OUTRAGE: NAFTA "renewal" forces 20-year copyright extensions on Canadians

-- your government talked big, but capitulated to the White House tyrant
-- they had no mandate whatsoever for this giveaway

But this is a battle we the people can win

-- no provincial government publicly supports the deal
-- no political party supports it, except the federal Liberals

And it could well fail before ratification

-- members of the US Congress are rightly skeptical about it. Not to mention Canada's dairy farmers!

Our "trump" card -- there's a federal election coming up! Here's what to do:

First, look up your MP's email address -- it's easy, here's the link! Then, send an email opposing the copyright giveaway. Here's some text you can use:
Subject: Blocking USMCA

I live in your riding, and will vote in next year's federal election. I am absolutely opposed to the government's capitulation to foreign bullying. I will not vote for any party or candidate that supports the "United States Mexico Canada Agreement". For me, this is personal: I read public domain books, readily available free of charge online. I cannot accept the copyright extensions in USMCA: they are theft of my property. But this cultural vandalism is only part of the foreign thuggery clearly visible in USMCA. My vote in the next election hinges on your stopping this thuggery.
Naturally you can modify this text, or use your own words. You can email your MP, mail a letter, make a phone call, or meet your MP personally.

Thank you, and tell your friends!

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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 !!

STOP USMCA'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THIS TOXIC REPLACEMENT FOR NAFTA WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY JOHN MASEFIELD UNTIL 2038 !!

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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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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1582]

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1581]

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?] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1580]

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1579]

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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1578]

2018/11/12: A VERY FAMOUS NOVEL, THE BASIS FOR A FAMOUS MOVIE, SET IN THE HIMALAYAS !!

STOP USMCA'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THIS TOXIC REPLACEMENT FOR NAFTA WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY JAMES HILTON UNTIL 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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1577]

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1576]

2018/10/28: A HISTORICAL NOVEL BY C. S. FORESTER ABOUT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS !!

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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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1573]

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 !!

STOP USMCA'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THIS TOXIC REPLACEMENT FOR NAFTA WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY SOMERSET MAUGHAM UNTIL 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1569]

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 !!

STOP COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS FROM BEING ADDED TO NAFTA! IF THESE TYRANNICAL EXTENSIONS WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY THOMAS B. COSTAIN UNTIL 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" !!

STOP COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS FROM BEING ADDED TO NAFTA! IF THESE TYRANNICAL EXTENSIONS WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY C. S. FORESTER UNTIL 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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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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1566]

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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1565]

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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1564]

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] Wikipedia

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] Wikipedia
Hall, James Norman (1887-1951) [American novelist] Wikipedia

Botany Bay (1941) [Historical novel, principally about the sailing of the First Fleet Wikipedia and the founding of the British penal colony in Australia, at Botany Bay Wikipedia, near the future Sydney. A more agreeable way of learning Australian history could hardly be imagined, with incidental information on the British penal system of the time, and on the aftermath of the 1783 partition of British North America: our hero, Hugh Tallant, was a Loyalist, but one who ended up in Australia rather than Canada!] CAUTION: Certain language in the novel may seem racist by the standards of today.
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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]
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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!]
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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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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.»]
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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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1559]

2018/08/12: TODAY'S EBOOK IS VERY SPECIAL: IAN FLEMING'S FINAL JAMES BOND NOVEL !!

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Fleming, Ian [Ian Lancaster] (1908-1964) [English intelligence officer and novelist] Wikipedia

The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) Wikipedia [Fleming's last James Bond novel, written under difficult conditions, and published posthumously. Bond reappears in London after months of absence: he is a changed man. But he recovers, and is sent to Jamaica on a dangerous and important mission.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1558]

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1557]

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) Wikipedia [Novel of action and intrigue, the first to feature Buchan's famous creation the Scottish barrister and politician Sir Edward Leithen Wikipedia 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) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1556]

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) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1555]

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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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!"] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1554]

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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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."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1553]

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) Wikipedia [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1551]

2018/07/14: OUR THIRD SCIENCE FICTION STORY BY JOHN RUSSELL FEARN !!

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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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1550]

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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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) Wikipedia [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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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.]
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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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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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1543]

2018/06/27: FROM PETER CHEYNEY, A MYSTERY NOVEL FEATURING HIS FAMOUS CREATION. PRIVATE DETECTIVE SLIM CALLAGHAN !!

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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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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] Wikipedia

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1537]

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] Wikipedia

Published under the pen-name Isak Dinesen:
Anecdotes of Destiny (1958) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia -- the first Danish movie to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1536]

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] Wikipedia 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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1535]

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] Wikipedia

Published under the pen-name Isak Dinesen:
Seven Gothic Tales (1934) Wikipedia 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) Wikipedia, who took a major role in arranging the book's publication, which brought the author enduring fame.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1534]


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] Wikipedia

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.]
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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] Wikipedia

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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2018/05/26: OUR SECOND NOVEL OF INTRIGUE BY "MANNING COLES", FEATURING BRITISH INTELLIGENCE OFFICER 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

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] Wikipedia

The Narrow Corner (1932) Wikipedia [Novel, set in the Malay Archipelago Wikipedia 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1532]

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] Wikipedia

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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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] Wikipedia

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] Wikipedia

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...]
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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] Wikipedia

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) Wikipedia [Novel featuring James Bond, set in the Swiss Alps: dark doings on the upper slopes. The 1969 film adaptation Wikipedia has the rare distinction of being very faithful to the book: if you like one, you'll like the other!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1530]

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] Wikipedia 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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1529]

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] Wikipedia 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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1528]

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] Wikipedia 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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1527]

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] 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?] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1526]

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] Wikipedia

The General (1936) Wikipedia [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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Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist] Wikipedia Australian Dictionary of Biography

The Chequer Board (1947) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1524]

2018/04/10: THE NOVEL THAT INTRODUCED CHARLIE CHAN TO THE WORLD !!

Biggers, Earl Derr (1884-1933) [American novelist] Wikipedia

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1523]

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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Chandler, Raymond [Raymond Thornton] (1888-1959) [American novelist and screenplay writer] Wikipedia

The Long Goodbye (1953) Wikipedia 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] Wikipedia

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] Wikipedia

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 Wikipedia 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] Wikipedia

Alas, Babylon (1959) Wikipedia [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] Wikipedia

Hold Back the Night (1952) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia 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] Wikipedia

Mr. Adam (1946) Wikipedia [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] Wikipedia

Forbidden Area (1956) Wikipedia [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] Wikipedia Simon Fraser University

Earth and High Heaven (1944) Wikipedia [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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Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott] [Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966] [English novelist] Wikipedia

The Commodore (1945) Wikipedia [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] Wikipedia 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1513]

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] Wikipedia 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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1512]

2018/03/05: 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] Wikipedia The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Deluge (1927) Wikipedia [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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1511]

2018/03/02: 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] Wikipedia

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] Wikipedia

The African Queen (1935) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia, which featured Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn; the Bogart character, Canadian in the film, is an Englishman in the book, in fact a Cockney Wikipedia. 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] Wikipedia

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?] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1508]

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] Wikipedia 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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1507]

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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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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1506]

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] 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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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] Wikipedia

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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2018/02/04: 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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Coles, Manning [pseudonym of English author Adelaide Frances Oke Manning (1891-1959) and British intelligence agent Cyril Henry Coles (1899-1965)] Wikipedia

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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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] 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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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] Wikipedia

Published under the pen-name Jay Franklin:
The Rat Race (1950 Galaxy version) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia 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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2018/01/23: 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] Wikipedia

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1500]

2018/01/21: 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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Books in the Wilderness (January 1921) [Essay. In 1920, Niven moved to Nelson, British Columbia Wikipedia, 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1499]

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] Wikipedia Nobelprize.org

It Can't Happen Here (1935) Wikipedia [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] Wikipedia

Big Blonde (1929) [Short story, winner of the 1929 O. Henry Award Wikipedia. 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?] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1497]

2018/01/08: A NOVEL BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM -- SET IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY SPAIN !!

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Maugham, W. Somerset [William Somerset] (1874-1965) [English novelist and playwright] Wikipedia

Catalina (1948) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1496]

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] Wikipedia Australian Dictionary of Biography

Round the Bend (1951) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1495]

2018/01/02: WE WISH ALL OF OUR READERS A HAPPY NEW YEAR! NEW YEAR'S DAY WAS ALSO PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY, AND SOME WONDERFUL AUTHORS ARE NOW OUT OF COPYRIGHT -- BUT WOULDN'T BE HAD FOREIGN INTERESTS SUCCEEDED IN EXTENDING CANADIAN COPYRIGHTS.

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] Wikipedia

Lord Hornblower (1946) Wikipedia [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] Wikipedia

Then and Now (1946) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia and Cesare Borgia Wikipedia "...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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1493]

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] Wikipedia Australian Dictionary of Biography

An Old Captivity (1940) Wikipedia [Novel, an attractive mix of air adventure (Greenland, Canada, Scotland) and time travel (the late thirties and a millennium earlier), featuring pilot Donald Ross.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1492]

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] Wikipedia

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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1491]


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] Wikipedia

Dust Tracks on a Road. An Autobiography. (1942) Wikipedia [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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1490]

2017/12/16: OUR THIRD TITLE BY EARL DERR BIGGERS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BIGGERS' FAMOUS DETECTIVE CHARLIE CHAN, OR WITH HONOLULU! INSTEAD, IT'S A COMBINATION OF ROMANCE AND COMEDY, INVOLVING AN ENGLISH LORD AND AN AMERICAN HEIRESS !!

Biggers, Earl Derr (1884-1933) [American novelist] Wikipedia

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]

2017/12/14: TODAY, AN ENDURING SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC: A SUPERHERO NOVEL BY JOHN TAINE !!

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Taine, John [Bell, Eric Temple] (1883-1960) [American mathematician and science fiction author] Wikipedia 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1489]

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 PLEASURE TODAY TO PUBLISH ELIOT'S BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN INTRODUCTION !!

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Eliot, T. S. [Thomas Stearns] (1888-1965) [American poet, playwright, and critic] Wikipedia

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."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1488]

2017/12/02: 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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1487]

2017/11/30: OUR SECOND WORK OF SCIENCE FICTION BY RICHARD McKENNA !!

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McKenna, Richard [Richard Milton] (1913-1964) [American sailor and novelist] Wikipedia 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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1486]

2017/11/29: AFTER LEAVING THE U.S. NAVY, RICHARD McKENNA WROTE THE SAND PEBBLES -- A NOVEL FAMOUS TO THIS DAY, WHICH WE'RE PROUD TO HAVE IN OUR CATALOGUE. BUT... HIS FIRST LITERARY CREATIONS WERE IN THE AREA OF SCIENCE FICTION !!

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McKenna, Richard [Richard Milton] (1913-1964) [American sailor and novelist] Wikipedia 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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1485]

2017/11/28: AN ACTION STORY BY A. E. W. MASON OF FOUR FEATHERS 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] Wikipedia

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1484]

2017/11/25: LAST WEEK WE PUBLISHED S. FOWLER WRIGHT'S FIRST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL, A TRUE CLASSIC. TODAY WE ADD TO OUR CATALOGUE ITS FAMOUS SEQUEL !!

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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."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1483]

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1482]

2017/11/15: TODAY'S EBOOK IS SET IN JAPAN, AND IS OUR TENTH EBOOK FEATURING COMMANDER JAMES BOND !!

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Fleming, Ian [Ian Lancaster] (1908-1964) [English intelligence officer and novelist] Wikipedia

You Only Live Twice (1964) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1481]

2017/11/09: TODAY, AN EXTREMELY FAMOUS SHORT STORY -- "THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME", BY RICHARD CONNELL !!

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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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1480]

2017/11/07: TWELVE SHORT MYSTERY STORIES BY "SAPPER" -- FEATURING RONALD STANDISH !!

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Sapper [McNeile, Herman Cyril] (1888-1937) [English novelist] Wikipedia

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1479]

2017/11/05: A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN NOVEL BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM !!

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Maugham, W. Somerset [William Somerset] (1874-1965) [English novelist and playwright] Wikipedia

The Razor's Edge (1944) Wikipedia [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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1478]

2017/11/02: AS OF TODAY, OUR DIGITAL EDITION OF "DOC" SMITH'S LENSMAN NOVELS IS COMPLETE !!

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Smith, Edward E. [Elmer] "Doc" (1890-1965) [American chemist and science fiction author] Wikipedia

Children of the Lens (1966 version) Wikipedia [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1477]

2017/10/25: OUR LATEST LENSMAN NOVEL BY E. E. "DOC" SMITH !!

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Smith, Edward E. [Elmer] "Doc" (1890-1965) [American chemist and science fiction author] Wikipedia

Second Stage Lensmen (1965 version) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1476]

2017/10/18: OUR FIRST EBOOK BY SCOTTISH AUTHOR J. LESLIE MITCHELL IS A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN TIME TRAVEL NOVEL !!

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Mitchell, J. Leslie [James Leslie] (1901-1935) [Scottish novelist] Wikipedia 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1475]

2017/10/09: HAPPY THANKSGIVING! TODAY'S EBOOK IS A SHORT STORY BY CORDWAINER 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] Wikipedia 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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1474]

2017/10/06: ONE OF CORDWAINER SMITH'S FINAL STORIES, PUBLISHED ONLY MONTHS AFTER HIS PASSING !!

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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

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."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1473]

2017/10/03: WIR PRÄSENTIEREN IHNEN... HEINRICH VON KLEIST !!

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Kleist, Heinrich von [Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von] (1777-1811) [German playwright and poet / dramaturge et poète allemand] Wikipedia fr.wikipedia de.wikipedia

Das Erdbeben in Chili (1807/1810) de.wikipedia en.wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip EPUB [PGC #1472/no 1472]
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2017/10/02: WIR PRÄSENTIEREN IHNEN... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE !!

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832) [German scientist, poet, playwright, and statesman / scientifique, poète, dramaturge et homme d'État allemand] Wikipedia 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.] HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip EPUB [PGC #1471/no 1471]
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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] Wikipedia 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?] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1470]

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] Wikipedia 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?] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1469]

2017/09/22: ALDOUS HUXLEY'S WONDERFUL FIRST NOVEL ALREADY SHOWS THE HAND OF A MASTER !!

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Huxley, Aldous [Aldous Leonard] (1894-1963) [English novelist and essayist] Wikipedia

Crome Yellow (1921) Wikipedia [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)] Project Gutenberg US [PGUS #1999]

2017/09/21: OUR ALDOUS HUXLEY SERIES CONTINUES -- TODAY, WE OFFER HIS CELEBRATED THIRD NOVEL, THOSE BARREN LEAVES !!

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Huxley, Aldous [Aldous Leonard] (1894-1963) [English novelist and essayist] Wikipedia

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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1468]

2017/09/13: OUR THIRD TITLE BY ALDOUS HUXLEY IS AN EARLY BUT FAMOUS WORK OF SATIRE !!

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Huxley, Aldous [Aldous Leonard] (1894-1963) [English novelist and essayist] Wikipedia

Antic Hay (1923) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1467]

2017/09/09: A COLLECTION OF TWELVE STORIES BY "SAPPER" !!

