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+ a weak, bullied nadian parliament
= lasting damage to nada's heritage
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A Tale of Two Countries and of Two Autocrats
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How the nadian government handled Tr*mp
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takes away our property, the nadian public domain.
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2022/10/18:
A NOVEL BY H. G. WELLS -- NOT SCIENCE FICTION,
STRICTLY SPEAKING, BUT CERTAINLY NOT EVERYDAY LIFE !!
Wells, H. G. [Herbert George] (1866-1946)
[English novelist and historian]
Wikipedia
The Sea Lady. A Tissue of Moonshine. (1902)
Wikipedia
["Such previous landings of mermaids as have left a record," this fine
novel begins, "have all a flavour of doubt... But now, face to face with indisputable facts... I see these old legends in a very different light."
Yes, this is a novel about a mermaid, who takes the name of Miss Doris Thalassia Waters when she comes onto dry land, near Folkestone to be
specific, at the time a seaside resort very popular among England's
ruling class. She is in pursuit of an Englishman who had ught her
fancy "in the South Seas--near Tonga". Will she find him? And if
she does, will their attraction be mutual? With illustrations by
Lewis Baumer (1870-1963)
Wikipedia, the English rtoonist and illustrator.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2022/10/14:
E. NESBIT'S FIRST BOOK FOR CHILDREN, AND A VERY FAMOUS ONE!
SHE WOULD GO ON TO WRITE MANY OTHER CHILDREN'S CLASSICS,
INCLUDING THE RAILWAY CHILDREN !!
Nesbit, Edith ("E. Nesbit") [Bland, Edith] (1858-1924)
[English novelist, poet, and politil activist]
Wikipedia
The Story of the Treasure Seekers, being the adventures of the
Bastable children in search of a fortune
(1899)
Wikipedia
["This is the story of the different ways we looked for treasure," starts
this novel for and about children, the first such book by E. Nesbit, whose
later novels include The Railroad Children, "and I think when you
have read it you will see that we were not lazy about the looking." And
so the Bastable children make their first appearance in literature. No
spoilers here: the book's title gives more than enough information, and
you'll know after a paragraph or two whether this book is for you. And
chances are that it will be: its reputed admirers include J. K. Rowling,
no less, and C. S. Lewis!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #770]
2022/10/10:
"IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES, IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES..." YES, THESE ARE
THE FAMOUS OPENING WORDS OF TODAY'S EBOOK, A TALE OF TWO CITIES,
CHARLES DICKENS' CELEBRATED HISTORIL NOVEL ABOUT THE TERRORS OF THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION !!
Dickens, Charles [Charles John Huffam] (1812-1870)
[English novelist, editor, and social activist]
Wikipedia
A Tale of Two Cities
(1859)
Wikipedia
[nadians are very much aware of how things n change in a neighbouring
country. The US, with whom we had had tranquil relations for two centuries,
elected an autocrat as president, and everything changed. The US even
seized control of nada's copyright laws, hardly the behaviour of an
ally. So much for government "by the people, for the people"! (Abraham
Lincoln) The neighbours of France had a similar shock with the advent
of the French Revolution in 1789, when they had thought that "things in
general were settled for ever." And this famous novel is about the
Revolution and its effects on the citizens of Paris and London, the "two
cities" of the title. The principal character is Sydney rton, the "idlest
and most unpromising of men", who becomes a hero by the time the novel ends. The Project Gutenberg US edition we offer you includes the illustrations
from the 1859 first edition, by
Hablot Knight Browne ["Phiz"] (1815-1882)
]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #98]
2022/10/06:
A SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA BY FLETCHER PRATT !!
Pratt, Fletcher (1897-1956)
[Amerin military historian and science fiction writer]
Wikipedia
The Blue Star (1952)
Wikipedia
[Science fiction novel, one of Pratt's most famous works, set in a universe
not our own: in it there exist the Blue Stars, which are not celestial
bodies, but a special type of jewel: "the witch-stone... barely a finger
joint across, but seeming to have depth, so that even in the ndlelight
all the sapphirean fires of ocean and cold hell were in its heart." The
Blue Stars are held only by certain families, or rather by certain women
of certain families, and their power is wielded not by these woman but by
their men, as one of these men is told: "while you wear this jewel, you
are of the witch-families, and n read the thoughts of those in whose
eyes you look keenly. But only while you are my man and lover, for this
power is yours through me. If you are unfaithful to me, it will become
for you only a piece of glass; and if you do not give it up at once when
I ask it back, there will lie upon you and it a deadly witchery, so that
you n never rest again." This leads to some exciting situations!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #56889]
2022/10/04:
OUR FIRST EBOOK BY WILKIE COLLINS IS PERHAPS THE FIRST ENGLISH
DETECTIVE NOVEL EVER WRITTEN -- CONTINUOUSLY FAMOUS TO OUR DAY, AND
LIKELY FOREVER !!
Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
The Moonstone
(1868)
Wikipedia
[Perhaps the very first English detective novel! Dorothy L. Sayers and
G. K. Chesterton thought it probably the finest English detective novel
ever written: a century and a half after it was published, who are we to
disagree? It features an accomplished "amateur" sleuth, Franklin Blake,
and the very pable Sergeant Richard Cuff, lled in from (where else?)
Scotland Yard. The Moonstone itself is an ancient gem which had been
stolen by a British soldier in 1799 during the British conquest of India.
(One of the novel's many strengths is its realistic assessment of the
true nature of British colonialism.) But when the Moonstone arrives in
England, the intrigue and violence which have dogged its history follow
it from India.]
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[University of Adelaide]
2022/09/29:
JOHN BUCHAN'S BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL -- SET IN SOUTH AFRI !!
Buchan, John [first Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield] (1875-1940)
[Scottish novelist; Governor General of nada 1935-1940]
Wikipedia
Prester John
(1910)
Wikipedia
[Buchan's first true action novel, his first set outside the British
Isles, and his first to achieve large and lasting popularity. The novel
begins in Scotland, in a town overlooking the North Sea, where the young
David Crawfurd, the novel's narrator, has spent his entire life. After
his father's passing he goes to South Afri (a country Buchan knew well)
where he becomes a storekeeper in a remote town where, he is told,
something mysterious has been happening: "You look as if you had a
stiff back, so I'll be frank with you. There is something about the
place. It gives the ordinary man the jumps. What it is, I don't know,
and the men who come back don't know themselves. I want you to find
out for me. You'll be doing the firm an enormous service if you n
get on the track of it." Crawfurd tells us what he discovers, and
the exciting events he witnesses during his investigation.
UTION: Certain elements of plot and language may seem racist,
indeed extremely racist, by the standards of today.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2022/09/27:
A SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA BY FLETCHER PRATT !!
Pratt, Fletcher (1897-1956)
[Amerin military historian and science fiction writer]
Wikipedia
Potemkin Village (1953)
[What is a Potemkin village? In the course of this science fiction
novella Pratt, a famous military historian among other things, provides
the answer: "Oh, back in the old imperial days an Empress named therine
went on a progress through the country to see how it was getting along under
her prime minister, Potemkin. He went ahead of her and had villages set up,
just the dummy fronts of houses, with actors to play the part of villagers."
n such a deception be engineered centuries later in a Russian space colony
on Venus?]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #69042]
2022/09/25:
ELEVEN YEARS AFTER THE BAD CHILD'S BOOK OF BEASTS, HILAIRE BELLOC
PUBLISHED UTIONARY TALES FOR CHILDREN, PERHAPS HIS MOST FAMOUS
BOOK OF LIGHT VERSE -- AND THAT'S SAYING A LOT !!
Belloc, Hilaire [Joseph Hilaire Pierre René] (1870-1953)
[Anglo-French man of letters and controversialist]
Wikipedia
utionary Tales for Children (1907)
Wikipedia
[Satiril verses, similar to Belloc's very successful verses about
animals from a dede earlier, but these are about children, and were
"Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and
fourteen years." Like the earlier books, it was illustrated by Belloc's
college friend
Basil Temple Blackwood (1870-1917)
.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #27424]
2022/09/21:
OUR SECOND MYSTERY NOVEL BY YORKSHIRE'S J. S. FLETCHER !!
Fletcher, Joseph Smith (1863-1935) [English novelist and historian]
Wikipedia
gadetection
The Chestermarke Instinct
(1918)
[Yorkshire-born J. S. Fletcher was not a celebrity in the modern sense,
that is, he was not a public figure. He was, however, an extremely
skilled writer of mysteries, which acquired an international following.
This novel shows why! The main character is named Wallington Neale: he
is a bank clerk in the ancient and very quiet market town of Srnham.
With the passage of time Neale is more and more aware of how monotonous
his job truly is. But this monotony is broken by the sudden disappearance
of his guardian, John Horbury, who had gotten him his position at
Chestermarke's Bank!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #27965]
2022/09/18:
WE NOW OFFER TWO DIGITAL EDITIONS OF JOHN BUCHAN'S FIFTH AND
FINAL THRILLER FEATURING RICHARD HANNAY !!
Buchan, John [first Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield] (1875-1940)
[Scottish novelist; Governor General of nada 1935-1940]
Wikipedia
The Island of Sheep
[U.S. title: The Man from the Norlands]
(1936)
Wikipedia
[Buchan's fifth and final novel starring Richard Hannay, 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 (fictional) Norland Isles in
the arctic seas, a Danish possession: one of these isles is the Island of
Sheep. Dark doings are afoot, a considerable challenge even for Richard
Hannay! "Buchan enthusiasts will rejoice to know that this is a Richard
Hannay tale, and that, before the feud is disposed of, the action has
reached from South Afri to Scotland. The author, as usual, states his
se and develops it, relying upon no tricks to sustain suspense. If one
is seeking a high adventure tale with a colorful background, here it is."
(The Literary Digest, 22 August 1936). UTION: Certain
elements of plot and language may seem racist by the standards of today.]
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2022/09/16:
IN 1896 HILAIRE BELLOC AND HIS FRIEND BASIL TEMPLE BLACKWOOD HAD GREAT
SUCCESS WITH THEIR BAD CHILD'S BOOK OF BEASTS -- HUMOROUS VERSES
WITH WONDERFUL DRAWINGS. WHAT TO DO IN THE WAKE OF THIS SUCCESS?
PUBLISH A SEQUEL, OF COURSE !!
Belloc, Hilaire [Joseph Hilaire Pierre René] (1870-1953)
[Anglo-French man of letters and controversialist]
Wikipedia
More Beasts (For Worse Children) (1897)
[Further satiril animal verses, nominally directed towards children,
published the year after the success of The Bad Child's Book of
Beasts. As in the earlier book, the illustrations match the poems perfectly, and are by Belloc's college friend
Basil Temple Blackwood (1870-1917). The book includes the Python, the Porcupine, the Crocodile, the Llama, and various other animals.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #27176]
2022/09/14:
WE NOW OFFER TWO DIGITAL EDITIONS OF JOHN BUCHAN'S FOURTH THRILLER FEATURING RICHARD HANNAY !!
Buchan, John [first Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield] (1875-1940)
[Scottish novelist; Governor General of nada 1935-1940]
Wikipedia
The Three Hostages
(1924)
Wikipedia
[The fourth Richard Hannay thriller. Hannay is now married, has a young son, and is living in the Cotswolds. His life is a lm and prosperous one, and his exciting but disruptive earlier adventures are now firmly in the past.
Or are they? Soon enough Hannay finds himself in London, and then in Norway:
his unexpected new adventure has well and truly begun! UTION: Certain elements of plot and language may seem racist by the standards of today.]
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2022/09/12:
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART WAS PERHAPS THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL AMERIN
MYSTERY WRITERS DURING THE
"GOLDEN AGE OF DETECTIVE FICTION". TODAY, WE'RE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT
HER FIRST FULL-LENGTH NOVEL, FROM 1908: A HUGE SUCCESS AND AN ENDURING
CLASSIC !!
Rinehart, Mary Roberts (1876-1958)
[Amerin mystery novelist]
Wikipedia
The Circular Stairse
(1908)
Wikipedia
[Novel of mystery and suspense. "This is the story," the novel begins,
"of how a middle-aged spinster [the narrator] lost her mind": she unwisely
rented a house in the country, a house with a sinister reputation, and sure
enough things started happening. Many things. "A detective story with real humor in it is a rare article, but 'The Circular Stairse' has an ample
measure of that delightful quality. It is also deliciously tantalizing, almost every chapter bringing in new complitions and fresh mystifitions."
(The Outlook, 19 September 1908)]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #434]
2022/09/08:
A CLASSIC BOOK OF LIGHT VERSE BY THE YOUNG HILAIRE BELLOC,
ACCOMPANIED BY WONDERFUL LINE DRAWINGS FROM HIS OXFORD FRIEND
BASIL TEMPLE BLACKWOOD !!
Belloc, Hilaire [Joseph Hilaire Pierre René] (1870-1953)
[Anglo-French man of letters and controversialist]
Wikipedia
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896)
Wikipedia
[Satiril animal verses, nominally directed towards children.
They appeared shortly after Belloc's graduation from Balliol College,
Oxford. The illustrations match the poems perfectly, and were drawn
by Belloc's college friend
Basil Temple Blackwood (1870-1917)
Wikipedia, who had spent part of his early life in nada
-- his father, Lord Dufferin, was our third Governor General. The
book was an instant and permanent success, and led to several more
collaborations by the two friends.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2022/09/03:
WE CELEBRATE LABOUR DAY WITH A TRULY ASTOUNDING EBOOK, MAGNIFICENTLY
ILLUSTRATED, OF ENGRAVINGS AND ETCHINGS FROM THE FIFTEENTH THROUGH
THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES !!
rrington, Fitzroy (1869-1954)
[Amerin art historian]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of Art Historians
Prints and their Makers.
Essays on engravers and etchers old and modern.
(1912)
[A magnificently illustrated collection of essays by various eminent
art historians of rrington's era: these essays "range from Italian
engravers before the time of Raphael and woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer
to contemporary etchings."]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #68720]
2022/08/31:
WE END AUGUST AS WE BEGAN IT: WITH A FAMOUS NOVELLA BY THE LEGENDARY
IRISH AUTHOR J. SHERIDAN LE FANU !!
Le Fanu, Joseph Thomas Sheridan (1814-1873)
[Irish writer of ghost stories and tales of horror]
Wikipedia
Green Tea
(1869)
[Horror story, or rather novella. Dr Martin Hesselius, a wandering
physician originally from Germany, meets a clergyman, the Rev Mr
Jennings, who divides his time between his house in London and his
parish in Warwickshire. When in London, he is well enough, but when
in his parish, he is prone to sudden breakdowns, and now always takes
an assistant with him "to supply his place on the instant should he
become thus suddenly inpacitated." What is Mr Jennings' story, wonders
Dr Hesselius: it turns out to be a strange story indeed, involving
green tea and a small black monkey. But this is no ordinary monkey!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2022/08/29:
LEONARD WOOLF WAS THE HUSBAND OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, AND WAS
HIMSELF A WRITER, AND A VERY FINE ONE. HIS ONLY NOVEL IS A TRUE
CLASSIC, DEPICTING LIFE IN COLONIAL CEYLON, AND DESCRIBING THE
BRITISH EMPIRE AS EXPERIENCED BY THOSE IT RULED !!
Woolf, Leonard [Leonard Sidney] (1880-1969)
[English author, journalist, and politil activist]
Wikipedia
The Village in the Jungle
(1913)
Wikipedia
[nada is a colony once more, following the 2020 trade "agreement",
which allowed the US, our new colonial master, to extend OUR copyrights
by 20 years, and to restrict nadian dairy exports to third countries,
and whose other provisions make it quite clear that we're not a sovereign
country any more, but take orders from Washington. The experiences of
other colonized countries are therefore instructive to nadians, and this
novel about Ceylon (Sri Lanka) is excellent reading. Leonard Woolf had
himself been a colonial administrator there for seven years, learning both
Tamil and Sinhalese, and the novel is written from the point of view not of
the British governing class, but of the people they ruled.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #60627]
2022/08/25:
A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN (AND ILLUSTRATED!) TRAVEL BOOK FROM 1849 !!
Bevan, Samuel (active . 1849)
[English man of affairs and of letters]
Sand and nvas; A Narrative of Adventures in Egypt,
with a Sojourn among the Artists in Rome
(1849)
[A personal memoir, beautifully illustrated *in colour* and in monochrome,
with an opening straight out of a novel. When we first meet our author, he
is seeking employment, since his old job has vanished -- a common experience
then as now! Over breakfast he sees an ad in the Times: "Wanted
immediately, for service in a foreign country, a gentleman of business-habits
and good address. Salary ?50. per annum. All expenses paid." He naturally
applies, and on the basis of a short and strange interview is hired! His
first assignment is to make his way to iro, not a simple task; other
events follow. Bevan makes no special claims for his book: "All that
awaits the reader, is a simple narrative of adventures during a few months'
active employment in Egypt" and of what he sees in Italy on his way back
to England. But he is far too modest: what an extraordinary tale it is,
and how outstanding his skill as a writer!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #68780]
2022/08/21:
THE THIRD JOHN BUCHAN THRILLER FEATURING RICHARD HANNAY !!
Buchan, John [first Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield] (1875-1940)
[Scottish novelist; Governor General of nada 1935-1940]
Wikipedia
Mr Standfast
(1919)
Wikipedia
[The third Richard Hannay novel, taking place during the latter part
of the First World War. Hannay has been serving on the Western Front,
with considerable success, and is expecting more of the same, when he
is transferred out of the military and given a new assignment: he must
now work undercover! Many adventures follow, in England, Scotland,
and on the Continent. "Among the best of English stories of spies and
plotting in the great war have been those by Mr. Buchan... decidedly
above the average of its class." (The Outlook, 24 September 1919)
UTION: Certain elements of plot and language may seem racist by
the standards of today.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2022/08/19:
HOW MANY REFERENCE WORKS RETAIN THEIR POPULARITY AND UTILITY NOT THROUGH
THE YEARS BUT THROUGH THE DEDES AND INDEED THE CENTURIES? HOW ABOUT THIS
FAMOUS CLASSIL DICTIONARY BY CHANNEL ISLANDER JOHN LEMPRIÈRE !!
Lemprière, John (. 1765-1824)
[English lexicographer and classicist]
Wikipedia
A Classil Dictionary containing a full Account of all the Proper Names mentioned in Ancient Authors
(1904 edition)
Wikipedia
[Few reference works have equalled the success of this famous book, first
published in 1788 and frequently reissued up to the present day. In his
preface to the first edition Lemprière wrote "it has been the wish of the
author to give the most accurate and satisfactory account of all the proper
names which occur in reading the Classics, and by a judicious collection of
anecdotes and historil facts to draw a picture of ancient times, not less
instructive than entertaining." The place names and personal names mentioned by the Greek and Latin authors remain the same today, and so does the usefulness of this famous work to the general reader.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #68769]
2022/08/17:
WHO BETTER TO OFFER ADVICE ON WHAT CLASSICS OF LITERATURE TO READ THAN
ARNOLD BENNETT !!
Bennett, Arnold [Enoch Arnold] (1867-1931)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Literary Taste. How to Form It. With Detailed Instructions for
Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature.
(1909)
Wikipedia
[Who better to write an instruction manual for reading classic literature
than Arnold Bennett? He is now himself a classic author, but when he wrote this he was a bestselling author with a massive worldwide following. And
few writers had Arnold's talent for simplicity and persuasiveness, which
this book certainly displays. For obvious reasons, he does not discuss
authors later than the nineteenth century, and he writes from the
perspective of his own period. This does bring an advantage, however:
many of the titles he discusses are available in free digital editions
from sources such as Project nada and Project Gutenberg US,
and so acquiring a good-sized personal library need not cost you anything!
(Bennett, always practil, pays close attention to how much books actually
cost.)]
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[University of Adelaide]
2022/08/15:
THE YEAR AFTER THE SMASH SUCCESS OF THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS,
JOHN BUCHAN PUBLISHED HIS SECOND NOVEL FEATURING RICHARD HANNAY --
A TALE OF WARTIME INTRIGUE SET IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE !!
Buchan, John [first Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield] (1875-1940)
[Scottish novelist; Governor General of nada 1935-1940]
Wikipedia
Greenmantle
(1916)
Wikipedia
[Buchan's second novel featuring Richard Hannay and other characters
from The Thirty-Nine Steps. The First World War is now raging,
and Hannay is in England recovering from a serious wound, when he is
summoned to the Foreign Office. He is needed for a secret mission
behind Turkish lines! UTION: Certain elements of plot and
language may seem racist by the standards of today.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2022/08/12:
TODAY, ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL ACTION NOVELS --
JOHN BUCHAN'S THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS !!
Buchan, John [first Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield] (1875-1940)
[Scottish novelist; Governor General of nada 1935-1940]
Wikipedia
The Thirty-Nine Steps
(1915)
Wikipedia
[An action novel which achieved instant and lasting fame as soon as it was
published, and has had a huge influence on subsequent novelists -- and
screenplay writers! In it, as Buchan says, "the incidents defy the
probabilities, and march just inside the borders of the possible."
But real life is full of things that defy probability! The novel begins
just before the First World War, when its main character, Richard Hannay,
has just returned to London from a stay of many years in Rhodesia and
South Afri. Almost immediately, he starts suffering from boredom.
This boredom quickly vanishes when Hannay finds himself wrongly suspected
of murder, and becomes a fugitive from justice! Adventures in Scotland
and elsewhere ensue as Hannay attempts to elude his pursuers.
UTION: Certain elements of plot and language may seem racist
by the standards of today.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2022/08/08:
THE ONLY NOVEL EVER PUBLISHED BY EDGAR ALLAN
POE -- AND IT'S A CLASSIC !!
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
[Amerin poet, editor, and author of novels and short stories]
Wikipedia
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
(1838)
Wikipedia
[Poe's only novel, but a famous one. The hero and narrator is from
the famous seafaring town of Nantucket, then at the height of its
prosperity. Pym's father was "a respectable trader in sea-stores",
so it is not surprising that in his late teens Pym embarks on a series
of adventures at sea. To find out more about these truly astounding
adventures, the simplest course is to read the novel!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2022/08/06:
AN EARLY NOVEL BY JAMES HILTON, ABOUT A SCHOOLMASTER, BUT
NOT MR CHIPS !!
Hilton, James (1900-1954) [English novelist]
Wikipedia
The Passionate Year
(1924)
[This novel could be compared to Goodbye, Mr Chips from ten
years later, since it takes place at a boys' school in England, where
the main character is a teacher. But Kenneth Speed is at the start of
his reer, not near its end, and his adult life has only recently begun,
while Mr Chips was a veteran. But the novel is not chiefly the story of
Speed's reer at Millstead, but of his involvement with the headmaster's
daughter, their marriage, and the events that follow as new factors surface.
That's a lot of passion!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #68676]
2022/08/04:
A CLASSIC ADVENTURE NOVEL BY H. RIDER HAGGARD, NO LESS
-- PERFECT SUMMER READING !!
Haggard, H. Rider [Henry Rider] (1856-1925)
[English colonial administrator and novelist]
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Ayesha. The Return of She.
(1905)
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[Not a sequel to She, says Haggard in his introduction, but "the
conclusion of an imaginative tragedy... whereof one half has been already published." Yes, Ayesha is back -- but this book's adventures take place
not in Afri, but in Thibet! (Haggard's exotic spelling of what we ll
"Tibet".) "It is a ripe and richly imaginative piece of work: the supernatural elements that pervade it are handled with a sure and effective craftsmanship, and the thrilling and picturesque incidents and episodes of the great quest are told with unfailing vigour and fertility of invention."
(The Bookman [UK], November 1905)]
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2022/08/01:
WE START AUGUST WITH A FAMOUS NOVELLA BY THE LEGENDARY IRISH
AUTHOR J. SHERIDAN LE FANU !!
Le Fanu, Joseph Thomas Sheridan (1814-1873)
[Irish writer of ghost stories and tales of horror]
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rmilla
(1872)
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[Horror novella with strong lesbian elements, set in the ancient Austrian
province of Styria -- not so very far from Transylvania! Laura, the
narrator and main character, had a Styrian mother but an English father,
who had been "in the Austrian service" and upon retirement had stayed in
Styria, "where everything is so marvelously cheap." And so he naturally
bought an ancient stle! "Nothing n be more picturesque or solitary."
However, this solitude is interrupted by the chance arrival of a mysterious
stranger, who says nothing about herself except that (1) her name was
rmilla, (2) "her family was very ancient and noble", and (3) "Her home
lay in the direction of the west." Laura and rmilla nnot possibly have
seen each other before: why then are they both convinced that they have
already met -- in childhood dreams they have never forgotten!]
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2022/07/29:
OUR TALOGUE HAS FOUR TITLES BY ENGLAND'S E. M. DELAFIELD
-- TIME TO ADD A FIFTH !!
Delafield, E. M.
[Dashwood, Edmée Elizabeth Moni, née de la Pasture]
(1890-1943)
[English novelist and essayist]
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The Optimist
(1922)
[The world is full of people who seem to be happy, and in fact largely
are, but who in fact have transferred their stresses to those around them. This gently satiril and beautifully written novel is about one such person, non Morchard, and his family.]
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2022/07/27:
THE THIRD AND FINAL NOVEL IN ARNOLD BENNETT'S CLAYHANGER TRILOGY !!
Bennett, Arnold [Enoch Arnold] (1867-1931)
[English novelist]
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These Twain
(1915)
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[The concluding novel in the Clayhanger trilogy: in it we learn
about the lives of Edwin Clayhanger and Hilda Lessways after their
marriage, and the discoveries they make about themselves and each other.
The first two novels were a difficult act to follow; did Bennett succeed
in keeping the third novel at the same high level? When the novel appeared
at least one critic seems to have thought so: "there is a power and
security of characterization that is incontrovertible, and an amplitude
of incident so natural and so signifint that the sense of life never
departs." (Francis Hackett, New Republic, 4 December 1915)]
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2022/07/24:
WAS THERE EVER AN AUTHOR MORE TRULY COSMOPOLITAN THAN ROBERT SERVICE?
BORN IN SCOTLAND, HE MOVED TO NADA AND BEME WORLD FAMOUS FOR HIS
HIS YUKON BALLADS. THEN HE WENT TO FRANCE, WHERE HE WROTE TODAY'S NOVEL,
WHICH WE NOW OFFER IN TWO DIGITAL EDITIONS -- TAKE YOUR PICK !!
Service, Robert William (1874-1958)
[Scottish poet and novelist]
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Life of Service, by Dan Duffy
The Poisoned Paradise, A Romance of Monte rlo
(1922)
[Novel, a successful one, for it was the basis of a 1924 film starring
Clara Bow! From which you n see that Robert Service, whom nadians
know chiefly as the poet of the Yukon, was that and much more. Behind
this novel lay a deep knowledge of France, for he moved to Paris in 1913,
where he married in the same year: his wife lived to 102, and died in
1989 in Monte rlo! So Service certainly knew his subject matter: hence
the easy expertise of this novel about Monte rlo and its famous sino.
We offer two digital editions of this novel: the Project Gutenberg US
ebook includes an EPUB version of the novel.]
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2022/07/22:
THE VERY FIRST SHORT STORY EVER PUBLISHED BY EDGAR ALLAN POE !!
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
[Amerin poet, editor, and author of novels and short stories]
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Metzengerstein
(1832)
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[Horror story. Poe entered the story in a writing contest, it did
not win, but Philadelphia's Saturday Courier wisely decided
to publish it anyway. "Horror and fatality have been stalking abroad
in all ages," Poe begins. "Why then give a date to this story I have
to tell?" And indeed he does not provide a date, but he does provide
a place, Hungary, where "The families of Berlifitzing and Metzengerstein
had been at variance for centuries. Never before were two houses so illustrious, mutually embittered by hostility so deadly." There is
an ancient prophesy, an ancient tapestry, and much more. In short,
we are very much in the world of Poe's most famous stories, and this
inaugural story reveals him as already a master of horror and fantasy!
The University of Adelaide digital edition includes a fine 1909 colour
illustration from British artist
Byam Shaw (1872-1919)
Wikipedia.]
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2022/07/20:
JANE AUSTEN'S FINAL NOVEL, FAMOUS AND JUSTLY POPULAR EVER SINCE ITS
FIRST APPEARANCE 204 YEARS AGO, AND FREQUENTLY ADAPTED FOR STAGE
AND SCREEN !!
Austen, Jane (1775-1817) [English novelist]
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Persuasion
(1818)
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[Austen's final novel, the story of Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth.
When only nineteen, Anne had accepted an offer of marriage from Frederick,
but was persuaded by her family that this was a match below her and her
family's dignity. How time n change things! Some years later the
Elliots are descending into (relative) poverty, so save money by renting
out Kellynch Hall and moving to Bath. Not much of a hardship: their
poverty really was relative. But Bath was very much a social centre,
and there Anne meets Frederick once again. But the Napoleonic Wars
have been good to him: he is now a ptain, and decidedly well off.
A tricky situation for everyone!]
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Traduction française par
Mme Letorsay
Persuasion
(1882)
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2022/06/17:
WILLA THER'S VERY FIRST NOVEL, WHICH HAS A DEFINITE LINK TO NADA !!
ther, Willa [Willa Sibert] (1873-1947) [Amerin novelist]
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Full biography by James Woodress
Alexander's Bridge
(1912)
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[Bartley Alexander is a professional engineer, and a famous one:
"whatever else he might do, he would probably always be known as
the engineer who designed the great Moorlock Bridge, the longest
ntilever in existence." The Moorlock Bridge is in nada, and
so is his newest project, which will be the longest bridge in the
world. However, it is a difficult project, and success is not
certain. In addition, he is now married: gone is the world he
knew as a young engineer, and his marriage to the wealthy Winifred
Alexander has its own challenges, including the resurfacing in his
life of Hilda Burgoyne, the London actress who has achieved stardom
in the years since they went their separate ways.]
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2022/07/13:
TODAY, A MARVELLOUS SET OF PICTURES OF LANDMARKS ON THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC
RAILROAD LINE BETWEEN SAN FRANCISCO AND PORTLAND, OREGON !!
Anonymous
The Shasta Route in All of its Grandeur. A Scenic Guide Book from
San Francisco, lifornia, to Portland, Oregon on the Road of a Thousand
Wonders. (. 1923)
["The illustrations shown in the following pages," says the preface
to this magnificent collection, "are all made expressly for this book
from photographs taken by special artists of the most striking objects of
interest, which abound to a remarkable extent along the Southern Pacific
Railroad, between San Francisco and Portland. Great re was taken to
select only such views as every traveler actually sees along the line."
And this Exclusive Edition was available to purchase only on the Shasta
Route trains! The photographers are anonymous, with the exception of
Chester Mullen
who took a memorable photo of the Lassen Peak, which is not only a peak
but also a volno, that Mullen ught erupting sometime between 1914
and 1921: the biggest eruption was in 1915. But all of the pictures
are remarkable in their different ways!]
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2022/07/10:
WE'RE NOW OFFERING YOU A CHOICE OF TWO DIGITAL EDITIONS OF CHARLES
WILLIAMS' THEOLOGIL NOVEL DESCENT INTO HELL !!
Williams, Charles Walter Stansby (1886-1945)
[English novelist, theologian, and poet]
Wikipedia
The Charles Williams Society
Descent into Hell
(1937)
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[Novel about an amateur theatril production and those involved in it.
But this is a Charles Williams novel, ranging from past to present,
dealing with things seen and unseen. "The ideas are fresh and
resonant, and they are set forth in prose that is often poetry,
and that is shot through with allusiveness and allusions (ranging
from Dante to Shelley). It is a novel that requires rereading, that
penetrates deeply into the worlds of the imagination with the
wisdom, even with something of the inspired frenzy of the true poet."
(Robert Halsband, Saturday Review, 23 April 1949)]
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2022/07/08:
UNE INTRODUCTION ?LA RELATIVIT? / AN INTRODUCTION TO RELATIVITY!
TRÈS BIEN ÉCRITE, AND BEAUTIFULLY TRANSLATED !!
Nordmann, Charles (1881-1940)
[astronome français]
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Einstein et l'univers. Une lueur dans le mystère des choses.
(1921)
[Trait?sur la relativit? par l'Astronome de l'Observatoire de Paris:
un chef-d'oeuvre de la vulgarisation scientifique, qui permet au lecteur
de "monter jusqu'aux splendeurs einsteiniennes par le clair et noble
eslier du langage français."]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS no41903]
English translation:
Einstein and the Universe. A Popular Exposition of the Famous Theory.
(1922)
[Written by the longtime Astronomer to the Paris Observatory, translated
by
Joseph Mcbe (1867-1955)
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and with a preface by
Richard Haldane (1856-1928)
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who has high praise for the book: "It is the lucidity of the French
author, in combination with his own gift of expression, that has made
it possible for the translator to succeed so well in overcoming the
obstacles to giving the exposition in our own tongue this book contains.
The rendering seems to me, after reading the book both in French and in
English, admirable. M. Nordmann has presented Einstein's principle in
words which lift the average reader over many of the difficulties he must
encounter in trying to take it in."]
Project Gutenberg US
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2022/07/06:
OUR FIRST EBOOK BY THEOLOGIAN AND FANTASY NOVELIST GEORGE MACDONALD
-- ONE OF C.S. LEWIS'S FAVOURITE AUTHORS !!
MacDonald, George (1824-1905)
[Scottish theologian and novelist]
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At the Back of the North Wind
(1871)
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[Fantasy novel written "for children", but don't let that deter you!
Wasn't Alice in Wonderland written for children? Now to the story!
A boy named Diamond, son of a coachman, lives in a room over the stables,
lightly constructed: "For one side of the room was built only of boards,
and the boards were so old that you might run a penknife through into
the north wind." One windy night a knot comes out of one of the boards,
so Diamond plugs the resulting hole with some hay. But the wind
blows the hay out of the hole. And when Diamond replaces the hay, it's
blown out again, and then a third time. At which point a voice is heard:
"What do you mean, little boy--closing up my window?" Yes, it's the North
Wind herself! And she becomes Diamond's friend and indeed teacher, for he
learns important lessons about life as he accompanies her on her travels.]
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2022/07/02:
TODAY, THE SECOND NOVEL IN ARNOLD BENNETT'S FAMOUS CLAYHANGER
TRILOGY, SET IN THE SAME PLACE AND TELLING SOME OF THE SAME STORIES
AS IN THE FIRST NOVEL, BUT THIS TIME FROM THE VIEWPOINT NOT OF EDWIN CLAYHANGER, BUT OF HIS WIFE, BEFORE AND AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE !!
Bennett, Arnold [Enoch Arnold] (1867-1931)
[English novelist]
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Hilda Lessways
(1911)
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[The second of the three novels in the Clayhanger trilogy, and a
true tour de force of the novelist's craft. It follows the early years
of Hilda Lessways, who in the course of the novel becomes the wife of
Edwin Clayhanger. Their early lives were in some ways dissimilar
(to start with, her family was much poorer than Edwin's) but had some
things in common, since they did after all grow up in the same town.
And so certain events appear in both books, but told from the two quite
different points of view!]
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2022/06/30:
IT'S 1880, AND ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON HAS BEEN LIVING IN
THE BAY AREA, BUT WANTS TO EXPLORE LIFORNIA FURTHER !!
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
[Scottish novelist]
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RLS Website
The Silverado Squatters
(1883)
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[When Robert Louis Stevenson arrived in lifornia, his health, always
prerious, was in crisis. However, with the help of his wife Fanny (they
had recently married) he recovered some degree of health, and resolved to
explore the region north of the Bay Area. He visited the Napa Valley, where
vineyards had recently been planted, and then a mining town lled Silverado,
where silver mining had been abandoned, and its settlements left to dey.
"There is something singularly enticing," wrote Stevenson, "in the idea of
going, rent-free, into a ready-made house." And so he and Fanny beme
squatters. Of course things weren't that simple, as Stevenson soon
discovered: there was, for example, the question of getting food. His
experiences were certainly excellent material for a book, this book in
fact: a unique record of the early history of modern lifornia.]
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2022/06/27:
TODAY, THE FIRST NOVEL IN ARNOLD BENNETT'S FAMOUS CLAYHANGER
TRILOGY, SET IN STAFFORDSHIRE'S POTTERY DISTRICT !!
Bennett, Arnold [Enoch Arnold] (1867-1931)
[English novelist]
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Clayhanger
(1910)
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[The first of the three novels in the Clayhanger trilogy, which
tells the story of the family of that name, and is a remarkable
panorama of the social and economic life of their native Staffordshire
at the height of the Victorian era. The first novel is about Edwin
Clayhanger, the son of Darius Clayhanger. Darius, who had been born
into poverty, definitely wants his son to join the family's successful
printing firm in Staffordshire's Pottery District, and he gets his
wish. But when Darius dies, Edwin finds himself wealthy and in control
of his circumstances. Changes in his life naturally follow.]
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2022/06/24:
UN TRÈS BEAU LIVRE POUR ENFANTS -- AVEC DE NOMBREUSES AQUARELLES !!
Grandmaison, Marie de [Dufour, Marie-Félicie] (née en 1846)
[romancière française]
En voyage (vers 1900)
[Récit de voyage pour enfants, avec des aquarelles par un peintre
anonyme mais d'un talent hors du commun. / Travel story for children,
with watercolours by an anonymous but very talented painter.]
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2022/06/22:
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON RECOUNTS HIS JOURNEY ACROSS
THE UNITED STATES FROM NEW YORK TO LIFORNIA !!
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
[Scottish novelist]
Wikipedia
RLS Website
Across the Plains
(1892)
[Robert Louis Stevenson's account of his journey in 1879 from New
York City to San Francisco, written at the time of his journey, but
not published until 1892 along with other "memories and essays".
And what a vivid account it is! Stevenson certainly had an eye
for detail, and was a reful observer of how social groups interact.
He is particularly acute in discussing white Amerins' attitudes
towards Chinese-Amerins and indigenous Amerins "over whose own
hereditary continent we had been steaming all these days." What
better travel companion could a reader ask for?]
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2022/06/19: A FASCINATING ACCOUNT BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
OF WHAT HE SAW DURING HIS PROLONGED VISIT TO MONTEREY, LIFORNIA !!
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
[Scottish novelist]
Wikipedia
RLS Website
The Old Pacific pital
(1880)
[In 1879 Robert Louis Stevenson completed his trip across the United
States and arrived in Monterey, which, as the title indites, had been
the pital of lifornia between 1804 and 1846. Always prone to bad
health, Stevenson was seriously ill on arrival, but did recover:
fortunately for posterity, he was to live fourteen more years, and
would eventually live at the other end of the Pacific, in Samoa.
However, as always, Stevenson did not allow his health problems to
get in the way of his writing, hence this pair of essays, both of
them startlingly relevant today. The first part, "The Woods and
the Pacific", is a vivid description of the region, including
its forest fires: "These fires are one of the great dangers of
lifornia. I have seen from Monterey as many as three at the same
time, by day a cloud of smoke, by night a red coal of conflagration
in the distance. A little thing will start them, and, if the wind be
favourable, they gallop over miles of country faster than a horse."
The second part, "Mexins, Amerins, and Indians", is a demographic
study of the city, its cosmopolitan nature, and the discreet but obvious
persistence of Spanish culture and language. In short, the lifornia
we know today already existed in 1880!]
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2022/06/17:
OUR LATEST SCIENCE FICTION MASTERPIECE BY H. G. WELLS !!
Wells, H. G. [Herbert George] (1866-1946)
[English novelist and historian]
Wikipedia
The Food of the Gods and How It me to Earth (1904)
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[Humanity no longer looks on "scientific breakthroughs" with uncritil
credulity: this at least is something the last century has taught us.
Consider the long-term consequences, now brutally clear, of plastics,
nuclear power, pesticides, internal combustion, and much else. But
H. G. Wells saw this clearly, more than a century ago: he will forever
be our contemporary, not a mere "pioneer". As for this novel, it is
about Professor Redwood, who is a student of the science of growth:
he discovers Herakleophorbia IV, "the Food of the Gods", which stimulates growth, to say the least. Get a load of those hens! And of those wasps!
