
One of them, Babette's Feast served as the basis for the 1987
film of the same name
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-- the first Danish movie to win the Academy
Award for Best Foreign Language Film!]
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Shadows on the Grass
(1960)
[Four short memoirs, an epilogue to Out of Africa,
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the author's famous account of farming in the uplands of Kenya,
published almost thirty years earlier.]
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Ehrengard
(1963)
[Novella: "another of her splendid Gothic tales that combine great
ingenuity of plot with old-fashioned precision and purity of style."
(Charles Alva Hoyt, Saturday Review, 29 June 1963)
Ehrengard von Schreckenstein, as you might expect from someone with
a name like that, is descended from an old and distinguished family, and
as our story opens is the new maid-of-honour to Princess Ludmilla.
One of the main characters is a somewhat dubious painter:
"if Herr Cazotte was famous as a portraitist of fair ladies,
he was no less celebrated and talked about as their conqueror
and seducer, the irresistible Don Juan of his age." For more
information on all this, read the novella!]
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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
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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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Bottome, Phyllis (1882-1963) [English psychologist, teacher, and novelist]
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The Spectator (Charlotte Moore)
Old Wine
(1925)
[In 1918, the First World War came to an end, and so did the
Habsburg Empire, which had lasted a thousand years. But although
the Empire was gone, Vienna remained, shorn of its empire. How did
the citizens of Vienna and more particularly the former aristocrats
deal with this cataclysm? In this novel, Phyllis Bottome examines
the question in scintillating fashion. She was in an excellent position
to do so; she spoke excellent German, and was living in Vienna with her
husband, who was in charge of British intelligence in the region.]
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Windlestraws
(1929)
[Novel, written in a light and luminous style as befits a book written during
the Jazz Age. Jean Arbuthnot, the daughter of an Egyptologist, has been hired
as a personal secretary at the very grand country house known as Windlestraws.
Of course, very grand houses come with very grand families, who can be
challenging to deal with. Such is most definitely the case at Windlestraws,
as our heroine discovers!]
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Man and Beast
(1953)
[Five truly short stories, all involving the interactions between
men and animals: in a circus, for example, and other locales.
"Essentially they are psychological tales equally penetrating
with both the human and animal characters... Each of them
introduces a fresh twist of narrative to some classic theme."
(Edmund Fuller, Saturday Review, 27 November 1954)]
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Boucher, Anthony [White, William Anthony Parker] (1911-1968)
[American science fiction and mystery author]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Compleat Werewolf
(April 1942)
[Science fiction story, one of Boucher's most famous, set
in Berkeley, California. It appears that Professor Wolfe Wolf,
known to his students (he teaches German) as Woof-woof,
is in fact a wolf, or rather a werewolf: this is news to him.]
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Boucher-Belleville, Jean-Philippe [Jean-Baptiste] (1800-1874)
[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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Bourinot, Sir John George (1837-1902) [Canadian historian and constitutional scholar]
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
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]
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University of Oklahoma (Kate Baird Anderson)
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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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[PGC #555]
Rodeo
(1929) [Western]
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[PGC #554]
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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[PGC #666]
Brazil, Angela (1868-1947)
[English novelist]
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Literary Heritage West Midlands
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
An Exciting Term
(1936)
[Novel]
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Bridges, Thomas Charles (1868-1944)
[English boys' novelist]
The Wee Web
The River Riders: An Exciting Lumberjack Story
(1892)
[Novel]
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[American novelist, journalist, and organic farmer]
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Early Autumn
(1926)
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[A novel from near the beginning of Bromfield's career -- it won him
the 1927 Pulitzer Prize! It is a family epic, set in the old but
fictional Massachusetts town of Durham, where the Pentland family
has roots dating back to the seventeenth century. But now it's the
twentieth century, Durham has changed and grown, and the Pentlands,
it turns out, are not immune to the problems which can beset
long-established families dependent on inherited wealth. The novel
features old John Pentland, his alarming sister Cassie, and his son
Anson, who had married Olivia, whom Cassie "had never quite forgiven...
for being an outsider who had come into the intricate web of life at
Pentlands out of (of all places) Chicago." Still, when she arrived,
so did her substantial fortune. By this point you probably get the
picture. Now try the novel, written with Louis Bromfield's typical
combination of elegance and approachability!]
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Awake and Rehearse (1929)
[Short stories, originally published separately, now collected in
book form by the already famous novelist, taking place in various locales.
"These are stories, for the most part, of women. And what women! Hogarth
and Daumier might have battled for them as models...hags, harlots, spinsters,
hoofers, jeunes filles, grandes dames, priestesses..."
(Gladys Graham, Saturday Review, 1 June 1929)]
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The Man Who Had Everything (1935)
[Novel, set in the U.S. and in France. Tom Ashford is a playwright in early
middle age, and everything in life has gone his way. But success, as can
happen, turns out to have some unexpected aspects. His glittering present
cannot shake off the spell of the past: his early years on a farm in Illinois!]
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[PGC #1597]
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]
Wild is the River
(1941)
[Novel. The "river" of the title is the Mississippi, in New Orleans,
where things are indeed wild, since it is no longer controlled by the
Confederacy, but has fallen to the Union Army. Which does not mean
that things have calmed down, either at the political level or in
the lives of those living in what is still a largely French-speaking
city. The novel is quite a read! "It is entertaining, it has enormous
gusto, swagger, voodoo mysteries, wonderful black women who devise love
potions for good American dollars, aristocratic Creoles, moonlight, fever,
sultry heat... and lots and lots of sex."
(Bess Jones, Saturday Review, 29 November 1941)]
CAUTION: Certain elements of plot and language may seem racist by the standards of today.
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[PGC #1666]
Until the Day Break (1942)
[Our author was born in Ohio, but spent some happy years in
France. His familiarity with that wonderful country is evident
in this novel, not so much a "war novel" as a "novel set during
a war", in this case the Second World War. The novel is set in
Paris, involves wartime intrigue, and features Roxie Dawn, born
in Evanston, Indiana but now a Paris showgirl -- and more!]
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[PGC #1650]
Mrs. Parkington (1943)
[Novel: the basis for the 1944 film of the same name
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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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[PGC #1251]
What Became of Anna Bolton (1944)
[Novel. It is 1937: Anna Bolton, an American by birth, has been
living in "the Europe of the period between wars... that night
and day carnival which preceded the invasion of Poland".
But the world of Anna Bolton was about to change.]
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[PGC #1338]
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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Kenny (1947)
[Three novellas, each with a link to the Second World War,
but each quite distinct in topic: the first takes its main character
from an Ohio farm to the Pacific war, the second ("Retread")
is about a veteran of the First World War who enlists when the
next war comes, and the third is set in occupied Paris.]
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Mr. Smith (1951)
[Novel. In alternating chapters, Wolcott Ferris describes (1) his upbringing and
his successful but not particularly happy career as a business executive,
and (2) his new existence as an officer on an isolated Pacific island during
wartime.]
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Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)
[English novelist]
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Shirley
(1849)
[Novel, set in Yorkshire during the Industrial Revolution
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Brontë, Emily [Emily Jane] (1818-1848)
[English novelist]
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Wuthering Heights
(1847)
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[Emily Brontë's only novel, controversial when published because of
its language and subject matter, but now long established as one of
the great English classics. The novel is set in (very) rural Yorkshire;
as it opens Mr Lockwood, a new tenant, is making a call on his not very sociable landlord, Mr Heathcliff. In the course of the novel we shall
learn much about Heathcliff's tumultuous life and how he has affected
those around him. "Wuthering Heights... is passionate and profoundly
moving; it has the depth and power of a great poem. To read it is not
like reading a work of fiction, in which, however absorbed, you can
remind yourself, if need be, that it is only a story; it is to have
a shattering experience in your own life." (W. Somerset Maugham,
Books and You. NOTE: As a special bonus, the EPUB we offer
includes the fascinating 1850 biographical notice by Charlotte
Brontë (1816-1855) discussing her famous sisters and their works.]
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[University of Adelaide]
Traduction française par
Téodor de Wyzewa (1862-1917)
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Un amant
(1892)
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Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS no 63193]
Brooke, Frances (1724-1789) [English novelist]
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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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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]
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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
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in the Gospel.]
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[PGC #1013]
Broughton, Rhoda (1840-1920)
[English novelist]
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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
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de.wikipedia]
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[PGC #757]
Brown, E. K. [Edward Killoran] (1905-1951)
[Canadian literary critic]
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On Canadian Poetry
(1943)
[A monograph which won the 1943 Governor General's Award, and deservedly so.
It discusses at length the works of Project Gutenberg Canada author E. J. Pratt,
of Archibald Lampman (1861-1899)
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Project Gutenberg US,
and of Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947)
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Project Gutenberg US.
His sympathetic account of the special challenges faced by Canadian literature
is clear, accurate, and well worth reading: "To one who takes careful account
of the difficulties which have steadily beset its growth its survival as
something interesting and important seems a miracle."]
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Browning, Robert (1812-1889)
[English poet]
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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]
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin (1872) [Historical essays]
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Bruce, Jean [Brochet, Jean Alexandre] (1921-1963)
[Romancier français]
fr.wikipedia
O.S.S. 117 voit rouge (1956)
[Roman d'espionnage. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (alias O.S.S. 117)
fr.wikipedia
est envoyé à San Francisco par la CIA. Agent spécial Enrique
Sagarra «a trouvé un cadavre dans une ruelle de Russian Hill».
O.S.S. 117 à la rescousse!]
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[PGC no 1384]
Buchan, Anna Masterton [Douglas, O.] (1877-1948)
[Scottish novelist]
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Ann and her Mother
(1922)
[One of the early Priorsford novels, set in the Scottish Borders region
in the valley of the River Tweed
Wikipedia.
Like all of Anna Buchan's novels, chiefly concerned with everyday doings,
and therefore easy to relate to: unpretentious, captivating, and classic.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #53522]
Pink Sugar
(1924)
[Novel, part of Anna Buchan's celebrated Priorsford series, set in the Borders
region of Scotland. Following the death of her stepmother, Kirsty Gilmour
moves to Scotland, the land of her ancestors, but a country of which she
knows little. Naturally this changes as the novel proceeds.]
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[PGC #1321]
The Proper Place
(1926)
[Novel, set in Scotland. Lady Jane Rutherfurd has to sell the
magnificent family house ("twelve large bedrooms and eight
smaller ones"), and move to the much smaller Harbour House,
far away in Fife
Wikipedia.]
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The Day of Small Things
(1930)
[Novel, carrying on from The Proper Place. Lady Jane Rutherfurd
has found happiness in her new home in Fife, but of course life
rarely remains still, and unexpected events happen. In the agreeable
universe of Anna Buchan, these events are generally happy ones,
and provide an admirable backdrop to our author's beautifully written
narrative of domestic life in Scotland. Her world is not so very far
removed from that of her beloved Jane Austen.]
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[PGC #1411]
Priorsford
(1932)
[Novel, part of the Priorsford series, and consequently set
mostly in the Scottish Borders region, although the first
chapter takes place in southern England. A beautifully
written novel, with Anna Buchan's usual focus on everyday
people and events.]
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[PGC #1335]
Taken by the Hand
(1935)
[Beatrice Dobie has spent her entire life in Glasgow, but
now finds herself alone. In her final days, Janie Dobie
had suggested that her daughter Beatrice consider moving
to London: a new city and a new country! This novel tells
us what comes of this suggestion.]
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[PGC #1370]
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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[PGC #1189]
The House That Is Our Own
(1940)
[Novel, part of the novelist's famous Priorsford series set in the Scottish Borders, and focusing on
the lives of two old friends, Kitty Baillie and Isobel Logan. In the latter part of the novel,
Isobel makes an extended visit to Canada!]
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[PGC #1292]
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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[PGC #850]
Buchan, John [first Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield] (1875-1940)
[Scottish novelist; Governor General of Canada 1935-1940]
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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
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landed in Scotland and set in play the events that led to
the disastrous Battle of Culloden.]
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[PGC #1007]
The Power-House
(1916)
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[Novel of action and intrigue, the first to feature Buchan's famous
creation the Scottish barrister and politician Sir Edward Leithen
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Leithen lives and works in London, but the novel plays out against
an international backdrop. The "Power-House" has nothing to do with
electricity: it is a secret and sinister international organization!
The novel was, our author states, "written in the smooth days before the war";
in 1916 he published it in book form "in the hope that it may enable an
honest man here and there to forget for an hour the too urgent realities."
A goal, we can safely say, that it certainly accomplished!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #57631]
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]
Midwinter. Certain Travellers in Old England.
(1923)
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[Historical novel, set in England and Scotland during the Jacobite
rising of 1745
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when Bonnie Prince Charlie (more formally, Charles
Edward Stuart)
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attempted an invasion of Scotland with the objective
of gaining the British throne. The novel's main character
is Alastair Maclean, a Scottish exile; the English essayist,
poet, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson
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plays an unexpected role. "Altogether this tale is, besides
being highly diverting, more intelligent than most. It will
and should be read." (The Forum, November 1923)]
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[PGC #1432]
The Three Hostages
(1924)
[Thriller, the fourth in the Richard Hannay series
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[PGC #678]
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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
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
It was through Lord Minto's efforts that the National Archives of Canada came into being.]
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The Dancing Floor
(1926)
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[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)
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[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 Courts of the Morning
(1929)
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[Action novel, set in South America, and featuring various Buchan heroes
familiar from his other novels. Some aspects of this novel seem
quite contemporary: Latin American scepticism towards the United
States, drugs ("this continent is the home of drugs"), and a sinister
foreign mining company!]
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[PGC #1439]
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)
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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)
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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]
A Prince of the Captivity
(1933)
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[Action novel. Our hero, Adam Melfort, sacrifices his reputation
to save that of his wife. Afterwards, he does some espionage in
Belgium (the First World War is raging). Then, he's off to Greenland!]
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[PGC #1440]
The Free Fishers
(1934)
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[Historical novel, Buchan's last. Anthony Lammas, a young
Professor of Logic and Rhetoric at the University of St Andrews
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is our unexpected hero in this novel of intrigue, set in
Scotland and England at the start of the nineteenth century.]
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[PGC #1581]
The King's Grace 1910-1935
(1935)
[A profile of the life and times of George V
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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
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and E. O. Hoppé (1878-1972)
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[PGC #878]
The House of the Four Winds
(1935)
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[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)
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[Novel featuring Buchan's most famous character, Richard Hannay
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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
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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]
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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)
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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]
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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)
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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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Busch, Heinrich Christian Wilhelm (1832-1908)
[German caricaturist and poet / caricaturiste et poète allemand]
Wikipedia
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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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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)
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Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission (Casey Bush).]
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[PGC #706]
Butler, Smedley D. [Darlington] (1881-1940) [American soldier and political activist]
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War Is a Racket
(1935)
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[A classic anti-war pamphlet, and a quick but fascinating read.
The retired United States Marines major general, one of the
most distinguished American soldiers of his era, came to see war
as little more than a sinister money-making enterprise: that is,
a racket: "Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about.
It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of
the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."]
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Byrne, Donn [Brian Oswald Donn] (1889-1928)
[American novelist]
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Changeling and Other Stories
(1923)
[Short stories, with a focus on Ireland]
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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)
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Raftery is a blind Irish poet/folk-singer who marries Hilaria, a Spanish woman.
Then they start their travels...]
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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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Byron, Robert (1905-1941)
[English art critic and travel writer]
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First Russia, Then Tibet
(1933)
[A very famous travel book describing, as you might expect, Russia and,
in a second section, Tibet: two very different places.]
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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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Learn Italian! / Apprenez l'italien!
Cameron, David Young (1865-1945)
[Scottish etcher and painter]
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National Galleries of Scotland
Tate Collection
with:
Salaman, Malcolm Charles (1855-1940)
[English art historian and critic]
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Sir D.Y. Cameron, R.A.