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Sapper [McNeile, Herman Cyril] (1888-1937) [English novelist] Wikipedia

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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1466]

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] Wikipedia

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!] Project Gutenberg US [PGUS #55479]

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] Wikipedia

The Waves (1931) Wikipedia [Novel, highly esteemed by connoisseurs of Virginia Woolf. Six linked characters consider their life stories thus far.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1465]

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] Wikipedia

Skylark DuQuesne (1966) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1464]

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] Wikipedia

Hornblower and the Atropos (1953) Wikipedia [It's 1806: the battle of Trafalgar Wikipedia 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] Wikipedia

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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1462]

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] Wikipedia 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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1461]

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] Wikipedia

Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia]
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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] Wikipedia

Lieutenant Hornblower (1952) Wikipedia [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] Wikipedia

Cakes and Ale (1930) Wikipedia [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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1458]

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] Wikipedia

Dr. No (1958) Wikipedia [The sixth James Bond novel, set in the Caribbean, and the basis of the first James Bond film, starring Sean Connery Wikipedia. "The Empire still lives in this one; bizarrerie abounds... Erudite cliff-hanger, with sex sauce." (John T. Winterich, Saturday Review, 16 August 1958)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1457]

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] Wikipedia

Skylark Three (1948 version) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1456]

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] Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia, 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 Wikipedia, and eventually makes its way to twentieth-century Huntsville, Alabama!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1455]

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] Wikipedia The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Drunkboat (October 1963) Wikipedia ["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 Wikipedia fr.wikisource, the title of which can be reasonably translated as Drunkboat.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1454]

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] Wikipedia

Brat Farrar (1949) Wikipedia [Mystery novel, set near the south coast of England in the 1940s: a tale of impersonation and intrigue.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #112]

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] Wikipedia The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

The Dead Lady of Clown Town (August 1964) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1453]

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] Wikipedia

The Man in the Queue (1929) [Josephine Tey's first mystery novel, in which she introduced her famous detective, Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard. The queue of the title is a theatre queue in London's West End: as it turns out, a dangerous place to be. "This exceptionally good detective story is worked out carefully enough so that even the Scotland Yard inspector who takes charge of the case strikes the reader as a human being, something rare enough among the Scotland Yarders of fiction... It is recommended to all detective story addicts." (Saturday Review, 12 October 1929)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1452]

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) Wikipedia [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1451]

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] Wikipedia

Word in Season. A Story for Christmas. (1965 version) [A very short story, set at Christmas and featuring Albert Campion Wikipedia. An earlier version, A Word in Season, had appeared in 1955.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1450]

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] Wikipedia

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1449]

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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1448]

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] Wikipedia

Imperial Palace (1930) Wikipedia [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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1447]

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] Wikipedia

The Violent Bear It Away (1960) Wikipedia [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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1446]

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] Wikipedia

Wise Blood (1952) Wikipedia [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1445]

2017/06/05: A SCIENCE FICTION STORY BY H. PIPER BEAM !!

Piper, H. Beam [Henry Beam] (1904-1964) [American science fiction author] Wikipedia

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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1444]

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] Wikipedia

Brave New World Revisited (1958) Wikipedia [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."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1443]

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1442]

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] Wikipedia The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

The Vortex Blaster (1960) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1441]

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] Wikipedia Queens University Archives

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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1440]

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] Wikipedia Queens University Archives

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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1439]

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] Wikipedia

The Loved One. An Anglo-American Tragedy. (1965 version of the 1948 original edition, with a new preface) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia led directly to his writing this satirical novella: "a little jewel of a yarn" (Ben Ray Redman, Saturday Review, 26 June 1948).] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1438]

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] Wikipedia

Decline and Fall (1962 revised version of the 1928 original edition, with a new preface) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1437]

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."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1436]

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] Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia. "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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1435]

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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1434]

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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1433]

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] Wikipedia Queens University Archives

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) Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia 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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1432]

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] Wikipedia

The Story of San Michele (1929) [The Villa San Michele Wikipedia (with photographs) 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] Wikipedia

The Black Camel (1929) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1430]

2017/04/30: FIVE SHORT STORIES FEATURING... JAMES BOND !!

Fleming, Ian [Ian Lancaster] (1908-1964) [English intelligence officer and novelist] Wikipedia

For Your Eyes Only. Five secret occasions in the life of James Bond. (1960) Wikipedia [Espionage, murder, smuggling -- five different short stories with five different challenges for James Bond. Locales include Paris, Jamaica, the Seychelles, Italy and, yes, Canada!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1429]

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] Wikipedia The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Spacehounds of IPC (1947 version) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1428]

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] Wikipedia 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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1427]

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] Wikipedia

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"!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1426]

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] Wikipedia

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?] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1425]

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] Wikipedia

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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1424]

2017/04/12: OUR CORDWAINER SMITH CELEBRATION CONTINUES !!

Smith, Cordwainer [Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony] (1913-1966) [American intelligence analyst, Sinologist, and science fiction author] Wikipedia

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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1423]

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] Wikipedia

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".] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1422]

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] Wikipedia

A Planet Named Shayol (October 1961) Wikipedia [Shayol is a prison planet. It's also a sort of farm, where replacement organs are grown, with the help of the prisoners!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1421]

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] Wikipedia

The Ballad of Lost C'mell (October 1962) Wikipedia [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?] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1420]

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] Wikipedia
Hall, James Norman (1887-1951) [American novelist] Wikipedia

Faery Lands of the South Seas (1921) [The first collaboration by Nordhoff and Hall involving the South Seas, a memoir of their first visit to Tahiti and points beyond: "a book which is neither super-romantic nor tediously informative... one of the most pleasing volumes of travel and observation recently published." (The Outlook, 4 January 1922) Includes some attractive small illustrations by American artist George A. Picken (1898-1971) Smithsonian Institution.] Project Gutenberg US [PGUS #54479]

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] Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia. 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 Wikipedia, starring Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1419]

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] Wikipedia

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 Wikipedia (with maps); 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] Wikipedia

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) Wikipedia, 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."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1417]

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] Wikipedia

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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1416]

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] Wikipedia

Diamonds are Forever (1956) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia, the last in the Bond series to star Sean Connery.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1415]

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] Wikipedia

The Last of the Vikings (1964) [Historical novel about the astounding life of Harald Hardrada Wikipedia, 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] Wikipedia

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"!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1413]

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] Wikipedia

The Worm Ouroboros (1922) Wikipedia [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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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] Wikipedia

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1411]

2017/03/11: OUR SECOND SCIENCE FICTION STORY BY JOHN RUSSELL FEARN !!

Fearn, John Russell (1908-1960) [English science fiction author] Wikipedia

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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1410]

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] Wikipedia

Red Harvest (February 1929) Wikipedia [Novel, featuring Hammett's famous creation, the detective known only as the Continental Op Wikipedia. Dark doings in a mining town: criminal gangs, and a criminal police force. What's a private detective to do? Lots, as it turns out!]
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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] Wikipedia

The Glass Key (April 1931) Wikipedia [Mystery novel, set in an amoral world of crime and corruption. Hammett's own choice as his best novel.]
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2017/03/04: OUR FIRST EBOOK BY THE CELEBRATED MYSTERY WRITER MARGERY ALLINGHAM !!

Allingham, Margery [Youngman Carter, Margery Louise] (1904-1966) [English mystery novelist] Wikipedia

The Case of the Late Pig (1937) Wikipedia [Mystery novel, featuring (and narrated by) Allingham's famous creation Albert Campion Wikipedia. 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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1407]

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] Wikipedia

The Skylark of Space (1958 version) Wikipedia [Science fiction novel, the first of the four Skylark novels Wikipedia. This first novel was written in collaboration with Smith's friend Mrs Lee Hawkins Garby (1890[1892?]-1953) Wikipedia. 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1406]

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] Wikipedia

Triplanetary (1965 version) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1405]

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] Wikipedia

First Lensman (1964 version) Wikipedia [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."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1404]

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] Wikipedia

Martian Avenger (April 1939) [Science fiction story. From his name, Lance Halworthy, you would think he was from Earth. But you would be wrong!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1403]

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] Wikipedia

Galactic Patrol (1964 version) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1402]

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] Wikipedia

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia 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] Wikipedia

Hunting the Bismarck (1959) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia, a German battleship. Filmed in 1960 as Sink the Bismarck! Wikipedia. "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] Wikipedia 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1399]

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] Wikipedia

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 Wikipedia [photos]. 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1398]

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] Wikipedia

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1397]

2017/01/30: A FINE HISTORY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BY B. A. McKELVIE !!

McKelvie, Bruce Alistair (1889-1960) [Canadian journalist, historian, and novelist] ABCBookworld

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] Wikipedia

The Dain Curse (July 1929) Wikipedia [Hammett's second mystery novel, set in San Francisco: it concerns a family curse; also a religious cult, and drugs -- has California always been like this? It also features Hammett's famous creation, the detective known only as the Continental Op Wikipedia.]
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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] Wikipedia

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1394]

2017/01/22: C. S. FORESTER WROTE THE FAMOUS NAVAL NOVELS FEATURING HORATIO HORNBLOWER -- BUT HE ALSO WROTE SCIENCE FICTION !!

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Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott] [Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966] [English novelist] Wikipedia

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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Bechdolt, Jack [John Ernest] (1884-1954) [American journalist, cartoonist, and science fiction author] Wikipedia

The Torch (1920) Wikipedia [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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Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott] [Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966] [English novelist] Wikipedia

Brown on Resolution (1929) Wikipedia [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] Wikipedia

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1390]

2017/01/07: PROFESSOR HASKEL VAN MANDERPOOTZ RETURNS !!

Weinbaum, Stanley G. [Grauman] (1902-1935) [American science fiction author] Wikipedia

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?] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1389]

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] Wikipedia

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'"!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1388]

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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Hammett, Dashiell [Samuel Dashiell] (1894-1961) [American author and political activist] Wikipedia

The Maltese Falcon (February 1930) Wikipedia [The classic detective novel, and the inspiration for the classic motion picture starring Humphrey Bogart Wikipedia. Private detective Sam Spade, a San Francisco now utterly vanished, and a mysterious statuette, "the black figure of a bird". What more can one ask for?]
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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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Maugham, W. Somerset [William Somerset] (1874-1965) [English novelist and playwright] Wikipedia

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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1386]

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] Wikipedia 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1385]

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] 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!] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip EPUB [PGC no 1384]

2016/12/15: STANLEY G. WEINBAUM'S LAST STORY -- AND A VERY GOOD ONE !!

Weinbaum, Stanley G. [Grauman] (1902-1935) [American science fiction author] Wikipedia

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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1383]

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] Wikipedia

Parasite Planet (February 1935) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1382]

2016/12/09: A LATE MASTERPIECE BY SINCLAIR LEWIS !!

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Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930] Wikipedia Nobelprize.org

Kingsblood Royal (1947) Wikipedia [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] Wikipedia

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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1380]

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] Wikipedia

The Thin Man (January 1934) Wikipedia [Hammett's final novel, one of his most famous, and the inspiration for the classic film Wikipedia. Nick Charles was formerly with the Trans-American Detective Agency, but has left all that behind him. Or has he? "Verdict: Extra-Swell" (Saturday Review, 13 January 1934)]
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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] Wikipedia
Hall, James Norman (1887-1951) [American novelist] Wikipedia

The Hurricane (1936) Wikipedia [Novel, set in the nineteenth century, about an island in the Tuamotu Archipelago Wikipedia, shared by Polynesians and Europeans, and what happens before, during, and after a major hurricane. One of Nordhoff and Hall's most popular novels, and the basis for John Ford's 1937 movie of the same name Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1378]

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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Schachner, Nat [Nathan] (1895-1955) [American historian and science fiction author] Wikipedia

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1377]

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] Wikipedia Nobelprize.org

Dodsworth (1929) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia 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] Wikipedia

Gray Lensman (1965 version) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1375]

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] Wikipedia

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]

2016/11/13: JAMES NORMAN HALL IS FAMOUS FOR HIS COLLABORATIONS WITH CHARLES NORDHOFF — "MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY", FOR EXAMPLE. BUT HE WROTE MANY FINE BOOKS ON HIS OWN — SUCH AS TODAY'S EBOOK !!

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Hall, James Norman (1887-1951) [American novelist] Wikipedia

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1374]

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] Wikipedia Nobelprize.org

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1373]

2016/11/03: WE INTRODUCE D. D. SHARP TO OUR CATALOGUE WITH HIS MOST FAMOUS STORY — FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1929, AND REPRINTED MANY TIMES SINCE !!

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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 reprinted many times since its first appearance.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1372]

2016/11/02: OUR SECOND SCIENCE FICTION STORY BY NAT SCHACHNER !!

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Schachner, Nat [Nathan] (1895-1955) [American historian and science fiction author] Wikipedia

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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1371]

2016/11/01: OUR SIXTH NOVEL BY ANNA BUCHAN STARTS IN GLASGOW, BUT THEN SHIFTS TO LONDON !!

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Buchan, Anna Masterton [Douglas, O.] (1877-1948) [Scottish novelist] Wikipedia

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1370]

2016/10/28: SCOTTISH DOMESTIC LIFE AS PORTRAYED BY ANNA BUCHAN -- WHAT COULD BE MORE DELIGHTFUL ?

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Buchan, Anna Masterton [Douglas, O.] (1877-1948) [Scottish novelist] Wikipedia

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1369]

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] Wikipedia

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 Wikipedia!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1368]

2016/10/23: HERE AT PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA, AMERICAN NOVELIST LOUIS BROMFIELD IS ONE OF OUR FAVOURITE AUTHORS — WE HOPE YOU LIKE HIM AS MUCH AS WE DO! TODAY WE'RE DELIGHTED TO OFFER YOU A FINE NOVEL HE WROTE JUST AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR !!

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Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956) [American novelist, journalist, and organic farmer] Wikipedia

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 FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE ATOMIC AGE !!

Jameson, Malcolm (1891-1945) [American naval officer and science fiction author] Wikipedia

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1366]

2016/10/16: OUR FIRST EBOOK BY H. BEAM PIPER IS ONE OF HIS MOST FAMOUS NOVELS !!

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Piper, H. Beam [Henry Beam] (1904-1964) [American science fiction author] Wikipedia

Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen (1965) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1365]

2016/10/14: A SHORT STORY (VERY SHORT) BY C. M. KORNBLUTH — NOT A WORD IS WASTED !!

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Kornbluth, Cyril M. (1924-1958) [American writer of science fiction] Wikipedia 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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1364]

2016/10/13: A STORY FROM 1951 BY C. M. KORNBLUTH — CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION !!

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Kornbluth, Cyril M. (1924-1958) [American writer of science fiction] Wikipedia Frederik Pohl blog entry (20 April 2009)

Friend to Man (Spring 1951) [Science fiction story. Smith is a fugitive, and is on a planet he does not know...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1363]

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] Wikipedia

The Face in the Abyss (1931) Wikipedia [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1362]

2016/10/09: A CANADIAN CLASSIC FOR CANADIAN THANKSGIVING: MAZO DE LA ROCHE'S THE BUILDING OF JALNA !!

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de la Roche, Mazo (1879-1961) [Canadian novelist and playwright] Wikipedia

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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1361]

2016/10/04: A NOVEL BY SOMERSET MAUGHAM — SET IN THE FAR EAST !!

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Maugham, W. Somerset [William Somerset] (1874-1965) [English novelist and playwright] Wikipedia

The Painted Veil (1925) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1360]


Complete catalogue / Notre collection

You will find thousands of other interesting titles at Project Gutenberg's US and Australian websites. Many of the Canadian ebooks listed below were originally created for these two sites, which have kindly made them available to us. You will find a large catalogue of excellent titles in French at Ebooks Libres et Gratuits, who have also kindly made their catalogue available to us.