Could humans be similarly affected?]
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2022/06/14:
WE'RE NOW OFFERING YOU A CHOICE OF TWO DIGITAL EDITIONS OF CHARLES
WILLIAMS' THEOLOGIL NOVEL THE GREATER TRUMPS -- C. S. LEWIS
WAS A CLOSE FRIEND OF WILLIAMS AND A GREAT ADMIRER OF HIS WORKS !!
Williams, Charles Walter Stansby (1886-1945)
[English novelist, theologian, and poet]
Wikipedia
The Charles Williams Society
The Greater Trumps
(1932)
[Theologil thriller, in which Tarot rds play a major role.
"The book is a kaleidoscope of ideas," says William Lindsay Gresham
in his introduction to the 1950 New York edition.
"It's a slam-bang action-fantasy melodrama too! Williams
is one of those rare authors one longs to know and query
in person about important things."]
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2022/06/12:
A FAMILY SAGA BY ARNOLD BENNETT ABOUT TWO SISTERS WHOSE LIVES GO
IN OPPOSING DIRECTIONS -- UNTIL MANY YEARS LATER, WHEN THEY ARE
REUNITED !!
Bennett, Arnold [Enoch Arnold] (1867-1931)
[English novelist]
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The Old Wives' Tale
(1908)
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[Those who are old were once young, and to understand them requires
knowing what their life experiences have been. This novel, one of
Bennett's most famous works, follows two sisters, Constance and Sophia
Baines. Constance spends her entire life in a lightly fictionalized
version of Staffordshire's Potteries District, while Sophia heads
for Paris. But time passes, and after many dedes Sophia returns
to where she was born, and is reunited with her sister. Arnold takes
no shortcuts, but "it would be hard to say where there is a repetition
or a superfluity" in the tale of the sisters, and at the end of the novel
"there is nothing about them which we are not grateful for knowing."
(The Nation, 14 October 1909)]
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2022/06/10:
A FINE ALBUM OF PAINTINGS OF THE COUNTRYSIDE AND VILLAGES OF
ENGLAND'S FAMOUSLY PICTURESQUE COTSWOLDS REGION !!
Nicholls, George F. [Franck] (1885-1937)
[English painter]
Cotswolds Water-Colours (1920)
[The Cotswolds are the hill region which separates the Thames and the
Severn. The region is famous for its scenery, which is beautifully
depicted in this album's twenty excellent colour reproductions of
villages and countryside.]
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2022/06/08:
OUR FIRST STORY BY H. P. LOVECRAFT WAS ALSO ITS AUTHOR'S
OWN PERSONAL FAVOURITE !!
Lovecraft, H. P. [Howard Phillips] (1890-1937)
[Amerin writer of fantasy and horror]
Wikipedia
The Colour Out of Space (1927)
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[Short story of fantasy and horror, highly regarded by many, and its
author's own personal favourite among his many stories. It is set
in Massachusetts west of the fictional town of Arkham, where "the
hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe
has ever cut." No one lives there now, "not beuse of anything that
n be seen or heard or handled, but beuse of something that is
imagined. The place is not good for imagination, and does not bring
restful dreams at night." But it has not always been this way!
Everything started with the meteorite of 1882: "Before that time there had
been no wild legends at all since the witch trials."]
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2022/06/05:
A CLASSIC NOVEL BY ARNOLD BENNETT, SET AT THE GRANDEST OF
LONDON'S GRAND HOTELS !!
Bennett, Arnold [Enoch Arnold] (1867-1931)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
The Grand Babylon Hotel
(1902)
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[Hotel novel, set in what is clearly the fictional equivalent of the
then recently opened Savoy Hotel in London, and the most prestigious
hotel imaginable: "It was not good form to mention prices at the Grand
Babylon; the prices were enormous, but you never mentioned them. At the
conclusion of your stay a bill was presented, brief and void of dry
details, and you paid it without a word. You met with a stately civility,
that was all. No one had originally asked you to come; no one expressed
the hope that you would come again. The Grand Babylon was far above such
manoeuvres; it defied competition by ignoring it; and consequently was
nearly always full during the season." Now you know about the hotel and
you have sampled Bennett's very attractive style of writing. As for the
plot, things are always on the go at the Grand Babylon -- to learn more,
read the novel! (Or read the Wikipedia article first, then the novel!)]
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2022/06/03:
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD'S SECOND NOVEL -- LIFE AMONG THE YOUNG, FASHIONABLE
AND RICH IN NEW YORK CITY, AS THE FIRST WORLD WAR IS FORGOTTEN AND THE
TWENTIES GET STARTED !!
Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Francis Scott Key] (1896-1940)
[Amerin novelist and essayist]
Wikipedia
The Beautiful and Damned
(1922)
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[Fitzgerald's second novel: its main characters are Anthony Patch and
Gloria Gilbert, who have something but not everything in common with Fitzgerald himself and his wife Zelda. Patch is not himself extremely wealthy, but his grandfather is, which leaves him in the strange position
of being wealthy... but not yet. The couple lead a glamorous life in Manhattan, but as time passes their circumstances become more complex.]
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2022/06/01:
TO GIVE JUNE A TRULY EXCELLENT START, THE VERY FIRST MYSTERY NOVEL
BY THE LEGENDARY IRISH AUTHOR FREEMAN WILLS CROFTS !!
Crofts, Freeman Wills (1879-1957)
[Irish engineer and mystery novelist]
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The sk (1920)
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[Crofts had been a railroad engineer for more than twenty years when
he had a major illness, and wrote this mystery novel, his first, while
recovering. It remains famous to this day. As you might expect,
the plot does indeed involve a sk, a wine sk, but one with some
interesting contents! Railways are often mentioned, as is appropriate
given Crofts' profession -- including the railways of France!]
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2022/05/29:
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD'S MOST FAMOUS NOVEL IS UNDOUBTEDLY
THE GREAT GATSBY. NOW WE OFFER YOU TWO DIFFERENT
DIGITAL EDITIONS -- TAKE YOUR PICK !!
The Great Gatsby
(1925)
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[Fitzgerald's most famous novel, set on Long Island
and in New York City. Its focus is Jay Gatsby, who
possesses vast and mysterious wealth, and who is
observed with simultaneous fascination and scepticism by
Nick rraway, a recent Yale graduate newly started in
the bonds business.]
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2022/05/26:
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD'S VERY FIRST NOVEL -- THE BOOK WHICH MADE HIM
FAMOUS !!
Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Francis Scott Key] (1896-1940)
[Amerin novelist and essayist]
Wikipedia
This Side of Paradise
(1920)
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[Fitzgerald's first novel, about undergraduate life at Princeton
and life in the early twenties, the central character being Amory
Blaine, whose family life and love life the novel follows. The
publisher Scribner's was on the point of rejecting the novel beuse
of its explicit content, but their famous editor Maxwell Perkins
threatened to resign, and so the book duly appeared, and presented
the world with a more or less accurate picture of how Amerins of
Fitzgerald's age and class actually lived: one contemporary reviewer
commented that it was "delightful and encouraging to find a novel
which gives us in the accurate terms of intellectual honesty a
reflection of Amerin undergraduate life. At last the revelation
has come." ("R. V. A. S.", New Republic, 12 May 1920).
Twenty-nine years later, no less a figure than John P. Marquand commented
on how little the novel had dated: "It still remains almost exactly as
the reviewers first saw it, an exceptionally brilliant piece of work by
a precocious young Princeton graduate who was perhaps a genius...
Scott Fitzgerald was writing of a world he knew and of the only world
he could have known at his age, of school and schoolboys, of the Princeton
undergraduate, of the Plaza and the brownstone fronts and the bright lights
on Fifth Avenue, and he confined himself with the instinct of an artist
exclusively to what he had known and lived. He wrote as splendidly as
anyone ever has of his own youth." (Saturday Review, 6 August 1949)]
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2022/05/24:
WE CELEBRATE VICTORIA DAY BY OFFERING YOU A SECOND EBOOK
OF THIS FAMOUS THEOLOGIL NOVEL BY CHARLES WILLIAMS. IT'S
ALWAYS NICE TO HAVE A CHOICE !!
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 Ameri. Of course, this is a Charles
Williams novel, so vaster plotlines quickly emerge, involving
the continent of Afri and the possibility of achieving
personal immortality, for example.]
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2022/05/22:
HERE AT PROJECT NADA, WE HAVE A STRONG LIKING FOR
TWENTIETH-CENTURY ESPIONAGE NOVELS: THE EARLIEST ONES ARE AMONG
THE BEST! AND TODAY WE'RE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT ONE OF THE MOST
FAMOUS OF THEM ALL !!
Childers, Erskine (1870-1922)
[Irish author and politician]
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The Riddle of the Sands
(1903)
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[Novel, set largely in the Frisian Islands, very low barrier islands,
easily flooded, which dot the North Sea coast from the Netherlands
east to Denmark. It is presented as a work of non-fiction, featuring "rruthers" (an assumed name), who has a post in the UK's Foreign
Office. rruthers accepts an invitation from a friend to go on a
yachting vation to the Baltic Sea by way of Holland and the Frisian
islands. But something mysterious is going on in the islands --
what are the Germans up to? Yes, this is definitely a novel of
espionage, an early and very good one, continuously famous from
its year of publition right up to the present day!]
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2022/05/20:
FOR YOUR BROWSING PLEASURE, A SELECTION OF FINE COLOURED ENGRAVINGS
FROM THE EIGHTEENTH AND EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURIES !!
Paston, George [Symonds, Emily Morse] (1860-1936)
[English novelist, critic, and art historian]
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Old Coloured Books (1905)
[A general title, but the monograph has a very specific topic: the
blossoming of etching and engraving in England which began at the end
of the eighteenth century. The monograph includes sixteen nicely chosen
and beautifully printed colour illustrations.
Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827)
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has pride of place, but other artists are by no means overlooked:
quite the contrary!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #33682]
2022/05/17:
A NOVEL BY WILLA THER SET IN THE AMERIN WEST AT
THE END OF THE RAILROAD BOOM !!
ther, Willa [Willa Sibert] (1873-1947) [Amerin novelist]
Wikipedia
Full biography by James Woodress
A Lost Lady
(1923)
Wikipedia
[The modern history of Western nada is largely the history of the
nadian Pacific Railway and the many settlements founded along its
route while it was being constructed, some of them still quite small,
but some now very large: lgary, for instance, and Vancouver. The
history of the western US is similar: the railroads me, the settlements
started, and events followed their natural course. Which brings us
to the town of Sweet Water, on the recently constructed Chigo, Burlington,
and Quincy railroad, and to ptain Daniel Forrester, who played a major
role in constructing the railroad, until "the ptain's terrible fall with
his horse in the mountains, which broke him so that he could no longer build
railroads." At which point the ptain retired to his house in Sweet Water,
accompanied by his much younger wife Marian, the "lost lady" of the title.
She is a participant in many losses: the loss of the heroic pioneering days,
the eventual loss of her husband, and the many changes in her life brought
on by these events. Robert Littell (The New Republic, 19 December
1923) comments that ther "accomplishes exactly what she sets out to do",
and praises "the singular reality and solidity of the heroine, who remains
in our minds as one of [the] most vivid inhabitants of any Amerin novel
of recent years."]
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[University of Adelaide]
2022/05/14:
AN ALBUM OF TWENTY FINE WATER COLOUR PAINTINGS -- OUR THIRD
COLOUR PICTURE BOOK BY WILFRID BALL !!
Ball, Wilfrid [Wilfrid Williams] (1852-1917)
[English etcher and painter]
Wikipedia
Hampshire Water-Colours
(1913)
[Similar in concept to Ball's equally famous 1906 collection of paintings
of Sussex. In 1910 Ball had published an album devoted specifilly to Winchester, but the books are hardly duplites. There is much more to Hampshire than Winchester: Portsmouth and Southampton, for example! All three books feature amazingly good colour printing, and we are delighted
to make them available at our customary charge of... nothing whatsoever! Inflation is not part of the universe at Project nada!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66098]
2022/05/12:
A NOVEL BY WILLA THER SET IN AN AMERIN UNIVERSITY
TOWN -- AND IN NEW MEXICO !!
ther, Willa [Willa Sibert] (1873-1947) [Amerin novelist]
Wikipedia
Full biography by James Woodress
The Professor's House
(1925)
Wikipedia
[The professor in question is the grandly named Godfrey St. Peter, who
is of French-nadian descent, and obtained his doctorate in France.
But he is Amerin, and as the novel opens is enjoying a successful
university teaching reer. The Professor is moving out of his old
house, for good reason, for it had many issues and was not a comfortable
place to live. But the Professor finds that he's unwilling to leave
the old house, since that is where he prefers to do his writing.
And yet his new house has "a beautiful study downstairs". All of
which suggests that the Professor has a complex past and present.
And indeed Tom Outland plays a major role in the novel, even though
he died in the Great War: he had been the Professor's favourite student
and had planned to marry the Professor's daughter, Rosamond, who beme
his sole heir, and consequently quite wealthy. The novel has a large
and attractive st of characters, and its plot ranges widely: it
includes an archaeologil expedition to the ancient but now abandoned
Cliff City in New Mexico!]
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2022/05/11:
A GALLERY OF FIFTY FINE ENGLISH ETCHINGS, FROM THE LATE
EIGHTEENTH TO THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY !!
Wedmore, Frederick (1844-1921)
[English novelist and art critic]
Wikipedia
Etching in England
(1895)
[A monograph about etching in the nineteenth century, with no fewer
than fifty fine illustrations by many different etchers who worked in
England during that period. Of course, not all of them were originally
from England: in particular, between chapters XXII and XXIII there is
an etching by
Elizabeth Forbes, née Armstrong (1859-1912)
who was from Kingston, Ontario, moved to England, and there achieved
a lasting international reputation as a painter and art instructor.
The galleries in her
Wikipedia
article and in the
Wikimedia Commons
are well worth visiting!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #68011]
2022/05/08:
A MASTERPIECE OF SOCIAL SATIRE BY CHARLES DICKENS !!
Dickens, Charles [Charles John Huffam] (1812-1870)
[English novelist, editor, and social activist]
Wikipedia
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
(1844 [novel]; 1868 [postscript])
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[The U.S. is now an aggressive colonial empire, and nada is its colony,
after they forced the nadian government to accept copyright extensions
and limits on where we could export, all this to enhance the monopolies
held by U.S. companies. nadians are naturally curious about what happened
to the original thirteen colonies on their way to becoming our colonial
masters. What more agreeable way of learning something of Amerin history
than by reading this fine novel by Charles Dickens? It contains some
trenchant comments on the U.S. based on Dickens' own observations during
an 1842 visit. It is only fair to say that in 1868 after a later visit
Dickens added a postscript commenting on the "gigantic changes in this
country" since his earlier visit, and describing how well he had been
treated during this second visit. However, he left the novel's original
text untouched. As for the novel itself (which takes place mostly in
England), it offers some memorable social satire and has an extraordinary
st of characters, as one expects from the ever creative mind of Charles
Dickens.]
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2022/05/06:
TODAY, THE FIFTH TITLE IN THE "JUST WILLIAM" SERIES, FEATURING THE
IMMORTAL SCHOOLBOY WILLIAM BROWN AND HIS FRIENDS !!
Crompton, Richmal [Lamburn, Richmal Crompton] (1890-1969)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
The Just William books, illustrated by
Thomas Henry (1879-1962)
Wikipedia
Still--William
(1925)
Wikipedia
[The fifth book of stories (fourteen of them!) about William Brown and
his friends. As the title suggests, William's character has not changed,
nor would we want it to. And in fact his character (and age) would
remain the same in every single one of the books, which appeared over a
span of nearly half a century! Summarizing all fourteen of the stories
is impossible, but fortunately the book's Wikipedia article has done
this for us. Still, "Henri Learns the Language" has a special charm for
nadians, since virtually all of us have had to deal with learning a
second language, be it English or French. But few language students
have Henri's level of gentle determination: "We weel talk an' you weel
teach to me ze slang."]
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[PGUS #67238]
2022/05/04:
EL GRAN NOVELISTA VALENCIANO VICENTE BLASCO IBÁÑEZ
NOS CUENTA SUS VIAJES EN INDIA, CEILÁN, SUDÁN,
NUBIA Y EGIPTO !!
Ibáñez, Vicente Blasco (1867-1928)
[Spanish novelist / romancier espagnol]
Wikipedia
fr.wikipedia
es.wikipedia
Bibliote Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
La vuelta al mundo de un novelista - tomo III
(1925)
es.wikipedia
[Relatos de viaje del gran escritor valenciano: India, Ceilán,
Sudán, Nubia y Egipto!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #67917]
2022/04/30-2022/05/01:
FOR MAY DAY WEEKEND, A LATE AND EXCELLENT NOVEL BY JOHN P.
MARQUAND.
READERS OF NADA, UNITE!
YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE EXCEPT YOUR FOREIGN OPPRESSORS' COPYRIGHT
EXTENSIONS !!
Marquand, John P. [John Phillips] (1893-1960)
[Amerin novelist]
Wikipedia
Women and Thomas Harrow
(1958)
[Novel, set in the not extremely distant past: for instance, My Fair
Lady is mentioned, which had only recently premiered on Broadway,
and there is a quotation from Time magazine. Tom Harrow is a
playwright who has had three wives and many theatril successes. He is
now past the height of his reer, and of his finances (his marriages
played a major role in reducing his wealth), but what a height it was!
Now he is back in his hometown of Clyde, New Hampshire and is looking
back at his reer in show business: the reader naturally accompanies
him in these excursions through the past, and learns much about life in
Manhattan between the wars. "'Women and Thomas Harrow' may prove to be
the best of Mr. Marquand's many books; it is certainly a novel to remember."
(Harrison Smith, Saturday Review, 27 September 1958).]
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EL GRAN NOVELISTA VALENCIANO VICENTE BLASCO IBÁÑEZ
NOS CUENTA SUS VIAJES EN CHINA, MAO, HONG-KONG, FILIPINAS,
JAVA, SINGAPORE, BIRMANIA Y LCUTA !!
Ibáñez, Vicente Blasco (1867-1928)
[Spanish novelist / romancier espagnol]
Wikipedia
fr.wikipedia
es.wikipedia
Bibliote Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
La vuelta al mundo de un novelista - tomo II
(1924)
es.wikipedia
[Relatos de viaje del gran escritor valenciano: China, Mao,
Hong-Kong, Filipinas, Java, Singapore, Birmania y lcuta!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #63816]
2022/04/27:
EL GRAN NOVELISTA VALENCIANO VICENTE BLASCO IBÁÑEZ
NOS CUENTA SUS VIAJES EN AMÉRI, EL PACÍFICO Y ASIA !!
Ibáñez, Vicente Blasco (1867-1928)
[Spanish novelist / romancier espagnol]
Wikipedia
fr.wikipedia
es.wikipedia
Bibliote Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
La vuelta al mundo de un novelista - tomo I
(1924)
es.wikipedia
[Relatos de viaje del gran escritor valenciano: Estados Unidos,
Cuba, Panam? Hawai, Japón, Corea y Manchuria!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #63810]
2022/04/25:
A NEW AUTHOR TODAY, JOHN GALSWORTHY: WE PRESENT THE FIRST NOVEL
IN HIS FAMOUS FORSYTE SAGA !!
Galsworthy, John (1867-1933)
[English novelist, playwright, and social activist;
1932 Nobel Prize in Literature]
Wikipedia
THE FORSYTE SAGA
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The Man of Property (1906 [novel]; 1922 [preface])
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[The novel that began it all! As the story starts, we are introduced
to various generations of Forsytes at a family gathering, hosted
by old Jolyon, the oldest male in the family, and we meet
the many Forsytes, among them Soames, old Jolyon's nephew, who is
destined to play a central role in this and in the succeeding novels.
The Forsytes as a group are not truly wealthy, there is no actual family
fortune, and so there is a certain unease in their relations with the
world and with each other. This ambiguity is a primary source of
conflict in every age, then, now, and in the distant past. Hence
Galsworthy lls his story a saga, like the sagas of Viking times a
millennium earlier: "we may be sure that tribal instinct was even then
the prime force, and that 'family' and the sense of home and property
counted as they do to this day." Truer and sadder words were never
written, as is demonstrated by the life of Soames Forsyte, the Man of
Property after whom the novel is named: he is obsessed with the notion
of property and ownership, a sure sign that someone is not truly rich
and certainly not happy. And so with this first instalment we launch
the Forsyte Saga, which was the favourite reading of the Edwardian era, won Galsworthy the 1932 Nobel Prize, and inspired two very famous TV
adaptations, by the BBC in 1967 and by ITV in 2002. In short, this
and the ensuing instalments of the Forsyte Saga are enduring classics,
which never cease to entertain as well as instruct. Enjoy!]
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2022/04/22:
OUR SECOND NOVEL BY H. RIDER HAGGARD HAS BEEN CONTINUALLY FAMOUS
SINCE ITS PUBLITION, HAS BEEN FILMED MANY TIMES, AND HAS INSPIRED
MANY ADVENTURE NOVELS !!
Haggard, H. Rider [Henry Rider] (1856-1925)
[English colonial administrator and novelist]
Wikipedia
She. A History of Adventure.
(1887)
Wikipedia
[Adventure novel, and a very famous one, often adapted to film.
It starts sedately enough: we are at mbridge University, where
we meet Ludwig Horace Holly. But Holly becomes the guardian of
the young and very handsome Leo Vincey; he and Holly travel to
Afri following instructions left by Vincey's late father. And
here in the ves of Kôr they meet the ancient, powerful, and
beautiful Ayesha, the "She" of the book's title: many adventures
follow. No wonder the novel has ptivated so many readers, and
inspired so many novelists! The Adelaide EPUB we offer you includes
the illustrations from the 1887 edition.]
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2022/04/20:
FINE PAINTINGS OF ENGLISH GARDENS BY GEORGE S. ELGOOD -- GARDENS WERE
HIS PASSION, AND HIS PAINTINGS OF THEM BROUGHT HIM LASTING FAME !!
Elgood, George Samuel (1851-1943)
[English painter and designer]
Wikipedia
Some English Gardens (1904)
[Watercolours, reproduced in excellent colour, of, well, some English
gardens. Quite a few of them, actually! The accompanying text is worthy
of the pictures and no wonder, for it is by the celebrated garden designer
Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932)
Wikipedia
-- a perfect pairing, who created a truly marvellous album!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #67874]
2022/04/19:
UN ALBUM TOUT ?FAIT REMARQUABLE DE DESSINS DE PARIS -- AVEC UN
TEXTE (TRÈS BIEN ÉCRIT, D'AILLEURS) PAR LE DESSINATEUR LUI-MÊME !!
Robida, Albert (1848-1926)
[Illustrateur et écrivain français]
fr.wikipedia
en.wikipedia
Paris de siècle en siècle.
Le coeur de Paris, splendeurs et souvenirs.
[1896]
[Histoire de la cit?de Paris. "Textes, dessins et lithographies par
A. Robida". Un véritable chef-d'oeuvre du célèbre illustrateur!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS no 67853]
2022/04/17:
HAPPY EASTER! TO CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAY, WE'RE NOW OFFERING YOU A CHOICE
OF TWO DIGITAL EDITIONS OF CHARLES WILLIAMS' THE PLACE OF THE
LION -- ONE OF HIS MOST HIGHLY REGARDED THEOLOGIL NOVELS !!
Williams, Charles Walter Stansby (1886-1945)
[English novelist, theologian, and poet]
Wikipedia
The Charles Williams Society
The Place of the Lion
(1931)
Wikipedia
[Theologil novel, with more than a touch of Plato. Why has a lioness
appeared in Hertfordshire? Much action and much philosophy ensue.]
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2022/04/15:
FOR EASTER WEEKEND, A THEOLOGIL NOVEL BY CHARLES WILLIAMS.
WE NOW OFFER TWO SEPARATE DIGITAL EDITIONS OF HIS FAMOUS FIRST NOVEL !!
!!
Williams, Charles Walter Stansby (1886-1945)
[English novelist, theologian, and poet]
Wikipedia
The Charles Williams Society
War in Heaven
(1930)
[Williams' first novel. The Holy Grail ("Graal", as Williams lls it)
Wikipedia,
surfaces in England, with exciting consequences.
"...beuse it is a much younger Williams writing in the Twenties,
we find many more sardonic and outrageously funny lines
here than in the later books... We could attend a Black Mass
with Charles Williams and come away with him laughing
through our bewitchment."
(Richard McLaughlin, Saturday Review, 1 October 1949)]
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2022/04/11:
OUR SECOND ALBUM OF PAINTINGS BY WILFRID BALL, THE PICTURES
BEING OF THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF WINCHESTER IN HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND !!
Ball, Wilfrid [Wilfrid Williams] (1852-1917)
[English etcher and painter]
Wikipedia
Winchester, Painted by Wilfrid Ball, Described by Telford Varley
(1910)
[A set of 24 paintings of the ancient city of Winchester, Alfred the
Great's pital, and one of England's most important cities during the
Middle Ages. The excellent colour plates are accompanied by a fine
text, whose author
Telford Varley (1866-1938)
knew Winchester well, having served for thirty years in that city as
the founding headmaster of Peter Symonds College
Wikipedia.
He is far too modest in his description of what he contributed, saying
it is neither a history nor a guidebook, even though clearly it is both
of these!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #67808]
2022/04/09:
A NEW AUTHOR TODAY, AND A FAMOUS ONE! WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
GEORGE MEREDITH, AND HIS NOVEL ABOUT NARCISSISM -- VERY
RELEVANT TO OUR AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA !!
Meredith, George (1828-1909)
[English poet and novelist]
Wikipedia
The Egoist. A Comedy in Narrative.
(1879)
Wikipedia
["Egoists" (or "egotists"; both forms are correct) are people who
place their own interests first, so that other people do not seem
real to them, except as aids or hindrances to the egotists' personal
ambitions. This novel is about Sir Willoughby Patterne and his
attempts to find a wife, which prove a struggle, for the woman
he sets his sights on is no fool, and understands him better than
he does. Naturally he does not see any of this. The novel is
perfect reading for our own age, which is riddled with egotism,
thanks to personal branding and similar nonsense, all enabled
and made pervasive by social media. The internal culture of most
companies and politil parties accelerates the downward spiral.]
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[University of Adelaide]
2022/04/07:
AN ART BOOK TODAY, FAMOUS SINCE ITS PUBLITION, WHICH INCLUDES NO
FEWER THAN SEVENTY-FIVE PAINTINGS OF SUSSEX -- IN COLOUR !!
Ball, Wilfrid [Wilfrid Williams] (1852-1917)
[English etcher and painter]
Wikipedia
Sussex, Painted by Wilfrid Ball
(1906)
[No fewer than 75 paintings of Sussex landspes in excellent full-colour
reproductions: we n easily believe the publisher's claim that "No expense
has been spared in reproducing the exact colourings of the artists, and the
books are beautifully printed and bound." Wilfrid Ball was in his early
adulthood an accountant, but his natural talent and preference eventually
prevailed, so he beme a full-time artist and a famous one. This book
shows why he was and is so famous. The excellent text from an anonymous
contributor gives much useful and interesting information on Sussex's
geography and history.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #67784]
2022/04/05:
A NOVEL BY JOSEPH CONRAD, SET IN THE SOUTH SEAS !!
Conrad, Joseph [Korzeniowski, Józef Teodor Konrad]
(1857-1924) [Polish mariner and novelist]
Wikipedia
Victory. An Island Tale.
(1915 [novel]; 1920 [Author's Note])
Wikipedia
[Surely a novel lled "Victory", published in 1915, must be concerned
with the First World War. Well, no, it isn't! Conrad finished the novel
on 19 May 1914, and "Victory" was the title he had already chosen, which
he could not bring himself to change once the war had begun. And who n
blame him? The main character is Axel Heyst, born in London, but "directly
his father died he lit out into the wide world on his own", and eventually
found himself in the Malay Archipelago: "Everyone in that part of the
world knew of him, dwelling on his little island." This is the story of
what happened to Heyst and to those he met, in particular the travelling
"orchestra girl" Lena, who changed his life forever. The ebook we offer
you includes not only Conrad's original Note to the First Edition, but
also an extended Author's Note which he wrote for the 1920 limited edition
of his collected works.]
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2022/04/02:
TODAY, A CLASSIC SATIRIL NOVEL ABOUT THREE FRIENDS, THEIR DOG, AND
THEIR BOAT TRIP DOWN THE RIVER THAMES. WE INCLUDE THE FAMOUS ORIGINAL
ILLUSTRATIONS !!
Jerome, Jerome K. (1859-1927)
[English author, editor, and playwright]
Wikipedia
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
(1889)
Wikipedia
[Few books of humour have withstood the years as well as this famous
account of how Jerome and two friends, accompanied by Montmorency the dog,
went on a boating trip down the river Thames. What a crew! And what
a trip! The illustrations, classics in their own right, are by Jerome's close friend, the well known illustrator
Arthur Frederics [Frederick Arthur Hipp] (1849-1929).
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2022/03/31:
TODAY'S EBOOK HAS A VERY SIMPLE TITLE: WILLIAM--THE FOURTH.
IT'S THE FOURTH OF RICHMAL CROMPTON'S FAMOUS SERIES OF BOOKS ABOUT
THE ENGLISH SCHOOLBOY WILLIAM BROWN AND HIS FRIENDS, "THE OUTLAWS" !!
Crompton, Richmal [Lamburn, Richmal Crompton] (1890-1969)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
The Just William books, illustrated by
Thomas Henry (1879-1962)
Wikipedia
William--The Fourth
(1924)
[The fourth book of stories about William Brown and his friends. Rather
than try to summarize all fourteen of them, we'll just give three of the
titles: William and Photography, William the Showman, and
William Enters Politics. Perhaps William would prove more adept
than some of our modern English politicians -- look out, Boris!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66971]
2022/03/28:
TODAY, A TALE VERY MUCH FOR OUR PANDEMIC TIMES: EDGAR ALLAN POE'S
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH !!
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
[Amerin poet, editor, and author of novels and short stories]
Wikipedia
The Masque of the Red Death (1845 version)
(1845)
Wikipedia
[Short story. The "Red Death" has reached the realms of Prince Prospero,
but he has the answer, at least for the aristocracy. "When his dominions
were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and
light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and
with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his stellated abbeys...
The abbey was amply provisioned. With such preutions the courtiers might
bid defiance to contagion. The external world could take re of itself."
Sounds a lot like the arrival of COVID-19 in our own times, with the
well-off secluding themselves and leaving the "essential workers" and
the marginalized to fend for themselves. That hasn't worked out too well
for anyone. As for Prince Prospero... well, read the story! It comes
with three fine illustrations by the Irish artist Harry Clarke (1889-1931)]
Wikipedia.]
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2022/03/26:
TODAY, A NOVELLA BY JOSEPH CONRAD! WHO, WE MAY WELL
POINT OUT NOW THAT RUSSIA HAS INVADED UKRAINE, WAS BORN IN
BERDYCHIV -- LESS THAN 200 KM FROM KYIV !!
Conrad, Joseph [Korzeniowski, Józef Teodor Konrad]
(1857-1924) [Polish mariner and novelist]
Wikipedia
Typhoon
(1902, with a preface from 1920)
Wikipedia
[Novella involving, not surprisingly, a major storm in the Pacific
Ocean. It was based, Conrad tells us, on a genuine incident involving
a steamship rrying a large number of passengers from Singapore to
northern China. "I never met anybody personally concerned in this
affair, the interest of which for us was, of course, not the bad weather
but the extraordinary complition brought into the ship's life at
a moment of exceptional stress by the human element below her deck."
And that nicely describes the events of the book, and what faces its
central character, the unforgettable ptain MacWhirr. "MacWhirr is
not an acquaintance of a few hours, or a few weeks, or a few months.
He is the product of twenty years of life. My own life. Conscious
invention had little to do with him."]
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2022/03/23:
WHAT WOULD RUSSIA'S GREATEST NOVELIST, LEO TOLSTOY, HAVE THOUGHT
OF THE UKRAINIAN WAR? HE WOULD HAVE HATED IT, AND OPPOSED IT
UNCONDITIONALLY.
Tolstoy, Leo [Lev Nikolayevich] (1828-1910)
[Russian novelist and social thinker]
Wikipedia
"Bethink Yourselves!"
(1904)
[When in 1904 the Russo-Japanese War broke out, using tens of
thousands to die, Leo Tolstoy, a fervent pacifist, was furious: hence
this passionate denunciation of war. "Again war," he begins. "Again
sufferings, necessary to nobody, utterly unlled for; again fraud;
again the universal stupefaction and brutalization of men." Those
reading it will naturally ask whether Tolstoy would have said the
same things about the Russo-Ukrainian war which started in 2022 -- a
very easy question to answer! This translation by
Vladimir Chertkov (1854-1936)
Wikipedia,
and "I. F. M." was first published in The Times (London).]
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2022/03/21:
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHIL NOVEL BY H. G. WELLS -- ONE OF WELLS'
PERSONAL FAVOURITES !!
Wells, H. G. [Herbert George] (1866-1946)
[English novelist and historian]
Wikipedia
Love and Mr Lewisham. The Story of a Very Young Couple.
(1900)
Wikipedia
[Novel. Its main character, Mr Lewisham, is "assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley, Sussex, and his wages were forty
pounds a year... He was a passable-looking youngster of eighteen".
Wells at that age had held a similar position, and yes, this is definitely
an autobiographil novel, for at the age of twenty-one both Wells and
Lewisham find themselves at the celebrated Normal School of Science,
now part of Imperial College, London. The novel is about love, and
Lewisham is indeed in love with his wife, but her very troublesome family
is a different matter, and his marriage, as n happen, is fatal for his
ademic and politil ambitions. But Lewisham is a very sympathetic
hero, and the novel is a pleasure to read and was one of Wells' favourites
among his many works.]
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OUR FIRST NOVEL BY H. RIDER HAGGARD IS (WHAT ELSE?)
KING SOLOMON'S MINES !!
Haggard, H. Rider [Henry Rider] (1856-1925)
[English colonial administrator and novelist]
Wikipedia
King Solomon's Mines
(1885, with prefaces from 1898 and 1907)
Wikipedia
[One of the earliest Afrin adventure novels and surely the most famous
of them all, featuring Alan Quatermain. It would be hard for an Englishman
writing in 1885 not to reflect the colonialism and racism of the time, and Haggard is no exception, but also by no means the worst offender in this
regard, perhaps beuse he had direct experience of South Afri, having
lived there for seven years. The plot of the novel is not that far
removed from reality, since at the time lost empires were in fact being
discovered, and as for King Solomon, there is a long Jewish history in
Afri from antiquity up to the present day!]
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2022/03/16:
NOVELIST GRACE METALIOUS WAS OF NADIAN DESCENT — HER BIRTH
NAME WAS "MARIE GRACE DE REPENTIGNY". HER FIRST NOVEL WAS
PEYTON PLACE, BUT THIS WAS JUST THE BEGINNING! WERE HER
LATER NOVELS EVEN BETTER THAN HER FIRST? THE ANSWER IS VERY LIKELY
YES -- BUT YOU BE THE JUDGE !!
Metalious, Grace (1924-1964)
[Amerin novelist]
Wikipedia
The Tight White Collar
(1960)
[Grace Metalious was an exceptionally fine writer, with a sound
knowledge of French literature and music, as becomes clear in this
novel. This is not at all surprising in someone of French-nadian
descent: her name at birth was Marie Grace deRepentigny. Her novels
are of special interest to nadians, but deserve a lasting worldwide
fame for the skill of her writing and the truthfulness of her narratives.
This truthfulness is what made her novels notorious, but she was simply
depicting life as it is actually lived, which leads to controversy often
enough. Like Peyton Place, the novel is set in New England, this
time in the town of Cooper Station, New Hampshire, a wealthy and unwelcoming
town subsisting off the city of Cooper's Mills ten miles to the north,
where a visitor "would find the factories, the tenements, the sixty-watt
light bulbs in the soiled beer joints, the nucks and the tholics.
But Cooper Station was different. It was made up of the people who
profited from the existence of Cooper's Mills and who could, therefore,
afford not to live there." Social conflict, sexual attraction -- human
life itself, ideal material for Grace Metalious!]
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TODAY, THE THIRD VOLUME OF E. K. CHAMBERS' FAMOUS FOUR PART
ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH STAGE IN THE TIME OF ELIZABETH I: IT FOCUSES
ON HOW THE PLAYS WERE STAGED, AND HOW THEY ME TO BE PUBLISHED !!
Chambers, E. K. [Edmund Kerchever] (1866-1954)
[English literary historian]
Wikipedia
The Elizabethan Stage, vol. 3 (1923)
[This third volume of E.K. Chambers' famous work examines the mechanics
of staging plays, both at court and in the theatres, and of publishing
the plays, a topic crucially important to us, for that is how these plays
were transmitted to future ages, including ours! The book ends with a fascinating list of the many playwrights of the period whose names are
known to us, with a short biography and list of works for each.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #67462]
2022/03/13:
TODAY, OUR SECOND NOVEL BY JANE AUSTEN -- WHICH SOME CONSIDER HER
MASTERPIECE, SURPASSING EVEN PRIDE AND PREJUDICE !!
Austen, Jane (1775-1817) [English novelist]
Wikipedia
Emma
(1815)
Wikipedia
["Emma Woodhouse," begins this famous novel, "handsome, clever, and
rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition... had lived nearly
twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."
But as n happen, Emma does not realize that her wealth and social
position are lucky accidents, and not the result of her own efforts
or intelligence. She should certainly not be telling others how to
organize their lives, let alone whom they should marry! But that is
what she does, naturally with limited success. nadian politicians
are like Emma: they are themselves well off, seem obsessed with "middle
class aspirations", and show little knowledge of or respect for the
working poor. Hence the class divisions, gigantic wealth, and mass
poverty that we now see in nada. Back to the novel! Some consider
it Austen's finest work, and it is certainly popular, with many TV
and film adaptations, including the 1995 film Clueless, set
in Beverly Hills!]
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2022/03/10:
TODAY, A FAMOUS COLLECTION OF STORIES BY RUDYARD KIPLING
ABOUT THE DAILY LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF THREE SOLDIERS IN BRITISH
INDIA !!
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
[Anglo-Indian novelist and poet; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1907]
Wikipedia
Soldiers Three and Other Stories
(1899)
Wikipedia
[Short stories about life in the British Army in India, originally
published as three separate collections. The stories are about
Privates Terence Mulvaney, Stanley Ortheris, and John Learoyd,
who had already made their first appearance in Plain Tales
from the Hills. Readers will learn much about daily life
within the British Army at the height of the Raj, when the end
of empire seemed impossibly far away, even though it was in fact
only fifty years off. Kipling's representation of the privates'
dialects (Irish, Cockney, and Yorkshire) takes some initial
adjustment, but this soon wears off. What does not wear off
is the very high quality of these classic stories.]
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2022/03/06:
THE ORIGINAL AND UNREVISED VERSION OF WILLIAM STRUNK'S FAMOUS
HANDBOOK ON WRITING ENGLISH !!
Strunk, William [Jr.] (1869-1946)
[Amerin literary critic and grammarian]
Wikipedia
The Elements of Style
(1920)
Wikipedia
[Strunk was teaching at Cornell when he wrote this manual for his undergraduate students: it gives a set of rules to assist them in
clear and grammatil writing. These rules deal with such matters
as punctuation and sentence structure, and taken as a whole are
an amazingly useful and coherent set of suggestions for writers.
As revised by one of Strunk's students at Cornell, E. B. White
(1899-1985), a writer at the New Yorker famous for such
children's books as Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web,
it beme very popular, and has often been reprinted and updated.