(1925)
[Monograph on the famous Scottish artist, profusely illustrated]
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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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Campbell, Roy (1901-1957)
[South African poet]
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National Review, 15 August 1986 (Thomas P. McDonnell)
with:
Freedman, Barnett (1901-1958)
[English painter]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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Canadian Encyclopedia
Klee Wyck (1941) [Memoirs]
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Carrington, Fitzroy (1869-1954)
[American art historian]
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Dictionary of Art Historians
Engravers and Etchers
(1917)
["Six Lectures Delivered on the Scammon Foundation at the Art
Institute of Chicago, March 1916", says the title page, but this
doesn't come even close to describing this magnificent book and
its 133 beautiful illustrations from the fifteenth to the twentieth
centuries. "My sole aim," says Carrington, "has been to share with
my audience the stimulation and pleasure which certain prints by the
great engravers and etchers have given me." He is too modest: his
book is very easy to read but full of learning. For those wanting
even more information, tucked away at the end of each chapter are
admirably complete bibliographical notes by
Adam E. M. Paff (1891-1932)
of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66848]
Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge] (1832-1898)
[English mathematician, logician, and author]
Wikipedia
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
(1865)
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[It is a hot summer afternoon, and Alice is sitting with her
sister, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes runs close
by her. This is no ordinary rabbit, however: it is speaking to
itself ("Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!"), and then it
takes a watch out of its pocket! And the adventures keep coming
in this evergreen satirical classic, famous in every country: it
is so much more than a children's book! Our EPUB includes the
famous illustrations by the English cartoonist and illustrator
Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914)
Wikipedia.
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
Traduction française par
Henri Bué (1843-1929)
Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles
(1869)
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Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS no 55456]
Through the Looking-Glass
(1871)
Wikipedia
[Or, to give Carroll's full title, Through the Looking-Glass, and
What Alice Found There. Published six years after Alice in
Wonderland, and generally read in conjunction with the earlier
novel, it is written at the same high level, and has some very famous
episodes: Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Jabberwocky, Humpty Dumpty...
In any case, here it is for you to enjoy, complete with the wonderful
illustrations by
Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914)
from the 1871 first edition, as well as a preface added by Carroll in 1896!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
Carter, John Franklin (1897-1967)
[American economist, journalist, and novelist]
Wikipedia
Published under the pen-name Jay Franklin:
The Rat Race
(1950 Galaxy version)
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[Novel, a heady mixture of science fiction and political intrigue.
It starts in April 1945 when an atomic bomb explodes on board
the U.S.S. Alaska. But the bomb uses thorium
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rather than uranium!
In the explosion's aftermath, Lieutenant-Commander Frank Jacklin
finds himself in someone else's body, and that's when things
really start happening.
The anonymous reviewer at Fantasy Book thought it was
one of the best books of the year: "A fast-moving satire of
American life, sharp, funny, and to the point."
For Groff Conklin (Galaxy, October 1950) the novel
lacked credibility: "There have been incredible pieces of
pseudo-science fantasy in the past... But this book really
should take a prize." As regards the science part, perhaps.
But from the perspective of today, the political intrigues
highlighted by Conklin seem entirely realistic: the murder of
the U.S. president, for example, American citizens not
charged with any specific crime being sequestered in a huge
mental hospital, and so on. Actually, Conklin recognized
that the book "is fascinating reading... Certainly Franklin
wanted to have his readers haunted by the idea that some of
what he was writing was actually true. Maybe it was and just
doesn't sound it." And indeed, perhaps it was true: as an
eminent political journalist and former State Department
employee, Conklin certainly had access to excellent sources!
The source for our ebook is the 1950 edition published by the
editors of Galaxy Magazine, and is described on the front
cover as "complete and unabridged" and on the title page as
"a complete novel", but a note after the title page states that
"This novel has been slightly abridged for the sake of better pacing."
The edition was published during the author's lifetime: presumably
he did the trimming, or at least consented to it.]
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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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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
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PG Canada vous offre également l'intégrale du chef-d'oeuvre
de Garneau, son Histoire du Canada
Cather, Willa [Willa Sibert] (1873-1947) [American novelist]
Wikipedia
Biography by James Woodress
Death Comes for the Archbishop
(1927)
Wikipedia
[Novel, enormously successful when published and with an enduring
reputation. It is about the Roman Catholic church in New Mexico
in the nineteenth century, and is told through the life stories
of two French-born clergy. Fictional, but based on actual
personalities and events. "Miss Cather is growing restless
in the old forms. The novel irks her... for the 'Archbishop,'
she chooses the method of chronicle history. Instead of providing
suspense and a climax, she depends, like history, upon interest in
men and events. It is the honester way, if you can succeed with it.
She has." (Saturday Review, 10 December 1927)]
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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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Centlivre, Susanna (ca. 1669-1723)
[English playwright]
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The Stolen Heiress; or, The Salamanca Doctor Outplotted. A Comedy.
(1702 [first performance]; 1703 [first publication])
[Comedy]
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Chambers, E. K. [Edmund Kerchever] (1866-1954)
[English literary historian]
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The Elizabethan Stage, vol. 1 (1923)
[Literary history, done well, does not date. E.K. Chambers was
astoundingly well read: who today could surpass his direct knowledge
of the history of early English theatre? Add to this a remarkable
elegance of style, and you have a classic for the ages, and a very
attractive read. This first volume is an account of the court of
Elizabeth I, with particular attention to the stage. Note:
The ample bibliography appears at the start of the book, not the end.
The table of contents will take you to the main text of the book.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66003]
Chambers, Robert William (1865-1933)
[American painter and novelist]
Wikipedia
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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Gutenberg's
US site.
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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[PGC #696]
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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[PGC #1036]
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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[PGC #1033]
The Little Sister
(1949)
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[Novel, featuring Philip Marlowe and also the film industry,
with which by this time Chandler was very familiar.]
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[PGC #1279]
The Long Goodbye
(1953)
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Mark Coggins
[Mystery novel, Chandler's favourite among his novels, and winner
of the 1955 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Private
investigator Philip Marlowe gets involved in a heady set of intrigues
involving a writer, alcohol, Mexico, and, of course, murder. "The
dialogue is as vividly overheated as ever, the plot is clearly
constructed and surprisingly resolved, and the book is rich in many
sharp glimpses of minor characters and scenes. Perhaps the longest
private-eye novel ever written (over 125,000 words!). It is also one of
the best -- and may well attract readers who normally shun even the leaders
in the field." (Anthony Boucher, New York Times, 25 April 1954)]
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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)
rdhinstl.com
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 Father Brown stories:
The Complete Father Brown
(1911-1935)
[Father Brown is G. K. Chesterton's famous priest-detective
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The stories are famous worldwide, and have often been reprinted and
adapted. The five individual collections published between 1911 and
1935 are available from Project Gutenberg Canada as individual ebooks,
but it is our pleasure to offer all five of these books in an elegant
single EPUB edition from the University of Adelaide.]
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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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[PGC #971]
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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[PGC #975]
The Scandal of Father Brown
(1935)
[Mystery stories. Chesterton's fifth and final Father Brown collection.]
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[PGC #977]
The Everlasting Man
(1925)
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[Theological work, written for a general audience, and published
three years after Chesterton had joined the Roman Catholic church,
of which he became a strong advocate. It is an overview of human
history from a theological perspective. "The view suggested is
historical rather than theological, and does not deal directly
with a religious change which has been the chief event of my own
life... Much of it is devoted to many sorts of Pagans rather than
any sort of Christians". The book has been greatly admired by
many, including C. S. Lewis, and is written in Chesterton's
characteristically vigorous style, full of illuminating paradoxes.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #65688]
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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Cheyney, Peter [Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse] (1896-1951)
[English poet and novelist]
Wikipedia
The Stars are Dark
(1943)
[Novel, the second in Cheyney's "Dark" series.
"Dark and devilish doings of British and German spies told
in hard-hitting, effective, and hair-raising fashion.
Verdict: Tops in spy-stuff"
(Saturday Review, 23 October 1943)]
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[PGC #1505]
The Dark Street
(1944)
[Novel of intrigue and murder, from Cheyney's "Dark" series. One of the main characters
is named Quayle: his business, we are told, "was nobody's business... It was a
business necessitated by war, by the ghastly mechanics of war, by the scheming,
plotting, machinations, underhand tactics, filthy murders..." He has an employee,
Shaun Aloysius O'Mara, who "played the piano, rode a horse, was a good shot,
could sail a boat. He spoke a considerable number of languages, though very few
people were aware of the fact... and was extremely apt with a hand gun."
After this, who needs a plot summary? By this point you'll know whether this
book is for you! But we'll also mention the mysterious Spaniard Miguales,
who had "fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War and enjoyed the process."]
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[PGC #1504]
Uneasy Terms
(1946)
[Mystery novel: the first of Cheyney's novels to be adapted to film. Colonel Gervase Stenhurst, late of the Indian Army, journeys to London, seeking the expert assistance of private detective Slim Callaghan, who at first is difficult to find (he's having a drink
or two at the Night Light Club in Mayfair), and who when found is reluctant to take on
the mysterious assignment he is offered. But of course he eventually relents, greatly increasing the likelihood that the truth will be found and that justice will prevail.]
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[PGC #1542]
Dark Bahama
(1950)
[The "Dark" in the title is a tipoff: this spy novel is part of
Cheyney's "Dark" series of espionage novels, not so very far removed
from the works of Ian Fleming, his contemporary. And just as
Fleming used Jamaica in some of his most famous James Bond stories,
so Cheyney has here used the Bahamas. The island of Dark Bahama,
our novelist tells us, is beautiful, and the people living there
devote their lives to pleasure. But if Cheyney's mysterious Ernest
Guelvada is there, chances are that there is trouble. And indeed
there is: murder, to start with, and assorted intrigues.
"Pseudo-sophistication, cliché culture", commented the Saturday
Review (3 Feb 1951), but what's wrong with that? Yet the
novel also features "taut narrative and plausible surprise to
last sentence" -- that sounds good! All in all, if you like the
spy stories of Fleming and his contemporaries, you may find this
very much to your taste!]
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[PGC #1667]
Ladies Won't Wait
(1951)
[Spy/murder novel featuring (and narrated by) British agent
Michael Kells, with much of the action taking place in the
glamorous setting of Paris.]
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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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Churchill, Winston Spencer (1874-1965)
[English statesman and historian; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1953]
Wikipedia
Nobelprize.org
Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania.
(1900)
Wikipedia
[Churchill's only novel, a political one, set in Laurania,
an imaginary country on the north side of the Mediterranean.
"It is the character of Savrola himself that fascinates us, for we realize that in creating the great republican of Laurania young Churchill was depicting his ideal hero, that he was putting into
words the kind of man he wished to be--that he was, perhaps,
determined to become." (Ben Ray Redman, Saturday Review,
14 April 1956)]
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My Early Life. A Roving Commission.
(1930)
Wikipedia
[Sir Winston's account of his life from childhood up to 1902.
"When I survey this work as a whole," our author remarks,
"I find I have drawn a picture of a vanished age." But what
an age it was, and what a fine account Sir Winston created!]
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[PGC #1315]
Painting as a Pastime
(1948)
[An essay, first published in 1932, in which Sir Winston recommends
having at least two or three hobbies. Reading, of course, but also
painting--which he personally took up at the age of forty! This
enhanced edition of the essay includes eighteen colour reproductions
of his paintings, which demonstrate how well he had learned his new craft.]
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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]
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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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(1925)
[Poetry]
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The Crimson Sign
(1935)
[Historical novel, set in Acadia
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towards the end of the seventeenth century.]
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Fighting Stars
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[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
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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]
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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
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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.]
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Coles, Manning [pseudonym of English author Adelaide Frances Oke Manning
(1891-1959) and British intelligence agent Cyril Henry Coles (1899-1965)]
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Drink to Yesterday
(1940)
[Neighbours Adelaide Manning, who had worked in the War Office
during the First World War, and Cyril Coles, a career officer in British
Intelligence, in 1940 jointly wrote their first novel (many were to follow)
featuring Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon
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It is set during the First World War: Hambledon is nominally a teacher,
but in fact the important part of his work takes place during the
vacations -- when he is in Germany! This work behind German lines
is presumably based on Coles' own experience: he joined up as a
teenager, had a phenomenal ability to learn languages quickly, and
did indeed work behind German lines! "Tremendously effective and
entirely thrilling tale of man whose split nationality and tragically
divided personal loyalties changed his whole life." (Saturday
Review, 15 February 1941)]
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Pray Silence
(1940)
[It's hard to give a more accurate and concise summary than the one
provided by the Saturday Review in their 10 May 1941 issue:
"British spy loses memory and turns up decade later as high Nazi
police official. He makes up for lost time." Yes, it's Tommy
Hambledon, of course, in the second Manning Coles novel to feature him,
a novel known in the United States as A Toast to Tomorrow, an
excellent title, since it nicely parallels the title of the first novel,
Drink to Yesterday, which was set during the First World War.
Be that as it may, our hero is as far behind German lines as could be
imagined: Hitler himself shows up as a character!]
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Without Lawful Authority
(1943)
[Espionage novel, set during the runup to the Second World War.
Some very mysterious crimes are happening in England. They are not
what they seem: but what are the motives? Perhaps Tommy Hambledon
of British Intelligence can sort out these complexities!]
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Green Hazard
(1945)
[Action novel, set in the year 1941, and featuring British intelligence
agent Tommy Hambledon doing dangerous and important espionage. Then comes
shocking news: Hambledon has been killed, in Switzerland! Or has he?]
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The Fifth Man
(1946)
[Espionage novel, naturally featuring British intelligence
agent Tommy Hambledon. In wartime, a dubious life history
can be the ideal background for espionage inside another
country -- for example, Germany!
"A-1 Spy thriller" (Saturday Review, 19 January 1946)]
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Alias Uncle Hugo
(1952)
[Novel of intrigue and espionage. Tommy Hambledon's latest
assignment takes him to the Soviet Union. The Second World
War is now over, but much intrigue is underway. Kaspar,
the orphaned son of an Eastern European monarch, is living
in the Soviet Union being sheltered by his tutor, who is
passing him off as his great-nephew. This is not a situation
that can last: fortunately Kaspar's Uncle Hugo shows up!
But who exactly is Uncle Hugo, and what is he planning?]
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A Knife for the Juggler
(1953)
[Novel of murder and intrigue, the sixteenth in the Tommy
Hambledon series, taking place in the glamorous settings
of the City of Paris and of the Canary Islands!]
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Not for Export
(1954)
[Spy/mystery novel. Some very sensitive airplane design documents disappear:
who better to find them than British intelligence agent Tommy Hambledon?
Much action in West Germany, particularly Berlin, but Russia also plays
a role. "Familiar mixture of international mayhem and mirth...
Peppy as ever" (John T. Winterich, Saturday Review, 13 March 1954)]
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No Entry
(1958)
[Spy/mystery novel, which begins in the city of Goslar
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near the former boundary between West and East Germany. The son of the
British Foreign Secretary has mysteriously disappeared while visiting.
Are the Russians involved? To the Foreign Office it seems obvious: the
situation calls for the special talents of Thomas Elphinstone "Tommy" Hambledon
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Compton, Edward Harrison (1881-1960)
[German painter]
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Chester Water-Colours
(1916)
[Watercolour album. Chester
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(from "castrum", Latin for "army base") is located in Cheshire, not
far from the Welsh border. As its name indicates, it was founded
by the Romans, and was relatively prosperous throughout the Middle
Ages. Watergate Street, included in this collection, was laid out
as part of the Roman encampment, and substantial sections of the
city's walls survive from Roman times. As you will see, this famous
old city provided excellent material for Compton to paint. In spite
of his name, Compton was a German artist: his father had emigrated
from England to Upper Bavaria where he became a famous mountain climber
and painter, married, and had his family. The son followed his father's
example and became a painter. He trained in England, exhibited his
paintings there, and was presumably in England throughout the First World
War, for this fine portfolio was published in May 1916. The reproductions
are all in colour: if there were wartime production issues, there are certainly no traces of them in this beautiful album.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66086]
Conan Doyle, Arthur
(1859-1930)
See:
Doyle, Arthur Conan
(1859-1930)
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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Connell, Richard [Richard Edward, Jr.] (1893-1949)
[American journalist, screenwriter, and novelist]
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The Most Dangerous Game
(1924)
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[A very famous and very influential short story, involving
a special kind of big game hunting.]
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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
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["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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The Man from Glengarry: a Tale of the Ottawa (1901) [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 Major (1919) [Novel]
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(1857-1924) [Polish mariner and novelist]
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Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River.