Nous tenons à remercier nos partenaires, Projet Gutenberg US, Ebooks libres et gratuits et Projet Gutenberg Australie, qui vous offrent des milliers de livres captivants. Les deux premiers possèdent un vaste catalogue de titres en français. Ce sont nos partenaires qui se sont occupés de numériser de nombreux documents ci-dessous.





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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) fr.wikipedia 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #560]
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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #515]
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).] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #549]
The Broken Vase, and Other Stories; for Children and Youth. (1847) [Stories for children, with illustrations]
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Story of Simple Simon (this edition ca. 1850-1864) [Traditional children's poem Wikipedia, nicely illustrated by an unknown hand] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #514]
Dan Drake's Rhymes and Dame Duck's Jingles (1859) [Illustrated poems]
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Ball-Room Dancing Without a Master, and complete guide to the Etiquette, Toilet, Dress and Management of the ball-room; with all the Principal Dances in Popular Use. (1872) [Manual]
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Comic Animals and their Adventures. With Alphabet and Rhymes. (ca. 1880?) [Alphabet book and children's story: includes illustrations by G. H. Thompson (fl. 1833-1884) and Louis Wain (1860-1939) Wikipedia]
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WAAC: The Woman's Story of the War (1930) [Autobiography: an intimate account of the writer's personal experience of the First World War. Not your standard war memoir!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Metropolitan Cook Book, Edition of Aug. 1954 (1954) [Cookbook. published by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


Abbott, John Stevens Cabot (1805-1877) [American historian] Wikipedia

The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and his Companions in their 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 Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


Abbott-Smith, George (1864-1947) [Canadian theologian and philologist]

A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1937 [third edition: first edition published in 1921, second edition in 1923]) [Dictionary of New Testament Greek, with many references to how Greek words in the New Testament were used in the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament to represent their Hebrew counterparts] HTML zipped DjVu PDF
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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) Wikipedia contributed the preface: "Major Acland's is, I imagine, the first really authentic work of imaginative writing dealing with the War to come out of one of the great British Dominions... it will be little less than a scandal if the book is not read enormously widely. And that is the truth."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1162]


Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) [English essayist and playwright] Wikipedia NNDB

Cato. A Tragedy. (1713) [Tragedy, extremely popular throughout the eighteenth century, describing the last days of Cato the Younger (95-46 B.C.) Wikipedia, a leading opponent of Julius Caesar. Our edition includes some introductory remarks by the playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped Wikipedia [PGC #496]


Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 B.C.) [Athenian playwright] Wikipedia

Translations by Murray, Gilbert [George Gilbert Aimé] (1866-1957) [English classical scholar] Wikipedia Australian Dictionary of Biography Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) [in German]

Alain-Fournier, pseudonyme de Fournier, Henri Alban (1886-1914) [Romancier français] fr.wikipedia

Le Grand Meaulnes (1913) [Roman] HTML et Texte


Albani, Emma (1847-1930) [Canadian opera singer] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography Library and Archives Canada La Scena Musicale (article by Gilles Potvin) The Virtual Gramophone (recordings!) The Virtual Gramophone (biography)]

Forty Years of Song (1911) [Albani's own account, profusely illustrated, of her sensational rise to international fame in the world of opera and oratorio] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PG Canada ebook #500]
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Legendre, Napoléon (1841-1907) [Journaliste canadien] fr.wikipedia Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Albani (Emma Lajeunesse) (1874) [Biographie de la cantatrice Emma Albani (1847-1930) fr.wikipedia Dictionnaire biographique du Canada Bibliothèque et Archives Canada La Scena Musicale (article par Gilles Potvin)] Le Gramophone virtuel (enregistrements!) Le Gramophone virtuel (biographie)]
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Allen, Grant [Charles Grant Blairfindie] (1848-1899) [Canadian scientist, novelist, and historian] Wikipedia Peter Morton's Grant Allen website grantallen.org

Philistia (1884) [Novel] Text
Biographies of Working Men (1884) [Short biographies of Thomas Telford, George Stephenson, John Gibson, William Herschel, Jean-François Millet, James Garfield, and Thomas Edward] Text Text
Falling in Love, with other essays on more exact branches of science (1889) [Essays on science] HTML and Text
What's Bred in the Bone (1890) [Novel] Text
The Great Taboo (1890) [Novel] Text
Recalled to Life (1891) [Novel] Text
Anglo-Saxon Britain (1891) [History] HTML and Text
Science in Arcady (1892) [Essays on science] HTML and Text
Michael's Crag (1893) [Novel] Text
Post-Prandial Philosophy (1893) [Light essays] HTML and Text
The British Barbarians (1895) [Science fiction novel] Text
The Woman Who Did (1895) Wikipedia [Novel, controversial at the time of its publication. Herminia Barton is very well educated, rather poor, and thinks for herself: she does not wish to marry, a fact which largely determines the course of the novel. We include the 1895 title page, which was created by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) Wikipedia.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #950] PG US ebook
An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay (1897) [Detective short stories] Text
Twelve Tales, with a Headpiece, a Tailpiece, and an Intermezzo: Being Select Stories by Grant Allen, Chosen and Arranged by the Author (1899) [Allen's own selection of his personal favourites among the many short stories he created. In the very interesting introduction he explains how, essentially by accident, he became a writer of fiction.]
CAUTION: Certain language in this ebook today would be considered grossly racist.
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Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose (1900) [Posthumous novel; final chapters completed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)] HTML and Text


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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1566]
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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1543]
The Case of the Late Pig (1937) Wikipedia [Mystery novel, featuring (and narrated by) Allingham's famous creation Albert Campion Wikipedia. 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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1407]
Word in Season. A Story for Christmas. (1965 version) [A very short story, set at Christmas and featuring Albert Campion Wikipedia. An earlier version, A Word in Season, had appeared in 1955.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1450]


Alloway, Mary Wilson (1848-1919) [Canadian novelist and historian]

Famous Firesides of French Canada (1899) [Essays on the history of French Canada] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #443]
Crossed Swords. A Canadian-American Tale of Love and Valor. (1912) [Historical novel set during the 1775 attack on Quebec Wikipedia by American forces led by Richard Montgomery Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography and Benedict Arnold Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography, successfully repulsed by the British garrison under the command of Guy Carleton Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #660]


Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875) [Danish writer and poet; écrivain et poète danois] Wikipedia fr.wikipedia

Contes merveilleux - Tome I [Contes] HTML et Texte
Contes merveilleux - Tome II [Contes] HTML et Texte
Stories from Hans Andersen (1911) [Stories: illustrated by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) Wikipedia] HTML and Text

Tales from Hans Andersen Forty-Two Stories (1930) [Stories: translated from the Danish by M. R. James (1862-1936) Wikipedia]
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 Wikipedia after his decades of exploration in the Far East] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #902]
Heart of Asia. True Tales of the Far East. (1951) [Autobiographical essays about various adventures of the author during his celebrated expeditions to China and Mongolia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #886]
Beyond Adventure. The Lives of Three Explorers. (1954) [Biographical sketches of the Arctic explorer Robert Peary (1856-1920) Wikipedia, of the African explorer Carl Akeley (1864-1926) Wikipedia, and of the author himself. These short biographies originally appeared in True, The Man's Magazine Wikipedia Field & Stream (David E. Petzal) before they were collected in this book.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #962]


Anet, Claude [pseudonyme de Jean Schopfer] (1868-1931) [Journaliste et romancier français] fr.wikipedia

Ariane, jeune fille russe (1920) [Roman: la source de deux films célèbres: Ariane, jeune fille russe (1932, Paul Czinner) IMDb et Ariane [Love in the Afternoon] (1957, Billy Wilder, avec Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper, et Maurice Chevalier) IMDb en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip


Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918) [Romancier et poète français] fr.wikipedia

Les Onze Mille Verges (1907) [Roman érotique] fr.wikipedia HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip RTF RTF zip PDF PDF zip


Aristophanes (445 B.C. or earlier - ca. 385 B.C.) [Athenian playwright] Wikipedia

Translations by: Murray, Gilbert [George Gilbert Aimé] (1866-1957) [English classical scholar] Wikipedia Australian Dictionary of Biography Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) [in German]


Arkell, Reginald (1882-1959) [English novelist and poet] Wikipedia

Old Herbaceous (1950) [The celebrated light novel, featuring Bert Pinnegar, a rather special gardener. Beautifully illustrated by John Minton (1917-1957). Wikipedia Tate Collection] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #843]


Arlen, Michael (1895-1956) [English novelist, playwright, and essayist] Wikipedia

Ghost Stories (1932) [Seven ghost stories by a famous master] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1143]


Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888) [English poet and critic] Wikipedia NNDB

St. Paul and Protestantism, with an essay on Puritanism and the Church of England (1870) [Two essays on St. Paul's teachings, as they have been conceived, and misconceived] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #880]


Atiyah, Edward [Edward Selim] (1903-1964) [Lebanese political activist and novelist] Wikipedia

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1537]


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.] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip EPUB [PG Canada no 955]


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

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


Auzias-Turenne, Raymond (1861-1940) [Écrivain et diplomate français] (gendre de Louis Beaubien [1837-1915] Dictionnaire biographique du Canada)

République Royale (1894) [Essai politique] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


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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."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #842]


Bainville, Jacques (1879-1936) [Historien et journaliste français] fr.wikipedia Académie Française

Comment s'est faite la Restauration de 1814 (1914) [Monographie sur le retour des Bourbons en 1814] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip EPUB [PGC no 829]
Napoléon (1931) [Biographie du soldat et homme d'État français fr.wikipedia] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip Texte UTF-8 Texte UTF-8 zip EPUB [PGC no 739]


Barrie, J. M. [James Matthew] (1860-1937) [Scottish playwright] Wikipedia The New Yorker (Anthony Lane)

Quality Street (1901) [Comedy. Our ebook is based on an edition assigned to 1913 which included a marvellous set of colour illustrations by Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) Ulster History Circle] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PG Canada ebook #648] Wikipedia
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..."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #876] Half an Hour : An Aspect of J. M. Barrie's View of Womankind (Yashima Tanabe, 1974)
Half Hours (1914) [Four one-act plays] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped New York Times (8 Nov. 1914): review by Hildegarde Hawthorne (1871-1952), 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."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #874]


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] HTML et Texte


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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #788] Time, 25 January 1932


Bateman, Reginald John Godfrey (1883-1918) [Canadian university teacher and military officer] Dictionary of Canadian Biography Wikipedia

Reginald Bateman, Teacher and Soldier. A Memorial Volume of Selections from his Lectures and Other Writings. (1922) [An anthology, edited and with a preface by unnamed friends and students of Bateman at the University of Saskatchewan, where Bateman taught English. The anthology includes lectures and essays on Francis Thompson (1859-1907) Wikipedia, J. M. Synge (Bateman was from Ireland), Browning, Wordsworth, Dickens and Thackeray, some skilfully written poems, and some wartime items.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1056]


Bealby, John Thomas (1858-1943/1944) [Canadian fruit rancher and author]

Fruit Ranching in British Columbia (1909) [The author's account of his emigration from England to Nelson, B.C. and his subsequent adventures as a successful fruit rancher. Includes 32 photographs.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #682]


Beaugrand, Honoré (1848-1906) [Journaliste canadien] fr.wikipedia Dictionnaire biographique du Canada Encyclopédie de l'Agora

Anita: Souvenirs d'un contre-guerillas (ca. 1874) HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip
Jeanne la Fileuse: épisode de l'émigration franco-canadienne aux États-Unis (1878) [Roman] HTML et Texte
Six mois dans les Montagnes-Rocheuses: Colorado—Utah—Nouveau-Mexique (1890) [Récit de voyage] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip
La chasse galerie: légendes canadiennes (1900) [Récits] HTML et Texte


Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616) [English playwright] Wikipedia
Fletcher, John (1579-1625) [English playwright] Wikipedia

The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1613) [Parodic drama, certainly influenced by Don Quixote, first presented in 1607 and published six years later. We present the 1898 annotated edition by Frederic William Moorman (1872-1919) Wikipedia, notable for its deep but unobtrusive learning.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #698] Wikipedia


Bechdolt, Jack [John Ernest] (1884-1954) [American journalist, cartoonist, and science fiction author] Wikipedia

The Torch (1920) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1222]


Beerbohm, Max [Henry Maximilian] (1872-1956) [English satirist, critic, and caricaturist] Wikipedia The Victorian Web

The Works of Max Beerbohm (1896) [Essays: bibliography by John Lane (1854-1925)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped Text (PG US)
Yet Again (1909) [Essays] HTML and Text
Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story (1911) [Novel] HTML and Text
A Christmas Garland (1912) [Parody] HTML and Text
And Even Now (1920) [Parody] HTML and Text
Lytton Strachey (1943) [Lecture] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Mainly on the Air (1946) [Radio talks, and some articles] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #542]


Belcourt, Napoléon-Antoine (1860-1932) [Canadian politician] Wikipedia

Bilingualism: Address Delivered before the Quebec Canadian Club (1916) [Lecture] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


Bellamy, Edward (1850-1898) [American novelist and social theorist] Wikipedia

Looking Backward 2000-1887 (1888) [Novel: introduction by Heywood Broun (1888-1939) Wikipedia; biographical sketch by Sylvester Baxter (1850-1927)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped Wikipedia New York Times (article by Warren Sloat)


Benchley, Robert Charles (1889-1945) [American essayist, critic, and actor] Wikipedia National Review Online (S. T. Karnick)]

Review of Gordon Daviot's play "Richard of Bordeaux" (1934) [Review of the New York production of the West End hit Richard of Bordeaux, written by Elizabeth MacKintosh using the pen name of Gordon Daviot. MacKintosh's famous mystery novels were written using the pen name of Josephine Tey; and it is under Tey's name that you will find PG Canada's digital edition of Richard of Bordeaux!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #558]
Benchley Beside Himself (1943) [Satirical essays] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #662]


Benét, Stephen Vincent (1898-1943) [American author and poet] Wikipedia

From Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds (1937) [Short stories]
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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #818]


Bengough, John Wilson (1851-1923) [Canadian cartoonist and publisher] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Bengough's Chalk-Talks. A Series of Platform Addresses on various topics, with reproductions of the impromptu Drawings with which they were illustrated. (1922) [Illustrated lectures] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
You will find an interesting and very readable essay "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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


Bennett, Arnold [Enoch Arnold] (1867-1931) [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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #849]
Things That Have Interested Me. Second Series. (1923) [Further essays and reflections. Includes a review of James Joyce's recently published Ulysses Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #858]
Riceyman Steps (1923) Wikipedia [Novel about a London secondhand bookseller, his wife, and his maid. Winner of the 1923 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1004]
Things That Have Interested Me. Third Series. (1926) [Essays] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
The Strange Vanguard: A Fantasia (1928) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Accident (1929) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Imperial Palace (1930) Wikipedia [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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1447]
The Night Visitor and Other Stories (1931) [Short stories] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
You will find many other ebooks by Arnold Bennett at Project Gutenberg's US site.