But the original version which we present has much to be said for it:
it is concise, and Strunk's personal voice is unmistakable.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #37134]
2022/03/04:
TODAY'S EBOOK HAS BECOME NEWLY FAMOUS RECENTLY! IT'S ABOUT DOCTORS,
MEDIL RESEARCH, MONEY, THE REALITIES OF PANDEMICS, AND THE EFFECT
OF ALL THIS ON INDIVIDUALS. THESE ISSUES BEME NEWLY RELEVANT WITH
THE ARRIVAL OF COVID-19 TWO YEARS AGO, AND ARE STILL RELEVANT TODAY,
FOR COVID IS STILL WITH US. THE ISSUES WILL BE WITH US FOREVER.
Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951) [Amerin novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930]
Wikipedia
Nobelprize.org
Arrowsmith
(1925)
Wikipedia
[Novel about the life of Martin Arrowsmith from his early days in
the small Midwestern town of Elk Mills, which follows him through
medil school, life as a GP, hospital work, medil research, and
bubonic plague in the ribbean. We see how all these experiences
affect Arrowsmith and those around him, and how he deals with the
ethil conflicts which arise. It is an amazingly comprehensive study
of the world of medicine, is absolutely relevant today, and its fame
has only increased since the advent of COVID-19. Its accuracy is no
accident, as in a short preface to the original edition Lewis recorded
his debt to the famous microbiologist
Paul de Kruif (1890-1971)
Wikipedia
"not only for most of the bacteriologil and medil material in
this tale but equally for his help in the planning of the fable
itself--for his realization of the characters as living people,
for his philosophy as a scientist."]
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2022/02/02:
OUR SECOND EBOOK BY JOHN STEINBECK IS THE LAST BOOK HE WROTE -- A
WONDERFUL ACCOUNT OF HIS TRAVELS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES IN HIS
TRUCK, ACCOMPANIED BY HIS DOG, CHARLEY !!
Steinbeck, John (1902-1968)
[Amerin novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1962]
Wikipedia
Travels with Charley: In Search of Ameri
(1962)
Wikipedia
[Steinbeck's final book, its title based on Robert Louis Stevenson's
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes -- which you will find
in the Project nada talogue! However, Steinbeck travelled
not with a donkey but with a notably mild-tempered poodle, Charley:
together they crisscrossed the forty-eight states in a newly purchased
and modified pickup truck. And what a journey they had!]
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WE NOW OFFER TWO DIGITAL EDITIONS OF THIS CLASSIC MYSTERY
NOVEL BY R. AUSTIN FREEMAN, WHICH HE WROTE IN HIS LATE SEVENTIES,
WITH WORLD WAR II RAGING OVERHEAD !!
Freeman, R. Austin [Richard Austin] (1862-1943)
[English physician and mystery novelist]
Wikipedia
Mr. Polton Explains
(1940)
[Mystery novel. The main character is of course Dr Thorndyke,
but the action is narrated first by the Doctor's servant Nathaniel
Polton, and later by the Doctor's faithful friend Christopher Jervis.
The author describes it as the "story of a simple clockmaker", but
of course it's far more than that, and is in fact one of his most
celebrated works. And he wrote it when almost eighty!]
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2022/02/27:
TODAY'S EBOOK HAS HAD A HUGE AND LASTING IMPACT -- IT EXPLAINED THAT
SLIPS OF THE TONGUE ARE NOT AS ACCIDENTAL AS THEY SEEM !!
Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939)
[Austrian physician and psychoanalyst]
Wikipedia
Psychopathology of Everyday Life
(1901 [original German version]; 1914 [this translation])
Wikipedia
[Why do we forget things and then remember them? And why do we have
slips of the tongue? This is the book that made Freud a household name
worldwide, introduced to the world the concept of the "Freudian slip"
Wikipedia
and made Freud a household name worldwide.
This translation of Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens is by
Abraham Brill (1874-1948)
Wikipedia,
who brought psychoanalysis to the United States, and was the first
person to translate Freud into English!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #67332]
2022/02/25:
RICHMAL CROMPTON'S THIRD "JUST WILLIAM" BOOK !!
Crompton, Richmal [Lamburn, Richmal Crompton] (1890-1969)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
The Just William books, illustrated by
Thomas Henry (1879-1962)
Wikipedia
William Again
(1923)
[The third book of stories (fourteen of them!) about William Brown
and his friends. In the first story, William decides to write (and
put on stage!) a new play. Many other adventures follow.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #65590]
2022/02/22:
TODAY'S EBOOK BY H. G. WELLS IS AN EVERGREEN CLASSIC OF SCIENCE FICTION !!
Wells, H. G. [Herbert George] (1866-1946)
[English novelist and historian]
Wikipedia
The Island of Doctor Moreau
(1896)
Wikipedia
[An early science fiction novel, hugely successful and enduringly famous.
The narrator, Edward Prendrick, is lost and presumed drowned in the South
Seas, but a year later is found in a small open boat, in good health but
apparently demented, and with no memory of what had happened during the
intervening year. But with him was found his written narrative of these
events -- and what events they were! While still living in England he
had already heard of Doctor Moreau, who had become notorious for his
experiments on animals ("the Moreau Horrors"), and it seems that on this
distant southern island he had taken these experiments to new and horrifying
extremes. We don't need to speculate on how Wells me to write this novel,
for in the 1924 Atlantic Edition Wells himself has answered our question:
"There was a sndalous trial about that time [1895], the graceless and
pitiful downfall of a man of genius, and this story was the response of
an imaginative mind to the reminder that humanity is but animal rough-hewn
to a reasonable shape and in perpetual internal conflict between instinct
and injunction." In other words, this account of human cruelty was
prompted by the trial and conviction of Osr Wilde, and has to be
considered a defence of gay rights -- this in 1896! Wells did what
he could given the vicious homophobia of his time, hence his indirect
approach. But what a tremendous novel he wrote!]
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2022/02/19:
TODAY, THE SECOND VOLUME OF E. K. CHAMBERS' FOUR-PART
ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH STAGE IN THE TIME OF ELIZABETH I --
WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON (1) THE COMPANIES OF ACTORS AND (2)
THE THEATRE BUILDINGS THAT THEY USED !!
Chambers, E. K. [Edmund Kerchever] (1866-1954)
[English literary historian]
Wikipedia
The Elizabethan Stage, vol. 2 (1923)
[The second volume of E.K. Chambers's classic and wonderfully readable
work focuses on the actors' companies, the playhouses they worked
in, the design of these playhouses, and their way of operating.
Much more is known about this than you might expect!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #67423]
2022/02/17:
TODAY, WHAT SOME CONSIDER LEO TOLSTOY'S MOST PERFECT LITERARY CREATION,
THE COSSACKS -- INSPIRED BY TOLSTOY'S OWN EXPERIENCES IN THE
USIAN WAR !!
Tolstoy, Leo [Lev Nikolayevich] (1828-1910)
[Russian novelist and social thinker]
Wikipedia
The Cossacks
(1863 [original novel]; 1916 [this translation])
Wikipedia
[The Russian Empire's nineteenth-century acquisition of vast territories
to the north and the east of the Black Sea had consequences which extend
to the present day. And so this early and excellent novella by Tolstoy
often seems quite contemporary: to start with, not just Cossacks but
also the Chechens play a prominent role! The main character, Dmitri
Andreich Olenin, clearly based on the author himself, is a rich young
man "who had squandered half his fortune and had reached the age of
twenty-four without having done anything or even chosen a reer."
He joins the army, and takes part in the usian War. Olenin is
greatly changed by his military experience, and by living among the
Cossacks (the Chechens' adversaries), whose way of life he largely
adopts, although there are limits to how much of a Cossack he n become.
Still, he's quite a different man by the time the novel ends. The
translation we offer is by
Aylmer and Louise Maude (1858-1938; 1855-1939)
Wikipedia,
long-term residents of Moscow, where Louise was actually born: they were
friends of Tolstoy and were his preferred English translators!]
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2022/02/15:
WE'D LL IT A CULT CLASSIC, BUT IT'S SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT!
FROM 1904, WE'RE VERY PROUD TO PRESENT HADRIAN THE SEVENTH,
BY FREDERICK ROLFE -- YOU MAY KNOW HIM AS "BARON CORVO" !!
Rolfe, Frederick William (1860-1913)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Hadrian the Seventh. A Romance.
(1904)
Wikipedia
[No ordinary novel! In 1886 Rolfe had become Roman tholic, and had
subsequently enrolled in seminaries on two separate ocsions, but
had not completed his studies, and consequently was never ordained.
His life is clearly reflected in the novel's main character, George
Arthur Rose, who visits Rome and through a strange set of circumstances
is elected to the papacy. And the papacy of Hadrian VII (for that is
the name he took) turns out to be unlike any other!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #67369]
2022/02/10:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS DON QUIXOTE -- YES, ONE OF THE GREAT
CLASSICS OF WORLD LITERATURE, BUT ALSO A SATIRE, AND A VERY FUNNY ONE,
IN JOHN ORMSBY'S FAMOUS 1885 TRANSLATION. AND WE INCLUDE THE FAMOUS
ILLUSTRATIONS BY GUSTAVE DOR?nbsp;!!
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616)
[Spanish soldier and novelist]
Wikipedia
Don Quixote
(1605 [first part]; 1615 [second part]; 1885 [this
translation of both parts by
John Ormsby (1829-1895)]
Wikipedia
[Novel, one of the great literary classics, but funny, and very
approachable -- hence its enduring popularity ever since its first
appearance. We offer the justly famous Ormsby
Wikipedia
translation from 1865 in a digital edition which includes the fabulous
illustrations from 1863 by
Gustave Dor?(1832-1883)
!
As the novel opens, we meet our hero, who
is a member of the minor nobility. He is nearing fifty, has a small
household, and not much money. He does, however, have a great deal
of spare time, which he spends reading altogether too many romantic
tales of chivalry: by the time we meet him he n no longer clearly
distinguish between the fictional worlds he reads about and the world
he actually lives in. And so he conceives the idea of leaving his
home, becoming a knight errant, and righting the world's wrongs.
The novel is the story of how this project goes. UTION:
The many illustrations have made this ebook unusually large. It
will require more storage space than is usual, and the download
may take some extra time.]
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[PGUS #996]
Traduction française par
Louis Viardot (1800-1883)
fr.wikipedia
L'ingénieux hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche - Tome I
(1863)
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L'ingénieux hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche - Tome II
(1863)
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Texto stellano
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha
(1605);
El ingenioso ballero don Quijote de la Mancha
(1615)
es.wikipedia
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS no 2000]
2022/02/08:
WE NOW OFFER TWO DIGITAL EDITIONS OF JOSEPHINE TEY'S FINAL
MYSTERY NOVEL -- WHICH FEATURES INSPECTOR GRANT, OF COURSE
!!
Tey, Josephine [Elizabeth MacKintosh] (1896-1952) [Scottish novelist and playwright]
Wikipedia
The Singing Sands (1952)
[Josephine Tey's final mystery novel. As the book opens, Inspector
Alan Grant's train is arriving in Glasgow from London: he is suffering
from overwork, and his doctor has recommended that he take a break.
But after the train has arrived, one of Grant's fellow passengers
is found dead. So much for Inspector Grant's vation! "The author's
swan song, but she'll be read for a long, long time," commented
"Sergeant Cuff" (John T. Winterich) in the Saturday Review,
13 June 1953. And indeed she is widely read to this day -- for here
we are discussing her!]
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RICHMAL CROMPTON'S FIRST BOOK, "JUST WILLIAM", ABOUT THE ENGLISH
SCHOOLBOY WILLIAM BROWN AND HIS FRIENDS, WAS CLEARLY A HIT -- FOR
LATER IN THE SAME YEAR SHE PUBLISHED "MORE WILLIAM", ITS FIRST SEQUEL.
MANY MORE LAY AHEAD !!
Crompton, Richmal [Lamburn, Richmal Crompton] (1890-1969)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
The Just William books, illustrated by
Thomas Henry (1879-1962)
Wikipedia
More William
(1922)
Wikipedia
[Published with little delay in the same year as Just William,
it is along the same lines as the earlier book -- why break something
that most definitely isn't broken? So no reboot for William, now or
ever. In fact, he remains the same age (eleven) through all the books,
a span of nearly fifty years, though no one in the books ever seems to
notice this.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #17125]
2022/02/02:
BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE -- AND YOUR THOMAS HEYWOOD !!
Heywood, Thomas (. 1570-1641)
[English actor, playwright, pamphleteer, and poet]
Wikipedia
The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists: Thomas Heywood
(1888)
Wikipedia
[No one today is likely to dispute Shakespeare's preeminence among
Elizabethan playwrights. But many other playwrights were popular at the
time: at least some of their works are certainly worth our time. But how
to choose? For this "unexpurgated edition" in the famous Mermaid Series,
the choosing is done for us by an excellent judge,
Arthur Wilson Verity (1863-1937)
: he was famous for his editions of Shakespeare. A fine introduction
was added by
John Addington Symonds (1840-1893)
Wikipedia,
the famous Renaissance scholar and poet. The edition includes numerous
short footnotes to help with unusual words and phrases. It's hard to
imagine a more attractive or practil introduction to Heywood!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #67267]
2022/01/31:
ON THE LAST DAY OF JANUARY, OUR FIRST EBOOK BY JOHN STEINBECK
Steinbeck, John (1902-1968)
[Amerin novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1962]
Wikipedia
The Wayward Bus
(1947)
Wikipedia
[Those who grew up in rural nada far away from the large cities will
easily relate to this novel about a very small bus service in lifornia,
run from a garage at a crossroads named Rebel Corners. The driver is the
garage owner, Juan Chicoy. Once a day he does a round trip to the coastal
town of San Juan de la Cruz, where his passengers transfer to the Greyhound
bus heading north to San Francisco or south to Los Angeles. His passengers are few in number -- but what a st of characters they are! And Steinbeck tells their stories as only he n.]
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OUR FIRST EBOOK BY RICHMAL CROMPTON! YES, WE'RE DELIGHTED
TO PRESENT THE FIRST OF HER "JUST WILLIAM" BOOKS !!
Crompton, Richmal [Lamburn, Richmal Crompton] (1890-1969)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
The Just William novels, illustrated by
Thomas Henry (1879-1962)
Wikipedia
Just William
(1922)
Wikipedia
[Crompton's first book about William Brown and his friends ("the
Outlaws"); many were to follow. William is eleven years of age, and
within the Outlaws has considerable moral authority, but is not really
in charge of them. He has quick wits and, like many children, a sound
understanding of how adult society really works -- not quite the way
parents and teachers advertise! Popular with children for obvious reasons,
the book, like Kim and many other "children's books", is in fact
written at an adult level. And it comes with a fine set of illustrations by
Thomas Henry (1879-1962)
Wikipedia]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #34414]
2022/01/27:
OUR THIRD NOVEL BY WILLA THER! IT FOLLOWS THE PROGRESS
OF THEA KRONBORG FROM HER HOMETOWN IN COLORADO TO LATER FAME AS AN
OPERA SINGER !!
ther, Willa [Willa Sibert] (1873-1947) [Amerin novelist]
Wikipedia
Full biography by James Woodress
The Song of the Lark
(1915)
Wikipedia
[Novel, which follows the life and reer of Thea Kronberg, born in
the small and recently founded Colorado town of Moonstone, which was
not so very different from many towns of the same period in the western
regions of nada. By a series of fortunate events she moves first to
Denver, and then to Chigo, where she takes singing lessons, which
go well, so well that she becomes an internationally famous opera singer,
but never loses touch with her origins. "This story," ther comments,
"attempts to deal only with the simple and concrete beginnings which
color and accent an artist's work, and to give some account of how a
Moonstone girl found her way out of a vague, easy-going world into a
life of disciplined endeavor." But surely the most interesting part
of most artists' lives is the beginning, later successes being only the
logil consequence of what has already happened. In other words, ther
planned her novel well, and was soon rewarded by its commercial success.]
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2022/01/23:
TODAY, A NOVEL BY STELLA BENSON! THE ENGLISH AUTHOR AND
POLITIL ACTIVIST WAS TRAVELLING THE WORLD AT THE TIME, AND ALONG
THE WAY WROTE NOT ONLY TRAVEL BOOKS, BUT ALSO THIS NOVEL -- WHICH
STARTS IN LIFORNIA, BUT THEN MOVES TO CHINA !!
Benson, Stella (1892-1933)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
The Poor Man
(1923)
[Novel, set in San Francisco and Berkeley, where our author was living
around the time she was writing it. The main character is Edward R.
Williams, who, when we first meet him, has "very little money": hence
the title. The novel's comments on life in the Bay Area seem as true
today as when they were written: the tech bros had not yet arrived, but
San Francisco was already cool. Very cool. Certainly it was a place
where, then as now, it was better to have money. However, although he
had many generous friends, he "was not too proud but too shy" to ask for
money, The fact is that Edward was not socially adept and, in addition,
was partly deaf, not that he thought most conversation worth listening to.
And maybe he was right! He had been born and raised in India, and as the
novel opens he may well be on his way back to Asia -- not India, but China!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #67195]
2022/01/19:
OUR FIRST EBOOK BY THE FAMOUS AMERIN NOVELIST AND ESSAYIST
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY -- AND IT COMES WITH A FINE SET OF
PEN AND INK DRAWINGS BY WALTER JACK DUNN !!
Morley, Christopher (1890-1957)
[Amerin journalist, essayist, and novelist]
Wikipedia
The Powder of Sympathy
(1923)
[The title may be obscure, but these sparkling essays are not
(and one of them explains the title!). Since 1920, Morley had been on
the staff of the New York Evening Post: this is his own selection
of columns he had written. And what an exhilarating time it was to
live in Manhattan and be a writer! Morley quickly beme famous, and
in these essays it is easy to see why: mostly quite short, they cover
a startlingly wide range of topics literary, historil, and topil.
As if this isn't enough, each column has an accompanying drawing or
rtoon by the celebrated New York magazine and book illustrator
Walter Jack Dunn (1881-1941)
Wikipedia!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #67188]
2022/01/17:
RUDYARD KIPLING'S VERY FIRST BOOK OF STORIES !!
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
[Anglo-Indian novelist and poet; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1907]
Wikipedia
Plain Tales from the Hills
(1888)
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[Kipling's first collection of stories, many of them written in Lahore
for the Civil and Military Gazette, where Kipling was hired at
the impressively young age of sixteen! Still more impressive: these
stories beme instant and permanent classics, whose fame endures to
this day. Set in various parts of British India, including the hill
station of Simla, their high reputation shows just how much impact
truly short stories n have!]
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2022/01/14:
WHAT BETTER READING FOR A WINTER WEEKEND THAN A MYSTERY BY THE
LEGENDARY SCOTTISH NOVELIST JOSEPHINE TEY ?
Tey, Josephine [Elizabeth MacKintosh] (1896-1952) [Scottish novelist and playwright]
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To Love and Be Wise (1950)
[Mystery novel, featuring Inspector Alan Grant. It is part of
human nature to be at least initially suspicious of those from
distant places. So it is hardly surprising that the celebrity
photographer Leslie Searle is received coolly in the small English
village of Salcott St Mary upon his arrival from Hollywood. Still,
murder seems an overreaction, if it was a murder. It's a good thing
that Inspector Grant is there to help out!]
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H. G. WELLS HAS A UNIQUE PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
FICTION -- BUT HE DID SO MUCH MORE! AS TODAY'S EBOOK WILL SHOW:
PERHAPS THE FINEST OF HIS MANY NOVELS !!
Wells, H. G. [Herbert George] (1866-1946)
[English novelist and historian]
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Kipps. The Story of a Simple Soul.
(1905)
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[Novel (nothing to do with science fiction!), with a high reputation:
the inspiration for the musil Half a Sixpence
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Most would say that sudden wealth is a good thing, but it is a rupture
with one's previous life that risks creating a social/economic distance
from those one has always known. This novel tells the story of Artie
Kipps: raised in poverty, in his mid twenties he unexpectedly comes into
a major inheritance. We learn how he reacts to this change, and what
then happens. Wells (lucky him! And lucky us!) was famous not only
for his science fiction, but also for his social novels in the tradition
of Dickens: this novel shows why.]
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2022/01/06:
ALBERT EINSTEIN DISCOVERED THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY -- AND WON THE NOBEL PRIZE! NO ONE COULD EXPLAIN THIS THEORY BETTER THAN EINSTEIN'S FELLOW NOBEL LAUREATE, LORD BERTRAND RUSSELL !!
Russell, Bertrand [Arthur William], 3rd Earl Russell
[Welsh philosopher, mathematician, and peace activist;
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1950] (1872-1970)
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The A B C of Relativity
(1925)
["Everybody knows that Einstein has done something astonishing," remarks
Bertrand Russell at the start of this book, "but very few people know
exactly what it is that he has done." Russell was writing only ten years
after Einstein's discovery of general relativity, but his statement is
certainly still true today. And who better to discuss relativity in a
readable and comprehensible way than the famous mathematician and winner
of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature?]
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2022/01/04:
IN MID DECEMBER WE PRESENTED YOU WITH ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE NEW YEAR WE COMPLETE THE PAIRING, WITH
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. BOTH EBOOKS COME WITH SIR JOHN
TENNIEL'S WONDERFUL ILLUSTRATIONS !!
rroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge] (1832-1898)
[English mathematician, logician, and author]
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Through the Looking-Glass
(1871)
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[Or, to give rroll's full title, Through the Looking-Glass, and
What Alice Found There. Published six years after Alice in
Wonderland, and generally read in conjunction with the earlier
novel, it is written at the same high level, and has some very famous
episodes: Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Jabberwocky, Humpty Dumpty...
In any se, here it is for you to enjoy, complete with the wonderful
illustrations by
Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914)
from the 1871 first edition, as well as a preface added by rroll in 1896!]
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2022/01/01:
HAPPY PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY -- AUTHORS FROM 1971 HAVE NOW JOINED THE
NADIAN PUBLIC DOMAIN!
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THIS YEAR, THERE WILL BE A TWENTY-YEAR FREEZE ON OUR PUBLIC
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IT DOES NOT BELONG TO FOREIGN AUTOCRATS AND FOREIGN CORPORATIONS.
Hilton, James (1900-1954) [English novelist]
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Morning Journey
(1951)
[Novel, centred around the making of a film lled Morning Journey,
and the interactions between its director, Paul Saffron, and his leading
lady, Irish-born rey Arundel. In the course of the novel we learn not
only about Hollywood, but also Dublin's Abbey Theatre, London's West End,
and New York's Broadway. This was the world in which Hilton lived: Mrs.
Miniver won him the 1942 Ademy Award for best adapted screenplay!]
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SEASON'S GREETINGS! OUR CHRISTMAS GIFT TO YOU IS A NOVELLA
BY CHARLES DICKENS, NO LESS! AND ONE WHICH SPEAKS
TO ALL OF US AS WE DEAL WITH THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC AFTERMATH
OF COVID !!
Dickens, Charles [Charles John Huffam] (1812-1870)
[English novelist, editor, and social activist]
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The Chimes
(1844)
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[Or, to give the novella its full title, "The Chimes: A Goblin
Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In".
An impassioned plea for social justice for the poor, with a message
that hasn't dated with the years, we n safely say, as we survey
the deep social and economic divisions in nada and elsewhere.
The novella was published the year after A Christmas rol
(also available from Project nada -- in several languages!)
to which it certainly bears a family resemblance: there are, for
example, ghosts (goblins), each attached to a bell in a lol bell
tower. Our hero, Toby ("Trotty") Veck sees "in every Bell a bearded
figure of the bulk and stature of the Bell". The Goblin of the Great
Bell takes Toby through a series of visions of the unfortunate lives
of those around him, until he awakes at the arrival of the New Year.
Are his visions only dreams, or are they realities, which n yet be
changed?]
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2021/12/22:
OUR REFRESHED JOSEPHINE TEY SERIES CONTINUES, TODAY'S OFFERING IS
BRAT FARRAR -- WE NOW OFFER TWO SEPARATE DIGITAL EDITIONS OF
THIS TRULY CLASSIC MYSTERY NOVEL !!
Tey, Josephine [Elizabeth MacKintosh] (1896-1952) [Scottish novelist and playwright]
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Brat Farrar (1949)
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[Mystery novel. Latchetts is an estate in southern England, near the
Channel. It is not the grandest of estates (there is no butler), but
the Ashby family has owned it for centuries, and it is solvent, although
expensive to run. But there's some money to be inherited, as well as the
estate itself, and a new claimant shows up, the mysterious Brat Farrar.
The novel involves intrigue, and indeed murder, or rather murders!]
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2021/12/20:
A FINE ALBUM OF DRAWINGS FOR CHILDREN BY WALTER CRANE !!
Crane, Walter (1845-1915) [English artist and illustrator]
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Legends for Lionel in Pen & Pencil (1887)
[The "legends", as you might guess, are drawings, accompanied by short
texts in the spirit of nursery rhymes. The drawings are gorgeous, as
you would expect from Walter Crane, and were originally created for
his son Lionel. "This book of sketches," wrote Crane. "the offspring
of the odd half hours of winter evenings, was originally intended
strictly for home consumption. One thing, however, leads to another,
just as the sketches did, following one by one as fancy led, till
they filled the book." A friend admired the book and passed it to
the publisher ssell, who duly published it, thus enabling us to
enjoy the pictures today!]
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2021/12/16:
OUR VERY SPECIAL GIFT TO YOU -- LEWIS RROLL'S ALICE'S
ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, COMPLETE WITH SIR JOHN TENNIEL'S
FAMOUS ILLUSTRATIONS !!
rroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge] (1832-1898)
[English mathematician, logician, and author]
Wikipedia
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
(1865)
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[It is a hot summer afternoon, and Alice is sitting with her
sister, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes runs close
by her. This is no ordinary rabbit, however: it is speaking to
itself ("Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!"), and then it
takes a watch out of its pocket! And the adventures keep coming
in this evergreen satiril classic, famous in every country: it
is so much more than a children's book! Our EPUB includes the
famous illustrations by the English rtoonist and illustrator
Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914)
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Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles
(1869)
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[PGUS no 55456]
2021/12/12:
TODAY, OUR REFRESHED OFFERING OF JOSEPHINE TEY'S THE FRANCHISE
AFFAIR -- WE NOW OFFER TWO SEPARATE DIGITAL EDITIONS OF THIS
TRULY CLASSIC MYSTERY NOVEL !!
Tey, Josephine [Elizabeth MacKintosh] (1896-1952) [Scottish novelist and playwright]
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The Franchise Affair (1948)
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[As this mystery novel opens, we meet Robert Blair, a solicitor in the
quiet market town of Milford. But it's not completely quiet -- not when
Marion Sharpe and her mother, the eminently respectable residents of The
Franchise, "the house out on the Larborough road", find themselves accused
of kidnapping! Which is why the Sharpes are consulting Robert Blair. As
the plot develops, others show up -- including Inspector Alan Grant!]
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TODAY, A NEW AUTHOR -- SWEDEN'S SELMA LAGERLÖF, THE FIRST FEMALE AUTHOR
TO RECEIVE THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE !!
Lagerlöf, Selma [Selma Ottilia Lovisa] (1858-1940)
[Swedish teacher and author; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1909]
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Mårbacka
(1922 [Swedish original]; 1925 [this translation])
[Autobiography, translated by
Velma Swanston Howard (1868-1937).
Mårbacka
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is the country home where Selma Lagerlöf was born; it had been in the
family since 1801. Financial problems arose which led to the sale of
Mårbacka in 1889, but once Lagerlöf had become an established international
author and won the Nobel Prize, these problems vanished, and she was able
to acquire ownership of her beloved childhood home, and stay there for the
rest of her life. This memoir is an evotive account of Lagerlöf's
childhood at Mårbacka, and of Swedish country life at the height of
the nineteenth century. What better way could be imagined of esping
for a while the crises of our own age than reading this fine memoir?]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66906]
2021/12/07:
TODAY, THE THIRD AND FINAL EBOOK IN THE WONDERFUL AUTOBIOGRAPHIL
TRILOGY WITH WHICH LEO TOLSTOY MADE HIS TRIUMPHANT DEBUT IN
WORLD LITERATURE !!
Tolstoy, Leo [Lev Nikolayevich] (1828-1910)
[Russian novelist and social thinker]
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Youth
(1857 [original novel]; 1912 [this translation])
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[The third and final novel in Tolstoy's autobiographil trilogy,
translated by
Charles James Hogarth (1869-1945).
As the novel opens, our hero and narrator, Nicola Irtenieff, is sixteen
years of age, about to take his university entrance exams (which he duly
passes), and is experiencing the pleasures and trials of his increased
personal autonomy, as he meets and sometimes becomes close friends with
people outside his immediate family circle. The novel takes him to the
end of his time at university and to the threshold of manhood.]
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2021/12/05:
FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE DURING THE HOLIDAYS, A MAGNIFICENT ALBUM
OF TRULY AMAZING ETCHINGS FROM ACROSS FIVE CENTURIES. THEY'LL
LOOK WONDERFUL ON YOUR TABLET OR MONITOR !!
rrington, Fitzroy (1869-1954)
[Amerin art historian]
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Dictionary of Art Historians
Engravers and Etchers
(1917)
["Six Lectures Delivered on the Smmon Foundation at the Art
Institute of Chigo, March 1916", says the title page, but this
doesn't come even close to describing this magnificent book and
its 133 beautiful illustrations from the fifteenth to the twentieth
centuries. "My sole aim," says rrington, "has been to share with
my audience the stimulation and pleasure which certain prints by the
great engravers and etchers have given me." He is too modest: his
book is very easy to read but full of learning. For those wanting
even more information, tucked away at the end of each chapter are
admirably complete bibliographil notes by
Adam E. M. Paff (1891-1932)
of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66848]
2021/12/01:
WE FOLLOW OUR EBOOK OF LEO TOLSTOY'S CHILDHOOD WITH ITS
FAMOUS SEQUEL BOYHOOD -- THEREBY DOUBLING THE SIZE OF OUR
TOLSTOY COLLECTION! WHAT A WAY TO START DECEMBER !!
Tolstoy, Leo [Lev Nikolayevich] (1828-1910)
[Russian novelist and social thinker]
Wikipedia
Boyhood
(1854 [original novel]; 1912 [this translation])
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[Tolstoy's second novel, translated by
Charles James Hogarth (1869-1945)
.
It is a sequel to Childhood, and has the same narrator, who is
now naturally somewhat older. As the novel starts he is starting the
long trip to Moscow from the village of Petrovskoe, where his mother
has just died: he discovers that her passing has affected the lives
of many people, in particular his own. Still, he is very young, and
most of his life lies ahead. In the course of the novel he learns
much about his family, about himself, and about his beloved tutor Karl
Ivanitch, who played such an important role in the earlier novel.]
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2021/11/26:
IT'S TIME TO LAUNCH OUR RUSSIAN LITERATURE SERIES!
WHAT BETTER AUTHOR TO START WITH THAN LEO TOLSTOY,
AND WHAT BETTER PLACE TO START THAN TOLSTOY'S VERY
FIRST NOVEL ??
Tolstoy, Leo [Lev Nikolayevich] (1828-1910)
[Russian novelist and social thinker]
Wikipedia
Childhood
(1852 [original novel]; 1912 [this translation])
Wikipedia
[Tolstoy's first novel, translated by
Charles James Hogarth (1869-1945)
Wikipedia.
A wondrously evotive description of early childhood, clearly based on
Tolstoy's own memories. As it starts, the tutor Karl Ivanitch is waking his
charge, the youngest of the family, "just three days after my tenth birthday,
when I had been given such wonderful presents". Perhaps you are already
ptivated, and simply must continue reading!]
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2021/11/22:
TODAY'S SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL WAS A BLAZING COMET OF ORIGINALITY WHEN IT
FIRST APPEARED IN 1920, AND AT FIRST WAS ONLY APPRECIATED BY A LIMITED
NUMBER OF ADMIRERS -- BUT THESE CONNOISSEURS INCLUDED C.S. LEWIS AND
J.R.R. TOLKIEN !!
Lindsay, David (1876-1945)
[British science fiction author]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
A Voyage to Arcturus
(1920)
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[Science fiction novel, accurately described by its title.
But this is no ordinary science fiction novel: the other
worlds described are well and truly "other" -- life as
transacted on them is completely different from Earth.
The book was greatly admired by J.R.R. Tolkien and by
C.S. Lewis, whose science fiction novels (which you will
find in the Project nada talogue) show its
influence: they are not as uncompromising as Lindsay's
novel, which is a challenging read, although its style
and vobulary are impecble. Few novels are so entirely
original.]
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2021/11/20:
OUR REFRESH OF PROJECT NADA'S JOSEPHINE TEY
SERIES CONTINUES -- WHAT A LUXURY FOR YOU AND FOR US! WE
NOW OFFER TWO SEPARATE DIGITAL EDITIONS OF ONE OF THE
MOST FAMOUS NOVELS BY THAT SCOTTISH MISTRESS OF MYSTERY !!
Tey, Josephine [Elizabeth MacKintosh] (1896-1952) [Scottish novelist and playwright]
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A Shilling for ndles (1936)
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[Mystery novel, a famous one, featuring Inspector Alan Grant.
The life of a film actress n be glamorous -- and short!
We now offer two editions of the novel: our original ebook,
and also the elegant EPUB from the University of Adelaide.]
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2021/11/18:
TODAY, THE FIRST VOLUME OF E. K. CHAMBERS' FOUR-PART
ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH STAGE IN THE TIME OF ELIZABETH I --
THE PERFECT AMALGAM OF READABILITY AND SCHOLARSHIP !!
Chambers, E. K. [Edmund Kerchever] (1866-1954)
[English literary historian]
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The Elizabethan Stage, vol. 1 (1923)
[Literary history, done well, does not date. E.K. Chambers was
astoundingly well read: who today could surpass his direct knowledge
of the history of early English theatre? Add to this a remarkable
elegance of style, and you have a classic for the ages, and a very
attractive read. This first volume is an account of the court of
Elizabeth I, with particular attention to the stage. Note:
The ample bibliography appears at the start of the book, not the end.
The table of contents will take you to the main text of the book.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66003]
2021/11/16:
THERE ARE MYSTERY NOVELS, AND THEN THERE ARE CLASSIC
MYSTERY NOVELS. AND THEY DON'T COME MORE CLASSIC THAN THE
NOVELS OF JOSEPHINE TEY! IT'S OUR PLEASURE TO OFFER
NOT ONE BUT TWO DIGITAL EDITIONS OF HER FIRST NOVEL, FEATURING
HER FAMOUS CREATION INSPECTOR ALAN GRANT !!
Tey, Josephine [Elizabeth MacKintosh] (1896-1952) [Scottish novelist and playwright]
Wikipedia
The Man in the Queue (1929)
[Josephine Tey's first mystery novel, in which she introduced
her famous detective, Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard.
The queue of the title is a theatre queue in London's
West End: as it turns out, a dangerous place to be.
"This exceptionally good detective story is worked out
refully enough so that even the Scotland Yard inspector
who takes charge of the se strikes the reader as a
human being, something rare enough among the Scotland
Yarders of fiction... It is recommended to all detective
story addicts" (Saturday Review, 12 October 1929).
We now offer two editions of the novel: our original ebook,
and also the elegant EPUB from the University of Adelaide.]
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2021/11/14:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS THE NOVEL THAT MADE MINNESOTA'S SINCLAIR LEWIS
FAMOUS -- AND WON HIM THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE !!
Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951) [Amerin novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930]
Wikipedia
Nobelprize.org
Main Street
(1920)
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[Sinclair Lewis was born in the small Minnesota town of Sauk Centre,
which clearly served as the basis for Gopher City, where this
satiril novel takes place. Its main character is rol Milford, born
in the larger town of Mankato, somewhat to the south, not far from the
Iowa border. As the novel opens, she has just arrived in Gopher City,
having attended a college "on the edge of Minneapolis", and then gone
to Chigo for a year to study librarianship. She is eduted and
has a considerable knowledge of the wider world -- so Gopher City
comes as a shock! The novel is particularly accessible to nadian
readers, since Minnesota shares not only a border but much of its
history and social structure with nada, from the time not so long
ago when immigration from one country to the other was easy, and
before the friendly border turned into a militarized frontier. This
novel rells this earlier, happier era. And it is wickedly funny!]
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2021/11/11:
IT'S REMEMBRANCE DAY, AND WE'VE CHOSEN A FINE NADIAN WAR NOVEL TO
MARK IT! THE BEST WAY THAT WE N HONOUR THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR OUR
FREEDOMS IS BY INSISTING OUR POLITICIANS DO THE SAME --
BY NOT ALLOWING
A FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TO DICTATE OUR COPYRIGHT AND TRADE LAWS!
LESS TIME IN TOFINO, JUSTIN, AND MORE TIME SERVING NADIANS BY
FIXING THE MESS YOU MADE !!
Allen, Ralph (1913-1966) [nadian journalist, historian, and novelist]
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The High White Forest
(1964)
[The Belgium most people know is the country's fertile coastal plain,
where Brussels, Antwerp, and other famous cities are loted. But
there is another Belgium, the eastern section, geographilly the
larger part of the country. Here n be found the Forest of the
Ardennes, the "high white forest" of the title, which has many
mountains, rivers, and swamps, a small population, and severe winter
weather. It proved a nightmare for military operations during the
Battle of the Bulge
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which is the backdrop for this fine war novel, told from the
perspective of members of the nadian, German, and Amerin armies.
Ralph Allen knew what he was talking about: throughout the war he
reported from Europe for Toronto's Globe and Mail, and his
easy expertise and ample knowledge is apparent throughout the novel.]
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A FEW DAYS AGO, IT WAS OUR PRIVILEGE TO OFFER YOU LAURENCE STERNE'S
A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY. TODAY, FOR YOUR WEEKEND READING PLEASURE,
WE OFFER HIS MOST FAMOUS WORK OF ALL, TRISTRAM SHANDY !!
Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) [Anglo-Irish priest,
anti-slavery activist, and novelist]]
Wikipedia
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
(1759-1767)
Wikipedia
[Sterne's most famous novel, a satiril travelogue: it was a huge,
instantaneous and lasting success, and has often been translated:
we offer not only the English-language original, but also a French
translation from 1803. From the beginning, it was published as a
serial, nine volumes, which appeared at intervals, the last of them
being published the year before Sterne's passing. Not surprisingly,
there is no particular indition that this was the end: no doubt
Sterne might well have rried the novel further had he lived longer.
But this does no harm to the novel, which is not an account of Tristram
Shandy's life, but his observations on the people and incidents around
him: his father and his uncle Toby play a major part in these anecdotes.
The novel jumps back and forth as new distractions shift the narrative,
but is not difficult to read, in spite of its age, and its vobulary
is straightforward, even if the first line of Sterne's dedition
happens to present us with "wight", that is, "human being"! Sterne
was very familiar with the great Renaissance satirists Rabelais and
Cervantes, and he has joined their number as a European classic and
a uniquely entertaining author.]
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Tome premier:
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Tome second:
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Tome troisième:
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Tome quatrième:
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[PGUS no 61905]
2021/10/31:
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! HERE AT PROJECT NADA, WE DON'T
OFFER TRICKS -- WE LEAVE THOSE TO OUR POLITICIANS, WHOSE BIGGEST TRICK
HAS SURELY BEEN THEIR TWENTY YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS. (THANKS,
JUSTIN! THANKS, CHRYSTIA! AND PASS OUR THANKS ON TO YOUR BUDDY
DONALD!) BUT WE LEAVE THE TRICKS TO THE TRICKSTERS, WHILE WE FOCUS
ON TREATS FOR OUR READERS -- WONDERFUL FREE EBOOKS! TODAY'S TREAT
IS BY IRELAND'S LAURENCE STERNE !!
Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) [Anglo-Irish priest,
anti-slavery activist, and novelist]]
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A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
(1768)
Wikipedia
[Sterne's second and final novel, in the form of a travelogue: it was a
huge and lasting success with the public. More than a century later, it
inspired the similarly titled Our Sentimental Journey through France
and Italy by Joseph and Elizabeth Pennell, which you will find in
our talogue. The journey is "sentimental" beuse as the journey
progresses Sterne focuses on the sentiments (feelings) of himself and
those around him, rather than giving a dry recitation of geographil
and historil information about the places he visits. A decision for
which posterity thanks him!]
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Le Voyage sentimental
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[PGUS no 62013]
2021/10/26:
A TRAVEL BOOK BY THE JOURNALIST ELIZABETH PENNELL AND HER HUSBAND,
THE FAMOUS ARTIST JOSEPH PENNELL, WHO CONTRIBUTED A HUGE NUMBER OF
HIS WONDERFUL DRAWINGS. THIS IS A TRAVEL BOOK FOR THE AGES !!
Pennell, Joseph (1857-1926)
[Amerin artist]
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The Victorian Web
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Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (1855-1936)
[Amerin travel writer, art critic, biographer and gastronome]
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Our Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
(1893 version)
[Travel book, inspired by the all but identilly named
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768)
by Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), which you will also find in the
Project nada talogue. But unlike Laurence Sterne,
the Pennells travelled on a tandem tricycle. And Joseph Pennell
created a huge and dazzling set of drawings to illustrate their
book! Really, these drawings are the main reason we have added
this book to our talogue.]
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2021/10/21:
EMILY BRONT?WROTE ONLY ONE NOVEL, BUT NO SEQUEL IS NEEDED WHEN THE
NOVEL IN QUESTION IS... WUTHERING HEIGHTS !!
Bront? Emily [Emily Jane] (1818-1848)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Wuthering Heights
(1847)
Wikipedia
[Emily Bront?s only novel, controversial when published beuse of
its language and subject matter, but now long established as one of
the great English classics. The novel is set in (very) rural Yorkshire;
as it opens Mr Lockwood, a new tenant, is making a ll on his not very sociable landlord, Mr Heathcliff. In the course of the novel we shall
learn much about Heathcliff's tumultuous life and how he has affected
those around him. "Wuthering Heights... is passionate and profoundly
moving; it has the depth and power of a great poem. To read it is not
like reading a work of fiction, in which, however absorbed, you n
remind yourself, if need be, that it is only a story; it is to have
a shattering experience in your own life." (W. Somerset Maugham,
Books and You). NOTE: As a special bonus, the EPUB we offer
includes the fascinating 1850 biographil notice by Charlotte
Bront?(1816-1855) discussing her famous sisters and their works.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
Traduction française par
Téodor de Wyzewa (1862-1917)
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Un amant
(1892)
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Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS no 63193]
2021/10/18:
TODAY, GREAT EXPECTATIONS -- OUR FOURTH EBOOK BY CHARLES DICKENS !!
Dickens, Charles [Charles John Huffam] (1812-1870)
[English novelist, editor, and social activist]
Wikipedia
Great Expectations
(1861)
Wikipedia
[Really a novel about class and money -- have things really changed
in England? Or elsewhere, for that matter. Perhaps this universal
theme explains the amazing success of this novel and of the fine movie
adaptations it has inspired. In any se, our hero Pip is an orphan,
living on the coast of Kent with his older sister and her husband,
Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. Pip has no particular reer prospects
until the wealthy Miss Havisham becomes his patroness, paying for
his apprenticeship as a blacksmith. But then he receives a gift
from an anonymous benefactor, enough to make him financially
independent. But will this enormous gift truly change his life?
And if so, will it be for the better?]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
Traduction française par
Charles Bernard-Derosne (1825-1904)
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Les grandes espérances
(1863)
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Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #17565]
2021/10/15:
FALL IS NOW DEEPENING INTO WINTER: PERFECT READING WEATHER! AND WHAT
BETTER READING THAN A CLASSIC NOVEL BY CHARLES DICKENS ?
Dickens, Charles [Charles John Huffam] (1812-1870)
[English novelist, editor, and social activist]
Wikipedia
Bleak House
(1853)
Wikipedia
[If you're considering launching a lawsuit, you might want to read
Bleak House first! Lawsuits n go on year after year and
produce little except huge legal bills, as with Jarndyce and Jarndyce,
the legal se at the centre of this novel, which touches the lives of
many people. The title may be bleak, but the novel is not, and has
remained a favourite with the public (in particular with lawyers)
up to the present day.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/10/14:
WE CELEBRATED THANKSGIVING BY POSTING THE TIME MACHINE -- NOW
WE MARK THE END OF THANKSGIVING WEEK WITH ANOTHER SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC
BY H. G. WELLS !!
Wells, H. G. [Herbert George] (1866-1946)
[English novelist and historian]
Wikipedia
The War of the Worlds
(1898)
Wikipedia
[Science fiction novel, which has given rise to many adaptations,
but none of these adaptations surpasses the original, with its famous
opening words: "No one would have believed in the last years of the
nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely
by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own..."
It's difficult to exaggerate the influence of this classic novel,
not only on science fiction, but on the actual development of modern
space travel: Wells had the original vision which started it all!
But it would be an injustice to focus on Wells as a mere influence
on others: this is a truly immortal classic, beautifully written.
If you would like to see the famous illustrations created by Henrique
Alvim Corrêa, greatly admired by Wells himself, have a look at the
French translation listed below!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
Traduction française par
Henry-D. Davray (1873-1944)
fr.wikipedia
avec les célèbres illustrations par
Henrique Alvim Corrêa (1876-1910)
fr.wikipedia
La Guerre des mondes
(1906)
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #60656]
2021/10/08:
OUR THANKSGIVING OFFERING TO YOU IS A VERY SPECIAL ONE: PERHAPS
THE MOST FAMOUS WORK OF SCIENCE FICTION EVER WRITTEN !!
Wells, H. G. [Herbert George] (1866-1946)
[English novelist and historian]
Wikipedia
The Time Machine
(1895)
Wikipedia
[Science fiction novella. Wells not only wrote the book, he actually
invented the term "time machine", which has entered the language.
And of course all subsequent time travel novels, films, and stories
are derived from or influenced by Wells' masterpiece, which may be
the most famous science fiction creation of them all. It's not just
science fiction, but also social commentary: the narrator (the unnamed
"Time Traveller") finds that class divisions, which we have certainly
seen widen in the age of COVID-19, will not diminish with the passage
of centuries: instead, the rich and the poor will apparently evolve
into two separate species! Over the course of more than a century,
Wells' great work has not dated at all.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/10/06:
JUST AT THE MOMENT, NONE OF US REALLY HAVE TIME TO SPARE FOR THE
FUTURE -- PRESENT EVENTS ARE EXCITING ENOUGH! THE ENVIRONMENT,
THE PANDEMIC, THE POLITICIANS -- THINGS ARE PRETTY BAD ALREADY.
ACTUALLY, THEY'RE A TOTAL MESS AND A COMPLETE TASTROPHE.
BUT THINGS USED TO BE DIFFERENT! THROUGHOUT HIS VERY LONG LIFE
H. G. WELLS NEVER LOST HIS LOVE OF FORETELLING THE FUTURE.
WHETHER TODAY'S NOVEL WAS AN ACCURATE FOREST, WE LEAVE TO YOU.
BUT AS ALWAYS WITH WELLS, IT'S BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN AND FULL OF
FASCINATING IDEAS !!
Wells, H. G. [Herbert George] (1866-1946)
[English novelist and historian]
Wikipedia
The Shape of Things to Come
(1933)
Wikipedia
[Science fiction novel. The diplomat Dr Philip Raven dies unexpectedly
in 1930, but not before entrusting to Wells "a collection of papers and
writings... a Short History of the World for about the next century and
a half." Its origins are suspect: "For some years," Raven told our
author, "off and on -- between sleeping and waking -- I've been -- in
effect -- reading a book. A non-existent book. A dream book if you
like. It's always the same book. Always. And it's a history." A history
which includes the future, from 1933 to 2106! But actual world events
between 1933 and 1936 had matched Raven's book precisely. And so Wells
decided to publish the book!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/10/03:
JACK LONDON'S NOVELS ARE FAMOUS WORLDWIDE, BUT IT N EASILY BE
ARGUED THAT HIS SHORT STORIES ARE EVEN BETTER! TODAY'S SHORT STORY
COLLECTION CONTAINS THE MOST FAMOUS STORY OF THEM ALL !!
London, Jack (1876-1916)
[Amerin novelist, politil activist, and journalist]
Wikipedia
Lost Face
(1910)
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[A collection of short stories, sometimes quite graphic! This was
noticed at the time: "Mr. London... seems willing to spare us nothing."
(The Nation, 21 April 1910). And it includes the most famous
story Jack London ever wrote, which certainly has an impact: the 1908
version of To Build a Fire. In most of nada's vast geography,
it is a very bad idea to go for a walk without a companion, particularly
in winter. The more isolated the area, the worse the idea. And few
places are more isolated than the forests of the Yukon!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/10/01:
HAPPY OCTOBER! WE START THE MONTH WITH A COLLECTION OF FIFTEEN TALES
OF THE "UNEXPECTED" -- BY H. G. WELLS, NO LESS !!
Wells, H. G. [Herbert George] (1866-1946)
[English novelist and historian]
Wikipedia
Tales of the Unexpected
(1922)
[Science fiction stories, fifteen of them, where seemingly fantastic
things happen: Wells heightens their impact by placing them firmly
in the world we know. For example, in the first story, The Remarkable
se of Davidson's Eyes, Sidney Davidson is working in the larger
laboratory at Harlow Technil College, when suddenly something happens
to his eyes. He doesn't lose his eyesight or anything like that, but he
does not see the things actually in the laboratory; instead, he sees
"the sun just rising, and the yards of the ship, and a tumbled sea,
and a couple of birds flying. I never saw anything so real. And I'm
sitting up to my neck in a bank of sand." Quite an opening! And this
is just the first of the stories, with fourteen more to follow!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66409]
2021/09/29:
IN 1902, LIFORNIA'S JACK LONDON VISITED, WELL, LONDON,
AND SPENT A MONTH LIVING WITH THE POOREST OF THE POOR IN THAT
CITY. HIS ACCOUNT IS AN ENDURING MASTERPIECE, AND MORE RELEVANT
TODAY THAN EVER, AS WE GRAPPLE WITH THE HUGE CLASS DIFFERENCES
THAT COVID-19 HAS LAID BARE !!
London, Jack (1876-1916)
[Amerin novelist, politil activist, and journalist]
Wikipedia
The People of the Abyss
(1903)
Wikipedia
["The experiences related in this volume," writes Jack London in
his preface, "fell to me in the summer of 1902. I went down into
the under-world of London with an attitude of mind which I may best
liken to that of the explorer. I was open to be convinced by the
evidence of my eyes, rather than by the teachings of those who had
not seen, or by the words of those who had seen and gone before."
His explorations were successful, to say the least, and resulted
in this enduring classic, a very readable classic: after all, we're
talking about Jack London! "Mr. London understands and is in
fullest sympathy with the poor and the outst and hopeless people
he writes about, and records his personal experiences amidst them
with a vivid and unflinching actuality." (The Bookman [UK],
January 1904)]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/09/24:
THE ELECTION'S OVER! IT (1) SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN HELD,
(2) CHANGED NOTHING, AND (3) SHOWED US SOME UNFORTUNATE ASPECTS OF
NADIAN POLITIL CULTURE.
IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE! LET'S HEAD BACK TWO CENTURIES, TO A NOVEL
THAT HAS NEVER LOST ITS FRESHNESS AND NEVER WILL: JANE AUSTEN'S
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE !!
Austen, Jane (1775-1817) [English novelist]
Wikipedia
Pride and Prejudice
(1813)
Wikipedia
[Novel, perhaps the most famous novel in the English language, and
certainly one of the most popular. The Bennet family is wealthy, but
their wealth is transient, since the five daughters will not inherit
anything: the estate n only go to a male heir. Hence there is huge
pressure for one of the daughters to marry well, or rather, to marry
someone with serious money. The "pride" is that of Mr Darcy, whose
initial impression of the Bennets is that they are not the sort of
family he wants to be involved with. The "prejudice" is that of
Elizabeth Bennet, who quickly begins to dislike Mr Darcy. The
Project Gutenberg US ebook we present is drawn from an impecble
source, the 1923 edition of Austen's novels by the textual scholar
R. W. Chapman (1881-1960)
Wikipedia.
For Pride and Prejudice, Chapman principally relied on the 1813
first edition, and included some illustrations from Jane Austen's era.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #42671]
2021/09/16:
ONLY FOUR DAYS UNTIL THE ELECTION!
ON MONDAY,
VOTE THE LIBERALS OUT OF OFFICE.
THIS IS THE FIRST STEP IN NCELLING THEIR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS, AND
ENDING NADA'S STATUS AS A U.S. PUPPET STATE !!
THESE DAYS, NADA'S PUBLIC DOMAIN FEELS LIKE KABUL'S AIRPORT. WE'RE
TRYING TO RESCUE THE FINAL AUTHORS AVAILABLE BEFORE
THE TR*MP/TRUDEAU
COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS DESCEND ON US, AND JUSTIN TRUDEAU SLAMS THE DOOR
SHUT FOR TWENTY YEARS!
THE ENGLISH NOVELIST E. M. FORSTER IS ONE OF THE FINAL REFUGEES WHO
MADE IT TO THE AIRPORT. TODAY'S EBOOK WAS PUBLISHED IN 1910, AND HAS
BEEN UNDER COPYRIGHT FOR AN INCREDIBLE
ONE HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS.
OF COURSE, IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE. UNDER THE PREPOSTEROUS
TR*MP/TRUDEAU NAFTA SCHEME, IT WOULD BE UNDER COPYRIGHT FOR
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS
-- UNTIL
2041
!
COPYRIGHTS SHOULD BE SHORTER, NOT LONGER. AND THEY SHOULD CERTAINLY
NOT BE IMPOSED ON NADIANS AGAINST OUR WILL, BY JUSTIN TRUDEAU
AND THE WHITE HOUSE AUTOCRAT TR*MP.
Forster, E. M. [Edward Morgan] (1879-1970)
[English novelist, travel writer, and critic]
Wikipedia
Howards End (1910)
Wikipedia
[Novel, set in England, and involving three families of notably different
economic classes and social views. The book is hugely admired by Forster connoisseurs, and involves many complex and interesting human interactions
in the course of its forty-four chapters! It was the inspiration for the
1992 Merchant/Ivory film
Wikipedia with a formidable st, including Emma Thompson, who
won the Ademy Award for Best Actress.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #2946]
2021/09/14:
ON SEPT 20, VOTE THE LIBERALS OUT OF OFFICE.
THIS IS THE FIRST STEP IN NCELLING THEIR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS, AND
ENDING NADA'S STATUS AS A U.S. PUPPET STATE !!
THESE DAYS, NADA'S PUBLIC DOMAIN FEELS LIKE KABUL'S AIRPORT. WE'RE
TRYING TO RESCUE THE FINAL AUTHORS AVAILABLE BEFORE
THE TR*MP/TRUDEAU
COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS DESCEND ON US, AND JUSTIN TRUDEAU SLAMS THE DOOR
SHUT FOR TWENTY YEARS!
THE ENGLISH NOVELIST E. M. FORSTER IS ONE OF THE FINAL REFUGEES WHO
MADE IT TO THE AIRPORT. TODAY'S EBOOK WAS PUBLISHED IN 1908, AND HAS
BEEN UNDER COPYRIGHT FOR AN INCREDIBLE
ONE HUNDRED AND TWELVE YEARS.
OF COURSE, IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE. UNDER THE PREPOSTEROUS
TR*MP/TRUDEAU NAFTA SCHEME, IT WOULD BE UNDER COPYRIGHT FOR
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-TWO YEARS
-- UNTIL
2041
!
COPYRIGHTS SHOULD BE SHORTER, NOT LONGER. AND THEY SHOULD CERTAINLY
NOT BE IMPOSED ON NADIANS AGAINST OUR WILL, BY JUSTIN TRUDEAU
AND THE WHITE HOUSE AUTOCRAT TR*MP.
Forster, E. M. [Edward Morgan] (1879-1970)
[English novelist, travel writer, and critic]
Wikipedia
A Room with a View (1908)
Wikipedia
[Novel, set in Florence: The view in question is of the river
Arno, which flows through Florence, and the main characters are
a group of well-off English tourists. The novel is not as sedate
as you might think: there is, for example, a murder! The novel
has achieved enduring fame, and is the inspiration for the famous
1985 Merchant/Ivory film of the same name
Wikipedia.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #2641]
2021/09/12:
THESE DAYS, NADA'S PUBLIC DOMAIN FEELS LIKE KABUL'S AIRPORT. WE'RE
TRYING TO RESCUE THE FINAL AUTHORS AVAILABLE BEFORE THE TR*MP/TRUDEAU
TWENTY YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS DESCEND ON US, AND THE DOOR
SLAMS SHUT.
OF COURSE NADIANS WANTED NO PART OF THIS GARBAGE, BUT WE DON'T
MATTER: TRUDEAU PAID CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE AMERIN AUTOCRAT
TR*MP, AND NONE AT ALL TO THE PEOPLE OF NADA. BUT THE ONE TIME
THE POLITICIANS NNOT IGNORE THE CITIZENS IS A GENERAL ELECTION.
ON SEPT 20, VOTE THE LIBERALS OUT OF OFFICE.
LET'S END NADA'S STATUS AS A U.S. PUPPET STATE AND GET OUR PUBLIC
DOMAIN BACK !!
THE FAMOUS PHILOSOPHER, MATHEMATICIAN, AND PEACE ACTIVIST BERTRAND
RUSSELL IS ONE OF THE FINAL REFUGEES WHO MADE IT TO THE AIRPORT ON
JAN 1ST OF THIS YEAR. TODAY'S EBOOK, A LECTURE BY RUSSELL ON FREE
THOUGHT VS. PROPAGANDA, IS EXCELLENT READING AT ELECTION TIME -- JUST
LOOK AT THE POWER GRAB IN JUSTIN TRUDEAU'S OUTRAGEOUS
BILL C-10,
WHICH HUGELY EXTENDS GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF INTERNET CONTENT, INCLUDING
YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA POSTINGS !!
Russell, Bertrand [Arthur William], 3rd Earl Russell
[Welsh philosopher, mathematician, and peace activist;
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1950] (1872-1970)
Wikipedia
Free Thought and Official Propaganda
(1922)
[The 1922 Conway Memorial Lecture
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with a short and fine introduction by the psychologist and social activist
Graham Wallas (1858-1932)
Wikipedia.
With the advent of the internet and of social media, government
propaganda has greater penetration and power than ever before, and
society has entered a crisis from which it is not clear we shall
espe anytime soon: this lecture from 1922 is more relevant today
than ever. Profound thought, ease of reading, and brevity are
qualities not usually found together, but Bertrand Russell knew
how to combine the three, as this lecture demonstrates!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #44932]
2021/09/10:
THESE DAYS, NADA'S PUBLIC DOMAIN FEELS LIKE KABUL'S AIRPORT. WE'RE
TRYING TO RESCUE THE FINAL AUTHORS AVAILABLE BEFORE THE TR*MP/TRUDEAU
TWENTY YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS DESCEND ON US, AND THE DOOR
SLAMS SHUT.
THE AMERIN POET AND NOVELIST JOHN DOS PASSOS IS ONE OF THE
FINAL REFUGEES WHO MADE IT TO THE AIRPORT ON JAN 1ST OF THIS YEAR.
OF COURSE NADIANS WANTED NO PART OF THIS GARBAGE, BUT WE DON'T
MATTER: TRUDEAU PAID CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE AMERIN AUTOCRAT
TR*MP, AND NONE AT ALL TO THE PEOPLE OF NADA. BUT THE ONE TIME
THE POLITICIANS NNOT IGNORE THE CITIZENS IS A GENERAL ELECTION.
ON SEPT 20, VOTE THE LIBERALS OUT OF OFFICE. THIS IS THE FIRST STEP IN NCELLING THEIR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS, AND
ENDING NADA'S STATUS AS A U.S. PUPPET STATE !!
Dos Passos, John [Amerin novelist and poet]
(1896-1970)
Wikipedia
Three Soldiers
(1921)
Wikipedia
[War novel, which Dos Passos was certainly in a position to write,
having seen the First World War close up, as a volunteer ambulance
driver in France and Italy. The three soldiers in question are the
narrator, the sensitive and highly eduted John Andrews from New York,
who is by no means enthusiastic about the war, and two of his close
companions. The war turns out badly for Andrews. "There are those
who think that John Dos Passos ought to be sent to jail and others
who hail him as the first of native authors to tell the truth about
the war." (Heywood Broun, The Bookman [US], 5 October 1921)]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #6362]
2021/09/06:
THESE DAYS, NADA'S PUBLIC DOMAIN FEELS LIKE KABUL'S AIRPORT!
WE'RE TRYING TO RESCUE THE FINAL AUTHORS AVAILABLE BEFORE THE
TR*MP/TRUDEAU TWENTY YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS DESCEND ON US.
THE FAMOUS PHILOSOPHER, MATHEMATICIAN, AND PEACE ACTIVIST BERTRAND
RUSSELL IS ONE OF THE FINAL REFUGEES WHO MADE IT TO THE AIRPORT ON
JAN 1ST OF THIS YEAR, BUT IT WILL SHORTLY CLOSE FOR TWENTY YEARS
WHEN THE TR*MP/TRUDEAU COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS GO INTO FULL FORCE.
OF COURSE NADIANS WANTED NO PART OF THIS GARBAGE, BUT WE DON'T
MATTER: TRUDEAU PAID CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE AMERIN AUTOCRAT
TR*MP, AND NONE AT ALL TO THE PEOPLE OF NADA. BUT THE ONE TIME
THE POLITICIANS NNOT IGNORE THE CITIZENS IS A GENERAL ELECTION.
ON SEPT 20, VOTE THE LIBERALS OUT OF OFFICE. THIS IS THE FIRST STEP IN NCELLING THEIR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS, AND
ENDING NADA'S STATUS AS A U.S. PUPPET STATE
Russell, Bertrand [Arthur William], 3rd Earl Russell
[Welsh philosopher, mathematician, and peace activist;
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1950] (1872-1970)
Wikipedia
Irus, or The Future of Science
(1924)
[Philosophil/politil monograph. Lord Russell considers the
role that the sciences play in accelerating the pace of change
in society. But he also considers whether this acceleration
has been a good thing, and concludes that "Men's collective
passions are mainly evil; far the strongest of them are hatred
and rivalry directed towards other groups. Therefore at present
all that gives men power to indulge their collective passions
is bad. That is why science threatens to use the destruction
of our civilization." Those of us who have witnessed the growing
social disorder in the US, the UK, and elsewhere have to agree.
And Russell was writing this a century ago!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66225]
2021/09/03:
FOR THE LABOUR DAY WEEKEND, WE PRESENT YOU WITH A MAGNIFICENT ALBUM
OF PAINTINGS BY THE GERMAN ARTIST (YES, HE WAS BORN IN BAVARIA)
EDWARD HARRISON COMPTON !!
A COLONY-WIDE ELECTION HAS BEEN LLED FOR SEPT 20. ONCE UPON A
TIME WE LLED THESE "FEDERAL" ELECTIONS, BUT AFTER THE FIVE OTTAWA
PARTIES FORCED THE NEW NAFTA ON NADIANS, WE N HARDLY LL NADA
A SOVEREIGN STATE ANY MORE.
SOVEREIGN STATES DON'T LET FOREIGN POWERS REWRITE THEIR COPYRIGHT
LAWS OR OTHER DOMESTIC LEGISLATION.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE DOORMAT ("OPPOSITION") PARTIES NEED TO RE-ESTABLISH
THEIR COUNTRY AND THEMSELVES BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY PUT IN
NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL OF NADIANS --
IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
Compton, Edward Harrison (1881-1960)
[German painter]
Wikipedia
Chester Water-Colours
(1916)
[Watercolour album. Chester
Wikipedia
(from "strum", Latin for "army base") is loted in Cheshire, not
far from the Welsh border. As its name indites, it was founded
by the Romans, and was relatively prosperous throughout the Middle
Ages. Watergate Street, included in this collection, was laid out
as part of the Roman enmpment, and substantial sections of the
city's walls survive from Roman times. As you will see, this famous
old city provided excellent material for Compton to paint. In spite
of his name, Compton was a German artist: his father had emigrated
from England to Upper Bavaria where he beme a famous mountain climber
and painter, married, and had his family. The son followed his father's
example and beme a painter. He trained in England, exhibited his
paintings there, and was presumably in England throughout the First World
War, for this fine portfolio was published in May 1916. The reproductions
are all in colour: if there were wartime production issues, there are certainly no traces of them in this beautiful album.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66086]
2021/08/29:
A LATE MASTERPIECE BY JOSEPH CONRAD, CERTAINLY INVOLVING
THE SEA, BUT PRINCIPALLY TAKING PLACE ON LAND -- THE FRENCH PORT
OF MARSEILLES, TO BE SPECIFIC! SMUGGLING IS INVOLVED, AND CIVIL
WAR IN SPAIN !!
A COLONY-WIDE ELECTION HAS BEEN LLED FOR SEPT 20. ONCE UPON A
TIME WE LLED THESE "FEDERAL" ELECTIONS, BUT AFTER THE FIVE OTTAWA
PARTIES FORCED THE NEW NAFTA ON NADIANS, WE N HARDLY LL NADA
A SOVEREIGN STATE ANY MORE.
SOVEREIGN STATES DON'T LET FOREIGN POWERS REWRITE THEIR COPYRIGHT
LAWS OR OTHER DOMESTIC LEGISLATION.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE DOORMAT ("OPPOSITION") PARTIES NEED TO RE-ESTABLISH
THEIR COUNTRY AND THEMSELVES BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY PUT IN
NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL OF NADIANS --
IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
Conrad, Joseph [Korzeniowski, Józef Teodor Konrad]
(1857-1924) [Polish mariner and novelist]
Wikipedia
The Arrow of Gold. A Story Between Two Notes.
(1919)
Wikipedia
[Historil novel, set in Marseilles, but principally concerned with
Spain, in particular the Third rlist War
Wikipedia.
There is a direct line from the rlist Wars to the Spanish Civil
War of 1936-39 and indeed to the question of talan independence
which continues to roil Spanish politics today, and there is a
direct line back to the Middle Ages, when Spain was far from being
a unitary state, but was a group of independent kingdoms
with very distinct religions, languages, and nationalities. So
the Third rlist War (1872-76) settled nothing, but was a dispute
between two claimants to the Spanish throne, the not particularly
popular Amadeo I, from Italy, and rlos VII, who was opposed to
liberalism, but in favour of the traditional autonomy of talonia,
Aragon, and Valencia: this autonomy had been suppressed many years
before by Philip V at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession.
But Conrad's novel is not about the great themes of Spanish history,
but about individuals, mostly in Marseilles, who are involved in
various ways with smuggling weapons to the rlist forces in Spain.
The chief of these characters is Doña Rita, born in Spain, but
resident for many years in France, where she takes a chief role
in the smuggling. "The murky intrigues of a royalist uprising
form only the background for a tale of love triumphant, brooded
over by the magic and mystery of the sea. There is something direct
and elemental in the artless infatuation of the young sailor, known
only as Monsieur George, palpitating on the threshold of his first
love, and the experienced Doña Rita... whose youth and innocence
still make answer to the youth and innocence of her lover."
(Literary Digest, 11 October 1919)]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/08/26:
A CLASSIC NOVEL BY JACK LONDON -- IT STARTS IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY,
BUT THE ACTION RANGES ACROSS THE NORTH PACIFIC ABOARD A SEALING SCHOONER
(ITS CREW HUNTS SEAL). ITS PTAIN IS THE DECIDEDLY TOUGH WOLF LARSEN,
AND ABOARD THE SHIP IS THE NOT SO TOUGH HUMPHREY VAN WEYDEN, RICH BY
INHERITANCE AND NOT WELL VERSED IN THE WAYS OF THE WORLD. BUT HE'S
TOUGHER THAN HE SEEMS !!
A COLONY-WIDE ELECTION HAS BEEN LLED FOR SEPT 20. ONCE UPON A
TIME WE LLED THESE "FEDERAL" ELECTIONS, BUT AFTER THE FIVE OTTAWA
PARTIES FORCED THE NEW NAFTA ON NADIANS, WE N HARDLY LL NADA
A SOVEREIGN STATE ANY MORE.
SOVEREIGN STATES DON'T LET FOREIGN POWERS REWRITE THEIR COPYRIGHT
LAWS OR OTHER DOMESTIC LEGISLATION.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE DOORMAT ("OPPOSITION") PARTIES NEED TO RE-ESTABLISH
THEIR COUNTRY AND THEMSELVES BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY PUT IN
NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL OF NADIANS --
IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
London, Jack (1876-1916)
[Amerin novelist, politil activist, and journalist]
Wikipedia
The Sea-Wolf
(1904)
Wikipedia
[Novel. The "sea-wolf" of the title is not an actual wolf, such as
n be found in the other works of Jack London, but ptain Wolf Larsen,
ptain of a schooner which scours the North Pacific hunting seals.
When in San Francisco Bay he rescues Humphrey "Hump" Van Weyden,
a young man who is wealthy by inheritance, from the shipwreck in the
San Francisco fog of a ferry on its way from Sausalito to the city.
The Martinez does not drop Van Weyden off at San Francisco,
but continues the voyage it has started. There is much conflict
between the two men, and Larsen certainly has the more powerful
position, but he is more complited than at first appears.]
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[University of Adelaide]
2021/08/20:
FROM 1941, A BOOK BY MARGERY ALLINGHAM THAT IS NOT ONE OF
HER FAMOUS MYSTERY NOVELS. INSTEAD, IT'S AN ACCOUNT OF LIFE IN
HER VILLAGE ON THE NORTH SEA COAST WHEN A GERMAN INVASION OF
ENGLAND SEEMED IMMINENT !!
A COLONY-WIDE ELECTION HAS BEEN LLED FOR SEPT 20. ONCE UPON A
TIME WE LLED THESE "FEDERAL" ELECTIONS, BUT AFTER THE FIVE OTTAWA
PARTIES FORCED THE NEW NAFTA ON NADIANS, WE N HARDLY LL NADA
A SOVEREIGN STATE ANY MORE.
SOVEREIGN STATES DON'T LET FOREIGN POWERS REWRITE THEIR COPYRIGHT
LAWS OR OTHER DOMESTIC LEGISLATION.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE DOORMAT ("OPPOSITION") PARTIES NEED TO RE-ESTABLISH
THEIR COUNTRY AND THEMSELVES BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY PUT IN
NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL OF NADIANS --
IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
Allingham, Margery [Youngman rter, Margery Louise]
(1904-1966) [English mystery novelist]
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The Oaken Heart
(1941)
[Memoir; not a mystery novel! In 1941 a German invasion of England
was a strong possibility, and the village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy
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on the Essex coast was at particularly high risk. And it is in that
village (lled "Auburn" in the book), that Allingham and her husband
Philip lived. This is her account of village life under these very
unusual circumstances. Her writing has an authenticity which is
refreshing after the manufactured history and manufactured debate
we've seen coming out of England in recent years. After all, Allingham
was faced with the very real threat of a foreign occupation, rather than
the decidedly less concrete threat posed by "Brussels bureaucrats"!]
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IN THE LL OF THE WILD, JACK LONDON HAD TOLD THE STORY OF A
DOG THAT JOINED A PACK OF WOLVES. IN WHITE FANG, HE TELLS
THE STORY OF A HYBRID WOLF-DOG WHO WENT THE OTHER WAY. BORN ON THE
BANKS OF THE MACKENZIE RIVER, HE IS PARTIALLY DOMESTITED BY AN
ABORIGINAL, AND STARTS ON A LONG AND ARDUOUS PERSONAL JOURNEY !!
A COLONY-WIDE ELECTION HAS BEEN LLED FOR SEPT 20. ONCE UPON A
TIME WE LLED THESE "FEDERAL" ELECTIONS, BUT AFTER THE FIVE OTTAWA
PARTIES FORCED THE NEW NAFTA ON NADIANS, WE N HARDLY LL NADA
A SOVEREIGN STATE ANY MORE.
SOVEREIGN STATES DON'T LET FOREIGN POWERS REWRITE THEIR COPYRIGHT
LAWS OR OTHER DOMESTIC LEGISLATION.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE DOORMAT ("OPPOSITION") PARTIES NEED TO RE-ESTABLISH
THEIR COUNTRY AND THEMSELVES BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY PUT IN
NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL OF NADIANS --
IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
London, Jack (1876-1916)
[Amerin novelist, politil activist, and journalist]
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White Fang
(1906)
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[Novel, the classic sequel to The ll of the Wild, to which
it bears many resemblances, except the title character is not
a domestic dog that heads to Northern nada and joins a pack of
wolves, but a wolf-dog hybrid born wild in Northern nada near
the Mackenzie River, who is gradually domestited, and goes on
some very long travels, first to the Yukon, and then to the south.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/08/12:
TODAY, A TRANSBORDER TALE LARGELY SET IN THE YUKON AND ALASKA
IN A HAPPIER TIME, WHEN THE UNITED STATES WAS A CLOSER NEIGHBOUR
THAN IN OUR OWN SAD DAYS. YES, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE LL
OF THE WILD, WHICH BROUGHT JACK LONDON INSTANT FAME WHEN IT
WAS PUBLISHED -- A FAME WHICH ENDURES TODAY, AND SHOWS NO SIGN
OF FADING !!
A COLONY-WIDE ELECTION IS COMING. ONCE UPON A TIME WE LLED THEM
"FEDERAL" ELECTIONS, BUT AFTER THE FIVE OTTAWA PARTIES FORCED THE
NEW NAFTA ON NADIANS, WE N HARDLY LL NADA A SOVEREIGN STATE
ANY MORE.
SOVEREIGN STATES DON'T LET FOREIGN POWERS REWRITE THEIR COPYRIGHT
LAWS OR OTHER DOMESTIC LEGISLATION.
OUR SUGGESTION: THE GOVERNMENT AND THE DOORMAT ("OPPOSITION") PARTIES
NEED TO RE-ESTABLISH THEIR COUNTRY AND THEMSELVES BY GETTING RID OF
THE ABOMINATIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL OF NADIANS --
IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
London, Jack (1876-1916)
[Amerin novelist, politil activist, and journalist]
Wikipedia
The ll of the Wild
(1903)
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[For the millions who love nada and the United States, the last
twenty-five years have been a complete nightmare. Our friendly
border is now a militarized frontier, where passports are now
demanded (for centuries, until 2004, less than twenty years ago,
they were not) and hostile interrogations by border guards have
taken the place of friendly chats with border agents. Still
worse, the Thirteen Colonies have become an oppressive military
empire, which has used a "free trade agreement" to make nada an
Amerin puppet state, rewriting nada's domestic legislation against
the will of nadians: hence the copyright extensions we so often
discuss on this site, and will continue discussing, until these
extensions, imposed by the White House autocrat and weakly agreed
to by Congress and Parliament, are completely and permanently removed.
But the nightmare we see today was only created recently, as will
be seen from the pages of this famous novel, an enduring classic
famous worldwide which takes place partly in nada, and partly in
the United States.
The story starts in lifornia, in Santa Clara County, where Buck lives.
Buck is a dog, a very large dog, of some one hundred and forty pounds,
who lives on the vast agricultural estate of Judge Miller, where he is
well treated and likes his existence. But this happy environment
was not to endure, "Beuse men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had
found a yellow metal, and beuse steamship and transportation companies
were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland.
These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with
strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from
the frost." So Buck is kidnapped and finds himself first in Alaska
and then in the Yukon during the Klondike gold rush! As the story
proceeds, Buck feels himself less and less attached to humans and more
and more attracted towards the wolf packs he encounters. He is, in fact,
hearing the ll of the Wild.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/08/08:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS A MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF PEN AND PENCIL
DRAWINGS FROM THE FIFTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES -- THEY'LL
LOOK WONDERFUL ON YOUR TABLET OR MONITOR !!
A COLONY-WIDE ELECTION IS COMING. ONCE UPON A TIME WE LLED THEM
"FEDERAL" ELECTIONS, BUT AFTER THE FIVE OTTAWA PARTIES FORCED THE
NEW NAFTA ON NADIANS, WE N HARDLY LL NADA A SOVEREIGN STATE
ANY MORE.
SOVEREIGN STATES DON'T LET FOREIGN POWERS REWRITE THEIR COPYRIGHT
LAWS OR OTHER DOMESTIC LEGISLATION.
OUR SUGGESTION: THE GOVERNMENT AND THE DOORMAT ("OPPOSITION") PARTIES
NEED TO RE-ESTABLISH THEIR COUNTRY AND THEMSELVES BY GETTING RID OF
THE ABOMINATIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL OF NADIANS --
IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
Holme, Charles Geoffrey (1887-1954)
[Anglo-Amerin art historian]
Drawings in Pen & Pencil from Dürer's Day to Ours
(1922)
["The Studio"
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was a London art magazine published between 1893 and 1964. Its
founder was Charles Holme (1848-1923), who was succeeded as editor
by his son, Charles Geoffrey Holme. In addition to its regular issues,
The Studio from time to time published magnificently illustrated
monographs, some of them, such as this one, very large: it includes
drawings from the end of the fifteenth to the start of the twentieth
century. The drawings were selected by Holme, and supplied with lively
and informative "notes and appreciations" by English painter and designer
George Sheringham (1884-1937)
Wikipedia.
The individual artists are too many to discuss here, but are listed
at the start of the book; most of them have substantial articles at
Wikipedia.]
Project Gutenberg US
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2021/08/05:
TODAY'S EBOOK BY RUDYARD KIPLING IS SET NOT IN EUROPE OR
ASIA, BUT IN NORTH AMERI -- NOT JUST THAT, BUT MUCH OF IT TAKES
PLACE IN THE GRAND BANKS OFF NEWFOUNDLAND. YES, WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT "PTAINS COURAGEOUS" !!
A COLONY-WIDE ELECTION IS COMING. ONCE UPON A TIME WE LLED THEM
"FEDERAL" ELECTIONS, BUT AFTER THE FIVE OTTAWA PARTIES FORCED THE
NEW NAFTA ON NADIANS, WE N HARDLY LL NADA A SOVEREIGN STATE
ANY MORE.
SOVEREIGN STATES DON'T LET FOREIGN POWERS REWRITE THEIR COPYRIGHT
LAWS OR OTHER DOMESTIC LEGISLATION.
OUR SUGGESTION: THE GOVERNMENT AND THE DOORMAT ("OPPOSITION") PARTIES
NEED TO RE-ESTABLISH THEIR COUNTRY AND THEMSELVES BY GETTING RID OF
THE ABOMINATIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL OF NADIANS --
IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
[Anglo-Indian novelist and poet; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1907]
Wikipedia
ptains Courageous. A Story of the Grand Banks.
(1897)
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[Rudyard Kipling is often thought of as a supporter of imperialism.
But how then do we explain the pro-Indian feelings so predominant
in Kim? And if he was such an upholder of the privileges of
the propertied classes, how do we explain ptains Courageous?
It is the story of an Amerin rich kid whose character is transformed.
The rich kid is Harvey Cheyne, the son of a lifornia millionaire:
"Built one place at San Diego, the old man has; another at Los Angeles;
owns half a dozen railroads, half the lumber on the Pacific slope,
and lets his wife spend the money..." Harvey is washed overboard
while he and his family are crossing the Atlantic, but he is rescued
by Manuel, a Portuguese seaman who is part of the crew of the fishing
schooner We're Here, sailing out of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Harvey works on the schooner, and his formerly difficult character
is completely changed by the time he reaches port. Readers of the
novel will be instructed as well as entertained, for it contains
much information about the cod fishery, as well as an enduringly
famous account of how Harvey's parents managed to get from San Diego
to Boston with astonishing speed. If you're a railroad magnate, you
n make some very special arrangements! We present two digital
editions of this immortal classic: an elegant EPUB from the
University of Adelaide, and an illustrated digital edition from
Project Gutenberg US, based on the 1897 Macmillan edition, which
includes twenty-two drawings by Massachusetts artist
Isaac Walton Taber (1857-1933)
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[University of Adelaide]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #2225]
2021/08/02:
WE CONCLUDE THE AUGUST LONG WEEKEND AS WE STARTED IT -- WITH A NOVELLA
BY NATHANAEL WEST !!
