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2007/07/01: STORIES FOR CHILDREN CREATED BY A MASTER

de la Mare, Walter (1873-1956) [English poet, novelist, and writer of stories] Wikipedia

Mr. Bumps and his Monkey (1942) [Novella for children] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped

Tales from Collected Stories for Children (1947)

2007/07/01: NOVELS, SHORT STORIES, BIOGRAPHIES, AND A FINE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Kaye-Smith, Sheila (1887-1956) [English novelist and biographer] Wikipedia

The End of the House of Alard (1923) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Joanna Godden Married and Other Stories (1926) [Short stories] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Susan Spray (1931) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Gallybird (1934) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Quartet in Heaven (1953) [Biographies of Caterina Fiesca Adorna, Cornelia Connelly, Isabella Rosa de Santa Maria de Flores, and Thérèse Martin] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
All the Books of My Life (1956) [Autobiography] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped

2007/07/01: A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN MEMOIR BY A LEGEND OF THE STAGE

Lawrence, Gertrude (1896-1952) [Star of the West End and of Broadway] Wikipedia

A Star Danced (1945) [Autobiography] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped

2007/07/01: A CLASSIC TREATISE ON CHESS

Znosko-Borovsky, Eugene Alexandrovich (1884-1954) [Russian chess master] Wikipedia

The Middle Game in Chess, Third Edition (1938) [Chess treatise: translated into English by Julius Du Mont (1881-1956) Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


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Allen, Grant (1848-1899) [Canadian scientist, novelist, and historian] Wikipedia Canadian Encyclopedia The Grant Allen website

Philistia (1884) [Novel] Text
Biographies of Working Men (1884) [Short biographies of Thomas Telford, George Stephenson, John Gibson, William Herschel, Jean-François Millet, James Garfield, and Thomas Edward] Text Text
Falling in Love, with other essays on more exact branches of science (1889) [Essays on science] HTML and Text
What's Bred in the Bone (1890) [Novel] Text
The Great Taboo (1890) [Novel] Text
Recalled to Life (1891) [Novel] Text
Anglo-Saxon Britain (1891) [History] HTML and Text
Science in Arcady (1892) [Essays on science] HTML and Text
Michael's Crag (1893) [Novel] Text
Post-Prandial Philosophy (1893) [Light essays] Text
The British Barbarians (1895) [Science fiction novel] Text
The Woman Who Did (1895) [Novel] Text
An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay (1897) [Detective short stories] Text
Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose (1900) [Posthumous novel; final chapters completed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)] HTML and Text


Aubert de Gaspé, Philippe (1814-1841) [Romancier canadien] Encyclopédie canadienne Wikipedia (en anglais)

L'influence d'un livre (1837) [Roman] HTML et Texte


Bourinot, Sir John George (1837-1902) [Canadian historian and constitutional scholar] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography Canadian Encyclopedia

The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People (1881) [Historical essays] Text
Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 (1900) [History] Text
Lord Elgin (1903) [Biography] Text


Bruce, James, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine (1811-1863) [Governor General of the Province of Canada 1847-54] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography Canadian Encyclopedia

Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin (1872) [Historical essays] Text


Carr, Emily (1871-1945) [Canadian painter and writer] Wikipedia Canadian Encyclopedia

Klee Wyck (1941) [Memoirs] Text Text zipped
The Book of Small (1942) [Memoirs] Text Text zipped
The House of All Sorts (1944) [Memoirs] Text Text zipped


Cartier, Jacques (1491-1557) [Explorateur canadien] fr.wikipedia Dictionnaire biographique du Canada Encyclopédie canadienne

Voyage de J. Cartier au Canada: relation originale de Jacques Cartier (1545) [Histoire] HTML et Texte


Connor, Ralph, pen name of Rev. Charles W. Gordon (1860-1937) [Canadian clergyman and novelist] Wikipedia Canadian Encyclopedia

Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks (1898) [Novel] HTML and Text
The Sky Pilot: a Tale of the Foothills (1899) [Novel] HTML and Text
Michael McGrath, Postmaster (1900) [Novel] HTML and Text
The Prospector (1901) [Novel] Text
The Man from Glengarry: a Tale of the Ottawa (1901) [Novel] HTML and Text
Glengarry School Days: a Story of Early Days in Glengarry (1902) [Novel] HTML and Text
The Doctor: a Tale of the Rockies (1906) [Novel] HTML and Text
The Foreigner: a Tale of Saskatchewan (1909) [Novel] Text
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police: a Tale of the Macleod Trail (1912) [Novel] HTML and Text
The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail (1914) [Novel] HTML and Text
The Major (1919) [Novel] HTML and Text
The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land (1919) [Novel] HTML and Text
To Him That Hath: a Novel of the West of Today (1921) [Novel] HTML and Text
The Girl from Glengarry (1933) [Novel] HTML Text Text zipped


de la Mare, Walter (1873-1956) [English poet, novelist, and writer of stories] Wikipedia

Mr. Bumps and his Monkey (1942) [Novella for children] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped

Tales from Collected Stories for Children (1947)

De Mille, James (1833-1880) [Canadian classical scholar and novelist] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography Canadian Encyclopedia

Lost in the Fog (1871) [Novel] Text
Cord and Creese (1871) [Novel] Text
The American Baron (1872) [Novel] Text
The Living Link (1874) [Novel] Text
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) [Novel] HTML and Text


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] Text
The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales (1888) [Short stories] Text


Duncan, Sara Jeannette (1861-1922) [Canadian journalist and novelist] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography Canadian Encyclopedia

A Daughter of Today (1894) [Novel] Text
The story of Sonny Sahib (1894) [Novel] Text
A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') (1897) [Novel] HTML and Text
Hilda: A Story of Calcutta (1898) [Novel] HTML and Text
The Path of a Star (1899) [Novel] Text
The Pool in the Desert (1903) [Novel] Text
The Imperialist (1904) [Novel] Text


Grove, Frederick Philip (1879-1948) [Canadian novelist, poet, and essayist] Wikipedia Canadian Encyclopedia

Over Prairie Trails (1922) [Essays] Text
Settlers of the Marsh (1925) [Novel] HTML Text Text zipped
A Search for America (1927) [Autobiographical novel] HTML Text Text zipped
Our Daily Bread (1928) [Novel] HTML Text Text zipped
Fruits of the Earth (1933) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped with images Text Text zipped
The Master of the Mill (1944) [Novel] HTML Text Text zipped
Consider Her Ways (1947) [Novel] HTML Text Text zipped


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] Text Text
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Vol. 1 (1843) [Stories] Text
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Vol. 2 (1844) [Stories] Text
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete (1844) [Stories] Text
Nature and Human Nature (1844) [Stories] HTML and Text


Hémon, Louis (1880-1913) [Romancier canadien] fr.wikipedia Dictionnaire biographique du Canada Encyclopédie canadienne en.wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography Canadian Encyclopedia

Maria Chapdelaine (1913) [Roman] HTML et Texte
Maria Chapdelaine (1913) [Novel: translated (1921) into English by W. H. Blake (1861-1924)] Text


Johnson, Emily Pauline, Mohawk name Tekahionwake (1861-1913) [Canadian poet and writer] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography Canadian Encyclopedia

Legends of Vancouver (1911) [Stories] Text
Flint and Feather (1912) [Poetry; introduction by Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832-1914)] Text
The Moccasin Maker (1913) [Stories; introduction by Gilbert Parker (1862-1932), appreciation by Charles Mair (1838-1927)] Text
The Shagganappi (1913) [Stories; introduction by Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946)] Text


Kaye-Smith, Sheila (1887-1956) [English novelist and biographer] Wikipedia

Joanna Godden (1921) [Novel] HTML and Text
The End of the House of Alard (1923) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Joanna Godden Married and Other Stories (1926) [Short stories] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Susan Spray (1931) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Gallybird (1934) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Quartet in Heaven (1953) [Biographies of Caterina Fiesca Adorna, Cornelia Connelly, Isabella Rosa de Santa Maria de Flores, and Thérèse Martin] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
All the Books of My Life (1956) [Autobiography] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


Kirby, William (1817-1906) [Canadian novelist] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography Canadian Encyclopedia

The Golden Dog (1896) [Novel] Text


Lawrence, Gertrude (1896-1952) [Star of the West End and of Broadway] Wikipedia

A Star Danced (1945) [Autobiography] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


Leacock, Stephen (1869-1944) [Canadian economist and humorist] Wikipedia Canadian Encyclopedia