Benson, E. F. [Edward Frederic] (1867-1940) [English novelist] Wikipedia

Visible and Invisible (1923) [Stories of the supernatural] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped UTF-8 text UTF-8 text zipped EPUB [PGC #1003]
Spook Stories (1928) [Ghost stories, as you might guess.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #809]
Charlotte Brontë (1932) [A biography of the famous author of Jane Eyre, with a fine selection of contemporary illustrations] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1074]
More Spook Stories (1934) [Further ghost stories, written as a sequel to Spook Stories, which had appeared six years earlier] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1030]


Benson, Louis FitzGerald (1855-1930) [American church historian and hymnologist] Princeton Theological Seminary

The Hymnody of the Christian Church [The Stone Lectures, 1926, Princeton Theological Seminary] (1927) [Lectures on various aspects of the use of hymns in Christian worship] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped UTF-8 text UTF-8 text zipped [PGC #479]


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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #267]
Goodbye, Stranger (1926) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
The Man Who Missed the 'Bus (1928) [Short story] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Worlds Within Worlds (1928) [Travel essays] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Hope Against Hope and Other Stories (1931) [Short stories] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


Bernanos, Georges (1888-1948) [Romancier français] fr.wikipedia

L'Imposture (1927) [Roman] HTML (Ebooks libres et gratuits)
Saint Dominique (1928) [Biographie] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip
La joie (1929) [Roman] HTML (Ebooks libres et gratuits)
Un crime (1935) [Roman policier] HTML (Ebooks libres et gratuits)
Journal d'un curé de campagne (1936) [Roman: Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, 1936] HTML (Ebooks libres et gratuits)
Nouvelle histoire de Mouchette (1937) [Roman] HTML (Ebooks libres et gratuits)
Réflexions sur le cas de conscience français (1943) [Conférence faite à Rio-de-Janeiro le 15 Octobre 1943] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip
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Lord Berners (Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, fourteenth Baron Berners) (1883-1950) [English composer, painter, and novelist] Wikipedia New Criterion (article by Joseph Epstein) The Guardian (article by Gavin Bryars)

First Childhood (1934) [Autobiography] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


Bernier, Hector (1886-1947) [Romancier canadien]

Au large de l'Écueil (1912) [Roman] Texte
Ce que disait la flamme (1913) [Roman] Texte


Besier, Rudolf (1878-1942) [English playwright] Wikipedia

The Barretts of Wimpole Street. A Comedy in Five Acts. (1930) [Play about the initial meeting of the poets Elizabeth Barrett Wikipedia and Robert Browning Wikipedia, and the events that ensued] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #861] Wikipedia


Bibaud, François-Maximilien (1823-1887) [Écrivain canadien] Dictionnaire biographique du Canada

Biographie des Sagamos illustres de l'Amérique Septentrionale (1848) HTML et Texte


Biedermann, Woldemar von (1817-1903) [German literary historian / historien littéraire allemand] de.wikipedia

Goethe und die Fikentscher (1878) [Biographical essay in German / Essai biographique en allemand] HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip
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Biggers, Earl Derr (1884-1933) [American novelist] Wikipedia

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1523]
The Chinese Parrot (1926) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1462]
Behind That Curtain (1928) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1556]
The Black Camel (1929) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1430]
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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1573]
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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1557]


Bindloss, Harold (1866-1945) [English novelist] Wikipedia

The Cattle-Baron's Daughter (1906) [Novel: illustrated by David Axel Ericson (1869-1946) mnartists.org (article by Thomas O'Sullivan) Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth St. George Serbian Orthodox Church, Duluth]
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The Dust of Conflict (1907) [Novel: frontispiece by Dunton, W. Herbert (1878-1936) The W. Herbert "Buck" Dunton Online Exhibit. Bernard Appleby, a poor but talented young Englishman, arrives in Cuba on the eve of the Spanish-American War Wikipedia.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped UTF-8 text UTF-8 text zipped [PGC #799]
Masters of the Wheat-Lands [United Kingdom title: Hawtrey's Deputy] (1910) [Novel: illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo (1879-1916) Cuneo Society] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Brandon of the Engineers [United Kingdom title: His One Talent] (1916) [Novel: frontispiece by Cyrus Cuneo (1879-1916) Cuneo Society] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
The Wilderness Mine [United Kingdom title: Stayward's Vindication] (1920) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
The Dark Road (1927) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1135]


Bishop, William Avery ["Billy"] (1894-1956) [Canadian aviator] Wikipedia
with: Stuart-Wortley, Rothesay (1892-1926) [English aviator] Wikipedia

The Flying Squad (1927) [Novel. Two students at Upper Canada College Wikipedia in Toronto 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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #914]


Blixen, Karen [Dinesen, Isak] (1885-1962) [Danish memoirist and novelist] Wikipedia

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Seven Gothic Tales (1934) Wikipedia 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) Wikipedia, who took a major role in arranging the book's publication, which brought the author enduring fame.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1534]
Anecdotes of Destiny (1958) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia -- the first Danish movie to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1536]
Shadows on the Grass (1960) [Four short memoirs, an epilogue to Out of Africa, Wikipedia, the author's famous account of farming in the uplands of Kenya, published almost thirty years earlier.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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..."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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] Wikipedia 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1535]


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] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip


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

The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People (1881) [Historical essays] Text
Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 (1900) [History] Text
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Bower, B. M. [Bower, Bertha Muzzy] (1871-1940) [American author of Westerns] Wikipedia (B. M. Bower) University of Oklahoma (Kate Baird Anderson) Wikipedia (Western fiction) Wikipedia (Westerns)

The Parowan Bonanza (1923) [Novel about prospectors in Nevada. Includes a frontispiece by the American artist Frank Tenney Johnson (1874-1939) Wikipedia Sid Richardson Museum National Museum of Wildlife Art Christie's] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped University of Oklahoma [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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #723]
Hay-Wire (1928) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped University of Oklahoma [PGC #555]
Rodeo (1929) [Western] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped University of Oklahoma [PGC #554]
Tiger Eye (1930) [Western] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped University of Oklahoma [PGC #553]
Fool's Goal (1930) [Western] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #526]
The Flying U Strikes (1933) [Western] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB University of Oklahoma [PGC #666]


Brazil, Angela (1868-1947) [English novelist] Wikipedia Literary Heritage West Midlands National Portrait Gallery (UK)

An Exciting Term (1936) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


Bridges, Thomas Charles (1868-1944) [English boys' novelist] The Wee Web

The River Riders: An Exciting Lumberjack Story (1892) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956) [American novelist, journalist, and organic farmer] Wikipedia

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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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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Mrs. Parkington (1943) [Novel: the basis for the 1944 film of the same name Wikipedia. Mrs. Parkington, born in Leaping Rock, Nevada, has ascended the social ladder and is now a lady of great wealth. But the children of the wealthy often lack the qualities of their forebears. "'Mrs. Parkington' is in the old and rich tradition of Thackeray and Trollope, Howells and Mrs. Wharton... if the book is tuned to the familiar theme from shirt-sleeves to shirt-sleeves in three generations, the melody is full-blooded, the interest does not flag." (Howard Mumford Jones, Saturday Review, 9 January 1943)]
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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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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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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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Kenny (1947) [Three novellas, each with a link to the Second World War, but each quite distinct in topic: the first takes its main character from an Ohio farm to the Pacific war, the second ("Retread") is about a veteran of the First World War who enlists when the next war comes, and the third is set in occupied Paris.]
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Mr. Smith (1951) [Novel. In alternating chapters, Wolcott Ferris describes (1) his upbringing and his successful but not particularly happy career as a business executive, and (2) his new existence as an officer on an isolated Pacific island during wartime.]
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Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855) [English novelist] Wikipedia

Shirley (1849) [Novel, set in Yorkshire during the Industrial Revolution Wikipedia]
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Brooke, Frances (1724-1789) [English novelist] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography

The History of Emily Montague (1769) [Novel: in fact, the first novel written in Canada] HTML and Text


Brooke, Leonard Leslie (1862-1940) [English children's artist and writer] Wikipedia Harwell Parish

Johnny Crow's Garden (1903) [Story book with pictures] HTML and Text
The Story of the Three Little Pigs (1904) [Story book with pictures] HTML and Text
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] HTML and Text
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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB (experimental) [PGC #580]
Ring O' Roses: A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book with numerous Drawings in Colour and Black-and-White (1923) [Story book with pictures] HTML and Text


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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #765]
The Robber. A Tale of the Time of the Herods. (1949) [Historical novel, based on the figure of Barabbas Wikipedia in the Gospel.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1013]


Broughton, Rhoda (1840-1920) [English novelist] Wikipedia Literary Heritage West Midlands

Doctor Cupid. A Novel. (1886) [Novel. Social and romantic doings in Victorian England. At the novel's beginning stands one of many versions of a famous four-line poem from late mediaeval Germany Wikipedia de.wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #757]


Brown, E. K. [Edward Killoran] (1905-1951) [Canadian literary critic] Wikipedia

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) Wikipedia Project Gutenberg US, and of Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947) Wikipedia 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."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1344]


Browning, Robert (1812-1889) [English poet] Wikipedia Academy of American Poets

Strafford: An Historical Tragedy (1837) [Play] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #623]


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

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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!] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip EPUB [PGC no 1384]


Buchan, Anna Masterton [Douglas, O.] (1877-1948) [Scottish novelist] Wikipedia

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1369]
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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1411]
Priorsford (1932) [Novel, part of the Priorsford series, and consequently set mostly in the Scottish Borders region, although the first chapter takes place in southern England. A beautifully written novel, with Anna Buchan's usual focus on everyday people and events.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #850]


Buchan, John [first Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield] (1875-1940) [Scottish novelist; Governor General of Canada 1935-1940] Wikipedia Queens University Archives

Sir Quixote of the Moors. Being Some Account of an Episode in the Life of the 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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1007]
The Power-House (1916) Wikipedia [Novel of action and intrigue, the first to feature Buchan's famous creation the Scottish barrister and politician Sir Edward Leithen Wikipedia 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #945]
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) Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia 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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1432]
The Three Hostages (1924) [Thriller, the fourth in the Richard Hannay series Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #678] Wikipedia
Lord Minto. A Memoir. (1924) [Biography of Buchan's fellow Scotsman Gilbert John Elliot (1845-1914), fourth Earl of Minto, Governor General of Canada from 1898 to 1904 Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography. It was through Lord Minto's efforts that the National Archives of Canada came into being.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #764]
The Dancing Floor (1926) Wikipedia [Buchan's third novel featuring Scottish barrister Sir Edward Leithen: intrigue in the glamorous setting of the Greek Islands] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1012]
Witch Wood (1927) Wikipedia [Novel about mysterious events in seventeenth-century rural Scotland. At the time the novel appeared, Samuel Merwin commented that "His [Buchan's] knowledge and his sense of the past seem to me to find their best outlet in this new book... He has taken an old border legend, of a gentle country minister, supposed to have been spirited away by the fairies in the dark wood of Melanudrigill, and has breathed an astonishing life into it." (Saturday Review, 13 August 1927)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped UTF-8 text UTF-8 text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #935]
Sir Walter Scott (1932) [A biography of the Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Wikipedia, published by Buchan on the hundredth anniversary of the passing of his fellow Scotsman and fellow novelist. Includes as frontispiece a portrait of Scott by Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-1873) Wikipedia Wikimedia Commons] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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 Wikipedia, is our unexpected hero in this novel of intrigue, set in Scotland and England at the start of the nineteenth century.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1581]
The King's Grace 1910-1935 (1935) [A profile of the life and times of George V Wikipedia, published in celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of that monarch's accession to the throne. The few but well-chosen illustrations include photographs by the W. & D. Downey studio Wikipedia, and E. O. Hoppé (1878-1972) Wikipedia.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1047]
The Island of Sheep (1936) Wikipedia [Novel featuring Buchan's most famous character, Richard Hannay Wikipedia, who is no longer young but whose talents have by no means deserted him, as we discover. The novel starts in London, but then moves to the Norland Isles in the arctic seas: one of these isles is the Island of Sheep. Dark doings are afoot, a considerable challenge even for Richard Hannay.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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).] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped UTF-8 text UTF-8 text zipped EPUB [PGC #1160]
Sick Heart River (1941) [Buchan's last novel, published posthumously. American title: Mountain Meadow. With an introduction by the novelist and biographer Howard Swiggett (1891-1957). Sir Edward Leithen Wikipedia, the hero of four earlier Buchan novels, is no longer young. He receives some bad news, and in its aftermath heads to Canada, where he learns a great deal about our country and about himself. "John Buchan could write the English language and his descriptions of Canada from the woods of Quebec to the desolation of the Arctic muskeg are beautiful and exciting." (The American Mercury, April 1941)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #485]
A Little Book of Canadian Essays (1909) [Essays on Canadian authors Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850-1887) Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Charles Heavysege (1816-1876) Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Archibald Lampman (1861-1899) Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography, George Thomas Lanigan (1845-1886), Catharine Parr Traill (1802-1899) Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography, John Hunter-Duvar (1821-1899) Dictionary of Canadian Biography, and George Frederick Cameron (1854-1885) Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
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Humour of the North (1912) [Anthology] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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De Mille, James (1833-1880) [Canadian classical scholar and novelist] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography Canadian Encyclopedia
Drummond, William Henry (1854-1907) [Canadian physician and poet] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography Canadian Encyclopedia
Duncan, Sara Jeannette [Mrs Everard Cotes] (1861-1922) [Canadian journalist and novelist] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography Canadian Encyclopedia
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler (1796-1865) [Canadian essayist and humorist] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography Canadian Encyclopedia
Howe, Joseph (1804-1873) [Canadian journalist and politician] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Lanigan, George Thomas (1845-1886) [Canadian journalist and poet]
McCarroll, James (1814-1892) [Canadian journalist, inventor, and poet]

On the Old Athabaska Trail (1926) [A retracing of the famous Athabasca Pass fur route Parks Canada. The nineteen illustrations include works by Canadian painter Paul Kane (1810-1871) Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography and British military officer Sir Henry James Warre (1819-1898) University of Washington Oregon History Project American Antiquarian Society]
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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] HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip [PGC #530/no 530]
Learn German!
Apprenez l'allemand!