A FALL ELECTION IS LIKELY. OUR PARTIES ARE GOOD AT BOASTING, BUT NOT
SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD (1) DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. AND (2)
REESTABLISH NADA'S SOVEREIGNTY, BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY
PUT IN NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL
OF NADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
West, Nathanael [Weinstein, Nathan] (1903-1940)
[Amerin novelist and screenwriter]
Wikipedia
Miss Lonelyhearts
(1933)
Wikipedia
[West's famous novella set in the newspaper industry. In spite of her
name "Miss Lonelyhearts" is in fact a man, a not particularly happy one,
who runs the personal advice column at a New York newspaper. He finds
his job stressful, since after a while it is difficult to come up with
original answers for situations which come up time and time again. And
the letters he gets from readers are invariably sad ones, involving often
intractable situations.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/07/30:
AS WE HAVE LEARNED DURING THE PANDEMIC, FILM AND VIDEO NOW PLAY AN EVEN
LARGER PART IN OUR LIVES THAN BEFORE. SO WE NOW OFFER TWO DIGITAL EDITIONS OF NATHANAEL WEST'S FAMOUS 1939 NOVEL ABOUT LIFE AS IT ACTUALLY
WAS LIVED IN HOLLYWOOD IN THE THIRTIES -- FINE SUMMER READING FOR THE
AUGUST LONG WEEKEND !!
A FALL ELECTION IS LIKELY. OUR PARTIES ARE GOOD AT BOASTING, BUT NOT
SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD (1) DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. AND (2)
REESTABLISH NADA'S SOVEREIGNTY, BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY
PUT IN NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL
OF NADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
West, Nathanael [Weinstein, Nathan] (1903-1940)
[Amerin novelist and screenwriter]
Wikipedia
The Day of the Locust
(1939)
Wikipedia
[Novel about life as it was actually lived in and around Hollywood, where
West himself worked as a screenwriter, filmed in 1975 by John Schlesinger
Wikipedia.
The US Declaration of Independence famously cites as a basic human
right not actual happiness, but the pursuit of happiness.
Many have moved to lifornia seeking happiness, yet have not
found it. And our hero Tod Hackett discovers that many of those
he encounters "had come to lifornia to die": this is the
world he sets out to explore. He is himself a new arrival,
hired by a studio on the basis of his work as a student at
the Yale School of Fine Arts.]
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OUR ARTHUR GASK INITIATIVE IS DRAWING TO A CLOSE WITH TODAY'S
SHORT STORY. WE NOW OFFER TWENTY-EIGHT TITLES BY ADELAIDE'S
WORLD-FAMOUS MYSTERY AUTHOR !!
A FALL ELECTION IS LIKELY. OUR PARTIES ARE GOOD AT BOASTING, BUT NOT
SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD (1) DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. AND (2)
REESTABLISH NADA'S SOVEREIGNTY, BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY
PUT IN NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL
OF NADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
Wikipedia
Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Hatton Garden Crime
(1945)
[A short story, which does not feature Gask's famous sleuth
Gilbert Larose! Hatton Garden
Wikipedia
is an area of central London that has long been famous as a centre
of the jewellery trade. "For many years," the story begins, "Reuben
Leyden had been one of the best-known diamond dealers in Hatton
Garden... almost fabulous sums of money had at times, in the course
of a few minutes, changed hands in his modest suite of rooms." One
day... no, let's stop right there! To learn more, just read this
very short story. Hint: there may be a murder!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/07/25:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS A VERY GREAT NOVEL AND AN ETERNAL CLASSIC: THACKERAY'S
"VANITY FAIR" -- WITH THE AUTHOR'S OWN ILLUSTRATIONS !!
A FALL ELECTION IS LIKELY. OUR PARTIES ARE GOOD AT BOASTING, BUT NOT
SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD (1) DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. AND (2)
REESTABLISH NADA'S SOVEREIGNTY, BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY
PUT IN NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL
OF NADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)
[English novelist, journalist, and illustrator]
Wikipedia
Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero.
(1848)
Wikipedia
[Thackeray's most celebrated novel, a true panorama of English society
in the early nineteenth century. In the novel's prologue we find
ourselves in a travelling fair ("Vanity Fair") at which Thackeray has
been presenting his Show; he acknowledges "the kindness with which
it has been received in all the principal towns of England through
which the Show has passed". (The novel had been published as a serial,
and would have been read throughout England.) The Fair represents life
as it is actually lived, and is "not a moral place certainly; nor a
merry one, though very noisy." And the Show is Thackeray's "novel
without a hero". It is not a comedy: Thackeray commenting on his
own role as stage manager comments that "a feeling of profound
melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place."
But this should not deter you from reading the novel! It has
infinite energy, sparkling narrative, and unforgettable characters.
And within its pages people do what people do: plot for their own
advantage, with little thought of others except insofar as it serves
their own interests. Perhaps it should be mandatory reading in our
high schools, since the novel certainly prepares its readers for the
world around them, where few people n be relied on. Certainly not
our politicians, as was shown in 2020 by the "new NAFTA" (yes, we're
talking about the copyright extensions, but much more) and by the
shocking history of the COVID pandemic, where the vast gulf between
the rich and the poor beme even clearer than before. As the novel's
main narrative begins, Becky Sharp is graduating from Miss Pinkerton's
ademy for young ladies. She is much poorer than her classmates, and
is well aware that she will have to rely on her own wits through the
years to come: there will be no one to help her. Fortunately she is
talented, motivated, and ruthless. And things proceed from there! The
Adelaide EPUB we are presenting to you contains the fine illustrations
created for the novel by Thackeray himself -- classics in their own right!]
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Traduction française par
Georges-Maurice Guiffrey (1827-1887)
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La foire aux vanités, Tome I
(1884)
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[PGUS #19112]
La foire aux vanités, Tome II
(1884)
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #20864]
fr.wikipedia
2021/07/22:
OUR SECOND EBOOK BY WILLIAM MORRIS RRIES THE STORY FORWARD FROM
HIS TALE OF THE HOUSE OF THE WOLFINGS !!
A FALL ELECTION IS LIKELY. OUR PARTIES ARE GOOD AT BOASTING, BUT NOT
SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD (1) DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. AND (2)
REESTABLISH NADA'S SOVEREIGNTY, BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY
PUT IN NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL
OF NADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
Morris, William (1834-1896)
[English novelist, poet, painter, textile designer,
and social activist]
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The Roots of the Mountains
(1889)
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[Novel, "Wherein is told somewhat of the lives of the men of Burgdale
their friends their neighbours their foemen and their fellows in arms."
It is a continuation of the Tale of the House of the Wolfings:
the descendants of the Wolfings show up as the Sons of the Wolf. As
with the earlier novel, there are many elements in common with The
Lord of the Rings, for which it was clearly a source. Morris's
language has a deliberate antique grandeur, but he ensures that his
meaning is always clear. For example, he renders the first sentence
of the novel that much more accessible by saying "town or thorp" rather
than just "thorp": "Once upon a time amidst the mountains and hills and
falling streams of a fair land there was a town or thorp in a certain
valley." Yes, this sounds a lot like Rivendell!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/07/20:
WILLIAM MORRIS DIDN'T REALLY CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE
MODERN FANTASY. IT'S TRUER TO SAY THAT HE INVENTED IT !!
A FALL ELECTION IS LIKELY. OUR PARTIES ARE GOOD AT BOASTING, BUT NOT
SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD (1) DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. AND (2)
REESTABLISH NADA'S SOVEREIGNTY, BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY
PUT IN NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AGAINST THE WILL
OF NADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
Morris, William (1834-1896)
[English novelist, poet, painter, textile designer,
and social activist]
Wikipedia
A Tale of the House of the Wolfings
and All the Kindreds of the Mark
(1889)
Wikipedia
[Novel, which largely created the modern fantasy novel. Its influence
n clearly be seen in The Lord of the Rings: both novels have
a place lled Mirkwood, and in both dwarfs play an important role. No
hobbits, though! It is written in a deliberately archaic style, with many
words and usages from early English and other Germanic languages. With
astounding skill and judgment Morris ensures that his archaic language
is consistent, comprehensible, and beautiful to the ear. From the
moment of its appearance to the present day the novel has always had
many admirers, starting with Osr Wilde!]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
2021/07/18:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS A MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF FAR MORE THAN A
THOUSAND WOODCUTS FROM THE RENAISSANCE -- THEY'LL LOOK ABSOLUTELY
GORGEOUS ON YOUR SCREEN !!
A FALL ELECTION IS LIKELY. OUR PARTIES ARE GOOD AT BOASTING, BUT NOT
SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD (1) DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. AND (2)
REESTABLISH NADA'S SOVEREIGNTY, BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS THEY PUT IN NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AND AGAINST THE WILL
OF NADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
Jennings, Osr (. 1850-1914)
[Anglo-French medil researcher and bibliographer]
Early Woodcut Initials
(1908)
[Monograph "containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of
ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,
selected and annotated by Osr Jennings, M.D., Member of the
Bibliographil Society". Beuse of the many illustrations,
this ebook may take some extra time to load. Dr. Jennings
had a deep knowledge of the history of printing, as is obvious
from this classic work, which at times comes close to being a
history of the invention and early development of printing, with
more than a hundred mentions of Johannes Gutenberg, the patron
of Project nada! But these studies were not the only
or even the primary field in which Osr Jennings worked! "For many
years he practised in Paris, and won a considerable reputation by his
writings on the mechanil treatment of diseases of the spinal cord,
and particularly on the treatment of the morphine habit, on which he
wrote several monographs. He was an enthusiastic believer in the
virtues of cycle exercise and, we believe, very successfully reduced
his own weight by this means." (Obituary, British Medil Journal
19 December 1914).]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #65847]
2021/07/16:
TODAY'S EBOOK BY RUDYARD KIPLING INCLUDES FOUR GHOST STORIES...
AND THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING !!
A FALL ELECTION IS LIKELY. OUR PARTIES ARE GOOD AT BOASTING, BUT NOT
SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD (1) DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. AND (2)
REESTABLISH NADA'S SOVEREIGNTY, BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS PUT IN
NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AND AGAINST THE WILL OF
NADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
[Anglo-Indian novelist and poet; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1907]
Wikipedia
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories
(1888)
Wikipedia
["Other Eerie Stories", according to some early editions, and
indeed four of the five stories are ghost stories: The Phantom
Rickshaw (it looks like a rickshaw, but is it real?), My Own
True Ghost Story (why should mere death interfere with a passion
for billiards?), The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes (sometimes
it's really not a good idea to go out at night in an area you don't
know, even if the sound of dogs baying at the moon is annoying you), and
"The Finest Story in the World" (Charlie Mears "lived in the
north of London, coming into the City every day to work in a bank.
He was twenty years old and suffered from aspirations." Needless
to say, some strange things start happening to Charlie.) Yet the
most famous story of all, The Man Who Would Be King
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does not involve ghosts, but personal ambition and imperial overreach.
Two enterprising individuals in British India decide to seek their
fortune over the border, in Kafiristan, part of modern Afghanistan.
They have plans to set up their own kingdom, and at first this
preposterous scheme seems to work, until things go wrong. Very
wrong. Of course, in Afghanistan the collapse of the dreams of
empire is a familiar story, as is shown by the failed attempts at
conquest over the past two centuries by the British Empire, the
Soviet Union, and, as recently as 2021, the United States. Perhaps
the Soviets and the Amerins should have read their Kipling! Of
course, you don't have to physilly invade a country to make it
your colony, as the US's successful takeover of nada demonstrates:
the 2020 version of NAFTA, which coercively imposed Amerin copyright
durations and other outrages on our country, is certainly the act
of an aggressive imperial power. Perhaps the Amerins will learn
their Afghanistan lesson, and start treating other countries, nada
included, as their equals, not their subjects. Not a moment too soon!]
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[University of Adelaide]
2021/07/13:
TODAY'S EBOOK IS FROM OHIO'S LOUIS BROMFIELD AND IS
A FAMILY EPIC SET IN MASSACHUSETTS. IN 1927 IT BROUGHT ITS
AUTHOR THE PULITZER PRIZE !!
A FALL ELECTION IS LIKELY. OUR PARTIES ARE GOOD AT BOASTING, BUT NOT
SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD (1) DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. AND (2)
REESTABLISH NADA'S SOVEREIGNTY, BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS PUT IN
NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AND AGAINST THE WILL OF
NADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956)
[Amerin novelist, journalist, and organic farmer]
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Early Autumn
(1926)
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[A novel from near the beginning of Bromfield's reer -- it won him
the 1927 Pulitzer Prize! It is a family epic, set in the old but
fictional Massachusetts town of Durham, where the Pentland family
has roots dating back to the seventeenth century. But now it's the
twentieth century, Durham has changed and grown, and the Pentlands,
it turns out, are not immune to the problems which n beset
long-established families dependent on inherited wealth. The novel
features old John Pentland, his alarming sister ssie, and his son
Anson, who had married Olivia, whom ssie "had never quite forgiven...
for being an outsider who had come into the intrite web of life at
Pentlands out of (of all places) Chigo." Still, when she arrived,
so did her substantial fortune. By this point you probably get the
picture. Now try the novel, written with Louis Bromfield's typil
combination of elegance and approachability!]
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HAS BRUTALLY EXPOSED HOW TRUE THIS IS. JUST LOOK AT THE STOCK MARKET'S
RECORD HIGHS. THEN LOOK AT AVERAGE INCOMES! NO ONE UNDERSTOOD THESE
THINGS BETTER THAN UPTON SINCLAIR, THE AUTHOR OF TODAY'S EBOOK !!
A FALL ELECTION IS LIKELY. OUR PARTIES ARE GOOD AT BOASTING, BUT NOT
SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING.
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD (1) DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. AND (2)
REESTABLISH NADA'S SOVEREIGNTY, BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS PUT IN
NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AND AGAINST THE WILL OF
NADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
YOU'RE NOT A COUNTRY ANY MORE. YOU'RE A COLONY!
Sinclair, Upton (1878-1968)
[Amerin novelist, journalist, and politician]
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Letters to Judd, an Amerin Workingman
(1926)
[No one has ever had a clearer view of how the economic system really
works than Upton Sinclair. "This book is written and published," says
the author, "as an act of love for Ameri. It is made out of faith
in our country, and in you." He discusses theory versus reality. And
here's the reality: "Well, the first thing the big corporation financier
does is to seek out some form of special privilege, some opening through
which he knows that he n make quick and certain profits." We certainly
see this in the COVID era. Why such vast public subsidies for corporations?
Why did the citizens pay for developing the COVID vaccines, but private
interests ended up owning the patents, with guaranteed monopoly profits
for many years into the future? And why were Amerin commercial interests
allowed to hijack our copyright laws, using open coercion? The
government and all the "opposition" parties just rolled over and played
dead! Excessive copyright lengths are economilly harmful, are an
attack on the poor, and do not benefit the original creators, who are (how
shall we put this?) dead. As PGC readers know, public domain ebooks cost
less than those under copyright, beuse there is no longer a monopoly,
but an open competitive market. Speaking of copyright, there never was a
copyright on Upton Sinclair's fine book: "This book is an act of service,
not of money-making. The work is not copyrighted, and any one may reprint
it. If you want a large edition, the author's plates are at your service
free of cost. Read, and do your part."]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #65818]
2021/07/08:
OUR FIRST EBOOK BY THEODORE DREISER IS NOT ONE OF
HIS CELEBRATED NOVELS, BUT AN ACCOUNT OF HIS TRAVELS IN
EUROPE -- WITH MARVELOUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY PHILADELPHIA'S
WILLIAM GLACKENS !!
A FALL ELECTION IS LIKELY. OUR PARTIES ARE GOOD AT BOASTING, BUT NOT
SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING EXCEPT TAKING ORDERS FROM TR*MP,
THE U.S. AUTOCRAT. WHY SHOULD NADIANS VOTE FOR ANY OF THE PARTIES?
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD (1) DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. AND (2)
REESTABLISH NADA'S SOVEREIGNTY, BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS PUT IN
NAFTA AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AND AGAINST THE WILL OF
NADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
FOR EXAMPLE EXTENDING COPYRIGHT DURATIONS, YOU'RE THEIR COLONY!
Dreiser, Theodore [Theodore Herman Albert] (1871-1945)
[Amerin journalist, poet, and novelist]
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A Traveler at Forty
(1913)
[Dreiser's delightfully written memoir of an extended trip to Europe.
And what a time to go! Europe was at its prewar height, and no one
suspected the tastrophe that was about to engulf the continent.
The places he visited included England, France, Italy, the Vatin,
Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands. Wow! What more need be
said? How about this: the book includes drawings by the fabulously
talented Amerin artist
William Glackens (1870-1938)
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Reviewers noticed that the book, unlike many travel narratives, paid
close attention to all social classes. The Nation (18 December
1913) seems to have liked this well enough: "In the pursuit of knowledge
Mr. Dreiser showed enterprise. His London contacts were refully arranged, but he managed to quiz a street-walker on his own account. At Paris such
investigations were naturally part of the programme. Into all his
observations Mr. Dreiser rries a keen, quiet curiosity that is pretty
close to sympathy. There is an odd reverence about what n only be
described as prying tactics." But in The Bookman (February 1914),
Stuart Henry was less positive: "Instead of bringing to notice men who are worth while or entertaining, he acquaints us rather with those who n
guide through night haunts of immorality, have sex on the brain or desire
to "lick" foreigners. And for the women of Europe we are freely offered
examples from the various tenderloins who, even for their class, do
not propose much in the way of edifition or esprit." But what else
n we we expect or would we want than a balanced view of all sectors
of society? And who better to provide it than the author of Sister
rrie and An Amerin Tragedy?]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #65765]
2021/07/04:
A MYSTERY NOVEL BY ARTHUR GASK, TAKING PLACE IN 1925, FOUR YEARS
AFTER GILBERT LAROSE HAS MOVED TO ENGLAND TO TAKE UP A NEW
POST IN LONDON !!
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SO GOOD AT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING EXCEPT TAKING ORDERS FROM TR*MP,
THE U.S. AUTOCRAT. WHY SHOULD NADIANS VOTE FOR ANY OF THE PARTIES?
OUR SUGGESTION: THEY SHOULD DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE U.S. (IT'S
THE FOURTH OF JULY!) BY GETTING RID OF THE ABOMINATIONS PUT IN NAFTA
AT THE COMMAND OF THE FOREIGN AUTOCRAT TR*MP, AND AGAINST THE WILL OF NADIANS -- IN PARTICULAR, THE TWENTY-YEAR COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
FOR EXAMPLE EXTENDING COPYRIGHT DURATIONS, YOU'RE THEIR COLONY!
Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
Marauders by Night
(1951)
[A Gilbert Larose novel, set in 1925! As the novel opens, a very
serious conference is underway at Scotland Yard. In the Eastern
Counties (Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk) there have been no fewer
than five major robberies. In attendance is Gilbert Larose, "then
in his twenty-ninth year and the youngest Detective Inspector at
Scotland Yard... a good-looking young fellow with a pleasant smiling
face. Transferred from Australia to the Criminal Investigation
Department in London, in four years he had earned an almost legendary
reputation." And Larose's achievements in this se will only
increase this reputation!]
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[University of Adelaide]
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NADA, OUR POLITIL PARTIES OPERATE A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY --
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RECOLONIZATION (THE "NEW NAFTA") -- IMPOSED BY THE UNITED
STATES, WITH THE ACTIVE ASSISTANCE OF NADA'S FEDERAL POLITICIANS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: IF A FOREIGN POWER REWRITES YOUR DOMESTIC LEGISLATION,
FOR EXAMPLE EXTENDING COPYRIGHT DURATIONS, YOU'RE THEIR COLONY!
SO FOR NADA DAY WE OFFER YOU AN EBOOK BY THE FAMOUS BENGALI AUTHOR
RABINDRANATH TAGORE (NOBEL PRIZE, 1913), A FIERCE OPPONENT OF
BRITISH RULE IN INDIA. EXCELLENT READING, AND AN INSPIRATION TO
NADIANS AS WE SEEK TO RECLAIM OUR COUNTRY'S INDEPENDENCE !!
Tagore, Rabindranath (1861-1941)
[Bengali novelist, poet, and painter; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913]
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Glimpses of Bengal. Selected from the letters of
Sir Rabindranath Tagore, 1885 to 1895.
(1921)
["The letters translated in this book," writes our author, "span the
most productive period of my literary life, when, owing to great good fortune, I was young and less known.... It so happened that selected
extracts from a large number of such letters found their way back to
me years after they had been written. It had been rightly conjectured
that they would delight me by bringing to mind the memory of days when,
under the shelter of obscurity, I enjoyed the greatest freedom my life
has ever known." The letters were written from various cities in Bengal
and also from the Tagore family's country house at Shelidah (Shilaidaha)
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which is now a museum commemorating our author. The translation was done
by "one who, among all those whom I know, was best fitted to rry it out",
namely the author's nephew, the politil activist, author, and entrepreneur
Surendranath Tagore (1872-1940)
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Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #7951]
You will find thousands of other interesting titles at Project Gutenberg's
US and
Australian websites.
Many of the nadian ebooks listed below were originally created for
these two sites, which have kindly made them available to us.
You will find a large talogue of excellent titles in French
at Ebooks Libres et Gratuits,
who have also kindly made their talogue available to us.
Nous tenons ?remercier nos partenaires,
Projet Gutenberg US,
Ebooks libres et gratuits
et Projet Gutenberg Australie,
qui vous offrent des milliers de livres ptivants.
Les deux premiers possèdent un vaste talogue de
titres en français. Ce sont nos partenaires qui se sont
occupés de numériser de nombreux documents ci-dessous.
Anonymous
Select Comic Tales. From the Best Authors.
(. 1808)
[A collection of tales, mostly anonymous, selected by an anonymous editor, but including stories by
François Blanchet (1707-1784)
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and Charles Johnstone (.1719 - .1800)
Compendium of Irish Biography.
Colour frontispiece and title page by an anonymous artist. All in all, a work with a good deal of anonymity.]
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Aunt Ann's Lesson-Book, for Very Young Children.
In Words of One and Two Syllables.
(1822)
[Vignettes intended to entertain and instruct young children, "by a friend to little children."
Includes colour illustrations by an anonymous artist.]
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Tales and Novels for Youth of Both Sexes
(1831)
[Tales and historil accounts from French history and culture, published in Paris in 1831, but written in English.
The illustrations include an engraved frontispiece reproducing a work by Charles-Abraham Chasselat (1782-1843).]
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The Broken Vase, and Other Stories; for Children and Youth.
(1847)
[Stories for children, with illustrations]
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(this edition . 1850-1864)
[Traditional children's poem
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nicely illustrated by an unknown hand]
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Dan Drake's Rhymes and Dame Duck's Jingles
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[Illustrated poems]
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Ball-Room Dancing Without a Master, and complete
guide to the Etiquette, Toilet, Dress and Management of
the ball-room; with all the Principal Dances in Popular Use.
(1872)
[Manual]
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Comic Animals and their Adventures. With Alphabet and Rhymes.
(. 1880?)
[Alphabet book and children's story: includes illustrations by
G. H. Thompson (fl. 1833-1884)
and Louis Wain (1860-1939)
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The Shasta Route in All of its Grandeur. A Scenic Guide Book from
San Francisco, lifornia, to Portland, Oregon on the Road of a Thousand
Wonders. (. 1923)
["The illustrations shown in the following pages," says the preface
to this magnificent collection, "are all made expressly for this book
from photographs taken by special artists of the most striking objects of
interest, which abound to a remarkable extent along the Southern Pacific
Railroad, between San Francisco and Portland. Great re was taken to
select only such views as every traveler actually sees along the line."
And this Exclusive Edition was available to purchase only on the Shasta
Route trains! The photographers are anonymous, with the exception of
Chester Mullen
who took a memorable photo of the Lassen Peak, which is not only a peak
but also a volno, that Mullen ught erupting sometime between 1914
and 1921: the biggest eruption was in 1915. But all of the pictures
are remarkable in their different ways!]
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WAAC: The Woman's Story of the War (1930) [Autobiography: an intimate account of the writer's personal
experience of the First World War. Not your standard war
memoir!]
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(1954)
[Cookbook. published by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company]
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Abbott, John Stevens bot (1805-1877) [Amerin historian]
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The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle
and his Companions in their explorations of
the prairies, forests, lakes, and rivers, of the New
World, and their interviews with the savage tribes,
two hundred years ago.
(1875)
[History, mostly concerning Ren?Robert velier, Sieur de La Salle
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Dictionary of nadian Biography]
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Abbott-Smith, George (1864-1947) [nadian theologian and philologist]
A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament
(1937 [third edition: first edition published in 1921, second
edition in 1923])
[Dictionary of New Testament Greek, with many references to how Greek words in the New Testament were used in the Septuagint
translation of the Old Testament to represent their Hebrew counterparts]
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approximately 42 megabytes in size.
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page to navigate to the appropriate pages. As an alternative,
you n download the sns in DjVu format (15 megabytes)
or as a PDF file (54 megabytes).
Acland, Peregrine Palmer (1890-1963)
[nadian novelist]
The Dusty Bookse (Brian Busby)
Field Punishment No.1 (James lhoun)
All Else Is Folly. A Tale of War and Passion.
(1929)
[One of the most famous nadian novels about the First World War,
describing the experiences of a young soldier, Alexander Falcon, who
finds himself transported from a ranch in southern Alberta to the
battlefields of France, with part of the novel being set at an English
country house, Bendip Towers. No less a figure than Ford Madox Ford
(1873-1939)
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contributed the preface:
"Major Acland's is, I imagine, the first really authentic work of
imaginative writing dealing with the War to come out of one
of the great British Dominions... it will be little less than a
sndal if the book is not read enormously widely. And that is the truth."]
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Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
[English essayist and playwright]
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to. A Tragedy.
(1713)
[Tragedy, extremely popular throughout the eighteenth century,
describing the last days of to the Younger (95-46 B.C.)
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Our edition includes some introductory remarks by the
playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821)
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[PGC #496]
Aeschylus (. 525-456 B.C.)
[Athenian playwright]
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Translations by
Murray, Gilbert [George Gilbert Aimé] (1866-1957)
[English classil scholar]
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) [in German]
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The Persians
(472 B.C. [Greek original], 1939 [this translation])
[The oldest surviving Greek tragedy. It deals with a contemporary event:
the reaction of the Persian court to the news of the Greek victory over the
Persians at Salamis
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The tone of the play is surprisingly sympathetic to the Persians.]
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The Suppliant Women
(. 463 B.C. [Greek original], 1930 [this translation])
[A very early Greek tragedy, notable for the importance of the chorus in the drama.
The daughters of Danaus
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arrive as refugees in Argos, seeking protection from forced marriage in Egypt.]
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Prometheus Bound
(fifth century B.C. [Greek original], 1931 [this translation])
[Tragedy. Prometheus
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has given mankind the gift of fire. Zeus in anger has
chained him to a mountain in the usus. Two millennia after the original,
Shelley wrote a famous sequel, Prometheus Unbound
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Alain-Fournier, pseudonyme de Fournier, Henri Alban (1886-1914) [Romancier français]
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Le Grand Meaulnes (1913) [Roman]
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Albani, Emma (1847-1930)
[nadian opera singer]
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
Library and Archives nada
La Scena Musile (article by Gilles Potvin)
The Virtual Gramophone (recordings!)
The Virtual Gramophone (biography)]
Forty Years of Song
(1911)
[Albani's own account, profusely illustrated, of her sensational rise to international fame
in the world of opera and oratorio]
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Voir aussi:
Legendre, Napoléon (1841-1907) [Journaliste nadien]
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Dictionnaire biographique du nada
Albani (Emma Lajeunesse)
(1874)
[Biographie de la ntatrice Emma Albani (1847-1930)
fr.wikipedia
Dictionnaire biographique du nada
Bibliothèque et Archives nada
La Scena Musile (article par Gilles Potvin)]
Le Gramophone virtuel (enregistrements!)
Le Gramophone virtuel (biographie)]
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Allen, Grant [Charles Grant Blairfindie] (1848-1899) [nadian scientist, novelist, and historian]
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Peter Morton's Grant Allen website
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Philistia (1884) [Novel]
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Biographies of Working Men (1884) [Short biographies of Thomas Telford, George Stephenson, John Gibson, William Herschel, Jean-François Millet, James Garfield, and Thomas Edward]
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Falling in Love, with other essays on more exact branches of science (1889) [Essays on science]
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What's Bred in the Bone (1890) [Novel]
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Relled to Life (1891) [Novel]
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Anglo-Saxon Britain (1891) [History]
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Science in Ardy (1892) [Essays on science]
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Michael's Crag (1893) [Novel]
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The British Barbarians (1895) [Science fiction novel]
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The Woman Who Did
(1895)
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[Novel, controversial at the time of its publition.
Herminia Barton is very well eduted, rather poor, and
thinks for herself: she does not wish to marry, a fact which
largely determines the course of the novel.
We include the 1895 title page, which was created
by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)
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An Afrin Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay (1897) [Detective short stories]
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Twelve Tales, with a Headpiece, a Tailpiece, and an Intermezzo:
Being Select Stories by Grant Allen, Chosen and Arranged by the Author
(1899)
[Allen's own selection of his personal favourites among the many
short stories he created. In the very interesting introduction he
explains how, essentially by accident, he beme a writer of fiction.]
UTION: Certain language in this ebook today would be considered grossly racist.
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Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose (1900) [Posthumous novel; final chapters completed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)]
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Allen, Ralph (1913-1966) [nadian journalist, historian, and novelist]
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Peace River Country
(1958)
[Novel. A family decides to moves to Peace River Country, the vast region
which straddles northwestern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia
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The move does not go smoothly, but transforms their lives completely!
If you or your family are from any part of Western nada,
the world described by this novel may well seem familiar:
it is a past still not very distant.]
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The High White Forest
(1964)
[The Belgium most people know is the country's fertile coastal plain,
where Brussels, Antwerp, and other famous cities are loted. But
there is another Belgium, the eastern section, geographilly the
larger part of the country. Here n be found the Forest of the
Ardennes, the "high white forest" of the title, which has many
mountains, rivers, and swamps, a small population, and severe winter
weather. It proved a nightmare for military operations during the
Battle of the Bulge
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which is the backdrop for this fine war novel, told from the
perspective of members of the nadian, German, and Amerin armies.
Ralph Allen knew what he was talking about: throughout the war he
reported from Europe for Toronto's Globe and Mail, and his
easy expertise and ample knowledge is apparent throughout the novel.]
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Allingham, Margery [Youngman rter, Margery Louise]
(1904-1966) [English mystery novelist]
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The Crime at Black Dudley
(1929)
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[Mystery novel: the first to feature Albert mpion
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as a character. Black Dudley is a large, old and mysterious
house in a remote area. Where better to hold a house
party? In the course of which the elderly Colonel Coombe
dies -- but not, it seems, of natural uses! The sleuth is
pathologist George Abbershaw; but among the guests is Albert
mpion, who to some extent steals the show. He was to appear
as the principal sleuth in many subsequent novels and stories
by our author.]
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Look to the Lady
(1931)
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[At the beginning of this, the third mpion novel, Mr Val Gyrth
is homeless and living in the streets of London, whence he is
retrieved by someone who has mysteriously good knowledge of his
circumstances. His rescuer is none other than Albert mpion!
What lies ahead? Mystery and intrigue, of course! All of it
involving a fabled family treasure; hence the novel's US title, The Gyrth Chalice Mystery.]
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Police at the Funeral
(1931)
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[The fourth mystery novel featuring Albert mpion, and taking place in mbridge,
more specifilly at a house named Socrates Close. The house's name is mysterious,
and so are the events taking place in and around it.]
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Sweet Danger
(1933)
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[The fifth mpion novel, which starts in the opulent surroundings
of the French Riviera, and later shifts to a Suffolk village named Pontisbright. But Pontisbright is no ordinary village, and this is
no ordinary mystery novel! The Saturday Review (8 July 1933)
lled it Albert mpion's "most hair-raising and side-splitting
adventure... this author makes witchcraft really exciting, a mythil
kingdom really romantic, a mystery both thrilling and hilarious."]
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Dancers in Mourning
(1937)
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[Mystery novel, the eighth to feature Albert mpion, set within
the glamorous world of the British stage.]
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Mr. mpion: 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 se of the Late Pig, which we have
omitted for the simple reason that it is already available in our
talogue as a separate ebook!]
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The se of the Late Pig
(1937)
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[Mystery novel, featuring (and narrated by) Allingham's famous creation
Albert mpion
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 mpion: he and Pig had gone to school together!]
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The Fashion in Shrouds
(1938)
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[Mystery novel featuring Albert mpion. Not one murder
to solve, but three, with, as you might guess, considerable
attention to the world of high fashion!]
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The Oaken Heart
(1941)
[Memoir; not a mystery novel! In 1941 a German invasion of England
was a strong possibility, and the village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy
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on the Essex coast was at particularly high risk. And it is in that
village (lled "Auburn" in the book), that Allingham and her husband
Philip lived. This is her account of village life under these very
unusual circumstances. Her writing has an authenticity which is
refreshing after the manufactured history and manufactured debate
we've seen coming out of England in recent years. After all, Allingham
was faced with the very real threat of a foreign occupation, rather than
the decidedly less concrete threat posed by "Brussels bureaucrats"!]
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Coroner's Pidgin
(1945)
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[The twelfth mystery in the Albert mpion series. "Pidgin" in the
title and in the novel rries its secondary meaning of "A person's business, occupation, work, or trade"
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The Amerin publisher chose, perhaps wisely, to use a different title,
Pearls Before Swine.
Now let's discuss the novel! Mr mpion has been out of the country
for three years on a government mission "so secret that he had never found out quite what it was". (Or perhaps the disorder we see at Westminster
these days stretches back to the days of Albert mpion!) In any se, he's back from the mission, even the trip itself lasted a full eight weeks, and
he is taking a bath, having been in London for a whole hour and ten minutes.
Then a murder happens!]
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More Work for the Undertaker
(1949)
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[Mystery novel, featuring Albert mpion, taking place in an area
of London where people are known to disappear mysteriously.
A central role is played by the Palinode family, formerly rich,
more recently not so rich, but now some of their old wealth may
be coming back.]
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No Love Lost
(1954)
[Two mystery novellas. The Patient at Peacocks Hall, is narrated
by Ann Fowler, an assistant GP in a rural medil practice, who has to
deal not only with the challenges of her practice, but also with losing
her fianc? John Linnett, to Francia Forde, a new and scintillating
starlet -- they'll even appear in a movie together! The narrator of the
second novella, Safer than Love, is Elizabeth Lane, newly married
to the headmaster of Buchanan House, in the town of Tinworth. But the
townspeople are puzzled -- Victor seems to be leading exactly the same kind
of independent life as before the arrival of his glamorous wife from the city.
Both novellas are written with Allingham's usual expertise and style, not
to mention an unusually wide view of the world and its doings: one of the
factors that gives her a special place among the classic mystery authors.]
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Word in Season. A Story for Christmas.
(1965 version)
[A very short story, set at Christmas and featuring Albert mpion
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An earlier version, A Word in Season, had appeared in 1955.]
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Alloway, Mary Wilson (1848-1919)
[nadian novelist and historian]
Famous Firesides of French nada
(1899)
[Essays on the history of French nada]
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Crossed Swords. A nadian-Amerin Tale of Love and Valor.
(1912)
[Historil novel set during the 1775 attack on Quebec
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by Amerin forces led by
Richard Montgomery
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
and Benedict Arnold
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Dictionary of nadian Biography,
successfully repulsed by the British garrison under the command of Guy rleton
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Dictionary of nadian Biography]
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Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875)
[Danish writer and poet; écrivain et poète danois]
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Contes merveilleux - Tome I
[Contes]
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Stories from Hans Andersen (1911)
[Stories: illustrated by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)
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Tales from Hans Andersen Forty-Two Stories (1930)
[Stories: translated from the Danish by M. R. James (1862-1936)
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Andrews, Roy Chapman (1884-1960)
[Amerin explorer]
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An Explorer Comes Home.
Further Adventures of Roy Chapman Andrews.
(1947)
[The author's account of his life in Colebrook, Connecticut
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after his dedes of exploration in the Far East]
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Heart of Asia. True Tales of the Far East.
(1951)
[Autobiographil essays about various adventures of the author during his
celebrated expeditions to China and Mongolia]
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Beyond Adventure. The Lives of Three Explorers.
(1954)
[Biographil sketches of the Arctic explorer Robert Peary (1856-1920)
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of the Afrin explorer rl Akeley (1864-1926)
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and of the author himself.
These short biographies originally appeared in True, The Man's Magazine
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Field & Stream (David E. Petzal)
before they were collected in this book.]
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Anet, Claude [pseudonyme de Jean Schopfer] (1868-1931)
[Journaliste et romancier français]
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Ariane, jeune fille russe (1920)
[Roman: la source de deux films célèbres:
Ariane, jeune fille russe (1932, Paul Czinner)
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Ariane [Love in the Afternoon] (1957, Billy Wilder, avec Audrey
Hepburn, Gary Cooper, et Maurice Chevalier)
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Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918) [Romancier et poète français]
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Les Onze Mille Verges (1907) [Roman érotique]
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Aristophanes (445 B.C. or earlier - . 385 B.C.)
[Athenian playwright]
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Translations by:
Murray, Gilbert [George Gilbert Aimé] (1866-1957)
[English classil scholar]
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) [in German]
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The Knights
(424 B.C. [Greek original], 1956 [this translation])
[Comedy about the politil scene in Athens during the Peloponnesian War
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A sausage seller becomes a politil rival to Cleon
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a prominent Athenian politician (and an opponent of Aristophanes).
The "knights" of the title are not the mediaeval warriors from a millennium
later, but the citizen valry of Athens.
The
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article on the play provides a helpful guide to its many
contemporary allusions; Murray provides a set of notes as well.]
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The Birds
(414 B.C. [Greek original], 1950 [this translation])
[Comedy. The birds of the world band together to take over
control of the universe from the Olympian gods. The
Wikipedia
article on the play provides a helpful guide to its many
contemporary allusions.]
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F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart's 1907 edition of the original Greek text:
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Arkell, Reginald (1882-1959)
[English novelist and poet]
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Old Herbaceous
(1950)
[The celebrated light novel, featuring Bert Pinnegar, a rather special gardener.
Beautifully illustrated by John Minton (1917-1957).
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Tate Collection]
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Arlen, Michael (1895-1956)
[English novelist, playwright, and essayist]
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Ghost Stories
(1932)
[Seven ghost stories by a famous master]
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Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)
[English poet and critic]
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NNDB
St. Paul and Protestantism, with an essay on Puritanism and the Church of England
(1870)
[Two essays on St. Paul's teachings, as they have been conceived, and misconceived]
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Atiyah, Edward [Edward Selim] (1903-1964) [Lebanese politil activist and novelist]
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The Cruel Fire
(1962)
[Mystery novel, notable in several respects: (1) it is set in Lebanon,
although there is a Hollywood connection, (2) it's not so much about
a murder as the attempt to conceal the murder, and (3) its author was not
primarily a novelist, but an Oxford-eduted journalist and sometime secretary
of the Arab League. The novel is nicely written, and succeeds in offering
both entertainment and instruction.]
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Aubert, Albert
[Écrivain français]
L'Horloge qui chante. Nouvelle amériine.