Literary Lapses (1910) [Humour] HTML and Text
Nonsense Novels (1911) [Humour] Text
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912) [Humour] Text
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (1914) [Humour] Text
The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada (1914; vol. 1 of Chronicles of Canada, edited by George M. Wrong [1860-1948] and H. H. Langton [1862-1953]) [History] Text
The Mariner of St Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier (1915; vol. 2 of Chronicles of Canada, edited by George M. Wrong [1860-1948] and H. H. Langton [1862-1953]) [History] Text
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy (1915) [Humour] Text
Further Foolishness (1916) [Humour] Text
Frenzied Fiction (1918) [Humour] Text
The Hohenzollerns in America (1919) [Humour] Text
Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels (1920) [Humour] HTML and Text
My Discovery of England (1922) [Humour] HTML and Text
Winnowed Wisdom (1926) [Humour] HTML Text Text zipped
Short Circuits (1928) [Humour] HTML Text Text zipped
The Pursuit of Knowledge: A Discussion of Freedom and Compulsion in Education (1934) [Essay] HTML Text Text zipped
My Remarkable Uncle and other Sketches (1942) [Humour] HTML Text Text zipped


McClung, Nellie (1873-1951) [Canadian social activist and novelist] Wikipedia Canadian Encyclopedia

Sowing Seeds in Danny (1908) [Novel] Text
The Black Creek Stopping-House and Other Stories (1912) [Novel] Text
The Next of Kin: Those who Wait and Wonder (1917) [Novel] HTML and Text
Three Times and Out (1918) [History: World War I memoir] HTML and Text
Purple Springs (1921) [Novel] Text


MacKenzie, James Bovell (1851-1919) [Canadian ethnographer] Ontario Court of Common Pleas (1884)

A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians (1882) [Ethnography and sociology] Text


Montgomery, L. M. (1874-1942) [Canadian novelist] Wikipedia Canadian Encyclopedia

Anne of Green Gables (1908) [Novel] Text Audio Audio
Anne of Avonlea (1909) [Novel] HTML and Text Audio
Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910) [Novel] Text
The Story Girl (1911) [Novel] Text
Chronicles of Avonlea (1912) [Short stories] Text
The Golden Road (1913) [Novel] Text
Anne of the Island (1915) [Novel] HTML and Text Audio
Anne's House of Dreams (1917) [Novel] Text
Rainbow Valley (1919) [Novel] Text
Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920) [Short stories] Text
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) [Novel] Text
Emily of New Moon (1923) [Novel] HTML Text Text zipped
Emily Climbs (1925) [Novel] HTML Text Text zipped
The Blue Castle (1926) [Novel] HTML Text Text zipped
Emily's Quest (1927) [Novel] HTML Text Text zipped
Magic for Marigold (1929) [Novel] HTML Text Text zipped
A Tangled Web (1931) [Novel] HTML Text Text zipped
Pat of Silver Bush (1933) [Novel] HTML Text Text zipped
Mistress Pat (1935) [Novel] HTML Text Text zipped
Anne of Windy Poplars (1936) [Novel] HTML Text Text zipped
Jane of Lantern Hill (1937) [Novel] HTML Text Text zipped
Anne of Ingleside (1939) [Novel] HTML Text Text zipped


Moodie, Susanna (1803-1885) [Canadian memoirist and novelist] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography Canadian Encyclopedia

Roughing It in the Bush (1852) [Memoirs] Text
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush (1853) [Memoirs] Text
Mark Hurdlestone: or, The Two Brothers (1853) [Novel] HTML and Text
The Monctons: vol. 1 (1853) [Novel] HTML and Text
George Leatrim (1875) [Novel] Text
Life in the Backwoods (1887) [Memoirs] Text


Packard, Frank Lucius (1877-1942) [Canadian mystery novelist] Wikipedia

The Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1917) [Mystery novel] HTML and Text
The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1919) [Mystery novel] Text
The Miracle Man (1914) [Novel] HTML and Text
The White Moll (1920) [Novel] Text


Parker, Sir Gilbert (1862-1932) [Canadian novelist and essayist] Wikipedia Canadian Encyclopedia