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Plish and Plum (1882 [[German original], 1883 [this translation]) [Busch's beautifully illustrated collection of light verse Plisch und Plum, translated by Charles T. Brooks (1813-1883) Wikipedia. The publisher's advertisements at the end of the book include illustrations by Sol Eytinge, Jr. (1833-1905) The Victorian Web The Vault at Pfaff's (Lehigh University) and Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938) Wikipedia Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission (Casey Bush).]
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Butler, Smedley D. [Darlington] (1881-1940) [American soldier and political activist] Wikipedia

War Is a Racket (1935) Wikipedia [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."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1320]


Byrne, Donn [Brian Oswald Donn] (1889-1928) [American novelist] Wikipedia

Changeling and Other Stories (1923) [Short stories, with a focus on Ireland] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #817]
Blind Raftery and his Wife, Hilaria (1924) [A short and wonderful novel set in Ireland during the time of the South Sea Bubble (1711-1720) Wikipedia. Raftery is a blind Irish poet/folk-singer who marries Hilaria, a Spanish woman. Then they start their travels...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #776] Time, 29 September 1924
An Alley of Flashing Spears and other stories (1933) [A collection of nine of Byrne's stories, published posthumously] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #779]


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Cagna, Achille Giovanni (1847-1931) [Italian playwright and novelist / Dramaturge et romancier italien] Sapere.it Università degli studi di Pavia [Microsoft Word]

Contrada dei Gatti. Proiezioni. (1924) [Novel in Italian / Roman en italien] HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip [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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped UTF-8 text UTF-8 text zipped EPUB [PGC #812]


Campbell, Roy (1901-1957) [South African poet] Wikipedia National Review, 15 August 1986 (Thomas P. McDonnell)
with: Freedman, Barnett (1901-1958) [English painter] Wikipedia Barnett Freedman Archive Tate Collection

Choosing a Mast (1931) [Poem, with two illustrations, one in colour] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


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.] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip EPUB [PG Canada no 942]


Carman, Bliss [William Bliss] (1861-1929) [Canadian poet] Wikipedia jrank.org

Far Horizons (1925) [Poems] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #614]
Sanctuary. Sunshine House Sonnets. (1929) [Poems] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #635]
Wild Garden (1929) [Poems] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #609]


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

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Carter, John Franklin (1897-1967) [American economist, journalist, and novelist] Wikipedia

Published under the pen-name Jay Franklin:
The Rat Race (1950 Galaxy version) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia 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)] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip
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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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #968]


Casgrain, Henri-Raymond (1831-1904) [Historien canadien] fr.wikipedia Dictionnaire biographique du Canada encyclobec.ca (article par Jacques Saint-Pierre)

Un contemporain — F. X. Garneau (1866) [Biographie de François-Xavier Garneau Dictionnaire biographique du Canada fr.wikipedia]
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Cather, Willa (1873-1947) [American novelist] Wikipedia Biography by James Woodress

Shadows on the Rock (1931) [Historical novel, set in New France during the time of Frontenac Wikipedia, telling the story of the physician Euclide Auclair, and his daughter Cécile] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #860] Wikipedia


Centlivre, Susanna (ca. 1669-1723) [English playwright] Wikipedia

The Stolen Heiress; or, The Salamanca Doctor Outplotted. A Comedy. (1702 [first performance]; 1703 [first publication]) [Comedy] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped UTF-8 text UTF-8 text zipped [PGC #828]


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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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)] HTML et Texte


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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #696]
Farewell, My Lovely (1940) Wikipedia [Crime novel. The manager of a Los Angeles club is murdered, and no one seems to care. No one, that is, except Philip Marlowe...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1046]
The High Window (1942) Wikipedia [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... ] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1036]
The Lady in the Lake (1943) Wikipedia [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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1033]
The Little Sister (1949) Wikipedia [Novel, featuring Philip Marlowe and also the film industry, with which by this time Chandler was very familiar.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1279]
The Long Goodbye (1953) Wikipedia 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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1522]
Playback (1958) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1209]


Chant, Joseph Horatio (1837-1928) [Canadian poet]

Gleams of Sunshine: optimistic poems (1915) [Poetry] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


Charlesworth, Hector Willoughby (1872-1945) [Canadian journalist and essayist] Wikipedia 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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


Chesterton, G. K. [Gilbert Keith] (1874-1936) [English author, journalist, and theologian] Wikipedia

The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) [Mystery stories. The first of the five Father Brown Wikipedia collections, introducing the celebrated priest-detective.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #971]
The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914) [Mystery stories. The second of Chesterton's five collections featuring the priest-detective Father Brown.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #972]
The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926) [Mystery stories. The third of Chesterton's five collections featuring the priest-detective Father Brown.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #973]
The Secret of Father Brown (1927) [Mystery stories. The fourth of Chesterton's Father Brown collections, constructed as eight individual stories within a story.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #975]
The Scandal of Father Brown (1935) [Mystery stories. Chesterton's fifth and final Father Brown collection.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #977]

With: Gill, Eric [Arthur Eric Rowton] (1882-1940) [English artist and type designer] Wikipedia National Archives (UK) Identifont

Gloria in Profundis (1927) [Poem, with two wood engravings] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #440]


Chevalier, Henri-Émile (1828-1879) [Romancier canadien] Dictionnaire biographique du Canada

La fille des indiens rouges (1856) [Roman] Texte
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Poignet-d'acier ou Les Chippiouais (1875) [Roman] Texte
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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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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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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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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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped Time, 30 October 1950


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)] HTML, Text, EPUB, and Kindle [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1373]


Clynes, John Robert (1869-1949) [English trade unionist and politician] Wikipedia

When I Remember... (1940) [Pamphlet: history of Britain's social service and income support programs] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
The Master Revenge (1924) [Christian morality play done in the form of a novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
Songs of a Bluenose (1925) [Poetry] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #622]
The Crimson Sign (1935) [Historical novel, set in Acadia Wikipedia towards the end of the seventeenth century.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #946]
Fighting Stars (1937 edition) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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) Wikipedia 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.]
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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

A Knife for the Juggler (1953) [Novel of murder and intrigue, the sixteenth in the Tommy Hambledon series, taking place in the glamorous settings of the City of Paris and of the Canary Islands!]
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Not for Export (1954) [Spy/mystery novel. Some very sensitive airplane design documents disappear: who better to find them than British intelligence agent Tommy Hambledon? Much action in West Germany, particularly Berlin, but Russia also plays a role. "Familiar mixture of international mayhem and mirth... Peppy as ever" (John T. Winterich, Saturday Review, 13 March 1954)]
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No Entry (1958) [Spy/mystery novel, which begins in the city of Goslar 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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Conan Doyle, Arthur (1859-1930)
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Conference on the Medical Services in Canada (1924)

Report of the Conference on the Medical Services in Canada held at Ottawa, December 18, 19, 20, 1924 (1925) [Transcript of conference] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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] HTML and Text
Gwen's Canyon (1898) ["Gwen was undoubtedly wild and, as the Sky Pilot said, wilful and wicked." This short story describes her transformation.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #625]
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Glengarry School Days: a Story of Early Days in Glengarry (1902) [Novel] HTML and Text
The Doctor: a Tale of the Rockies (1906) [Novel] HTML and Text
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Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police: a Tale of the Macleod Trail (1912) [Novel] HTML and Text
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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] Wikipedia:
Tales of Hearsay (1925) [Four stories written at various points during Conrad's life, dealing with the sea, Polish history, and much else.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1354]


Cornford, F. M. [Francis Macdonald] (1874-1943) [English classical scholar] Wikipedia

Microcosmographia Academica. Being a Guide for the Young Academic Politician. (1908) Wikipedia [Monograph on political practices within universities, continually famous since its anonymous publication in 1908] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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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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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with: 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!] HTML, Text, EPUB, and Kindle [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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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
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Crane, Walter (1845-1915) [English artist and illustrator] Wikipedia

The Absurd ABC (1874) [Picture book] HTML and Text
An Alphabet of Old Friends (1874) [Picture book] HTML and Text
The Frog Prince and Other Stories (1874) [Picture book] HTML and Text
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] HTML and Text
with Molesworth, Mary Louisa (1839-1921) [Scottish children's writer] Wikipedia


A Christmas Child. A Sketch of a Boy-Life. (1880) [Children's novel by Mrs. 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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #630]
The Adventures of Herr Baby (1881) [Children's novel by Mrs. Molesworth, with illustrations by Crane] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #445]
The Story of Butler's Rangers and the Settlement of Niagara (1893) [History of the Loyalist regiment Wikipedia founded by John Butler (1728-1796) Dictionary of Canadian Biography Wikipedia and their eventual settlement in and around the future town of Niagara-on-the-Lake Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
The Life of Sir Henry Morgan. With an account of the English settlement of the 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."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1061]
The Shadow Girl (1962 version) [The 1962 book version of Cummings' famous novel, first published in 1929 in serialized form. A custom-built television set does 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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1060]


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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The Black Hunter. A Novel of Old Quebec. (1926) [Novel, illustrated by Arthur Ernst Becher (1877-1960), taking place in 1755, on the eve of the Seven Years' War, and telling the story of Anne St. Denis and David Rock, two young people living in the wilderness of New France. Anne is sent to Quebec City to be introduced into Quebec society; she convinces David to follow her. Intendant Bigot Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography and his cronies see Anne and decide to plot to have her fall into his clutches and to get rid of David. Matters proceed from there...]
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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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped Wikipedia


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D'Annunzio, Gabriele (1863-1938) [Italian playwright and novelist/ Dramaturge et romancier italien] en.wikipedia   fr.wikipedia   it.wikipedia  
La città morta. Tragedia. (1898) [Play in Italian / Pièce de théâtre en italien] HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip Text / Texte UTF-8 Text / Texte UTF-8 zip [PG Canada #432/no 432]
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Dafoe, John Wesley (1866-1944) [Canadian journalist] Wikipedia

Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics (1922) [History and political analysis] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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] Wikipedia

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."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1144]


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

Stories from the Bible (1929) [Stories from the Old Testament, retold in modern English] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #441]
Best Stories of Walter de la Mare (1942) [The author's own favourites among his stories for adults. Elsewhere in this catalogue you will find many of his children's stories.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #992]
Mr. Bumps and his Monkey (1942) [Novella for children] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped

Collected Stories for Children (1947) Inward Companion (1950) [Lyric poems] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1361]
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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1506]
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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1397]
Jalna (1927) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1028]
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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1102]
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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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?] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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Behind the Veil. A Poem. (1893) [Transcendental poem, influenced by the ideas of the Greek philosopher Plato Wikipedia. Discovered among De Mille's papers after his death, and published by Archibald McKellar MacMechan (1862-1933) Wikipedia, his friend and colleague at Dalhousie University Wikipedia.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped UTF-8 text UTF-8 text zipped [PGC #646]

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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.] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip
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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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1051]


DeGuise, Charles (1827-1884) [Romancier canadien]

Le Cap au Diable, Légende Canadienne (1863) [Conte] Texte
Hélika: Mémoire d'un vieux maître d'école (1872) [Roman] HTML et Texte


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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #815]
General Impressions (1933) [Light-hearted anecdotes drawn from our author's daily life, with dialogue] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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] Text
The Canadian Portrait Gallery [A four-volume set of biographies, many of them illustrated using photographs by William Notman (1826-1891) Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography McCord Museum and W. J. Topley (1845-1930) Dictionary of Canadian Biography Wikipedia]
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The Story of the Upper Canadian Rebellion, Volume 1 (1885) [History] HTML and Text
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The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales (1888) [Short stories] Text


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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #431]
Simon Fraser (1928) [An introduction to the life and achievements of the explorer Simon Fraser (1776-1862) Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Includes an illustration by C. W. Jefferys (1869-1951) Wikipedia McMaster University (Eric Weichel) Library and Archives Canada.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip Texte UTF-8 Texte UTF-8 zip


Djurklou, Nils Gabriel, friherre (1829-1904) [Swedish author] sv.wikipedia (in Swedish) runeberg.org (in Swedish)

Fairy Tales from the Swedish of Baron G. Djurklou (1901) [Fairy tales: translated by Hans Lien Brækstad (1845-1915); illustrated by Theodor Severin Kittelsen, (1857-1914) Wikipedia Lauvlia (Kittelsen's home), Erik Werenskiold (1855-1938) Wikipedia, and Carl Larsson (1853-1919) Wikipedia 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] HTML et Texte
Le dîner interrompu ou Nouvelle farce de Jocrisse. Farce comique en un acte (1873) [Comédie] HTML et Texte
Le pacha trompé ou Les deux ours. Pièce comique en un acte (1878) [Comédie] HTML et Texte
Le Conscrit ou Le Retour de Crimée. Drame comique en deux actes (1878) [Comédie] HTML et Texte


Douglas, Amanda Minnie (1831-1916) [American novelist and poet] New Jersey Historical Society

A Modern Cinderella (1913) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930) [Scottish physician and author; creator of Sherlock Holmes] Wikipedia

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927) Wikipedia [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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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.] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip Texte UTF-8 Texte UTF-8 zip [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip


Dukes, Ashley (1885-1959) [English playwright, producer, critic, and translator] Wikipedia The Modernist Journals Project (Mark Gaipa)

The Man with a Load of Mischief. A Comedy in Three Acts. (1924) [Comedy, of which the action takes place at an English country inn. Dukes' most famous play.]
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The Scene is Changed (1942) [Dukes' account of his brilliant theatrical career in England, Germany, and North America, and the many literary and theatrical luminaries he knew. Includes a photograph of the author by Howard Coster (1885-1959) Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #926]


Duncan, Isadora (1877-1927) [American dancer] Wikipedia

My Life (1927) [The autobiography of the celebrated dancer, written shortly 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 Wikipedia, founded by Anita Augspurg (1857-1943) Wikipedia and Sophia Goudstikker (1865-1924) de.wikipedia, the Parisian photographer Paul Berger, Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) Wikipedia, Otto Wegener (1849-1922) Pär Rittsel, the New York photographer Jacob Schloss (1857-1938), and Edward Steichen (1879-1973) Wikipedia]
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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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #548]


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

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

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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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


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 Wikipedia: with a preface by William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950), tenth Prime Minister of Canada Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


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] HTML et Texte


Lord Dunsany [Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, eighteenth Baron Dunsany] (1878-1957) [Irish author and playwright] Wikipedia

A Night at an Inn. A Play in One Act. (1916) [Play] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924) Wikipedia [The classic fantasy novel. The Lord of Erl sends his son to Elfland to seek a bride: much ensues.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1090]
Guerrilla (1944) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


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] HTML et Texte


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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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML, Text, EPUB, and Kindle [Project Gutenberg US #51077]


Eddington, Arthur Stanley (1882-1944) [English astronomer and physicist] Wikipedia

The Nature of the Physical World (1928) [Eddington's celebrated explanation of the discoveries of Einstein Wikipedia and Rutherford Wikipedia, intended for a general audience. The book is based on Eddington's Gifford Lectures Wikipedia delivered in Edinburgh in 1927, and exhibits the attractive conversational style of the original lectures.] HTML HTML zipped UTF-8 text UTF-8 text zipped EPUB [PGC #1097]


Eddison, E. R. [Eric Rücker] (1882-1945) [English novelist] Wikipedia

The Worm Ouroboros (1922) Wikipedia [Novel of high fantasy, written at the level of epic poetry. Eddison has a full command of older English, and makes constant use of it, to very good effect: "In reading this book the reader... will delight in a prose that is as life-giving as it is magnificent." (Introduction to the 1926 New York edition by Irish novelist James Stephens [1880/82-1950] Wikipedia.]
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Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849) [Irish novelist] Wikipedia NNDB

The Modern Griselda. A Tale. (1804) [Novel. Unlike the traditional folk character Griselda Wikipedia, the new Griselda is impatient and arrogant.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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) Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PG Canada #659]


Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) [German physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1921 / physicien allemand; prix Nobel de physique, 1921] Wikipedia fr.wikipedia

Gemeinschaft und Persönlichkeit (1934) [Essay in German on the relationship between individuals and society / Essai en allemand sur les liens entre l'individu et son milieu] HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip EPUB (experimental) [PGC #583/no 583]
Learn German!
Apprenez l'allemand!


Eliot, George [Evans, Mary Anne] (1819-1880) [English novelist] Wikipedia The Victorian Web

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861) Wikipedia [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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #491]
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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1350]


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]
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) Wikipedia [The delightful and classic poems which many years later inspired the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats Wikipedia.]
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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."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1488]


Espanca, Florbela (1894-1930) [Portuguese poet / Poétesse portugaise] Wikipedia   fr.wikipedia   pt.wikipedia   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)] HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip Text / Texte UTF-8 Text / Texte UTF-8 zip EPUB

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Livro de Mágoas [Máguas] (1919) HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip Text / Texte UTF-8 Text / Texte UTF-8 zip HTML and Text / HTML et Texte (PG US)
Livro de Sóror Saüdade (1923) HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip
Charneca em flor (1931) HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip
Reliquiæ (1931) HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip
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] HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip
Learn Italian! / Apprenez l'italien!


Euripides (ca. 480-406 B.C.) [Athenian playwright] Wikipedia

Translations by Murray, Gilbert [George Gilbert Aimé] (1866-1957) [English classical scholar] Wikipedia Australian Dictionary of Biography Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) [in German]

Ewald, Carl (1856-1908) [Danish author] dk.wikipedia (in Danish)

My Little Boy (1899 [Danish original (Min lille Dreng)]; 1906 [this translation]; 1935 [Alexander Woollcott's afterword]) [The author's charming, sincere, and interesting observations of the daily events of his son's earliest years. The son, Jesper Ewald (1893-1969) Wikipedia, would himself become a celebrated author. Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (1865-1921), and with an afterword by the American critic Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943) Wikipedia]
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Fagan, James Bernard (1873-1933) [Irish playwright] Wikipedia

The Improper Duchess. A modern comedy in three acts. (1931) [A comedy, set in Washington, D.C.! The first act takes place in the Poldavian embassy. Written with an agreeably light touch, the play was made into a film in 1936 Wikipedia.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #881]


Falconer, Sir Robert Alexander (1867-1943) [Canadian New Testament philologist and historian; President of the University of Toronto 1907-32] Wikipedia Marianopolis College (biography by Damien-Claude Bélanger) Canadian Encyclopedia

The Quality of Canadian Life (1917) [Lecture: published in The Federation of Canada 1867-1917. Four Lectures delivered in the University of Toronto in March, 1917, to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Federation (1917), along with lectures by George M. Wrong (1860-1948), Sir John Willison (1856-1927), and Z. A. Lash (1846-1920)]
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Faribault, George Barthélémy (1789-1866) [Bibliographe canadien] Dictionnaire biographique du Canada

Catalogue d'Ouvrages sur l'Histoire de l'Amérique, et en particulier sur celle du Canada, de la Louisiane, de l'Acadie, et autres lieux, ci-devant connus sons le nom de Nouvelle-France; avec des Notes Bibliographiques, Critiques, et Littéraires (1837) HTML et Texte


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.]
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Italian Peepshow (1926) [Eleven stories for children, most of them quite short, and most of them set in Italy!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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..."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1334]
The Little Bookroom. Eleanor Farjeon's short stories for children chosen by herself. (1955) Wikipedia [Twenty-seven short stories for children, selected by their author! "This is a book any child (and storyteller, too) will read over and over again." (Maria Cimino, Saturday Review, 12 May 1956)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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?] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1527]


Farnol, [John] Jeffery (1878-1952) [English novelist] Wikipedia knol (Pat Bryan) Literary Heritage West Midlands Jeffery Farnol Appreciation Society

The Money Moon, A Romance (1911) [Romantic novel, set in England before the First World War] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC ebook #483] Previously available: Text (PG US)
The Loring Mystery (1924) [Mystery novel set in the mid-1800s: involves an amnesiac, a detective, a murder, and a romance] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped Time, 16 October 1925 (third book reviewed)
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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped Time, 14 November 1927
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?] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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"] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped 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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [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?] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped 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] HTML et Texte


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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1208]


Fea, Rev. Samuel (1872-1943) [Canadian writer]

Irish Ned, The Winnipeg Newsy (1910) [Novella] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!"] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1551]


Féval, Paul (1816-1887) [Romancier français] fr.wikipedia

Le dernier chevalier (1877 ou avant) [Roman] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip


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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #981]
The Immortal Dweller (1938) [Book of short poems] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #657]


Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Francis Scott Key] (1896-1940) [American novelist and essayist] Wikipedia

Echoes of the Jazz Age (November 1931) [Essay: the author, himself one of the most famous figures of the Jazz Age of the 1920s Wikipedia, describes the period from its beginning to its then quite recent end. A neat and witty piece of writing.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1183]


Flammenberg, Lorenz [Kahlert, Karl Friedrich] (1765-1813) [German lawyer, playwright, and novelist]

The Necromancer: or The Tale of the Black Forest. Founded on Facts. (1792 [German original]; 1794 [translation]; 1927 [preface]) [Free translation by Peter Teuthold of Flammenberg's original Gothic novel Der Geisterbanner; with a preface by Montague Summers (1880-1948) Wikipedia The novel is mentioned by Jane Austen in her novel Northanger Abbey Wikipedia. It relates mysterious and sinister events in the Black Forest.] Wikipedia HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


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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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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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 Wikipedia is quite different from the novel: read the novel and decide which you prefer. (Speaking personally, we like the novel!)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1267]
Diamonds are Forever (1956) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia, the last in the Bond series to star Sean Connery.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1415]
From Russia with Love (1957) Wikipedia [The favourite James Bond novel not only of Fleming himself, but also of American president John F. Kennedy! The action takes place in various glamorous European locales, including London, Istanbul, Trieste, and Paris. The Russians play a major role, through the operations of their agency, SMERSH; also through Corporal Tatiana Romanova.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1296]
Dr. No (1958) Wikipedia [The sixth James Bond novel, set in the Caribbean, and the basis of the first James Bond film, starring Sean Connery Wikipedia. "The Empire still lives in this one; bizarrerie abounds... Erudite cliff-hanger, with sex sauce." (John T. Winterich, Saturday Review, 16 August 1958)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1457]
Goldfinger (1959) Wikipedia [Novel. James Bond encounters Mr Auric Goldfinger, who is passionate about gambling, golf, and of course, gold. That's where Fort Knox Wikipedia comes in!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1228]
For Your Eyes Only. Five secret occasions in the life of James Bond. (1960) Wikipedia [Espionage, murder, smuggling -- five different short stories with five different challenges for James Bond. Locales include Paris, Jamaica, the Seychelles, Italy and, yes, Canada!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1429]
The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) Wikipedia [Novel, narrated by Vivienne Michel, who is from Canada, more specifically from Sainte-Famille, the oldest town on the Île d'Orléans Wikipedia. The novel does not follow the classic Bond formula: a welcome innovation in the eyes of some, but not of others. It is shorter than the other Bond novels, and features a good deal of sex (and violence).] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1288]
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) Wikipedia [Novel featuring James Bond, set in the Swiss Alps: dark doings on the upper slopes. The 1969 film adaptation Wikipedia has the rare distinction of being very faithful to the book: if you like one, you'll like the other!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1530]
You Only Live Twice (1964) Wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1481]
The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) Wikipedia [Fleming's last James Bond novel, written under difficult conditions, and published posthumously. Bond reappears in London after months of absence: he is a changed man. But he recovers, and is sent to Jamaica on a dangerous and important mission.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1558]
The Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang stories:
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, The Magical Car. Adventure Number One. (1964) Wikipedia [Children's novel. We are introduced to Caractacus Pott and his family. They buy a car, no ordinary car... and the adventures begin!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1278]
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, The Magical Car. Adventure Number Two. (1964) Wikipedia [At the end of Adventure Number One, the Potts family, on a seaside picnic, had failed to notice the tide coming in, threatening to cut them off from the mainland – or worse! It's just as well that Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang is there...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1289]
Essays and articles:
Jamaica (December 1947) [One of a series of articles in Horizon Wikipedia, by different authors, about the advantages of living in various places around the world. Ian Fleming contributed this essay on Jamaica, where he had just built his house, Goldeneye Wikipedia.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1230]
Automobilia (April 1958) [Essay. Ian Fleming, like his creation James Bond, was fond of cars. Here he fondly describes his Ford Thunderbird — and gives an account of going for a drive in Jamaica with his friend Noël Coward!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1226]
Thrilling Cities (1963) Wikipedia [Thirteen essays on various world cities: cities that James Bond would be familiar with! The essays were commissionede by the Canadian entrepreneur and newspaper magnate Roy Thomson Wikipedia, 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1313]


Fleming, May Agnes (1840-1880) [Canadian novelist] Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Magdalen's Vow (1871) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #610]
A Mad Marriage. A Novel. (1875) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #634]
Norine's Revenge, and Sir Noel's Heir (1875) [Two novels] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #726]
Carried by Storm. A Novel. (1879) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #732]
The Actress' Daughter. A Novel. (1885) [Novel.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #790]
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Fletcher, Joseph Smith (1863-1935) [English novelist and historian] Wikipedia Yorkshire Post (Sarah Freeman) gadetection

The Charing Cross Mystery (1923) [As you might guess, a mystery novel set in London!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #647] gadetection


Flygare-Carlén, Emilie (1807-1892) [Swedish novelist] Wikipedia sv.wikipedia Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon (1906) [in Swedish]

Ivar: or, The Skjuts-Boy (1841 [Swedish original], 1852 [this translation]) [Translation of the novel Skjutsgossen by Prof. Alex. L. Krause (fl. 1852-1854), with illustrations by Edmund Evans (1826-1905) Wikipedia. Prof. Krause also contributed a interesting introduction to the novel.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #464]


Footner, Hulbert (1879-1944) [Canadian novelist and playwright] Wikipedia

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.]
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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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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...]
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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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New Rivers of the North. The yarn of two amateur explorers. (1927) [Hulbert's account, with many photographs by Hulbert and his travel companion Auville Eager, of his travels along three major rivers of British Columbia and Alberta: the Fraser Wikipedia, the Peace Wikipedia, and the Hay Wikipedia, with particular attention to Alexandra Falls Wikipedia.]
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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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB (experimental) [PGC #584]
The Under Dogs (1925) [Mystery novel. Mme. Rosika Storey confronts the challenges and dangers presented by a New York-based crime organization.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #498]
Madame Storey (1926) [Four mystery novellas featuring Madame Storey] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #517]
The Velvet Hand. New Madame Storey Mysteries. (1928) [Four mystery novellas featuring Madame Storey] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #536]
The Doctor Who Held Hands. A Madame Storey Novel. (1929) [Madame Storey receives a letter asking for her help in stopping the pseudo-psychological activities of a doctor who has set himself up as a "psycho-synthetist", seemingly to help his patients, but in fact to use what he's being told to blackmail them. She decides to intervene. A twist ending!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #552]
Easy to Kill (1931) [Mystery novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
The Kidnapping of Madame Storey and Other Stories (1936) [Five mystery stories featuring the redoubtable Madame Storey] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB (experimental) [PGC #588]
The Almost Perfect Murder. A Case Book of Madame Storey. (1937) [Five tales featuring Madame Storey] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB (experimental) [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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Sinfully Rich (1940) [Mystery novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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) Wikipedia Christopher Morley Knothole Assoc.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #513]


Ford, Ford Madox [Hueffer, Ford Madox] (1873-1939) [English novelist] Wikipedia

Joseph Conrad. A Personal Remembrance. (1924) [A personal memoir of literary titan Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Wikipedia, a close friend of Ford's. Includes as an appendix the short obituary (in French) published by Ford in Paris when he received the news of Conrad's passing. Also includes a photograph of Conrad by Will Cadby (1866-1937) and a photograph of the famous sculpture of Conrad by Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) Wikipedia.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1054]


The four Parade's End novels:
Some Do Not... (1924) Wikipedia [Novel, the first of the four Parade's End novels Wikipedia. We are introduced to Christopher Tietjens, the main character. Tietjens works in Britain's Imperial Department of Statistics. Society appears calm and well-ordered: but the First World War lies just around the corner...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1191]
No More Parades. A Novel. (1925) Wikipedia [The second of the Parade's End novels, set behind the front lines in France in 1915. Christopher Tietjens is now a Captain in charge of some major logistics operations. These operations include moving a group of railway workers, volunteers from Canada! Captain Tietjens is more of an idealist at the novel's start than at its end.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1242]
A Man Could Stand Up—. A Novel. (1926) Wikipedia [The third novel of the Parade's End cycle. The First World War is ending, and life continues, but it is not the same life as before. Christopher Tietjens must now adjust his personal life and his professional life to the changes that peacetime has brought.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1243]
Last Post (1928) Wikipedia [The fourth and final novel in the Parade's End tetralogy. Christopher Tietjens is now living in rural Sussex, making his living as a dealer in old furniture. The novel is somewhat separate from the earlier three, since we are now well and truly in peacetime. But memories of the War linger on; and Tietjens' family ensures that his life is not unduly peaceful.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1149]


Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott] [Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966] [English novelist] Wikipedia

Novels featuring Horatio Hornblower Wikipedia:
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia 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) Wikipedia [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) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia]
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Hornblower and the Atropos (1953) Wikipedia [It's 1806: the battle of Trafalgar Wikipedia has been fought, but Lord Nelson has died -- and Hornblower has a major role in preparing the state funeral! The funeral done, Hornblower's off to Gibraltar, where a dangerous mission awaits him. We're talking about gold; we're talking about the Turkish Empire!]
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The Commodore (1945) Wikipedia [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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Lord Hornblower (1946) Wikipedia [Novel. It's 1813, and there has been a mutiny on a ship of the Royal Navy. Not, of course, a ship commanded by Horatio Hornblower! But Hornblower has a certain sympathy with the mutineers: "He could imagine perfectly well the sort of treatment to which they had been subjected, the unending wanton cruelty added to the normal hardship of life in a ship on blockading service; miseries which only death or mutiny could bring to an end..." But Hornblower has to figure out how to end the mutiny -- not an easy thing to do, when the mutineers can find safety in a nearby French port whenever they choose!]
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Payment Deferred (1926) Wikipedia [The first of Forester's two mystery novels, written with all the skill that one would expect from the creator of Horatio Hornblower. As for the plot, we won't give it away, except for commenting that crimes can have unforeseen consequences!]
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Brown on Resolution (1929) Wikipedia [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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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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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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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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The African Queen (1935) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia, which featured Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn; the Bogart character, Canadian in the film, is an Englishman in the book, in fact a Cockney Wikipedia. But it is hard to imagine Humphrey Bogart with a Cockney accent!]
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The General (1936) Wikipedia [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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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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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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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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Hunting the Bismarck (1959) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia, a German battleship. Filmed in 1960 as Sink the Bismarck! Wikipedia. "Magnificently handled" (Thomas E. Cooney, Saturday Review 2 May 1959)]
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Foster, Robert Frederick (1853-1945) [Scottish authority on card games]

Foster's Skat Manual (1922 version) [Manual for the card game Skat Wikipedia]
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Fournier, Marc (1818-1879) [Journaliste et auteur français]

Le Major Anspech (1843) [Nouvelle, avec deux gravures contemporaines. Il y a quarante ans, le major Anspech «était l'un des plus beaux mousquetaires gris du régiment de Monsieur ... Mais quarante années changent légèrement un homme». Sa vie quotidienne reste pourtant assez intéressante...] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip EPUB [PG Canada no 885]


France, Anatole [Thibault, François-Anatole] (1844-1924) [Romancier français; prix Nobel de littérature, 1921] fr.wikipedia Académie Française

Les dieux ont soif (1912) [Roman. L'histoire d'un jeune peintre à l'époque de la Terreur fr.wikipedia] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip Texte UTF-8 Texte UTF-8 zip EPUB [PG Canada no 813] fr.wikipedia


Frank, Pat [Frank, Harry Hart] (1907-1964) [American journalist and novelist] Wikipedia

Mr. Adam (1946) Wikipedia [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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Hold Back the Night (1952) Wikipedia [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 Wikipedia 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) Wikipedia [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) Wikipedia [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] Wikipedia

The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton (1922) [Novel, involving the disparate themes of love, fox-hunting, divorce, and murder. Quite a combination!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1177]


Fraser, Alexander (1860-1936) [Canadian journalist and historian; Archivist of Ontario from 1903 to 1935] Clan Fraser Society of Canada (Marie Fraser)

Nova Scotia: The Royal Charter of 1621 to Sir William Alexander (1922) [Monograph on the establishment of New Scotland (Nova Scotia) as a Scottish (not English) colony by William Alexander, first Earl of Stirling (ca. 1577-1640) Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #712]
The Last Laird of MacNab. An Episode in the Settlement of MacNab Township, Upper Canada. (1899) [An account of the controversial Canadian career of Archibald MacNab (ca. 1781-1860), 17th Chief of Clan MacNab Dictionary of Canadian Biography, and his role in the early history of Renfrew County Wikipedia, the town of Arnprior Wikipedia, and the township of McNab Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #782]


Fréchette, Louis (1839-1908) [Journaliste canadien] Dictionnaire biographique du Canada

Félix Poutré. Drame historique en quatre actes (1862) [Drame] Texte
Le retour de l'exilé. Drame en cinq actes et huit tableaux (1880) [Drame] Texte


Freedman, Barnett (1901-1958) [English painter] Wikipedia Barnett Freedman Archive Tate Collection
with: Campbell, Roy (1901-1957) [South African poet] Wikipedia National Review, 15 August 1986 (Thomas P. McDonnell)

Choosing a Mast (1931) [Poem, with two illustrations, one in colour] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


Freeman, R. Austin [Richard Austin] (1862-1943) [English physician and mystery novelist] Wikipedia

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 Wikipedia 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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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] Wikipedia

Tiger River (1923) [Novel: high adventure in the South American jungle. The tigres in the novel are "tigers" (jaguars), but in Spanish.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1008]


Frost, Robert [Robert Lee] (1874-1963) [American poet] Wikipedia

West-Running Brook (1928) Wikipedia [Collection of lyric poems, with four beautiful woodcuts by J. J. Lankes (1884-1960) Wikipedia Vanderbilt University, a personal friend of the poet. "Here... is the metaphysical lyric as no one but Robert Frost could write it. And so it is throughout 'West-Running Brook.' The ripe repose, the banked emotion, the nicely blended tenderness and humor are everywhere." (Louis Untermeyer Wikipedia, Saturday Review, 28 December 1928)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1192]


Fyleman, Rose Amy (1877-1957) [English children's author] Wikipedia

Fairies and Chimneys (1918) [Poems: with a colour frontispiece by an anonymous artist] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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Gág, Wanda (1893-1946) [American artist and children's author] Wikipedia

Snippy and Snappy (1931) [Story book with pictures]
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938) [Fairy tale "freely translated and illustrated"]
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Gailly de Taurines, Charles (1857-1941) [Historien français] fr.wikipedia Site Charles Gailly de Taurines

La Nation canadienne. Étude historique sur les populations françaises du nord de l'Amérique. (1894) [Le premier ouvrage historique du grand historien français. Son livre rappelle assez souvent les oeuvres de Tocqueville fr.wikipedia.] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip Texte UTF-8 Texte UTF-8 zip EPUB [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] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip
Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte jusqu'à nos jours, Tome II de IV. (1846) [Histoire] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip
Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte jusqu'à nos jours, Tome III de IV. (1848) [Histoire] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip
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Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865) [English novelist and biographer] Wikipedia The Gaskell Web The Gaskell Society

The Grey Woman and Other Tales (1865) [Short stories, with a few illustrations by George Du Maurier (1834-1896) [grandfather of the novelist Daphne Du Maurier] Wikipedia and Joseph Swain (1820-1909) The website of Bob Speel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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Gibb, Sir George Duncan (1821-1876) [Canadian physician] Osler Library, McGill University

Odd Showers: or, An Explanation of the Rain of Insects, Fishes, and Lizards; Soot, Sand, and Ashes; Red Rain and Snow; Meteoric Stones; and other Bodies (1870) [Brief historical and scientific treatise, with a poem; published under the pseudonym "Carribber"] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


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 Wikipedia. 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] Wikipedia

Islands (1932) [A collection of poems written by Gibson between 1930 and 1932] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1040]


Gide, André (1869-1951) [Romancier français; prix Nobel de littérature, 1947] fr.wikipedia alalettre.com

Retour de l'U.R.S.S. (1936) 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...»] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip EPUB [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.] HTML HTML zip Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1351]


Gilchrist, Anne (1828-1885) [English biographer and essayist] Wikipedia University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Mary Lamb (1883) [Biography of English author Mary Anne Lamb (1764-1847) Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped

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Gill, Eric [Arthur Eric Rowton] (1882-1940) [English artist and type designer] Wikipedia National Archives (UK) Identifont
With: Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936) [English journalist and theologian] Wikipedia The American Chesterton Society

Gloria in Profundis (1927) [Poem, with two wood engravings] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #440]


Gingras, Jules Fabien (1826-1884) [Traducteur et lexicographe canadien]

Recueil des expressions vicieuses et des anglicismes et les plus fréquents (1861) [Dictionnaire] HTML et Texte


Gobineau, Arthur de (1816-1882) [Écrivain et diplomate français] fr.wikipedia www.tocqueville.culture.fr

Voyage à Terre-Neuve (1861) [Récit de voyage] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip Texte UTF-8 Texte UTF-8 zip [PGC no 506]


Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832) [German scientist, poet, playwright, and statesman / scientifique, poète, dramaturge et homme d'État allemand] Wikipedia 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.] HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip EPUB [PGC #1471/no 1471]
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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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped Wikipedia [PGC #606] The original Italian play, from Liber Liber: Text RTF PDF

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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #596]

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The Fan (1765 [Italian original], 1892 [this translation]) [Translation of Goldoni's celebrated comedy Il ventaglio it.wikipedia, translated into German around 1875 by Theophil Zolling (1849-1901) de.wikipedia using the pseudonym "G. Ritter"; Zolling's German translation Der Fächer served as the basis for this translation into English by Helen Zimmern (1846-1934) Wikipedia.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #543] Text [in Italian] (Liber Liber) RTF [in Italian] (Liber Liber)
The Beneficent Bear (1771 [French original], 1892 [this translation]) [Translation of Le bourru bienfaisant fr.wikipedia, written by Goldoni in French in celebration of the marriage of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. A revision by Helen Zimmern (1846-1934) Wikipedia of an earlier translation by an unknown hand.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #540]
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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)] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip Texte UTF-8 Texte UTF-8 zip EPUB [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) Wikipedia
[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) Wikipedia [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] Wikipedia

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) Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #761]


Grenfell, Sir Wilfred (1865-1940) [English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador] Wikipedia Canadian Encyclopedia

Adrift on an Ice-Pan (1909) [Memoir] HTML and Text
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Gréville, Henry [pseudonyme d'Alice-Marie-Céleste Durand-Gréville, née Fleury] (1842-1902) [Romancière française] fr.wikipedia New York Times (1879)

La fille de Dosia (1876) [Roman] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip
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Les Koumiassine (1877) [Roman]
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Marier sa fille (1878) [Roman. Une mère assez pauvre cherche un beau-fils assez riche.] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip
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Lucie Rodey (1879) [Roman sur les inconvénients des mariages arrangés: la convoitise, la cupidité...] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip
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Louis Breuil, histoire d'un pantouflard (1883) [Roman: étude de la bourgeousie française à l'époque de la guerre franco-prussienne fr.wikipedia et de la bataille de Sedan fr.wikipedia] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip
L'Ingénue (1883) [Roman: l'action se déroule à Paris et à Dieppe] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip
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Le mors aux dents (1885) [«Ce roman renferme l'histoire d'un mari inconstant et joueur qui trompe sa femme, mange sa dot, et après l'avoir ruinée et désespérée se tue dans un accès de repentir, pour lui rendre la possibilité du bonheur et celle de changer contre un autre son nom déshonoré.» (synopsis qu'en fait la Revue Internationale, le 10 février 1885)] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip [PGC no 558]
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Grey, Zane (1872-1939) [American novelist] Wikipedia

Under the Tonto Rim (1926) [Novel. Lucy Watson, newly graduated from normal school Wikipedia, takes up her first assignment, in the wilderness community of Cedar Ridge: "The only instructions given Lucy were that she was to go among the families living in the backwoods between Cedar Ridge and what was called the Rim Rock and to use her abilities to the best advantage in teaching them to have better homes." Lucy takes full advantage of this very wide mandate.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1114]
Valley of Wild Horses (1927 [U.S copyright date; published in book form in 1947]) [Western novel, which opens with the birth (in the Texas Panhandle Wikipedia) of our cowboy hero, Panhandle Smith ("Pan"), and follows his adventures through to manhood. These adventures take him westward...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1109]
"Nevada". A Romance of the West. (1928) [Western novel. "Nevada" is the name of the novel's hero, not of the homonymous state, where he originally came from.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #922]
The Shepherd of Guadaloupe (1930) [Novel. After military service in Europe, Clifton Forrest returns to his native New Mexico, where surprises await him.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #836]
30,000 on the Hoof (1940) [Western novel, about the adventures of Logan Huett, a young soldier (and then ex-soldier) in Arizona at the end of the nineteenth century. Cattle ranching plays a role, as you might guess.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1167]


Grey Owl [Belaney, Archibald Stansfeld] (1888-1938) [Canadian naturalist and author] Wikipedia Parks Canada

The Men of the Last Frontier (1931) [An account of life in the Canadian wilderness. Grey Owl's first book.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #807]
Pilgrims of the Wild (1934) [Tales of the Canadian wilderness, profusely illustrated by the author and others. Our ebook includes Grey Owl's "Special Preface to his English Readers" from October 1935, as well as the 1934 foreword by the celebrated Canadian literary editor Hugh S. Eayrs (1894-1940) Quill & Quire, May 1940 jrank.org] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #508]
The Adventures of Sajo and her Beaver People (1935) [Short stories, with many illustrations by the author] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl (1785-1863) [German philologist / philologue allemand] Wikipedia fr.wikipedia de.wikipedia
Grimm, Wilhelm Carl (1786-1859) [German philologist / philologue allemand] Wikipedia fr.wikipedia de.wikipedia

Kinder und Hausmärchen gesammelt durch die Brüder Grimm (1857 [Große Ausgabe. Siebente Auflage.]) [Tales / contes] Wikipedia fr.wikipedia de.wikipedia
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4. Mährchen von einem, der auszog das Fürchten zu lernen de.wikipedia [The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was Wikipedia / Conte de celui qui s'en alla pour connaître la peur fr.wikipedia] HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip EPUB [PGC #797/no 797]
5. Der Wolf und die sieben jungen Geislein de.wikipedia [The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids Wikipedia / Le Loup et les Sept Chevreaux fr.wikipedia] HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip EPUB [PGC #801/no 801]
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17. Die weiße Schlange de.wikipedia [The White Snake Wikipedia / Le Serpent blanc fr.wikipedia] HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip EPUB [PGC #932/no 932]
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Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm (1886) [Stories: translated by Lucy Crane (1842-1882); illustrated by Walter Crane (1845-1915)] HTML and Text


Griswold, Hattie Tyng (1840-1909) [American author and social activist]

Home Life of Great Authors (1886) [Interesting and informative essays on the domestic life of more than thirty famous European and American authors]
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Grove, Frederick Philip (1879-1948) [Canadian novelist, poet, and essayist] Wikipedia Canadian Encyclopedia

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A Search for America (1927) [Autobiographical novel] HTML Text Text zipped
Our Daily Bread (1928) [Novel] HTML Text Text zipped
It Needs to be Said... (1929) [Lectures on literature, art, and politics] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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Guest, Edgar Albert (1881-1959) [American poet] Wikipedia

The Passing Throng (1923) [A collection of poetry, much of it light verse, written in the easy and very approachable style which made Guest one of the most widely read poets of his time.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1034]


Guinot, Eugène (1812-1861) [Journaliste et vaudevilliste français]

La Cour du Grand-Duc (1843) [Nouvelle, avec deux gravures contemporaines. «La fin de l'année dramatique avait ramené à Paris les troupes licenciées des théâtres de province...»] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zip EPUB [PG Canada no 844]


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Haldane, J. B. S. [John Burdon Sanderson] (1892-1964) [Indian geneticist and statistician] Wikipedia

My Friend Mr Leakey (1937) [Six marvellously witty stories for children, famous to this day] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1234]


Haliburton, Thomas Chandler (1796-1865) [Canadian essayist and humorist] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography Canadian Encyclopedia

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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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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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1374]

with: Nordhoff, Charles Bernard (1887-1947) [American novelist] Wikipedia

Faery Lands of the South Seas (1921) [The first collaboration by Nordhoff and Hall involving the South Seas, a memoir of their first visit to Tahiti and points beyond: "a book which is neither super-romantic nor tediously informative... one of the most pleasing volumes of travel and observation recently published." (The Outlook, 4 January 1922) Includes some attractive small illustrations by American artist George A. Picken (1898-1971) Smithsonian Institution.] Project Gutenberg US [PGUS #54479]
The Hurricane (1936) Wikipedia [Novel, set in the nineteenth century, about an island in the Tuamotu Archipelago Wikipedia, shared by Polynesians and Europeans, and what happens before, during, and after a major hurricane. One of Nordhoff and Hall's most popular novels, and the basis for John Ford's 1937 movie of the same name Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1378]
The Dark River (1938) [Novel. An Englishman named Alan Hardie arrives in Tahiti for what turns out to be a permanent visit. The novel has a very straightforward plot, "but as a travelogue of Tahiti and the Tuamotus it makes almost anybody in a disheartened pre-war world feel like getting away from it all while there is yet time." (Elmer Davis, Saturday Review, 25 June 1938)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1559]
Botany Bay (1941) [Historical novel, principally about the sailing of the First Fleet Wikipedia and the founding of the British penal colony in Australia, at Botany Bay Wikipedia, near the future Sydney. A more agreeable way of learning Australian history could hardly be imagined, with incidental information on the British penal system of the time, and on the aftermath of the 1783 partition of British North America: our hero, Hugh Tallant, was a Loyalist, but one who ended up in Australia rather than Canada!] CAUTION: Certain language in the novel may seem racist by the standards of today. HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1562]
Men Without Country (1942) [The novel opens early in World War II, just after the fall of France. An American reporter is in London to get stories on Frenchmen who have fled France to fight with Charles de Gaulle. He meets with a Captain Freycinet, who has quite a story to tell, a story which begins in the Caribbean. "The famous authors of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' have passed a neat, small miracle. In a little over a hundred pages, in small format and good large type, they have told a tale of escape, patriotism, French Guiana, Vichy, Free France, everything tight and right and thrilling. This is old craftsmanship at work, spinning a yarn of the most contemporary flavor..." (N. L. Rothman, Saturday Review, 27 June 1942)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1255]
The High Barbaree (1945) [Novel. What if a South Pacific island had remained undiscovered until in 1943 an American plane crashed onto it? The plane is the High Barbaree, presumably named after the traditional sailors' ballad Wikipedia.]
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Hamilton, James Cleland (1836-1907) [Canadian lawyer]

The Georgian Bay. An account of its position, inhabitants, mineral interests, fish, timber and other resources. Papers read before the Canadian Institute. (1893) Royal Canadian Institute [Lectures: sketches by Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860) Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography Simon Fraser University, photograph by Richard Scougall Cassels (1859-1935) Library and Archives Canada, map by H. J. Browne (fl. 1862-78)]
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Hammett, Dashiell [Samuel Dashiell] (1894-1961) [American author and political activist] Wikipedia