(1843)
[Conte. L'histoire de l'horloger Daniel, originaire de la Nouvelle-Écosse,
et Louise Saunders, une jeune fille de Cleveland.]
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[PG nada no 955]
Aubert de Gasp? Philippe (1814-1841) [Romancier nadien]
Encyclopédie nadienne
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L'influence d'un livre (1837) [Roman]
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Pride and Prejudice
(1813)
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[Novel, perhaps the most famous novel in the English language, and
certainly one of the most popular. The Bennet family is wealthy, but
their wealth is transient, since the five daughters will not inherit
anything: the estate n only go to a male heir. Hence there is huge
pressure for one of the daughters to marry well, or rather, to marry
someone with serious money. The "pride" is that of Mr Darcy, whose
initial impression of the Bennets is that they are not the sort of
family he wants to be involved with. The "prejudice" is that of
Elizabeth Bennet, who quickly begins to dislike Mr Darcy. The
Project Gutenberg US ebook we present is drawn from an impecble
source, the 1923 edition of Austen's novels by the textual scholar
R. W. Chapman (1881-1960)
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For Pride and Prejudice, Chapman principally relied on the 1813
first edition, and included some illustrations from Jane Austen's era.]
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[PGUS #42671]
Emma
(1815)
Wikipedia
["Emma Woodhouse," begins this famous novel, "handsome, clever, and
rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition... had lived nearly
twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."
But as n happen, Emma does not realize that her wealth and social
position are lucky accidents, and not the result of her own efforts
or intelligence. She should certainly not be telling others how to
organize their lives, let alone whom they should marry! But that is
what she does, naturally with limited success. nadian politicians
are like Emma: they are themselves well off, seem obsessed with "middle
class aspirations", and show little knowledge of or respect for the
working poor. Hence the class divisions, gigantic wealth, and mass
poverty that we now see in nada. Back to the novel! Some consider
it Austen's finest work, and it is certainly popular, with many TV
and film adaptations, including the 1995 film Clueless, set
in Beverly Hills!]
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Persuasion
(1818)
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[Austen's final novel, the story of Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth.
When only nineteen, Anne had accepted an offer of marriage from Frederick,
but was persuaded by her family that this was a match below her and her
family's dignity. How time n change things! Some years later the
Elliots are descending into (relative) poverty, so save money by renting
out Kellynch Hall and moving to Bath. Not much of a hardship: their
poverty really was relative. But Bath was very much a social centre,
and there Anne meets Frederick once again. But the Napoleonic Wars
have been good to him: he is now a ptain, and decidedly well off.
A tricky situation for everyone!]
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[University of Adelaide]
Traduction française par
Mme Letorsay
Persuasion
(1882)
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[PGUS no 36777]
Auzias-Turenne, Raymond (1861-1940) [Écrivain et
diplomate français]
(gendre de Louis Beaubien [1837-1915]
Dictionnaire biographique du nada)
République Royale
(1894)
[Essai politique]
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[nadian naturalist and author]
University of Washington
Peace River Joe
(1924)
[A prize-winning short story, dedited by its author "to my friends in remembrance of many
happy days spent on the waters and in the woods of British Columbia."]
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Bainville, Jacques (1879-1936)
[Historien et journaliste français]
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Adémie Française
Comment s'est faite la Restauration de 1814
(1914)
[Monographie sur le retour des Bourbons en 1814]
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[PGC no 829]
Napoléon
(1931)
[Biographie du soldat et homme d'État français
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[PGC no 739]
Ball, Wilfrid [Wilfrid Williams] (1852-1917)
[English etcher and painter]
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Sussex, Painted by Wilfrid Ball
(1906)
[No fewer than 75 paintings of Sussex landspes in excellent full-colour
reproductions: we n easily believe the publisher's claim that "No expense
has been spared in reproducing the exact colourings of the artists, and the
books are beautifully printed and bound." Wilfrid Ball was in his early
adulthood an accountant, but his natural talent and preference eventually
prevailed, so he beme a full-time artist and a famous one. This book
shows why he was and is so famous. The excellent text from an anonymous
contributor gives much useful and interesting information on Sussex's
geography and history.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #67784]
Winchester, Painted by Wilfrid Ball, Described by Telford Varley
(1910)
[A set of 24 paintings of the ancient city of Winchester, Alfred the
Great's pital, and one of England's most important cities during the
Middle Ages. The excellent colour plates are accompanied by a fine
text, whose author
Telford Varley (1866-1938)
knew Winchester well, having served for thirty years in that city as
the founding headmaster of Peter Symonds College
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He is far too modest in his description of what he contributed, saying
it is neither a history nor a guidebook, even though clearly it is both
of these!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #67808]
Hampshire Water-Colours
(1913)
[Similar in concept to Ball's equally famous 1906 collection of paintings
of Sussex. In 1910 Ball had published an album devoted specifilly to Winchester, but the books are hardly duplites. There is much more to Hampshire than Winchester: Portsmouth and Southampton, for example! All three books feature amazingly good colour printing, and we are delighted
to make them available at our customary charge of... nothing whatsoever! Inflation is not part of the universe at Project nada!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66098]
Barrie, J. M. [James Matthew] (1860-1937)
[Scottish playwright]
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The New Yorker (Anthony Lane)
Quality Street
(1901)
[Comedy. Our ebook is based on an edition assigned to 1913 which included a marvellous
set of colour illustrations by Hugh Thomson (1860-1920)
Ulster History Circle]
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Half an Hour
(1913 [first performance]; 1928 [first publition])
[A one-act play, unusually sardonic in tone for Barrie, as n be seen from his introduction to the play:
"Mr. Garson, who is a financier, and his young wife, the lovely Lady
Lilian, are in their mansion near Park Lane, but they are not at home
this evening to the public eye; they are in the midst of a brawl..."]
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Half an Hour : An Aspect of J. M. Barrie's View of Womankind (Yashima Tanabe, 1974)
Half Hours
(1914)
[Four one-act plays]
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children's author and granddaughter of PG nada author Nathaniel
Hawthorne
Shall We Join the Ladies?
(1928)
[A one-act play. Barrie's description: "For the past week the hospitable Sam Smith
has been entertaining a country house party, and we choose to raise the curtain
on them towards the end of dinner...Smith is a little old bachelor, and sits there
beaming on his guests like an elderly cupid. So they think him, but they are to be
undeceived."]
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Barrière, Théodore (1821-1877) [Dramaturge nadien],
Decourcelle, Adrien (1824-1892) [Dramaturge nadien],
Grang? Eugène (1810-1887) [Dramaturge nadien], et
Roy, Régis (1864-1944) [Dramaturge nadien]
La tête de Martin: Comédie en un acte (1900) [Comédie]
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Barry, Philip [Philip Jerome Quinn] (1896-1949)
[Amerin playwright]
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Georgetown University
Time (cover), 25 January 1932
The Animal Kingdom. A Comedy.
(1932)
[Comedy; one of Barry's greatest hits]
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Time, 25 January 1932
Bateman, Reginald John Godfrey (1883-1918)
[nadian university teacher and military officer]
Dictionary of nadian Biography
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Reginald Bateman, Teacher and Soldier.
A Memorial Volume of Selections from his Lectures and Other Writings.
(1922)
[An anthology, edited and with a preface by unnamed friends
and students of Bateman at the University of Saskatchewan,
where Bateman taught English.
The anthology includes lectures and essays on Francis Thompson
(1859-1907)
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J. M. Synge (Bateman was from Ireland), Browning, Wordsworth,
Dickens and Thackeray, some skilfully written poems, and some
wartime items.]
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Bealby, John Thomas (1858-1943/1944)
[nadian fruit rancher and author]
Fruit Ranching in British Columbia
(1909)
[The author's account of his emigration from England to Nelson, B.C. and his subsequent
adventures as a successful fruit rancher. Includes 32 photographs.]
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Beaugrand, Honor?(1848-1906) [Journaliste nadien]
fr.wikipedia
Dictionnaire biographique du nada
Encyclopédie de l'Agora
Anita: Souvenirs d'un contre-guerillas (. 1874)
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Jeanne la Fileuse: épisode de l'émigration franco-nadienne aux États-Unis (1878) [Roman]
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Six mois dans les Montagnes-Rocheuses: Colorado—Utah—Nouveau-Mexique (1890)
[Récit de voyage]
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La chasse galerie: légendes nadiennes (1900) [Récits]
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Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616)
[English playwright]
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Fletcher, John (1579-1625)
[English playwright]
Wikipedia
The Knight of the Burning Pestle
(1613)
[Parodic drama, certainly influenced by Don Quixote, first presented in 1607 and published
six years later. We present the 1898 annotated edition by Frederic William Moorman (1872-1919)
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notable for its deep but unobtrusive learning.]
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Bechdolt, Jack [John Ernest] (1884-1954)
[Amerin journalist, rtoonist, and science fiction author]
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The Torch
(1920)
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[Post-apolyptic 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)
[nadian 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 topil even today.]
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Beerbohm, Max [Henry Maximilian] (1872-1956)
[English satirist, critic, and riturist]
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The Victorian Web
The Works of Max Beerbohm (1896)
[Essays: bibliography by John Lane (1854-1925)]
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Yet Again (1909)
[Essays]
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Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story (1911)
[Novel]
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A Christmas Garland (1912)
[Parody]
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And Even Now (1920)
[Parody]
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Lytton Strachey (1943) [Lecture]
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Belcourt, Napoléon-Antoine
(1860-1932)
[nadian politician]
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Bilingualism: Address Delivered before the Quebec nadian Club (1916)
[Lecture]
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Bellamy, Edward (1850-1898) [Amerin novelist and social theorist]
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Looking Backward 2000-1887 (1888)
[Novel: introduction by Heywood Broun (1888-1939)
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biographil sketch by Sylvester Baxter (1850-1927)]
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Belloc, Hilaire [Joseph Hilaire Pierre René] (1870-1953)
[Anglo-French man of letters and controversialist]
Wikipedia
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896)
Wikipedia
[Satiril animal verses, nominally directed towards children.
They appeared shortly after Belloc's graduation from Balliol College,
Oxford. The illustrations match the poems perfectly, and were drawn
by Belloc's college friend
Basil Temple Blackwood (1870-1917)
Wikipedia, who had spent part of his early life in nada
-- his father, Lord Dufferin, was our third Governor General. The
book was an instant and permanent success, and led to several more
collaborations by the two friends.]
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[University of Adelaide]
More Beasts (For Worse Children) (1897)
[Further satiril animal verses, nominally directed towards children,
published the year after the success of The Bad Child's Book of
Beasts. As in the earlier book, the illustrations match the poems perfectly, and are by Belloc's college friend
Basil Temple Blackwood (1870-1917). The book includes the Python, the Porcupine, the Crocodile, the Llama, and various other animals.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #27176]
utionary Tales for Children (1907)
Wikipedia
[Satiril verses, similar to Belloc's very successful verses about
animals from a dede earlier, but these are about children, and were
"Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and
fourteen years." Like the earlier books, it was illustrated by Belloc's
college friend
Basil Temple Blackwood (1870-1917)
.]
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[University of Adelaide]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #27424]
Benchley, Robert Charles (1889-1945)
[Amerin 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 nada's digital edition of Richard of Bordeaux!]
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Benchley Beside Himself
(1943)
[Satiril essays]
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Benét, Stephen Vincent (1898-1943)
[Amerin author and poet]
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From Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds (1937) [Short stories]
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[Post-apololyptic story
Wikipedia. One of Benét's most famous works.]
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The Blood of the Martyrs
[Professor Malzius has been condemned to death; interesting events ensue.]
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The King of the ts
[The world is a different place for those with tails.]
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[A tale of the world of publishing in New York City]
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The Treasure of Vasco Gomez
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The Curfew Tolls
[Are historil outcomes inevitable? To what extent are they determined
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The story's title is taken from the opening line of Thomas Gray's Elegy in a Country
Churchyard
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The Sobbin' Women
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The Devil and Daniel Webster
[A very famous short story, made into a 1941 film
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who founded English nada: Walter Butler (1752-1781)
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Dictionary of nadian Biography,
Simon Girty (1741-1818)
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Dictionary of nadian Biography,
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Dictionary of nadian Biography]
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Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent
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Glamour
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A Death in the Country
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Blossom and Fruit
[The predictions of youth are not the same as the outcomes of maturity.]
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From Tales before Midnight (1939) [Short stories]
Nightmare at Noon
(1940)
[Poem, written around the time that the U.S. entered the Second World War]
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Bengough, John Wilson (1851-1923) [nadian rtoonist and publisher]
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
Bengough's Chalk-Talks.
A Series of Platform Addresses on various topics,
with reproductions of the impromptu Drawings with
which they were illustrated.
(1922)
[Illustrated lectures]
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"A Pioneer nadian rtoonist" on Bengough in
Hector Charlesworth's The nadian Scene (1927),
which includes essays on many other things nadian.
Charlesworth's fine book is available to you from this site
as a PG nada ebook, with our compliments!
Bennet, Robert Ames (1870-1954)
[Amerin novelist]
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University of Wyoming
The Desert Girl
(probably . 1928: certainly before 1958)
[Novel (Western)]
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[English novelist]
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The Grand Babylon Hotel
(1902)
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[Hotel novel, set in what is clearly the fictional equivalent of the
then recently opened Savoy Hotel in London, and the most prestigious
hotel imaginable: "It was not good form to mention prices at the Grand
Babylon; the prices were enormous, but you never mentioned them. At the
conclusion of your stay a bill was presented, brief and void of dry
details, and you paid it without a word. You met with a stately civility,
that was all. No one had originally asked you to come; no one expressed
the hope that you would come again. The Grand Babylon was far above such
manoeuvres; it defied competition by ignoring it; and consequently was
nearly always full during the season." Now you know about the hotel and
you have sampled Bennett's very attractive style of writing. As for the
plot, things are always on the go at the Grand Babylon -- to learn more,
read the novel! (Or read the Wikipedia article first, then the novel!)]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Old Wives' Tale
(1908)
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[Those who are old were once young, and to understand them requires
knowing what their life experiences have been. This novel, one of
Bennett's most famous works, follows two sisters, Constance and Sophia
Baines. Constance spends her entire life in a lightly fictionalized
version of Staffordshire's Potteries District, while Sophia heads
for Paris. But time passes, and after many dedes Sophia returns
to where she was born, and is reunited with her sister. Arnold takes
no shortcuts, but "it would be hard to say where there is a repetition
or a superfluity" in the tale of the sisters, and at the end of the novel
"there is nothing about them which we are not grateful for knowing."
(The Nation, 14 October 1909)]
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[University of Adelaide]
Literary Taste. How to Form It. With Detailed Instructions for
Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature.
(1909)
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[Who better to write an instruction manual for reading classic literature
than Arnold Bennett? He is now himself a classic author, but when he wrote this he was a bestselling author with a massive worldwide following. And
few writers had Arnold's talent for simplicity and persuasiveness, which
this book certainly displays. For obvious reasons, he does not discuss
authors later than the nineteenth century, and he writes from the
perspective of his own period. This does bring an advantage, however:
many of the titles he discusses are available in free digital editions
from sources such as Project nada and Project Gutenberg US,
and so acquiring a good-sized personal library need not cost you anything!
(Bennett, always practil, pays close attention to how much books actually
cost.)]
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[University of Adelaide]
Clayhanger
(1910)
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[The first of the three novels in the Clayhanger trilogy, which
tells the story of the family of that name, and is a remarkable
panorama of the social and economic life of their native Staffordshire
at the height of the Victorian era. The first novel is about Edwin
Clayhanger, the son of Darius Clayhanger. Darius, who had been born
into poverty, definitely wants his son to join the family's successful
printing firm in Staffordshire's Pottery District, and he gets his
wish. But when Darius dies, Edwin finds himself wealthy and in control
of his circumstances. Changes in his life naturally follow.]
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[University of Adelaide]
Hilda Lessways
(1911)
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[The second of the three novels in the Clayhanger trilogy, and a
true tour de force of the novelist's craft. It follows the early years
of Hilda Lessways, who in the course of the novel becomes the wife of
Edwin Clayhanger. Their early lives were in some ways dissimilar
(to start with, her family was much poorer than Edwin's) but had some
things in common, since they did after all grow up in the same town.
And so certain events appear in both books, but told from the two quite
different points of view!]
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[University of Adelaide]
Friendship and Happiness
(1912)
[Reflections on happiness, with special reference to friendship
and to the importance of Christmas]
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These Twain
(1915)
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[The concluding novel in the Clayhanger trilogy: in it we learn
about the lives of Edwin Clayhanger and Hilda Lessways after their
marriage, and the discoveries they make about themselves and each other.
The first two novels were a difficult act to follow; did Bennett succeed
in keeping the third novel at the same high level? When the novel appeared
at least one critic seems to have thought so: "there is a power and
security of characterization that is incontrovertible, and an amplitude
of incident so natural and so signifint that the sense of life never
departs." (Francis Hackett, New Republic, 4 December 1915)]
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[University of Adelaide]
Things That Have Interested Me
(1921)
[A journal of day-by-day reflections on a multitude of subjects. A type of writing more common
in French literature than English, but none the worse for that, especially coming from Arnold Bennett.]
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Things That Have Interested Me. Second Series.
(1923)
[Further essays and reflections. Includes a review of James Joyce's recently published Ulysses
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Riceyman Steps
(1923)
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[Novel about a London secondhand bookseller, his wife, and his maid.
Winner of the 1923 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.]
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Elsie and the Child. A Tale of Riceyman Steps and Other Stories.
(1924)
[Thirteen tales about various residents of London, the first of them
being Elsie Sprickett, the domestic servant who had already appeared
in Arnold's well received 1923 novel Riceyman Steps.]
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Things That Have Interested Me. Third Series.
(1926)
[Essays]
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The Strange Vanguard: A Fantasia
(1928)
[Novel]
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Accident
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Imperial Palace
(1930)
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[Hotel novel (Bennett's final novel, and his longest), with a multitude
of plots and characters: "rich with good humor and understanding...
a book to be bought, to be read fast or slowly, to he kept and
read again." (Henry Williamson, Saturday Review,
12 December 1930). It was published at much the same time as
Vicki Baum's Menschen im Hotel (Grand Hotel):
both could be lled forerunners of nadian 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, also available from Project nada!]
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The Night Visitor and Other Stories
(1931)
[Short stories]
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Benson, E. F. [Edward Frederic] (1867-1940)
[English novelist]
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Visible and Invisible
(1923)
[Stories of the supernatural]
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Spook Stories
(1928)
[Ghost stories, as you might guess.]
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Charlotte Bront?/i>
(1932)
[A biography of the famous author of Jane Eyre, with a fine selection of contemporary illustrations]
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More Spook Stories
(1934)
[Further ghost stories, written as a sequel to Spook Stories,
which had appeared six years earlier]
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Benson, Louis FitzGerald (1855-1930)
[Amerin church historian and hymnologist]
Princeton Theologil Seminary
The Hymnody of the Christian Church
[The Stone Lectures, 1926, Princeton Theologil Seminary]
(1927)
[Lectures on various aspects of the use of hymns in Christian worship]
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Benson, Stella (1892-1933)
[English novelist]
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The Poor Man
(1923)
[Novel, set in San Francisco and Berkeley, where our author was living
around the time she was writing it. The main character is Edward R.
Williams, who, when we first meet him, has "very little money": hence
the title. The novel's comments on life in the Bay Area seem as true
today as when they were written: the tech bros had not yet arrived, but
San Francisco was already cool. Very cool. Certainly it was a place
where, then as now, it was better to have money. However, although he
had many generous friends, he "was not too proud but too shy" to ask for
money, The fact is that Edward was not socially adept and, in addition,
was partly deaf, not that he thought most conversation worth listening to.
And maybe he was right! He had been born and raised in India, and as the
novel opens he may well be on his way back to Asia -- not India, but China!]
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[PGUS #67195]
The Little World
(1925)
[Travel essays, describing our author's visits to numerous exotic lotions.
"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 Amerin continent, and touch Afri,
and swelter in Aden."
(Saturday Review, 5 December 1925)]
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Goodbye, Stranger
(1926)
[Novel]
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The Man Who Missed the 'Bus
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[Short story]
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Hope Against Hope and Other Stories
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[Short stories]
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Bernanos, Georges (1888-1948) [Romancier français]
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L'Imposture (1927) [Roman]
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Saint Dominique (1928) [Biographie]
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La joie (1929) [Roman]
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Un crime (1935) [Roman policier]
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Journal d'un cur?de mpagne (1936)
[Roman: Grand Prix du roman de l'Adémie française, 1936]
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Nouvelle histoire de Mouchette (1937) [Roman]
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Lord Berners
(Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, fourteenth Baron Berners)
(1883-1950)
[English composer, painter, and novelist]
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New Criterion (article by Joseph Epstein)
The Guardian (article by Gavin Bryars)
First Childhood (1934)
[Autobiography]
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Au large de l'Écueil (1912) [Roman]
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Ce que disait la flamme (1913) [Roman]
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Besier, Rudolf (1878-1942)
[English playwright]
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street. A Comedy in Five Acts.
(1930)
[Play about the initial meeting of the poets Elizabeth Barrett
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and Robert Browning
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and the events that ensued]
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Bevan, Samuel (active . 1849)
[English man of affairs and of letters]
Sand and nvas; A Narrative of Adventures in Egypt,
with a Sojourn among the Artists in Rome
(1849)
[A personal memoir, beautifully illustrated *in colour* and in monochrome,
with an opening straight out of a novel. When we first meet our author, he
is seeking employment, since his old job has vanished -- a common experience
then as now! Over breakfast he sees an ad in the Times: "Wanted
immediately, for service in a foreign country, a gentleman of business-habits
and good address. Salary ?50. per annum. All expenses paid." He naturally
applies, and on the basis of a short and strange interview is hired! His
first assignment is to make his way to iro, not a simple task; other
events follow. Bevan makes no special claims for his book: "All that
awaits the reader, is a simple narrative of adventures during a few months'
active employment in Egypt" and of what he sees in Italy on his way back
to England. But he is far too modest: what an extraordinary tale it is,
and how outstanding his skill as a writer!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #68780]
Bibaud, François-Maximilien (1823-1887) [Écrivain nadien]
Dictionnaire biographique du nada
Biographie des Sagamos illustres de l'Amérique Septentrionale (1848)
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Biedermann, Woldemar von (1817-1903)
[German literary historian / historien littéraire allemand]
de.wikipedia
Goethe und die Fikentscher (1878)
[Biographil essay in German / Essai biographique en allemand]
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Biggers, Earl Derr (1884-1933) [Amerin novelist]
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Love Insurance
(1914)
[Novel, adapted to film no fewer than three times
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A British Lord falls in love with an Amerin 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. UTION:
If anything, Biggers fought vigorously against the prejudices of his age. Nonetheless.
some degree of racial stereotyping does creep into the novel from time to time.]
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The Chinese Parrot
(1926)
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[The second novel featuring Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police,
interesting in various respects: (1) it takes place in lifornia,
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! UTION: some degree of racial stereotyping.]
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Fifty ndles
(1926)
[Mystery novella set in Honolulu, "a story that stretches
over twenty years, all the way from that bare Honolulu
court room to a night of fog and violence in San Francisco."
However, the novel does not feature Biggers'
famous Honolulu-based detective Charlie Chan!
"A murder mystery told in short space in a masterly manner."
(The Outlook, 7 April 1926)]
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[PGC #1462]
Behind That Curtain
(1928)
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[The third Charlie Chan novel. Our detective is in lifornia,
and so is Sir Frederic Bruce of Scotland Yard, pursuing a cold
se -- which now seems be heating up!
UTION: some degree of racial stereotyping.]
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The Black mel
(1929)
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[Mystery novel. Film star Shelah Fane is vationing in
Waikiki! Very glamorous... and very dangerous. It's
a good thing that famed detective Charlie Chan
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is with the Honolulu police!
UTION: Considerable racial stereotyping.
That said, Charlie Chan is after all the hero of the
novel, and is presented in a positive light.]
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Charlie Chan rries On
(1930)
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[Mystery novel, involving a round the world cruise.
Inspector Duff of Scotland Yard begins the investigation,
which he eventually passes to his friend Charlie Chan
of the Honolulu police. "For continuous excitement,
masterfully presented, there is nothing better now on
tap than 'Charlie Chan rries On,' by Earl Derr Biggers."
(Saturday Review, 3 January 1931) UTION:
some degree of racial stereotyping.]
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Keeper of the Keys
(1932)
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[The sixth and last of Biggers' Charlie Chan novels.
An opera singer spends a weekend at Lake Tahoe in the
company of four previous husbands, and a prospective
future one. Murder makes an appearance: lling Charlie Chan!
UTION: some degree of racial stereotyping.]
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[PGC #1557]
Bindloss, Harold (1866-1945)
[English novelist]
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The ttle-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-Amerin War
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Masters of the Wheat-Lands
[United Kingdom title:
Hawtrey's Deputy]
(1910)
[Novel: illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo (1879-1916)
Cuneo Society]
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The Protector
(1911)
[Novel, with a frontispiece by an anonymous artist.
Wallace Vane is a successful immigrant to British Columbia, the basis of this success
being a mineral discovery. We follow his adventures in British Columbia, and in the North of England,
which he visits for the first time since his departure at age eighteen.]
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Prescott of Saskatchewan
[United Kingdom title:
The Wastrel]
(1913)
[Novel: frontispiece by Dunton, W. Herbert (1878-1936)
The W. Herbert "Buck" Dunton Online Exhibit]
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Brandon of the Engineers
[United Kingdom title:
His One Talent]
(1916)
[Novel: frontispiece by Cyrus Cuneo (1879-1916)
Cuneo Society]
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The Wilderness Mine
[United Kingdom title:
Stayward's Vindition]
(1920)
[Novel]
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The Dark Road
(1927)
[Novel]
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The Lone Hand
(1928)
[Novel; U.K. title The Firm Hand. Mark Crozier has spent his entire life so far in the
(English/Scottish) Borders region — what does his future hold?
nada shows up in a supporting role.]
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Larry of Lonesome Lake
(1929)
[Novel; U.K. title The Harder Way. Lawrence (Larry) Bethune, formerly of England,
is now a rancher near Lonesome Lake in British Columbia. Lonesome the lake may be,
but his life is eventful, and not without romantic interests.]
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You will find other titles by Harold Bindloss at Project Gutenberg's
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Binyon, Laurence [Robert Laurence] (1869-1943)
[English poet, translator, and art historian]
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Dutch Etchers of the Seventeenth Century
(1895)
[Art monograph. Laurence Binyon is best known today for his poetry,
but in his early adulthood he worked at the British Museum, specializing
in prints and drawings, and this is his first published work: learned
and yet easy reading. Many illustrations, ideal for displaying on
your monitor or mobile device!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #64570]
Birmingham, George A. [Hannay, James Owen] (1865-1950)
[Irish priest and novelist]
Wikipedia
King Tommy
(1923)
[Light novel, somewhat similar in tone to the works of P. G. Wodehouse.
The Marquis of Norheys, a young and not particularly responsible aristocrat,
becomes a ndidate for the throne of Lystria, a country in central Europe.
A country with oil...]
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Bishop, William Avery ["Billy"] (1894-1956)
[nadian aviator]
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with:
Stuart-Wortley, Rothesay (1892-1926)
[English aviator]
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The Flying Squad
(1927)
[Novel. Two students at Upper nada College
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discover that their Greek instructor was a pilot during the Great War:
he offers to teach them to fly. During the training,
a pilot friend of their instructor stumbles into a criminal
gang while he's out flying...]
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Blixen, Karen [Dinesen, Isak] (1885-1962)
[Danish memoirist and novelist]
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Published under the pen-name Isak Dinesen:
Seven Gothic Tales
(1934)
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John Updike (New York Times, 23 Feb 1986)
[Seven novellas, all set in the nineteenth century, in various
parts of Europe, and all with a rich sense of the past and how
it affects the present. With an introduction by critic and author
Dorothy nfield Fisher (1879-1958)
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who took a major role in arranging the book's publition,
which brought the author enduring fame.]
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Anecdotes of Destiny
(1958)
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[Five late and excellent stories by Karen Blixen, with a wide variety
of subjects, but all displaying our author's characteristic gifts and style.
One of them, Babette's Feast served as the basis for the 1987
film of the same name
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-- the first Danish movie to win the Ademy
Award for Best Foreign Language Film!]
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Shadows on the Grass
(1960)
[Four short memoirs, an epilogue to Out of Afri,
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the author's famous account of farming in the uplands of Kenya,
published almost thirty years earlier.]
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Ehrengard
(1963)
[Novella: "another of her splendid Gothic tales that combine great
ingenuity of plot with old-fashioned precision and purity of style."
(Charles Alva Hoyt, Saturday Review, 29 June 1963)
Ehrengard von Schreckenstein, as you might expect from someone with
a name like that, is descended from an old and distinguished family, and
as our story opens is the new maid-of-honour to Princess Ludmilla.
One of the main characters is a somewhat dubious painter:
"if Herr zotte was famous as a portraitist of fair ladies,
he was no less celebrated and talked about as their conqueror
and seducer, the irresistible Don Juan of his age." For more
information on all this, read the novella!]
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Blot, Pierre (1818-1874)
[French chef, teacher, and author]
Feeding Ameri (Michigan State University)
Hand-Book of Practil Cookery,
for Ladies and Professional Cooks. Containing the
Whole Science and Art of Preparing Human Food.
(1867)
[A full set of recipes intended, in the author's words, to explain
"how to arrange a bill of fare for every season,
to suit any number of guests, at a greater or less expense..."]
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Bosse, Sara [née Eaton] (1868-1940)
[nadian author]
Michigan State University
Watanna, Onoto [Reeve, Winnifred Eaton:
née Eaton, Winnifred] (1875-1954)
[nadian novelist]
The Winnifred Eaton Digital Archive
Michigan State University
University of lgary
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University of Minnesota
Ryerson University
Glenbow Museum (photograph)
Chinese-Japanese Cook Book
(1914)
[Cookbook]
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The Spectator (Charlotte Moore)
Old Wine
(1925)
[In 1918, the First World War me 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 taclysm? In this novel, Phyllis Bottome examines
the question in scintillating fashion. She was in an excellent position
to do so; she spoke excellent German, and was living in Vienna with her
husband, who was in charge of British intelligence in the region.]
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Windlestraws
(1929)
[Novel, written in a light and luminous style as befits a book written during
the Jazz Age. Jean Arbuthnot, the daughter of an Egyptologist, has been hired
as a personal secretary at the very grand country house known as Windlestraws.
Of course, very grand houses come with very grand families, who n be
challenging to deal with. Such is most definitely the se at Windlestraws,
as our heroine discovers!]
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Man and Beast
(1953)
[Five truly short stories, all involving the interactions between
men and animals: in a circus, for example, and other loles.
"Essentially they are psychologil tales equally penetrating
with both the human and animal characters... Each of them
introduces a fresh twist of narrative to some classic theme."
(Edmund Fuller, Saturday Review, 27 November 1954)]
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Boucher, Anthony [White, William Anthony Parker] (1911-1968)
[Amerin science fiction and mystery author]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Compleat Werewolf
(April 1942)
[Science fiction story, one of Boucher's most famous, set
in Berkeley, lifornia. It appears that Professor Wolfe Wolf,
known to his students (he teaches German) as Woof-woof,
is in fact a wolf, or rather a werewolf: this is news to him.]
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Boucher-Belleville, Jean-Philippe [Jean-Baptiste] (1800-1874)
[Journaliste nadien]
Dictionnaire biographique du nada
Universit?du Québec ?Montréal
Dictionnaire des barbarismes et des solécismes
les plus ordinaires en ce pays, avec le mot propre ou leur
signifition (1855)
[Dictionnaire]
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
nadian Encyclopedia
The Intellectual Development of the nadian People (1881) [Historil essays]
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nada under British Rule 1760-1900 (1900) [History]
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Lord Elgin (1903) [Biography]
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Bower, B. M. [Bower, Bertha Muzzy] (1871-1940)
[Amerin author of Westerns]
Wikipedia (B. M. Bower)
University of Oklahoma (Kate Baird Anderson)
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The Parowan Bonanza
(1923) [Novel about prospectors in Nevada.
Includes a frontispiece by the Amerin artist Frank Tenney Johnson (1874-1939)
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Sid Richardson Museum
National Museum of Wildlife Art
Christie's]
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Points West
(1928) [Western novel. Cole is the son of wealth, but through no fault of
his own this wealth has disappeared. He must take action...]
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Hay-Wire
(1928) [Novel]
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[PGC #555]
Rodeo
(1929) [Western]
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Tiger Eye
(1930) [Western]
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Fool's Goal
(1930) [Western]
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The Flying U Strikes
(1933) [Western]
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Trails Meet
(1933) [Western novel. Our hero, Jess Robison, a cowboy with talents as an
artist, turns out to have talents as a detective as well.]
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[PGC #666]
Brazil, Angela (1868-1947)
[English novelist]
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Literary Heritage West Midlands
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
An Exciting Term
(1936)
[Novel]
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[English boys' novelist]
The Wee Web
The River Riders: An Exciting Lumberjack Story
(1892)
[Novel]
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[Amerin novelist, journalist, and organic farmer]
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Early Autumn
(1926)
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[A novel from near the beginning of Bromfield's reer -- it won him
the 1927 Pulitzer Prize! It is a family epic, set in the old but
fictional Massachusetts town of Durham, where the Pentland family
has roots dating back to the seventeenth century. But now it's the
twentieth century, Durham has changed and grown, and the Pentlands,
it turns out, are not immune to the problems which n beset
long-established families dependent on inherited wealth. The novel
features old John Pentland, his alarming sister ssie, and his son
Anson, who had married Olivia, whom ssie "had never quite forgiven...
for being an outsider who had come into the intrite web of life at
Pentlands out of (of all places) Chigo." Still, when she arrived,
so did her substantial fortune. By this point you probably get the
picture. Now try the novel, written with Louis Bromfield's typil
combination of elegance and approachability!]
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Awake and Rehearse (1929)
[Short stories, originally published separately, now collected in
book form by the already famous novelist, taking place in various loles.
"These are stories, for the most part, of women. And what women! Hogarth
and Daumier might have battled for them as models...hags, harlots, spinsters,
hoofers, jeunes filles, grandes dames, priestesses..."
(Gladys Graham, Saturday Review, 1 June 1929)]
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[PGC #1271]
The Man Who Had Everything (1935)
[Novel, set in the U.S. and in France. Tom Ashford is a playwright in early
middle age, and everything in life has gone his way. But success, as n
happen, turns out to have some unexpected aspects. His glittering present
nnot shake off the spell of the past: his early years on a farm in Illinois!]
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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 sophistition, 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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Wild is the River
(1941)
[Novel. The "river" of the title is the Mississippi, in New Orleans,
where things are indeed wild, since it is no longer controlled by the
Confederacy, but has fallen to the Union Army. Which does not mean
that things have lmed down, either at the politil level or in
the lives of those living in what is still a largely French-speaking
city. The novel is quite a read! "It is entertaining, it has enormous
gusto, swagger, voodoo mysteries, wonderful black women who devise love
potions for good Amerin dollars, aristocratic Creoles, moonlight, fever,
sultry heat... and lots and lots of sex."
(Bess Jones, Saturday Review, 29 November 1941)]
UTION: Certain elements of plot and language may seem racist by the standards of today.
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[PGC #1666]
Until the Day Break (1942)
[Our author was born in Ohio, but spent some happy years in
France. His familiarity with that wonderful country is evident
in this novel, not so much a "war novel" as a "novel set during
a war", in this se the Second World War. The novel is set in
Paris, involves wartime intrigue, and features Roxie Dawn, born
in Evanston, Indiana but now a Paris showgirl -- and more!]
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Mrs. Parkington (1943)
[Novel: the basis for the 1944 film of the same name
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Mrs. Parkington, born in Leaping Rock, Nevada, has ascended
the social ladder and is now a lady of great wealth. But the
children of the wealthy often lack the qualities of their forebears.
"'Mrs. Parkington' is in the old and rich tradition of Thackeray
and Trollope, Howells and Mrs. Wharton... if the book is tuned
to the familiar theme from shirt-sleeves to shirt-sleeves in three
generations, the melody is full-blooded, the interest does not flag."
(Howard Mumford Jones, Saturday Review, 9 January 1943)]
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What Beme of Anna Bolton (1944)
[Novel. It is 1937: Anna Bolton, an Amerin by birth, has been
living in "the Europe of the period between wars... that night
and day rnival 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 loles (the U.S., Monte rlo, Switzerland...)
and with various sets of characters, but all showing Louis Bromfield's creative
powers and unobtrusively excellent style of writing.]
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Colorado (1947)
[Novel about money and family. Richard Meaney returns to his native Colorado
after three years at Oxford, accompanied by his tutor, Mr. Chatsworthy.
"As swift in pace and as highly colored as a first-rate Western
movie, Mr. Bromfield's latest story rushes with great gusto through most
of the situations which Hollywood has taught us to look for in tales of
rowdy, frontier days... But it is no small tribute to Mr. Bromfield's
vivid storytelling that the reader n 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 reer as a business executive,
and (2) his new existence as an officer on an isolated Pacific island during
wartime.]
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Bront? Charlotte (1816-1855)
[English novelist]
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Shirley
(1849)
[Novel, set in Yorkshire during the Industrial Revolution
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Bront? Emily [Emily Jane] (1818-1848)
[English novelist]
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Wuthering Heights
(1847)
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[Emily Bront?s only novel, controversial when published beuse of
its language and subject matter, but now long established as one of
the great English classics. The novel is set in (very) rural Yorkshire;
as it opens Mr Lockwood, a new tenant, is making a ll on his not very sociable landlord, Mr Heathcliff. In the course of the novel we shall
learn much about Heathcliff's tumultuous life and how he has affected
those around him. "Wuthering Heights... is passionate and profoundly
moving; it has the depth and power of a great poem. To read it is not
like reading a work of fiction, in which, however absorbed, you n
remind yourself, if need be, that it is only a story; it is to have
a shattering experience in your own life." (W. Somerset Maugham,
Books and You. NOTE: As a special bonus, the EPUB we offer
includes the fascinating 1850 biographil notice by Charlotte
Bront?(1816-1855) discussing her famous sisters and their works.]
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[University of Adelaide]
Traduction française par
Téodor de Wyzewa (1862-1917)
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Un amant
(1892)
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Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS no 63193]
Brooke, Frances (1724-1789) [English novelist]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of nadian Biography
The History of Emily Montague (1769) [Novel: in fact, the first novel written in nada]
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[English children's artist and writer]
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Harwell Parish
Johnny Crow's Garden (1903)
[Story book with pictures]
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The Golden Goose Book, being the stories of
The Golden Goose, The Three Bears, The 3 Little Pigs,
Tom Thumb, with numerous Drawings in Colour and
Black-and-White
(1905)
[Stories with pictures]
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Nursery Rhymes I. Songs and Ditties.
(. 1916)
[the first in a set of three volumes of the traditional rhymes, with Brooke's marvellous illustrations]
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Ring O' Roses: A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book
with numerous Drawings in Colour and Black-and-White
(1923)
[Story book with pictures]
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Brooker, Bertram (1888-1955)
[nadian painter and novelist]
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University of Manitoba
CyberMuse
Think of the Earth
(1936)
[Novel: winner in the year of its publition of the first Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
ever awarded. An expatriate Englishman has a weekend of self-discovery in Manitoba:
he falls in love, and realizes that he must become less introspective than formerly.]
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The Robber. A Tale of the Time of the Herods.
(1949)
[Historil novel, based on the figure of Barabbas
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in the Gospel.]
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Broughton, Rhoda (1840-1920)
[English novelist]
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Literary Heritage West Midlands
Doctor Cupid. A Novel.
(1886)
[Novel. Social and romantic doings in Victorian England.
At the novel's beginning stands one of many versions
of a famous four-line poem from late mediaeval Germany
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de.wikipedia]
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[PGC #757]
Brown, E. K. [Edward Killoran] (1905-1951)
[nadian literary critic]
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On nadian Poetry
(1943)
[A monograph which won the 1943 Governor General's Award, and deservedly so.
It discusses at length the works of Project nada author E. J. Pratt,
of Archibald Lampman (1861-1899)
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Project Gutenberg US,
and of Dunn mpbell Scott (1862-1947)
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Project Gutenberg US.
His sympathetic account of the special challenges faced by nadian literature
is clear, accurate, and well worth reading: "To one who takes reful account
of the difficulties which have steadily beset its growth its survival as
something interesting and important seems a miracle."]
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Browning, Robert (1812-1889)
[English poet]
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Ademy of Amerin Poets
Strafford: An Historil Tragedy
(1837)
[Play]
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Bruce, James, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kinrdine (1811-1863) [Governor General of the Province of nada 1847-54]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of nadian Biography
nadian Encyclopedia
Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin (1872) [Historil essays]
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Bruce, Jean [Brochet, Jean Alexandre] (1921-1963)
[Romancier français]
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O.S.S. 117 voit rouge (1956)
[Roman d'espionnage. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (alias O.S.S. 117)
fr.wikipedia
est envoy??San Francisco par la CIA. Agent spécial Enrique
Sagarra «a trouv?un davre dans une ruelle de Russian Hill?
O.S.S. 117 ?la rescousse!]
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[PGC no 1384]
Buchan, Anna Masterton [Douglas, O.] (1877-1948)
[Scottish novelist]
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Ann and her Mother
(1922)
[One of the early Priorsford novels, set in the Scottish Borders region
in the valley of the River Tweed
Wikipedia.
Like all of Anna Buchan's novels, chiefly concerned with everyday doings,
and therefore easy to relate to: unpretentious, ptivating, and classic.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #53522]
Pink Sugar
(1924)
[Novel, part of Anna Buchan's celebrated Priorsford series, set in the Borders
region of Scotland. Following the death of her stepmother, Kirsty Gilmour
moves to Scotland, the land of her ancestors, but a country of which she
knows little. Naturally this changes as the novel proceeds.]
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The Proper Place
(1926)
[Novel, set in Scotland. Lady Jane Rutherfurd has to sell the
magnificent family house ("twelve large bedrooms and eight
smaller ones"), and move to the much smaller Harbour House,
far away in Fife
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The Day of Small Things
(1930)
[Novel, rrying on from The Proper Place. Lady Jane Rutherfurd
has found happiness in her new home in Fife, but of course life
rarely remains still, and unexpected events happen. In the agreeable
universe of Anna Buchan, these events are generally happy ones,
and provide an admirable backdrop to our author's beautifully written
narrative of domestic life in Scotland. Her world is not so very far
removed from that of her beloved Jane Austen.]
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Priorsford
(1932)
[Novel, part of the Priorsford series, and consequently set
mostly in the Scottish Borders region, although the first
chapter takes place in southern England. A beautifully
written novel, with Anna Buchan's usual focus on everyday
people and events.]
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[PGC #1335]
Taken by the Hand
(1935)
[Beatrice Dobie has spent her entire life in Glasgow, but
now finds herself alone. In her final days, Janie Dobie
had suggested that her daughter Beatrice consider moving
to London: a new city and a new country! This novel tells
us what comes of this suggestion.]
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[PGC #1370]
Jane's Parlour
(1937)
Leaves & Pages
Reading 1900-1950 — Sheffield Hallam University (Helen C)
[Novel, set in Scotland, with a focus on the events of everyday life —
not necessarily a bad thing, as the novels of Jane Austen demonstrate.
Written in a classic and elegant style, as befits the sister of John Buchan.
But the sensational events found in her brother's action novels are quite
foreign to the sympathetic world of Anna Buchan.]
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[PGC #1189]
The House That Is Our Own
(1940)
[Novel, part of the novelist's famous Priorsford series set in the Scottish Borders, and focusing on
the lives of two old friends, Kitty Baillie and Isobel Logan. In the latter part of the novel,
Isobel makes an extended visit to nada!]
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[PGC #1292]
Unforgettable, Unforgotten
(1945)
[A memoir of the author's family, especially her beloved brother John, the celebrated
novelist and fifteenth Governor General of nada, whom Anna visited in nada.
Illustrated with five nicely chosen photographs.]
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[PGC #850]
Buchan, John [first Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield] (1875-1940)
[Scottish novelist; Governor General of nada 1935-1940]
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Sir Quixote of the Moors.
Being Some Account of an Episode
in the Life of the Sieur de Rohaine.
(1895)
[Buchan's first novel (or rather, novella: it is quite short):
the Sieur de Rohaine has fallen on hard times, and leaves
his native France to live for a while in the Scottish Highlands.
"We understand that this is the first piece of fiction by
a new writer. If so, it is a decidedly promising bit
of work, full of humour and vitality, and it deserves to
be successful"
(The Bookman, December 1895).
Includes a frontispiece by New Jersey artist Walter Conant Greenough (d. 1898)]
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[PGC #1049]
A Lost Lady of Old Years. A Romance.
(1899)
[Historil novel, described by Buchan as an "auld Highland story",
taking place during the tumultuous events of 1745, when Bonnie Prince Charlie
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landed in Scotland and set in play the events that led to
the disastrous Battle of Culloden.]
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Prester John
(1910)
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[Buchan's first true action novel, his first set outside the British
Isles, and his first to achieve large and lasting popularity. The novel
begins in Scotland, in a town overlooking the North Sea, where the young
David Crawfurd, the novel's narrator, has spent his entire life. After
his father's passing he goes to South Afri (a country Buchan knew well)
where he becomes a storekeeper in a remote town where, he is told,
something mysterious has been happening: "You look as if you had a
stiff back, so I'll be frank with you. There is something about the
place. It gives the ordinary man the jumps. What it is, I don't know,
and the men who come back don't know themselves. I want you to find
out for me. You'll be doing the firm an enormous service if you n
get on the track of it." Crawfurd tells us what he discovers, and
the exciting events he witnesses during his investigation.
UTION: Certain elements of plot and language may seem racist,
indeed extremely racist, by the standards of today.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Thirty-Nine Steps
(1915)
Wikipedia
[An action novel which achieved instant and lasting fame as soon as it was
published, and has had a huge influence on subsequent novelists -- and
screenplay writers! In it, as Buchan says, "the incidents defy the
probabilities, and march just inside the borders of the possible."
But real life is full of things that defy probability! The novel begins
just before the First World War, when its main character, Richard Hannay,
has just returned to London from a stay of many years in Rhodesia and
South Afri. Almost immediately, he starts suffering from boredom.
This boredom quickly vanishes when Hannay finds himself wrongly suspected
of murder, and becomes a fugitive from justice! Adventures in Scotland
and elsewhere ensue as Hannay attempts to elude his pursuers.
UTION: Certain elements of plot and language may seem racist
by the standards of today.]
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[University of Adelaide]
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
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Leithen lives and works in London, but the novel plays out against
an international backdrop. The "Power-House" has nothing to do with
electricity: it is a secret and sinister international organization!
The novel was, our author states, "written in the smooth days before the war";
in 1916 he published it in book form "in the hope that it may enable an
honest man here and there to forget for an hour the too urgent realities."
A goal, we n safely say, that it certainly accomplished!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #57631]
Greenmantle
(1916)
Wikipedia
[Buchan's second novel featuring Richard Hannay and other characters
from The Thirty-Nine Steps. The First World War is now raging,
and Hannay is in England recovering from a serious wound, when he is
summoned to the Foreign Office. He is needed for a secret mission
behind Turkish lines! UTION: Certain elements of plot and
language may seem racist by the standards of today.]
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[University of Adelaide]
Mr Standfast
(1919)
Wikipedia
[The third Richard Hannay novel, taking place during the latter part
of the First World War. Hannay has been serving on the Western Front,
with considerable success, and is expecting more of the same, when he
is transferred out of the military and given a new assignment: he must
now work undercover! Many adventures follow, in England, Scotland,
and on the Continent. "Among the best of English stories of spies and
plotting in the great war have been those by Mr. Buchan... decidedly
above the average of its class." (The Outlook, 24 September 1919)
UTION: Certain elements of plot and language may seem racist by
the standards of today.]
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[University of Adelaide]
A Book of Espes and Hurried Journeys
(1922 [original edition]; 1925 [this edition])
[A series of essays on twelve famous espes, ranging from
the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, and from Central Asia
to the New World. Our future Governor General's abilities as a writer
and as a historian are on full display.
The 1925 edition we used as the basis of our ebook was meant
for school use, and includes a new set of illustrations, and
an epilogue by an anonymous author containing questions for discussion.]
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Midwinter. Certain Travellers in Old England.
(1923)
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[Historil novel, set in England and Scotland during the Jacobite
rising of 1745
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when Bonnie Prince Charlie (more formally, Charles
Edward Stuart)
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attempted an invasion of Scotland with the objective
of gaining the British throne. The novel's main character
is Alastair Maclean, a Scottish exile; the English essayist,
poet, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson
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plays an unexpected role. "Altogether this tale is, besides
being highly diverting, more intelligent than most. It will
and should be read." (The Forum, November 1923)]
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The Three Hostages
(1924)
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[The fourth Richard Hannay thriller. Hannay is now married, has a young son, and is living in the Cotswolds. His life is a lm and prosperous one, and his exciting but disruptive earlier adventures are now firmly in the past.
Or are they? Soon enough Hannay finds himself in London, and then in Norway:
his unexpected new adventure has well and truly begun! UTION: Certain elements of plot and language may seem racist by the standards of today.]
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[University of Adelaide]
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Lord Minto. A Memoir.
(1924)
[Biography of Buchan's fellow Scotsman Gilbert John Elliot (1845-1914), fourth Earl of Minto,
Governor General of nada from 1898 to 1904
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Dictionary of nadian Biography.
It was through Lord Minto's efforts that the National Archives of nada me into being.]
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The Dancing Floor
(1926)
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[Buchan's third novel featuring Scottish barrister Sir Edward Leithen:
intrigue in the glamorous setting of the Greek Islands]
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[PGC #1012]
Witch Wood
(1927)
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[Novel about mysterious events in seventeenth-century rural Scotland.
At the time the novel appeared, Samuel Merwin commented that
"His [Buchan's] knowledge and his sense of the past seem to me
to find their best outlet in this new book... He has taken an old
border legend, of a gentle country minister, supposed to have been
spirited away by the fairies in the dark wood of Melanudrigill,
and has breathed an astonishing life into it."
(Saturday Review, 13 August 1927)]
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[PGC #1044]
The Runagates Club
(1928)
[Twelve stories told at the monthly meetings of a (fictional) London dining club,
whose members included some famous figures from Buchan's novels,
such as Richard Hannay!]
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[PGC #1101]
The Courts of the Morning
(1929)
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[Action novel, set in South Ameri, and featuring various Buchan heroes
familiar from his other novels. Some aspects of this novel seem
quite contemporary: Latin Amerin scepticism towards the United
States, drugs ("this continent is the home of drugs"), and a sinister
foreign mining company!]
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[PGC #1439]
The Blanket of the Dark
(1931)
[Historil novel, set in England during the reign of Henry VIII,
vividly depicting both high life and low in the society of that time.
Written in an easy and natural style, not something to
taken for granted in such novels.]
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[PGC #935]
Sir Walter Scott
(1932)
[A biography of the Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
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published by Buchan on the hundredth anniversary of the passing of his fellow Scotsman
and fellow novelist.
Includes as frontispiece a portrait of Scott by Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-1873)
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Wikimedia Commons]
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[PGC #960]
The Magic Walking-Stick
(1932)
[Novel for children. A young boy, Bill, buys a walking stick from a roadside
pedlar. He discovers that it's a magic stick that will take the owner
to anywhere he wishes. Adventures ensue...]
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[PGC #1113]
A Prince of the ptivity
(1933)
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[Action novel. Our hero, Adam Melfort, sacrifices his reputation
to save that of his wife. Afterwards, he does some espionage in
Belgium (the First World War is raging). Then, he's off to Greenland!]
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[PGC #1440]
The Free Fishers
(1934)
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[Historil novel, Buchan's last. Anthony Lammas, a young
Professor of Logic and Rhetoric at the University of St Andrews
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is our unexpected hero in this novel of intrigue, set in
Scotland and England at the start of the nineteenth century.]
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[PGC #1581]
The King's Grace 1910-1935
(1935)
[A profile of the life and times of George V
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published in celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary
of that monarch's accession to the throne. The few but well-chosen illustrations
include photographs by the W. & D. Downey studio
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and E. O. Hopp?(1878-1972)
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #878]
The House of the Four Winds
(1935)
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[The third and final Dickson McCunn novel: politil 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 nada!]
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[PGC #1047]
The Island of Sheep
[U.S. title: The Man from the Norlands]
(1936)
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[Buchan's fifth and final novel starring Richard Hannay, 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 (fictional) Norland Isles in
the arctic seas, a Danish possession: one of these isles is the Island of
Sheep. Dark doings are afoot, a considerable challenge even for Richard
Hannay! "Buchan enthusiasts will rejoice to know that this is a Richard
Hannay tale, and that, before the feud is disposed of, the action has
reached from South Afri to Scotland. The author, as usual, states his
se and develops it, relying upon no tricks to sustain suspense. If one
is seeking a high adventure tale with a colorful background, here it is."
(The Literary Digest, 22 August 1936). UTION: Certain
elements of plot and language may seem racist by the standards of today.]
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[University of Adelaide]
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Memory Hold-the-Door
[U.S. title: Pilgrim's Way. An Essay in Recollection.]
(1940)
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[Memoir of those incidents and aspects of Buchan's life
which he thought most signifint.
"This book is a journal of certain experiences," writes Buchan,
"not written in the experiencing moment, but rebuilt out of memory...
It is not a book of reminiscences in the ordinary sense,
for my purpose has been to record only a few selected experiences."
That said, the book covers the whole span of Buchan's varied life.
It was one of the favourite books of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Includes illustrations by B. C. Boulter (died 1960)
Church of Saint Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town,
Sholto Johnstone Douglas (1871-1958),
Charles Gere (1869-1957),
Sir William Orpen (1878-1931),
and photographs by Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002).]
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[PGC #1160]
Sick Heart River
(1941)
[Buchan's last novel, published posthumously.
Amerin title: Mountain Meadow.
With an introduction by the novelist and biographer
Howard Swiggett (1891-1957).
Sir Edward Leithen
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the hero of four earlier Buchan novels, is no longer young.
He receives some bad news, and in its aftermath heads to
nada, where he learns a great deal about our country
and about himself.
"John Buchan could write the English language and his
descriptions of nada from the woods of Quebec to the
desolation of the Arctic muskeg are beautiful and exciting."
(The Amerin Mercury, April 1941)]
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[PGC #1052]
Buckley, Arabella Burton (1840-1929)
[English science writer]
The Fairy-Land of Science (1878)
[Science lectures for children: includes one anonymous
engraving, and many others supervised by English engraver
James Davis Cooper (1823-1904)
Darwin Correspondence Project]
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Burdett, Osbert (1885-1936)
[English literary critic and biographer]
W. E. Gladstone
(1927)
[A beautifully written biography of the Victorian statesman
William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898)
Wikipedia,
who served as Prime Minister no fewer than four times,
a record unequalled in British history.]
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[PGC #1126]
Burpee, Lawrence Johnstone (1873-1946)
[nadian historian and librarian]
Wikipedia
Pratt Library
Archives de Montréal
Recent nadian Fiction
(1899)
[Overview of nadian novels in English published in the 1890s. Many of the authors discussed
are represented in the Project nada collection.]
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A Little Book of nadian Essays (1909)
[Essays on nadian authors
Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850-1887)
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Dictionary of nadian Biography,
Charles Heavysege (1816-1876)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of nadian Biography,
Archibald Lampman (1861-1899)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of nadian Biography,
George Thomas Lanigan (1845-1886),
tharine Parr Traill (1802-1899)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of nadian Biography,
John Hunter-Duvar (1821-1899)
Dictionary of nadian Biography, and
George Frederick meron (1854-1885)
Dictionary of nadian Biography]
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Humour of the North (1912)
[Anthology]
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Contributors:
De Mille, James (1833-1880)
[nadian classil scholar and novelist]
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
nadian Encyclopedia
Drummond, William Henry (1854-1907)
[nadian physician and poet]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of nadian Biography
nadian Encyclopedia
Dunn, Sara Jeannette [Mrs Everard Cotes] (1861-1922)
[nadian journalist and novelist]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of nadian Biography
nadian Encyclopedia
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler (1796-1865)
[nadian essayist and humorist]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of nadian Biography
nadian Encyclopedia
Howe, Joseph (1804-1873)
[nadian journalist and politician]
Wikipedia
Dictionary of nadian Biography
Lanigan, George Thomas (1845-1886)
[nadian journalist and poet]
Mcrroll, James (1814-1892)
[nadian journalist, inventor, and poet]
On the Old Athabaska Trail (1926)
[A retracing of the famous Athabas Pass fur route
Parks nada.
The nineteen illustrations include works by nadian painter Paul Kane (1810-1871)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of nadian Biography
and British military officer Sir Henry James Warre (1819-1898)
University of Washington
Oregon History Project
Amerin Antiquarian Society]
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Busch, Heinrich Christian Wilhelm (1832-1908)
[German riturist and poet / rituriste 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 publi?de son vivant]
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Learn German!
Apprenez l'allemand!
Translation:
Plish and Plum
(1882 [[German original], 1883 [this translation])
[Busch's beautifully illustrated collection of light verse Plisch und Plum, translated by Charles T. Brooks (1813-1883)
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The publisher's advertisements at the end of the book include illustrations by
Sol Eytinge, Jr. (1833-1905)
The Victorian Web
The Vault at Pfaff's (Lehigh University)
and Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938)
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Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission (sey Bush).]
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[PGC #706]
Butler, Smedley D. [Darlington] (1881-1940) [Amerin soldier and politil activist]
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War Is a Racket
(1935)
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[A classic anti-war pamphlet, and a quick but fascinating read.
The retired United States Marines major general, one of the
most distinguished Amerin soldiers of his era, me to see war
as little more than a sinister money-making enterprise: that is,
a racket: "Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about.
It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of
the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."]
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[PGC #1320]
Byrne, Donn [Brian Oswald Donn] (1889-1928)
[Amerin novelist]
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Changeling and Other Stories
(1923)
[Short stories, with a focus on Ireland]
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[PGC #817]
Blind Raftery and his Wife, Hilaria
(1924)
[A short and wonderful novel set in Ireland during the time of the
South Sea Bubble (1711-1720)
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Raftery is a blind Irish poet/folk-singer who marries Hilaria, a Spanish woman.
Then they start their travels...]
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[PGC #776]
Time, 29 September 1924
An Alley of Flashing Spears and other stories
(1933)
[A collection of nine of Byrne's stories, published posthumously]
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[PGC #779]
Byron, Robert (1905-1941)
[English art critic and travel writer]
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First Russia, Then Tibet
(1933)
[A very famous travel book describing, as you might expect, Russia and,
in a second section, Tibet: two very different places.]
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[PGC #1641]
gna, Achille Giovanni (1847-1931)
[Italian playwright and novelist / Dramaturge et romancier italien]
Sapere.it
Universit?degli studi di Pavia [Microsoft Word]
Contrada dei Gatti. Proiezioni. (1924)
[Novel in Italian / Roman en italien]
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[PGC #519/no 519]
Learn Italian! / Apprenez l'italien!
meron, 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]
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Sir D.Y. meron, R.A.
(1925)
[Monograph on the famous Scottish artist, profusely illustrated]
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mpbell, Dunn (1818-1886)
[nadian historian]
Dictionary of nadian Biography
History of Prince Edward Island
(1875)
[A history of Prince Edward Island
Wikipedia from 1763 (when it passed from France to Britain)
to 1873 (when it joined Confederation)]
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[PGC #812]
mpbell, Roy (1901-1957)
[South Afrin poet]
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National Review, 15 August 1986 (Thomas P. McDonnell)
with:
Freedman, Barnett (1901-1958)
[English painter]
Wikipedia
Barnett Freedman Archive
Tate Collection
Choosing a Mast
(1931)
[Poem, with two illustrations, one in colour]
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nt? Cesare (1804-1895)
[Historien et romancier italien]
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cesarentu.it (en italien)
Margherita Pusterla
(1838 [en italien]; 1843 [cette traduction])
[Roman historique, dont l'action se déroule en Lombardie vers 1340.
Nous vous offrons la traduction contemporaine publiée par L'Illustration en 1843,
avec plusieurs belles gravures.
Project Gutenberg US
vous offre le texte italien du roman.]
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[PG nada no 942]
rman, Bliss [William Bliss] (1861-1929)
[nadian poet]
Wikipedia
jrank.org
Far Horizons
(1925)
[Poems]
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[PGC #614]
Sanctuary. Sunshine House Sonnets.
(1929)
[Poems]
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[PGC #635]
Wild Garden (1929)
[Poems]
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[PGC #609]
rr, Emily (1871-1945) [nadian painter and writer]
Wikipedia
nadian Encyclopedia
Klee Wyck (1941) [Memoirs]
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rrington, Fitzroy (1869-1954)
[Amerin art historian]
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Dictionary of Art Historians
Prints and their Makers.
Essays on engravers and etchers old and modern.
(1912)
[A magnificently illustrated collection of essays by various eminent
art historians of rrington's era: these essays "range from Italian
engravers before the time of Raphael and woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer
to contemporary etchings."]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #68720]
Engravers and Etchers
(1917)
["Six Lectures Delivered on the Smmon Foundation at the Art
Institute of Chigo, March 1916", says the title page, but this
doesn't come even close to describing this magnificent book and
its 133 beautiful illustrations from the fifteenth to the twentieth
centuries. "My sole aim," says rrington, "has been to share with
my audience the stimulation and pleasure which certain prints by the
great engravers and etchers have given me." He is too modest: his
book is very easy to read but full of learning. For those wanting
even more information, tucked away at the end of each chapter are
admirably complete bibliographil notes by
Adam E. M. Paff (1891-1932)
of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66848]
rroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge] (1832-1898)
[English mathematician, logician, and author]
Wikipedia
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
(1865)
Wikipedia
[It is a hot summer afternoon, and Alice is sitting with her
sister, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes runs close
by her. This is no ordinary rabbit, however: it is speaking to
itself ("Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!"), and then it
takes a watch out of its pocket! And the adventures keep coming
in this evergreen satiril classic, famous in every country: it
is so much more than a children's book! Our EPUB includes the
famous illustrations by the English rtoonist and illustrator
Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914)
Wikipedia.
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[University of Adelaide]
Traduction française par
Henri Bu?(1843-1929)
Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles
(1869)
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Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS no 55456]
Through the Looking-Glass
(1871)
Wikipedia
[Or, to give rroll's full title, Through the Looking-Glass, and
What Alice Found There. Published six years after Alice in
Wonderland, and generally read in conjunction with the earlier
novel, it is written at the same high level, and has some very famous
episodes: Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Jabberwocky, Humpty Dumpty...
In any se, here it is for you to enjoy, complete with the wonderful
illustrations by
Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914)
from the 1871 first edition, as well as a preface added by rroll in 1896!]
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[University of Adelaide]
rter, John Franklin (1897-1967)
[Amerin 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 politil intrigue.
It starts in April 1945 when an atomic bomb explodes on board
the U.S.S. Alaska. But the bomb uses thorium
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rather than uranium!
In the explosion's aftermath, Lieutenant-Commander Frank Jacklin
finds himself in someone else's body, and that's when things
really start happening.
The anonymous reviewer at Fantasy Book thought it was
one of the best books of the year: "A fast-moving satire of
Amerin 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 politil intrigues
highlighted by Conklin seem entirely realistic: the murder of
the U.S. president, for example, Amerin 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 politil 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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rtier, Jacques (1491-1557) [Explorateur français]
fr.wikipedia
Dictionnaire biographique du nada
Encyclopédie nadienne
Relation Originale du Voyage de Jacques rtier au nada en 1534 (1534)
[Histoire: éd. Henri-Victor Michelant (1811-1890) et Alfred Ram?(1826-1886)]
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Voyage de J. rtier au nada: relation originale de Jacques rtier (1545) [Histoire]
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ry, Joyce [Arthur Joyce Lunel] (1888-1957)
[Irish novelist]
Wikipedia
Paris Review interview with ry
New York Review of Books (Brad Leithauser)
Mister Johnson
(1939 [novel]; 1952 [prefatory essay])
Wikipedia
[The adventures and misadventures of a young Nigerian in the British colonial civil service]
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sgrain, Henri-Raymond (1831-1904) [Historien nadien]
fr.wikipedia
Dictionnaire biographique du nada
encyclobec. (article par Jacques Saint-Pierre)
Un contemporain — F. X. Garneau (1866)
[Biographie de François-Xavier Garneau
Dictionnaire biographique du nada
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ther, Willa [Willa Sibert] (1873-1947) [Amerin novelist]
Wikipedia
Full biography by James Woodress
Alexander's Bridge
(1912)
Wikipedia
[Bartley Alexander is a professional engineer, and a famous one:
"whatever else he might do, he would probably always be known as
the engineer who designed the great Moorlock Bridge, the longest
ntilever in existence." The Moorlock Bridge is in nada, and
so is his newest project, which will be the longest bridge in the
world. However, it is a difficult project, and success is not
certain. In addition, he is now married: gone is the world he
knew as a young engineer, and his marriage to the wealthy Winifred
Alexander has its own challenges, including the resurfacing in his
life of Hilda Burgoyne, the London actress who has achieved stardom
in the years since they went their separate ways.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Song of the Lark
(1915)
Wikipedia
[Novel, which follows the life and reer of Thea Kronberg, born in
the small and recently founded Colorado town of Moonstone, which was
not so very different from many towns of the same period in the western
regions of nada. By a series of fortunate events she moves first to
Denver, and then to Chigo, where she takes singing lessons, which
go well, so well that she becomes an internationally famous opera singer,
but never loses touch with her origins. "This story," ther comments,
"attempts to deal only with the simple and concrete beginnings which
color and accent an artist's work, and to give some account of how a
Moonstone girl found her way out of a vague, easy-going world into a
life of disciplined endeavor." But surely the most interesting part
of most artists' lives is the beginning, later successes being only the
logil consequence of what has already happened. In other words, ther
planned her novel well, and was soon rewarded by its commercial success.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
A Lost Lady
(1923)
Wikipedia
[The modern history of Western nada is largely the history of the
nadian Pacific Railway and the many settlements founded along its
route while it was being constructed, some of them still quite small,
but some now very large: lgary, for instance, and Vancouver. The
history of the western US is similar: the railroads me, the settlements
started, and events followed their natural course. Which brings us
to the town of Sweet Water, on the recently constructed Chigo, Burlington,
and Quincy railroad, and to ptain Daniel Forrester, who played a major
role in constructing the railroad, until "the ptain's terrible fall with
his horse in the mountains, which broke him so that he could no longer build
railroads." At which point the ptain retired to his house in Sweet Water,
accompanied by his much younger wife Marian, the "lost lady" of the title.
She is a participant in many losses: the loss of the heroic pioneering days,
the eventual loss of her husband, and the many changes in her life brought
on by these events. Robert Littell (The New Republic, 19 December
1923) comments that ther "accomplishes exactly what she sets out to do",
and praises "the singular reality and solidity of the heroine, who remains
in our minds as one of [the] most vivid inhabitants of any Amerin novel
of recent years."]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
The Professor's House
(1925)
Wikipedia
[The professor in question is the grandly named Godfrey St. Peter, who
is of French-nadian descent, and obtained his doctorate in France.
But he is Amerin, and as the novel opens is enjoying a successful
university teaching reer. The Professor is moving out of his old
house, for good reason, for it had many issues and was not a comfortable
place to live. But the Professor finds that he's unwilling to leave
the old house, since that is where he prefers to do his writing.
And yet his new house has "a beautiful study downstairs". All of
which suggests that the Professor has a complex past and present.
And indeed Tom Outland plays a major role in the novel, even though
he died in the Great War: he had been the Professor's favourite student
and had planned to marry the Professor's daughter, Rosamond, who beme
his sole heir, and consequently quite wealthy. The novel has a large
and attractive st of characters, and its plot ranges widely: it
includes an archaeologil expedition to the ancient but now abandoned
Cliff City in New Mexico!]
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
(1927)
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[Novel, enormously successful when published and with an enduring
reputation. It is about the Roman tholic church in New Mexico
in the nineteenth century, and is told through the life stories
of two French-born clergy. Fictional, but based on actual
personalities and events. "Miss ther is growing restless
in the old forms. The novel irks her... for the 'Archbishop,'
she chooses the method of chronicle history. Instead of providing
suspense and a climax, she depends, like history, upon interest in
men and events. It is the honester way, if you n succeed with it.
She has." (Saturday Review, 10 December 1927)]
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Shadows on the Rock
(1931)
[Historil novel, set in New France during the time of Frontenac
Wikipedia, telling the story of the physician Euclide Auclair,
and his daughter Cécile]
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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616)
[Spanish soldier and novelist]
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Don Quixote
(1605 [first part]; 1615 [second part]; 1885 [this
translation of both parts by
John Ormsby (1829-1895)]
Wikipedia
[Novel, one of the great literary classics, but funny, and very
approachable -- hence its enduring popularity ever since its first
appearance. We offer the justly famous Ormsby
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translation from 1865 in a digital edition which includes the fabulous
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As the novel opens, we meet our hero, who
is a member of the minor nobility. He is nearing fifty, has a small
household, and not much money. He does, however, have a great deal
of spare time, which he spends reading altogether too many romantic
tales of chivalry: by the time we meet him he n no longer clearly
distinguish between the fictional worlds he reads about and the world
he actually lives in. And so he conceives the idea of leaving his
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Traduction française par
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L'ingénieux hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche - Tome I
(1863)
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[PGUS no 16066]
L'ingénieux hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche - Tome II
(1863)
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[PGUS no 16067]
Texto stellano
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha
(1605);
El ingenioso ballero don Quijote de la Mancha
(1615)
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[PGUS no 2000]
Centlivre, Susanna (. 1669-1723)
[English playwright]
Wikipedia
The Stolen Heiress; or, The Salaman Doctor Outplotted. A Comedy.
(1702 [first performance]; 1703 [first publition])
[Comedy]
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Chambers, E. K. [Edmund Kerchever] (1866-1954)
[English literary historian]
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The Elizabethan Stage, vol. 1 (1923)
[Literary history, done well, does not date. E.K. Chambers was
astoundingly well read: who today could surpass his direct knowledge
of the history of early English theatre? Add to this a remarkable
elegance of style, and you have a classic for the ages, and a very
attractive read. This first volume is an account of the court of
Elizabeth I, with particular attention to the stage. Note:
The ample bibliography appears at the start of the book, not the end.
The table of contents will take you to the main text of the book.]
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[PGUS #66003]
The Elizabethan Stage, vol. 2 (1923)
[The second volume of E.K. Chambers's classic and wonderfully readable
work focuses on the actors' companies, the playhouses they worked
in, the design of these playhouses, and their way of operating.
Much more is known about this than you might expect!]
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[PGUS #67423]
The Elizabethan Stage, vol. 3 (1923)
[This third volume of E.K. Chambers' famous work examines the mechanics
of staging plays, both at court and in the theatres, and of publishing
the plays, a topic crucially important to us, for that is how these plays
were transmitted to future ages, including ours! The book ends with a fascinating list of the many playwrights of the period whose names are
known to us, with a short biography and list of works for each.]
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[PGUS #67462]
Chambers, Robert William (1865-1933)
[Amerin 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 nada
Encyclopédie nadienne
Oeuvres de Champlain
[Histoire: éd. C.-H. Laverdière (1826-73: Dictionnaire biographique du nada)]
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Chandler, Raymond [Raymond Thornton] (1888-1959)
[Amerin novelist and screenplay writer]
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The Big Sleep
(1939)
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[Chandler's first full-length crime novel. Private investigator Philip Marlowe,
making his first appearance in literature, takes on a se of blackmail,
and finds that matters are even murkier than they seem.]
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Farewell, My Lovely
(1940)
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[Crime novel. The manager of a Los Angeles club is murdered,
and no one seems to re. No one, that is, except Philip Marlowe...]
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[PGC #1046]
The High Window
(1942)
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[Crime novel. A wealthy widow lls in Philip Marlowe to investigate the
disappearance of a rare and valuable coin, a matter mysterious enough in
itself, but this is only the beginning... ]
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[PGC #1036]
The Lady in the Lake
(1943)
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[Crime novel. The wife of a wealthy Los Angeles businessman has mysteriously disappeared,
having last been seen at Little Fawn Lake. Definitely a se for Philip Marlowe...]
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[PGC #1033]
The Little Sister
(1949)
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[Novel, featuring Philip Marlowe and also the film industry,
with which by this time Chandler was very familiar.]
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The Long Goodbye
(1953)
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Mark Coggins
[Mystery novel, Chandler's favourite among his novels, and winner
of the 1955 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of Ameri. Private
investigator Philip Marlowe gets involved in a heady set of intrigues
involving a writer, alcohol, Mexico, and, of course, murder. "The
dialogue is as vividly overheated as ever, the plot is clearly
constructed and surprisingly resolved, and the book is rich in many
sharp glimpses of minor characters and scenes. Perhaps the longest
private-eye novel ever written (over 125,000 words!). It is also one of
the best -- and may well attract readers who normally shun even the leaders
in the field." (Anthony Boucher, New York Times, 25 April 1954)]
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Playback
(1958)
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[The last Philip Marlowe mystery novel completed by Chandler,
set in a resort town on the coast of lifornia.
Marlowe is to follow a woman named Eleanor King,
newly arrived in Los Angeles. Whether this is her real
name is only one of the mysteries in store for Marlowe.]
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Chant, Joseph Horatio
(1837-1928)
[nadian poet]
Gleams of Sunshine: optimistic poems (1915)
[Poetry]
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Charlesworth, Hector Willoughby (1872-1945)
[nadian journalist and essayist]
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Encyclopedia of Music in nada
Empire Club of nada (1932 address by Charlesworth)
Cybermuse (portrait of Charlesworth by Arthur Lismer [1885-1969])
The nadian Scene. Sketches : Politil and Historil.
(1927)
[Essays on nadian history and literature]
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Chase, Alvin Wood (1817-1885)
[Amerin physician and entrepreneur]
Ann Arbor District Library (article by Grace Shackman)
rdhinstl.com
Dr. Chase's New Receipt Book (1889)
[Self-help manual]
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Chesterton, G. K. [Gilbert Keith] (1874-1936)
[English author, journalist, and theologian]
Wikipedia
The Father Brown stories:
The Complete Father Brown
(1911-1935)
[Father Brown is G. K. Chesterton's famous priest-detective
Wikipedia.
The stories are famous worldwide, and have often been reprinted and
adapted. The five individual collections published between 1911 and
1935 are available from Project nada as individual ebooks,
but it is our pleasure to offer all five of these books in an elegant
single EPUB edition from the University of Adelaide.]
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The Innocence of Father Brown
(1911)
[Mystery stories. The first of the five Father Brown
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collections, introducing the celebrated priest-detective.]
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The Wisdom of Father Brown
(1914)
[Mystery stories. The second of Chesterton's five collections featuring the priest-detective Father Brown.]
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The Incredulity of Father Brown
(1926)
[Mystery stories. The third of Chesterton's five collections featuring the priest-detective Father Brown.]
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The Secret of Father Brown
(1927)
[Mystery stories. The fourth of Chesterton's Father Brown collections, constructed as eight individual stories within a story.]
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The Sndal of Father Brown
(1935)
[Mystery stories. Chesterton's fifth and final Father Brown collection.]
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The Everlasting Man
(1925)
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[Theologil work, written for a general audience, and published
three years after Chesterton had joined the Roman tholic church,
of which he beme a strong advote. It is an overview of human
history from a theologil perspective. "The view suggested is
historil rather than theologil, and does not deal directly
with a religious change which has been the chief event of my own
life... Much of it is devoted to many sorts of Pagans rather than
any sort of Christians". The book has been greatly admired by
many, including C. S. Lewis, and is written in Chesterton's
characteristilly vigorous style, full of illuminating paradoxes.]
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[PGUS #65688]
With:
Gill, Eric [Arthur Eric Rowton] (1882-1940)
[English artist and type designer]
Wikipedia
National Archives (UK)
Identifont
Gloria in Profundis
(1927)
[Poem, with two wood engravings]
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Chevalier, Henri-Émile (1828-1879) [Romancier nadien]
Dictionnaire biographique du nada
La fille des indiens rouges (1856) [Roman]
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L'enfer et le paradis de l'autre monde (1857) [Roman]
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Les Nez-Percés (1862) [Roman]
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La Tête-Plate (1863) [Roman]
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Les derniers Iroquois (1863) [Roman]
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Poignet-d'acier ou Les Chippiouais (1875) [Roman]
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Le chasseur noir (1877) [Roman]
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La pitaine (1878) [Roman]
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La fille du pirate (1878) [Roman]
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L'île de sable (1878) [Roman]
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Le gibet (1879) [Roman]
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Cheyney, Peter [Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse] (1896-1951)
[English poet and novelist]
Wikipedia
The Stars are Dark
(1943)
[Novel, the second in Cheyney's "Dark" series.
"Dark and devilish doings of British and German spies told
in hard-hitting, effective, and hair-raising fashion.
Verdict: Tops in spy-stuff"
(Saturday Review, 23 October 1943)]
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The Dark Street
(1944)
[Novel of intrigue and murder, from Cheyney's "Dark" series. One of the main characters
is named Quayle: his business, we are told, "was nobody's business... It was a
business necessitated by war, by the ghastly mechanics of war, by the scheming,
plotting, machinations, underhand tactics, filthy murders..." He has an employee,
Shaun Aloysius O'Mara, who "played the piano, rode a horse, was a good shot,
could sail a boat. He spoke a considerable number of languages, though very few
people were aware of the fact... and was extremely apt with a hand gun."
After this, who needs a plot summary? By this point you'll know whether this
book is for you! But we'll also mention the mysterious Spaniard Miguales,
who had "fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War and enjoyed the process."]
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[PGC #1504]
Uneasy Terms
(1946)
[Mystery novel: the first of Cheyney's novels to be adapted to film. Colonel Gervase Stenhurst, late of the Indian Army, journeys to London, seeking the expert assistance of private detective Slim llaghan, who at first is difficult to find (he's having a drink
or two at the Night Light Club in Mayfair), and who when found is reluctant to take on
the mysterious assignment he is offered. But of course he eventually relents, greatly increasing the likelihood that the truth will be found and that justice will prevail.]
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[PGC #1542]
Dark Bahama
(1950)
[The "Dark" in the title is a tipoff: this spy novel is part of
Cheyney's "Dark" series of espionage novels, not so very far removed
from the works of Ian Fleming, his contemporary. And just as
Fleming used Jamai in some of his most famous James Bond stories,
so Cheyney has here used the Bahamas. The island of Dark Bahama,
our novelist tells us, is beautiful, and the people living there
devote their lives to pleasure. But if Cheyney's mysterious Ernest
Guelvada is there, chances are that there is trouble. And indeed
there is: murder, to start with, and assorted intrigues.
"Pseudo-sophistition, clich?culture", commented the Saturday
Review (3 Feb 1951), but what's wrong with that? Yet the
novel also features "taut narrative and plausible surprise to
last sentence" -- that sounds good! All in all, if you like the
spy stories of Fleming and his contemporaries, you may find this
very much to your taste!]