(1895)
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[Conrad's first novel, in which his peculiar strengths are already
evident. He wrote English beautifully, and yet he was not from an
English-speaking country, but from Poland, which through almost
his entire life was not an independent country, but a region, split
between the Russian, German, and Austrian empires: in fact, a colony.
This put Conrad in an excellent position to observe and understand
the colonial experience. Almayer's Folly demonstrates this
nicely. It is the first of Conrad's three Malay novels, set in what
is now Indonesia, but at the time was a Dutch colony. Kaspar Almayer
is a Dutch trader who lives with his Malayan wife, by whom he has had
a daughter, Nina. In anticipation of a British annexation of the area
(which never happens), and the resulting increase in business (which
also never happens), he puts up a preposterously large half-finished
house ("Almayer's Folly") as a venue for his business affairs. But
Almayer's delusions are not limited to commerce: his wife is secretly
determined that under no circumstances will their daughter Nina marry
a European. Nina is, in fact, strictly opposed to the European colonial
dream/nightmare, in which Almayer is so deeply invested.]
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[University of Adelaide]
An Outcast of the Islands
(1896)
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[Conrad's second novel, a sequel to Almayer's Folly. The
islands in question are the Malay Archipelago (modern Indonesia),
where Almayer's Folly had been set. Like its predecessor,
the novel's focus is on a European, in this case Peter Willems.
"The man who suggested Willems to me," wrote Conrad in his 1919
Author's Note, included in our ebook, "was not particularly
interesting in himself. My interest was aroused by his dependent
position, his strange, dubious status of a mistrusted, disliked,
worn-out European living on the reluctant toleration of that
Settlement hidden in the heart of the forest-land, up that sombre
stream which our ship was the only white men's ship to visit."
And, really, there you have the novel. Like its predecessor, it is
a careful examination of what men will do when tempted or pressured,
particularly if the colonial system puts them in a position of privilege.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Nigger of the Narcissus. A Tale of the Forecastle.
(1897)
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[Novella. CAUTION: Certain elements of plot and language may seem
racist by the standards of today. It is truly unfortunate that the title
includes an example of such language, but the policy at Project Gutenberg
Canada is that under no circumstances do we censor what we publish. As it
happens, the novel, if anything, is an attack on the racist attitudes of
Conrad's time: it is the story of James Wait, born in the West Indies,
who is on his way from Bombay to London, gravely ill with tuberculosis,
and of what happens on this voyage. Connoisseurs of Conrad consider it
one of his finest works.]
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[University of Adelaide]
Heart of Darkness
(1899)
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[Rarely have an author's personal experiences been so powerfully
transformed into literature: Conrad himself had captained a boat on
the Congo River, and eight years later he gave the world this classic
novella. In essence, it is an attack on the catastophes that European
colonialism brought to Africa, and centres on the life and death of Mr.
Kurtz, who runs a trading post in a very remote area upriver in central
Africa, and is both feared and worshipped by the people in his trading
area. Not all of the story takes place in Africa. At the beginning
of the story, the narrator, an English seaman named Charles Marlow,
describes how he crosses the Channel to sign his contract, and duly
arrives "in a city that always makes me think of a whited sepulchre...
I had no difficulty in finding the Company's offices. It was the biggest
thing in the town, and everybody I met was full of it. They were going
to run an over-sea empire, and make no end of coin by trade." At the
end of the novel Marlow finds himself back in Europe, and his outlook
has been permanently changed by the appalling things he has seen. If this
happens to remind you of Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now
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that is no coincidence, for this famous novella inspired that famous film!]
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[University of Adelaide]
Lord Jim
(1900)
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[Novel, set largely amidst the islands of the Malay Archipelago.
It can be read as a cautionary tale, showing how important it
can be to resist peer pressure. Very early on in his seafaring
career the title character makes the disastrous error of following
the rest of his crew in abandoning his ship during a storm. Not
just the ship, but its passengers! In a 1917 Author's Note included
in this Adelaide digital edition, Conrad wrote, "As a matter of principle
I will have no favourites; but I don't go so far as to feel grieved and
annoyed by the preference some people give to my Lord Jim." Conrad
thereby has let the cat out of the bag -- it seems that he in fact
had a favourite novel, and that novel is called Lord Jim!]
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[University of Adelaide]
Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard.
(1904)
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[Novel, with an Author's Note added by Conrad in 1917. It marks
a transition point in his extraordinary writing career, being
preceded by various sea novels and stories (Lord Jim,
Youth, Typhoon), and followed by the political
novels (The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes).
Nostromo is an adventure novel, set in a South American
country named Costaguana, which is fictional, but bears an
obvious resemblance to Colombia. There are many shenanigans,
both political and financial, as was the case with Colombia
during the exciting period of the US annexation of the Panama
Canal Zone. The central character, Nostromo, originally from
Italy, is at the same time an important figure in Costaguana, and
yet somewhat apart from its people. "Perhaps the nearest approach
to a brief analysis of the complex web of this book is to say that
it tells how this Nostromo, whose pride and joy, whose whole
stock-in-trade in life, is his integrity, his unblemished
reputation, becomes a thief..." (Frederic Taber Cooper,
The Bookman [US], November 1904)]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Secret Agent
(1907)
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[One of Conrad's most famous novels, but its fame was late in
coming: when published in 1907 it did not sell extremely well,
and reviews were mixed. How things have changed! Now it is
one of Conrad's most famous novels, and it is easy to see why.
It is quite different from Conrad's earlier novels of seafaring,
and instead deals with the very modern world of espionage,
conspiracy, and police surveillance -- with a good dose of
incompetence mixed in. Need more be said?]
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[University of Adelaide]
Under Western Eyes
(1911)
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[This is a novel of politics, intrigue, and assassination, taking
place in Geneva and St Petersburg, and centred on Kirylo Sidorovitch
Razumov, a Russian university student with a mysterious background.
The "Western Eyes" of the title belong to the novel's narrator, an
elderly teacher of languages who is a longtime resident of Geneva.
"A whole quarter of that town, on account of many Russians residing
there, is called La Petite Russie -- Little Russia. I had a rather
extensive connexion in Little Russia at that time. Yet I confess
that I have no comprehension of the Russian character." Conrad's
father and grandfather had been politically active, which no doubt
explains why in his 1921 Author's Note he said that "My greatest
anxiety was in being able to strike and sustain the note of scrupulous
impartiality... 'Under Western Eyes' on its first appearance in England
was a failure with the public, perhaps because of that very detachment."
But the book ended up a success for Conrad: in particular it went through
many editions in Russia, and has become an enduring classic. Conrad drily
noted in 1921 that "by the mere force of circumstances 'Under Western Eyes'
has become already a sort of historical novel dealing with the past"; that
is, the First World War and the Russian Revolution had changed everything.
But this simply demonstrates how clear Conrad's vision was of where society
was headed. For us today it has special relevance, given the shadowy world
that has unexpectedly emerged around us: autocracies and oligarchies
worldwide, massive state surveillance even in what are claimed to be liberal
democracies, "black ops" and secret prisons, and the rest of it.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Arrow of Gold. A Story Between Two Notes.
(1919)
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[Historical novel, set in Marseilles, but principally concerned with
Spain, in particular the Third Carlist War
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There is a direct line from the Carlist Wars to the Spanish Civil
War of 1936-39 and indeed to the question of Catalan independence
which continues to roil Spanish politics today, and there is a
direct line back to the Middle Ages, when Spain was far from being
a unitary state, but was a group of independent kingdoms
with very distinct religions, languages, and nationalities. So
the Third Carlist War (1872-76) settled nothing, but was a dispute
between two claimants to the Spanish throne, the not particularly
popular Amadeo I, from Italy, and Carlos VII, who was opposed to
liberalism, but in favour of the traditional autonomy of Catalonia,
Aragon, and Valencia: this autonomy had been suppressed many years
before by Philip V at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession.
But Conrad's novel is not about the great themes of Spanish history,
but about individuals, mostly in Marseilles, who are involved in
various ways with smuggling weapons to the Carlist forces in Spain.
The chief of these characters is Doña Rita, born in Spain, but
resident for many years in France, where she takes a chief role
in the smuggling. "The murky intrigues of a royalist uprising
form only the background for a tale of love triumphant, brooded
over by the magic and mystery of the sea. There is something direct
and elemental in the artless infatuation of the young sailor, known
only as Monsieur George, palpitating on the threshold of his first
love, and the experienced Doña Rita... whose youth and innocence
still make answer to the youth and innocence of her lover."
(Literary Digest, 11 October 1919)]
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[University of Adelaide]
Suspense
(1925)
[Novel, left incomplete by Conrad, who gave instructions
that no one was to complete it; but what he left was
in itself a sizeable piece of work. The story is set
in Italy at the very end of the Napoleonic wars, and
features the young Englishman Cosmo Latham, who at the
novel's opening is just arriving in Genoa, not so very
far from the former emperor's place of exile, Elba.
Our ebook includes a frontispiece by the Scottish
artist Muirhead Bone (1876-1953)
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Selected and with an introduction by Conrad's friend
R. B. Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936)
[Scottish politician and author]
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Tales of Hearsay
(1925)
[Four stories written at various points during Conrad's life, dealing with the sea,
Polish history, and much else.]
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Cornford, F. M. [Francis Macdonald] (1874-1943)
[English classical scholar]
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Microcosmographia Academica. Being a Guide for the Young Academic Politician.
(1908)
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[Monograph on political practices within universities, continually famous since its anonymous
publication in 1908]
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[PGC #889]
Costain, Thomas B. [Thomas Bertram] (1885-1965)
[Canadian journalist, novelist, and historian]
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The Silver Chalice
(1952)
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[Historical novel about the Holy Grail, taking place at various
places around the Roman Empire, including the court of the emperor Nero.
Written with all the skill, smoothness, and historical knowledge we expect
from Costain, it became an instant bestseller.]
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The Darkness and the Dawn
(1959)
[Large scale historic novel about Attila ("the Hun")
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the founder of a large but short lived kingdom on the northern
boundaries of the Roman Empire. "I wish to make it clear,"
says our author, "that in telling the story... I have adhered
quite closely to such facts as history supplies of that spectacular
conqueror, Attila the Hun."]
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Eayrs, Hugh S. [Hugh Sterling] (1894-1940)
[Canadian publisher and novelist]
McMaster University
The Amateur Diplomat
(1917)
[Novel about intrigue in the Balkan kingdom of Ironia during
the First World War. And it includes a love story.
The "amateur diplomat" of the title is Canadian!]
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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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[PGC #1186]
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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Legends for Lionel in Pen & Pencil (1887)
[The "legends", as you might guess, are drawings, accompanied by short
texts in the spirit of nursery rhymes. The drawings are gorgeous, as
you would expect from Walter Crane, and were originally created for
his son Lionel. "This book of sketches," wrote Crane. "the offspring
of the odd half hours of winter evenings, was originally intended
strictly for home consumption. One thing, however, leads to another,
just as the sketches did, following one by one as fancy led, till
they filled the book." A friend admired the book and passed it to
the publisher Cassell, who duly published it, thus enabling us to
enjoy the pictures today!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66966]
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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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 ,
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]
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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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[PGC #938]
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
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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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Cullum, Ridgwell [Burghard, Sidney Groves] (1867-1943)
[English novelist]
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The Bull Moose
(1931)
[Adventure novel, set in the Yukon (where Cullum had lived).
A mysterious and dangerous man known as the Bull Moose
has been robbing gold miners. People are concerned;
the police are concerned.]
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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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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]
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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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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
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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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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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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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de la Mare, Walter (1873-1956) [English poet, novelist, and writer of stories]
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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]
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The Jalna novels, in the order of the events they describe.
We offer the following titles from the sixteen novels in the series:
The Building of Jalna
(1944)
[Novel, telling of the arrival of the Whiteoaks in Canada, and the founding of
Jalna, their family home: the first of the Jalna saga's sixteen novels. The
sixteen novels in the series were not published in chronological order: this
was the ninth novel, and by the time it appeared the Jalna series was already
famous around the world!]
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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)
Wikipedia, creator of the Canadian National
Vimy Memorial in France.]
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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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Whiteoak Harvest
(1936)
[The fifth Jalna novel, taking place during the
Great Depression, the effects of which are being
felt even at Jalna. It's a bad time to be in
debt, but Renny has a mortgage to deal with --
a mortgage on Jalna itself! Nicholas and Ernest
return to Jalna; perhaps their presence will bring
some calm to the friendly turmoil which, as usual,
is engulfing Jalna. And Finch returns as well.
As with all of the Jalna novels, our author skilfully
ensures that to enjoy the novel you need have no
prior knowledge of Jalna and the Whiteoak family.]
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The Whiteoak Brothers
(1953)
[The sixth Jalna novel, principally about the Whiteoak brothers; but their grandmother
Adeline, now nearing 100, plays a memorable role. The plot involves
a mysterious visitor from England, a gold mine, and many other things.
If you liked the TV series Dallas, the Jalna saga may
be exactly your literary cup of tea! The writing could hardly be better, and
the novel does not require any previous knowledge of Jalna and the Whiteoaks.]
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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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Renny's Daughter
(1951)
[Novel, the fourteenth in the Jalna narrative. Nicholas and Ernest
Whiteoak, born in 1852 and 1854 respectively, are now very old men:
the novel largely concerns Adeline Whiteoak, "Renny's daughter", born
in 1930, named after her formidable great-grandmother, and now fully
participating in the never-ending drama of the Whiteoak family and
their life at Jalna.]
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Other works by Mazo de la Roche:
Delight
(1926)
[Novel. Delight is not an emotion, but a person:
Delight Mainprize, originally from England, but
now a waitress in Brancepeth, Ontario, where she
finds many admirers. Competition ensues among
the men of Brancepeth: who will win her hand?]
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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
Wikipedia.]
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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]
Wikipedia
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
Wikipedia.
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]
Wikipedia
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)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
McCord Museum
and W. J. Topley (1845-1930)
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Wikipedia]
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]
Dickens, Charles [Charles John Huffam] (1812-1870)
[English novelist, editor, and social activist]
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A Christmas Carol
(1843)
Wikipedia
[Or, to give its full title, A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being
A Ghost Story of Christmas. This short novel by Dickens is surely
the most famous of his works. Is a summary really needed? Perhaps
not, but here goes! Ebenezer Scrooge ("scrooge" has long since become
a word in the English language) is the surviving partner of the financial
firm of Scrooge and Marley. It is Christmas Eve, but Scrooge is not an
admirer of that holiday, and tells his nephew, who has different opinions,
that "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips,
should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly
through his heart." But then Scrooge encounters the ghost of his late
partner Jacob Marley, who warns him that he must change his ways. Over
the next three days he will be visited by three spirits, each with
a message for him!
It is our pleasure to offer three digital editions,
each beautifully illustrated by a famous artist of the time:
From the 1843 first edition, illustrations in colour and in
black and white by
John Leech (1817-1864)
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Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #46]
From a 1905 edition, illustrations in colour and in
black and white by American artist
George Alfred Williams (1875-1932)
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #19337]
From a 1915 edition, illustrations in colour and in black and white by
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939)
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Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #24022]
Traduction française sous la direction de
Paul Lorain (1799-1861)
par
Mlle de Saint-Romain
et
André de Goy (*-1864)
:
Cantique de Noël [Le Chant de Noël]
(1857)
fr.wikipedia
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #16021]
Die treffliche Übersetzung von
Julius Seybt (*-1871)
de.wikipedia:
Der Weihnachtsabend. Eine Geistergeschichte.
(1877)
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[PGUS #22465]
The Chimes
(1844)
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[Or, to give the novella its full title, "The Chimes: A Goblin
Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In".
An impassioned plea for social justice for the poor, with a message
that hasn't dated with the years, we can safely say, as we survey
the deep social and economic divisions in Canada and elsewhere.
The novella was published the year after A Christmas Carol
(also available from Project Gutenberg Canada -- in several languages!)
to which it certainly bears a family resemblance: there are, for
example, ghosts (goblins), each attached to a bell in a local bell
tower. Our hero, Toby ("Trotty") Veck sees "in every Bell a bearded
figure of the bulk and stature of the Bell". The Goblin of the Great
Bell takes Toby through a series of visions of the unfortunate lives
of those around him, until he awakes at the arrival of the New Year.
Are his visions only dreams, or are they realities, which can yet be
changed?]
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[University of Adelaide]
David Copperfield
(1850 [novel]; 1869 [preface])
Wikipedia
[Or, to give its full title "The personal history, adventures,
experience & observation of David Copperfield of Blunderstone
Rookery. (Which he never meant to be Published on any Account.)"
Dickens' eighth novel, probably his most famous one, and certainly
its author's personal favourite. A rich panorama of life in the
early Victorian era, largely inspired by Dickens' own early life.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
Bleak House
(1853)
Wikipedia
[If you're considering launching a lawsuit, you might want to read
Bleak House first! Lawsuits can go on year after year and
produce little except huge legal bills, as with Jarndyce and Jarndyce,
the legal case at the centre of this novel, which touches the lives of
many people. The title may be bleak, but the novel is not, and has
remained a favourite with the public (in particular with lawyers)
up to the present day.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
Great Expectations
(1861)
Wikipedia
[Really a novel about class and money -- have things really changed
in England? Or elsewhere, for that matter. Perhaps this universal
theme explains the amazing success of this novel and of the fine movie
adaptations it has inspired. In any case, our hero Pip is an orphan,
living on the coast of Kent with his older sister and her husband,
Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. Pip has no particular career prospects
until the wealthy Miss Havisham becomes his patroness, paying for
his apprenticeship as a blacksmith. But then he receives a gift
from an anonymous benefactor, enough to make him financially
independent. But will this enormous gift truly change his life?
And if so, will it be for the better?]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
Traduction française par
Charles Bernard-Derosne (1825-1904)
fr.wikipedia
Les grandes espérances
(1863)
fr.wikipedia
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #17565]
Dinesen, Isak (1885-1962)
See:
Blixen, Karen [Dinesen, Isak] (1885-1962)
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
fr.wikipedia
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)
Wikipedia
Lauvlia (Kittelsen's home),
Erik Werenskiold (1855-1938)
Wikipedia,
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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Dos Passos, John [American novelist and poet]
(1896-1970)
Wikipedia
Three Soldiers
(1921)
Wikipedia
[War novel, which Dos Passos was certainly in a position to write,
having seen the First World War close up, as a volunteer ambulance
driver in France and Italy. The three soldiers in question are the
narrator, the sensitive and highly educated John Andrews from New York,
who is by no means enthusiastic about the war, and two of his close
companions. The war turns out badly for Andrews. "There are those
who think that John Dos Passos ought to be sent to jail and others
who hail him as the first of native authors to tell the truth about
the war." (Heywood Broun, The Bookman [US], 5 October 1921)]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #6362]
Douglas, Amanda Minnie (1831-1916)
[American novelist and poet]
New Jersey Historical Society
A Modern Cinderella
(1913)
[Novel]
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Douglas, Lloyd C. [Lloyd Cassel] (1877-1951)
[American clergyman and novelist]
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The Robe
(1942)
Wikipedia
[Historical novel, a massive bestseller written on a grand scale
and with much historical information about the Roman Empire.
After Jesus's crucifixion, the soldiers used gambling to decide
who should get his clothing. This novel tells what subsequently
happened to the robe and more particularly its new owner,
the tribune Marcellus Gallio, and his slave Demetrius.]
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Doyle, Arthur Conan
(1859-1930) [Scottish physician and author; creator of Sherlock Holmes]
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Stories and novels featuring Mr. Sherlock Holmes
Wikipedia
A Study in Scarlet
(1887)
Wikipedia
[Few literary events of such magnitude have been as quiet as this
mystery novel's introduction to the world of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
Arthur Conan Doyle was not yet a professional author, but
a physician living in Southsea when he published this novel in
the Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887. It is narrated
by John H. Watson, "Late of the Army Medical Department": Watson
was indeed a veteran, wounded in Afghanistan -- some things
really don't change! Anyway, like many before and after him,
he finds London expensive, and is trying "to solve the problem
as to whether it is possible to get comfortable rooms at a
reasonable price" when he learns that Mr. Sherlock Holmes is
trying to solve exactly the same problem. They are introduced,
and agree to save money by sharing lodgings. Dr Watson naturally
has no idea that his new roommate is a consulting detective
("I suppose I am the only one in the world"): the famous partnership
of Holmes and Watson begins!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Sign of the Four
(1890)
Wikipedia
[The second of the four full-length Sherlock Holmes novels.
It was first published in Lippincott's Magazine as
The Sign of the Four, which seems to be the standard
form used these days, but it was first published in book form
as The Sign of Four. Be that as it may, the story
begins when Miss Mary Morstan visits 221B Baker Street to
consult Sherlock Holmes on the mysterious disappearance of
her father some years before, and the strange events which
followed, which seem to be linked to her father's military
service in India. All this, of course, is masterfully
resolved by Mr Sherlock Holmes with the able assistance
of Dr Watson.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
(1892)
Wikipedia
[Twelve short stories, all of them published in The Strand Magazine
Wikipedia
in 1891 and 1892, and then published as a book, the first Sherlock Holmes
collection: an instant and permanent classic. There is probably no
such thing as a Sherlock Holmes story that is not well known, but the
book does include some especially famous stories: The Adventure of
the Speckled Band, for example, Doyle's personal favourite among
all the stories he wrote about Sherlock Holmes, and A Scandal in
Bohemia. The Project Gutenberg US ebook we use includes the
contemporary illustrations by Sidney Paget (1860-1908)
Wikipedia]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #48320]
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
(1893)
Wikipedia
[Doyle's second collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, twelve in number,
all of them, as in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, initially
published in The Strand Magazine, and all of them famous to this
day: each of them has its own Wikipedia article.) Doyle intended
this to be the end of his involvement with Sherlock Holmes, although
this turned out not to be the case. But some years were to pass before
the appearance of The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1902.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #834]
(includes The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
Wikipedia,
which was part of the first edition, but was omitted from many later editions)
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[University of Adelaide]
(omits The Adventure of the Cardboard Box)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
(1902)
Wikipedia
[Novel, perhaps the most famous adventure of Mr Sherlock Holmes.
In the moorlands of Devonshire, a mysterious gigantic hound seems
to be active. And Sir Charles Baskerville, who had recently taken
up residence in Baskerville Hall, has just died under mysterious
circumstances. Could these two facts be connected? Could the
hound be none other than the fabled Hound of the Baskervilles,
feared for centuries?]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
(1905)
Wikipedia
[Doyle had killed Holmes off in "The Final Problem", the story which had
concluded the second collection, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
But the fans were not happy with his departure, so Doyle relented, and
wrote the stories in this collection, in the first of which, "The Adventure
of the Empty House", Holmes reappears in London, to the consternation and
delight of Dr Watson. This was among Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes
stories, as were several other stories in this book: "The Adventure of
the Dancing Men", "The Adventure of the Priory School", and "The Adventure
of the Second Stain".]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
The Valley of Fear
(1915)
Wikipedia
[The fourth and final Sherlock Holmes mystery novel. Holmes receives
what today we would call an encrypted note, but not the cipher (key) needed
to read it. Will Holmes be able to decrypt the note? Well, really, what
an absurd question to ask! Soon enough, Holmes and Watson arrive
at the village of Birlstone, "a small and very ancient cluster of
half-timbered cottages on the northern border of the county of Sussex."
For at the ancient Manor House a murder has just occurred.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
His Last Bow
(1917)
Wikipedia
["The friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes", remarks Dr Watson in his preface
to this collection, "will be glad to learn that he is still alive and well, though somewhat crippled by occasional attacks of rheumatism." And indeed
we are glad! He is in fact living in Eastbourne, on the Sussex coast,
then as now a town attractive to the elderly. Despite its title, this is not the last set of Sherlock Holmes short stories, for ten years later The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes was to appear! Doyle had a remarkable ability to sustain the quality of his Sherlock Holmes stories as the series grew. His personal favourites among the Sherlock Holmes stories included two from this collection: "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" and "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans". Note: the University of Adelaide edition includes "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" in this collection rather than in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, where it had first appeared in 1893.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
(1927)
Wikipedia
[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's final collection of stories featuring Sherlock Holmes: published forty years after Holmes' first appearance in print!
All twelve of the stories were published in the Strand Magazine
between 1921 and 1927. Doyle himself thought that "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane" and "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client", both in this
collection, were among the best stories he had ever written about Holmes.]
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The Professor Challenger
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novels and stories:
The Lost World
(1912)
Wikipedia
[The first and most famous of the novels featuring Professor Challenger
Wikipedia.
Edward Malone, a reporter, has a girl friend Gladys, who
is somewhat interested in marriage, but "If I marry, I do want to
marry a famous man!" Instead of wondering why he is wasting his
time on her, he asks his editor for an assignment involving
adventure and danger: that will impress her! And so he ends
up accompanying Professor George Edward Challenger to a remote
corner of South America. It's a shock when they encounter their
first pterodactyl
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-- and we mean a living pterodactyl, not a fossil! Much else follows.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Poison Belt
(1913)
Wikipedia
[Doyle's second novel to feature Professor Challenger, narrated
as before by reporter Edward Malone: three years after the earlier
adventure, it reunites the Professor with his companions from The
Lost World. But this time they are headed not for South America,
but for Professor Challenger's house in the London suburb of Surrey!
Here they will ride out Earth's passing through a belt of deadly poison.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Land of Mist
(1926)
Wikipedia
[After the First World War, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who had
lost several close male relatives in that war, became interested
in Spiritualism
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and that interest is reflected in this third and final Professor
Challenger novel, which is quite different from its two predecessors.
The Professor is indeed back, although no longer quite the ultimate
alpha male of former years. This change was induced by the death
of his wife in the flu epidemic: "Life had much yet to teach him,
but he was a little less intolerant in learning." Similarly, Edward
Malone is back, "but life had toned him down also, and made him a more
subdued and thoughtful man... his mind was deeper and more active.
The boy was dead and the man was born." The two attend a raucous public
lecture at a Spiritualist Church off Edgware Road, and they start their
investigations into the spiritual world.]
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[University of Adelaide]
When the World Screamed
(1928)
Wikipedia
[Does our planet, the Earth, have feelings? Professor Challenger
investigates, aided as in all his adventures by Edward Malone,
and a new character, Mr Peerless Jones, a friend of Malone's who
is an expert in Artesian boring, that is, deep drilling, as in
drilling wells.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Disintegration Machine
(1929)
Wikipedia
[Science fiction short story. Professor Challenger
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is introduced to "a Latvian gentleman named Theodore Nemor... who claims to have invented a machine of a most extraordinary character which is capable of disintegrating any object placed within its sphere of influence. Matter dissolves and returns to its molecular or atomic condition. By reversing the process it can be reassembled." What if this claim turns out to be true?]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Maracot Deep
(1929)
Wikipedia
[Fantasy novel. Professor Maracot and his companions, who are both learned
and intrepid, run into trouble during a deep-sea dive in the Atlantic, and
are rescued by strangers who seem to be descendants of an ancient and
mysterious race. Can our heroes find out who these strangers really are?]
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[University of Adelaide]
Dreiser, Theodore [Theodore Herman Albert] (1871-1945)
[American journalist, poet, and novelist]
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A Traveler at Forty
(1913)
[Dreiser's delightfully written memoir of an extended trip to Europe.
And what a time to go! Europe was at its prewar height, and no one
suspected the catastrophe that was about to engulf the continent.
The places he visited included England, France, Italy, the Vatican,
Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands. Wow! What more need be
said? How about this: the book includes drawings by the fabulously
talented American artist
William Glackens (1870-1938)
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Reviewers noticed that the book, unlike many travel narratives, paid
close attention to all social classes. The Nation (18 December
1913) seems to have liked this well enough: "In the pursuit of knowledge
Mr. Dreiser showed enterprise. His London contacts were carefully arranged, but he managed to quiz a street-walker on his own account. At Paris such
investigations were naturally part of the programme. Into all his
observations Mr. Dreiser carries a keen, quiet curiosity that is pretty
close to sympathy. There is an odd reverence about what can only be
described as prying tactics." But in The Bookman (February 1914),
Stuart Henry was less positive: "Instead of bringing to notice men who are worth while or entertaining, he acquaints us rather with those who can
guide through night haunts of immorality, have sex on the brain or desire
to "lick" foreigners. And for the women of Europe we are freely offered
examples from the various tenderloins who, even for their class, do
not propose much in the way of edification or esprit." But what else
can we we expect or would we want than a balanced view of all sectors
of society? And who better to provide it than the author of Sister
Carrie and An American Tragedy?]
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[PGUS #65765]
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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Du Bois, W. E. B. [William Edward Burghardt] (1868-1963)
[American historian and civil rights leader]
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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]
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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]
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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)
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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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[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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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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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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Magic by the Lake
(1957)
[Novel, third in the series initiated by Half Magic. This time, the four
children (and their parents) are at a summer cabin by a lake. The cabin is
named "Magic by the Lake", and it doesn't take them long to discover that the
entire lake is magic: assorted magical adventures ensue. At the start of the book,
there's a talking turtle; later on, there's a talking penguin!]
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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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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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Eayrs, Hugh S. [Hugh Sterling] (1894-1940)
[Canadian publisher and novelist]
McMaster University
with:
Costain, Thomas B. [Thomas Bertram] (1885-1965)
[Canadian journalist, novelist, and historian]
Wikipedia
The Amateur Diplomat
(1917)
[Novel about intrigue in the Balkan kingdom of Ironia during
the First World War. And it includes a love story.
The "amateur diplomat" of the title is Canadian!]
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[Project Gutenberg US #51077]
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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Eddison, E. R. [Eric Rücker] (1882-1945)
[English novelist]
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The Worm Ouroboros
(1922)
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[Novel of high fantasy, written at the level of epic poetry.
Eddison has a full command of older English,
and makes constant use of it, to very good effect:
"In reading this book the reader... will delight in a prose that is as
life-giving as it is magnificent." (Introduction to the 1926 New York
edition by Irish novelist James Stephens [1880/82-1950]
Wikipedia.]
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Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849)
[Irish novelist]
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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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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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Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
[German physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1921 / physicien allemand; prix Nobel de physique, 1921]
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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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Eliot, George [Evans, Mary Anne] (1819-1880)
[English novelist]
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The Victorian Web
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
(1861)
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[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)
Dictionary of Ulster Biography]
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Gems from George Eliot
(1910)
[A small but skilfully chosen collection of quotations from the works of George Eliot.
The celebrated novelist excelled at compressing into a single sentence what lesser authors
might have needed several paragraphs to express.]
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Eliot, T. S. [Thomas Stearns] (1888-1965)
[American poet, playwright, and critic]
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Nobelprize.org
The Sacred Wood. Essays On Poetry And Criticism.
(1920)
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[A collection of short essays on plays, poetry, and related matters:
one of Eliot's earliest works of criticism]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #57795]
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
(1939)
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[The delightful and classic poems which many years later inspired the Andrew Lloyd Webber
musical Cats
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Introduction to Charles Williams' All Hallows' Eve
(1948)
[Preface to Charles Williams' last novel, All Hallows' Eve, which
you will find in the Project Gutenberg Canada catalogue. As Eliot comments,
Williams "left behind him a considerable number of books which should
endure, because there is nothing else that is like them or could take
their place." And yet, his novels "are first of all very good reading,
say on a train journey or an air flight for which one buys a novel from
a bookstall, perhaps without even noticing the name of the author."]
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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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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]
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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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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)
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)
Wikipedia]
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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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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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Farjeon, Eleanor (1881-1965)
[English author of books and poems for children]
Wikipedia
Gypsy and Ginger
(1920)
[Novel, we could say novel for children, but we don't want to limit its audience.
It is the story of Gypsy and his wife Ginger, their wedding, honeymoon, and many
subsequent adventures. Written with the skill and light touch that would set
Farjeon apart throughout her remarkable career. With illustrations by the celebrated
English painter and illustrator C. E. Brock (1870-1938)
Wikipedia.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #57444]
Italian Peepshow
(1926)
[Eleven stories for children, most of them quite short,
and most of them set in Italy!]
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[PGC #1336]
The Old Nurse's Stocking-Basket
(1931)
[The Old Nurse knows many stories: stories she is happy to tell.