Novels:
Red Harvest (February 1929) Wikipedia [Novel, featuring Hammett's famous creation, the detective known only as the Continental Op Wikipedia. Dark doings in a mining town: criminal gangs, and a criminal police force. What's a private detective to do? Lots, as it turns out!]
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The Dain Curse (July 1929) Wikipedia [Hammett's second mystery novel, set in San Francisco: it concerns a family curse; also a religious cult, and drugs -- has California always been like this? It also features Hammett's famous creation, the detective known only as the Continental Op Wikipedia.]
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The Maltese Falcon (February 1930) Wikipedia [The classic detective novel, and the inspiration for the classic motion picture starring Humphrey Bogart Wikipedia. Private detective Sam Spade, a San Francisco now utterly vanished, and a mysterious statuette, "the black figure of a bird". What more can one ask for?]
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The Glass Key (April 1931) Wikipedia [Mystery novel, set in an amoral world of crime and corruption. Hammett's own choice as his best novel.]
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The Thin Man (January 1934) Wikipedia [Hammett's final novel, one of his most famous, and the inspiration for the classic film Wikipedia. Nick Charles was formerly with the Trans-American Detective Agency, but has left all that behind him. Or has he? "Verdict: Extra-Swell" (Saturday Review, 13 January 1934)]
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Short stories:
They Can Only Hang You Once (November 1932) [The last of Hammett's three short stories featuring private detective Sam Spade Wikipedia.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1290]
His Brother's Keeper (February 1934) [Short story about boxing, narrated by a boxer, Kid Bolan]
CAUTION: Certain language in this story may seem racist by the standards of today.
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Hare, Cyril [Clark, Alfred Alexander Gordon] (1900-1958) [English judge and novelist] Wikipedia

Tenant for Death (1937) [Cyril Hare's first mystery novel. Hare was a magistrate, learned in the law, and therefore familiar with the term "tenant for life" -- the holder of a property only while alive: that is, the property does not form part of his estate. But what is a tenant for death? Mr. Colin James may be an example: as the novel starts, he has mysteriously disappeared from the house he had rented, and gone to France. There is a murder, needless to say; also Inspector Mallett of Scotland Yard.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1215]
Suicide Excepted (1939) [Mystery novel. Whether a death was a suicide or not can be very important to insurance companies. "Brainy and brisk." (Saturday Review, 11 December 1954)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1232]
Tragedy at Law (1942) [Mystery novel. Even in wartime, the justice system continues its operations. Which explains how London barrister Francis Pettigrew finds himself travelling from town to town on the assize circuit Wikipedia. Far removed from London he may be, but Pettigrew discovers that life on the circuit is far from dull!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1261]
With a Bare Bodkin (1946) [Mystery novel. You may ask, what is a bodkin? That is a mystery easily solved. Francis Pettigrew, barrister and sleuth, explains: "Sharp, pointed instruments... They are used for piercing holes in bundles of papers for filing." Murder weapons, perhaps? We leave the larger mystery in the capable hands of our barrister.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1165]
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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1394]
When the Wind Blows (1949) [Mystery novel; some editions use the alternative title The Wind Blows Death. After giving some legal assistance to the local amateur orchestra, Francis Pettigrew finds himself named the orchestra's treasurer, which complicates his otherwise idyllic existence. A murder then occurs, making things even more complicated.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1262]
An English Murder (1951) [Mystery novel. The murder may be English, but one of the main characters taught at the University of Prague!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #593]
That Yew Tree's Shade (1954) [Mystery novel. Francis Pettigrew has retired from his legal practice in London to what he expects to be an agreeable and uneventful existence in the rural paradise of Yew Hill, Markshire. Life there is indeed agreeable, but not uneventful -- especially after Pettigrew is asked to substitute for an ailing local magistrate.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1024]
He Should Have Died Hereafter (1958) [Mystery novel; some editions use the alternate title Untimely Death. Francis Pettigrew is now retired from his law practice. But retiring from sleuthing is not so easy, as he discovers on what was supposed to be a holiday to remote and beautiful Exmoor Wikipedia.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1229]


Harrison, Charles Yale (1898-1954) [Canadian journalist and novelist] Wikipedia The Canadian Encyclopedia

Generals Die in Bed (1930) Wikipedia Sarah Ellis (Quill & Quire, Feb 2002) [Harrison's most famous novel: an unnamed young Canadian soldier's account of warfare, both in the trenches and behind the lines, in France during the First World War. The novel is graphic in its description of warfare.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1150]


Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) [American novelist] Wikipedia eldritchpress.org

With Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900-1931) [American illustrator] vfsterrett.com:
Tanglewood Tales (1853 [text] 1921 [illustrations]) [Greek myths retold for children] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped Wikipedia


Hay, Ian [Beith, John Hay] (1876-1952) [English novelist and playwright] Wikipedia

Half a Sovereign. An Improbable Romance. (1926) [Satiric novel, with an unexpected turn, about passengers on a cruise. "There is good historical precedent for Ian Hay's choice of a Ship of Fools as the medium of his humorous satire, and there are many obvious advantages which this framework affords. For the fools may thus be studied intensively, and the presence of landlubbers on board a yacht is full of comic possibilities. Needless to say Ian Hay has made fine use of his opportunity." (The Bookman [U.K.], October 1926)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1119]


Heine, Thomas Theodor (1867-1948) [German writer and caricaturist / écrivain et caricaturiste allemand] de.wikipedia

Der Teufel im Warenhaus (1935) [Satiric tale, with the author's illustrations / conte satirique, illustré par l'auteur] HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip EPUB [PGC #602/no 602]
Lusi (1935) [Satiric tale, with the author's illustrations / conte satirique, illustré par l'auteur] HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip EPUB [PGC #608/no 608]
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Heming, Arthur Henry Howard (1870-1940) [Canadian painter and writer] Wikipedia National Gallery of Canada Florence Griswold Museum

The Drama of the Forests (1921) [Novel]
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Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1954] Wikipedia Nobelprize.org

The Sun Also Rises (1926) Wikipedia [Novel, following the progress of a group of friends as they travel from Paris, cross the Pyrenees, and end up in Pamplona, Spain. "Written in terse, precise, and aggressively fresh prose, and containing some of the finest dialogue yet written in this country, the story achieves a vividness and a sustained tension that make it unquestionably one of the events of a year rich in interesting books" (Cleveland B. Chase, Saturday Review, 11 December 1926)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1257]
Men Without Women (1927) Wikipedia [Fourteen short stories, about bullfighting, boxing, and much else, "written in Hemingway's admirably clean and incisive style." (Burton Rascoe, The Bookman [U.S.], September 1927)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1302]
Winner Take Nothing (1933) Wikipedia [Fourteen short stories, some of them extremely famous: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, for example, and The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1253]
Green Hills of Africa (1935) Wikipedia Review by John Chamberlain [New York Times, 25 Oct 1935] Review by C. G. Poore [New York Times, 27 Oct 1935] [Not a novel, but an account of Hemingway's 1933 visit to what is now Tanzania. It includes both safari lore and literary criticism.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1081]
Across the River and Into the Trees (1950) Wikipedia Review by John O'Hara [New York Times, 10 Sept 1950] [Novel. An American colonel is visiting the Adriatic coast shortly after World War II. He has much to think about, including a young Italian woman named Renata.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #996]
The Old Man and the Sea (1952) Wikipedia [One of Hemingway's most famous novels. The old fisherman Santiago has caught nothing for eighty-four days. Then things change.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #948]


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

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Henderson, Daniel (1880-1955) [American author]

The Golden Bees. The Story of Betsy Patterson and The Bonapartes. (1928) [Historical novel about Elizabeth Patterson (1785-1879) Wikipedia, the Baltimore-born first wife of Jérôme Bonaparte, Napoleon's youngest brother] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #915]


Herbst, Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm (1825-1882) [German historian / historien allemand] Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie [de.wikisource: unkorrigiert] Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie [Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: Fraktur (Leipzig, 1905)]

Goethe in Wetzlar. 1772. Vier Monate aus des Dichters Jugendleben. (1881) [History in German / Histoire en allemand] HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip
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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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1577]
Good-bye, Mr. Chips (1934) Wikipedia [Novel: an enduringly popular twentieth-century classic, later adapted to screen and stage. A young schoolmaster arrives at an English school, and, without quite planning it, finds his lifetime vocation.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1197]
Time and Time Again (1953) [Hilton's final novel: the story of Charles Anderson, his schooldays during the First World War, his time at Cambridge, and his career as a diplomat, through to the early 1950s. The lengthy period covered, the focus on a single individual, and the attractive narrative style recall Hilton's earlier masterpiece, Good-bye, Mr. Chips. But although Mr. Chips does briefly show up, as Anderson's headmaster at Brookfield, the novel is by no means a sequel or a reboot of the earlier work.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1309]


Hodgson, William Hope (1877-1918) [English novelist and poet] Wikipedia

Men of the Deep Waters (1914) [Short stories] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped
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Hofland, Barbara (1770-1844) [English novelist and children's author] University of Nebraska (Alex Toews) English Poetry 1579-1830 National Portrait Gallery (UK)

The Daughter-in-law, her Father, & Family (1812) [Novel, dealing with relationships within families, the moral questions which can arise, and their resolution: themes that would be typical of Mrs. Hofland's later novels. Our edition includes a frontispiece by Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848) Burney Centre, McGill University, National Portrait Gallery (UK) Tate Collection Friends of Claines] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #677]
The Son of a Genius; A Tale, for the Use of Youth. (1812) [Novel. Our hero, Ludovico, overcomes many adversities and becomes a son worthy of his admirable father. Mrs. Hofland wrote this novel for her own son Frederic, to whom the work is dedicated. Includes a frontispiece by an unnamed artist.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #522]
The Clergyman's Widow, and her Young Family (1812) [Novel. A widow and her family living in England during the Napoleonic Wars confront the many obstacles that lie in their path.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #598]
The History of a Merchant's Widow and her Young Family (1814) [Novel. How Mrs. Daventree deals with the loss of her husband and of her fortune. Our edition includes a frontispiece by Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848) Burney Centre, McGill University, National Portrait Gallery (UK) Tate Collection Friends of Claines] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #680]
The Affectionate Brothers (1816) [Novel. The story of Charles and Thomas Harewood, two brothers quite different in temperament, but similar in their admirable conduct towards each other, their widowed mother, and others. Our edition includes a frontispiece by Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848) Burney Centre, McGill University, National Portrait Gallery (UK) Tate Collection Friends of Claines] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #653]
Decision, a Tale (1824) [Novel] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #591]
Patience, a Tale (1824) [Novel, with a frontispiece by Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848) Burney Centre, McGill University, National Portrait Gallery (UK) Tate Collection Friends of Claines] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #607]
Moderation, a Tale (1825) [Novel about the virtue of Moderation, as illustrated in the life of our heroine, Emma Carysford] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #650]
The Young Pilgrim, or Alfred Campbell's Return to the East; and his Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Asia Minor, Arabia Petræa, &c. &c. (1826) [A travel novel, drawing from the writings of Captain James Mangles R.N. (1786-1867) The Jewish Magazine (Jay Levinson) and others. Includes illustrations by an unknown hand. A sequel to Mrs. Hofland's 1825 travel novel Alfred Campbell, the Young Pilgrim; Containing Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB (experimental) [PGC #587]
The Good Grandmother, and her Offspring. A Tale. Second Edition with Additions. (1828 [this expanded version], 1817 [original shorter version]) [Novel, described by its author as "the history of an humble family, from the depths of poverty and affliction to a situation of comparative competence". Our edition includes a frontispiece by Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848) Burney Centre, McGill University, National Portrait Gallery (UK) Tate Collection Friends of Claines] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #663]
Rich Boys and Poor Boys, and Other Tales (1833) [Six short stories for the young, often dealing with questions of ethics. The collection's title could mislead some: the third story, The Passionate Little Girl, features a girl, Sophia Daventree, as its main character.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #652]
William and his Uncle Ben. A Tale Designed for the Use of Young People. (1826) [Novella for children, with a frontispiece by Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848) Burney Centre, McGill University, National Portrait Gallery (UK) Tate Collection Friends of Claines] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #504]
The Stolen Boy, an Indian Tale (1828 [this expanded version], 1827 [original shorter version]) [Novel, based, our author says, on actual events. Our hero Manuel, eight years of age, is living in San Antonio, when events take an unexpected turn. Our edition includes a frontispiece by Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848) Burney Centre, McGill University, National Portrait Gallery (UK) Tate Collection Friends of Claines] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #668]
The Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy (1829) [Novel. At the novel's opening, Charles Crusoe, thirteen years of age, asks his mother if he is related to the famous Robinson Crusoe, and is told that he is not. His future adventures, however, strongly resemble those of the earlier Crusoe.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #671]
The Young Cadet [1836 version] (1836 [this revised version]; 1827 [original version]) [Novel, set in India during the period of the East India Company Wikipedia. We include the fine frontispiece by S. Williams from the 1856 edition on which our ebook is based.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #879]
Choice Library for Young People. Tales for Youth. [Volume 3 of 5] (ca. 1850-1867) [Collection of stories for children, anonymously edited. Includes three stories by Mrs. Hofland, five anonymous or pseudonymous stories, and individual stories by James Bird (1788-1839), Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) Wikipedia, William Henry Harrison (ca. 1795-1878), Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855) Wikipedia, and Jane Margaret Strickland (1800-1888)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #448]


Hofmannsthal, Hugo von [Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal] (1874-1929) [Austrian playwright and poet / dramaturge et poète autrichien] Wikipedia fr.wikipedia de.wikipedia

Deutsche Erzähler (1912) [Anthology of stories and novellas / Anthologie de contes et nouvelles]:

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832) [German scientist, poet, playwright, and statesman / scientifique, poète, dramaturge et homme d'État allemand] Wikipedia 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.] HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip EPUB [PGC #1471/no 1471]

Kleist, Heinrich von [Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von] (1777-1811) [German playwright and poet / dramaturge et poète allemand] Wikipedia fr.wikipedia de.wikipedia

Das Erdbeben in Chili (1807/1810) de.wikipedia en.wikipedia [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.] HTML HTML zip Text / Texte Text / Texte zip EPUB [PGC #1472/no 1472]

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Hogg, James (1770-1835) [Scottish novelist and poet] Wikipedia NNDB

The Shepherd's Calendar (Volume 1 of 2) (1829) [A collection of stories by Hogg, most of them originally published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #683]
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Hokusai [Katsushika Hokusai] (1760-1849) [Japanese artist] Wikipedia Wikimedia Commons
with: Salaman, Malcolm Charles (1855-1940) [English art historian and critic] Wikipedia

Hokusai (1930) [Monograph on the celebrated Japanese artist, illustrated in colour] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


Hooper, James W. (born 1827) [American schoolteacher]

Three Score and Ten in Retrospect (1900) [Autobiography]
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Housman, Laurence (1865-1959) [English playwright and social activist] Wikipedia

Stories from The Arabian Nights (1911 edition) [Six of the famous Arabian Nights stories Wikipedia, retold by the famous playwright, with many colour illustrations by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1057]


Howard, Brian [Brian Christian de Claiborne] (1905-1958) [English poet and journalist] Wikipedia circa-club.com glbtq Evelyn Waugh Newsletter (Robert Murray Davis)

God Save the King (1931) [Poems] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped


Howard, Robert E. [Robert Ervin] (1906-1936) [American fantasy and horror author] Wikipedia

Skull-Face (October-December 1929) Wikipedia [Novella, set in London, but Atlantis comes into the picture; also hashish!]
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Worms of the Earth (November 1932) Wikipedia [Short story, set in Roman Britain. The Picts, led by Bran Mak Morn, are confronting the Romans. And Bran is considering using the "worms