Pierre and his People (1892) [Novel] Text
Mrs. Falchion (1892) [Novel] Text
The Translation of a Savage (1893) [Novel] Text
The Trespasser (1893) [Novel] Text
The Trail of the Sword (1894) [Novel] Text
When Valmond Came to Pontiac (1895) [Novel] Text
A Lover's Diary (1896) [Novel] Text
The Pomp of the Lavilettes (1896) [Novel] Text
Romany of the Snows (1896) [Novel] Text
The Seats Of The Mighty (1896) [Novel] Text
There Is Sorrow On The Sea (1896) [Novel] Text
The Battle Of The Strong (1898) [Novel] Text
The Lane That Had No Turning (1900) [Novel] Text
Parables Of A Province (1900) [Novel] Text
The Right Of Way (1901) [Novel] Text
Donovan Pasha, And Some People Of Egypt (1902) [Novel] Text
The March Of The White Guard (1902) [Novel] Text
Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk (1904) [Novel] Text
The Weavers (1907) [Novel] Text
Embers (1909) [Poetry] Text
Northern Lights (1909) [Novel] Text
At The Sign Of The Eagle (1913, or earlier) [Novel] Text
John Enderby (1913, or earlier) [Novel] Text
Michel And Angele (1913, or earlier) [Novel] Text
The Judgment House (1913) [Novel] Text
You Never Know Your Luck (1914) [Novel] Text
The Money Master: being the curious history of Jean Jacques Barbille, his labours, his loves and his ladies (1915) [Novel] Text
The World For Sale (1916) [Novel] Text
Wild Youth (1919) [Novel] Text
No Defense (1920) [Novel] Text
Carnac's Folly (1922) [Novel] Text
The Power and the Glory (1925) [Novel] HTML Text Text zipped


Parkman, Francis (1823-1893) [US historian] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Pioneers of France in the New World (1865) [History] Text
The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century (1867) [History] Text
Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV (1877) [History] Text
Montcalm and Wolfe (1884) [History] Text


Richardson, John (1796-1852) [Canadian novelist, poet, and memoirist] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography Canadian Encyclopedia

Wacousta; or The Prophecy (1832) [Novel] Text (volume 1) Text (volume 2) Text (volume 3) Text (complete novel)
The Canadian Brothers; or, The Prophecy Fulfilled. A tale of the late American war. (1840) [Novel] Text (volume 1) Text (volume 2) Text (complete novel)
Hardscrabble; or, The Fall of Chicago. A Tale of Indian Warfare. (1850) [Novel] Text


Roberts, Sir Charles G. D. (1860-1943) [Canadian poet, novelist, and historian] Wikipedia Canadian Encyclopedia

In Divers Tones (1886) [Poems] Text
The Raid From Beauséjour; And How The Carter Boys Lifted The Mortgage (1894) [Novel] HTML and Text
Earth's Enigmas (1896) [Short Stories] HTML and Text
Children of the Wild (1922) [Novel] HTML and Text


Saunders, Margaret Marshall (1861-1947) [Canadian novelist] Wikipedia Canadian Encyclopedia

Beautiful Joe (1894) [Novel] Text Text Wikipedia


Scott-Moncrieff, Ann (1914-1943) [Scottish novelist]

Auntie Robbo (1941) [Novel: children and teenagers] HTML Text Text zipped


Strickland, Samuel (1804-1867) [Canadian memoirist] Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West. The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) (1853) [Memoir] Text


Sullivan, Alan (1868-1947) [Canadian journalist, poet, and novelist] Wikipedia

Under the Northern Lights (1926) [Novel] Text Text zipped


Tey, Josephine, pen name of Elizabeth Mackintosh (1896-1952) [Scottish novelist and playwright] Wikipedia

Miss Pym Disposes (1946) [Mystery novel] HTML Text Text zipped


Traill, Catharine Parr (1802-1899) [Canadian memoirist and novelist] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography Canadian Encyclopedia

The Backwoods of Canada (1836) [Letters] Text
Canadian Crusoes (1852) [Novel] Text
Lady Mary and her Nurse: or, A Peep into the Canadian Forest (1856) [Novel] Text
In the Forest: or, Pictures of Life and Scenery in the Woods of Canada (1881) [Novel] Text
Lost in the Backwoods: A Tale of the Canadian Forest (1882) [Novel] Text


Znosko-Borovsky, Eugene Alexandrovich (1884-1954) [Russian chess master] Wikipedia

The Middle Game in Chess, Third Edition (1938) [Chess treatise: translated into English by Julius Du Mont (1881-1956) Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped