OCTOBER 21 WAS A GOOD DAY FOR DEMOCRACY:
YOUR VOTE MAY HAVE SAVED CANADA'S PUBLIC DOMAIN !!
Thank you for voting in the federal election!
It is now much more likely that the "New NAFTA"
will be blocked, delayed, or amended.
The federal election has resulted in a minority government.
Such governments are good for democracy, since they prevent the
Prime Minister from doing whatever he feels like doing -- such as
handing over twenty years of the Canadian public domain to a
foreign tyrant. All three of the smaller parties which might become
partners in the next government have expressed concerns about
ratifying this toxic deal. We have specific messages for Canada's
three largest parties:
It's time for Justin Trudeau's Liberals to follow their party's principles,
and decline to ratify the current NAFTA proposal. This would be an action
worthy of the party that created Canada's Charter of Rights.
The Conservative Party successfully fought back when the European Union sought
to impose longer copyrights on Canada as part of their free trade agreement.
They earned their nation's thanks, and can earn these thanks again.
It would be ridiculous for the New Democratic Party to attack Canada's
public domain by extending copyrights. That would be favouring foreign
corporations over the people of Canada, and the rich over the poor.
We thank the Greens for their explicit opposition to copyright extensions.
And we encourage the Bloc Québécois to protect Quebec's cultural
heritage by blocking the copyright extensions.
All of our federal parties owe it to Canadians to make it clear they will
block Tr*mp's copyright extensions.
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2019/12/11:
OUR SEVENTH EBOOK BY ALDOUS HUXLEY IS A SCINTILLATING
COLLECTION OF ESSAYS FROM THE START OF HIS BRILLIANT CAREER !!
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EBOOKS BY ALDOUS HUXLEY UNTIL 2034 !!
Huxley, Aldous [Aldous Leonard] (1894-1963) [English novelist and essayist]
Wikipedia
On the Margin. Notes and Essays.
(1923)
[The first of Huxley's many essay collections. This initial volume
has twenty-seven essays on extremely diverse topics: Voltaire, various
English poets, Huxley's fellow essayist Lytton Strachey, Tibet...
"These short pieces are filled with wit and charm."
(John C. Farrar, The Bookman (U.S.), September 1923)]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #60866]
2019/12/08:
IN 1957, ALAN LE MAY FOLLOWED UP THE SEARCHERS WITH
ANOTHER CLASSIC WESTERN NOVEL, ALSO SET IN THE AMERICAN
SOUTHWEST !!
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EBOOKS BY ALAN LE MAY UNTIL 2035 !!
Le May, Alan (1899-1964)
[American novelist and screenwriter]
Wikipedia
The Unforgiven
(1957)
[Western novel, the basis for the John Huston movie of the same name
Wikipedia.
A lot of things happened during the American invasion of the southwest
in the nineteenth century. Conflict, yes, but also contact between
previously separate cultures. This famous novel follows the interactions
between the Zachary family and the Kiowa tribe
Wikipedia.
CAUTION: The novel contains language and situations
which some readers may find upsetting or offensive.]
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2019/12/04:
TODAY'S NEW AUTHOR IS SCREENPLAY WRITER AND
NOVELIST ALAN LE MAY, AND TODAY'S NEW EBOOK
IS HIS CLASSIC WESTERN NOVEL THE SEARCHERS !!
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IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY
EBOOKS BY ALAN LE MAY UNTIL 2035 !!
Le May, Alan (1899-1964)
[American novelist and screenwriter]
Wikipedia
The Searchers
(1954)
[Western novel, and the basis for one of the most famous
of all Western movies
Wikipedia,
directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne.
It is the time of the American invasion of the southwest,
and the Comanches have taken Debbie and Lucy Edwards hostage.
Will Ethan Edwards find his daughters?]
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2019/11/23:
TODAY'S EBOOK BY SINCLAIR LEWIS CREATED
A SENSATION WHEN IT WAS PUBLISHED -- AND REMAINS
FAMOUS TO THIS DAY !!
CANADA'S NEW PARLIAMENT MUST BLOCK TR*MP'S
"NEW NAFTA" -- FORCED ON CANADA BY A FOREIGN POWER,
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EBOOKS BY SINCLAIR LEWIS UNTIL 2022 !!
Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930]
Wikipedia
Nobelprize.org
Elmer Gantry
(1927)
Wikipedia
[Novel, examining the career of Elmer Gantry, a minister
who turns out to be all too guilty of various moral failings
which he preaches against: adultery, to start with.
It was the best selling American novel of 1927, and has had
a significant influence on the American evangelical movement
ever since its publication.]
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2019/11/10:
OUR FIRST EBOOK BY T. F. POWYS IS HIS MOST FAMOUS WORK:
A MYSTERIOUS TALE, WITH THEOLOGICAL OVERTONES, SET IN A SMALL
ENGLISH VILLAGE NAMED "FOLLY DOWN" !!
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EBOOKS BY T. F. POWYS UNTIL 2024.
Powys, T. F. [Theodore Francis] (1875-1953)
[English author]
Wikipedia
Mr. Weston's Good Wine
(1927)
Wikipedia
[Novel, with elements of theology. Mr Weston appears to be a
travelling wine merchant, who has just arrived in the small
village of Folly Down. But why does time suddenly seem to stop?
And why are such strange things suddenly happening?
"In this story of three startled hours of a November
night, a night of sudden apocalypse in the village
of Folly Down, Mr. T. F. Powys has produced what is
so far the most memorable of his tales."
(Hamish Miles, Saturday Review, 7 April 1928)]
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2019/11/04:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS A MYSTERY NOVEL BY MARGERY ALLINGHAM,
NO LESS -- AND IT MARKS THE FIRST APPEARANCE IN
LITERATURE OF HER FAMOUS SLEUTH, ALBERT CAMPION !!
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EBOOKS BY MARGERY ALLINGHAM UNTIL 2037.
Allingham, Margery [Youngman Carter, Margery Louise]
(1904-1966) [English mystery novelist]
Wikipedia
The Crime at Black Dudley
(1929)
Wikipedia
[Mystery novel: the first to feature Albert Campion
Wikipedia
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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2019/10/27:
OUR FIRST NOVEL BY LLOYD C. DOUGLAS WAS A MASSIVE
BESTSELLER, AND THE INSPIRATION FOR A FAMOUS FILM
ADAPTATION STARRING RICHARD BURTON !!
CANADA'S NEW PARLIAMENT MUST BLOCK TR*MP'S
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EBOOKS BY LLOYD C. DOUGLAS UNTIL 2022.
Douglas, Lloyd C. [Lloyd Cassel] (1877-1951)
[American clergyman and novelist]
Wikipedia
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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2019/10/19:
TODAY'S EBOOK, OUR FIRST BY CARSON McCULLERS IS,
VERY APPROPRIATELY, THE FIRST NOVEL SHE PUBLISHED --
IT ROCKETED HER TO INSTANT AND ENDURING FAME !!
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EBOOKS BY CARSON McCULLERS UNTIL 2038.
McCullers, Carson (1917-1967)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
(1940)
Wikipedia
[McCullers' first novel tells the story of John Singer,
a deaf-mute who lives in a town "in the middle of the deep South",
and the influence he exercises on his friends. It became
an instant classic: "this is an extraordinary novel to have
been written by a young woman of twenty-two; but the more
important fact is that it is an extraordinary novel in its
own right, considerations of authorship apart."
(Ben Ray Redman, Saturday Review, 8 June 1940)
CAUTION: As might be expected in a novel of this period
set in the American South, there is language which some
might find offensive.]
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2019/10/14:
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! FOR TODAY'S EBOOK, WE'VE CHOSEN
A CLASSIC MYSTERY NOVEL BY MARGERY ALLINGHAM !!
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EBOOKS BY MARGERY ALLINGHAM UNTIL 2037.
Allingham, Margery [Youngman Carter, Margery Louise]
(1904-1966) [English mystery novelist]
Wikipedia
Police at the Funeral
(1931)
Wikipedia
[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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2019/10/01:
HAPPY OCTOBER! WE BEGIN THE MONTH WITH AN EBOOK BY T. H. WHITE --
BUT ONE THAT'S VERY DIFFERENT FROM "THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING". IT'S A LIGHT,
SATIRICAL NOVEL ABOUT A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO SPEND THE WINTER NOT IN THEIR
CHILLY NATIVE COUNTRIES, BUT IN AN ITALIAN HOTEL !!
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STAND UP FOR CANADA !!
White, T. H. [Terence Hanbury] (1906-1964)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
They Winter Abroad
(1932)
[Novel, published by White under the pseudonym "James Aston".
A group of people, mostly English, spend the winter not in their native
country but in Italy -- specifically, the Hotel Santo Biagio in Positano.
Their personalities vary, as do their reasons for being there, giving
our novelist ample scope for satire.]
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2019/09/25:
TODAY'S NOVEL CAUSED A SENSATION WHEN IT WAS PUBLISHED
IN 1957 -- IT IS A NOVEL ABOUT A PLANTATION IN THE
AMERICAN SOUTH AND THE SLAVE TRADE THAT SUSTAINED IT !!
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EBOOKS BY KYLE ONSTOTT UNTIL 2037.
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Onstott, Kyle (1887-1966) [American novelist]
Wikipedia
Mandingo
(1957)
Wikipedia
[Novel about the antebellum American South. "In the early 1830s",
our author tells us, "the economy of the Southern States of the
U.S.A. was largely based on trading in human flesh." And the
novel, set on an Alabama plantation, is about the realities of
this trading in human flesh. CAUTION: Unavoidably, given
its subject matter, this novel contains language and situations
which some readers may find upsetting or offensive.]
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2019/09/22:
TODAY, A NEW AUTHOR -- THE IRISH SATIRICAL NOVELIST FLANN O'BRIEN !!
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O'Brien, Flann [O'Nolan, Brian] (1911-1966)
[Irish journalist and novelist]
Wikipedia
The Dalkey Archive
(1964)
Wikipedia
[Satirical novel. "Dalkey is a little town maybe twelve miles south of Dublin..."
says our novelist, "It is an unlikely town, huddled, quiet, pretending to be asleep."
But Dalkey is no ordinary town, and this is no ordinary novel. Its main character
is a scientist named De Selby ("a true scientist or just demented?"), but it also
includes St Augustine, James Joyce, and others!]
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2019/09/15:
OUR FIRST TITLE BY THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC NOVELIST PAMELA WYNNE !!
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Wynne, Pamela [Scott (née Watson), Winifred Mary] (1879-1959)
[English romantic novelist]
Wikipedia
Bracken Turning Brown
(1934)
[Romantic novel, with some nice touches of humour. Sir Pelham Brooke,
a famous but overworked barrister, is instructed by his physician to
take a year's vacation, "during which time you must do nothing at all."
So he moves to a village in the Lake District, which turns out not to be
nearly as quiet and uneventful a place as he had imagined.]
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2019/09/09:
A NOVEL BY BOOTH TARKINGTON...
WHICH INSPIRED A VERY FAMOUS FILM ADAPTATION
STARRING JUDY GARLAND !!
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STAND UP FOR CANADA !!
Tarkington, Booth [Newton Booth] (1869-1946)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
Thomas Mallon (The Atlantic, May 2004)
Presenting Lily Mars
(1933)
[Novel, telling the story of playwright Owen Gilbert and the aspiring
actress Lily Mars, who are from the same town in the central United
States. "No, this is decidedly not the Great Novel of the American
Theatre; but it is an exceptionally shrewd side-glance at theatrical
life, wherein the preposterous usually happens."
(William Rose Benét, Saturday Review, 19 August 1933).
The novel inspired the 1943 Judy Garland movie of the same name
Wikipedia.]
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2019/09/02:
TO CELEBRATE LABOUR DAY, A NOVEL BY JAMES HILTON !!
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Hilton, James (1900-1954) [English novelist]
Wikipedia
Nothing So Strange
(1947)
[Novel, set in the 1940s, the era of military conflict and of
breakthroughs in atomic physics. Dr. Mark Bradley, a young
mathematician, has been involved in a plane crash, from which
he has not fully recovered. Just the sort of situation to
interest Jane Waring, an enterprising young English journalist!]
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2019/08/28:
A LATE AND EXCELLENT NOVEL BY SINCLAIR LEWIS !!
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EBOOKS BY SINCLAIR LEWIS UNTIL 2022.
STAND UP FOR CANADA !!
Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930]
Wikipedia
Nobelprize.org
Cass Timberlane. A Novel of Husbands and Wives.
(1945)
[Novel. Why do people get married, and why do people divorce?
Sinclair Lewis examines this in the context of a Minnesota town
named Grand Republic, entertaining his readers and instructing
us in the way things really work, as only he can do.]
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2019/08/18:
A CLASSIC ACTION NOVEL BY "MANNING COLES" -- SET IN
EUROPE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, AND FEATURING
BRITISH AGENT 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
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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2019/08/12:
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD'S MOST FAMOUS NOVEL IS UNDOUBTEDLY
THE GREAT GATSBY -- WHICH IS TODAY'S EBOOK !!
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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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2019/08/04:
IN MOST OF CANADA, MONDAY IS A HOLIDAY. WHETHER IT'S
LONG OR NOT, WE HOPE YOU'RE ENJOYING A FINE SUMMER
WEEKEND -- HERE'S AN EBOOK BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD,
NO LESS, TO MAKE IT THAT MUCH MORE ENJOYABLE !!
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Francis Scott Key] (1896-1940)
[American novelist and essayist]
Wikipedia
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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2019/07/23:
EVELYN WAUGH SERVED IN VARIOUS THEATRES OF THE SECOND WORLD
WAR -- AND USED HIS EXPERIENCES TO CREATE HIS FAMOUS
WAR NOVELS !!
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Waugh, Evelyn [Arthur Evelyn St John] (1903-1966)
[English novelist, biographer, artist, and travel writer]
Wikipedia
Officers and Gentlemen
(1955)
Wikipedia
[War novel, second of the three novels in the Sword of Honour trilogy
Wikipedia.
Our hero, Guy Crouchback, trains as a commando, and is sent
to the Eastern Mediterranean, where the situation is chaotic.
"'Officers and Gentlemen' is deft and amusing, sober and appalling.
And it offers, incidentally, one of the most graceful salutes of many
seasons to the flexibility of the English language as an instrument
of expression." (James Gray, Saturday Review, 9 July 1955)]
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2019/07/12:
READING FOR A SUMMER WEEKEND? MAY WE SUGGEST THIS
FINE NOVEL OF ESPIONAGE -- BY "MANNING COLES" !!
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STAND UP FOR CANADA !!
Coles, Manning [pseudonym of English author Adelaide Frances Oke Manning
(1891-1959) and British intelligence agent Cyril Henry Coles (1899-1965)]
Wikipedia
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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2019/07/03:
WE HOPE YOU ENJOYED CANADA DAY! WHY NOT CONTINUE THE CELEBRATION BY READING
A CLASSIC CANADIAN NOVEL BY RALPH ALLEN !!
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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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2019/06/28:
HAPPY CANADA DAY WEEKEND -- THE TWELFTH ANNIVERSARY
OF PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA! NOT INCIDENTALLY, THANK YOU
FOR YOUR SUPPORT, AND FOR YOUR TAKING PART IN THE FIGHT
AGAINST COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS!
TODAY'S EBOOK IS TYPICAL OF THE HIGH-QUALITY TITLES WE
LIKE TO PRESENT: IT'S A FAMOUS LATE NOVEL BY EVELYN
WAUGH !!
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Waugh, Evelyn [Arthur Evelyn St John] (1903-1966)
[English novelist, biographer, artist, and travel writer]
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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
(1957)
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[Novel, apparently inspired by Waugh's own experiences.
Gilbert Pinfold is a successful novelist: "at the age of fifty,
he had written a dozen books all of which were still bought and read."
But Pinfold has his challenges, and his wife one day remarks,
"Either you're drinking too much or doping too much, or both."
All too accurately! As becomes clear when Pinfold goes on a
long sea voyage and starts to have hallucinations.]
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2019/06/20:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS A CLASSIC NOVEL BY EVELYN WAUGH !!
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2037 !!
Waugh, Evelyn [Arthur Evelyn St John] (1903-1966)
[English novelist, biographer, artist, and travel writer]
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A Handful of Dust
(1934)
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[Novel, satirical, but not purely satirical. Our hero,
Anthony Last, is from a wealthy background and finds himself
entangled in a difficult situation when his marriage breaks
down. There ensues a variety of events: Anthony eventually
finds himself in an isolated part of South America. The novel
has a high reputation: "surely Mr. Waugh's best book, and one
of the most distinguished novels of the century."
(Frank Kermode, Encounter, November 1960)]
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2019/06/10:
OUR SECOND EBOOK BY THE SCOTTISH POET AND TRANSLATOR
EDWIN MUIR IS HIS WONDERFUL 1954 AUTOBIOGRAPHY !!
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2030 !!
Muir, Edwin (1887-1959) [Scottish (Orcadian) poet and translator]
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An Autobiography
(1954)
[Muir's revised version of his 1940 autobiography.
The Story and the Fable, extended to cover
the events of the following years. Muir's life was
a fascinating one: born in a remote corner of the
Orkney Islands, where life had changed little over
the centuries, as an adult he found himself at the
centre of cosmopolitan European culture.]
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2019/05/29:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS THE LAST BOOTH TARKINGTON NOVEL
PUBLISHED DURING HIS LIFETIME !!
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Tarkington, Booth [Newton Booth] (1869-1946)
[American novelist]
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Thomas Mallon (The Atlantic, May 2004)
Image of Josephine
(1945)
[Novel. The year is 1932; our heroine, Josephine Oaklin,
is fourteen years of age, intelligent, sure of herself,
and from a rich family. Clearly her early adulthood will
be full of incident. Which as the novel proceeds turns
out to be absolutely the case!]
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2019/05/25:
OUR FOURTH MYSTERY/SPY NOVEL FROM "MANNING COLES", SET JUST BEFORE THE
SECOND WORLD WAR, AND FEATURING TOMMY HAMBLEDON OF BRITISH INTELLIGENCE !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY MANNING COLES UNTIL
2036 !!
Coles, Manning [pseudonym of English author Adelaide Frances Oke Manning
(1891-1959) and British intelligence agent Cyril Henry Coles (1899-1965)]
Wikipedia
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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2019/05/20:
TO END VICTORIA DAY WEEKEND, A NOVEL BY JAMES HILTON
OF "MR. CHIPS" FAME -- PERFECT SUMMER READING !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY JAMES HILTON UNTIL
2025 !!
Hilton, James (1900-1954) [English novelist]
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So Well Remembered
(1945)
[Novel, following the life of George Boswell, councillor and then mayor
of Browdley, formerly a village but now a fairly substantial manufacturing
city in Lancashire. The Depression and then the Second World War bring
their various challenges; as does Boswell's not entirely stable marriage.
England today is greatly changed from when this novel was written: it
may bring special pleasure to those who admire the best qualities of
England as it formerly was, before the rancours of the present day.]
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2019/05/16: AN ENDURINGLY FAMOUS NOVEL THAT WON A PULITZER PRIZE -- WHAT A WAY
FOR EDNA FERBER OF "SHOW BOAT" FAME TO JOIN OUR CATALOGUE !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY EDNA FERBER UNTIL
2039 !!
Ferber, Edna (1885-1968)
[American novelist and playwright]
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So Big
(1924)
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[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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2019/05/10: A MAGNIFICENT NOVEL, OUR FIRST BY LOUIS GOLDING,
PUBLISHED IN 1939, ABOUT WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN GERMANY !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY LOUIS GOLDING UNTIL
2029 !!
Golding, Louis (1895-1958)
[English novelist]
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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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2019/05/01:
IT'S MAY DAY -- WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! AGAINST
(1) COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS,
(2) FOREIGN TYRANTS WHO TRY TO IMPOSE THEM, AND
(3) CANADIAN GOVERNMENTS THAT ACTUALLY ALLOW
A FOREIGN POWER TO BULLY THEM INTO A SO-CALLED "TRADE AGREEMENT"
THAT DICTATES CANADIAN COPYRIGHT LAWS... AND MUCH ELSE
APPARENTLY WE CANADIANS ARE NOW SUBJECTS OF THAT FOREIGN POWER:
WHY BOTHER HOLDING ELECTIONS?
BUT IN FACT THERE IS A FEDERAL ELECTION THIS FALL -- LET'S MAKE IT COUNT!
IF A PARTY CONTACTS YOU,
SAY NO VOTE UNLESS YOU JUNK THE "USMCA"!
ALL WE ASK IS FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE -- WHAT COULD BE EASIER OR FAIRER?
(Oh yes, we have an ebook to present today, and a very special one -- our second
science fiction classic by Olaf Stapledon !!)
Stapledon, Olaf [William Olaf] (1886-1950)
[Philosopher and science fiction novelist]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Odd John. A Story Between Jest And Earnest.
(1935)
Wikipedia
[Science fiction novel. John Wainwright had superhuman ("supernormal") powers:
"at eighteen, when he still looked a young boy, he founded his preposterous colony
in the South Seas, and... at twenty-three, in appearance but little altered,
he outwitted the six warships that six Great Powers had sent to seize him."
And there's much more to tell (or read). "Mr. Stapledon is not a prolific writer,
but when he produces a book, it is something to make you sit up and take notice."
(C. A. Brandt, Amazing Stories, April 1937).]
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2019/04/25:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS OUR FIRST BY THE ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER
AND SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR OLAF STAPLEDON !!
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Stapledon, Olaf [William Olaf] (1886-1950)
[Philosopher and science fiction novelist]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Sirius. A Fantasy of Love and Discord.
(1944)
Wikipedia
[A science fiction novel to remember. Sheep dogs are highly
intelligent, but Sirius, bred by a famous scientist and born
in North Wales, is exceptional: his intelligence is absolutely
equal to that of humans. This does not mean that he is fully
human in his thoughts. Nor does it mean that his life will be
straightforward.]
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2019/04/18:
HAPPY EASTER TO OUR READERS! LOOKING FOR A GOOD BOOK FOR THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND?
WE SUGGEST EVELYN WAUGH'S EFFERVESCENT 1938 SATIRE "SCOOP", ABOUT THE MISADVENTURES
OF A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY EVELYN WAUGH UNTIL
2037 !!
Waugh, Evelyn [Arthur Evelyn St John] (1903-1966)
[English novelist, biographer, artist, and travel writer]
Wikipedia
Scoop
(1964 version of the 1938 original
edition, with a new preface)
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Ann Pasternak Slater, Guardian, 25 Oct 2003
[The classic satirical novel about a newspaper columnist named William Boot, who lives
deep in the English countryside and writes nature columns for a London newspaper,
the Daily Beast. Unexpectedly, he is sent to Africa as a war reporter.
The novel draws on Waugh's own experience as a war correspondent: "I had no talent
for this work", he writes in his 1964 preface, "but I joyfully studied the
eccentricities and excesses of my colleagues.... the description of life
among the journalists in Jacksonburg is very close to Addis Ababa in 1935."]
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2019/04/03:
BOOTH TARKINGTON SEEMS TO HAVE HAD PERPETUAL YOUTH: HE WROTE
WONDERFUL NOVELS THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER, ADAPTING MARVELLOUSLY TO THE
SOCIAL CHANGES BROUGHT BY EACH NEW DECADE. TODAY WE PRESENT A NOVEL
FROM 1941 -- WHEN TARKINGTON WAS IN HIS SEVENTIES, AND OTHER
BOOKS STILL LAY AHEAD OF HIM !!
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Tarkington, Booth [Newton Booth] (1869-1946)
[American novelist]
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Thomas Mallon (The Atlantic, May 2004)
The Fighting Littles
(1941)
[Novel. Ripley and Wilma Little have been happily married for some
years: "There couldn't easily have been a jollier family when the
children were little." But of course things are not so easy now
that the Depression has arrived, though the Littles could hardly be called poor.
And people do change...]
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2019/03/27:
TODAY, A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL FROM A NEW AUTHOR:
NEW YORK'S ARTHUR LEO ZAGAT !!
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Zagat, Arthur Leo (1896-1949)
[American lawyer and pulp author]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Drink We Deep
(1937)
[Science fiction novel, told from the viewpoint of various characters.
Earth has many inhabitants, but not all of them live on the planet's
surface. Hugh Lambert, a young American explorer with a classy social
background and an enterprising spirit, discovers this and much more!]
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2019/03/24: A POLITICAL THRILLER BY PAT FRANK !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY PAT FRANK UNTIL
2035 !!
Frank, Pat [Frank, Harry Hart] (1907-1964)
[American journalist and novelist]
Wikipedia
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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2019/03/16:
TODAY'S MEMOIR BY BOOTH TARKINGTON IS NOT AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY,
BUT A MARVELLOUSLY WRITTEN AND DECIDEDLY SCEPTICAL ACCOUNT OF HOW
THE U.S. HAD BEEN AFFECTED DURING TARKINGTON'S LIFETIME BY THE ADVENT
OF MASS INDUSTRIALIZATION AND MORE PARTICULARLY OF THE AUTOMOBILE !!
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Tarkington, Booth [Newton Booth] (1869-1946)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
Thomas Mallon (The Atlantic, May 2004)
The World Does Move
(1928)
[A first-hand account of the effect on the U.S. of the many facets of
mass industrialization: electric lighting for example, skyscrapers,
the airplane, and most particularly the automobile. He had personally
witnessed these huge changes, but doesn't really praise them: instead,
he foresees the risks they might pose to the environment and to daily
life. In other words, this book from 1928 seems curiously of our time.]
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2019/03/09:
OUR FOURTH NOVEL BY JAMES HILTON IS FAMOUS
IN ITS OWN RIGHT, AND WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR A CLASSIC FILM !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY JAMES HILTON UNTIL
2025 !!
Hilton, James (1900-1954) [English novelist]
Wikipedia
Random Harvest
(1941)
Wikipedia
[Novel, telling the story of Charles Rainier from the end of
the First World War to the beginning of the Second: the memory
loss Rainier had suffered during the earlier war plays a major
role in the novel. The book was a gigantic success, and inspired
(with some plot changes) Mervyn LeRoy's celebrated 1942 film
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starring Ronald Colman and Greer Garson.]
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2019/03/04:
IT WAS 1941, AND EVELYN WAUGH WAS IN THE MILITARY, BUT BETWEEN POSTINGS.
WHAT WAS A NOVELIST TO DO? WRITE A SHORT MASTERPIECE, OF COURSE !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY EVELYN WAUGH UNTIL
2037 !!
Waugh, Evelyn [Arthur Evelyn St John] (1903-1966)
[English novelist, biographer, artist, and travel writer]
Wikipedia
Put Out More Flags
(1967 version of the 1942 original
edition, with a new preface)
Wikipedia
[Satirical novel, relatively short, set during the Phoney War of 1939-1940
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when Britain and Germany were formally at war, but in practice
not a great deal was happening. This situation was an unlikely
source of comic inspiration for Waugh, who made the novel a
continuation of his satirical novels of the thirties, featuring
some favourite characters in a new and unexpected set of circumstances.]
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2019/02/26: BESTSELLING AUTHOR LOUIS BROMFIELD HAD A MAGIC TOUCH,
AND WAS DEFINITELY A SUCCESS STORY IN VARIOUS QUITE DIFFERENT WAYS.
IT WAS ONLY APPROPRIATE THAT HE WOULD WRITE A NOVEL ABOUT "THE MAN
WHO HAD EVERYTHING" !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY LOUIS BROMFIELD UNTIL
2027 !!
Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956)
[American novelist, journalist, and organic farmer]
Wikipedia
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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2019/02/20:
WE'RE DELIGHTED TO WELCOME TO OUR CATALOGUE THE LEGENDARY
SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR DAVID LINDSAY !!
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Lindsay, David (1876-1945)
[British science fiction author]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Haunted Woman
(1922)
Wikipedia
[Novel. Marshall Stokes, an insurance underwriter, is engaged
to Isbel [yes, this is the spelling] Loment. The pair visit
Runhill Court, in Sussex. The house is an Elizabethan manor,
on a property dating back to the sixth century. Any house of
this age will be of interest, particularly if it has mysterious
runes (Runhill means "rune hill"). And such turns out to be the
case: the house has a strange staircase, leading to three very
strange rooms...]
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2019/02/14:
WE HOPE YOU'VE BEEN HAVING A VERY HAPPY VALENTINE'S
DAY! CHOCOLATES AND FLOWERS ARE A LITTLE BEYOND OUR
SCOPE, BUT WE CAN OFFER YOU AN INCISIVE AND ENTERTAINING
NOVEL BY SINCLAIR LEWIS !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY SINCLAIR LEWIS UNTIL
2022 !!
Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930]
Wikipedia
Nobelprize.org
Gideon Planish
(1943)
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[Novel. Fundraising is everywhere these days, but it is
hardly new. Meet Gideon Planish, expert at what today
would be called networking, putting his considerable
skills at the service of various organizations, many of
them educational, while paying close attention to his
own ascent in society.]
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2019/02/06:
IN 1945 EVELYN WAUGH SURPRISED THE WORLD WITH HIS
NEW NOVEL, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED -- A DEPARTURE
FROM HIS EARLIER SATIRES, AND A HUGE BESTSELLER !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY EVELYN WAUGH UNTIL
2037 !!
Waugh, Evelyn [Arthur Evelyn St John] (1903-1966)
[English novelist, biographer, artist, and travel writer]
Wikipedia
Brideshead Revisited.
The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder.
(1945 original version)
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[Waugh's most famous novel, telling the story of the
relationship between Captain Charles Ryder, his fellow
Oxford student Sebastian Flyte and Sebastian's family:
wealthy, troubled, and devoutly Roman Catholic. The basis
for the famous 1981 television adaptation in eleven episodes
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2019/01/30:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS BOOTH TARKINGTON'S FINAL NOVEL -- WITH AN
ILLUMINATING INTRODUCTION BY SUSANAH TARKINGTON !!
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Tarkington, Booth [Newton Booth] (1869-1946)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
Thomas Mallon (The Atlantic, May 2004)
The Show Piece
(1947)
[Booth Tarkington's final novel, published posthumously and with a
fine introduction by his widow, Susanah Tarkington
(1871-1966). She explains that she had considered whether or
not the novel should be published, and decided that it should: it was not
quite complete, but Tarkington "had found occasion to dictate the synopsis
of the ending as he saw it would be, and he had left a few dictated notes."
The novel is about Irvie Pease, who is born into wealth, graduates from
Princeton, and is at all times entirely centred on himself. Naturally this
behaviour has an effect on those around him.]
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2019/01/23:
TODAY, OUR FIRST EBOOK BY ANTHONY BOUCHER, THE FAMOUS
SCIENCE FICTION AND MYSTERY AUTHOR. HE ENTERED THE CANADIAN
PUBLIC DOMAIN ON JANUARY 1ST! THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO
REASON TO DELAY THIS EVENT (AND THIS EBOOK) BY TWENTY
YEARS -- BLOCK THE USMCA !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY ANTHONY BOUCHER UNTIL
2039 !!
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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2019/01/20:
THE LATEST ADDITION TO OUR BOOTH TARKINGTON COLLECTION
IS A VIVID AND ENTERTAINING ACCOUNT OF THE COMPLEX SOCIAL LIFE
FOUND WITHIN AN APARTMENT BUILDING -- NAMELY, "THE LORENZO" !!
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Tarkington, Booth [Newton Booth] (1869-1946)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
Thomas Mallon (The Atlantic, May 2004)
The Lorenzo Bunch
(1936)
[Novel. The Lorenzo is an apartment building, and the
"Lorenzo bunch" lives on the top floor of that building.
"The bunch preferred the top, feeling themselves there
in more ways than one." This combination of isolation
and close contact naturally encourages social intrigue.
"As experience accumulates, the hand and eye grow surer,
the ear more certain, and his handling of his medium more
facile.... No one of our times has equalled Mr. Tarkington
in the portrayal of contemporary life."
(John W. Thomason, Jr., The American Mercury, August 1936)]
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2019/01/17:
EVELYN WAUGH'S SECOND NOVEL IS AN ENDURING SATIRICAL CLASSIC
-- WE'RE DELIGHTED TO BE ADDING IT TO OUR CATALOGUE !!
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Waugh, Evelyn [Arthur Evelyn St John] (1903-1966)
[English novelist, biographer, artist, and travel writer]
Wikipedia
Vile Bodies
(1965 version of the 1930 original
edition, with a new preface)
Wikipedia
[Waugh's second novel, a brilliant satire of life among London's
young and fashionable, a worthy successor to Decline and Fall,
and Waugh's first commercial success. It is not as uniformly
lighthearted as the earlier book, which some may take as a sign of the
novelist's maturing in the interim. In his 1965 preface, Waugh remarks
on the change in tone part way through the novel, caused, he believed
by a "sharp disturbance" in his life while it was being written:
presumably his divorce in late 1929.]
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2019/01/08:
A VERY FINE LATE NOVEL BY BOOTH TARKINGTON!
THE SUBJECT: WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WEALTHY WHEN THEY'RE NO LONGER
WEALTHY? AFTER THE CRASH OF 1929, FOR EXAMPLE !!
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Tarkington, Booth [Newton Booth] (1869-1946)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
Thomas Mallon (The Atlantic, May 2004)
The Heritage of Hatcher Ide
(1941)
[Novel, written after the onset of the Great Depression.
What happens if you are from a wealthy family that is
suddenly not so wealthy, you have just graduated from
college and your previously brilliant prospects seem
to be vanishing before your eyes?
"Half a man, half adolescent, young Hatcher bungles his
way through the plot to a hopeful if not a happy ending.
It is a comedy of manners, a field which is Mr. Tarkington's
favorite, all of it skillfully and much of it beautifully told....
and all this is done in a manner which is beyond the power of
any other living novelist."
(J. P. Marquand, Saturday Review, 1 March 1941)]
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2019/01/05:
OUR FIRST EBOOK OF THE NEW YEAR IS SINCLAIR LEWIS'S
FINAL NOVEL -- SET IN FLORENCE !!
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Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930]
Wikipedia
Nobelprize.org
World So Wide
(1951)
[Lewis's last novel, published posthumously.
Hayden Chart, an architect from Colorado, moves to Florence,
and deals with the challenges that inevitably come to those
who arrive in a new country. There he meets "a retired American
automobile-manufacturer... named Samuel Dodsworth." Yes, it's
the hero of Lewis's 1929 novel Dodsworth, available from
Project Gutenberg Canada! Anyway, while in Florence he meets not
one but two women, both of them American expatriates, one quite well
integrated into Europe, the other one newly arrived. At this point
things become complicated!]
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2019/01/01:
START 2019 WITH A BANG --
EMAIL YOUR MP
AND SAY,
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HERE'S A SAMPLE TO USE: FEEL FREE TO MODIFY !!
"Block the USMCA's appalling copyright extensions,
forced on us by a foreign country and immensely harmful to Canada.
Preserving Canada's public domain is critical to our country's
cultural heritage, preventing works from being lost or forgotten.
I personally read public domain ebooks, which would not be available
if they were still under copyright. For me, copyright extensions
are an attack on myself and all other Canadians. This should
matter to you and your party, particularly in an election year."
2018/12/27:
EXCELLENT HOLIDAY READING: STORIES BY DYLAN THOMAS
ABOUT GROWING UP IN WALES !!
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2024 !!
Thomas, Dylan [Dylan Marlais] (1914-1953)
[Welsh poet, writer of stories, and playwright]
Wikipedia
BBC Wales
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
(1940)
Wikipedia
[Ten vividly written stories, based on Thomas's childhood
and early youth in Swansea. If you liked A Child's Christmas
in Wales, we think you'll also like these famous stories.]
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2018/12/24:
OUR CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO YOU: MARVELLOUS LIGHT READING FROM BOOTH TARKINGTON!
YOUR CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO US (IF YOU'RE SO MINDED):
AN EMAIL TO YOUR MP TO SAY:
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Tarkington, Booth [Newton Booth] (1869-1946)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
Thomas Mallon (The Atlantic, May 2004)
Rumbin Galleries
(1937)
[Novel about a Manhattan art gallery. It's the middle of the Depression,
and Howard Cattlet, just out of college, needs a job. He doesn't know much
about art, but he has a nice appearance and an attractive low-key personality.
Is this enough for a career in the art market?]
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2018/12/20:
WIR PRÄSENTIEREN IHNEN... RICARDA HUCH !!
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Huch, Ricarda [Ricarda Octavia] (1864-1947)
[German historian / historienne allemande]
Wikipedia
fr.wikipedia
de.wikipedia
Frühling in der Schweiz
(1938)
["Jugenderinnerungen von Ricarda Huch":
autobiographical essay in German / essai autobiographique
en allemand. Aus Jena in den späten 30er Jahren blickt Ricarda Huch
in diesen Jugenderinnerungen auf ihre Zeit in der Schweiz kurz vor der
Jahrhundertwende zurück. Nach ihrer Promotion an der Universität Zürich
hatte sie dort zunächst als Bibliothekarin, später als Lehrkraft gearbeitet
und dabei erste Versuche als Schriftstellerin gewagt. Die Liebe zur Schweiz
("deutscher als Deutschland"), der Landschaft, den Menschen und der Gesellschaft,
prägten sie ein Leben lang.]
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2018/12/18:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS THE CLASSIC NEW MEXICO NOVEL
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP --
OUR SECOND EBOOK BY WILLA CATHER, HUGELY SUCCESSFUL
WHEN PUBLISHED, AND AN ENDURING CLASSIC !!
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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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2018/12/14:
AN ACTION NOVEL BY DORNFORD YATES, FEATURING RICHARD CHANDOS !!
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2031 !!
Yates, Dornford [Mercer, Cecil William] (1885-1960)
[English barrister and novelist]
Wikipedia
An Eye for a Tooth
(1943)
[Action novel, featuring Richard Chandos. The story starts with
a mysterious death in the Austrian Alps, and... well, that should
be enough to get you reading!]
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2018/12/11:
THIS YEAR SAW JOHN MASEFIELD ENTER THE CANADIAN PUBLIC DOMAIN.
HE WAS A FAMOUS POET, BUT NO SLOUCH AS A NOVELIST -- AND OUR
FIRST MASEFIELD EBOOK IS AN EARLY AND ACCOMPLISHED NOVEL, SET
IN ENGLAND AND AFRICA !!
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Masefield, John (1878-1967)
[English poet, novelist, and playwright]
Wikipedia
Multitude and Solitude
(1909)
[Novel. Our hero, Roger Naldrett, is a London playwright.
But after an unsuccessful production, he leaves London for
Africa, to help in the fight against sleeping sickness
Wikipedia.
"One does not need to be a lover of Masefield's poetry in order
to enjoy Multitude and Solitude: to enjoy it, one needs
only to care for clean construction, clear narrative, and intense
style in fiction." (North American Review, December 1916)]
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[PGUS #58436]
2018/12/07:
A NOVEL BY DORNFORD YATES, SET IN AUSTRIA !!
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Yates, Dornford [Mercer, Cecil William] (1885-1960)
[English barrister and novelist]
Wikipedia
Storm Music
(1934)
[Action novel, set in Austria: it involves murder, jewels,
and, in the midst of all of this, a love story.]
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2018/11/28:
A HISTORICAL NOVEL BY JOHN BUCHAN
-- THE LAST ONE HE WROTE !!
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Buchan, John [first Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield] (1875-1940)
[Scottish novelist; Governor General of Canada 1935-1940]
Wikipedia
Queens University Archives
The Free Fishers
(1934)
Wikipedia
[Historical novel, Buchan's last. Anthony Lammas, a young
Professor of Logic and Rhetoric at the University of St Andrews
Wikipedia,
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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2018/11/23:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS FROM P. C. WREN, AUTHOR OF SOME
VERY FAMOUS FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION NOVELS. BUT TODAY'S
NOVEL TAKES PLACE NOT IN NORTH AFRICA, BUT IN RURAL ENGLAND !!
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Wren, P. C. [Percival Christopher] (1885-1941)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Cardboard Castle
(1938)
[Novel, set not in North Africa, but in "the loveliest part
of the most beautiful county in England", at Calderton House,
where Lady Calderton lives. She lives alone, for she is a
widow -- or is she?]
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2018/11/18:
OUR SECOND NOVEL BY BOOTH TARKINGTON IS SET IN HIS NATIVE MIDWEST !!
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Tarkington, Booth [Newton Booth] (1869-1946)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
Thomas Mallon (The Atlantic, May 2004)
The Midlander
(1923)
[Novel about the American Midland, which today is called the Midwest.
Tarkington was from Indianapolis, and knew what he was talking about!
His cast is a balanced one: four young adults and, most memorably,
grandmother Savage, still vigorous and indeed fearsome in her nineties.
Tarkington takes a dim view of the industrialization of the Midwest,
particularly the impact of the automobile.]
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2018/11/15:
LET US INTRODUCE YOU TO BOOTH TARKINGTON, WHO ENTERS OUR CATALOGUE TODAY.
HE CERTAINLY DESERVED THE ENORMOUS REPUTATION HE HAD DURING HIS LIFETIME -- AS
TODAY'S NOVEL SHOWS !!
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Tarkington, Booth [Newton Booth] (1869-1946)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
Thomas Mallon (The Atlantic, May 2004)
Claire Ambler
(1928)
[Novel. We are in the nineteen twenties: Claire Ambler is a "flapper"
Wikipedia,
breaking free of social conventions. Booth Tarkington uses three
episodes to describe her evolution from her teens to her mid twenties.
"Here are flappers, flirts, and their train. Nobody
knows them, male and female, better than Booth Tarkington.
Nobody makes them more real on paper....
'Claire Ambler' is fragile matter, almost too fragile to
bear the weight of binding. But even so, it is the best
possible light reading." (The Outlook, 25 January 1928)]
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2018/11/12:
A VERY FAMOUS NOVEL, THE BASIS FOR A FAMOUS MOVIE, SET IN THE HIMALAYAS !!
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2025 !!
Hilton, James (1900-1954) [English novelist]
Wikipedia
Lost Horizon
(1933)
Wikipedia
[Novel, made into a famous 1937 movie directed by Frank Capra and starring
Ronald Colman
Wikipedia.
A plane crashes in the Himalayas, and its crew find themselves
in a desolate mountain wasteland. However, there is more to
the area than at first appears: there is Shangri-La...]
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2018/11/01:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS THE FINAL NOVEL PUBLISHED BY ALDOUS HUXLEY,
FAMOUS FOR BRAVE NEW WORLD -- TO WHICH IT HAS SOME
RESEMBLANCES !!
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Huxley, Aldous [Aldous Leonard] (1894-1963) [English novelist and essayist]
Wikipedia
Island
(1962)
Wikipedia
[Huxley's final novel, set on an imagined tropical island
named Pala. Will Farnaby, a journalist, wants to visit the
island, not normally open to outsiders, but arranges to be
shipwrecked on it. His secret agenda is to gain access to
the island's oil reserves, but once he is on the island and
sees how people live, his priorities change.]
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2018/10/28:
A HISTORICAL NOVEL BY C. S. FORESTER ABOUT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS !!
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2037 !!
Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott]
[Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966]
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
The Earthly Paradise
(1940)
[Historical novel about the third voyage of Christopher Columbus
Wikipedia,
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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2018/10/27:
TODAY'S NOVEL IS BY C. S. FORESTER AND TAKES PLACE DURING
THE NAPOLEONIC WARS -- BUT DOES NOT INVOLVE THE ROYAL NAVY,
NOR HORATIO HORNBLOWER! INSTEAD, IT TAKES PLACE IN PORTUGAL,
AND FEATURES RIFLEMAN MATTHEW DODD !!
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Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott]
[Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966]
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Death to the French
(1932)
Wikipedia
[Historical novel set during the Peninsular War (1807-1814)
Wikipedia,
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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2018/08/25:
AS OF TODAY, OUR CATALOGUE INCLUDES ALL SIX OF EARL
DERR BIGGERS' FAMOUS NOVELS FEATURING CHARLIE CHAN !!
Biggers, Earl Derr (1884-1933) [American novelist]
Wikipedia
Charlie Chan Carries On
(1930)
Wikipedia
[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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2018/10/20:
AN ATTRACTIVE SET OF PERSONAL ESSAYS ON TRAVEL AND LITERATURE BY JAMES NORMAN HALL
-- WITH A SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON TAHITI !!
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Hall, James Norman (1887-1951)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
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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2018/10/17: A TRULY EPIC HISTORICAL NOVEL FROM CANADA'S THOMAS B. COSTAIN,
ON AN EPIC SUBJECT: ATTILA THE HUN !!
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Costain, Thomas B. [Thomas Bertram] (1885-1965)
[Canadian journalist, novelist, and historian]
Wikipedia
The Darkness and the Dawn
(1959)
[Large scale historic novel about Attila ("the Hun")
Wikipedia,
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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2018/10/15:
A NOVEL BY NORDHOFF AND HALL, LIKE MANY OF THEIR
BOOKS SET IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, BUT TAKING PLACE DURING
THE SECOND WORLD WAR !!
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Nordhoff, Charles Bernard (1887-1947)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
Hall, James Norman (1887-1951)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
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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2018/10/07: HAPPY THANKSGIVING! WE CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAY BY PUBLISHING
THE THIRD AND FINAL VOLUME OF THE WONDERFUL SHORT STORIES
OF W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM !!
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2036 !!
Maugham, W. Somerset [William Somerset] (1874-1965)
[English novelist and playwright]
Wikipedia
The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham, Vol. III
(1951)
[The third and final volume of Maugham's short stories,
set in Malaya, often involving British expatriates on
long-term or permanent assignment. As the author himself
points out, by the time he published this collection,
the world he describes in the stories had already vanished.
The advent of plane travel had changed everything.]
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2018/09/30: CANADIAN NOVELIST THOMAS B. COSTAIN WAS FAMOUS ABOVE ALL FOR HIS
HISTORICAL NOVELS. TODAY WE'RE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT THE SILVER CHALICE
-- A HUGE BESTSELLER ABOUT THE HOLY GRAIL !!
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2036 -- OR EVEN
2041 !!
Costain, Thomas B. [Thomas Bertram] (1885-1965)
[Canadian journalist, novelist, and historian]
Wikipedia
The Silver Chalice
(1952)
Wikipedia
[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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2018/09/26: C. S. FORESTER IS FAMOUS FOR HIS BOOKS ABOUT THAT FAMOUS
BRITISH OFFICER HORATIO HORNBLOWER -- BUT HE ALSO WROTE
TODAY'S FINE NOVEL ABOUT AN AMERICAN NAVAL OFFICER
-- A "CAPTAIN FROM CONNECTICUT" !!
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2037 -- OR EVEN
2042 !!
Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott]
[Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966]
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
The Captain from Connecticut
(1941)
Wikipedia
[Novel, set at towards the end of the War of 1812
Wikipedia,
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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2018/09/24:
OUR FOURTH BOOK BY MARGERY ALLINGHAM IS A MYSTERY NOVEL
FEATURING ALBERT CAMPION, AND SET IN THE GLAMOROUS WORLD OF
SHOW BUSINESS !!
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2037 -- OR EVEN 2042 !!
Allingham, Margery [Youngman Carter, Margery Louise]
(1904-1966) [English mystery novelist]
Wikipedia
Dancers in Mourning
(1937)
Wikipedia
[Mystery novel, the eighth to feature Albert Campion, set within
the glamorous world of the British stage.]
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2018/09/19: IF A BOOK IS TRULY GOOD, IT CAN NEVER BE TOO LARGE. TODAY'S EBOOK IS
BOTH LARGE AND WONDERFUL -- SHORT STORIES BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM!
OF COURSE, THE BOOK MAY BE LONG, BUT THE STORIES ARE, OBVIOUSLY, SHORT
-- EASY READING FROM A FINE WRITER !!
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Maugham, W. Somerset [William Somerset] (1874-1965)
[English novelist and playwright]
Wikipedia
The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham, Vol. II
(1951)
[Short stories, including "a batch of stories dealing with
the adventures of an agent in the Intelligence Department
during the First World War. I gave him the name of Ashenden."
Maugham had himself been a secret agent for the British government!]
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2018/09/14: W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM IS ONE OF OUR FAVOURITE AUTHORS AT PROJECT
GUTENBERG CANADA -- AND HIS SHORT STORIES ARE PART OF THE REASON !!
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Maugham, W. Somerset [William Somerset] (1874-1965)
[English novelist and playwright]
Wikipedia
The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham, Vol. I
(1951)
[The first of the three volumes of Somerset Maugham's short stories,
selected by the author himself. The first of them, Rain, set
in the South Seas, has been continuously famous since its publication
Wikipedia,
with no fewer than three film adaptations!]
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2018/09/10:
TODAY, A NOVEL BY CHARLES NORDHOFF: MOST OF HIS NOVELS
WERE CO-AUTHORED WITH JAMES NORMAN HALL, BUT NOT THIS ONE!
ALSO, IT'S NOT SET IN THE SOUTH SEAS, BUT IN THE UNITED STATES
AND MORE PARTICULARLY IN FRANCE !!
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Nordhoff, Charles Bernard (1887-1947)
[American novelist]
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Pícaro
(1924)
[Novel: the action is set in the United States, but moves to
France after the advent of the First World War, where our
hero becomes a pilot for the French. But it would be
misleading to call this a war novel: it's more a coming
of age novel about "Pícaro" (Enrique Langhorne), and what
he does after leaving his father's Californian estate,
Rancho Guadalupe. The novel has an attractive immediacy,
and its author makes good use of his first-hand knowledge
of France and of the Hispanic world.]
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2018/09/07:
A NOVEL BY NORDHOFF AND HALL ABOUT THE FOUNDING
OF THE FIRST BRITISH SETTLEMENT IN AUSTRALIA !!
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Nordhoff, Charles Bernard (1887-1947)
[American novelist]
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Hall, James Norman (1887-1951)
[American novelist]
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Botany Bay
(1941)
[Historical novel, principally about the sailing of the First Fleet
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and the founding of the British penal colony in Australia, at Botany Bay
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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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2018/09/01:
WE START SEPTEMBER WITH AN EBOOK BY THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING POET AND ESSAYISTT. S. ELIOT !!
Eliot, T. S. [Thomas Stearns] (1888-1965)
[American poet, playwright, and critic]
Wikipedia
Nobelprize.org
The Sacred Wood. Essays On Poetry And Criticism.
(1920)
Wikipedia
[A collection of short essays on plays, poetry, and related matters:
one of Eliot's earliest works of criticism]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #57795]
2018/08/26:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS THE SECOND OF THE THREE SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLAS
FEATURING POLARIS JANESS OF THE ANTARCTIC !!
Stilson, Charles B. [Charles Billings] (1880-1932)
[American science fiction author]
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Minos of Sardanes
(1949 version)
[The second of the three Polaris Janess science fiction novellas.
A group of ancient Greeks have found a refuge in a hidden
valley in Antarctica, the valley being kept warm and green by
the surrounding volcanoes. ("Sardanes, the mystical volcanic valley,
set like an emerald in the white fastnesses of the Antarctic,
blooming with tropical verdure, and peopled with a fragment
of the ancient Greek nation, the Hellenes, whose victories Bard Homer sang.")
Then things become difficult: the volcanoes start going extinct,
and the valley starts freezing. Clearly the situation calls for
Polaris, that famous son of the Antarctic!
(We use the November 1949 version, the first appearance of the
novella as a single complete unit. The August 1916 original version
was a three-part serialization in All-Story Weekly.)]
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2018/08/23:
OUR FIRST SCIENCE FICTION STORY FROM CHARLES B. STILSON !!
Stilson, Charles B. [Charles Billings] (1880-1932)
[American science fiction author]
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Polaris of the Snows
(1915-16)
[Science fiction novella. Our hero Polaris has spent his entire
life in Antarctica, is now twenty-four years of age, and has remarkable
strength. He knows little of the world, but this will change: obeying
the final words of his dying father, Polaris is heading north!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #35426]
2018/08/22: TODAY'S RIDDLE: WHAT'S A FINE NOVEL (1) BY C. S. FORESTER,
(2) SET IN AFRICA, AND (3) NOT THE AFRICAN QUEEN ?? (Hint:
you'll find the answer below!)
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2037 !!
Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott]
[Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966]
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
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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2018/08/18:
NOUS VOUS PROPOSONS AUJOURD'HUI L'UN DES GRANDS CLASSIQUES DE LA SCIENCE-FICTION
FRANÇAISE -- LA MORT DE LA TERRE, PAR J.-H. ROSNY AÎNÉ !!
Rosny aîné, J.-H.
[pseudonyme de Joseph-Henri-Honoré Boex] (1856-1940)
[Romancier belge]
fr.wikipedia
Académie Goncourt
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
La Mort de la Terre. Roman, suivi de contes.
(1912)
fr.wikipedia
[Roman de science-fiction, un chef-d'oeuvre de la science-fiction
française, qui décrit la fin de la civilisation humaine et les
origines de la civilisation tout à fait nouvelle qui doit la remplacer.
«La Mort de la Terre est un petit roman que j'aurais pu sans peine
délayer en trois cents pages. Je ne l'ai pas fait, parce que, à mon avis,
le merveilleux scientifique est un genre de littérature qui exige la concision:
ceux qui le pratiquent sont trop souvent enclins au bavardage. J'ai augmenté
le volume à l'aide de contes. Les contes de la première série offrent tous
quelque particularité. Ceux de la seconde série ont surtout pour but de divertir
le lecteur--ce qui est, au reste, un but fort ambitieux.»]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS no 57687]
2018/08/17:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS A NOVEL BY NORDHOFF AND HALL, THE CREATORS
OF MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY -- MOST APPROPRIATELY, IT'S
SET IN TAHITI !!
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Nordhoff, Charles Bernard (1887-1947)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
Hall, James Norman (1887-1951)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
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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2018/08/12:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS VERY SPECIAL: IAN FLEMING'S FINAL JAMES BOND NOVEL !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY IAN FLEMING UNTIL
2035 !!
Fleming, Ian [Ian Lancaster] (1908-1964)
[English intelligence officer and novelist]
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The Man with the Golden Gun
(1965)
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[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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2018/08/06:
TODAY, THE FINAL CHARLIE CHAN MYSTERY BY
EARL DERR BIGGERS -- SET IN SOME GLAMOROUS PARTS
OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA !!
Biggers, Earl Derr (1884-1933) [American novelist]
Wikipedia
Keeper of the Keys
(1932)
Wikipedia
[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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2018/08/04:
A FINE NOVEL OF INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE FROM JOHN BUCHAN -- FEATURING
THAT RESOURCEFUL BARRISTER/MP SIR EDWARD LEITHEN !!
Buchan, John [first Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield] (1875-1940)
[Scottish novelist; Governor General of Canada 1935-1940]
Wikipedia
Queens University Archives
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]
2018/08/03:
AN EARL DERR BIGGERS MYSTERY NOVEL SET IN CALIFORNIA:
HAWAII MEETS SCOTLAND YARD, OR, MORE LITERALLY, CHARLIE CHAN
MEETS SIR FREDERIC BRUCE !!
Biggers, Earl Derr (1884-1933) [American novelist]
Wikipedia
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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2018/07/30:
FOR YOUR MIDSUMMER READING, A FAMOUS MYSTERY NOVEL FEATURING
CHARLIE CHAN !!
Biggers, Earl Derr (1884-1933) [American novelist]
Wikipedia
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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2018/07/28:
OUR LATEST STORY BY JOHN RUSSELL FEARN, FEATURING WHAT
FEARN CALLS A "MATHEMATICAL MACHINE" OR "REALLY A GLORIFIED
ADDING MACHINE", BUT WE WOULD CERTAINLY CALL A COMPUTER!
CAN THIS DEVICE FOIL INVADERS FROM SPACE ??
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ANY EBOOKS BY JOHN RUSSELL FEARN UNTIL
2031 !!
Fearn, John Russell (1908-1960)
[English science fiction author]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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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2018/07/23:
WHO CARES ABOUT OUTER SPACE, ANYWAY? TODAY'S STORY BY
JOHN RUSSELL FEARN IS MORE CONCERNED WITH INTRA-ATOMIC SPACE !!
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2031 !!
Fearn, John Russell (1908-1960)
[English science fiction author]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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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2018/07/19: C. S. FORESTER, FAMOUS FOR THE HORATIO HORNBLOWER BOOKS, WAS A WRITER
OF MANY TALENTS. FOR EXAMPLE, HE WROTE ONLY TWO MYSTERY NOVELS, BUT
BOTH OF THEM ARE EXCELLENT! ONE MONTH AGO, WE OFFERED YOU ONE OF THESE
NOVELS, PLAIN MURDER, FROM 1930; TODAY WE PRESENT HIS 1926 MYSTERY,
PAYMENT DEFERRED !!
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Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott]
[Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966]
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
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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2018/07/16:
ACCORDING TO JOHN RUSSELL FEARN, THE POLICEMAN'S LIFE
WILL ALWAYS BE A DIFFICULT ONE -- EVEN IN OUTER SPACE !!
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Fearn, John Russell (1908-1960)
[English science fiction author]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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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OUR THIRD SCIENCE FICTION STORY BY JOHN RUSSELL FEARN !!
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2031 !!
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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2018/07/13:
TODAY WE'RE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT THE SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY
BY CORDWAINER SMITH WHICH WAS THE START OF HIS ENDURING FAME !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY CORDWAINER SMITH UNTIL
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Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Scanners Live in Vain
(1950)
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[Science fiction story, one of Smith's most famous, the first of
his many stories set in the "Instrumentality of Mankind" universe.
It takes place in the distant future, when there has been a good deal
of space colonization. But... space travel had proved lethal for ordinary
humans, who were exposed to "the Great Pain, which started quietly in
the marrow, like an ache, and proceeded by the fatigue and nausea of
each separate nerve cell, brain cell, touchpoint in the body, until
life itself became a terrible aching hunger for silence and for death..."
Scanners are humans not subject to the Great Pain: but this gift is not
without cost.]
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2018/07/11: IF YOU ENJOY THE STORIES ABOUT MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES, MAY WE SUGGEST THAT
YOU MAKE THE ACQUAINTANCE OF DR. JOHN EVELYN THORNDYKE, WHO AS OF
TODAY APPEARS NO FEWER THAN EIGHT PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA EBOOKS !!
Freeman, R. Austin [Richard Austin] (1862-1943)
[English physician and mystery novelist]
Wikipedia
From the 1929 collection The Famous Cases of Dr. Thorndyke. Thirty-seven
of his criminal investigations as set down by R. Austin Freeman:
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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2018/07/09: CANADIANS KNOW A LOT ABOUT MORTGAGES -- MAYBE TOO MUCH!
BUT TODAY'S DR. THORNDYKE STORY IS ABOUT A MORTGAGE NOT
ON A HOUSE, BUT ON A LIFE INSURANCE POLICY !!
Freeman, R. Austin [Richard Austin] (1862-1943)
[English physician and mystery novelist]
Wikipedia
From the 1929 collection The Famous Cases of Dr. Thorndyke. Thirty-seven
of his criminal investigations as set down by R. Austin Freeman:
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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2018/05/08: TODAY, AN EARLY NOVEL BY ELEANOR FARJEON !!
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2036 !!
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]
2018/07/07: OUR LATEST DR. THORNDYKE STORY -- FINE JULY READING
!!
Freeman, R. Austin [Richard Austin] (1862-1943)
[English physician and mystery novelist]
Wikipedia
From the 1929 collection The Famous Cases of Dr. Thorndyke. Thirty-seven
of his criminal investigations as set down by R. Austin Freeman:
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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2018/07/05: OUR FOURTH STORY FEATURING THE REDOUBTABLE PHYSICIAN/LAWYER/SLEUTH
DR. THORNDYKE !!
Freeman, R. Austin [Richard Austin] (1862-1943)
[English physician and mystery novelist]
Wikipedia
From the 1929 collection The Famous Cases of Dr. Thorndyke. Thirty-seven
of his criminal investigations as set down by R. Austin Freeman:
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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2018/07/01: HAPPY CANADA DAY! IT'S NOT JUST THE 151ST ANNIVERSARY OF CANADA,
BUT THE ELEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA! FOR YOUR
HOLIDAY PLEASURE, WE PROPOSE A STORY BY THE LEGENDARY MYSTERY AUTHOR
R. AUSTIN FREEMAN !!
Freeman, R. Austin [Richard Austin] (1862-1943)
[English physician and mystery novelist]
Wikipedia
From the 1929 collection The Famous Cases of Dr. Thorndyke. Thirty-seven
of his criminal investigations as set down by R. Austin Freeman:
The Case of Oscar Brodski
(1929)
[Mystery story: murder and intrigue in the diamond trade!]
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2018/06/29:
FOR YOUR CANADA DAY LONG WEEKEND, A COLLECTION OF MYSTERY
STORIES FEATURING... MR ALBERT CAMPION !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY MARGERY ALLINGHAM UNTIL
2037 !!
Allingham, Margery [Youngman Carter, Margery Louise]
(1904-1966) [English mystery novelist]
Wikipedia
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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2018/06/27:
FROM PETER CHEYNEY, A MYSTERY NOVEL FEATURING HIS FAMOUS CREATION.
PRIVATE DETECTIVE SLIM CALLAGHAN !!
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2022 !!
Cheyney, Peter [Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse] (1896-1951)
[English poet and novelist]
Wikipedia
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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2018/06/24: OUR SECOND MYSTERY STORY FROM R. AUSTIN FREEMAN'S
MAGNIFICENT OMNIBUS THE FAMOUS CASES OF DR. THORNDYKE !!
Freeman, R. Austin [Richard Austin] (1862-1943)
[English physician and mystery novelist]
Wikipedia
From the 1929 collection The Famous Cases of Dr. Thorndyke. Thirty-seven
of his criminal investigations as set down by R. Austin Freeman:
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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2018/06/22: OUR FIRST STORY FROM R. AUSTIN FREEMAN'S WONDERFUL MYSTERY
COLLECTION THE FAMOUS CASES OF DR. THORNDYKE !!
Freeman, R. Austin [Richard Austin] (1862-1943)
[English physician and mystery novelist]
Wikipedia
From the 1929 collection The Famous Cases of Dr. Thorndyke. Thirty-seven
of his criminal investigations as set down by R. Austin Freeman:
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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2018/06/20:
OUR THIRD MYSTERY/SPY NOVEL FROM "MANNING COLES", FEATURING TOMMY HAMBLEDON
AND TAKING PLACE IN WEST GERMANY AND RUSSIA !!
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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
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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2018/06/19: TODAY, A CHANGE OF PACE -- AN OFTEN REPRINTED MYSTERY NOVEL
BY C. S. FORESTER, CREATOR OF THE "HORNBLOWER" SERIES !!
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2037 !!
Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott]
[Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966]
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
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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2018/06/15:
CAN AN EMINENT OXFORD-EDUCATED LEBANESE JOURNALIST AND POLITICAL ACTIVIST WRITE A TRULY
FINE MYSTERY NOVEL? THE ANSWER, IT APPEARS, IS MOST DEFINITELY YES !!
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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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2018/06/13:
WE'RE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT OUR FOURTH EBOOK BY KAREN
BLIXEN, A COLLECTION WHICH INCLUDES ONE OF HER MOST FAMOUS STORIES
BABETTE'S FEAST -- THE BASIS FOR THE OSCAR-WINNING MOVIE
OF THE SAME NAME! !!
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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:
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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2018/06/10:
OUR THIRD TITLE BY PHYLLIS BOTTOME IS NOT A NOVEL,
BUT A SET OF FIVE SHORT STORIES, ALL TO DO WITH ANIMALS !!
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Bottome, Phyllis (1882-1963) [English psychologist, teacher, and novelist]
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The Spectator (Charlotte Moore)
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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2018/06/07:
TODAY'S NEW RELEASE IS THE BOOK OF NOVELLAS THAT BROUGHT
DENMARK'S KAREN BLIXEN INSTANT AND PERMANENT FAME !!
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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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2018/05/31: WE END THE MONTH OF MAY WITH A SPARKLING NOVEL FROM
THE EARLY PRIME OF HULBERT FOOTNER !!
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]
2018/05/27: FROM HULBERT FOOTNER, A LIGHT-HEARTED NOVEL SET IN
MANHATTAN ON THE EVE OF THE JAZZ AGE !!
Footner, Hulbert (1879-1944)
[Canadian novelist and playwright]
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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!]
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[PGUS #57210]
2018/05/26:
OUR SECOND NOVEL OF INTRIGUE BY "MANNING COLES", FEATURING
BRITISH INTELLIGENCE OFFICER TOMMY HAMBLEDON !!
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2036 !!
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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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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2018/05/21: FOR VICTORIA DAY, A NOVEL BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM,
SET IN THE FAR EAST !!
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Maugham, W. Somerset [William Somerset] (1874-1965)
[English novelist and playwright]
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The Narrow Corner
(1932)
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[Novel, set in the Malay Archipelago
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and centred on an English physician. Through Dr Saunders
we meet an unforgettable set of characters: Captain
Nichols, for example, commander of the Fenton,
and Dr Saunders' mysterious fellow passenger Fred Blake.]
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2018/05/19: AN ACCOMPLISHED MYSTERY NOVEL, SET IN HIS ADOPTED STATE OF MARYLAND,
BY HULBERT FOOTNER !!
Footner, Hulbert (1879-1944)
[Canadian novelist and playwright]
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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.]
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[PGUS #57138]
2018/05/12: THE LATEST ADDITION TO OUR HULBERT FOOTNER SERIES --
A MYSTERY NOVEL FEATURING THAT DEBONAIRE MANHATTANITE, AMOS LEE MAPPIN !!
Footner, Hulbert (1879-1944)
[Canadian novelist and playwright]
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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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2018/05/06: A MYSTERY NOVEL BY HULBERT FOOTNER -- SET IN HIS BELOVED MANHATTAN !!
Footner, Hulbert (1879-1944)
[Canadian novelist and playwright]
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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]
2018/05/04:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS BY IAN FLEMING, WE THINK IT'S ONE OF HIS BEST NOVELS,
AND, YES, IT FEATURES COMMANDER JAMES BOND !!
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Fleming, Ian [Ian Lancaster] (1908-1964)
[English intelligence officer and novelist]
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
(1963)
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[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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2018/04/28:
OUR SECOND NOVEL BY PHYLLIS BOTTOME IS A RATHER SPECIAL
"COUNTRY HOUSE" NOVEL !!
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Bottome, Phyllis (1882-1963) [English psychologist, teacher, and novelist]
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The Spectator (Charlotte Moore)
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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2018/04/25:
OUR THIRD EBOOK BY RALPH MILNE FARLEY IS ONE OF HIS
MOST FAMOUS WORKS -- AND NO WONDER !!
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Farley, Ralph Milne [Hoar, Roger Sherman] (1887-1963)
[American lawyer and science fiction writer]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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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2018/04/23:
ONE GOOD NOVEL DESERVES A GOOD NOVELETTE:
TWO DAYS AGO, WE INTRODUCED RALPH MILNE FARLEY TO
OUR CATALOGUE; TODAY WE'RE DELIGHTED TO ADD OUR SECOND
EBOOK BY THIS CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR !!
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Farley, Ralph Milne [Hoar, Roger Sherman] (1887-1963)
[American lawyer and science fiction writer]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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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2018/04/21:
OUR FIRST EBOOK BY SCIENCE FICTION LEGEND RALPH MILNE FARLEY !!
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Farley, Ralph Milne [Hoar, Roger Sherman] (1887-1963)
[American lawyer and science fiction writer]
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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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2018/04/20: TODAY'S NOVEL BY C. S. FORESTER IS ABOUT THE LIFE AND CAREER
OF A BRITISH GENERAL -- AND COMES WITH HIGH PRAISE FROM WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF
JOHN KELLY !!
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Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott]
[Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966]
[English novelist]
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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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2018/04/17:
A FINE NOVEL BY NEVIL SHUTE, EXAMINING HOW THE LIVES
OF FOUR VERY DIFFERENT PEOPLE WERE AFFECTED BY THE SECOND
WORLD WAR !!
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2031 !!
Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist]
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Chequer Board
(1947)
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[Novel. Nominally the story of John Turner, of how he was
badly wounded in a Second World War airplane crash, and how
he recovered. But equally it is the story of the four men
who in different ways helped him recover, in particular
of Dave Lesurier, an American serviceman. Lesurier was
black, and the novel describes how American black servicemen
were better treated by the English than by their American
compatriots. "Despite our vaunted liberalism, our strident
soap-box screams for tolerance, no American could have written
'The Chequer Board'.... British compassion for the blacks is
contrasted dramatically with the burning intolerance of the
white American fellow-soldier. The alien sense of equality,
followed by the innate fear of lynching, is here done with
memorable horror." (Catherine Meredith Brown, Saturday
Review, 3 May 1947) CAUTION: Shute's novel denounces
racism, but some readers may be offended by certain
vocabulary of the time used in the course of the novel.]
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2018/04/10:
THE NOVEL THAT INTRODUCED CHARLIE CHAN TO THE WORLD !!
Biggers, Earl Derr (1884-1933) [American novelist]
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The House Without a Key
(1925)
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[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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2018/04/08: A CRIME CLASSIC -- PERHAPS THE FINEST NOVEL EVER WRITTEN
BY RAYMOND CHANDLER! OUR CATALOGUE NOW INCLUDES ALL OF
THE SEVEN NOVELS CHANDLER PUBLISHED DURING HIS LIFETIME !!
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2030 !!
Chandler, Raymond [Raymond Thornton] (1888-1959)
[American novelist and screenplay writer]
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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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2018/04/04: TODAY, A MYSTERY NOVEL BY HULBERT FOOTNER, FOR MANY
YEARS THE TOAST OF MANHATTAN -- BUT BORN IN HAMILTON, ONTARIO !!
Footner, Hulbert (1879-1944)
[Canadian novelist and playwright]
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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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2018/04/01: HAPPY EASTER! TODAY WE WELCOME TO OUR CATALOGUE
ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS AUTHORS OF "THE GOLDEN AGE OF
DETECTIVE FICTION" -- R. AUSTIN FREEMAN !!
Freeman, R. Austin [Richard Austin] (1862-1943)
[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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2018/03/27: WE'RE DELIGHTED TO ADD TO OUR CATALOGUE PAT FRANK'S
CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL ALAS, BABYLON !!
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Frank, Pat [Frank, Harry Hart] (1907-1964)
[American journalist and novelist]
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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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2018/03/24: OUR THIRD NOVEL BY PAT FRANK
IS NOT SCIENCE FICTION. IT IS A WAR NOVEL, A VERY FINE ONE,
TAKING PLACE DURING THE KOREAN WAR -- BUT ITS FOCUS IS NOT
SO MUCH ON THE WAR ITSELF AS ON THE PERSONAL DYNAMICS WITHIN
A UNIT OF MARINES: THE "DOG COMPANY" !!
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Frank, Pat [Frank, Harry Hart] (1907-1964)
[American journalist and novelist]
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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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2018/03/21: TODAY'S EBOOK IS PAT FRANK'S FIRST NOVEL
-- A FINE SATIRE THAT BECAME A HUGE INTERNATIONAL
SUCCESS, AND A LASTING SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC !!
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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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2018/03/19: ESPIONAGE IS IN THE HEADLINES THESE DAYS:
EVERYTHING OLD, IT SEEMS, BECOMES NEW AGAIN --
INCLUDING THIS 1956 SPY NOVEL, OUR FIRST EBOOK
BY PAT FRANK !!
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Frank, Pat [Frank, Harry Hart] (1907-1964)
[American journalist and novelist]
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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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2018/03/16:
OUR SECOND EBOOK BY GWETHALYN GRAHAM IS A TRUE CANADIAN
CLASSIC WHICH INSTANTLY ACHIEVED INTERNATIONAL FAME -- IT WAS
THE FIRST BOOK BY A CANADIAN AUTHOR TO BE AT THE TOP OF THE
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER LIST !!
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Graham, Gwethalyn (1913-1965)
[Canadian journalist, translator, and novelist]
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Simon Fraser University
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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2018/03/14: OUR SIXTH NOVEL FEATURING HORATIO HORNBLOWER OF
THE ROYAL NAVY -- HIS NEW AND VERY DIFFICULT ASSIGNMENT
TAKES HIM TO THE BALTIC SEA, WHERE HE MUST NEGOTIATE
WITH THE RUSSIANS. IS HE UP TO THE JOB? OF COURSE HE IS !!
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2037 !!
Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott]
[Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966]
[English novelist]
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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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2018/03/11:
THE BRILLIANT PHYLLIS BOTTOME ENTERS OUR CATALOGUE TODAY
-- NOVELIST, PSYCHOLOGIST, AND LINGUIST (SHE AND HER MI6 HUSBAND TAUGHT
IAN FLEMING HIS GERMAN). IN SHORT, AN AUTHOR WAITING TO BE
REDISCOVERED, NOW THAT SHE'S IN THE CANADIAN PUBLIC DOMAIN !!
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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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2018/03/08:
S. FOWLER WRIGHT'S SEQUEL TO HIS BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL DELUGE --
AFTER THE GREAT DISASTER, WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD ??
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Wright, S. Fowler [Sydney Fowler] (1874-1965)
[English translator, poet, and novelist]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Dawn
(1929)
[Novel, set in the aftermath of the great flood described in Deluge.
"The second volume contains much bitter commentary on the corruptions of comfort and civilization and carries forward a Rousseau-esque glorification of Nature and insistence on the fundamentality of the Social Contract. Arguably it constitutes what might in later hands be deemed an example of Libertarian SF, though Wright is far more realistic about the dangerousness of human beings on the loose." (Brian M. Stableford and John Clute,
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]
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OUR FIFTH EBOOK BY S. FOWLER WRIGHT
IS THE POST-APOCALYPTIC NOVEL WHICH
BROUGHT HIM ENDURING WORLDWIDE FAME !!
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Wright, S. Fowler [Sydney Fowler] (1874-1965)
[English translator, poet, and novelist]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Deluge
(1927)
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[Post-apocalyptic novel, and a famous one.
"This book is a romance, founded on the supposition that a large part of the
world, including most of the British Isles, is destroyed by a new flood. It
deals with the adventures of some survivors in the Midland Counties, and
of the personal and social problems that confront them. It moves rapidly
through tense and vivid incidents of love and peril, and presents a problem
of the 'eternal triangle' that is not solved till the last page is reached."
(Dust jacket of the 1927 first edition)]
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AN ESPIONAGE NOVEL BY LONDON'S PETER CHEYNEY -- FROM
THE VERY END OF HIS BRILLIANT WRITING CAREER !!
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Cheyney, Peter [Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse] (1896-1951)
[English poet and novelist]
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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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2018/03/01: WE BEGIN MARCH WITH A FAMOUS NOVEL BY C. S. FORESTER,
SET ON AN AFRICAN RIVER. HINT: THE NOVEL INSPIRED A CLASSIC MOVIE !!
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Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott]
[Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966]
[English novelist]
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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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2018/02/25: A LIGHT-HEARTED NOVEL BY MAZO DE LA ROCHE, PUBLISHED
JUST BEFORE THE GREAT NOVELIST EMBARKED ON HER JALNA SERIES !!
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de la Roche, Mazo (1879-1961)
[Canadian novelist and playwright]
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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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2018/02/22:
A SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY BY PENNSYLVANIA'S H. BEAM PIPER !!
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Piper, H. Beam [Henry Beam] (1904-1964)
[American science fiction author]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Dearest
(March 1951)
[Science fiction short story from near the beginning of Piper's
writing career. Colonel Ashley Hamilton is participating in a family
intervention, of which he is the target. And a psychiatrist is present
-- yes, they want him declared mentally incompetent! (Needless to say,
he's quite rich.) But sometimes those who seem demented are actually
the only ones who are seeing things as they really are...]
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2018/02/21: AS OF TODAY, WE OFFER NO FEWER THAN TEN OF
THE SIXTEEN NOVELS IN MAZO DE LA ROCHE'S EPIC
JALNA FAMILY SAGA !!
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de la Roche, Mazo (1879-1961)
[Canadian novelist and playwright]
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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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2018/02/13:
OUR SECOND NOVEL BY PETER CHEYNEY IS ALSO OUR
SECOND NOVEL FROM HIS "DARK" SERIES -- SPYCRAFT
DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR !!
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Cheyney, Peter [Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse] (1896-1951)
[English poet and novelist]
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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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2018/02/08:
OUR FIRST NOVEL BY ESPIONAGE AND MYSTERY NOVELIST PETER CHEYNEY !!
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Cheyney, Peter [Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse] (1896-1951)
[English poet and novelist]
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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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WELL, YES, THERE WAS THE SUPER BOWL TODAY. FOR MANY CANADIANS, THE
INTERESTING PART WASN'T THE GAME, BUT THE U.S. COMMERCIALS, NOT BLOCKED
OUT THIS YEAR. SIMULCASTING IS A FORM OF CENSORSHIP -- THANK YOU, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!
BUT LET'S GET REAL: THE BIG EVENT OF THE DAY IS THE ARRIVAL AT PROJECT GUTENBERG
CANADA OF OUR FIRST NOVEL BY "MANNING COLES" !!
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2036 !!
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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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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2018/01/31:
OUR FIRST EBOOK BY GWETHALYN GRAHAM -- A MAGNIFICENT
CANADIAN NOVELIST, INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS, AND TWO-TIME WINNER
OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD! WE'RE ESPECIALLY
PROUD THAT THE PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA CATALOGUE BOASTS NOT
JUST TODAY'S EBOOK, BUT ALSO TWO HISTORICAL NOVELS BY HER GRANDFATHER,
PHYSICIAN AND NOVELIST JOHN PRICE-BROWN !!
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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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2018/01/29:
OUR FIRST EBOOK BY JOHN FRANKLIN CARTER COMBINES
SCIENCE FICTION, POLITICAL INTRIGUE, AND SATIRE !!
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Carter, John Franklin (1897-1967)
[American economist, journalist, and novelist]
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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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TODAY'S EBOOK IS A NOVEL BY "SAPPER" -- FEATURING HIS FAMOUS
CREATION BULLDOG DRUMMOND !!
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Sapper [McNeile, Herman Cyril] (1888-1937)
[English novelist]
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The Return of Bull-Dog Drummond
(1932)
[Action novel, featuring (naturally) Bulldog Drummond, whose
physical and intellectual abilities are fully tested during
the course of the plot: a plot involving a suspicious death,
international financier Sir Edward Greatorex, "a man before
whom Governments tremble", and the film industry. Need we
say more? CAUTION: Sapper had some attitudes and used
some vocabulary that readers today might find offensive.]
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TODAY'S EBOOK IS AN ESSAY BY BRITISH COLUMBIA NOVELIST
FREDERICK NIVEN ON HIS CHOICE OF BOOKS FOR A
CANOE TRIP !!
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William H. New (Canadian Literature #32 [Spring 1967]),
Books in the Wilderness
(January 1921)
[Essay. In 1920, Niven moved to Nelson, British Columbia
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where he spent the rest of his life. Once established, he didn't
just stay at home! However, as he explains, "one cannot carry
a library" in a canoe. He explains which books he selected, and why.]
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2018/01/20:
WHAT A FINE WAY TO COMMEMORATE THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL
INAUGURATION (EXACTLY ONE YEAR AGO!): TODAY WE ADD
TO OUR CATALOGUE SINCLAIR LEWIS'S FAMOUS NOVEL OF
PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS. THE NOVEL WAS WRITTEN SOME
YEARS AGO, BUT YOU MAY FIND IT AMAZINGLY TOPICAL !!
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Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930]
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Nobelprize.org
It Can't Happen Here
(1935)
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[Novel, written during the rise of European fascism,
and dealing with the question of whether an authoritarian
regime could be imposed on the United States.
The novel's title suggests it could not; the actual
novel suggests it could. The main character,
Buzz Windrip is elected president on a platform
of patriotism and values. Once in office, he goes
in quite a different direction. If this reminds
you of another president, not a fictional one
and one not in the past, you're not alone:
Jules Stewart, Guardian, 9 Oct 2016
Malcolm Harris, Salon, 29 Sept 2015
(Note: Canada is important in the novel, as a haven for American refugees!)]
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2018/01/13: ON PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY (aka NEW YEAR'S DAY) WE WELCOMED
DOROTHY PARKER TO CANADA'S PUBLIC DOMAIN!
TODAY'S EBOOK, OUR FIRST BY A 2018 PUBLIC DOMAIN
AUTHOR, IS HER SHORT STORY "BIG BLONDE" -- WINNER OF
THE O. HENRY AWARD AS BEST SHORT STORY OF 1929 !!
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Parker, Dorothy (1893-1967)
[American satirist, poet, critic, and social activist]
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Big Blonde
(1929)
[Short story, winner of the 1929 O. Henry Award
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The big blonde in question is Hazel Morse, who,
when we meet her, is "a model in a wholesale
dress establishment", whose thoughts are largely
devoted to men. Then she meets Herbie Morse,
an attractive man and a heavy drinker. Where
will events now take her?]
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SIXTEENTH-CENTURY SPAIN !!
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Maugham, W. Somerset [William Somerset] (1874-1965)
[English novelist and playwright]
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Catalina
(1948)
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[Maugham's final novel. Catalina is not an island off
California, but a girl aged sixteen, living in
sixteenth-century Spain, and intended for life
in a convent. Intended by others, that is:
Catalina herself has different ideas.]
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2018/01/05:
WHO WOULD WRITE A NOVEL FEATURING RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY,
POLITICS, AND AIRPLANES? WHO ELSE BUT THAT FINE NOVELIST
AND FAMOUS AERONAUTICAL ENGINEER, NEVIL SHUTE !!
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Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist]
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
Round the Bend
(1951)
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[Novel. Tom Cutter, an airplane pilot and engineer, tells
his life story, a story which starts in England and moves
to the Persian Gulf and then Indonesia and even Australia!
But Tom's journey is not just a physical one: as time passes,
his character is transformed.]
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THEY DIDN'T, THOUGH, AND LET'S MAKE SURE THAT THEY NEVER DO -- THAT'S OUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION! STAND UP FOR YOUR COUNTRY, STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS, AND READ A BOOK THAT'S IN CANADA'S PUBLIC DOMAIN, SUCH AS TODAY'S HORATIO HORNBLOWER NOVEL !!
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Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott]
[Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966]
[English novelist]
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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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2017/12/29: A HISTORICAL NOVEL BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM --
SET IN THE FLORENCE OF MACHIAVELLI !!
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Maugham, W. Somerset [William Somerset] (1874-1965)
[English novelist and playwright]
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Then and Now
(1946)
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[Novel, somewhat out of Maugham's usual path.
It is a historical novel, set in sixteenth-century
Italy, and starring no less a duo than
Niccolò Machiavelli
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and Cesare Borgia
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"...when it comes to a lively and naughty tale, Somerset Maugham
can hold his own with the best of the Italians and the Romans."
(Ben Ray Redman, Saturday Review, 25 May 1946)]
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2017/12/27:
WONDERFUL HOLIDAY READING -- A NOVEL BY NEVIL SHUTE,
PARTLY SET IN CANADA !!
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Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist]
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
An Old Captivity
(1940)
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[Novel, an attractive mix of air adventure (Greenland, Canada,
Scotland) and time travel (the late thirties and a millennium
earlier), featuring pilot Donald Ross.]
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2017/12/24:
WHAT DO WE SUGGEST FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS READING? A DELIGHTFUL
NOVELLA BY KAREN BLIXEN SHOULD FILL THE BILL NICELY --
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU FROM PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA !!
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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:
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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2017/12/22:
OUR FIRST EBOOK BY ZORA NEALE HURSTON IS HER
FAMOUS AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- AND WHAT AN AMAZING LIFE
STORY SHE TELLS !!
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Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960)
[American anthropologist, civil rights activist, and novelist]
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Dust Tracks on a Road. An Autobiography.
(1942)
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[Autobiography of the famous anthropologist, civil rights activist,
and novelist. In many ways she was a social conservative: her originality
of thought is evident in this fine memoir, which takes us from her
childhood in the African-American town of Eatonville, Florida
through university and her subsequent career as a field anthropologist.
"...Miss Hurston has never been anybody but herself, and her book
radiates that self with such warmth and vitality and humor and charm
that it is a tonic to read." (Henry C. Tracy, Common Ground, Spring 1943)]
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OUR THIRD TITLE BY EARL DERR BIGGERS HAS NOTHING TO DO
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INSTEAD, IT'S A COMBINATION OF ROMANCE AND COMEDY, INVOLVING
AN ENGLISH LORD AND AN AMERICAN HEIRESS !!
Biggers, Earl Derr (1884-1933) [American novelist]
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Love Insurance
(1914)
[Novel, adapted to film no fewer than three times
Wikipedia.
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...]
Project Gutenberg US
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2017/12/14:
TODAY, AN ENDURING SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC:
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Taine, John [Bell, Eric Temple]
(1883-1960) [American mathematician and science fiction author]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Seeds of Life
(1951 version)
Wikipedia
[Science fiction novel. Dr Andrew Crane is a researcher at
the Erickson Foundation for Electrical Research in Seattle,
aided by "his technical assistant, the stocky Neils Bork".
Bork has a drinking problem, and is difficult to deal with,
none of which prevents his mysterious physical and mental
transformation into a new being, with new abilities and a
new name: Miguel De Soto!
The original version of the novel was published in the
Fall 1931 Amazing Stories Quarterly;
we use the text of the 1951 Galaxy Books edition.]
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2017/12/12:
IN 1948, T. S. ELIOT WROTE AN INTRODUCTION FOR ALL HALLOWS' EVE,
THE FINAL NOVEL BY HIS FRIEND CHARLES WILLIAMS. IT WAS OUR
PLEASURE FOUR YEARS AGO TO PUBLISH THE ORIGINAL NOVEL, AND IT IS OUR
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Eliot, T. S. [Thomas Stearns] (1888-1965)
[American poet, playwright, and critic]
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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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OUR THIRD SCIENCE FICTION TITLE FROM RICHARD McKENNA !!
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McKenna, Richard [Richard Milton] (1913-1964)
[American sailor and novelist]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Love and Moondogs
(February 1959)
[Science fiction short story, involving dogs: perhaps
it was inspired by the launch in November 1957 of the Soviet
satellite Sputnik 2 and its canine passenger, Laika
Wikipedia]
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2017/11/30:
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McKenna, Richard [Richard Milton] (1913-1964)
[American sailor and novelist]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Night of Hoggy Darn
(December 1958)
[Science fiction novella. Flinter Cole is an ecologist -- this in
a story from 1958! As the story opens, he is on a space freighter
"riding down the last joint of a dogleg journey to the hermit planet
of New Cornwall." It is a planet in urgent need of study: it has
been overlooked for centuries...]
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AFTER LEAVING THE U.S. NAVY, RICHARD McKENNA WROTE
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DAY, WHICH WE'RE PROUD TO HAVE IN OUR CATALOGUE.
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AREA OF SCIENCE FICTION !!
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McKenna, Richard [Richard Milton] (1913-1964)
[American sailor and novelist]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Fishdollar Affair
(October 1958)
[Science fiction novella. But here's the question:
who or what is Fishdollar? To which the answer is,
Wendrew Fishdollar is the President of the Republic
of Fishdollar Five. Space colonization, we learn,
can have its challenges!]
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FAME, SET IN WHAT IS NOW PAKISTAN, BUT WAS THEN THE
NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE OF BRITISH INDIA !!
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Mason, A. E. W. [Alfred Edward Woodley] (1865-1948)
[English novelist, playwright, and biographer]
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The Drum
(1937)
[Action novella, set in the North-West Frontier Province
of what was then British India, but would shortly become
Pakistan. Of this political revolution there is no
hint in Mason's novella, let alone any questioning of
what exactly the British were doing there. Rather,
we have a skilfully narrated and enjoyable vignette
of life on the North-West Frontier, featuring
Captain Frank Carruthers, who at the invitation of
the Khan of Tokot is being sent to establish a British
Agency in the Khan's territory. Some of the placenames
and details will seem strangely contemporary to modern
readers, since the region is often in our headlines.]
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Wright, S. Fowler [Sydney Fowler] (1874-1965)
[English translator, poet, and novelist]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The World Below
(1951 version)
Wikipedia
[(Science fiction novel, published in 1929 as
a sequel to The Amphibians.
We present the 1951 version, which includes
an excellent foreword by an anonymous author:
"The World Below is justly famous
as the outstanding science-fiction book written
between H. G. Wells's earlier imaginative romances
and Olaf Stapledon's future histories... In sheer alien
concept it is almost unparalleled in fantastic fiction."]
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2017/11/18:
THE FIRST FULL-LENGTH NOVEL BY S. FOWLER WRIGHT -- A SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC !!
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Wright, S. Fowler [Sydney Fowler] (1874-1965)
[English translator, poet, and novelist]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Amphibians
(1951 version)
[Wright's first science fiction novel, with a complicated textual history:
we present the 1951 version. The full title of a 1925 edition says it all:
"The Amphibians. A romance of 500,000 years hence." But the novel is a fine
and famous one, a worthy beginning to Wright's brilliant science fiction career.]
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2017/11/15:
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FEATURING COMMANDER JAMES BOND !!
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Fleming, Ian [Ian Lancaster] (1908-1964)
[English intelligence officer and novelist]
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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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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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2017/11/07: TWELVE SHORT MYSTERY STORIES BY "SAPPER" -- FEATURING RONALD STANDISH !!
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Sapper [McNeile, Herman Cyril] (1888-1937)
[English novelist]
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Ronald Standish
(1933)
[Mystery stories, twelve of them, featuring Sapper's famous
creation Ronald Standish, whose success rate when presented
with strange situations rivals that of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.]
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Maugham, W. Somerset [William Somerset] (1874-1965)
[English novelist and playwright]
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The Razor's Edge
(1944)
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[Larry Darrell, an American air force veteran, is on the point
of marrying into a wealthy family, but decides to embark on
a voyage of personal discovery, foresaking material wealth.
He does not have to break off the engagement: this is done
for him! He embarks on a voyage of discovery, which takes
him to Germany, India, and elsewhere...]
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Smith, Edward E. [Elmer] "Doc" (1890-1965)
[American chemist and science fiction author]
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Children of the Lens
(1966 version)
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[The sixth novel in the Lensman series: the original version was published
in Astounding Science Fiction from November 1947 through February 1948.
The children in question are those of Kimball Kinnison and his wife,
and are the only existing Third-Stage Lensmen, with powers surpassing
even those of their parents. But all the combined powers of the Lensmen,
whatever their stage, will be needed to confront the staggering threats
which are emerging!]
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Smith, Edward E. [Elmer] "Doc" (1890-1965)
[American chemist and science fiction author]
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Second Stage Lensmen
(1965 version)
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[The fifth novel in the Lensman series: the original version was published
in Astounding Science-Fiction from November 1941 through February 1942.
What, you might ask, separates a Second Stage Lensman from other Lensmen?
Glad you asked! They are "graduates of Arisian advanced training; minds linked,
basically, together into one mind". The novel is notable for the final
appearance of Kimball Kinnison, and for the debut of Clarrisa MacDougall.]
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Mitchell, J. Leslie [James Leslie] (1901-1935)
[Scottish novelist]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Three Go Back
(1932)
[Science fiction novel: a "first class fantastic adventure story"
(C. A. Brandt, Amazing Stories, August 1932).
Passengers on a Zeppelin-type airship are travelling from Britain to
the U.S. They encounter some strange geological and weather phenomena,
and the airship crashes into an unexpected mountain, leaving only three
survivors, a young woman, a young man, and an elderly man. They see
some strange animals, notably a sabre-toothed tiger and a mastodon,
and start asking not only where they are but also when
they are. Many adventures follow in this elegant and original tale of
adventure. Note: Our text is based on the 1953 Galaxy edition.]
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SMITH -- BUT ONE SET OUTSIDE HIS INSTRUMENTALITY OF MANKIND UNIVERSE !!
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Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Angerhelm
(1959)
[Short story, not part of the Instrumentality of Mankind series:
it is clearly influenced by Smith's stellar career in military
intelligence, and features Nelson Angerhelm, allegedly
"a 62-year-old retired poultry farmer" living in Hopkins, Minnesota.
Why is the FBI so interested in him? And the Russians too!]
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Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Under Old Earth
(February, 1966)
[Story, meditative in tone, as befits one of the final instalments of the Instrumentality of Mankind series. Lord Sto Odin contemplates the passing of time: "I have had zeal for work and I have mistaken it for zeal in living. They are not the same."]
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2017/10/03:
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[German playwright and poet / dramaturge et poète allemand]
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Das Erdbeben in Chili
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[Novella in German / Nouvelle en allemand.
Das Erdbeben des Titels macht die kirchliche und staatliche Rechtsprechung zu Nichte. In der Folge setzen sich in Abwesenheit der staatlichen Ordnung zwischenmenschliche Güte und Barmherzigkeit durch. Bei Wiederherstellung der kirchlichen Ordnung und der damit einher gehenden Sündenvorstellung kommt es zu einem Ausbruch menschlicher Gewalt, der Schuldige wie Unschuldige zum Opfer fallen.]
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2017/10/02:
WIR PRÄSENTIEREN IHNEN... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE !!
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[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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2017/09/30:
OUR SECOND NOVEL BY S. FOWLER WRIGHT !!
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Wright, S. Fowler [Sydney Fowler] (1874-1965)
[English translator, poet, and novelist]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Adventure of Wyndham Smith
(1938)
[Novel set in the distant future. Human existence has become very
convenient: "the abolition of war. The abolition of nationality.
The abolition of social inequalities. The abolition of the barbarisms
of competition. The control or abolition of every form of animal or
insect life. The control of climate, with the consequent abolition
of extremes of temperature, or discomforts of tempest. The almost
absolute abolition of disease. Finally, the abolition of pain..."
Why then do most of earth's five million inhabitants favour a
single mass suicide? And what if someone disagrees with the idea?]
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2017/09/26:
OUR FIRST EBOOK BY ENGLAND'S EXTRAORDINARY S. FOWLER WRIGHT !!
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Wright, S. Fowler [Sydney Fowler] (1874-1965)
[English translator, poet, and novelist]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Island of Captain Sparrow
(1928)
[Novel, with elements of fantasy: for example, satyrs.
An island in the Pacific Ocean has some mysterious inhabitants.
Could they have anything to do with the legendary pirate
Captain Andrew Sparrow of the Fighting Sue?]
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Huxley, Aldous [Aldous Leonard] (1894-1963) [English novelist and essayist]
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Crome Yellow
(1921)
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[Aldous Huxley's first novel, light and satirical in tone.
Henry Wimbush is giving a house party at his country
home--and what an extraordinary range of characters he
has invited! "'Crome Yellow' is determinedly eccentric
and unflaggingly delightful." (John C. Farrar,
The Bookman [U.S.], April 1922)]
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2017/09/21:
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Those Barren Leaves
(1925)
Wikipedia
[Huxley's third novel, set in Italy: "a record of a house-party,
in which is gathered a group of diverting eccentrics who make
love in what time they can spare from their perpetual conversation.
And, as one of them exclaims, 'what a classy conversation!'--ranging
over all topics from love and death and art to the Etruscan language
and the breeding of mice and rabbits."
(T.K. Whipple, Saturday Review, 7 March 1925)]
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Huxley, Aldous [Aldous Leonard] (1894-1963) [English novelist and essayist]
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Antic Hay
(1923)
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[Satirical novel. Theodore Gumbril, a recent graduate of Oxford,
decides to quit his job as a schoolmaster: a voyage of discovery
follows. Very much a part of the reaction to the darkness of
the First World War.]
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2017/09/09: A COLLECTION OF TWELVE STORIES BY "SAPPER" !!
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Sapper [McNeile, Herman Cyril] (1888-1937)
[English novelist]
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The Dinner Club
(1923)
[Twelve short stories, by an author who was a popular rather than
a critical favourite, whose social views some might find offensive,
but whose huge commercial success shows that he definitely knew how
to please his audience!]
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2017/09/05: TODAY'S EBOOK IS A FASCINATING AND PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED
ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE OF THE D. G. S. NEPTUNE
TO CANADA'S ARCTIC ISLANDS -- WRITTEN BY ITS COMMANDER,
THE FAMOUS GEOLOGIST AND EXPLORER, A. P. LOW !!
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Low, A. P. [Albert Peter] (1861-1942)
[Canadian geologist and explorer]
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Report on the Dominion Government Expedition to
Hudson Bay and the Arctic Islands
on board the D. G. S. Neptune, 1903-1904
(1906)
[As of 1903, little was known about Canada's Arctic
archipelago. The expedition of the Neptune
changed all that, as will be clear
from this magnificent illustrated account by its commander.
Note: Students of Canada's exploration will
also want to read Sergeant Henry Larsen's account of the
Arctic voyages of the St. Roch -- which you will
find in the Project Gutenberg Canada catalogue!]
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2017/09/04:
TO BRING THE LABOUR DAY WEEKEND TO A FINE CONCLUSION,
OUR THIRD EBOOK AND OUR FIRST NOVEL BY... VIRGINIA WOOLF !!
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Woolf, Virginia [Adeline Virginia] (1882-1941)
[English novelist and essayist]
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The Waves
(1931)
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[Novel, highly esteemed by connoisseurs of Virginia Woolf.
Six linked characters consider their life stories thus far.]
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2017/09/02:
HAPPY LABOUR DAY WEEKEND! FOR THIS FINAL SUMMER WEEKEND,
MAY WE SUGGEST "DOC" SMITH'S FOURTH AND FINAL SKYLARK NOVEL !!
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Smith, Edward E. [Elmer] "Doc" (1890-1965)
[American chemist and science fiction author]
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Skylark DuQuesne
(1966)
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[The fourth and final novel in Smith's Skylark tetralogy,
written years later than the three earlier novels -- in fact,
it was Smith's final novel, bringing to a close his resplendent
career as one of the principal creators of modern science fiction.]
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2017/08/26: OUR FOURTH NOVEL FEATURING HORATIO HORNBLOWER !!
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Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott]
[Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966]
[English novelist]
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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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2017/08/22:
OUR SECOND MYSTERY NOVEL BY EARL DERR BIGGERS !!
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Biggers, Earl Derr (1884-1933) [American novelist]
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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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2017/08/20:
THIS WEEK WE'VE SPENT SOME TIME WITH HORATIO HORNBLOWER AND
THE ROYAL NAVY. TODAY WE RETURN TO OUTER SPACE WITH A FAMOUS
SHORT STORY BY CORDWAINER SMITH -- HIS FINAL STORY FEATURING
CASHER O'NEILL !!
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Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
On the Sand Planet
(December 1965)
[The last of the four Casher O'Neill stories, well summarized
in the preface provided by an anonymous author:
"This time Casher O'Neill returns to his home world of Mizzer
determined to free it from tyranny, but before long that mission
fades before a far more difficult problem--how to find meaning
in life when he has accomplished everything he set out to do."
Solving this problem might take him to some distant places,
such as the Ninth Nile -- or even the Thirteenth Nile!]
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2017/08/19: IT'S 1803, WAR WITH NAPOLEON IS APPROACHING,
AND HORATIO HORNBLOWER, NEWLY PROMOTED TO COMMANDER,
HAS BEEN ASSIGNED H. M. SLOOP HOTSPUR !!
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Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott]
[Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966]
[English novelist]
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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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2017/08/12: OUR SECOND NOVEL FROM C. S. FORESTER'S IMMORTAL
HORATIO HORNBLOWER SERIES -- SET IN THE
ROYAL NAVY DURING THE TIME OF NAPOLEON !!
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Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott]
[Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966]
[English novelist]
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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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2017/08/08: TODAY'S EBOOK WAS SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S PERSONAL FAVOURITE
AMONG ALL OF HIS NOVELS !!
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Maugham, W. Somerset [William Somerset] (1874-1965)
[English novelist and playwright]
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Cakes and Ale
(1930)
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[Maugham's personal favourite among all his novels.
A biography is being planned of the late novelist
Edward Driffield. Everyone knows Driffield's second
wife, Amy. But what role was played in his life by
his curiously obscure first wife, Rosie?
"As an example of the storyteller's art,
'Cakes and Ale' is a masterpiece unsurpassed
in our language in our time."
(Alexander Woollcott, Saturday Review.
23 October 1937)]
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2017/08/05:
FOR THE AUGUST LONG WEEKEND, A VERY FAMOUS NOVEL...
SET IN THE CARIBBEAN, AND FEATURING JAMES BOND !!
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Fleming, Ian [Ian Lancaster] (1908-1964)
[English intelligence officer and novelist]
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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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2017/07/30:
FAMOUS SCIENCE FICTION TODAY, NOT FROM CORDWAINER SMITH,
BUT FROM EDWARD E. "DOC" SMITH -- THE TWO LIVED AT MUCH
THE SAME TIME, WROTE IN QUITE DIFFERENT STYLES, AND BOTH ARE
ENDURING CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION !!
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Smith, Edward E. [Elmer] "Doc" (1890-1965)
[American chemist and science fiction author]
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Skylark Three
(1948 version)
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[In spite of its name, the second of the four Skylark novels,
marking the return of Dick Seaton from the first novel.
"In 'Skylark Three' our old friends. Richard Seaton and Martin
Crane and their glamorous wives, are back, exploring ever-greater
sweeps of the galaxy, defeating ever-greater enemies with ever-greater
feats of science, and having a very good time doing it..."
(P. Schuyler Miller, Astounding Science Fiction, September 1949).
Science fiction legend Frederik Pohl commented that "precisely because
Dr. Smith's stories cannot be judged by conventional literary standards,
they set their own standards as science fiction. Before Dr. Smith,
science fiction was a timorous groping within fixed limits of the
'believable'. Dr. Smith removed the limits, and freed every science-fiction
writer who came after him. His stories are neither literature nor art,
but they are magnificent entertainment for every science-fiction reader."
(Super Science Stories, July 1949).
If you would like to read the original serialized version
(Amazing Stories, August-October 1930), you will find it at
Project Gutenberg US.]
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2017/07/23:
TODAY'S STORY BY CORDWAINER SMITH IS NOT PART OF
HIS FAMOUS INSTRUMENTALITY OF MANKIND SERIES --
INSTEAD, THE TALE BEGINS IN THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATION
OF THE INDUS VALLEY !!
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Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Fife of Bodidharma
(June 1959)
[Short story, quite separate from the Instrumentality of Mankind series.
In the Indus valley
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thousands of years ago, "a goldsmith accidentally found a formula
to make a magical fife." During its eventful history, the fife at
one point becomes the property of the Buddhist teacher Bodhidharma
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and eventually makes its way to twentieth-century Huntsville, Alabama!]
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2017/07/21:
CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION TODAY, FROM CORDWAINER SMITH !!
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Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Drunkboat
(October 1963)
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["Perhaps it is the saddest, maddest, wildest story in the
whole long history of space," our author comments: it has
to do with a very special form of space travel. Our hero
is named Artyr Rambo: if you think that there is a significant
similarity here to the name of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud,
you are correct! One of Rimbaud's longest and most famous
poems is Le Bateau ivre
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fr.wikisource,
the title of which can be reasonably translated as Drunkboat.]
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2017/07/14: IT WAS IN 2008, BEFORE WE OFFERED THE EPUB FORMAT,
THAT WE FIRST BROUGHT YOU JOSEPHINE TEY'S FAMOUS MYSTERY BRAT
FARRAR. AS OF TODAY, WE'VE ADDED AN EPUB VERSION TO JOIN OUR
EARLIER HTML AND TEXT VERSIONS !!
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Tey, Josephine [Elizabeth MacKintosh] (1896-1952) [Scottish novelist and playwright]
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Brat Farrar (1949)
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[Mystery novel, set near the south coast of England in the 1940s:
a tale of impersonation and intrigue.]
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2017/07/12:
A SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA, AND A FAMOUS ONE, BY CORDWAINER SMITH !!
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Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Dead Lady of Clown Town
(August 1964)
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[Science fiction novella, an important one in Cordwainer
Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind series. It is
a story of heroism, transformation, and martyrdom on the
planet Formalhaut III, the principal characters being the
good witch Elaine and the dog-girl D'Joan. Their actions
will have momentous consequences in generations to come.]
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2017/07/09: TODAY WE PUBLISH JOSEPHINE TEY'S VERY FIRST NOVEL
FEATURING INSPECTOR ALAN GRANT -- WHICH MEANS THAT
WE NOW OFFER ALL SIX OF THE ALAN GRANT NOVELS !!
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Tey, Josephine [Elizabeth MacKintosh] (1896-1952) [Scottish novelist and playwright]
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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)]
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2017/07/05:
FROM 1964, A FAMOUS SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA BY CORDWAINER SMITH !!
Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal
(May 1964)
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[Science fiction novella, examining among other things the implications
of an all-male society. "The glory and the crime of Commander Suzdal,"
says our author, "have been told in a thousand different ways. Don't let
yourself realize that the story really is the truth." Which naturally
suggest that it is the truth. You be the judge!]
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2017/07/02:
YES, WE KNOW IT'S A LITTLE EARLY (CHRISTMAS IS A LONG WAY OFF), BUT STILL,
THERE'S NO WRONG TIME TO PUBLISH AN EXCELLENT EBOOK -- SUCH AS THIS VERY
SHORT CHRISTMAS STORY, OUR SECOND TITLE BY THE FAMED ENGLISH MYSTERY WRITER
MARGERY ALLINGHAM !!
Allingham, Margery [Youngman Carter, Margery Louise]
(1904-1966) [English mystery novelist]
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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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2017/07/01: HAPPY CANADA DAY!
IT'S THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF CONFEDERATION --
AND THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TEN YEARS OF SUPPORT! OUR EBOOK TODAY IS
OUR NINTH TITLE FROM MAZO DE LA ROCHE'S ENDLESSLY FASCINATING
JALNA DYNASTIC EPIC. IT COULDN'T BE MORE CANADIAN --
OR A BETTER SUMMERTIME READ !!
de la Roche, Mazo (1879-1961)
[Canadian novelist and playwright]
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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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2017/06/27:
A SHORT AND EXCELLENT SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL BY CORDWAINER SMITH !!
Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Boy Who Bought Old Earth
(April 1964)
[Science fiction novella. Rod McBan was a rich kid from the wealthiest
planet in the galaxy, and he bought Earth without even realizing what
he had done. "He came to Earth, got what he wanted and got away alive,
in a series of very remarkable adventures. That's the story." But of
course there's much more to the story than that!]
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2017/06/24:
THE SUMMER READING SEASON IS WELL AND TRULY STARTED!
TODAY'S EBOOK IS A HOTEL NOVEL, THE LAST AND LONGEST
NOVEL BY THE LEGENDARY ARNOLD BENNETT !!
Bennett, Arnold [Enoch Arnold] (1867-1931)
[English novelist]
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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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2017/06/18:
FLANNERY O'CONNOR, ONE OF THE U.S. SOUTH'S MOST FAMOUS
AUTHORS, WROTE ONLY TWO NOVELS -- AS OF TODAY, BOTH OF
THEM ARE IN THE PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA CATALOGUE !!
O'Connor, Flannery [Mary Flannery] (1925-1964)
[American novelist]
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The Violent Bear It Away
(1960)
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[Novel. Can Mason Tarwater, a teenager in the American South,
truly have a calling to become a prophet? After the death
of his great-uncle, he sets off on a voyage of discovery.
"Miss O'Connor tells the story with stark power, making every
detail carry its full weight... Her prose is strong, supple,
at times full of beauty, never pretentious. From any point of
view, 'The Violent Bear It Away' is a distinguished piece of work."
(Granville Hicks, Saturday Review, 27 February 1960)]
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2017/06/11:
TODAY WE WELCOME FLANNERY O'CONNOR TO OUR CATALOGUE. SHE WAS FROM THE AMERICAN
SOUTH, SHE WAS ROMAN CATHOLIC, AND SHE WROTE BEAUTIFULLY. WE'RE DELIGHTED TO OFFER
A NEW DIGITAL EDITION OF HER FIRST NOVEL !!
O'Connor, Flannery [Mary Flannery] (1925-1964)
[American novelist]
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Wise Blood
(1952)
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[Flannery O'Connor's first novel. The Second World War has ended,
and Hazel Motes has returned to his native Tennessee.
If he was looking for peace and quiet, that's not what he finds.
Instead, he embarks on a road trip -- no ordinary road trip!]
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2017/06/05:
A SCIENCE FICTION STORY BY H. PIPER BEAM !!
Piper, H. Beam [Henry Beam] (1904-1964)
[American science fiction author]
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Down Styphon!
(November 1965)
[Piper's final science fiction short story, carrying forward the story
of Lord Kalvan, whose earlier history is told in the full-length novel
Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen -- also available from Project Gutenberg Canada!]
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2017/06/04:
MANY YEARS AFTER PUBLISHING BRAVE NEW WORLD
(YES, THERE'S A PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA EBOOK!), ALDOUS
HUXLEY ASKED HIMSELF WHETHER HIS VISION OF THE FUTURE
STILL SEEMED LIKELY. QUICK ANSWER: IT MOST CERTAINLY DID !!
Huxley, Aldous [Aldous Leonard] (1894-1963) [English novelist and essayist]
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Brave New World Revisited
(1958)
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[Extended essay. Huxley considers whether the predictions of
the future in his novel Brave New World still seemed
accurate. His conclusion? "The prophecies made in 1931 are coming
true much sooner than I thought they would."]
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2017/06/02:
A (VERY) SHORT STORY BY CORDWAINER SMITH !!
Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Good Friends
(October 1963)
[Science fiction story, a very short one. Many things really
do happen in space. Others are merely imagined.]
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2017/05/31:
OUR LATEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL BY "DOC" SMITH -- SET
IN HIS LENSMAN UNIVERSE !!
Smith, Edward E. [Elmer] "Doc" (1890-1965)
[American chemist and science fiction author]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Vortex Blaster
(1960)
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[Science fiction novel, based on several short stories that
Smith had written in the early forties. Atomic vortices
threaten planetary destruction! Enter Neal "Storm" Cloud, an
engineer or more precisely a nucleonicist of extraordinary
abilities -- somewhat like Smith himself! Set in the Lensman
universe, but not strictly speaking a Lensman novel,
since it has no characters from the continuing story that
binds the other novels together. Alternate title from the
1968 edition: Masters of the Vortex.]
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2017/05/28:
OUR THIRD NOVEL THIS MONTH BY JOHN BUCHAN IS SET
IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, BELGIUM... AND GREENLAND !!
Buchan, John [first Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield] (1875-1940)
[Scottish novelist; Governor General of Canada 1935-1940]
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Queens University Archives
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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2017/05/25:
AN ACTION NOVEL BY JOHN BUCHAN -- SET IN SOUTH AMERICA !!
Buchan, John [first Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield] (1875-1940)
[Scottish novelist; Governor General of Canada 1935-1940]
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Queens University Archives
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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2017/05/22:
AN AUTHOR OF EVELYN WAUGH'S QUALITY DESERVES A SPECIAL KIND OF WELCOME
TO OUR CATALOGUE! YESTERDAY WE PRESENTED DECLINE AND FALL, TODAY
IT'S OUR PLEASURE TO END THE VICTORIA DAY HOLIDAY WEEKEND WITH HIS
FAMOUS SATIRE OF THE FUNERAL TRADE, THE LOVED ONE !!
Waugh, Evelyn [Arthur Evelyn St John] (1903-1966)
[English novelist, biographer, artist, and travel writer]
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The Loved One. An Anglo-American Tragedy.
(1965 version of the 1948 original
edition, with a new preface)
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[In 1947, Evelyn Waugh visited Hollywood to discuss a possible film version
of his novel Brideshead Revisited. No film was forthcoming, but
the visit was hardly a waste of Waugh's time. His visit to Forest Lawn
Memorial Park
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led directly to his writing this satirical novella: "a little jewel
of a yarn" (Ben Ray Redman, Saturday Review, 26 June 1948).]
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2017/05/21:
EVELYN WAUGH WAS A DEVOTED MONARCHIST AND A VERY FINE
NOVELIST. WE'VE DECIDED TO CELEBRATE VICTORIA DAY
AND LAUNCH THE SUMMER READING SEASON WITH WAUGH'S
FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL, A MASTERPIECE OF COMEDY.
AND WE'VE INCLUDED WAUGH'S OWN ILLUSTRATIONS !!
Waugh, Evelyn [Arthur Evelyn St John] (1903-1966)
[English novelist, biographer, artist, and travel writer]
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Decline and Fall
(1962 revised version of the 1928 original
edition, with a new preface)
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[Waugh's first published novel, a comic masterpiece, acclaimed at the
time of its publication and ever since. Paul Pennyfeather,
a theology student at Oxford, finds himself unexpectedly
launched on a new career as a schoolmaster. Our ebook is
based on the 1962 edition, which included Waugh's fine
illustrations and a new preface. It also restored certain
passages which had been altered in the 1928 first edition.]
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2017/05/20:
TO START THE LONG WEEKEND, A SHORT STORY BY CORDWAINER SMITH !!
Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
From Gustible's Planet
(July 1962)
[Science fiction story, a short but memorable one. Angary J.
Gustible discovers the planet named after him. But, as our author
reports, "The discovery turned out to be a tragic mistake."]
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2017/05/19:
CORDWAINER SMITH DID NOT WRITE A HUGE NUMBER
OF SCIENCE FICTION STORIES, BUT THEY ARE SUPERB!
WITH TODAY'S TITLE, WE NOW OFFER A FULL DOZEN
OF HIS STORIES !!
Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Store Of Heart's Desire
(May 1964)
[Science fiction story; a section (somewhat edited)
of Smith's novel Norstrilia, which would not
be published until 1975
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"Norstrilia", in case you are wondering, was originally
known as "Old North Australia", and you would be correct
in surmising that this story takes place in the distant
future!]
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2017/05/15:
OUR NEW EBOOK TODAY IS THE THIRD OF CORDWAINER SMITH'S CLASSIC SCIENCE
FICTION STORIES FEATURING CASHER O'NEILL !!
Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Three To A Given Star
(October 1965)
[Science fiction short story, the third in the four-part
Casher O'Neill series. "You were a beautiful woman once,"
remarks a character at the start of the second chapter.
"How did you end up becoming a ship?" A spaceship, that is!]
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2017/05/13:
TODAY, A CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA BY... CORDWAINER SMITH !!
Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
On the Storm Planet
(February 1965)
[Cordwainer Smith's second story featuring Casher O'Neill,
who has been ordered by the Administrator of the planet Henriada
to kill a girl -- an order the Administrator has been issuing annually
for the last eighty years, without result. "She isn't even a girl,
to start with. Just an underperson. Some kind of an animal turned
into a domestic servant." We're certainly inside the unusual world
of Cordwainer Smith!]
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2017/05/09:
A HISTORICAL NOVEL BY JOHN BUCHAN, SET IN THE TIMES OF BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE !!
Buchan, John [first Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield] (1875-1940)
[Scottish novelist; Governor General of Canada 1935-1940]
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Queens University Archives
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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2017/05/05:
SWEDISH AUTHOR AND PHYSICIAN AXEL MUNTHE
FIRST ENTERED OUR CATALOGUE SIX YEARS AGO.
TODAY WE'RE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT HIS MOST FAMOUS
WORK, A WONDERFUL SET OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS !!
Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik (1857-1949)
[Swedish physician and author]
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The Story of San Michele
(1929)
[The Villa San Michele
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is located on the island of Capri. This is the
story not so much of the villa as of our author,
and not so much of him as of the people and places
he knew, told in the form of thirty-two essays.
"When a man combines the glory of far-flung adventure
with service to mankind and, moreover, in the
seventh decade of his life writes a stimulating
autobiography, then we have reason to rejoice,
for his adventures may be ours, his thoughts
our thoughts, and his philosophy of life can
be absorbed from his pages. Dr. Munthe has
written such a book, unique in contents, joyous
in tone, quick in pace, at times brilliant,
usually informative, and always interesting."
(Henry R. Viets, M.D., Saturday Review,
1 February 1930) Our ebook includes the author's
"special preface for the American Edition" written
shortly after the book's original publication.]
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2017/05/02:
OUR FIRST NOVEL BY EARL DERR BIGGERS -- SET IN HAWAII, AND
FEATURING DETECTIVE CHARLIE CHAN !!
Biggers, Earl Derr (1884-1933) [American novelist]
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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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2017/04/30:
FIVE SHORT STORIES FEATURING... JAMES BOND !!
Fleming, Ian [Ian Lancaster] (1908-1964)
[English intelligence officer and novelist]
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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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2017/04/28:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS "DOC" SMITH'S PERSONAL FAVOURITE
OF ALL OF HIS SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS !!
Smith, Edward E. [Elmer] "Doc" (1890-1965)
[American chemist and science fiction author]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Spacehounds of IPC
(1947 version)
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[Science fiction novel, Smith's personal favourite
among his novels: it concerns "IPC", that is, the
Inter-Planetary Corporation. At the start of the novel,
the Inter-Planetary Vessel ("IPV") Arcturus is
preparing for its trip to Mars, a trip which should be
routine. It turns out to be far from routine! The novel
is notable for the introduction of tractor beams
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction,
which will be familiar to admirers of Star Trek
and other works of science fiction. Note:
Our edition is based on the 1966 Ace paperback edition
of the 1947 Fantasy Press version. The novel had first
appeared in Amazing Stories from July to September
1931, and had included changes not authorized by the author.
You will find this 1931 version at
Project Gutenberg US.]
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2017/04/23:
A SCIENCE FICTION STORY BY CORDWAINER SMITH -- EXCEPTIONALLY, ONE
THAT STANDS OUTSIDE HIS INSTRUMENTALITY OF MANKIND SERIES !!
Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Western Science Is So Wonderful
(December 1958)
[Science fiction story, quite separate from Smith's
Instrumentality of Mankind sequence. At the
story's beginning, a Martian is sitting at the top
of a cliff -- but "he had taken on the shape of a small
fir tree... At the bottom of the cliff stood an American,
the first the Martian had ever seen." Welcome to the
world of Cordwainer Smith!]
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2017/04/18:
A LATE AND EXCELLENT SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA BY... DOC SMITH !!
Smith, Edward E. [Elmer] "Doc" (1890-1965)
[American chemist and science fiction author]
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The Imperial Stars
(May 1964)
[Science fiction novella. In the future, there will still be travelling
circuses, but they will travel not around the world, but around the galaxy.
Meet "The Flying d'Alemberts"!]
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2017/04/16:
A SCIENCE FICTION STORY BY CORDWAINER SMITH -- SET AT THE END
OF STALINIST RUSSIA !!
Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
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No, No, Not Rogov!
(February 1959)
[Science fiction story. Nikolai Rogov is a loyal servant of the Soviet Union:
"an academician of the All Union Academy of Sciences, a major general in the Red Air Force, a professor in the University of Kharkov". Jamming radio signals is one thing
-- but can Comrade Rogov jam human thought?]
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2017/04/14:
A SPACE TRAVEL VIGNETTE FROM A.D. 2500 -- BY CORDWAINER SMITH !!
Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
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The Burning of the Brain
(October 1958)
[Science fiction short story. By the year 2500, space travel at speeds
faster than light has become routine. But problems can still happen!]
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2017/04/12:
OUR CORDWAINER SMITH CELEBRATION CONTINUES !!
Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
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Think Blue, Count Two
(February 1963)
[In the early days of space travel, when the speed of light
was still a limiting factor, interstellar travellers
"knew nothing, except for going to sleep on earth
and waking up on a strange new world forty, fifty
or two hundred years later." Of course, things
could happen during these gigantic voyages...]
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2017/04/11:
CORDWAINER SMITH'S FIRST SCIENCE FICTION STORY FEATURING CASHER O'NEILL !!
Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
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On the Gem Planet
(October 1963)
[Science fiction story featuring Casher O'Neill
"a wanderer among the planets, thirsting for justice
and yet hoping in his innermost thoughts that 'justice'
was not just another word for revenge".]
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2017/04/10:
OUR LATEST STORY FROM CORDWAINER SMITH'S
INSTRUMENTALITY OF MANKIND SCIENCE FICTION SERIES !!
Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
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A Planet Named Shayol
(October 1961)
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[Shayol is a prison planet. It's also a sort of farm,
where replacement organs are grown, with the help of
the prisoners!]
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2017/04/08:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS ONE OF CORDWAINER SMITH'S MOST
FAMOUS SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORIES !!
Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
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The Ballad of Lost C'mell
(October 1962)
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[One of Smith's most famous science fiction short stories,
often reprinted. "She was a girly-girl", the story starts,
but we quickly learn that "She was not even of human extraction.
She was cat-derived, though human in outward shape,
which explains the C in front of her name." You'll
find more details in the Wikipedia article: but why
not head right into the story?]
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2017/04/06:
AFTER WORLD WAR I ENDED, NORDHOFF AND HALL WENT TO POLYNESIA --
AND WROTE THE FIRST OF THEIR FAMOUS BOOKS ABOUT THE SOUTH SEAS !!
Nordhoff, Charles Bernard (1887-1947)
[American novelist]
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Hall, James Norman (1887-1951)
[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.]
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2017/04/04:
TWENTY-TWO YEARS OF NAVAL SERVICE, FOLLOWED BY LITERARY STUDIES
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: A GOOD BACKGROUND FOR WRITING
A MAJOR NOVEL, YOU MIGHT SAY, PERHAPS ABOUT LIFE IN THE NAVY.
AND YOU'D BE RIGHT !!
McKenna, Richard [Richard Milton] (1913-1964)
[American sailor and novelist]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Sand Pebbles
(1962)
[Novel about life on a U.S. Navy vessel stationed
in China as part of the Yangtze Patrol
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McKenna was himself a navy veteran, with experience
in China: few novels combine entertainment and
instruction so expertly. The book was a huge
success, as was Robert Wise's celebrated movie
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starring Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough.]
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2017/03/31:
THESE DAYS WE'RE TALKING BREXIT: BRITAIN IS PERHAPS "LEAVING" EUROPE.
BUT IN A.D. 43 EUROPE ARRIVED IN BRITAIN, BIG TIME! THE ROMAN
EMPEROR CLAUDIUS SUCCESSFULLY INVADED AND INAUGURATED THREE CENTURIES
OF ROMAN RULE. (HEY, CLAUDIUS, DID YOU HOLD A REFERENDUM?)
SERIOUSLY, THIS NOVEL BY HENRY TREECE WILL ENTERTAIN
AND INSTRUCT -- WHAT MORE COULD A READER ASK FOR !!
Treece, Henry [Henry William] (1911-1966)
[English poet and historical novelist]
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Legions of the Eagle
(1954)
[Historical novel. Julius Caesar had twice briefly landed
in Britain, but these expeditions had no lasting consequences.
In AD 43, however, the emperor Claudius invaded Britain
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The Romans would be in Britain for the following three
centuries. This novel tells the story of the invasion:
skilful writing and memorable characters make this the
most agreeable way imaginable of learning some important
history.]
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2017/03/29:
WE CELEBRATE THE ARRIVAL IN OUR CATALOGUE OF DAMON RUNYON,
CHRONICLER OF MANHATTAN LIFE DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF BROADWAY !!
Runyon, Damon [Runyan, Alfred Damon] (1880-1946)
[American sports journalist and author]
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More Than Somewhat
(1937)
[Collection of Runyon's famous stories about New York City,
selected and with a preface by the famous English satirical
poet and mystery novelist
E. C. Bentley (1875-1956)
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who says: "I do not expect any other [writer] in the future to make crime,
and violence, and dissipation, and predatory worthlessness, together
with occasional off-hand decency where you would least expect it, as
keenly interesting and as frantically funny as Damon Runyon does."]
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2017/03/27:
OUR SECOND STORY BY SCIENCE FICTION LEGEND CORDWAINER SMITH !!
Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
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Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons
(June 1961)
[Science fiction short story. Who, you may ask, is Mother Hitton?
The Weapons Mistress of Old North Australia, it would seem.
What are her "kittons"? If you're asking that question,
you really should read the story!]
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2017/03/24:
IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE WE'VE OFFERED YOU A JAMES BOND
NOVEL -- TODAY'S EBOOK IS ONE OF OUR PERSONAL FAVOURITES,
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER !!
Fleming, Ian [Ian Lancaster] (1908-1964)
[English intelligence officer and novelist]
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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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2017/03/22:
WE WELCOME TO OUR CATALOGUE THE HISTORICAL NOVELIST
HENRY TREECE, FAMOUS IN PARTICULAR FOR HIS NOVELS
ABOUT THE VIKINGS, SUCH AS TODAY'S EBOOK !!
Treece, Henry [Henry William] (1911-1966)
[English poet and historical novelist]
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The Last of the Vikings
(1964)
[Historical novel about the astounding life of Harald Hardrada
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King of Norway 1046-1066, and much, much more.]
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2017/03/20:
TODAY IS A DAY FOR CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION -- WE WELCOME
CORDWAINER SMITH TO OUR CATALOGUE !!
Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966)
[American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author]
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When the People Fell
(April 1959)
[Science fiction short story. A reporter asks Dobyns Bennett about
current events, but Bennett is only interested in talking about the
time of his youth, three hundred years earlier: "You bet I was there
when the Goonhogo took Venus"!]
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2017/03/17:
THE GREAT FANTASY CLASSIC BY E. R. EDDISON —
YES, WE'VE ADDED THE WORM OUROBOROS TO OUR CATALOGUE !!
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]
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2017/03/13: OUR NINTH BOOK BY ANNA BUCHAN IS A FINE NOVEL
OF DOMESTIC LIFE, SET IN SCOTLAND. IT'S A SEQUEL
TO THE PROPER PLACE -- ALSO AVAILABLE FROM
PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA !!
Buchan, Anna Masterton [Douglas, O.] (1877-1948)
[Scottish novelist]
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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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2017/03/11:
OUR SECOND SCIENCE FICTION STORY BY JOHN RUSSELL FEARN !!
Fearn, John Russell (1908-1960)
[English science fiction author]
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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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2017/03/09:
TODAY WE ADD TO OUR CATALOGUE DASHIELL HAMMETT'S VERY
FIRST NOVEL -- WHICH MEANS THAT WE NOW OFFER ALL FIVE
OF HIS NOVELS !!
Hammett, Dashiell [Samuel Dashiell] (1894-1961)
[American author and political activist]
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Red Harvest
(February 1929)
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[Novel, featuring Hammett's famous creation, the detective
known only as the Continental Op
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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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2017/03/07:
DASHIELL HAMMETT'S PERSONAL FAVOURITE AMONG HIS NOVELS -- THE GLASS KEY !!
Hammett, Dashiell [Samuel Dashiell] (1894-1961)
[American author and political activist]
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The Glass Key
(April 1931)
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[Mystery novel, set in an amoral world of crime and corruption.
Hammett's own choice as his best novel.]
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2017/03/04:
OUR FIRST EBOOK BY THE CELEBRATED MYSTERY WRITER MARGERY ALLINGHAM !!
Allingham, Margery [Youngman Carter, Margery Louise]
(1904-1966) [English mystery novelist]
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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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2017/03/02:
IT'S BEEN OUR PLEASURE TO PRESENT FOUR OF "DOC" SMITH'S
FAMOUS LENSMAN SCIENCE FICTION SERIES. TODAY
WE ADD TO OUR CATALOGUE THE FIRST OF HIS SKYLARK NOVELS !!
Smith, Edward E. [Elmer] "Doc" (1890-1965)
[American chemist and science fiction author]
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The Skylark of Space
(1958 version)
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[Science fiction novel, the first of the four Skylark novels
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This first novel was written in collaboration with Smith's friend
Mrs Lee Hawkins Garby
(1890[1892?]-1953)
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Our hero, Dick Seaton, invents a space drive; but Marc DuQuesne,
"a fellow research man", has similar ambitions. Commercial intrigue
and indeed sabotage follow, across the solar system and beyond.
The novel has a complicated publication history, first appearing
in 1928 as a serial, being published in book form in 1946, and then
appearing in a final 1958 version "specially revised by the author".
Our ebook is of this final version, which, unlike earlier editions,
does not specifically credit Mrs Garby. The 1928 version is actually
longer than the 1958 revision: you can find it at
Project Gutenberg US.]
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2017/02/28:
THE NOVEL WHICH STARTED IT ALL -- E. E. "DOC" SMITH'S
TRIPLANETARY, THE FIRST OF HIS LEGENDARY LENSMAN
SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS !!
Smith, Edward E. [Elmer] "Doc" (1890-1965)
[American chemist and science fiction author]
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Triplanetary
(1965 version)
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[The first novel in the Lensman series, taking us from early in
the history of the universe up to the invention of the inertialess
drive, which transforms space travel. Some important characters
are introduced: the stage is now set for the Lensman novels to come!
The original version was published in four instalments from January
through April 1934. The 1948 revised version expanded the earlier
version and linked it with the Lensman novels which had appeared
during the intervening years. If you are interested in reading
the original 1934 version, you will find it at
Project Gutenberg US.]
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2017/02/21:
OUR FIFTH TITLE BY E. E. "DOC" SMITH'S -- AND OUR THIRD FROM HIS
LEGENDARY LENSMAN SERIES !!
Smith, Edward E. [Elmer] "Doc" (1890-1965)
[American chemist and science fiction author]
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First Lensman
(1964 version)
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[Science fiction novel, written later than most of the other
Lensman novels, but second in narrative order.
Virgil Samms of the Solarian Council is given a special mission:
"You will go down in history as First Lensman Samms...
the man whose wide vision and tremendous grasp made it possible
for the Galactic Patrol to become what it is to be."]
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2017/02/19:
WE WELCOME ENGLISH SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR JOHN RUSSELL FEARN
-- WHO ENJOYED ESPECIAL POPULARITY IN CANADA !!
Fearn, John Russell (1908-1960)
[English science fiction author]
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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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2017/02/17:
THE THIRD NOVEL OF E. E. "DOC" SMITH'S LENSMAN SERIES
-- A SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC !!
Smith, Edward E. [Elmer] "Doc" (1890-1965)
[American chemist and science fiction author]
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Galactic Patrol
(1964 version)
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[Science fiction novel, the third in the Lensman
series; original version published in six instalments
from September 1937 through February 1938; a book version followed in 1950.
The novel tells the story of the early career of Kimball Kinnison
from the moment he finishes his training and joins the Galactic Patrol. Similarities to Star Trek and other works abound, and no wonder: the Lensman series has had
a huge influence on modern science fiction.]
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2017/02/11: WE WELCOME TO OUR CATALOGUE C. S. FORESTER'S IMMORTAL
CREATION, HORATIO HORNBLOWER OF THE ROYAL NAVY !!
Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott]
[Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966]
[English novelist]
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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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2017/02/07: OUR THIRD TITLE BY C.S. FORESTER !!
Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott]
[Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966]
[English novelist]
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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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2017/02/05: AS OF TODAY, WE OFFER ALL SEVEN OF CHARLES WILLIAMS'
THEOLOGICAL NOVELS !!
Williams, Charles Walter Stansby (1886-1945)
[English novelist, theologian, and poet]
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The Charles Williams Society
Shadows of Ecstasy
(1933)
[Novel, actually Williams' first novel, but published some years
after he wrote it. It starts off at the University of London,
where Roger Ingram, recently appointed to the university, is
at a banquet proposing a toast to a famous explorer recently
returned from South America. Of course, this is a Charles
Williams novel, so vaster plotlines quickly emerge, involving
the continent of Africa and the possibility of achieving
personal immortality, for example.]
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2017/02/03: THOSE WHO CREATED HISTORY WRITE THE VERY BEST HISTORY BOOKS --
SUCH AS TODAY'S ACCOUNT OF CANADA'S NORTH-WEST PASSAGE BY ARCTIC
NAVIGATOR SERGEANT HENRY LARSEN !!
Larsen, Henry [Henry Asbjorn] (1899-1964) [Canadian explorer]
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The North-West Passage, 1940-1942 and 1944.
The Famous Voyages of the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police Schooner "St. Roch".
(1948)
[Seventy years ago, the High Arctic of Canada had been little explored.
But the RCMP had a ship in the northern seas, the St. Roch
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For much of its time in service it was commanded by
Sergeant Larsen, who wrote this personal account, richly illustrated,
of the ship's most famous voyages.]
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2017/02/02: OUR LATEST INSTALMENT OF MAZO DE LA ROCHE'S WONDERFUL JALNA SERIES -- WE NOW OFFER EIGHT OF THE SIXTEEN MAGNIFICENT NOVELS IN THE SERIES.
FEW CLASSICS ARE SUCH A PURE PLEASURE TO READ !!
de la Roche, Mazo (1879-1961)
[Canadian novelist and playwright]
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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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2017/01/30: A FINE HISTORY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BY B. A. McKELVIE !!
McKelvie, Bruce Alistair (1889-1960)
[Canadian journalist, historian, and novelist]
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Pageant of B.C.: Glimpses into the romantic
development of Canada's far western province.
(1955)
[McKelvie's title is too modest: this is in essence a very well researched short
history of British Columbia to the end of the nineteenth century, written for
the general reader. Its more than 100 short chapters "first appeared in serial
form in The Vancouver Daily Province, between February 1953 and March 1955".]
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2017/01/28: A CLASSIC DASHIELL HAMMETT MYSTERY, SET IN SAN FRANCISCO !!
Hammett, Dashiell [Samuel Dashiell] (1894-1961)
[American author and political activist]
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The Dain Curse
(July 1929)
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[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
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2017/01/24: CYRIL HARE WAS FAMOUS FOR HIS MYSTERY NOVELS. BUT HE ALSO WROTE
A NOVEL FOR CHILDREN, THE MAGIC BOTTLE -- WHICH JOINS OUR
CATALOGUE TODAY !!
Hare, Cyril [Clark, Alfred Alexander Gordon] (1900-1958)
[English judge and novelist]
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The Magic Bottle
(1946)
[Novel for children. Two children find a strange bottle, which when
they accidentally uncork it, turns out to contain a djinn. They get
wishes (children's wishes, half-price), not necessarily in the manner
intended, but things work out in the end.]
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2017/01/22: C. S. FORESTER WROTE THE FAMOUS NAVAL NOVELS FEATURING HORATIO HORNBLOWER --
BUT HE ALSO WROTE SCIENCE FICTION !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY C. S. FORESTER UNTIL 2037 !!
Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott]
[Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966]
[English novelist]
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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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2017/01/19: TODAY, A NEW SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR JOINS OUR CATALOGUE — JACK BECHDOLT !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY JACK BECHDOLT UNTIL 2025 !!
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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2017/01/15: OUR FIRST EBOOK BY C. S. FORESTER -- WHO ENTERED CANADA'S
PUBLIC DOMAIN ON JANUARY 1ST OF THIS YEAR — BUT WOULD
HAVE HAD TO WAIT 20 YEARS IF THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP WERE
IN EFFECT TODAY !!
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IF THIS TYRANNICAL "TRADE AGREEMENT" WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU
ANY EBOOKS BY C. S. FORESTER UNTIL 2037 !!
Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott]
[Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966]
[English novelist]
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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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2017/01/12: STANLEY G. WEINBAUM'S THIRD AND FINAL STORY
FEATURING PROFESSOR HASKEL VAN MANDERPOOTZ !!
Weinbaum, Stanley G. [Grauman] (1902-1935)
[American science fiction author]
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The Point of View
(February 1936)
[Weinbaum's third and final science fiction story featuring
Professor Haskel van Manderpootz. It's truly difficult
to see things from someone else's perspective -- unless,
perhaps, one tries the Professor's newest invention, the
attitudinizor.]
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2017/01/07: PROFESSOR HASKEL VAN MANDERPOOTZ RETURNS !!
Weinbaum, Stanley G. [Grauman] (1902-1935)
[American science fiction author]
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The Ideal
(September 1935)
[Weinbaum's second science fiction story featuring Professor
Haskel van Manderpootz. The Professor has created
a machine he calls the "idealizator". Can it be used to
create a perfect version of something -- an ideal woman,
perhaps?]
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2017/01/05: OUR FIRST SCIENCE FICTION STORY FOR 2017 -- AND THE FIRST
OF STANLEY G. WEINBAUM'S THREE STORIES FEATURING PROFESSOR
HASKEL VAN MANDERPOOTZ !!
Weinbaum, Stanley G. [Grauman] (1902-1935)
[American science fiction author]
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The Worlds of If
(August 1935)
[Science fiction story.
In examining history, it is not really possible to discuss
what might have been: had Napoleon won at Waterloo, the entire
universe would not have been the one that in fact exists, and
it is meaningless to discuss the consequences of something that
did not happen. But Professor Haskel van Manderpootz may have
found a way to explore these phantom "worlds of 'if'"!]
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2017/01/02: HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM ALL OF US AT PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA!
TO START THE NEW YEAR, A CLASSIC MYSTERY BY DASHIELL HAMMETT !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY DASHIELL HAMMETT UNTIL 2032 !!
Hammett, Dashiell [Samuel Dashiell] (1894-1961)
[American author and political activist]
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The Maltese Falcon
(February 1930)
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[The classic detective novel, and the inspiration for the classic
motion picture starring Humphrey Bogart
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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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2016/12/28: CHRISTMAS STARTS ON CHRISTMAS EVE, BUT IT CERTAINLY DOESN'T
END ON CHRISTMAS DAY! HERE AT PROJECT GUTENBERG
CANADA WE CELEBRATE THE FULL TWELVE DAYS OF
CHRISTMAS AND KEEP THE EBOOKS COMING --
AMONG THEM THIS FINE NOVEL BY SOMERSET MAUGHAM !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY SOMERSET MAUGHAM UNTIL 2036 !!
Maugham, W. Somerset [William Somerset] (1874-1965)
[English novelist and playwright]
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Christmas Holiday
(1939)
[Not so much a Christmas novel, as a novel which starts during Christmas.
Charley Mason, a young Cambridge graduate now working in his
father's firm, leaves London for Paris on Christmas Eve, his
first trip there alone: a trip which does not go as expected!]
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2016/12/24: OUR CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO YOU -- A NOVEL BY HUGH WALPOLE,
MUCH OF WHICH TAKES PLACE AT CHRISTMASTIME !!
Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour (1884-1941)
[English novelist, playwright, and essayist]
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Peter Hitchens [Mail Online]
The Old Ladies
(1924)
[Novel. The story of an "an old rickety building on the
rock above Seatown in Polchester" and its three elderly
inhabitants, of similar age but with very different pasts.]
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2016/12/17: NOUS ACCUEILLONS JEAN BRUCE -- ET SON AGENT SECRET O.S.S. 117 !!
FAITES CONNAÎTRE VOTRE OPPOSITION À LA PROLONGATION DES DROITS D'AUTEURS QUE PRÉVOIT L'ACCORD DU PARTENARIAT TRANSATLANTIQUE! SI CET 'ACCORD COMMERCIAL' ÉTAIT DÉJÀ EN VIGUEUR, IL NOUS SERAIT IMPOSSIBLE DE VOUS OFFRIR DES OEUVRES DE JEAN BRUCE AVANT L'ANNÉE 2034!!
Bruce, Jean [Brochet, Jean Alexandre] (1921-1963)
[Romancier français]
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O.S.S. 117 voit rouge (1956)
[Roman d'espionnage. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (alias O.S.S. 117)
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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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2016/12/15: STANLEY G. WEINBAUM'S LAST STORY -- AND A VERY GOOD ONE !!
Weinbaum, Stanley G. [Grauman] (1902-1935)
[American science fiction author]
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The Brink of Infinity
(December 1936)
[Science fiction short story. Dr Abner Aarons is
"an assistant professor of mathematics at an Eastern University".
A seeming quiet life, as he remarks, until one day he receives a
curious phone call, followed by an even more curious meeting...]
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2016/12/12: TODAY'S STORY BY STANLEY G. WEINBAUM TAKES
PLACE ON THE PLANET VENUS !!
Weinbaum, Stanley G. [Grauman] (1902-1935)
[American science fiction author]
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Parasite Planet
(February 1935)
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[Science fiction story, set on Venus, which harbours
numerous species of plants and animals, most of them
dangerous to humans. American trader Hamilton "Ham" Hammond's
shack is destroyed, and he has to make a treacherous
journey across the planet.]
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2016/12/09:
A LATE MASTERPIECE BY SINCLAIR LEWIS !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY SINCLAIR LEWIS UNTIL 2022 !!
Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930]
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Kingsblood Royal
(1947)
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[Many years after writing the books of his early fame,
and after receiving his Nobel Prize, Sinclair Lewis
wrote a novel, carefully researched and founded in
reality, of an American man, Neil Kingsblood, who
discovers that he is of mixed ancestry, and is
descended in the male line from an African-American.
This seemingly innocuous discovery has disastrous consequences.
Howard Fast, the author of Spartacus, lavished praise on the book:
"...Kingsblood Royal is not merely a good or interesting book,
but as important a document on the subject as anyone has written
this past decade... Show me another who can tell a story like this,
in the wonderful old tradition of storytelling!"
(New Masses, 10 June 1947)]
CAUTION: As might be expected in a novel on racial relations
published in 1947, certain language in this novel may seem offensive
by the standards of today.
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2016/12/07: A LATE AND EXCELLENT NOVELLA BY SCIENCE FICTION LEGEND STANLEY G. WEINBAUM !!
Weinbaum, Stanley G. [Grauman] (1902-1935)
[American science fiction author]
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The Circle of Zero
(August 1936)
[Science fiction novella featuring an elderly professor, Aurore de Néant,
and his young student, Jack Anders, now working as a bond salesman.
It's 1929; both have lost a great deal of money; their quest to recover
it brings them into contact with questions of Infinity and Eternity.
Enough said!]
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2016/12/04: OUR FIRST FULL-LENGTH NOVEL BY DASHIELL HAMMETT IS ONE
OF HIS MOST CELEBRATED -- AND INSPIRED A FAMOUS SERIES OF FILMS !!
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Hammett, Dashiell [Samuel Dashiell] (1894-1961)
[American author and political activist]
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The Thin Man
(January 1934)
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[Hammett's final novel, one of his most famous,
and the inspiration for the classic film
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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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2016/11/27: A SOUTH SEAS NOVEL BY THE LEGENDARY COLLABORATORS
NORDHOFF AND HALL !!
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Nordhoff, Charles Bernard (1887-1947)
[American novelist]
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Hall, James Norman (1887-1951)
[American novelist]
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The Hurricane
(1936)
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[Novel, set in the nineteenth century, about an island in
the Tuamotu Archipelago
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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
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2016/11/23: OUR THIRD SCIENCE FICTION STORY BY NAT SCHACHNER, AND OUR
SECOND EBOOK FROM HIS "PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE" SERIES !!
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ANY EBOOKS BY NAT SCHACHNER UNTIL 2026 !!
Schachner, Nat [Nathan] (1895-1955)
[American historian and science fiction author]
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City of the Cosmic Rays
(July 1939)
[Science fiction story, featuring the three main characters
we first met in Past, Present and Future. Our heroes
arrive in "the flat jungle of what had once been India"
and make some surprising discoveries.]
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2016/11/22:
A VERY FAMOUS NOVEL OF SOCIAL SATIRE AND ANALYSIS BY... SINCLAIR LEWIS !!
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Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930]
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Dodsworth
(1929)
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[Novel. Sam Dodsworth, the founder of a successful automobile
company, at the age of fifty sells his company to a larger
competitor for a "generous purchase price", and consequently
acquires a great deal of money and a great deal of free time.
His wife suggests they go to Europe, which they do, with
unexpected consequences. William Wyler's 1936 film adaptation
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starring Walter Huston is famous to this day.]
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2016/11/17:
OUR THIRD NOVEL BY SCIENCE FICTION LEGEND E. E. "DOC" SMITH
-- AND OUR FIRST FROM HIS LENSMAN CYCLE !!
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Smith, Edward E. [Elmer] "Doc" (1890-1965)
[American chemist and science fiction author]
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Gray Lensman
(1965 version)
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[Science fiction novel, the fourth in the Lensman
series; original version published in four instalments
from October 1939 through January 1940.
Admirers of Star Trek and more particularly
Star Wars will find much to admire in this
fine and enduringly famous science fiction classic.]
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2016/11/14: A NOVEL FROM ANNA BUCHAN'S FAMOUS PRIORSFORD SERIES,
SET IN SCOTLAND !!
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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
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Like all of Anna Buchan's novels, chiefly concerned with everyday doings,
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Hall, James Norman (1887-1951)
[American novelist]
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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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2016/11/08: A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN ESSAY AND A FINE PORTFOLIO (IN COLOUR!)
OF PAINTINGS BY... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL !!
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Churchill, Winston Spencer (1874-1965)
[English statesman and historian; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1953]
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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
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Sharp, D. D. [Drury Dubose] (1888-1960)
[American farmer, historian, and science fiction author]
The Eternal Man
(August 1929)
[Science fiction story, concerning immortality, as you might guess.
Science Wonder Stories, who first published the story,
described it as "perhaps the greatest short science fiction story
of the year." And who would disagree with them? It has been
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Schachner, Nat [Nathan] (1895-1955)
[American historian and science fiction author]
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Past, Present and Future
(September 1937)
[Science fiction story, involving Kleon, from Greece two millennia ago,
Sam Ward, an American of the mid-twentieth century, and their adventures
when they enter suspended animation and are awakened after 10,000 years,
to find a world transformed!]
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Buchan, Anna Masterton [Douglas, O.] (1877-1948)
[Scottish novelist]
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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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Buchan, Anna Masterton [Douglas, O.] (1877-1948)
[Scottish novelist]
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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
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2016/10/26: OUR FIRST EBOOK BY SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN
NAT SCHACHNER !!
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Schachner, Nat [Nathan] (1895-1955)
[American historian and science fiction author]
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Runaway Cargo
(October 1940)
[Science fiction short story. Hazardous cargoes are tricky
enough on earth -- oil supertankers, for example, or
nuclear waste convoys. But space offers special challenges:
dust, for example, from the lunar crater Tycho
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Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956)
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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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2016/10/17: A NOVEL BY SCIENCE FICTION LEGEND MALCOLM JAMESON
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Jameson, Malcolm (1891-1945)
[American naval officer and science fiction author]
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The Giant Atom
(December 1943)
[Novel, in its 1945 edition retitled Atomic Bomb. An unscrupulous
atomic energy company generates a trans-uranic element which turns
out to be able to absorb all other elements into itself and grow,
giving off intense heat and deadly radiation in the process.]
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Piper, H. Beam [Henry Beam] (1904-1964)
[American science fiction author]
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Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen
(1965)
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[Science fiction novel. Corporal Calvin Morrison of the Pennsylvania
State Police is transported to... Pennsylvania, actually.
But a Pennsylvania within an alternate reality, one bearing
strong resemblances to late mediaeval Europe! Calvin adapts
quickly to his new environment, and becomes known first as
Kalvan, then as Lord Kalvan.]
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Kornbluth, Cyril M. (1924-1958) [American
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Frederik Pohl blog entry (20 April 2009)
The Rocket of 1955
(April 1941)
[Science fiction story, only ten paragraphs long. Its title can serve as its summary!]
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Friend to Man
(Spring 1951)
[Science fiction story. Smith is a fugitive, and is on a planet he does not know...]
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2016/10/11: OUR FIRST TITLE BY THE SCIENCE FICTION LEGEND A. MERRITT !!
Merritt, A. [Abraham] (1884-1943)
[American journalist and author of science fiction and fantasy]
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The Face in the Abyss
(1931)
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[Novel. Nicholas Graydon, an American mining engineer living
in Peru, receives a visit from a fellow American by the name
of Starrett. Has Graydon heard of "the treasure train bringing
to Pizarro the ransom of the Inca Atahualpa"? Of course he
has. Is he interested in finding this long-lost treasure?
Of course he is! But Graydon has no idea of what awaits him: lizard-men,
for example, and the Snake Mother. And the Face in the Abyss!]
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2016/10/09: A CANADIAN CLASSIC FOR CANADIAN THANKSGIVING: MAZO DE LA ROCHE'S
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de la Roche, Mazo (1879-1961)
[Canadian novelist and playwright]
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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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Maugham, W. Somerset [William Somerset] (1874-1965)
[English novelist and playwright]
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The Painted Veil
(1925)
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[Novel. Kitty Garstin notices that time is passing, and
accepts a marriage proposal from a medical doctor, Walter
Fane. The newlyweds sail for Hong Kong ("Tching-Yen"),
but their hastily contracted marriage brings its challenges.
As does a cholera epidemic. Filmed no fewer than three
times, most recently in 2006
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these two sites, which have kindly made them available to us.
You will find a large catalogue of excellent titles in French
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Nous tenons à remercier nos partenaires,
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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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page to navigate to the appropriate pages. As an alternative,
you can download the scans in DjVu format (15 megabytes)
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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)
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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
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
and Benedict Arnold
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
successfully repulsed by the British garrison under the command of Guy Carleton
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
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Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875)
[Danish writer and poet; écrivain et poète danois]
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Contes merveilleux - Tome I
[Contes]
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Stories from Hans Andersen (1911)
[Stories: illustrated by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)
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Tales from Hans Andersen Forty-Two Stories (1930)
[Stories: translated from the Danish by M. R. James (1862-1936)
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Andrews, Roy Chapman (1884-1960)
[American explorer]
Wikipedia
An Explorer Comes Home.
Further Adventures of Roy Chapman Andrews.
(1947)
[The author's account of his life in Colebrook, Connecticut
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after his decades of exploration in the Far East]
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Heart of Asia. True Tales of the Far East.
(1951)
[Autobiographical essays about various adventures of the author during his
celebrated expeditions to China and Mongolia]
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Beyond Adventure. The Lives of Three Explorers.
(1954)
[Biographical sketches of the Arctic explorer Robert Peary (1856-1920)
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of the African explorer Carl Akeley (1864-1926)
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and of the author himself.
These short biographies originally appeared in True, The Man's Magazine
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Field & Stream (David E. Petzal)
before they were collected in this book.]
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Anet, Claude [pseudonyme de Jean Schopfer] (1868-1931)
[Journaliste et romancier français]
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Ariane, jeune fille russe (1920)
[Roman: la source de deux films célèbres:
Ariane, jeune fille russe (1932, Paul Czinner)
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et
Ariane [Love in the Afternoon] (1957, Billy Wilder, avec Audrey
Hepburn, Gary Cooper, et Maurice Chevalier)
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Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918) [Romancier et poète français]
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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
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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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The Birds
(414 B.C. [Greek original], 1950 [this translation])
[Comedy. The birds of the world band together to take over
control of the universe from the Olympian gods. The
Wikipedia
article on the play provides a helpful guide to its many
contemporary allusions.]
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ancient-literature.com
F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart's 1907 edition of the original Greek text:
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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[PG Canada no 955]
Aubert de Gaspé, Philippe (1814-1841) [Romancier canadien]
Encyclopédie canadienne
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L'influence d'un livre (1837) [Roman]
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Auzias-Turenne, Raymond (1861-1940) [Écrivain et
diplomate français]
(gendre de Louis Beaubien [1837-1915]
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada)
République Royale
(1894)
[Essai politique]
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Babcock, John Pease (1855-1936)
[Canadian naturalist and author]
University of Washington
Peace River Joe
(1924)
[A prize-winning short story, dedicated by its author "to my friends in remembrance of many
happy days spent on the waters and in the woods of British Columbia."]
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Bainville, Jacques (1879-1936)
[Historien et journaliste français]
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Académie Française
Comment s'est faite la Restauration de 1814
(1914)
[Monographie sur le retour des Bourbons en 1814]
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[PGC no 829]
Napoléon
(1931)
[Biographie du soldat et homme d'État français
fr.wikipedia]
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[PGC no 739]
Barrie, J. M. [James Matthew] (1860-1937)
[Scottish playwright]
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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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children's author and granddaughter of PG Canada author Nathaniel
Hawthorne
Shall We Join the Ladies?
(1928)
[A one-act play. Barrie's description: "For the past week the hospitable Sam Smith
has been entertaining a country house party, and we choose to raise the curtain
on them towards the end of dinner...Smith is a little old bachelor, and sits there
beaming on his guests like an elderly cupid. So they think him, but they are to be
undeceived."]
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Barrière, Théodore (1821-1877) [Dramaturge canadien],
Decourcelle, Adrien (1824-1892) [Dramaturge canadien],
Grangé, Eugène (1810-1887) [Dramaturge canadien], et
Roy, Régis (1864-1944) [Dramaturge canadien]
La tête de Martin: Comédie en un acte (1900) [Comédie]
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Barry, Philip [Philip Jerome Quinn] (1896-1949)
[American playwright]
Wikipedia
Georgetown University
Time (cover), 25 January 1932
The Animal Kingdom. A Comedy.
(1932)
[Comedy; one of Barry's greatest hits]
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Time, 25 January 1932
Bateman, Reginald John Godfrey (1883-1918)
[Canadian university teacher and military officer]
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
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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]
ABCBookworld
For Our Bureau. Being the Bureau Ballads contributed
to Volumes One and Two of "Via Vancouver," the journal
of the Foreign Trade Bureau of the Vancouver Board
of Trade, by the Secretary, Herbert Beeman.
(1924)
[Expertly written light poems, taking as their inspiration the subject
matter of the weekly Luncheon Lectures at the Foreign Trade Bureau of
the Vancouver Board of Trade. Trade patterns being what they are,
some of the poems are surprisingly topical even today.]
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Beerbohm, Max [Henry Maximilian] (1872-1956)
[English satirist, critic, and caricaturist]
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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]
Wikipedia
National Review Online (S. T. Karnick)]
Review of Gordon Daviot's play "Richard of Bordeaux"
(1934) [Review of the New York production of the West End hit
Richard of Bordeaux, written by Elizabeth MacKintosh using the pen name of Gordon Daviot.
MacKintosh's famous mystery novels were written using the pen name of Josephine Tey; and it is under
Tey's name that you will find PG Canada's digital edition of Richard of Bordeaux!]
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Benchley Beside Himself
(1943)
[Satirical essays]
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[PGC #662]
Benét, Stephen Vincent (1898-1943)
[American author and poet]
Wikipedia
From Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds (1937) [Short stories]
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By the Waters of Babylon
[Post-apolocalyptic story
Wikipedia. One of Benét's most famous works.]
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The Blood of the Martyrs
[Professor Malzius has been condemned to death; interesting events ensue.]
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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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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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[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]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Bengough's Chalk-Talks.
A Series of Platform Addresses on various topics,
with reproductions of the impromptu Drawings with
which they were illustrated.
(1922)
[Illustrated lectures]
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"A Pioneer Canadian Cartoonist" on Bengough in
Hector Charlesworth's The Canadian Scene (1927),
which includes essays on many other things Canadian.
Charlesworth's fine book is available to you from this site
as a PG Canada ebook, with our compliments!
Bennet, Robert Ames (1870-1954)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
University of Wyoming
The Desert Girl
(probably ca. 1928: certainly before 1958)
[Novel (Western)]
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[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Literary Heritage West Midlands
Friendship and Happiness
(1912)
[Reflections on happiness, with special reference to friendship
and to the importance of Christmas]
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Things That Have Interested Me
(1921)
[A journal of day-by-day reflections on a multitude of subjects. A type of writing more common
in French literature than English, but none the worse for that, especially coming from Arnold Bennett.]
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Things That Have Interested Me. Second Series.
(1923)
[Further essays and reflections. Includes a review of James Joyce's recently published Ulysses
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[PGC #858]
Riceyman Steps
(1923)
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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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[PGC #1006]
Elsie and the Child. A Tale of Riceyman Steps and Other Stories.
(1924)
[Thirteen tales about various residents of London, the first of them
being Elsie Sprickett, the domestic servant who had already appeared
in Arnold's well received 1923 novel Riceyman Steps.]
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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
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[Novel]
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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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The Night Visitor and Other Stories
(1931)
[Short stories]
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Benson, E. F. [Edward Frederic] (1867-1940)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Visible and Invisible
(1923)
[Stories of the supernatural]
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Spook Stories
(1928)
[Ghost stories, as you might guess.]
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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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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]
Wikipedia
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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Goodbye, Stranger
(1926)
[Novel]
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The Man Who Missed the 'Bus
(1928)
[Short story]
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Worlds Within Worlds
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[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
Wikipedia.
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...]
Project Gutenberg US
[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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[PGC #1523]
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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[PGC #1555]
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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[PGC #1462]
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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[PGC #1556]
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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[PGC #1430]
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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[PGC #1557]
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
Wikipedia.]
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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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[PGC #890]
Prescott of Saskatchewan
[United Kingdom title:
The Wastrel]
(1913)
[Novel: frontispiece by Dunton, W. Herbert (1878-1936)
The W. Herbert "Buck" Dunton Online Exhibit]
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Brandon of the Engineers
[United Kingdom title:
His One Talent]
(1916)
[Novel: frontispiece by Cyrus Cuneo (1879-1916)
Cuneo Society]
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The Wilderness Mine
[United Kingdom title:
Stayward's Vindication]
(1920)
[Novel]
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The Dark Road
(1927)
[Novel]
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The Lone Hand
(1928)
[Novel; U.K. title The Firm Hand. Mark Crozier has spent his entire life so far in the
(English/Scottish) Borders region — what does his future hold?
Canada shows up in a supporting role.]
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[PGC #994]
Larry of Lonesome Lake
(1929)
[Novel; U.K. title The Harder Way. Lawrence (Larry) Bethune, formerly of England,
is now a rancher near Lonesome Lake in British Columbia. Lonesome the lake may be,
but his life is eventful, and not without romantic interests.]
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[PGC #998]
You will find other titles by Harold Bindloss at Project Gutenberg's
US site.
Birmingham, George A. [Hannay, James Owen] (1865-1950)
[Irish priest and novelist]
Wikipedia
King Tommy
(1923)
[Light novel, somewhat similar in tone to the works of P. G. Wodehouse.
The Marquis of Norheys, a young and not particularly responsible aristocrat,
becomes a candidate for the throne of Lystria, a country in central Europe.
A country with oil...]
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[PGC #1135]
Bishop, William Avery ["Billy"] (1894-1956)
[Canadian aviator]
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with:
Stuart-Wortley, Rothesay (1892-1926)
[English aviator]
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The Flying Squad
(1927)
[Novel. Two students at Upper Canada College
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discover that their Greek instructor was a pilot during the Great War:
he offers to teach them to fly. During the training,
a pilot friend of their instructor stumbles into a criminal
gang while he's out flying...]
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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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[PGC #1534]
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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[PGC #1536]
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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[PGC #1347]
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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[PGC #1491]
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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[PGC #762]
Bosse, Sara [née Eaton] (1868-1940)
[Canadian author]
Michigan State University
Watanna, Onoto [Reeve, Winnifred Eaton:
née Eaton, Winnifred] (1875-1954)
[Canadian novelist]
The Winnifred Eaton Digital Archive
Michigan State University
University of Calgary
Wikipedia
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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[PGC #1513]
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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[PGC #1529]
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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[PGC #1535]
Boucher, Anthony [White, William Anthony Parker] (1911-1968)
[American science fiction and mystery author]
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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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[PGC #723]
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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[PGC #526]
The Flying U Strikes
(1933) [Western]
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[PGC #527]
Trails Meet
(1933) [Western novel. Our hero, Jess Robison, a cowboy with talents as an
artist, turns out to have talents as a detective as well.]
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University of Oklahoma
[PGC #666]
Brazil, Angela (1868-1947)
[English novelist]
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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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Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956)
[American novelist, journalist, and organic farmer]
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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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[PGC #1271]
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]
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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[PGC #1252]
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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[PGC #1110]
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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[PGC #1359]
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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[PGC #1367]
Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)
[English novelist]
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Shirley
(1849)
[Novel, set in Yorkshire during the Industrial Revolution
Wikipedia]
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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]
Wikipedia
University of Manitoba
CyberMuse
Think of the Earth
(1936)
[Novel: winner in the year of its publication of the first Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
ever awarded. An expatriate Englishman has a weekend of self-discovery in Manitoba:
he falls in love, and realizes that he must become less introspective than formerly.]
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[PGC #765]
The Robber. A Tale of the Time of the Herods.
(1949)
[Historical novel, based on the figure of Barabbas
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in the Gospel.]
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[PGC #1013]
Broughton, Rhoda (1840-1920)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Literary Heritage West Midlands
Doctor Cupid. A Novel.
(1886)
[Novel. Social and romantic doings in Victorian England.
At the novel's beginning stands one of many versions
of a famous four-line poem from late mediaeval Germany
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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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[PGC #1344]
Browning, Robert (1812-1889)
[English poet]
Wikipedia
Academy of American Poets
Strafford: An Historical Tragedy
(1837)
[Play]
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Bruce, James, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine (1811-1863) [Governor General of the Province of Canada 1847-54]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin (1872) [Historical essays]
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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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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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Buchan, John [first Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield] (1875-1940)
[Scottish novelist; Governor General of Canada 1935-1940]
Wikipedia
Queens University Archives
Sir Quixote of the Moors.
Being Some Account of an Episode
in the Life of the Sieur de Rohaine.
(1895)
[Buchan's first novel (or rather, novella: it is quite short):
the Sieur de Rohaine has fallen on hard times, and leaves
his native France to live for a while in the Scottish Highlands.
"We understand that this is the first piece of fiction by
a new writer. If so, it is a decidedly promising bit
of work, full of humour and vitality, and it deserves to
be successful"
(The Bookman, December 1895).
Includes a frontispiece by New Jersey artist Walter Conant Greenough (d. 1898)]
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[PGC #1049]
A Lost Lady of Old Years. A Romance.
(1899)
[Historical novel, described by Buchan as an "auld Highland story",
taking place during the tumultuous events of 1745, when Bonnie Prince Charlie
Wikipedia
landed in Scotland and set in play the events that led to
the disastrous Battle of Culloden.]
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[PGC #1007]
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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Midwinter. Certain Travellers in Old England.
(1923)
Wikipedia
[Historical novel, set in England and Scotland during the Jacobite
rising of 1745
Wikipedia,
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]
Wikipedia
Lord Minto. A Memoir.
(1924)
[Biography of Buchan's fellow Scotsman Gilbert John Elliot (1845-1914), fourth Earl of Minto,
Governor General of Canada from 1898 to 1904
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
It was through Lord Minto's efforts that the National Archives of Canada came into being.]
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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)
Wikipedia
[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)
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons]
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[PGC #960]
The Magic Walking-Stick
(1932)
[Novel for children. A young boy, Bill, buys a walking stick from a roadside
pedlar. He discovers that it's a magic stick that will take the owner
to anywhere he wishes. Adventures ensue...]
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[PGC #1113]
A Prince of the Captivity
(1933)
Wikipedia
[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)
Wikipedia
[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
Wikipedia,
and E. O. Hoppé (1878-1972)
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #878]
The House of the Four Winds
(1935)
Wikipedia
[The third and final Dickson McCunn novel: political intrigue and daring deeds
in the central European country of Evallonia, with some Scottish visitors playing
a crucial role. Buchan's monarchist beliefs show through — beliefs
most appropriate in someone about to be become the Governor General of Canada!]
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[PGC #1047]
The Island of Sheep
(1936)
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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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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]
Wikipedia
Pratt Library
Archives de Montréal
Recent Canadian Fiction
(1899)
[Overview of Canadian novels in English published in the 1890s. Many of the authors discussed
are represented in the Project Gutenberg Canada collection.]
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[PGC #485]
A Little Book of Canadian Essays (1909)
[Essays on Canadian authors
Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850-1887)
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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]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
Drummond, William Henry (1854-1907)
[Canadian physician and poet]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
Duncan, Sara Jeannette [Mrs Everard Cotes] (1861-1922)
[Canadian journalist and novelist]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler (1796-1865)
[Canadian essayist and humorist]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
Howe, Joseph (1804-1873)
[Canadian journalist and politician]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Lanigan, George Thomas (1845-1886)
[Canadian journalist and poet]
McCarroll, James (1814-1892)
[Canadian journalist, inventor, and poet]
On the Old Athabaska Trail (1926)
[A retracing of the famous Athabasca Pass fur route
Parks Canada.
The nineteen illustrations include works by Canadian painter Paul Kane (1810-1871)
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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
fr.wikipedia
de.wikipedia
Wilhelm Busch Geburtshaus
Wilhelm-Busch-Museum
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Zu guter Letzt
(1904)
[Poems in German: the last of Busch's works published during his lifetime
/ Poèmes en allemand: le dernier livre de Busch publié de son vivant]
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[PGC #530/no 530]
Learn German!
Apprenez l'allemand!
Translation:
Plish and Plum
(1882 [[German original], 1883 [this translation])
[Busch's beautifully illustrated collection of light verse Plisch und Plum, translated by Charles T. Brooks (1813-1883)
Wikipedia.
The publisher's advertisements at the end of the book include illustrations by
Sol Eytinge, Jr. (1833-1905)
The Victorian Web
The Vault at Pfaff's (Lehigh University)
and Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938)
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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]
Wikipedia
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)
Wikipedia.
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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[PGC #779]
Cagna, Achille Giovanni (1847-1931)
[Italian playwright and novelist / Dramaturge et romancier italien]
Sapere.it
Università degli studi di Pavia [Microsoft Word]
Contrada dei Gatti. Proiezioni. (1924)
[Novel in Italian / Roman en italien]
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[PGC #519/no 519]
Learn Italian! / Apprenez l'italien!
Cameron, David Young (1865-1945)
[Scottish etcher and painter]
Wikipedia
National Galleries of Scotland
Tate Collection
with:
Salaman, Malcolm Charles (1855-1940)
[English art historian and critic]
Wikipedia
Sir D.Y. Cameron, R.A.
(1925)
[Monograph on the famous Scottish artist, profusely illustrated]
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[PG Canada ebook #426]
Campbell, Duncan (1818-1886)
[Canadian historian]
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
History of Prince Edward Island
(1875)
[A history of Prince Edward Island
Wikipedia from 1763 (when it passed from France to Britain)
to 1873 (when it joined Confederation)]
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[PGC #812]
Campbell, Roy (1901-1957)
[South African poet]
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National Review, 15 August 1986 (Thomas P. McDonnell)
with:
Freedman, Barnett (1901-1958)
[English painter]
Wikipedia
Barnett Freedman Archive
Tate Collection
Choosing a Mast
(1931)
[Poem, with two illustrations, one in colour]
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Cantù, Cesare (1804-1895)
[Historien et romancier italien]
fr.wikipedia
cesarecantu.it (en italien)
Margherita Pusterla
(1838 [en italien]; 1843 [cette traduction])
[Roman historique, dont l'action se déroule en Lombardie vers 1340.
Nous vous offrons la traduction contemporaine publiée par L'Illustration en 1843,
avec plusieurs belles gravures.
Project Gutenberg US
vous offre le texte italien du roman.]
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[PG Canada no 942]
Carman, Bliss [William Bliss] (1861-1929)
[Canadian poet]
Wikipedia
jrank.org
Far Horizons
(1925)
[Poems]
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[PGC #614]
Sanctuary. Sunshine House Sonnets.
(1929)
[Poems]
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[PGC #635]
Wild Garden (1929)
[Poems]
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[PGC #609]
Carr, Emily (1871-1945) [Canadian painter and writer]
Wikipedia
Canadian Encyclopedia
Klee Wyck (1941) [Memoirs]
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Carter, John Franklin (1897-1967)
[American economist, journalist, and novelist]
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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
fr.wikipedia]
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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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Wikipedia
Centlivre, Susanna (ca. 1669-1723)
[English playwright]
Wikipedia
The Stolen Heiress; or, The Salamanca Doctor Outplotted. A Comedy.
(1702 [first performance]; 1703 [first publication])
[Comedy]
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Chambers, Robert William (1865-1933)
[American painter and novelist]
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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You will find many ebooks by Robert W. Chambers at Project
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]
Wikipedia
The Big Sleep
(1939)
Wikipedia
[Chandler's first full-length crime novel. Private investigator Philip Marlowe,
making his first appearance in literature, takes on a case of blackmail,
and finds that matters are even murkier than they seem.]
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Farewell, My Lovely
(1940)
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[Crime novel. The manager of a Los Angeles club is murdered,
and no one seems to care. No one, that is, except Philip Marlowe...]
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The High Window
(1942)
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[Crime novel. A wealthy widow calls in Philip Marlowe to investigate the
disappearance of a rare and valuable coin, a matter mysterious enough in
itself, but this is only the beginning... ]
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The Lady in the Lake
(1943)
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[Crime novel. The wife of a wealthy Los Angeles businessman has mysteriously disappeared,
having last been seen at Little Fawn Lake. Definitely a case for Philip Marlowe...]
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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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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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[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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[English author, journalist, and theologian]
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The Innocence of Father Brown
(1911)
[Mystery stories. The first of the five Father Brown
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collections, introducing the celebrated priest-detective.]
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The Wisdom of Father Brown
(1914)
[Mystery stories. The second of Chesterton's five collections featuring the priest-detective Father Brown.]
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The Incredulity of Father Brown
(1926)
[Mystery stories. The third of Chesterton's five collections featuring the priest-detective Father Brown.]
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The Secret of Father Brown
(1927)
[Mystery stories. The fourth of Chesterton's Father Brown collections, constructed as eight individual stories within a story.]
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[PGC #975]
The Scandal of Father Brown
(1935)
[Mystery stories. Chesterton's fifth and final Father Brown collection.]
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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]
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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[Project Gutenberg US #50906]
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]
University of New Brunswick (see under "Cody")
The Trail of the Golden Horn
(1923)
[Mystery novel, with elements of romance, set in Northern
Canada (Cody lived in the Yukon for some years).
A trapper finds an empty cabin, with evidence of
a crime. We are introduced to a nurse, then to a Mountie,
and matters proceed from there.]
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The Master Revenge
(1924)
[Christian morality play done in the form of a novel]
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Songs of a Bluenose
(1925)
[Poetry]
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[PGC #622]
The Crimson Sign
(1935)
[Historical novel, set in Acadia
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towards the end of the seventeenth century.]
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[PGC #946]
Fighting Stars
(1937 edition)
[Novel]
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[PGC #978]
Colby, Charles William (1867-1955) [Canadian historian]
Colby Curtis Museum, Stanstead
The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain
(1915)
[Biography of Samuel de Champlain
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography:
vol. 3 of "The Chronicles of Canada".
Illustrations by Champlain himself, and by
C. W. Jefferys (1869-1951)
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Library and Archives Canada,
Balthazar Moncornet (ca. 1600-1668),
and John David Kelly (1862-1958)
Ontario's Historical Plaques]
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Colden, Cadwallader (1688-1776)
[Scottish physician; governor of New York 1769-71]
Wikipedia
The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada
(in two volumes)
(1747 [expanded second edition];
1727 [original edition])
[The first full account in English of the Iroquois League
Wikipedia;
Colden had the advantage of considerable direct contact
with the League as a negotiator for the British government.
Our ebook is based on the 1747 London edition.]
Volume 1:
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Coles, Manning [pseudonym of English author Adelaide Frances Oke Manning
(1891-1959) and British intelligence agent Cyril Henry Coles (1899-1965)]
Wikipedia
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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[PGC #1610]
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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[PGC #1620]
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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[PGC #1616]
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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[PGC #1533]
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
Wikipedia,
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
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #1503]
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]
Wikipedia
The Most Dangerous Game
(1924)
Wikipedia
[A very famous and very influential short story, involving
a special kind of big game hunting.]
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[PGC #1480]
Connor, Ralph [pen name of Rev. Charles William Gordon] (1860-1937) [Canadian clergyman and novelist]
Wikipedia
Canadian Encyclopedia
Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks (1898) [Novel]
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Gwen's Canyon
(1898)
["Gwen was undoubtedly wild and, as the Sky Pilot said, wilful and wicked."
This short story describes her transformation.]
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[PGC #625]
The Sky Pilot: a Tale of the Foothills (1899) [Novel]
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Michael McGrath, Postmaster (1900) [Novel]
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The Prospector (1901) [Novel]
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The Man from Glengarry: a Tale of the Ottawa (1901) [Novel]
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Glengarry School Days: a Story of Early Days in Glengarry (1902) [Novel]
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The Doctor: a Tale of the Rockies (1906) [Novel]
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The Foreigner: a Tale of Saskatchewan (1909) [Novel]
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Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police: a Tale of the Macleod Trail (1912) [Novel]
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The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail (1914) [Novel]
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The Major (1919) [Novel]
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The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land (1919) [Novel]
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To Him That Hath: a Novel of the West of Today (1921) [Novel]
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The Girl from Glengarry (1933) [Novel]
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Conrad, Joseph [Korzeniowski, Józef Teodor Konrad]
(1857-1924) [Polish mariner and novelist]
Wikipedia
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)
Wikipedia.]
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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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[PGC #1354]
Cornford, F. M. [Francis Macdonald] (1874-1943)
[English classical scholar]
Wikipedia
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]
Wikipedia
The Silver Chalice
(1952)
Wikipedia
[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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[PGC #1568]
The Darkness and the Dawn
(1959)
[Large scale historic novel about Attila ("the Hun")
Wikipedia,
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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[Project Gutenberg US #51077]
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]
Wikipedia
"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]
Wikipedia
[Fairy tales, some very familiar, others somewhat out of the ordinary]
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[PGC #763]
Crane, Walter (1845-1915) [English artist and illustrator]
Wikipedia
The Absurd ABC (1874) [Picture book]
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An Alphabet of Old Friends (1874) [Picture book]
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The Frog Prince and Other Stories (1874) [Picture book]
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The Song Of Sixpence Picture Book
containing Sing a Song of Sixpence;
Princess Belle etoile; An Alphabet of Old Friends:
with the original
Coloured Designs By
Walter Crane
including a preface and
other embellishments
(1909) [Picture book]
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Molesworth, Mary Louisa (1839-1921)
[Scottish children's writer]
Wikipedia
A Christmas Child. A Sketch of a Boy-Life.
(1880)
[Children's novel by Mrs. 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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[PGC #630]
The Adventures of Herr Baby
(1881)
[Children's novel by Mrs. Molesworth, with illustrations by Crane]
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Crowe, Catherine Ann (1790-1872)
[English novelist and playwright]
Wikipedia
University of Kent
Ghosts and Family Legends. A Volume for Christmas.
(1859)
["It happened," writes Mrs. Crowe, "that I spent the last winter in a large country mansion, in the north of England, where we had a succession of visitors, and all manner of amusements." Among these
amusements were ghost stories...]
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[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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[PGC #445]
The Story of Butler's Rangers and the Settlement of Niagara
(1893)
[History of the Loyalist regiment
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founded by John Butler (1728-1796)
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
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and their eventual settlement in and around the future town
of Niagara-on-the-Lake
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The Life of Sir Henry Morgan. With an account of the
English settlement of the island of Jamaica (1655-1688).
(1935)
[A very interesting biography of the Welsh privateer
Wikipedia.
The PG Canada catalogue includes The Privateer, a historical novel about
Sir Henry, published in 1952 by Josephine Tey using the pen name Gordon Daviot:
in her Author's Note, Tey describes Cruikshank's work as the "definitive biography
of Henry Morgan...It is dispassionate, exhaustive, and accurate, and will prove an
excellent corrective to both fictional biographies and biographical fictions."]
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[PGC #767]
Cullum, Ridgwell [Burghard, Sidney Groves] (1867-1943)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
The Bull Moose
(1931)
[Adventure novel, set in the Yukon (where Cullum had lived).
A mysterious and dangerous man known as the Bull Moose
has been robbing gold miners. People are concerned;
the police are concerned.]
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[PGC #1139]
Cummings, Ray [Raymond King] (1887-1957)
[American science fiction author]
Wikipedia
The Man Who Mastered Time
(1929)
[Science fiction novel. Time travel can be helpful if you're on a rescue mission!]
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[PGC #1061]
The Shadow Girl
(1962 version)
[The 1962 book version of Cummings' famous novel, first published in 1929 in serialized form.
A custom-built television set does not bring in any of the usual channels. It does, however,
reveal a mysterious girl, and a mysterious tower. What do these visions portend?
Time travel, it would seem...]
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Curwood, James Oliver (1878-1927)
[American novelist]
Wikipedia
Shiawassee Regional Chamber of Commerce
The Ancient Highway. A Novel of High Hearts and Open Woods.
(1925)
[Novel, with four illustrations by Walt Louderback (1887-1941).
The novel is set in the years following the First World War, and describes the adventures
of Clifton Brant, a young war veteran, in the vast northern forests of Quebec.
Curwood's brief preface pays tribute to the memory of his friend Sir William Price (1867-1924)
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Centre d'histoire Sir William Price]
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[PGC #465]
The Black Hunter. A Novel of Old Quebec.
(1926)
[Novel, illustrated by Arthur Ernst Becher (1877-1960), taking place in
1755, on the eve of the Seven Years' War, and telling the story of
Anne St. Denis and David Rock, two young people living in the wilderness
of New France. Anne is sent to Quebec City to be introduced into Quebec society;
she convinces David to follow her. Intendant Bigot
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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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[PGC #718]
The Plains of Abraham
(1928)
[Historical novel, set around 1750. A young boy's parents are killed
in a Mohawk raid. He and a girl in a similar plight are adopted by
the Senecas. They have many adventures, and he ends up as a
participant in the famous battle. This ebook includes the
endpapers, illustrated by an anonymous artist.]
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D'Annunzio, Gabriele (1863-1938) [Italian playwright and novelist/ Dramaturge et romancier italien]
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La città morta. Tragedia. (1898)
[Play in Italian / Pièce de théâtre en italien]
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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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[PGC #1219]
Dantzig, Tobias (1884-1956)
[American mathematician]
Wikipedia
Henri Poincaré, Critic of Crisis.
Reflections on his universe of discourse.
(1954)
[Essays on the philosophy of the French mathematician
and physicist Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)
Wikipedia, intended for the
general reader]
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Davis, William Stearns (1877-1930)
[American historian and novelist]
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The Beauty of the Purple. A Romance of Imperial Constantinople Twelve Centuries Ago.
(1924)
[Historical novel about the astounding career of the eighth-century
Byzantine emperor Leo the Isaurian
Wikipedia.
"This romance attempts to show forth," our novelist remarks,
"something of the brilliancy, magnificence and teeming life of
Christian Constantinople in an age when London and Paris
were little better than squalid villages."]
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[PGC #1144]
de la Mare, Walter (1873-1956) [English poet, novelist, and writer of stories]
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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]
Wikipedia
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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[PGC #1231]
Young Renny
(1935)
[The fourth Jalna novel. Renny and Meg Whiteoak are now in their twenties,
a complicated time of life for anyone, but particularly for Whiteoaks.
Family members of various ages, from the formidable Adeline down,
participate fully in the turbulent but generally happy life of Jalna.]
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[PGC #1238]
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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[PGC #1134]
Finch's Fortune
(1931)
[Novel. Finch Whiteoak, grandson of Adeline Whiteoak, turns twenty-one,
and receives an enormous legacy under the terms of his grandmother's will.
Naturally this changes his life, and also the life of those around him.
"From the first page to the last, Finch's Fortune
holds the reader enthralled."
(Myra M. Waterman, The Bookman, November 1931)]
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The Master of Jalna
(1933)
[Novel. Finch has returned from England and rejoined the rest
of the Whiteoak family at Jalna. Of course, this doesn't mean
that things are quiet and settled — after all, we're talking
about the Whiteoaks!
"In this latest instalment, the family vicissitudes are dominated by
red-haired Rennie — the strongest-willed of all since the
passing of old Gran... he presides at the mansion, raises
horses, decides vital family issues, and keeps the clan together."
(Allan Nevins, Saturday Review, 16 September 1933)]
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[PGC #1213]
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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[PGC #1449]
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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[PGC #1508]
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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[PGC #1115]
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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[PGC #1187]
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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[PGC #646]
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)
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography
McCord Museum
and W. J. Topley (1845-1930)
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Wikipedia]
Volume I (1880):
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[PG Canada ebook #574]
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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[PGC #431]
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]
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)
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Lauvlia (Kittelsen's home),
Erik Werenskiold (1855-1938)
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and Carl Larsson (1853-1919)
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Carl and Karin Larsson Family Association]
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Doin, Ernest (1809-1891) [Dramaturge canadien]
Le divorce du tailleur. Pièce archi-comique en un acte (1873)
[Comédie]
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Le dîner interrompu ou Nouvelle farce de Jocrisse. Farce comique en un acte (1873)
[Comédie]
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Le pacha trompé ou Les deux ours. Pièce comique en un acte (1878) [Comédie]
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Le Conscrit ou Le Retour de Crimée. Drame comique en deux actes (1878) [Comédie]
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Douglas, Amanda Minnie (1831-1916)
[American novelist and poet]
New Jersey Historical Society
A Modern Cinderella
(1913)
[Novel]
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Douglas, Lloyd C. [Lloyd Cassel] (1877-1951)
[American clergyman and novelist]
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The Robe
(1942)
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[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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[PGC #1630]
Doyle, Arthur Conan
(1859-1930) [Scottish physician and author; creator of Sherlock Holmes]
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
(1927)
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[Conan Doyle's final collection of stories featuring Sherlock Holmes:
published forty years after Holmes' first appearance in print!
Project Gutenberg US
offers the earlier Sherlock Holmes stories
Wikipedia,
as well as many other books by Conan Doyle.]
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[PGC #1274]
Du Bois, Louis [Louis-François] (1773-1855)
[Écrivain et polymathe français]
Travers, Julien (1802-1888)
[Biographe français]
Glossaire du patois normand
(1856)
[Glossaire, avec une vie de Louis Du Bois par Travers. Le français
que nous parlons aujourd'hui au Canada trouve ses origines en Normandie.]
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[PGC no #458]
Du Bois, W. E. B. [William Edward Burghardt] (1868-1963)
[American historian and civil rights leader]
Wikipedia
Life Seen at Ninety
(1958)
[An essay written by Du Bois on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday.
Age had not dimmed his passion and insight. One wonders what he
would say about the world today!]
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[PGC #1203]
Duguay, Camille (1882-1936) [Écrivain canadien]
La Veillée de Noël: pièce du terroir en deux actes et un tableau
(1926)
[Pièce de théâtre]
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Dukes, Ashley (1885-1959)
[English playwright, producer, critic, and translator]
Wikipedia
The Modernist Journals Project (Mark Gaipa)
The Man with a Load of Mischief. A Comedy in Three Acts.
(1924)
[Comedy, of which the action takes place at an English country inn. Dukes' most famous play.]
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[PGC #691]
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
Wikipedia.
Includes a preface by her publisher, Horace Liveright (1886?-1933)
Wikipedia,
and photographs, some of them iconic, by
the Munich studio Atelier Elvira
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founded by Anita Augspurg (1857-1943)
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and Sophia Goudstikker (1865-1924)
de.wikipedia,
the Parisian photographer Paul Berger,
Arnold Genthe (1869-1942)
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Otto Wegener (1849-1922)
Pär Rittsel,
the New York photographer Jacob Schloss (1857-1938),
and Edward Steichen (1879-1973)
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[PGC #941]
Duncan, Norman McLean (1871-1916)
[Canadian journalist and novelist]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
jrank.org
The Measure of A Man. A Tale of The Big Woods.
(1911)
[Novel, set in northern Minnesota: illustrated by George Matthews Harding (1882-1959)
U.S. Army Center of Military History]
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[PGC #548]
Duncan, Sara Jeannette (1861-1922)
[Canadian journalist and novelist]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Canadian Encyclopedia
A Daughter of Today (1894)
[Novel]
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The Story of Sonny Sahib (1894)
[Novel]
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A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the
experiences of 'An American girl in London') (1897)
[Novel]
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Hilda: A Story of Calcutta (1898)
[Novel]
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The Path of a Star (1899)
[Novel]
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The Pool in the Desert (1903)
[Novel]
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The Imperialist (1904)
[Novel]
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Contributor (as Mrs Everard Cotes):
Humour of the North (1912)
[Anthology]
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Duncan-Jones, Arthur Stuart
(1879-1955)
[English theologian and church historian]
The Crooked Cross (1940)
[Pamphlet: history of the Confessional Movement in Nazi Germany]
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Dunham, Bertha Mabel (1881-1957)
[Canadian librarian and novelist]
Libraries Today (University of Guelph)
The Trail of the Conestoga (1925)
[Novel about the early history of Waterloo, Ontario
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with a preface by William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950),
tenth Prime Minister of Canada
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
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Dunn, Oscar (1845-1885) [Journaliste et lexicographe canadien]
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Glossaire franco-canadien et vocabulaire de locutions vicieuses usitées au Canada (1880)
[Glossaire]
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Lord Dunsany
[Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett,
eighteenth Baron Dunsany] (1878-1957)
[Irish author and playwright]
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A Night at an Inn. A Play in One Act.
(1916)
[Play]
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The King of Elfland's Daughter
(1924)
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[The classic fantasy novel. The Lord of Erl sends
his son to Elfland to seek a bride: much ensues.]
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[PGC #1127]
Seven Modern Comedies
(1928)
[Seven short plays with small casts:
Atalanta in Wimbledon,
The Raffle,
The Journey of the Soul,
In Holy Russia,
His Sainted Grandmother,
The Hopeless Passion of Mr. Bunyon, and
The Jest of Hahalaba]
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[PGC #1090]
Guerrilla (1944)
[Novel]
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Dupuy, Paul (1831-1891) [Biographe canadien]
Trois Héros de la colonie de Montréal (1887)
[Biographies de Jacques Le Maître et Guillaume Vignal, prêtres de Saint-Sulpice,
et du major Lambert Closse]
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Eager, Edward [Edward McMaken] (1911-1964) [American novelist, librettist, and translator]
Wikipedia
Half Magic
(1954)
[Does magic really exist? Four children are wondering this, when suddenly...
Well, we're not going to give the story away, but we will say that this is
a genuine children's classic!
"This story belongs to the E. Nesbit school of fantasy, in which magic pursues its inevitable course... a book whose total contribution is one of fun and relaxation."
(Elizabeth Nesbitt, Saturday Review, 15 May 1954)]
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[PGC #1254]
Knight's Castle
(1956)
[Novel, second in the series initiated by Half Magic. Four children discover
a magic item, an enchanted toy soldier. But an act of magic can happen only every three days!]
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[PGC #1256]
Magic 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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[PGC #1283]
Magic or Not?
(1959)
[Novel, fifth in the series initiated by Half Magic. This time,
there are four children to whom odd things are happening, but...
they're not sure if it's actual magic making things happen,
or if things just work out in the best possible way!]
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[PGC #1259]
Seven-Day Magic
(1962)
[The seventh and final novel in the series initiated by Half Magic.
Several children are in the local public library, and one of the girls
finds a small red book, well used. The librarian tells them they can
keep the book for only seven days. The book grants wishes, but only for
the seven days they're allowed to have it. Adventures ensue...]
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[PGC #1260]
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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[PGC #1412]
Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849)
[Irish novelist]
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NNDB
The Modern Griselda. A Tale.
(1804)
[Novel. Unlike the traditional folk character Griselda
Wikipedia, the new Griselda is impatient
and arrogant.]
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[PGC #638]
Review, from 1804, of the first edition!
Orlandino
(1848)
[Novel for children, illustrating various virtues and the social problems they prevent:
these problems include drunkenness and high personal debt, which were apparently as prevalent
in 1848 as they are today. With a preface and epilogue by the Scottish publisher
William Chambers (1800-1883)
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[PG Canada #659]
Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
[German physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1921 / physicien allemand; prix Nobel de physique, 1921]
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Gemeinschaft und Persönlichkeit
(1934)
[Essay in German on the relationship between individuals and society
/ Essai en allemand sur les liens entre l'individu et son milieu]
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[PGC #583/no 583]
Learn German!
Apprenez l'allemand!
Eliot, George [Evans, Mary Anne] (1819-1880)
[English novelist]
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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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[PGC #1350]
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
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #1295]
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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[PGC #1488]
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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Includes / comprend:
Livro de Mágoas [Máguas] (1919)
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Livro de Sóror Saüdade (1923)
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Charneca em flor (1931)
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Reliquiæ (1931)
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Learn Portuguese !
BBC
EasyPortuguese
sonia-portuguese.com
WordReference.com Portuguese-English (beta)
WordReference.com Portugués-español
with/avec:
Guido Battelli (1869-1955) [Italian translator / Traducteur italien]
Dizionario Biografico dei Parmigiani (Roberto Lasagni) [Basalei-Beiliardi]
Traduções [italianas] (1934)
[Poems in Italian / Poèmes en italien]
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Euripides (ca. 480-406 B.C.)
[Athenian playwright]
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Translations by
Murray, Gilbert [George Gilbert Aimé] (1866-1957)
[English classical scholar]
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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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Murray's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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Medea
(431 B.C. [Greek original], 1906 [this translation])
[Tragedy. The marriage of Jason
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the Argonaut
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and his foreign wife Medea
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ends badly. Very badly.]
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ancient-literature.com
David Kovacs' edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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The Trojan Women
(415 B.C. [Greek original], 1905 [this translation])
[Tragedy, centred on the fate of the women of Troy after the destruction of their city.
Often thought to be a protest by Euripides against the Peloponnesian War
Wikipedia]
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ancient-literature.com
Murray's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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Ion
(ca. 413 B.C. [Greek original], 1954 [this translation])
[Technically a tragedy, but in fact a drama with a pleasantly optimistic tone.
We meet Ion at the temple of Apollo at Delphi, where he has lived from his
earliest years. As the play begins, he is unaware of who his parents are...]
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[PGC #722]
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ancient-literature.com
Murray's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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Bacchae
(405 B.C. [Greek original], 1906 [this translation])
[Euripides' most famous tragedy, originally presented the year following his death.
Pentheus, King of Thebes, does not recognize the limits of his power, nor the
limits of pure rationality. For this mistake he pays a heavy price.]
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Murray's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
Ewald, Carl (1856-1908)
[Danish author]
dk.wikipedia (in Danish)
My Little Boy
(1899 [Danish original (Min lille Dreng)]; 1906 [this translation]; 1935 [Alexander Woollcott's afterword])
[The author's charming, sincere, and interesting observations of the daily events of his son's
earliest years. The son, Jesper Ewald (1893-1969)
Wikipedia, would himself become a celebrated author. Translated by
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (1865-1921), and with an afterword by the American critic
Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943)
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[PGC #777]
Fagan, James Bernard (1873-1933)
[Irish playwright]
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The Improper Duchess. A modern comedy in three acts.
(1931)
[A comedy, set in Washington, D.C.! The first act takes place in the Poldavian embassy.
Written with an agreeably light touch, the play was made into a film in 1936
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #881]
Falconer, Sir Robert Alexander (1867-1943)
[Canadian New Testament philologist and historian;
President of the University of Toronto 1907-32]
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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]
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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)
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[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]
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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
Wikipedia
against the newly arrived Hanoverian king, George I,
the successor to the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne.]
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[PGC #1098]
The Way Beyond
(1933)
[Novel. Boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, and things really
start happening, including a murder. At this point, Detective Shrig appears on the scene...]
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[PGC #781]
Winds of Fortune
(1934)
[Historical novel, set in Spanish America during the colonial era. Pirates are mentioned;
Incas play a role. All of this is narrated by Ursula Revell, 23 years of age, and a participant
in the various adventures she recounts.]
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[PGC #906]
Adam Penfeather, Buccaneer: his Early Exploits
(1940)
[Historical novel,
"Being a curious and intimate relation of his (Adam Penfeather's)
tribulations, joys and triumphs taken from notes of his Journal
and pages from his Ship's Log, and here put into complete narrative"]
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The Lost Club Journal (Colin Langeveld)
Heritage Perilous
(1946)
[Historical novel, set in the Napoleonic era. Sam Felton, a plain-spoken sailor,
discovers that he has succeeded to the title (and fortune) of Earl of Wrybourne.
Then things get complicated...]
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[PGC #477]
My Lord of Wrybourne
(1948)
[Historical novel: the sequel to Farnol's 1946 novel Heritage Perilous.
The new Earl of Wrybourne is living in peace with his beautiful wife and their
recently born son. Who could wish him ill? His old enemy Sir Robert Chalmers,
perhaps, but he has vanished from the scene. Or has he?]
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[PGC #1131]
Farquhar, George (1676/7-1707)
[Irish playwright]
Wikipedia
NNDB
Dictionary of Ulster Biography
Ulster History Circle
The Constant Couple, or, A Trip to the Jubilee
(1700)
[Comedy.
Our edition includes some introductory remarks by the
playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821)
Wikipedia]
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New York Times (review by Anne Midgette of the 2007 New York production)
[PG Canada ebook #531]
Faucher de Saint-Maurice, Narcisse-Henri-Édouard (1844-1897)
[Journaliste canadien]
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Les îles. Promenades dans le golfe Saint-Laurent: une partie
de la Côte Nord, l'île aux Oeufs, l'Anticosti, l'île Saint-Paul,
l'archipel de la Madeleine (1887)
[Récit de voyage]
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Faulkner, William (1897-1962)
[American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1949]
Wikipedia
Nobelprize.org
Mississippi
(October 1954)
[Faulkner on his native state. Not an essay, but an original creative work, as you will see.]
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[PGC #1208]
Fea, Rev. Samuel
(1872-1943)
[Canadian writer]
Irish Ned, The Winnipeg Newsy (1910)
[Novella]
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Fearing, Kenneth (1902-1961)
[American poet and novelist]
Wikipedia
Modern American Poetry Site (MAPS)
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]
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)
Wikipedia
The novel is mentioned by Jane Austen in her novel Northanger Abbey
Wikipedia.
It relates mysterious and sinister events in the Black Forest.]
Wikipedia
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[PGC #1005]
Fleming, Archibald Lang (1883-1953) [Canadian bishop and missionary]
Canadian Encyclopedia
Canadian Museum of Civilization
For Us. Meditations on the Seven Words from the Cross.
(1927 or earlier, probably 1924)
[Meditations]
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Fleming, Ian [Ian Lancaster] (1908-1964)
[English intelligence officer and novelist]
Wikipedia
Novels and stories featuring James Bond
Wikipedia:
Casino Royale
(1953)
Wikipedia
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
Wikipedia,
to say nothing of the 1967 version starring David Niven
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #1282]
Live and Let Die
(1954)
Wikipedia
[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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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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From Russia with Love
(1957)
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[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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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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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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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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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
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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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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
(1963)
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[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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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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The Man with the Golden Gun
(1965)
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[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)
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[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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Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, The Magical Car.
Adventure Number Two.
(1964)
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[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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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)
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[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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[PGC #790]
Edith Percival. A Novel.
(1893)
[Novel]
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[PGC #529]
Fletcher, Joseph Smith (1863-1935) [English novelist and historian]
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Yorkshire Post (Sarah Freeman)
gadetection
The Charing Cross Mystery
(1923)
[As you might guess, a mystery novel set in London!]
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[PGC #647]
gadetection
Flygare-Carlén, Emilie (1807-1892)
[Swedish novelist]
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sv.wikipedia
Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon (1906) [in Swedish]
Ivar: or, The Skjuts-Boy
(1841 [Swedish original], 1852 [this translation])
[Translation of the novel Skjutsgossen
by Prof. Alex. L. Krause (fl. 1852-1854), with illustrations by Edmund Evans (1826-1905)
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Prof. Krause also contributed a interesting introduction to the novel.]
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[PGC #480]
The Bride of Omberg
(1845 [Swedish original], 1853 [this translation])
[Translation of the novel Bruden på Omberg
by Prof. Alex. L. Krause (fl. 1852-1854) and Elbert Perce (1831-1869)]
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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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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]
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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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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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)
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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
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We are introduced to Christopher Tietjens, the main character.
Tietjens works in Britain's Imperial Department
of Statistics. Society appears calm and well-ordered:
but the First World War lies just around the corner...]
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[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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[PGC #1244]
New York is not America. Being a Mirror to the States.
(1927)
[Reflections on New York, a city which Ford loved the way other
authors have loved Paris.
"He has loved and understood its energy and arrogance,
its freedom, its display, even its cooking. It has vastly amused
and entertained him; he enjoys it enormously
and comes back to it inevitably, after absence; he can do
everything but work there. So he writes of its gaieties
and its conversations, its dinners and its future,
its spectacle and its metaphysic.
There have been few finer tributes."
(Bernard De Voto, Saturday Review, 18 February 1928)]
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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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[PGC #1463]
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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[PGC #1494]
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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[PGC #1552]
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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[PGC #1574]
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]
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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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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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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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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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)
[Drame]
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Freedman, Barnett (1901-1958)
[English painter]
Wikipedia
Barnett Freedman Archive
Tate Collection
with:
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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Freeman, R. Austin [Richard Austin] (1862-1943)
[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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[PGC #1520]
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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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[2]
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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[3]
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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[4]
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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[5]
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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[6]
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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[21]
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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Friel, Arthur Olney (1885-1959) [American journalist and novelist]
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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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[PGC #1008]
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
Wikipedia,
Saturday Review, 28 December 1928)]
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[PGC #1192]
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)
[Children's stories]
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Forty Good-Night Tales
(1923)
[Bedtime stories for children]
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Folk-Tales from Many Lands
(1939)
[Folk tales]
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Gág, Wanda (1893-1946) [American artist and children's author]
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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"]
Wanda Gág's original black and white version:
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Gailly de Taurines, Charles (1857-1941)
[Historien français]
fr.wikipedia
Site Charles Gailly de Taurines
La Nation canadienne.
Étude historique sur les populations françaises du nord de l'Amérique.
(1894)
[Le premier ouvrage historique du grand historien français. Son livre rappelle assez
souvent les oeuvres de Tocqueville
fr.wikipedia.]
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[PGC no 746]
Garneau, François-Xavier (1809-1866)
[Historien et poète canadien]
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
fr.wikipedia
Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte
jusqu'à nos jours, Tome I de IV. (1845)
[Histoire]
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Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte
jusqu'à nos jours, Tome II de IV. (1846)
[Histoire]
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Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte
jusqu'à nos jours, Tome III de IV. (1848)
[Histoire]
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Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte
jusqu'à nos jours, Tome IV de IV. (1852)
[Histoire]
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Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)
[English novelist and biographer]
Wikipedia
The Gaskell Web
The Gaskell Society
The Grey Woman and Other Tales
(1865)
[Short stories, with a few illustrations by
George Du Maurier (1834-1896)
[grandfather of the novelist Daphne Du Maurier]
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and Joseph Swain (1820-1909)
The website of Bob Speel]
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You will find many other ebooks by Mrs. Gaskell at Project
Gutenberg's
US site.
Gibb, Sir George Duncan (1821-1876)
[Canadian physician]
Osler Library, McGill University
Odd Showers: or, An Explanation of the Rain of
Insects, Fishes, and Lizards; Soot, Sand, and Ashes;
Red Rain and Snow; Meteoric Stones; and other Bodies
(1870)
[Brief historical and scientific treatise, with a poem;
published under the pseudonym "Carribber"]
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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.
Wikipedia
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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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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Gide, André
(1869-1951)
[Romancier français; prix Nobel de littérature, 1947]
fr.wikipedia
alalettre.com
Retour de l'U.R.S.S. (1936)
fr.wikipedia
[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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[PGC no 105]
English translation by
Dorothy Bussy (1865-1960)
[English translator and novelist]
Wikipedia:
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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Gilchrist, Anne (1828-1885)
[English biographer and essayist]
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University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Mary Lamb (1883)
[Biography of English author Mary Anne Lamb (1764-1847)
Wikipedia]
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US site.
Gill, Eric [Arthur Eric Rowton] (1882-1940)
[English artist and type designer]
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National Archives (UK)
Identifont
With:
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936)
[English journalist and theologian]
Wikipedia
The American Chesterton Society
Gloria in Profundis
(1927)
[Poem, with two wood engravings]
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Gingras, Jules Fabien
(1826-1884)
[Traducteur et lexicographe canadien]
Recueil des expressions vicieuses et des anglicismes et les plus fréquents
(1861)
[Dictionnaire]
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Gobineau, Arthur de (1816-1882)
[Écrivain et diplomate français]
fr.wikipedia
www.tocqueville.culture.fr
Voyage à Terre-Neuve
(1861)
[Récit de voyage]
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[PGC no 506]
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
[German scientist, poet, playwright, and statesman /
scientifique, poète, dramaturge et homme d'État allemand]
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fr.wikipedia
de.wikipedia
Novelle
(1828)
de.wikipedia
[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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[PGC #1471/no 1471]
Learn German!
Apprenez l'allemand!
Golding, Louis (1895-1958)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
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]
Goldoni, Carlo (1707-1793)
[Italian playwright]
Wikipedia
it.wikipedia
The Servant of Two Masters
(1745 [Italian original], 1928 [this translation])
[Translation of Goldoni's most famous comedy
Il servitore di due padroni, translated by the celebrated
English musicologist Edward Joseph Dent (1876-1957)
Wikipedia
arts.jrank.org.]
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[PGC #606]
The original Italian play, from Liber Liber:
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The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni
(1760-76 [Italian and French originals], 1892 [this translation])
[Translations by Helen Zimmern (1846-1934)
Wikipedia
of Goldoni's
A Curious Mishap (Un curioso accidente, 1760),
The Beneficent Bear (Le bourru bienfaisant, 1771),
The Fan (Il ventaglio, 1765),
and The Spendthrift Miser (L'avare fastueux, 1776).
These were based on earlier translations, three of them
by unknown hands, the fourth being a German translation
published around 1875 by Theophil Zolling (1849-1901)
de.wikipedia.
Includes an introduction by Zimmern.]
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We also offer Zimmern's translations as individual ebooks:
A Curious Mishap
(1760 [Italian original], 1892 [this translation])
[Translation of the comedy Un curioso accidente.
A revision by Helen Zimmern (1846-1934)
Wikipedia
of an earlier translation by an unknown hand.]
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[PGC #538]
The Fan
(1765 [Italian original], 1892 [this translation])
[Translation of Goldoni's celebrated comedy Il ventaglio
it.wikipedia,
translated into German around 1875 by Theophil Zolling (1849-1901)
de.wikipedia
using the pseudonym "G. Ritter"; Zolling's German translation
Der Fächer
served as the basis for this translation into English
by Helen Zimmern (1846-1934)
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #543]
Text [in Italian] (Liber Liber)
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The Beneficent Bear
(1771 [French original], 1892 [this translation])
[Translation of Le bourru bienfaisant
fr.wikipedia,
written by Goldoni in French in celebration of the marriage of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette.
A revision by Helen Zimmern (1846-1934)
Wikipedia
of an earlier translation by an unknown hand.]
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[PGC #540]
The Spendthrift Miser
(1776 [French original], 1892 [this translation])
[Translation of L'avare fastueux
fr.wikipedia,
the second comedy written by Goldoni in French.
A revision by Helen Zimmern (1846-1934)
Wikipedia
of an earlier translation by an unknown hand.]
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[PGC #537]
Goncourt, Edmond de (1822-1896) [Écrivain français]
fr.wikipedia
Goncourt, Jules de (1830-1870) [Écrivain français]
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]
Wikipedia
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII, No. 2
(February 1848)
Wikipedia
[Literary magazine: includes
contributions by
Park Benjamin, Sr. (1809-1864)
Wikipedia,
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Wikipedia,
Robert T. Conrad (1810-1858),
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
Wikipedia,
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)
Wikipedia
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore,
Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872)
Wikipedia,
Lydia Howard Sigourney (née Huntley) (1791-1865)
Wikipedia
The Victorian Web,
Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903)
Wikipedia,
Alfred Billings Street (1811-1881)
Wikipedia,
J. Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)
Wikipedia,
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)
Wikipedia,
Benson John Lossing (1813-1891)
Wikipedia
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)
Wikipedia
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]
Wikipedia
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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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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Adrift on an Ice-Pan (1909)
[Memoir]
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A Labrador Doctor: The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell M.D. (Oxon.), C.M.G. (1919)
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Gréville, Henry [pseudonyme
d'Alice-Marie-Céleste Durand-Gréville, née Fleury] (1842-1902)
[Romancière française]
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New York Times (1879)
La fille de Dosia (1876)
[Roman]
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