The Saturday Review (2 January 1932) called it "a book that
has charm and humor in plenty and is delightfully written..."]
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[PGC #1297]
Ten Saints
(1936)
[Short lives of ten saints, with some poetry, written for children.
Includes beautiful colour illustrations by American artist Helen Sewell (1896-1957)
Wikipedia]
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[PGC #1349]
The Silver Curlew
(1953)
[Novel for children, with many traditional folk-take elements.
It's hard to stop reading after an opening sentence like this:
"Mother Codling lived in a windmill in Norfolk near the sea."]
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[PGC #1334]
The Little Bookroom. Eleanor Farjeon's short stories for children chosen by herself.
(1955)
Wikipedia
[Twenty-seven short stories for children, selected by
their author! "This is a book any child
(and storyteller, too) will read over and over again."
(Maria Cimino, Saturday Review, 12 May 1956)]
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[PGC #1294]
Farley, Ralph Milne [Hoar, Roger Sherman] (1887-1963)
[American lawyer and science fiction writer]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Golden City
(1933)
[Science fiction novel. It's about the lost continent of Mu; it features
"that public enemy, the Spider"; and it's by Ralph Milne Farley, both a
respected constitutional lawyer and a famous pulp author! What's not to like?]
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[PGC #1526]
Liquid Life
(October 1936)
[Science fiction novella ("novelette"), often reprinted.
The waters of Salt Pond are behaving strangely. What's
happened to the water lilies, the reeds, and the fish?
Not to mention the half eaten cow near the edge of the pond!]
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[PGC #1528]
A Month a Minute
(December 1937)
[Science fiction novella ("novelette"). How can a space ship
be designed to travel fast -- really fast? Old Professor
Porter may have managed this feat. The test pilots: his student
Benson Crocker, and Professor Porter's granddaughter, Iralene!]
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[PGC #1527]
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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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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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)
Dagger of the Mind
(1941)
[Mystery novel. 'Mr. Fearing mixes very funny satire about
an "artists' colony" with a couple of properly gory and appropriately
intellectual killings and writes the whole works beautifully.'
(The American Mercury, April 1941)]
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[PGC #1312]
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]
Fearn, John Russell (1908-1960)
[English science fiction author]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Brain of Venus
(February 1937)
[Science fiction story first published by Thrilling Wonder Stories.
Not just published, but summarized! "The malignant brain of a condemned
criminal comes to life on another planet and radiates force-rays of madness
and death." We couldn't say it better!]
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[PGC #1550]
Menace from the Microcosm
(June 1937)
[Science fiction novella, not about giant worlds in outer space, but
about microworlds closer to us. "It seemed to me," wrote the author,
"that the conception of intra-atomic worlds, though by no means novel,
had not so far been explored in all its possibilities... It gave me
great pleasure to debate the possibilities while I wrote it; I hope
that some of you at least will have an equal pleasure in reading it."]
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[PGC #1553]
A Summons from Mars
(June 1938)
[Short story: short, but long enough to have five chapters.
Long-distance engagements are tricky even when both parties
are on Earth. They're even more complicated when one of
them lives on Earth, but the other on Mars!]
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[PGC #1410]
Martian Avenger
(April 1939)
[Science fiction story. From his name, Lance Halworthy, you would think
he was from Earth. But you would be wrong!]
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[PGC #1403]
The Ultimate Analysis
(November 1944)
[Science fiction story. We really can't improve on the original
summary from 1944: here goes! "Just as Ruthless Invaders from a
Far-Off Cosmic Frontier Are Poised to Invade the Earth, Out of
a Curious Experimental Machine Darts the Perfect Mathematical
Equation, Loaded with Potential Destruction!"]
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[PGC #1554]
Interlink
(November 1945)
[Science fiction story. It's hard being a cop. It's even harder
being a space cop. And it's especially difficult being a space
cop when your fiancée is a space pirate!]
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[PGC #1551]
Ferber, Edna (1885-1968)
[American novelist and playwright]
Wikipedia
So Big
(1924)
Wikipedia
[Novel, winner of the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
A schoolteacher marries and has a son, who is physically
large: hence the novel's title, his nickname. Dirk (his
formal name) as an adult finds success as an architect, and
then as a bond salesman. But his apparently successful career
choices turn out to have unexpected consequences. "Character
after character stands out as memorable, incident after incident
remains in the mind... the best American novel of the year."
(John C. Farrar, The Bookman (U.S.), March 1924)]
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[PGC #1608]
Show Boat
(1926)
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[Ferber's enduringly famous novel about a theatrical troupe plying
the great rivers of the United States; a major subplot involves
miscegenation (interracial marriage), illegal at the time in the
state of Mississippi. The novel was the basis of the 1927 musical
Wikipedia
by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II.
"Miss Ferber's documentation of her story of theatre days down
the rivers of mid-America is admirable. This is a book particularly
notable for the small scene, the memorable wave of the hand,
the magnificent dress, the unforgetable gesture."
(John C. Farrar, The Bookman (U.S.), September 1926)]
CAUTION: Certain elements of plot and language may seem
racist by the standards of today.]
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[PGC #1653]
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
The Great Gatsby
(1925)
Wikipedia
[Fitzgerald's most famous novel, set on Long Island
and in New York City. Its focus is Jay Gatsby, who
possesses vast and mysterious wealth, and who is
observed with simultaneous fascination and scepticism by
Nick Carraway, a recent Yale graduate newly started in
the bonds business.]
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[PGC #1619]
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]
Tender is the Night
(1934)
Wikipedia
[The last of Fitzgerald's four novels to be published in
his lifetime, with some likely elements of autobiography.
The novel starts in the glamorous setting of the French
Riviera, in a hotel outside Cannes. Dick and Nicole
Diver seem destined for permanent happiness, but life
is rarely that simple, as they discover.]
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[PGC #1618]
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)
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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]
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Novels and stories featuring James Bond
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Casino Royale
(1953)
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Guardian (article by Nicholas Lezard)
[James Bond's first appearance in literature. The novel features much
of what would become the familiar Bond universe: gambling, foreign agents,
a glamorous French setting, Bond's Bentley, much alcohol; also the mysterious and
captivating Vesper Lynd. Quite different from the 2006 film starring Daniel Craig
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to say nothing of the 1967 version starring David Niven
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Live and Let Die
(1954)
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[The second James Bond novel. Intrigue in Harlem, Florida,
then Jamaica; also voodoo.]
CAUTION: Certain language in the novel may seem racist by the standards of today.
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[PGC #1285]
Moonraker
(1955)
Wikipedia
[The third James Bond novel. It is set in England, specifically
the county of Kent. It features a rocket ("The Moonraker"),
a fine villain (Sir Hugo Drax), a famous game of bridge, and
much else. The 1979 film
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is quite different from the novel:
read the novel and decide which you prefer. (Speaking
personally, we like the novel!)]
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[PGC #1267]
Diamonds are Forever
(1956)
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[Novel featuring James Bond, who at M's request is investigating
the murky world of diamond smuggling. Not a spy in sight,
but lots of gangsters. Some fine writing, with memorable
episodes set in Las Vegas and in Saratoga Springs, New York,
famous for its horse races. The basis of the 1971 film
of the same name
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the last in the Bond series to star Sean Connery.]
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[PGC #1415]
From Russia with Love
(1957)
Wikipedia
[The favourite James Bond novel not only of Fleming himself, but also of
American president John F. Kennedy! The action takes place in various
glamorous European locales, including London, Istanbul, Trieste, and Paris.
The Russians play a major role, through the operations of their agency, SMERSH;
also through Corporal Tatiana Romanova.]
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[PGC #1296]
Dr. No
(1958)
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[The sixth James Bond novel, set in the Caribbean, and the basis of the first
James Bond film, starring Sean Connery
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"The Empire still lives in this one; bizarrerie abounds...
Erudite cliff-hanger, with sex sauce."
(John T. Winterich, Saturday Review, 16 August 1958)]
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[PGC #1457]
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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[PGC #1228]
For Your Eyes Only. Five secret occasions in the life of James Bond.
(1960)
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[Espionage, murder, smuggling -- five different short stories
with five different challenges for James Bond. Locales include
Paris, Jamaica, the Seychelles, Italy and, yes, Canada!]
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[PGC #1429]
The Spy Who Loved Me
(1962)
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[Novel, narrated by Vivienne Michel, who is from Canada,
more specifically from Sainte-Famille, the oldest town on the Île d'Orléans
Wikipedia.
The novel does not follow the classic Bond formula:
a welcome innovation in the eyes of some, but not of
others. It is shorter than the other Bond novels,
and features a good deal of sex (and violence).]
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[PGC #1288]
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
(1963)
Wikipedia
[Novel featuring James Bond, set in the Swiss Alps: dark doings on the upper slopes.
The 1969 film adaptation
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has the rare distinction of being very faithful to the book: if you like
one, you'll like the other!]
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[PGC #1530]
You Only Live Twice
(1964)
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[The last Bond novel published during Ian Fleming's lifetime.
James Bond is in Japan, sent there because the CIA is no
longer providing as much information on the Far East as
formerly. "They're worried about our security," comments M.
"Can't blame them. I'm equally worried about theirs."
Fleming had visited Japan, and had included an account of
Tokyo in his 1963 travel book Thrilling Cities,
which you will find in our catalogue.]
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[PGC #1481]
The Man with the Golden Gun
(1965)
Wikipedia
[Fleming's last James Bond novel, written under difficult conditions,
and published posthumously. Bond reappears in London after months
of absence: he is a changed man. But he recovers, and is sent to
Jamaica on a dangerous and important mission.]
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[PGC #1558]
The Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang stories:
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, The Magical Car.
Adventure Number One.
(1964)
Wikipedia
[Children's novel. We are introduced to Caractacus Pott and his family.
They buy a car, no ordinary car... and the adventures begin!]
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[PGC #1278]
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, The Magical Car.
Adventure Number Two.
(1964)
Wikipedia
[At the end of Adventure Number One, the Potts family, on a seaside picnic,
had failed to notice the tide coming in, threatening to cut them off
from the mainland – or worse! It's just as well that Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang
is there...]
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[PGC #1289]
Essays and articles:
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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[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]
Thrilling Cities
(1963)
Wikipedia
[Thirteen essays on various world cities: cities that James Bond would be familiar with!
The essays were commissionede by the Canadian entrepreneur and newspaper magnate Roy Thomson
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and first appeared in the Sunday Times, which he had recently purchased,
but with some passages removed: in this collected edition, Fleming added them back.]
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[PGC #1313]
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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Edith Percival. A Novel.
(1893)
[Novel]
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Fletcher, Joseph Smith (1863-1935) [English novelist and historian]
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Yorkshire Post (Sarah Freeman)
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The Charing Cross Mystery
(1923)
[As you might guess, a mystery novel set in London!]
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Flygare-Carlén, Emilie (1807-1892)
[Swedish novelist]
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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)
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Prof. Krause also contributed a interesting introduction to the novel.]
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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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Footner, Hulbert (1879-1944)
[Canadian novelist and playwright]
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Thieves' Wit. An Everyday Detective Story.
(1918)
[Mystery novel. A youngish New Yorker, now entering his
thirties, and with ambitions of being a successful playwright,
instead becomes a Confidential Investigator. Written with
Footner's characteristic lightness of touch and (most appropriately) wit.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #57236]
The Substitute Millionaire
(1919)
[Novel. Two days before the story begins, "Silas Gyde, the
millionaire miser and usurer, had been blown to pieces in
the street by a bomb." As to who planted the bomb, who can
say? The more interesting question is whether the young
Jack Norman, bookkeeper at a sash and blind factory, is
in fact the heir to Gyde's vast fortune!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #57210]
The Owl Taxi
(1921)
[Mystery novel. Owl taxis operate at night, when strange things can happen:
murder, for example! Of course, in Manhattan strange things can happen
at any hour...]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #57088]
Ramshackle House
(1922)
[Mystery novel. "Equal parts of Maryland, young lovers, and a murder
mystery make this literary julep", remarks The Bookman (August 1923).
CAUTION: The occasional use of dialect English might appear racist
to some readers.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #57138]
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
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the Peace
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and the Hay
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with particular attention to Alexandra Falls
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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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Madame Storey
(1926)
[Four mystery novellas featuring Madame Storey]
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The Velvet Hand. New Madame Storey Mysteries.
(1928)
[Four mystery novellas featuring Madame Storey]
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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]
The Obeah Murders
(1937)
[Mystery novel set in the Caribbean: more precisely, on the American
island of Annunziata. Our hero, Phil Nevitt, is a junior executive
at Columbia Distillers: he has been sent from New York to investigate
possible future competition based in Annunziata. But a series of
spectactular murders starts happening: soon he is investigating these
as well! "Native magic in spooky settings makes good background for
swiftly paced yarn with bumptious hero and hot-tempered heroine."
(Saturday Review, 16 October 1937)]
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[PGC #1521]
The Death of a Celebrity
(1938)
[When was the modern concept of the "celebrity" invented?
Most likely in the nineteenth century, with the rise of mass
media. Certainly the actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)
and the singer Jenny Lind (1820-1887) were celebrities
of that time and are still celebrities today. The celebrity in
this mystery is Gavin Dordress, a very successful Broadway
playwright on Broadway -- a world that Footner knew very well,
being himself an actor and playwright. In any case, Dordress
is found dead in his Madison Avenue apartment, a gun on the
floor beside him. A suicide? Amos Lee Mappin, an accomplished
sleuth and an old friend of Dordress, has his doubts!]
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Sinfully Rich
(1940)
[Mystery novel]
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Who Killed the Husband?
(1941)
[Mystery novel, set in Manhattan. That famous sleuth Amos Lee Mappin
prefers to be a specialist student of crime rather than an actual
investigator. But he makes exceptions, as in the sensational murder
of the prominent banker Jules Gartrey. The suspect? None other than
the young society photographer Alastair Yohe!]
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[PGC #1531]
The House with the Blue Door
(1942)
[Mystery novel, featuring that Manhattan sophisticate and
sleuth extraordinaire Amos Lee Mappin. As the novel opens,
Mappin receives a phone call from his friend, the socialite
Mrs. Nicholas Cassells. He gets the call in the morning!
Since when has Sandra Cassells phoned anyone before noon?
Something big must be going on!]
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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)
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Christopher Morley Knothole Assoc.]
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[PGC #513]
Ford, Ford Madox [Hueffer, Ford Madox] (1873-1939)
[English novelist]
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Joseph Conrad. A Personal Remembrance.
(1924)
[A personal memoir of literary titan Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
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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)
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[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)
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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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[PGC #1242]
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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Last Post
(1928)
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[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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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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Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott]
[Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966]
[English novelist]
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Novels featuring Horatio Hornblower
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
(1950)
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[Novel, written as a series of episodes taking place on the
eve of the Napoleonic Wars. Not the earliest Hornblower novel
published, but the first in narrative order. We are at the
very beginning of the career of Horatio Hornblower: he is seventeen years of age, and a midshipman
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in the Royal Navy.
Some of his shipmates are dubious of his prospects as a naval officer;
others see special qualities foretelling a brilliant career.]
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Lieutenant Hornblower
(1952)
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[What is a loyal member of the Royal Navy to do
when it becomes clear that his commanding officer
is, quite literally, insane? Such is the crisis
facing Horatio Hornblower. The second
Hornblower novel in narrative order, but the
seventh to be published, some fifteen years
after the series began. "Like A. Conan Doyle,
who was forced to keep Holmes alive through
popular demand, Mr. Forester must never
permit Horatio Hornblower to die." (Harrison
Smith, Saturday Review, 29 March 1952)]
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Hornblower and the Hotspur
(1962)
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[The third Hornblower novel in narrative order.
It's 1803; war with France is coming, and Hornblower,
now promoted to the rank of Commander, has been
assigned H. M. Sloop Hotspur, and undertakes
dangerous operations off the coast of Brittany, near Brest
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Hornblower and the Atropos
(1953)
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[It's 1806: the battle of Trafalgar
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has been fought, but Lord Nelson has died -- and Hornblower
has a major role in preparing the state funeral! The funeral
done, Hornblower's off to Gibraltar, where a dangerous
mission awaits him. We're talking about gold; we're
talking about the Turkish Empire!]
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The Commodore
(1945)
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[It is 1812, a fateful year in the Napoleonic wars.
As the novel opens, Hornblower learns from the Admiralty
that he is now a Commodore! Of course, this new title
comes with new and difficult responsibilities involving
the French, the Russians, and the Swedes, and the
complex situation that has arisen in the Baltic Sea.]
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[PGC #1514]
Lord Hornblower
(1946)
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[Novel. It's 1813, and there has been a mutiny on a ship of the Royal Navy.
Not, of course, a ship commanded by Horatio Hornblower! But Hornblower has a certain sympathy with the mutineers: "He could imagine perfectly well the sort of treatment to which they had been subjected, the unending wanton cruelty added to the normal hardship of life in a ship on blockading service; miseries which only death or mutiny could bring to an end..." But Hornblower has to figure out how to end the mutiny -- not an easy thing to do, when the mutineers can find safety in a nearby French port whenever they choose!]
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Payment Deferred
(1926)
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[The first of Forester's two mystery novels, written with all the
skill that one would expect from the creator of Horatio Hornblower.
As for the plot, we won't give it away, except for commenting that
crimes can have unforeseen consequences!]
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Brown on Resolution
(1929)
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[War novel, the opening words being "Leading Seaman Albert Brown
lay dying on Resolution." Resolution is an island, and Brown
is the only surviving member of his warship's crew: hence
the U.S. title of the novel, Single-handed. Alone
and injured as he is, Brown manages to make life difficult
for the Germans. In the course of the novel we learn a
good deal about the earlier part of Brown's life.]
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[PGC #1391]
Plain Murder
(1930)
[The second of Forester's two mystery novels, quite different in subject
from his famous Hornblower nautical series. But one thing that
doesn't change is Forester's outstanding ability to hold the reader's attention
through skilled plot development and beautifully crafted writing. The
story is set in London, and involves murder, of course, but also office
politics, and the English advertising industry. (If mysteries set
in the advertising industry are to your taste, you might like to read
Murder Must Advertise, available from Project Gutenberg Canada.
It is by Dorothy L. Sayers, herself an advertising copywriter of considerable
distinction!)]
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[PGC #1538]
Death to the French
(1932)
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[Historical novel set during the Peninsular War (1807-1814)
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that part of the Napoleonic Wars that took place in
Portugal and Spain. Rifleman Matthew Dodd is separated
from his unit and joins with local Portuguese irregulars.
The title is somewhat misleading, in that the novel is
not one sided: a substantial part of the story is told
from the perspective of the French. The U.S. title
is more moderate: Rifleman Dodd.]
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The Peacemaker
(1934)
[Science fiction novel. A scientist, Dr. Edward Pethwick, invents a gadget whose
field can demagnetize anything magnetic that's in its range. The field
can be aimed in any direction and isn't stopped by anything man-made or
natural that's in its way. Could this help the cause of world peace?
Would nations threatened with its use change their ways? Pethwick
resolves to take action! But any action can have unintended consequences.]
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[PGC #1393]
The African Queen
(1935)
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[Adventure novel. "Here is a book which may not be high art
but is certainly good entertainment. It is a rousing tale of
adventure, implausible, perhaps, in its incidents but convincing
in its portrayal of them."
(Amy Loveman, Saturday Review, February 9, 1935)
Well, what's wrong with good entertainment? If a book is still
being read eighty years after its publication, it has certainly
passed the test of time. In any case, the tale of a African river boat
with only two passengers during the First World War needs no introduction:
its plot is somewhat similar to the famous 1951 film it inspired
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which featured Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn; the Bogart character,
Canadian in the film, is an Englishman in the book, in fact a Cockney
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But it is hard to imagine Humphrey Bogart with a Cockney accent!]
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[PGC #1509]
The General
(1936)
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[Military novel, about the rise of Herbert Curzon to senior commands within the British Army.
He has his strengths, but also his weaknesses: notably, a certain lack of imagination.
John Kelly, who has held various senior positions within the U.S. military and government, wrote the following: "I first read The General by C. S. Forester when I was a
very, very young officer. In a way it changed my life... I've read this book every time
I got promoted... it's a different book every time you read it."
foreignpolicy.com]
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[PGC #1525]
The Earthly Paradise
(1940)
[Historical novel about the third voyage of Christopher Columbus
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his arrival on the island he named Trinidad, his exploration
of the nearby coast of South America, and his further adventures.
Forester paints a large canvas of Columbus, of his crew, and
of the indigenous reaction to the new arrivals.]
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[PGC #1575]
The Captain from Connecticut
(1941)
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[Novel, set at towards the end of the War of 1812
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taking place mostly in the Caribbean, and featuring Captain
Josiah Peabody, who might be called Hornblower's American
equivalent. Not that the novel is lacking a British naval
officer: Sir Hugh Davenant, commander of "his Britannic
Majesty's frigate Calypso", plays a major role!]
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[PGC #1567]
The Sky and the Forest
(1948)
[Novel. An isolated central African tribe and its leader
find themselves beset by Arab slave traders to the east and
European conquerors to the west. "There is a fine, solemn
mood to the telling of all this... It has required imaginative
understanding of a high degree to write so literate and engrossing
a book." (Hollis Alpert, Saturday Review, 14 August 1948)]
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[PGC #1560]
Hunting the Bismarck
(1959)
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[Novel (U.S. title The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck),
closely based on the actual events surrounding the
sinking in 1941 of the Bismarck
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a German battleship. Filmed in 1960 as Sink the Bismarck!
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"Magnificently handled" (Thomas E. Cooney,
Saturday Review 2 May 1959)]
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[PGC #1400]
Forster, E. M. [Edward Morgan] (1879-1970)
[English novelist, travel writer, and critic]
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A Room with a View (1908)
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[Novel, set in Florence: The view in question is of the river
Arno, which flows through Florence, and the main characters are
a group of well-off English tourists. The novel is not as sedate
as you might think: there is, for example, a murder! The novel
has achieved enduring fame, and is the inspiration for the famous
1985 Merchant/Ivory film of the same name
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Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #2641]
Howards End (1910)
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[Novel, set in England, and involving three families of notably different
economic classes and social views. The book is hugely admired by Forster connoisseurs, and involves many complex and interesting human interactions
in the course of its forty-four chapters! It was the inspiration for the
1992 Merchant/Ivory film
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won the Academy Award for Best Actress.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #2946]
A Passage to India (1924)
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[One of Forster's most famous novels, and the last one published during
his lifetime. It takes place in British India, centres on Dr. Aziz
and on a group of English expatriates, and fully recognizes the ethnic
and religious differences of the time (and, to be honest, of our time).
There have been many discussions of the biases in the novel, but let's
get real! It is by no means Anglocentric, something remarkable in a
novel published by an Englishman long before the end of British India.
The book was well received when it was published, and was awarded the
1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #61221]
Foster, Robert Frederick (1853-1945)
[Scottish authority on card games]
Foster's Skat Manual
(1922 version)
[Manual for the card game Skat
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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]
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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]
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Frank, Pat [Frank, Harry Hart] (1907-1964)
[American journalist and novelist]
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Mr. Adam
(1946)
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[Novel about radiation that could sterilize every
male human on earth. Frank's first novel, and a
huge success: "a story which can be read as a joyous satire
on American bureaucracy -- as a somewhat uninhibited development
of a standard science fiction theme -- or for just plain fun."
(P. Schuyler Miller, Astounding Science Fiction, May 1948)]
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[PGC #1517]
An Affair of State
(1948)
[Political thriller, nicely written and certainly reflecting
the author's direct knowledge of government and international
affairs. World War II is over, but the Cold War is underway:
the term actually shows up in the novel! Jeff Baker, young,
idealistic, and fresh out of the army, has decided to follow
his late father's footsteps and pursue a career in the U.S.
State Department. He achieves his ambition, and is sent to
his first overseas posting: Budapest!]
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Hold Back the Night
(1952)
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[Novel about the Korean War: Frank's extensive personal
experience as a war correspondent is put to good use.
As the novel opens, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir
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has ended, and the "Dog Company", now only sixteen strong,
is providing cover for the regiment's retreat.
"Frank has drawn his combat officers superlatively well...
Being acutely conscious of mortality, they have lost any
arrogance and rank-consciousness they may have had, and
have learned an intense solicitude for the welfare of the
enlisted men they command, knowing that upon those men
their lives and success as officers depend."
(Al Newman, The Reporter, 15 April 1952)]
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[PGC #1518]
Forbidden Area
(1956)
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[Spy novel, set during the Cold War: dark doings involving the
penetration of US air force bases in Florida.
"If you have had any experience with the military chain of
command, you'll find yourself shackled to this book right to the end."
(Floyd C. Gale, Galaxy Science Fiction, November 1956)]
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[PGC #1516]
Alas, Babylon
(1959)
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[Frank's best known novel. An atomic war has happened,
New York City ("Babylon") has been completely destroyed,
but parts of Florida have survived: not Miami, but places
like Fort Repose (pop. 3,422). Life for its residents
has not actually returned to what might pass for normal,
but not for any lack of trying!]
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[PGC #1519]
Frankau, Gilbert (1884-1952) [English novelist and poet]
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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)
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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
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the town of Arnprior
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and the township of McNab
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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]
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Le retour de l'exilé. Drame en cinq actes et huit tableaux (1880)
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[English painter]
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Campbell, Roy (1901-1957)
[South African poet]
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National Review, 15 August 1986 (Thomas P. McDonnell)
Choosing a Mast
(1931)
[Poem, with two illustrations, one in colour]
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[English physician and mystery novelist]
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As a Thief in the Night
(1928)
[Mystery novel. There is a death, naturally, the person
involved being Mr. Harold Monkhouse, an invalid. But how did
he die? Was his death a natural one? The case becomes more
and more enigmatic; fortunately that eminent medical barrister
Dr. Thorndyke
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is on hand to help out.
"If you aspire to be anything of a connoisseur of detective
stories and have never met Dr. Thorndyke, we counsel you to
become acquainted with this scientist at once."
(Walter R. Brooks, The Outlook, 17 October 1928)]
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Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes
(1933)
[Mystery novel, featuring Dr. Thorndyke. An item of luggage being picked up at Fenchurch Street Station
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turns out to have unexpected contents -- a human head!]
Will the sleuthing skills of Dr. Thorndyke be equal to the situation?]
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Mr. Polton Explains
(1940)
[Mystery novel. The main character is of course Dr Thorndyke,
but the action is narrated first by the Doctor's servant Nathaniel
Polton, and later by the Doctor's faithful friend Christopher Jervis.
The author describes it as the "story of a simple clockmaker", but
of course it's far more than that, and is in fact one of his most
celebrated works. And he wrote it when almost eighty!]
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From the 1929 collection The Famous Cases of Dr. Thorndyke. Thirty-seven
of his criminal investigations as set down by R. Austin Freeman:
[1]
The Case of Oscar Brodski
(1929)
[Mystery story: murder and intrigue in the diamond trade!]
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A Case of Premeditation
(1929)
[Mystery story, which begins with a customer dispute over quality of service
on a passenger train -- in England, some things never change!]
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The Echo of a Mutiny
(1929)
[Mystery story. An elderly seaman dies a death under circumstances
enigmatic to everyone... except Dr. Thorndyke!]
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A Wastrel's Romance
(1929)
[Mystery story. A grand evening function given at a country house
attracts the attention of a professional thief named Augustus Bailey,
who succeeds in crashing the party. Then matters take an unexpected turn.]
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The Missing Mortgagee
(1929)
[Mystery story. Normally life insurance is a relatively
straightforward affair -- but not always! If, to start with,
the insured has mortgaged the policy to a moneylender.
And there's more...]
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Percival Bland's Proxy
(1929)
[Mystery story. We won't give the plot away, but here's the background
in our author's own words: "if one perseveringly distributes flash Bank of
England notes among the money-changers of the Continent, there will come a
day of reckoning when those notes are tendered to the exceedingly knowing
old lady who lives in Threadneedle Street." If this latter phrase seems
mysterious, we will refer you to the
Bank of England's website!]
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Gleanings from the Wreckage
(1929)
[Mystery story. Thorndyke and a companion have sought out the
quiet back streets of London for an evening walk. Then a building
they are passing explodes loudly into flame.]
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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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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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Fyleman, Rose Amy (1877-1957)
[English children's author]
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Fairies and Chimneys
(1918)
[Poems: with a colour frontispiece by an anonymous artist]
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The Rainbow Cat and other stories
(1922)
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Forty Good-Night Tales
(1923)
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Folk-Tales from Many Lands
(1939)
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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]
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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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Garneau, François-Xavier (1809-1866)
[Historien et poète canadien]
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
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Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte
jusqu'à nos jours, Tome I de IV. (1845)
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Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Secret of the Sandhills
(1921)
[In 1921, Arthur Gask, a UK-trained dentist who had arrived in
Adelaide the previous year, printed at his own expense one
thousand copies of this, his first novel -- and sold all of
them in the space of three weeks! Gask was to become a famous
mystery author, numbering H.G. Wells and Bertrand Russell
among his admirers, and this first novel does indeed involve
murder. It takes place, naturally, in and around Adelaide:
its oceanside suburbs of Glenelg and Henley Beach
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have some magnificent sand beaches.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Red Paste Murders
(1923)
[Arthur Gask's first mystery novel The Secret of the Sandhills
proved successful not only in Australia but in London, where an English
edition was issued by Herbert Jenkins (famous as the publisher of PG
Wodehouse), who published his subsequent novels, starting with this one.
Like its predecessor, it was well received and sold well. The setting
once again, is Adelaide; there are murders, several of them; the mysterious
red paste comes from Colombo (Sri Lanka), where it is used by tiger hunters
"before they go into the jungle after tigers, and it makes a man afraid
of nothing in the world." Gask "has a sense of style, and of humour,"
commented The Register, an Adelaide newspaper (30 November 1923).
"This is distinctly a book to be read."]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Secret of the Garden
(1924)
[Novel, narrated by its chief character, John Archibald Cups, "aged
thirty-two, ledger clerk of ten years' standing in the Consolidated
Bank of South Australia", who is framed by his employer and sentenced
to five years in jail -- with hard labour! His account of the trial
shows little respect for the justice system, and is a nicely written
piece of mockery. He is sentenced, but the warder taking him to prison
has a medical episode which our hero takes full advantage of, so instead
of being bundled off to prison he finds himself taking a tram to the
suburb of North Adelaide. Here he finds shelter in an unexpected place,
and help from an unexpected person -- "the eccentric recluse. Dr Robert Carmichael". And that's just the beginning of the adventure!]
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[University of Adelaide]
Cloud the Smiter
(1926)
[Mystery novel, marking the first appearance of Gilbert Larose,
Gask's favourite sleuth in the many mystery novels he was to write
in the years to come. The novel begins innocently enough. A young
medical student from Sydney is taking a short holiday in Adelaide,
and takes his bicycle for a solitary ride outside the city. Since he
is alone, and in an area he does not know, naturally he has some
problems with his tires and his lamp. He encounters two strangers
who, it turns out, are up to no good. They seem to be part of a gang
headed by someone called the Smiter. Lots of things are happening,
clearly. And we're only in the first chapter! As the novel proceeds,
we learn much more about what the gang is up to -- think big, think
evil! Inspector Romilly of the Adelaide police gets involved, and
decides that expert help is needed, so sends an urgent telegram to
Sydney: "He had a personal friend there in the Head Detective Office, the great Gilbert Larose..." And that is how we meet Larose, who immediately
became and remained Gask's favourite sleuth through the rest of his life
(and novels). Does Larose's intervention make a difference? Of course
it does! "Another capital Australian mystery story... It is a story that
you won't want to put down until finished." (The World's News
[Sydney], 3 July 1926)]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Dark Highway
(1928)
[Mystery novel, marking the second appearance in literature of Gask's
sleuth Gilbert Larose. "A man still under thirty, he was by far the
greatest detective that the Commonwealth had ever known... In his ideas
he was a poet, an artist, and a dreamer--in fact, he was almost the last
man one would have associated in any way with crime, yet crime in all
its phases was the study and obsession of his life." The dark highway
in the title is a desolate stretch of the road between Adelaide and
Melbourne. "To the traveller, this part of the Adelaide-Melbourne route
has always been the one most dreaded--because of its drifting sands, its
loneliness, and the absence of all help should help be required." An
appropriate setting for some sinister events! Murders, actually, which
seem to have everything to do with horse-racing, in particular the race
for the Christmas Cup at the Port Adelaide Racing Club!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Lonely House
(1929)
[One of Arther Gask's most popular mystery novels. The house in
question is indeed lonely, being located on a remote part of South Australia's coast, far from any roads. It would be hard to imagine
a more isolated location. But as it happens Gilbert Larose, "the
best known of all the detectives of the great Commonwealth of
Australia", normally a resident of Sydney, is visiting the area.
He is recovering from typhoid fever, and the quiet and law-abiding
lifestyle of South Australia will, it is thought, help his
convalescence. He arrives "expecting to be intensely bored and
wondering gloomily how he would be able to fill in his time." Well,
boredom turns out not to be a problem at all. Quite the contrary!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Shadow of Larose
(1930)
[Mystery novel, featuring Gilbert Larose, "the star of all the detectives
of the great Commonwealth of Australia, the prince of all the trackers of
crime". Charlie Edis, the Adelaide bank clerk at the centre of the story,
is undoubtedly a killer, in fact he's killed twice. But a killer is not
always a murderer. A tricky situation, which certainly justifies bringing
in Gilbert Larose from Sydney!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The House on the Island
(1931)
[The start of this mystery finds Gilbert Larose not in Adelaide,
nor in any part of his beloved Australia, but in London, Scotland Yard
to be specific, in the office of the Chief Commissioner. Yes, he is
now internationally famous! "Why, it's proverbial in Australia that
Larose can reason back as quickly as he can reason forward, and they
say that when a murder's been committed, no matter how long after,
he can still see the very shadow that the murderer cast upon the wall."
He has been brought in to deal with a crime wave in the East Counties
that has been going on for six months. But immediately on landing in
England he makes it clear that he is no ordinary detective, by foiling
a pickpocket who was attempting to rob him. Did he turn the pickpocket
in? No, he took him to dinner, persuaded him that he also was a
pickpocket, and over that dinner learned a great deal about the
realities of crime in the capital: "it was such an opportunity for me to
learn from the opposite camp how you gentlemen here work, for I was able
to go into places I could not have got into in any other way." Talk about
a quick study! That's the end of the trailer; for the main feature,
download the ebook!]
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[University of Adelaide]
Gentlemen of Crime
(1932)
[Mystery novel. Gilbert Larose is back, and this time he's fighting
blackmail! Mr Ephraim Smith, after a successful banking career in
New York City, has moved to the United Kingdom and has been happily
engaged in a lavish lifestyle: a house in Park Lane, a castle in the
English countryside, an estate in Scotland, and so on. Then he gets
a letter demanding that he make a relatively small donation to the
Norwich Children's Hospital. "If you fail to do so within three days,
the consequences will be unpleasant." He does not make the donation,
and arson ensues, costing him three thousand pounds. Things get worse
from then on. It's a good thing that Gilbert Larose is on the case!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Hidden Door
(1934)
[Gothic detective novel. Yes, seriously! Here's the opening sentence:
"Grim and grey was Thralldom Castle. Eight hundred years and more its
mighty walls had reared their heights to Heaven, scorched by the suns,
buffeted by the tempests and fretted by the lashing rains." And that's
just the beginning! Is there more to be said? Well yes! Arthur Gask
once again shows his mastery of the writer's craft, and his detective,
Gilbert Larose, yet again shows that he is equal to any kind of challenge!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Judgment of Larose
(1934)
[Mystery novel, featuring Gilbert Larose. Sir James Marley likes
to have guests at Southdown Court in Eastbourne, on the Sussex Coast,
but this decidedly grand house party is the unexpected scene of a murder!
Just before his murder, Captain Dane had won more than two thousand pounds
at the nearby Goodwood Racecourse, and the circumstances certainly need
scrutiny. Who better to undertake this scrutiny than Gilbert Larose?]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Poisoned Goblet
(1935)
[As this mystery novel opens, Gilbert Larose is in his private office at Scotland Yard, deep in conversation with a senior investigator, Naughton Jones, who is about to go on medical leave. Larose learns to his amazement that he will be Jones' replacement! How did this happen? Through the intervention of Lady Helen Ardane, the wealthy American widow of a whiskey distiller, who lives in Norfolk (not that far from Sandringham!). She is extremely rich, twenty-seven years of age, and has a son, four years of age, who is at imminent risk of being kidnapped. Expertise is needed: hence
her procuring Larose's assignment to the case!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Master Spy
(1936)
[Not a standard mystery novel, although murder is mentioned, and
Gilbert Larose takes centre stage. But he is not the Gilbert Larose
we have learned to love! He is "the one time international detective,
now a country squire and married to the beautiful and wealthy widow,
who up to the time of her marriage with him had been Lady Helen Ardane".
Yet he is not living a life of total leisure: the British Secret Service
needs his help! Does the novel deliver the espionage adventure promised
by the title? And does Larose still possess his remarkable sleuthing
abilities? The answer to both questions: Definitely!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Jest of Life
(1936)
[Novel, but not a mystery novel; instead, a light-hearted satire of life
in Adelaide. As the novel opens, we are introduced to "Mr. Montague Twiggs,
dental surgeon of Adelaide, South Australia". Sounds like Gask wrote a
self-portrait! Or did he? If this is a self-portrait, Gask had some quite
unusual experiences. For example, it turns out that Mr Twiggs' spirit could
migrate into the bodies of other people. Archdeacon Bottleworthy to start
with, of Adelaide Cathedral! Merriment ensues.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Night of the Storm
(1937)
[Mystery novel, featuring Gilbert Larose, of course! A man has
been killed, of that there is no doubt: his name was Edwin Asher
Toller, and he lived in the village of Stratford St Mary, six
miles from the ancient city of Colchester: he was the bailiff
(estate manager) of "the Priory", most definitely a Stately Home
of England, complete with butler, gardener, and four servants.
"The place has been in the possession of the Brabazon-Fanes,
who are one of the best county families round here, for hundreds
of years... The late General Brabazon-Fane, the last male of the
line, died two years ago and the property descended to his three
daughters Beatrice, Eva, and Margaret." All three sisters are
suspects -- what a mess! Can Gilbert Larose lend a helping hand?
Of course he can!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Grave-Digger of Monks Arden
(1938)
[A Gilbert Larose mystery novel. The gravedigger of the title is
named Daunt, and the name was appropriate, for "he gave to many who
encountered him in the country lanes at night the suggestion of
a prowling beast of prey." He was gravedigger "of the ancient
church of St. Benedict, in the little village of Monks Arden,
about three miles from Saffron Walden", a small and historic
town in the northwest corner of Essex. Some strange events
have been happening: events calling for the supreme talents
of Gilbert Larose, who seems doomed never to fully leave
behind his former career as a detective, much as he might wish
to enjoy in peace his new status as a country squire in the pleasant
solitude of Carmel Abbey.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Vengeance of Larose
(1939)
[Gilbert Larose is of course unrivalled as a criminal investigator.
But given the way the world has been going in the late 1930s, his
talents can now have an impact not just on local investigations but
on international affairs as well. Which turns out to be the case.
England is in danger: Larose takes to his new assignment like a duck to
water. H.G. Wells, no less, considered this to be Gask's finest novel!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The House on the Fens
(1940)
[As this mystery novel opens, Dr Methuen, who has his practice
in Wimpole Street, a very fashionable address then and now, has
just had the difficult experience of breaking to a patient the
sad news that the patient's prospects for survival are not good.
The patient is now angry with his "smiling, sleek, complacent
friends" who will presumably outlive him. There is a change
of scene: we are now in Hampstead, where Sir George and Lady
Almaine are giving a party, one of the guests being his old
friend Major Henry Sampon. By the end of the evening, Major
Sampon is dead! How did this happen? And is there a connection
with Dr Methuen and his patient? This all sounds very complicated,
but fortunately Gilbert Larose is one of the guests -- who better
to solve this mystery than that legendary Australian sleuth?]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Tragedy of the Silver Moon
(1940)
[Mystery novel, featuring Gask's famous sleuth Gilbert Larose.
It begins in what seems to be a medical practice, but Professor
Paris Starbuck is not a doctor! "The Professor was a man of
varied attainments, and in his time had been a chemist's errand boy,
an employee in the Zoological Gardens, a kennelman to a veterinary
surgeon, a conjurer, and a chauffeur and handyman to an East End
practitioner of medicine. From the experiences gained in these
occupations he now carried on a very successful practice as a quack
doctor, styling himself 'Professor' to avoid trouble with the police."
Of course, this kind of deception becomes difficult to maintain if
a customer dies!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Beachy Head Murder
(1941)
[Mystery novel, in which Gask's famous sleuth Gilbert Larose
makes his appearance, but takes a lesser role than usual.
The narrator is the eminently respectable Jason Brown:
"I open Flower Shows, I give away prizes at the local sports
and I am on the Boards of Management of several public institutions."
However: "But I was not always so esteemed. I was a hunted man once."
Clearly there's a story waiting to be told!]
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[University of Adelaide]
His Prey was Man
(1942)
[A Gilbert Larose mystery. It's hard to imagine anyone in a more
fortunate position than Colonel Basil Hilary: "apart from his beautiful
young wife and baby, he was in perfect health, of ample means, and the
proud possessor of many hundreds of acres of good and fertile land in
the county of Norfolk." But trouble comes, in the form of the Colonel's
new game-keeper who, it appears, knows some things about the young
Mrs Hilary that she would rather be kept secret. Blackmail and murder
are now on the horizon -- it's a good thing that the famous Australian
detective Gilbert Larose now also lives in Norfolk!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Man of Death
(1945)
[Mystery novel, which opens as follows: "'Mr. Larose, I am being
watched,' said the small, scholarly-looking man with the high forehead.
'I live alone in a lonely house on a lonely shore, and I do not know
what it means. I am concerned about what is going to happen next.'"
Gilbert Larose's visitor, or should we say client, is Professor Mildmay,
who had practiced medicine before becoming Professor of Anthropology
at Cambridge University, and for the past eight years has been living
on his own at Blackstone Gap, Norfolk. Larose is inclined at first
to think his visitor a crank, but quickly changes his opinion!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Hatton Garden Crime
(1945)
[A short story, which does not feature Gask's famous sleuth
Gilbert Larose! Hatton Garden
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is an area of central London that has long been famous as a centre
of the jewellery trade. "For many years," the story begins, "Reuben
Leyden had been one of the best-known diamond dealers in Hatton
Garden... almost fabulous sums of money had at times, in the course
of a few minutes, changed hands in his modest suite of rooms." One
day... no, let's stop right there! To learn more, just read this
very short story. Hint: there may be a murder!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Dark Mill Stream
(1947)
["At eight and thirty years of age," this Gilbert Larose mystery begins,
"Chester Hardacre was a well set-up, good-looking man, with good features
and large, fearless blue eyes... Of strong personality, he was a well-known
character in Hoichow, the chief seaport of Hainan Island, only a few miles
distant from the mainland of China, where he had been a trader for fifteen
years." But if he earned a lot, he also spent a lot. And he has a sinister
personal reputation. Can he improve his life by moving to faraway England?]
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[University of Adelaide]
The House with the High Wall
(1948)
[Mystery novel, written in the aftermath of the Second World War.
To judge from the opening words, Arthur Gask certainly did not
believe that war solves anything: "The aftermath of war is always
terrible. Peace is only for the dead, while unrest and disillusionment
are the portion of the living. With the bloodshed dying down, the
highways of the world are thronged with bewildered men and women
walking aimlessly where once they trod with such resolution and
such strength." Certainly in this novel we learn that the end of
the war did not mark the end of murders -- and of theft! In this
case, of an emerald necklace. There is indeed a house, located in
Suffolk, and after the war it was supplied with a high wall: six
feet high and four miles long! And behind this wall lives Mrs.
Dona Bianca and her peacocks. She is from South America, and is
said to be rich -- how else could she afford the peacocks? No need
to say more, except that Gilbert Larose turns up opportunely. He is
now almost fifty, "a smiling, happy-looking man, carrying his age well."
One thing has not changed: his ability to solve mysteries and ensure
that the truth comes out!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Storm Breaks
(1949)
[Mystery novel, featuring Gilbert Larose. The young and impressionable
Mary Hinks meets Birtle Dane, who is "with a big firm of wine merchants
in the wonderful city of Bordeaux", where he lives "in a big house upon
the bank of the beautiful Garonne river". He tells her that life there
is "much brighter and gayer than in England", and events move fast,
particularly because Mary's father is much impressed by the apparent
wealth of his prospective son-in-law. If you think that Mary's father
is a poor judge of character, and that trouble lies ahead, you may well
be right! And if Gilbert Larose is present, anything is possible!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Vaults of Blackarden Castle
(1950)
[Not a Gothic novel, as the title might suggest, but a mystery novel.
The castle is located in Norfolk: this might lead you to believe that
it featurea Gask's famous sleuth Gilbert Larose, who has long since
moved from Australia and has been living the good life in Norfolk: he
is now rather well off. Not that Larose shows any sign of giving up
his detective work, as this story demonstrates!]
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[University of Adelaide]
Marauders by Night
(1951)
[A Gilbert Larose novel, set in 1925! As the novel opens, a very
serious conference is underway at Scotland Yard. In the Eastern
Counties (Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk) there have been no fewer
than five major robberies. In attendance is Gilbert Larose, "then
in his twenty-ninth year and the youngest Detective Inspector at
Scotland Yard... a good-looking young fellow with a pleasant smiling
face. Transferred from Australia to the Criminal Investigation
Department in London, in four years he had earned an almost legendary
reputation." And Larose's achievements in this case will only
increase this reputation!]
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[University of Adelaide]
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]
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and Joseph Swain (1820-1909)
The website of Bob Speel]
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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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Gibbons, Charles Harrison (1869-1931)
[Canadian journalist and novelist]
A Sourdough Samaritan
(1924)
[Novel. A young Britisher, Lawrence Fitzmaurice, decides to go
to the Dawson Creek/Klondike gold rush
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He gets there, but his entire
outfit is stolen. With no money or supplies, he signs on with the local R.N.W.M.P.
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detachment, and matters proceed from there. "Mr. Charles Harrison
Gibbons knows his Klondyke well, and in this volume he has given of his best...
There is a hero, of course, straight from England, and unused to
the ways of the country, who makes good, however, in the Mounted Police;
a heroine from the States, a kindly old Jew, and lots of villains and
rough characters. But the tale depends less on the plot than on the
detailed description of life and manners in a mining camp."
(The World's News (Sydney, Australia), 29 November 1924)]
CAUTION: A character in the novel has a nickname, starting with N,
which today would be considered unacceptably racist.
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The Marbled Catskin
(1928)
[Novel. South Africa, a mountain queen (she's got the catskin),
and much else — if you like H. Rider Haggard's adventure novels,
this should be very much to your taste!]
CAUTION: Certain language in the novel may seem racist by the standards of today.
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Gibbs, Philip [Philip Armand Hamilton] (1877-1962)
[English journalist and historian]
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Adventures in Journalism
(1923)
[Gibbs' account of his early years as a journalist. And what years
they were! He published his first newspaper article while still a
teenager, and in this beautifully written memoir recounts the final
years of what had seemed an unshakeable peace, the subsequent outbreak
and disastrous course of the First World War, and the shaky "peace"
that followed. He visited post-war Vienna, for example ("Ladies of
good family could not buy underclothing or boots. Professional men,
aristocrats, Ministers of State, lived on thin soup, potatoes, war
bread, and the very nurses in the hospitals were starving.") and
Turkey, where the "victorious" powers learned the limits of their
power. Gibbs seems to have met everyone: for example he was the
first journalist to interview the Pope -- yes, in this book he
tells how he obtained the interview!]
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[PGUS #65577]
Gibson, Wilfrid [Wilfrid Wilson] (1878-1962)
[English poet]
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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]
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alalettre.com
Retour de l'U.R.S.S. (1936)
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[Récit de voyage, assez controversé lors de sa parution.
«C'est témoigner mal son amour que le borner à la louange et je pense
rendre plus grand service à l'U.R.S.S. même et à la cause que pour nous
elle représente, en parlant sans feinte et sans ménagement. C'est en
raison même de mon admiration pour l'U.R.S.S. et pour les prodiges
accomplis par elle déjà, que vont s'élever mes critiques...»]
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English translation by
Dorothy Bussy (1865-1960)
[English translator and novelist]
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Return from the U.S.S.R. (1937)
[Gide's famous and controversial account of his 1936
visit to the U.S.S.R. in a contemporary translation
by Gide's friend Dorothy Bussy. His book was hardly
a frontal attack on the Stalinist regime, but he was
an observant visitor and saw that not all was well.
This viewpoint was not acceptable in the left-wing
cultural circles of Paris, and a massive uproar ensued.]
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[PGC #1351]
Gilchrist, Anne (1828-1885)
[English biographer and essayist]
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Mary Lamb (1883)
[Biography of English author Mary Anne Lamb (1764-1847)
Wikipedia]
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Gill, Eric [Arthur Eric Rowton] (1882-1940)
[English artist and type designer]
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National Archives (UK)
Identifont
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Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936)
[English journalist and theologian]
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The American Chesterton Society
Gloria in Profundis
(1927)
[Poem, with two wood engravings]
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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]
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Voyage à Terre-Neuve
(1861)
[Récit de voyage]
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[PGC no 506]
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
[German scientist, poet, playwright, and statesman /
scientifique, poète, dramaturge et homme d'État allemand]
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Novelle
(1828)
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[Novella in German / Nouvelle en allemand.
Eine ritterliche Idylle als Sinnbild einer geordneten
Feudalgesellschaft wird durch das Hereinbrechen der ungezähmten
Natur in Form eines Brands und entlaufener Raubtiere in Gefahr
gebracht. Durch die Musik, die Dichtung und den Glauben, verkörpert
durch ein Kind, wird sie wieder in den Bann geschlagen.]
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Learn German!
Apprenez l'allemand!
Golding, Louis (1895-1958)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Five Silver Daughters
(1934)
[Novel, on a truly epic scale.
Mr Sam Silver lives on Oleander Street in Manchester;
his neighbour and close friend Isaac Emmanuel (hero of
Mr. Emmanuel, also in our catalogue) is often
to be found in his kitchen. Messrs Silver and Emmanuel
are eminently respectable; in fact, Mr Silver in the
course of the novel rises to a position of truly
spectacular wealth. Which makes him an odd person to
open his kitchen to the anarchists and other political
types who gathered there. Of course, his five daughters
were part of the reason that the anarchists were fond
of visiting. And this is the story of these five very
different daughters and how they fared in adult life,
in England and elsewhere.]
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[PGC #1660]
Mr. Emmanuel
(1939)
[Novel. Bruno Rosenheim, a young Jewish refugee in England.
is increasingly distraught about what might be happening to
his mother back in Germany. Isaac Emmanuel, a Lancashire
solicitor who knows Bruno, becomes concerned, and investigates,
even going to Germany. He makes some exciting and disturbing
discoveries, and has some exciting and disturbing personal
experiences. "'Mr. Emmanuel' is a tract for the times, and
the voice of a people speaks through it, but it is also an
absorbing, stirring, first-rate work of fiction."
(Ben Ray Redman, Saturday Review, 22 July 1939)]
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[PGC #1607]
Honey for the Ghost
(1949)
[Novel, somewhat different from Golding's other novels,
since it has strong elements of fantasy and horror: it
"begins with infinite leisure but builds to an incomparable
climactic terror of devil-worship and possession."
(Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas,
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Winter-Spring 1950)]
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[PGC #1638]
The Dangerous Places
(1951)
[Novel, in essence a sequel to Mr. Emmanuel, set in
various countries of central Europe during the Second World War,
and vividly depicting the life of the Jews in particular who are
contending with the unfolding disaster. Their best hope for the
future seems to be Palestine, if they can get there.]
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[PGC #1639]
Goldoni, Carlo (1707-1793)
[Italian playwright]
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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)
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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)
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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)
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of an earlier translation by an unknown hand.]
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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)
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The Beneficent Bear
(1771 [French original], 1892 [this translation])
[Translation of Le bourru bienfaisant
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written by Goldoni in French in celebration of the marriage of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette.
A revision by Helen Zimmern (1846-1934)
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of an earlier translation by an unknown hand.]
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The Spendthrift Miser
(1776 [French original], 1892 [this translation])
[Translation of L'avare fastueux
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the second comedy written by Goldoni in French.
A revision by Helen Zimmern (1846-1934)
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of an earlier translation by an unknown hand.]
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Goncourt, Edmond de (1822-1896) [Écrivain français]
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Goncourt, Jules de (1830-1870) [Écrivain français]
fr.wikipedia
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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[PGC no 724]
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)
Wikipedia,
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)
Wikipedia,
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)
Wikipedia;
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,
and John Sartain (1808-1897)]
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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)
Wikipedia,
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)
Wikipedia,
Alfred Billings Street (1811-1881)
Wikipedia,
J. Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)
Wikipedia,
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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Graham, Gwethalyn (1913-1965)
[Canadian journalist, translator, and novelist]
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Simon Fraser University
Swiss Sonata
(1938)
[Novel, winner of the Governor General's Literary Award,
set in an international school for girls located in
Lausanne, Switzerland, and fully reflecting the different
nationalities of the students and the dark events of the
years preceding the Second World War. Graham had herself
been a student at the Pensionnat des Allières in Lausanne:
rarely has a privileged upbringing been put to better use
than in the writing of this novel. "Miss Graham's picture
of Lausanne and of the school, her statement of each girl's
character and her demonstration of how it is influenced by
what has been done to her, are deft and delightful."
(Katharine Simonds, Saturday Review, 23 April 1938)]
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Earth and High Heaven
(1944)
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[Novel, which won the Governor General's Literary Award
and was a massive success outside Canada as well.
Erica Drake is from a wealthy Montreal family;
Marc Reiser is a Jewish lawyer, originally from Northern
Ontario. How likely is it that they should meet?
Not very; but in wartime anything is possible.
How will those around them react, and how will
they deal with this? Well, the novel will tell you!
Exquisitely written, with side observations on Canada
and on Montreal which remain true to this day.]
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Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
[Scottish banker and novelist]
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The Wind in the Willows
(1908)
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[Novel. No ordinary novel, but one which has become permanently
famous around the world. And yet Grahame had trouble finding
publishers! It was published in the U.S. only after Theodore
Roosevelt, president at the time, persuaded Scribners to accept
the book, a decision we can all be sure they never regretted.
Another famous admirer was A. A. Milne, author of Winnie the
Pooh, who adapted part of it into a play. The main characters
are animals, living alongside a river in southern England: Mole,
Rat (technically a water vole, not a rat), Badger, and of course
Mr Toad. For more details, simply check out the excellent Wikipedia article. Or, still better, why not take the plunge and start reading
the book immediately? Once you've started reading, you won't want
to stop! "It is difficult to describe the impression made by this beautifully written book, or to determine whether it was intended
for children, for grown people, or for grown-up children--perhaps
it was meant for all. It is full of dewy nature, breathes the open
air of field, winding river, and forest." (The Nation,
24 December 1908) The Adelaide ebook comes with a superb set of colour illustrations
by the American wildlife painter
Paul Bransom
(1885-1979)
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which we consider fully the equal of the famous 1931 illustrations
by Ernest H. Shepard, which are still under copyright as of 2021,
and were supposed to be entering the public domain in 2027, not so
long from now.
The Tr*mp/Trudeau copyright extensions, an act of cultural vandalism,
will keep the Shepard illustrations under copyright until 2047.
]
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[University of Adelaide]
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)
[Autobiography]
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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)
[Roman]
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Les Koumiassine (1877)
[Roman]
Tome premier:
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La Maison de Maurèze (1877)
[Roman. La plus grand vertu est exigée d'une épouse pour protéger l'honneur du nom de la famille; quant au mari....?]
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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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Le moulin Frappier (1880)
[Roman]
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Cité Ménard (1880)
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Madame de Dreux (1881)
[Roman]
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Angèle (1883)
[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
fr.wikipedia
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)
[Roman]
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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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La seconde mère (1888)
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Péril (1891)
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Chénerol (1892)
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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
Wikipedia,
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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[PGC #1114]
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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[PGC #1109]
"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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[PGC #922]
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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[PGC #836]
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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[PGC #1167]
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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[PGC #807]
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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de.wikipedia
1. Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich
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[The Frog Prince
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Le Roi Grenouille
fr.wikipedia]
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2. Katze und Maus in Gesellschaft
de.wikipedia
[Cat and Mouse in Partnership
Wikipedia /
Chat et souris associés
fr.wikipedia]
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3. Marienkind
de.wikipedia
[Mary's Child
Wikipedia /
L'Enfant de Marie
fr.wikipedia]
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4. Mährchen von einem, der auszog das Fürchten zu lernen
de.wikipedia
[The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was
Wikipedia /
Conte de celui qui s'en alla pour connaître la peur
fr.wikipedia]
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5. Der Wolf und die sieben jungen Geislein
de.wikipedia
[The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
Wikipedia /
Le Loup et les Sept Chevreaux
fr.wikipedia]
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6. Der treue Johannes
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[Trusty John
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Jean-le-Fidèle]
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7. Der gute Handel
de.wikipedia
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8. Der wunderliche Spielmann
de.wikipedia
[The Wonderful Musician
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Le Merveilleux Ménétrier]
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[PGC #826/no 826]
9. Die zwölf Brüder
de.wikipedia
[The Twelve Brothers
Wikipedia /
Les Douze Frères
fr.wikipedia]
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10. Das Lumpengesindel
de.wikipedia
[The Pack of Ragamuffins
Wikipedia /
De la racaille]
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[PGC #847/no 847]
11. Brüderchen und Schwesterchen
de.wikipedia
[Brother and Sister
Wikipedia /
Frérot et Soeurette
fr.wikipedia]
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[PGC #851/no 851]
12. Rapunzel
de.wikipedia
[Rapunzel
Wikipedia /
Raiponce
fr.wikipedia]
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[PGC #907/no 907]
13. Die drei Männlein im Walde
de.wikipedia
[The Three Little Men in the Wood
Wikipedia /
Les Trois Petits Hommes de la forêt
fr.wikipedia]
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[PGC #920/no 920]
14. Die drei Spinnerinnen
de.wikipedia
[The Three Spinners
Wikipedia /
Les Trois Fileuses]
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[PGC #936/no 936]
15. Hänsel und Grethel
de.wikipedia
[Hansel and Gretel
Wikipedia /
Hansel et Gretel
fr.wikipedia]
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16. Die drei Schlangenblätter
de.wikipedia
[The Three Snake-Leaves /
Les Trois Feuilles du serpent]
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[PGC #944/no 944]
17. Die weiße Schlange
de.wikipedia
[The White Snake
Wikipedia /
Le Serpent blanc
fr.wikipedia]
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[PGC #932/no 932]
18. Strohhalm, Kohle und Bohne
de.wikipedia
[The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean
Wikipedia /
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]
Wikipedia
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)
[Novel]
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The Master of the Mill (1944)
[Novel]
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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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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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[PGC #1234]
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler (1796-1865)
[Canadian essayist and humorist]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
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)
[Stories]
Text
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Vol. 2 (1844)
[Stories]
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The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete (1844)
[Stories]
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Nature and Human Nature (1844)
[Stories]
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Humour of the North (1912)
[Anthology]
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Hall, James Norman (1887-1951)
[American novelist]
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Mid-Pacific
(1928)
[Autobiographical essays on travel and literature, with a special emphasis on
Hall's adopted home of Tahiti. "One of the finest writers about life in both
common and strange places is James Norman Hall." (Frederick O' Brien,
Saturday Review, 4 August 1928)]
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[PGC #1572]
Lost Island
(1944)
[Novel, not a long one, about an island in the South Seas during the
Second World War. It is the story of an American military engineer,
George Dodd, and his first encounter with Polynesia. Not a war story
in the usual sense.]
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[PGC #1374]
with:
Nordhoff, Charles Bernard (1887-1947)
[American novelist]
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Faery Lands of the South Seas
(1921)
[The first collaboration by Nordhoff and Hall involving the South Seas,
a memoir of their first visit to Tahiti and points beyond:
"a book which is neither super-romantic nor tediously informative...
one of the most pleasing volumes of travel and observation recently
published." (The Outlook, 4 January 1922)
Includes some attractive small illustrations by American artist
George A. Picken (1898-1971)
Smithsonian Institution.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #54479]
The Hurricane
(1936)
Wikipedia
[Novel, set in the nineteenth century, about an island in
the Tuamotu Archipelago
Wikipedia,
shared by Polynesians and Europeans, and what
happens before, during, and after a major hurricane.
One of Nordhoff and Hall's most popular novels, and the
basis for John Ford's 1937 movie of the same name
Wikipedia]
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[PGC #1378]
The Dark River
(1938)
[Novel. An Englishman named Alan Hardie arrives in Tahiti
for what turns out to be a permanent visit. The novel has
a very straightforward plot, "but as a travelogue of Tahiti
and the Tuamotus it makes almost anybody in a disheartened
pre-war world feel like getting away from it all while there
is yet time." (Elmer Davis, Saturday Review, 25 June 1938)]
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[PGC #1559]
Botany Bay
(1941)
[Historical novel, principally about the sailing of the First Fleet
Wikipedia
and the founding of the British penal colony in Australia, at Botany Bay
Wikipedia,
near the future Sydney. A more agreeable way of learning Australian
history could hardly be imagined, with incidental information on the
British penal system of the time, and on the aftermath of the 1783
partition of British North America: our hero, Hugh Tallant, was a
Loyalist, but one who ended up in Australia rather than Canada!]
CAUTION: Certain language in the novel may seem racist
by the standards of today.
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[PGC #1562]
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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[PGC #1255]
The High Barbaree
(1945)
[Novel. What if a South Pacific island had remained undiscovered
until in 1943 an American plane crashed onto it? The plane is
the High Barbaree, presumably named after the traditional
sailors' ballad
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #1570]
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)
Wikipedia
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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Hammett, Dashiell [Samuel Dashiell] (1894-1961)
[American author and political activist]
Wikipedia
Novels:
Red Harvest
(February 1929)
Wikipedia
[Novel, featuring Hammett's famous creation, the detective
known only as the Continental Op
Wikipedia.
Dark doings in a mining town: criminal gangs,
and a criminal police force. What's a private
detective to do? Lots, as it turns out!]
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[PGC #1409]
The Dain Curse
(July 1929)
Wikipedia
[Hammett's second mystery novel, set in San Francisco:
it concerns a family curse; also a religious cult, and drugs
-- has California always been like this? It also features
Hammett's famous creation, the detective known only as the
Continental Op
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #1395]
The Maltese Falcon
(February 1930)
Wikipedia
[The classic detective novel, and the inspiration for the classic
motion picture starring Humphrey Bogart
Wikipedia.
Private detective Sam Spade, a San Francisco now utterly vanished,
and a mysterious statuette, "the black figure of a bird".
What more can one ask for?]
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[PGC #1387]
The Glass Key
(April 1931)
Wikipedia
[Mystery novel, set in an amoral world of crime and corruption.
Hammett's own choice as his best novel.]
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[PGC #1408]
The Thin Man
(January 1934)
Wikipedia
[Hammett's final novel, one of his most famous,
and the inspiration for the classic film
Wikipedia.
Nick Charles was formerly with the Trans-American Detective Agency,
but has left all that behind him. Or has he?
"Verdict: Extra-Swell" (Saturday Review, 13 January 1934)]
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[PGC #1379]
Short stories:
They Can Only Hang You Once
(November 1932)
[The last of Hammett's three short stories featuring private detective Sam Spade
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #1290]
His Brother's Keeper
(February 1934)
[Short story about boxing, narrated by a boxer, Kid Bolan]
CAUTION: Certain language in this story may seem racist by the standards of today.
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[PGC #1291]
Hare, Cyril [Clark, Alfred Alexander Gordon] (1900-1958)
[English judge and novelist]
Wikipedia
Tenant for Death
(1937)
[Cyril Hare's first mystery novel. Hare was a magistrate, learned in the law,
and therefore familiar with the term "tenant for life" -- the holder
of a property only while alive: that i