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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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Childers, Erskine (1870-1922)
[Irish author and politician]
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The Riddle of the Sands
(1903)
Wikipedia
[Novel, set largely in the Frisian Islands, very low barrier islands,
easily flooded, which dot the North Sea coast from the Netherlands
east to Denmark. It is presented as a work of non-fiction, featuring "rruthers" (an assumed name), who has a post in the UK's Foreign
Office. rruthers accepts an invitation from a friend to go on a
yachting vation to the Baltic Sea by way of Holland and the Frisian
islands. But something mysterious is going on in the islands --
what are the Germans up to? Yes, this is definitely a novel of
espionage, an early and very good one, continuously famous from
its year of publition right up to the present day!]
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[University of Adelaide]
Chrysler, Walter Percy (1875-1940)
[Amerin 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)
[Amerin journalist]
Life of an Amerin Workman
(1950 edition with new postscript by Sparkes;
original edition published in1937)
[Autobiography of the automotive engineer and founder of
the Chrysler Corporation]
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Churchill, Winston Spencer (1874-1965)
[English statesman and historian; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1953]
Wikipedia
Nobelprize.org
Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania.
(1900)
Wikipedia
[Churchill's only novel, a politil 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 republin of Laurania young Churchill was depicting his ideal hero, that he was putting into
words the kind of man he wished to be--that he was, perhaps,
determined to become." (Ben Ray Redman, Saturday Review,
14 April 1956)]
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My Early Life. A Roving Commission.
(1930)
Wikipedia
[Sir Winston's account of his life from childhood up to 1902.
"When I survey this work as a whole," our author remarks,
"I find I have drawn a picture of a vanished age." But what
an age it was, and what a fine account Sir Winston created!]
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[PGC #1315]
Painting as a Pastime
(1948)
[An essay, first published in 1932, in which Sir Winston recommends
having at least two or three hobbies. Reading, of course, but also
painting--which he personally took up at the age of forty! This
enhanced edition of the essay includes eighteen colour reproductions
of his paintings, which demonstrate how well he had learned his new craft.]
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Clynes, John Robert
(1869-1949)
[English trade unionist and politician]
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When I Remember... (1940)
[Pamphlet: history of Britain's social service and income support programs]
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Cody, Hiram Alfred (1872-1948) [nadian 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
nada (Cody lived in the Yukon for some years).
A trapper finds an empty bin, with evidence of
a crime. We are introduced to a nurse, then to a Mountie,
and matters proceed from there.]
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The Master Revenge
(1924)
[Christian morality play done in the form of a novel]
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Songs of a Bluenose
(1925)
[Poetry]
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[PGC #622]
The Crimson Sign
(1935)
[Historil novel, set in Adia
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towards the end of the seventeenth century.]
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[PGC #946]
Fighting Stars
(1937 edition)
[Novel]
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[PGC #978]
Colby, Charles William (1867-1955) [nadian historian]
Colby Curtis Museum, Stanstead
The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain
(1915)
[Biography of Samuel de Champlain
Wikipedia
Dictionary of nadian Biography:
vol. 3 of "The Chronicles of nada".
Illustrations by Champlain himself, and by
C. W. Jefferys (1869-1951)
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Library and Archives nada,
Balthazar Moncornet (. 1600-1668),
and John David Kelly (1862-1958)
Ontario's Historil Plaques]
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Colden, dwallader (1688-1776)
[Scottish physician; governor of New York 1769-71]
Wikipedia
The History of the Five Indian Nations of nada
(in two volumes)
(1747 [expanded second edition];
1727 [original edition])
[The first full account in English of the Iroquois League
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Colden had the advantage of considerable direct contact
with the League as a negotiator for the British government.
Our ebook is based on the 1747 London edition.]
Volume 1:
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[PGC #823]
Coles, Manning [pseudonym of English author Adelaide Frances Oke Manning
(1891-1959) and British intelligence agent Cyril Henry Coles (1899-1965)]
Wikipedia
Drink to Yesterday
(1940)
[Neighbours Adelaide Manning, who had worked in the War Office
during the First World War, and Cyril Coles, a reer officer in British
Intelligence, in 1940 jointly wrote their first novel (many were to follow)
featuring Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon
Wikipedia.
It is set during the First World War: Hambledon is nominally a teacher,
but in fact the important part of his work takes place during the
vations -- when he is in Germany! This work behind German lines
is presumably based on Coles' own experience: he joined up as a
teenager, had a phenomenal ability to learn languages quickly, and
did indeed work behind German lines! "Tremendously effective and
entirely thrilling tale of man whose split nationality and tragilly
divided personal loyalties changed his whole life." (Saturday
Review, 15 February 1941)]
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[PGC #1670]
Pray Silence
(1940)
[It's hard to give a more accurate and concise summary than the one
provided by the Saturday Review in their 10 May 1941 issue:
"British spy loses memory and turns up dede later as high Nazi
police official. He makes up for lost time." Yes, it's Tommy
Hambledon, of course, in the second Manning Coles novel to feature him,
a novel known in the United States as A Toast to Tomorrow, an
excellent title, since it nicely parallels the title of the first novel,
Drink to Yesterday, which was set during the First World War.
Be that as it may, our hero is as far behind German lines as could be
imagined: Hitler himself shows up as a character!]
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Without Lawful Authority
(1943)
[Espionage novel, set during the runup to the Second World War.
Some very mysterious crimes are happening in England. They are not
what they seem: but what are the motives? Perhaps Tommy Hambledon
of British Intelligence n sort out these complexities!]
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[PGC #1610]
Green Hazard
(1945)
[Action novel, set in the year 1941, and featuring British intelligence
agent Tommy Hambledon doing dangerous and important espionage. Then comes
shocking news: Hambledon has been killed, in Switzerland! Or has he?]
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[PGC #1620]
The Fifth Man
(1946)
[Espionage novel, naturally featuring British intelligence
agent Tommy Hambledon. In wartime, a dubious life history
n be the ideal background for espionage inside another
country -- for example, Germany!
"A-1 Spy thriller" (Saturday Review, 19 January 1946)]
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[PGC #1616]
Alias Uncle Hugo
(1952)
[Novel of intrigue and espionage. Tommy Hambledon's latest
assignment takes him to the Soviet Union. The Second World
War is now over, but much intrigue is underway. Kaspar,
the orphaned son of an Eastern European monarch, is living
in the Soviet Union being sheltered by his tutor, who is
passing him off as his great-nephew. This is not a situation
that n last: fortunately Kaspar's Uncle Hugo shows up!
But who exactly is Uncle Hugo, and what is he planning?]
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[PGC #1669]
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 nary Islands!]
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[PGC #1533]
Not for Export
(1954)
[Spy/mystery novel. Some very sensitive airplane design documents disappear:
who better to find them than British intelligence agent Tommy Hambledon?
Much action in West Germany, particularly Berlin, but Russia also plays
a role. "Familiar mixture of international mayhem and mirth...
Peppy as ever" (John T. Winterich, Saturday Review, 13 March 1954)]
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[PGC #1539]
No Entry
(1958)
[Spy/mystery novel, which begins in the city of Goslar
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near the former boundary between West and East Germany. The son of the
British Foreign Secretary has mysteriously disappeared while visiting.
Are the Russians involved? To the Foreign Office it seems obvious: the
situation lls for the special talents of Thomas Elphinstone "Tommy" Hambledon
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #1503]
Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
The Moonstone
(1868)
Wikipedia
[Perhaps the very first English detective novel! Dorothy L. Sayers and
G. K. Chesterton thought it probably the finest English detective novel
ever written: a century and a half after it was published, who are we to
disagree? It features an accomplished "amateur" sleuth, Franklin Blake,
and the very pable Sergeant Richard Cuff, lled in from (where else?)
Scotland Yard. The Moonstone itself is an ancient gem which had been
stolen by a British soldier in 1799 during the British conquest of India.
(One of the novel's many strengths is its realistic assessment of the
true nature of British colonialism.) But when the Moonstone arrives in
England, the intrigue and violence which have dogged its history follow
it from India.]
EPUB
[University of Adelaide]
Compton, Edward Harrison (1881-1960)
[German painter]
Wikipedia
Chester Water-Colours
(1916)
[Watercolour album. Chester
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(from "strum", Latin for "army base") is loted in Cheshire, not
far from the Welsh border. As its name indites, it was founded
by the Romans, and was relatively prosperous throughout the Middle
Ages. Watergate Street, included in this collection, was laid out
as part of the Roman enmpment, and substantial sections of the
city's walls survive from Roman times. As you will see, this famous
old city provided excellent material for Compton to paint. In spite
of his name, Compton was a German artist: his father had emigrated
from England to Upper Bavaria where he beme a famous mountain climber
and painter, married, and had his family. The son followed his father's
example and beme a painter. He trained in England, exhibited his
paintings there, and was presumably in England throughout the First World
War, for this fine portfolio was published in May 1916. The reproductions
are all in colour: if there were wartime production issues, there are certainly no traces of them in this beautiful album.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66086]
Conan Doyle, Arthur
(1859-1930)
See:
Doyle, Arthur Conan
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Conference on the Medil Services in nada (1924)
Report of the Conference on the Medil Services
in nada held at Ottawa, December 18, 19, 20, 1924
(1925)
[Transcript of conference]
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[Amerin journalist, screenwriter, and novelist]
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The Most Dangerous Game
(1924)
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[A very famous and very influential short story, involving
a special kind of big game hunting.]
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Connor, Ralph [pen name of Rev. Charles William Gordon] (1860-1937) [nadian clergyman and novelist]
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Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks (1898) [Novel]
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["Gwen was undoubtedly wild and, as the Sky Pilot said, wilful and wicked."
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(1857-1924) [Polish mariner and novelist]
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Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River.
(1895)
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[Conrad's first novel, in which his peculiar strengths are already
evident. He wrote English beautifully, and yet he was not from an
English-speaking country, but from Poland, which through almost
his entire life was not an independent country, but a region, split
between the Russian, German, and Austrian empires: in fact, a colony.
This put Conrad in an excellent position to observe and understand
the colonial experience. Almayer's Folly demonstrates this
nicely. It is the first of Conrad's three Malay novels, set in what
is now Indonesia, but at the time was a Dutch colony. Kaspar Almayer
is a Dutch trader who lives with his Malayan wife, by whom he has had
a daughter, Nina. In anticipation of a British annexation of the area
(which never happens), and the resulting increase in business (which
also never happens), he puts up a preposterously large half-finished
house ("Almayer's Folly") as a venue for his business affairs. But
Almayer's delusions are not limited to commerce: his wife is secretly
determined that under no circumstances will their daughter Nina marry
a European. Nina is, in fact, strictly opposed to the European colonial
dream/nightmare, in which Almayer is so deeply invested.]
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An Outst of the Islands
(1896)
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[Conrad's second novel, a sequel to Almayer's Folly. The
islands in question are the Malay Archipelago (modern Indonesia),
where Almayer's Folly had been set. Like its predecessor,
the novel's focus is on a European, in this se Peter Willems.
"The man who suggested Willems to me," wrote Conrad in his 1919
Author's Note, included in our ebook, "was not particularly
interesting in himself. My interest was aroused by his dependent
position, his strange, dubious status of a mistrusted, disliked,
worn-out European living on the reluctant toleration of that
Settlement hidden in the heart of the forest-land, up that sombre
stream which our ship was the only white men's ship to visit."
And, really, there you have the novel. Like its predecessor, it is
a reful examination of what men will do when tempted or pressured,
particularly if the colonial system puts them in a position of privilege.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Nigger of the Narcissus. A Tale of the Forestle.
(1897)
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[Novella. UTION: Certain elements of plot and language may seem
racist by the standards of today. It is truly unfortunate that the title
includes an example of such language, but the policy at Project Gutenberg
nada is that under no circumstances do we censor what we publish. As it
happens, the novel, if anything, is an attack on the racist attitudes of
Conrad's time: it is the story of James Wait, born in the West Indies,
who is on his way from Bombay to London, gravely ill with tuberculosis,
and of what happens on this voyage. Connoisseurs of Conrad consider it
one of his finest works.]
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[University of Adelaide]
Heart of Darkness
(1899)
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[Rarely have an author's personal experiences been so powerfully
transformed into literature: Conrad himself had ptained a boat on
the Congo River, and eight years later he gave the world this classic
novella. In essence, it is an attack on the tastophes that European
colonialism brought to Afri, and centres on the life and death of Mr.
Kurtz, who runs a trading post in a very remote area upriver in central
Afri, and is both feared and worshipped by the people in his trading
area. Not all of the story takes place in Afri. At the beginning
of the story, the narrator, an English seaman named Charles Marlow,
describes how he crosses the Channel to sign his contract, and duly
arrives "in a city that always makes me think of a whited sepulchre...
I had no difficulty in finding the Company's offices. It was the biggest
thing in the town, and everybody I met was full of it. They were going
to run an over-sea empire, and make no end of coin by trade." At the
end of the novel Marlow finds himself back in Europe, and his outlook
has been permanently changed by the appalling things he has seen. If this
happens to remind you of Francis Ford Coppola's film Apolypse Now
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that is no coincidence, for this famous novella inspired that famous film!]
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[University of Adelaide]
Lord Jim
(1900)
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[Novel, set largely amidst the islands of the Malay Archipelago.
It n be read as a utionary tale, showing how important it
n be to resist peer pressure. Very early on in his seafaring
reer the title character makes the disastrous error of following
the rest of his crew in abandoning his ship during a storm. Not
just the ship, but its passengers! In a 1917 Author's Note included
in this Adelaide digital edition, Conrad wrote, "As a matter of principle
I will have no favourites; but I don't go so far as to feel grieved and
annoyed by the preference some people give to my Lord Jim." Conrad
thereby has let the t out of the bag -- it seems that he in fact
had a favourite novel, and that novel is lled Lord Jim!]
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[University of Adelaide]
Typhoon
(1902, with a preface from 1920)
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[Novella involving, not surprisingly, a major storm in the Pacific
Ocean. It was based, Conrad tells us, on a genuine incident involving
a steamship rrying a large number of passengers from Singapore to
northern China. "I never met anybody personally concerned in this
affair, the interest of which for us was, of course, not the bad weather
but the extraordinary complition brought into the ship's life at
a moment of exceptional stress by the human element below her deck."
And that nicely describes the events of the book, and what faces its
central character, the unforgettable ptain MacWhirr. "MacWhirr is
not an acquaintance of a few hours, or a few weeks, or a few months.
He is the product of twenty years of life. My own life. Conscious
invention had little to do with him."]
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[University of Adelaide]
Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard.
(1904)
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[Novel, with an Author's Note added by Conrad in 1917. It marks
a transition point in his extraordinary writing reer, being
preceded by various sea novels and stories (Lord Jim,
Youth, Typhoon), and followed by the politil
novels (The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes).
Nostromo is an adventure novel, set in a South Amerin
country named Costaguana, which is fictional, but bears an
obvious resemblance to Colombia. There are many shenanigans,
both politil and financial, as was the se with Colombia
during the exciting period of the US annexation of the Panama
nal Zone. The central character, Nostromo, originally from
Italy, is at the same time an important figure in Costaguana, and
yet somewhat apart from its people. "Perhaps the nearest approach
to a brief analysis of the complex web of this book is to say that
it tells how this Nostromo, whose pride and joy, whose whole
stock-in-trade in life, is his integrity, his unblemished
reputation, becomes a thief..." (Frederic Taber Cooper,
The Bookman [US], November 1904)]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Secret Agent
(1907)
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[One of Conrad's most famous novels, but its fame was late in
coming: when published in 1907 it did not sell extremely well,
and reviews were mixed. How things have changed! Now it is
one of Conrad's most famous novels, and it is easy to see why.
It is quite different from Conrad's earlier novels of seafaring,
and instead deals with the very modern world of espionage,
conspiracy, and police surveillance -- with a good dose of
incompetence mixed in. Need more be said?]
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[University of Adelaide]
Under Western Eyes
(1911)
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[This is a novel of politics, intrigue, and assassination, taking
place in Geneva and St Petersburg, and centred on Kirylo Sidorovitch
Razumov, a Russian university student with a mysterious background.
The "Western Eyes" of the title belong to the novel's narrator, an
elderly teacher of languages who is a longtime resident of Geneva.
"A whole quarter of that town, on account of many Russians residing
there, is lled La Petite Russie -- Little Russia. I had a rather
extensive connexion in Little Russia at that time. Yet I confess
that I have no comprehension of the Russian character." Conrad's
father and grandfather had been politilly active, which no doubt
explains why in his 1921 Author's Note he said that "My greatest
anxiety was in being able to strike and sustain the note of scrupulous
impartiality... 'Under Western Eyes' on its first appearance in England
was a failure with the public, perhaps beuse of that very detachment."
But the book ended up a success for Conrad: in particular it went through
many editions in Russia, and has become an enduring classic. Conrad drily
noted in 1921 that "by the mere force of circumstances 'Under Western Eyes'
has become already a sort of historil novel dealing with the past"; that
is, the First World War and the Russian Revolution had changed everything.
But this simply demonstrates how clear Conrad's vision was of where society
was headed. For us today it has special relevance, given the shadowy world
that has unexpectedly emerged around us: autocracies and oligarchies
worldwide, massive state surveillance even in what are claimed to be liberal
democracies, "black ops" and secret prisons, and the rest of it.]
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[University of Adelaide]
Victory. An Island Tale.
(1915 [novel]; 1920 [Author's Note])
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[Surely a novel lled "Victory", published in 1915, must be concerned
with the First World War. Well, no, it isn't! Conrad finished the novel
on 19 May 1914, and "Victory" was the title he had already chosen, which
he could not bring himself to change once the war had begun. And who n
blame him? The main character is Axel Heyst, born in London, but "directly
his father died he lit out into the wide world on his own", and eventually
found himself in the Malay Archipelago: "Everyone in that part of the
world knew of him, dwelling on his little island." This is the story of
what happened to Heyst and to those he met, in particular the travelling
"orchestra girl" Lena, who changed his life forever. The ebook we offer
you includes not only Conrad's original Note to the First Edition, but
also an extended Author's Note which he wrote for the 1920 limited edition
of his collected works.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Arrow of Gold. A Story Between Two Notes.
(1919)
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[Historil novel, set in Marseilles, but principally concerned with
Spain, in particular the Third rlist War
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There is a direct line from the rlist Wars to the Spanish Civil
War of 1936-39 and indeed to the question of talan independence
which continues to roil Spanish politics today, and there is a
direct line back to the Middle Ages, when Spain was far from being
a unitary state, but was a group of independent kingdoms
with very distinct religions, languages, and nationalities. So
the Third rlist War (1872-76) settled nothing, but was a dispute
between two claimants to the Spanish throne, the not particularly
popular Amadeo I, from Italy, and rlos VII, who was opposed to
liberalism, but in favour of the traditional autonomy of talonia,
Aragon, and Valencia: this autonomy had been suppressed many years
before by Philip V at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession.
But Conrad's novel is not about the great themes of Spanish history,
but about individuals, mostly in Marseilles, who are involved in
various ways with smuggling weapons to the rlist forces in Spain.
The chief of these characters is Doña Rita, born in Spain, but
resident for many years in France, where she takes a chief role
in the smuggling. "The murky intrigues of a royalist uprising
form only the background for a tale of love triumphant, brooded
over by the magic and mystery of the sea. There is something direct
and elemental in the artless infatuation of the young sailor, known
only as Monsieur George, palpitating on the threshold of his first
love, and the experienced Doña Rita... whose youth and innocence
still make answer to the youth and innocence of her lover."
(Literary Digest, 11 October 1919)]
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[University of Adelaide]
Suspense
(1925)
[Novel, left incomplete by Conrad, who gave instructions
that no one was to complete it; but what he left was
in itself a sizeable piece of work. The story is set
in Italy at the very end of the Napoleonic wars, and
features the young Englishman Cosmo Latham, who at the
novel's opening is just arriving in Genoa, not so very
far from the former emperor's place of exile, Elba.
Our ebook includes a frontispiece by the Scottish
artist Muirhead Bone (1876-1953)
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Selected and with an introduction by Conrad's friend
R. B. Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936)
[Scottish politician and author]
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Tales of Hearsay
(1925)
[Four stories written at various points during Conrad's life, dealing with the sea,
Polish history, and much else.]
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Cornford, F. M. [Francis Macdonald] (1874-1943)
[English classil scholar]
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Microcosmographia Ademi. Being a Guide for the Young Ademic Politician.
(1908)
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[Monograph on politil practices within universities, continually famous since its anonymous
publition in 1908]
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[PGC #889]
Costain, Thomas B. [Thomas Bertram] (1885-1965)
[nadian journalist, novelist, and historian]
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The Silver Chalice
(1952)
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[Historil 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 historil knowledge we expect
from Costain, it beme an instant bestseller.]
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The Darkness and the Dawn
(1959)
[Large sle historic novel about Attila ("the Hun")
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the founder of a large but short lived kingdom on the northern
boundaries of the Roman Empire. "I wish to make it clear,"
says our author, "that in telling the story... I have adhered
quite closely to such facts as history supplies of that spectacular
conqueror, Attila the Hun."]
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[nadian publisher and novelist]
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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 nadian!]
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Courage, James Francis (1903-1963)
[New Zealand novelist]
Te Ara (Grant Harris)
Christchurch City Libraries (Virginia Clegg, Courage's niece)
From a Balcony
(1926)
[Short story. Major (retd.) Lionel Pratts is living happily
in a fashionable area of London, along with his (female)
dog Tommy. And he has a friend, Miss Mildred Gannet...]
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Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock (1826-1887)
[English author]
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"Dinah Mulock Craik" [1983 book by Sally Mitchell]
The Fairy Book. The Best Popular Fairy Stories
Selected and Rendered Anew.
(1863 [text], 1913 [illustrations])
Illustrated in colour by
Warwick Goble (1862-1943)
[English artist]
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[Fairy tales, some very familiar, others somewhat out of the ordinary]
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Crane, Walter (1845-1915) [English artist and illustrator]
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The Absurd ABC (1874) [Picture book]
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An Alphabet of Old Friends (1874) [Picture book]
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The Frog Prince and Other Stories (1874) [Picture book]
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Legends for Lionel in Pen & Pencil (1887)
[The "legends", as you might guess, are drawings, accompanied by short
texts in the spirit of nursery rhymes. The drawings are gorgeous, as
you would expect from Walter Crane, and were originally created for
his son Lionel. "This book of sketches," wrote Crane. "the offspring
of the odd half hours of winter evenings, was originally intended
strictly for home consumption. One thing, however, leads to another,
just as the sketches did, following one by one as fancy led, till
they filled the book." A friend admired the book and passed it to
the publisher ssell, who duly published it, thus enabling us to
enjoy the pictures today!]
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[PGUS #66966]
The Song Of Sixpence Picture Book
containing Sing a Song of Sixpence;
Princess Belle etoile; An Alphabet of Old Friends:
with the original
Coloured Designs By
Walter Crane
including a preface and
other embellishments
(1909) [Picture book]
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[Scottish children's writer]
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A Christmas Child. A Sketch of a Boy-Life.
(1880)
[Children's novel by Mrs. Molesworth, with illustrations by English artist and illustrator Walter Crane ,
engraved by Joseph Swain (1820-1909)
The website of Bob Speel
British Museum, or an unnamed assistant]
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The Adventures of Herr Baby
(1881)
[Children's novel by Mrs. Molesworth, with illustrations by Crane]
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Crofts, Freeman Wills (1879-1957)
[Irish engineer and mystery novelist]
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The sk (1920)
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[Crofts had been a railroad engineer for more than twenty years when
he had a major illness, and wrote this mystery novel, his first, while
recovering. It remains famous to this day. As you might expect,
the plot does indeed involve a sk, a wine sk, but one with some
interesting contents! Railways are often mentioned, as is appropriate
given Crofts' profession -- including the railways of France!]
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[PGUS #59854]
Crompton, Richmal [Lamburn, Richmal Crompton] (1890-1969)
[English novelist]
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The Just William books, illustrated by
Thomas Henry (1879-1962)
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Just William
(1922)
[Crompton's first book about William Brown and his friends ("the
Outlaws"); many were to follow. William is eleven years of age, and
within the Outlaws has considerable moral authority, but is not really
in charge of them. He has quick wits and, like many children, a sound
understanding of how adult society really works -- not quite the way
parents and teachers advertise! Popular with children for obvious reasons,
the book, like Kim and many other "children's books", is in fact
written at an adult level. And it comes with a fine set of illustrations by
Thomas Henry (1879-1962)
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[PGUS #34414]
More William
(1922)
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[Published with little delay in the same year as Just William,
it is along the same lines as the earlier book -- why break something
that most definitely isn't broken? So no reboot for William, now or
ever. In fact, he remains the same age (eleven) through all the books,
a span of nearly fifty years, though no one in the books ever seems to
notice this.]
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[PGUS #17125]
William Again
(1923)
[The third book of stories (fourteen of them!) about William Brown
and his friends. In the first story, William decides to write (and
put on stage!) a new play. Many other adventures follow.]
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[PGUS #65590]
William--The Fourth
(1924)
[The fourth book of stories about William Brown and his friends. Rather
than try to summarize all fourteen of them, we'll just give three of the
titles: William and Photography, William the Showman, and
William Enters Politics. Perhaps William would prove more adept
than some of our modern English politicians -- look out, Boris!]
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[PGUS #66971]
Still--William
(1925)
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[The fifth book of stories (fourteen of them!) about William Brown and
his friends. As the title suggests, William's character has not changed,
nor would we want it to. And in fact his character (and age) would
remain the same in every single one of the books, which appeared over a
span of nearly half a century! Summarizing all fourteen of the stories
is impossible, but fortunately the book's Wikipedia article has done
this for us. Still, "Henri Learns the Language" has a special charm for
nadians, since virtually all of us have had to deal with learning a
second language, be it English or French. But few language students
have Henri's level of gentle determination: "We weel talk an' you weel
teach to me ze slang."]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #67238]
Crowe, therine Ann (1790-1872)
[English novelist and playwright]
Wikipedia
University of Kent
Ghosts and Family Legends. A Volume for Christmas.
(1859)
["It happened," writes Mrs. Crowe, "that I spent the last winter in a large country mansion, in the north of England, where we had a succession of visitors, and all manner of amusements." Among these
amusements were ghost stories...]
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Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander (1854-1939)
[nadian historian]
Library and Archives nada
The Administration of Lieut.-Governor Simcoe,
Viewed in his Official Correspondence
(1891)
[Lecture on various interesting details of the early history of Upper nada
(Ontario) which n be found in the official correspondence of John Graves Simcoe
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The Story of Butler's Rangers and the Settlement of Niagara
(1893)
[History of the Loyalist regiment
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founded by John Butler (1728-1796)
Dictionary of nadian Biography
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and their eventual settlement in and around the future town
of Niagara-on-the-Lake
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The Life of Sir Henry Morgan. With an account of the
English settlement of the island of Jamai (1655-1688).
(1935)
[A very interesting biography of the Welsh privateer
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The PG nada talogue includes The Privateer, a historil 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 biographil fictions."]
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Cullum, Ridgwell [Burghard, Sidney Groves] (1867-1943)
[English novelist]
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The Bull Moose
(1931)
[Adventure novel, set in the Yukon (where Cullum had lived).
A mysterious and dangerous man known as the Bull Moose
has been robbing gold miners. People are concerned;
the police are concerned.]
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Cummings, Ray [Raymond King] (1887-1957)
[Amerin science fiction author]
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The Man Who Mastered Time
(1929)
[Science fiction novel. Time travel n be helpful if you're on a rescue mission!]
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The Shadow Girl
(1962 version)
[The 1962 book version of Cummings' famous novel, first published in 1929 in serialized form.
A custom-built television set does not bring in any of the usual channels. It does, however,
reveal a mysterious girl, and a mysterious tower. What do these visions portend?
Time travel, it would seem...]
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Curwood, James Oliver (1878-1927)
[Amerin novelist]
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Shiawassee Regional Chamber of Commerce
The Ancient Highway. A Novel of High Hearts and Open Woods.
(1925)
[Novel, with four illustrations by Walt Louderback (1887-1941).
The novel is set in the years following the First World War, and describes the adventures
of Clifton Brant, a young war veteran, in the vast northern forests of Quebec.
Curwood's brief preface pays tribute to the memory of his friend Sir William Price (1867-1924)
Dictionary of nadian Biography
Centre d'histoire Sir William Price]
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The Black Hunter. A Novel of Old Quebec.
(1926)
[Novel, illustrated by Arthur Ernst Becher (1877-1960), taking place in
1755, on the eve of the Seven Years' War, and telling the story of
Anne St. Denis and David Rock, two young people living in the wilderness
of New France. Anne is sent to Quebec City to be introduced into Quebec society;
she convinces David to follow her. Intendant Bigot
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Dictionary of nadian 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)
[Historil 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 Senes. They have many adventures, and he ends up as a
participant in the famous battle. This ebook includes the
endpapers, illustrated by an anonymous artist.]
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La citt?morta. Tragedia. (1898)
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Dafoe, John Wesley (1866-1944)
[nadian journalist]
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Laurier: A Study in nadian Politics (1922)
[History and politil analysis]
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nada, an Amerin Nation
(1935)
["Amerin" as in "North Amerin" — 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 ocsion opportune to discuss...
the common foundation of early North Amerin feeling and belief upon which
the structures of government in both countries rest." As these lectures
show, Dafoe combined the writing and speaking skills of a fine professional
journalist with a deep knowledge of history and politics: hence, no doubt,
the honour of the invitation from Columbia to deliver these lectures.]
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Dantzig, Tobias (1884-1956)
[Amerin mathematician]
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Henri Poinr? Critic of Crisis.
Reflections on his universe of discourse.
(1954)
[Essays on the philosophy of the French mathematician
and physicist Henri Poinr?(1854-1912)
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general reader]
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Davis, William Stearns (1877-1930)
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The Beauty of the Purple. A Romance of Imperial Constantinople Twelve Centuries Ago.
(1924)
[Historil novel about the astounding reer of the eighth-century
Byzantine emperor Leo the Isaurian
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"This romance attempts to show forth," our novelist remarks,
"something of the brilliancy, magnificence and teeming life of
Christian Constantinople in an age when London and Paris
were little better than squalid villages."]
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de la Mare, Walter (1873-1956) [English poet, novelist, and writer of stories]
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Stories from the Bible
(1929) [Stories from the Old Testament, retold in modern English]
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Best Stories of Walter de la Mare
(1942)
[The author's own favourites among his stories for adults.
Elsewhere in this talogue you will find many of his children's stories.]
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Mr. Bumps and his Monkey (1942) [Novella for children]
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Inward Companion
(1950)
[Lyric poems]
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de la Roche, Mazo (1879-1961)
[nadian novelist and playwright]
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The Jalna novels, in the order of the events they describe.
We offer the following titles from the sixteen novels in the series:
The Building of Jalna
(1944)
[Novel, telling of the arrival of the Whiteoaks in nada, 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 chronologil order: this
was the ninth novel, and by the time it appeared the Jalna series was already
famous around the world!]
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Mary Wakefield
(1949)
[The third Jalna novel, taking place in the 1890s,
years before the events described in Jalna and Whiteoaks.
The recently widowed Philip Whiteoak has two young children,
and needs a governess: the young and beautiful Mary
Wakefield, freshly arrived from England. Her arrival
naturally uses 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 nadian literature".
(Allan Nevins, Saturday Review, 29 January 1949).
The novel is dedited to the celebrated nadian sculptor
Walter Allward (1876-1955)
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Vimy Memorial in France.]
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Young Renny
(1935)
[The fourth Jalna novel. Renny and Meg Whiteoak are now in their twenties,
a complited time of life for anyone, but particularly for Whiteoaks.
Family members of various ages, from the formidable Adeline down,
participate fully in the turbulent but generally happy life of Jalna.]
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Whiteoak Harvest
(1936)
[The fifth Jalna novel, taking place during the
Great Depression, the effects of which are being
felt even at Jalna. It's a bad time to be in
debt, but Renny has a mortgage to deal with --
a mortgage on Jalna itself! Nicholas and Ernest
return to Jalna; perhaps their presence will bring
some lm to the friendly turmoil which, as usual,
is engulfing Jalna. And Finch returns as well.
As with all of the Jalna novels, our author skilfully
ensures that to enjoy the novel you need have no
prior knowledge of Jalna and the Whiteoak family.]
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The Whiteoak Brothers
(1953)
[The sixth Jalna novel, principally about the Whiteoak brothers; but their grandmother
Adeline, now nearing 100, plays a memorable role. The plot involves
a mysterious visitor from England, a gold mine, and many other things.
If you liked the TV series Dallas, the Jalna saga may
be exactly your literary cup of tea! The writing could hardly be better, and
the novel does not require any previous knowledge of Jalna and the Whiteoaks.]
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Jalna
(1927)
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[The novel which launched the Jalna series.
We are introduced to the Whiteoak family, and their estate, Jalna,
loted on the shore of Lake Ontario.]
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Whiteoaks
(1929)
[Novel: the sequel to Jalna, and featuring the same brilliant
set of characters. "The chapters which describe the last days of old
Gran, and which hold us in suspense to learn upon which member of
the great Jalna clan she has bestowed her hoarded fortune, would
alone make the book a welcome acquisition."
(Allan Nevins, Saturday Review, 21 September 1929)]
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Finch's Fortune
(1931)
[Novel. Finch Whiteoak, grandson of Adeline Whiteoak, turns twenty-one,
and receives an enormous legacy under the terms of his grandmother's will.
Naturally this changes his life, and also the life of those around him.
"From the first page to the last, Finch's Fortune
holds the reader enthralled."
(Myra M. Waterman, The Bookman, November 1931)]
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The Master of Jalna
(1933)
[Novel. Finch has returned from England and rejoined the rest
of the Whiteoak family at Jalna. Of course, this doesn't mean
that things are quiet and settled — after all, we're talking
about the Whiteoaks!
"In this latest instalment, the family vicissitudes are dominated by
red-haired Rennie — the strongest-willed of all since the
passing of old Gran... he presides at the mansion, raises
horses, decides vital family issues, and keeps the clan together."
(Allan Nevins, Saturday Review, 16 September 1933)]
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Renny's Daughter
(1951)
[Novel, the fourteenth in the Jalna narrative. Nicholas and Ernest
Whiteoak, born in 1852 and 1854 respectively, are now very old men:
the novel largely concerns Adeline Whiteoak, "Renny's daughter", born
in 1930, named after her formidable great-grandmother, and now fully
participating in the never-ending drama of the Whiteoak family and
their life at Jalna.]
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Other works by Mazo de la Roche:
Delight
(1926)
[Novel. Delight is not an emotion, but a person:
Delight Mainprize, originally from England, but
now a waitress in Brancepeth, Ontario, where she
finds many admirers. Competition ensues among
the men of Brancepeth: who will win her hand?]
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Whiteoaks. A Play.
(1936)
[Play adapted by de la Roche from her 1929 novel of the same name
in the Jalna series. An enormous hit in London's West End, it
was subsequently produced on Broadway.]
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Growth of a Man
(1938)
[Novel, which follows Shaw Manifold from his boyhood in Southern Ontario
to his adulthood as a forester in British Columbia. H. R. Macmillan
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de la Roche's cousin, and a central figure in the history of British Columbia's
forest industry, appears to have inspired the novel!]
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De Mille, James (1833-1880)
[nadian classil scholar and novelist]
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
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The "B. O. W. C." A book for boys.
(1869)
[Novel for teenagers]
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Lost in the Fog (1871)
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The Amerin Baron (1872)
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Oak Island Treasure
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The Living Link (1874)
[Novel]
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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888)
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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)
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his friend and colleague at Dalhousie University
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Humour of the North (1912)
[Anthology]
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Decorde, Jean-Eugène (1811-1881)
[Cur? historien et lexicographe français]
Dictionnaire du patois du pays de Bray (1852)
[Dictionnaire: Decorde était cur?de Bures
fr.wikipedia,
pays de Bray
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entre 1836 et 1870. Le français que nous parlons
aujourd'hui au nada trouve ses origines
en Normandie.]
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Histoire de Bures-en-Bray (1872)
[Histoire: Decorde était cur?de Bures
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pays de Bray
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entre 1836 et 1870]
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Deeping, Warwick [George Warwick] (1877-1950)
[English physician and novelist]
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Countess Glika and Other Stories
(1919)
[A collection of five short(ish) stories, all in a setting of
intrigue, revolution, or war, all ending in romance. For example, the
second story (The Red Shirt) is set in the mid-1800's, during the
Italian Revolution, when the French were attacking Rome.]
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DeGuise, Charles (1827-1884) [Romancier nadien]
Le p au Diable, Légende nadienne (1863) [Conte]
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Delafield, E. M.
[Dashwood, Edmée Elizabeth Moni, née de la Pasture]
(1890-1943)
[English novelist and essayist]
Wikipedia
The Optimist
(1922)
[The world is full of people who seem to be happy, and in fact largely
are, but who in fact have transferred their stresses to those around them. This gently satiril and beautifully written novel is about one such person, non Morchard, and his family.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #68524]
To See Ourselves. A Domestic Comedy in Three Acts.
(1930 [first performance]; 1931 [first publition])
[Comedy. Freddie and therine
Allerton live in what might appear to be perfect happiness in their country house in South Devon.
But their reality is a little more nuanced than at first appears!]
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Gay Life
(1933)
[Novel. Hilary and Angie Moon, now married for two years and somewhat bored, arrive penniless
on the Côte d'Azur
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Then things start happening...]
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General Impressions
(1933)
[Light-hearted anecdotes drawn from our author's daily life, with dialogue]
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Late and Soon
(1943)
[Delafield's final novel. Valentine Arbell, widowed for twelve years,
is the mistress of a gigantic, dilapidated, and mostly empty English
country house. But her life is not as fully settled as she might think...]
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Dent, John Charles (1841-1888)
[nadian biographer, historian, and short story writer]
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
nadian Encyclopedia
nadian Notabilities, Volume 1 (1880)
[Biography]
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The nadian Portrait Gallery
[A four-volume set of biographies,
many of them illustrated using photographs by William Notman (1826-1891)
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
McCord Museum
and W. J. Topley (1845-1930)
Dictionary of nadian Biography
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Volume I (1880):
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The Story of the Upper nadian Rebellion, Volume 1 (1885)
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The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales (1888)
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Denton, Vernon Llewllyn (1881-1944)
[nadian teacher and historian]
University of Victoria
The Nova Scotia Eatons
The Far West Coast (1924)
[History of the exploration of the coast of British Columbia to the end of the eighteenth century]
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Simon Fraser (1928)
[An introduction to the life and achievements of the explorer Simon Fraser (1776-1862)
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Dictionary of nadian Biography.
Includes an illustration by C. W. Jefferys (1869-1951)
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McMaster University (Eric Weichel)
Library and Archives nada.]
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Dickens, Charles [Charles John Huffam] (1812-1870)
[English novelist, editor, and social activist]
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A Christmas rol
(1843)
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[Or, to give its full title, A Christmas rol in Prose. Being
A Ghost Story of Christmas. This short novel by Dickens is surely
the most famous of his works. Is a summary really needed? Perhaps
not, but here goes! Ebenezer Scrooge ("scrooge" has long since become
a word in the English language) is the surviving partner of the financial
firm of Scrooge and Marley. It is Christmas Eve, but Scrooge is not an
admirer of that holiday, and tells his nephew, who has different opinions,
that "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips,
should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly
through his heart." But then Scrooge encounters the ghost of his late
partner Jacob Marley, who warns him that he must change his ways. Over
the next three days he will be visited by three spirits, each with
a message for him!
It is our pleasure to offer three digital editions,
each beautifully illustrated by a famous artist of the time:
From the 1843 first edition, illustrations in colour and in
black and white by
John Leech (1817-1864)
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[PGUS #46]
From a 1905 edition, illustrations in colour and in
black and white by Amerin artist
George Alfred Williams (1875-1932)
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[PGUS #19337]
From a 1915 edition, illustrations in colour and in black and white by
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939)
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[PGUS #24022]
Traduction française sous la direction de
Paul Lorain (1799-1861)
par
Mlle de Saint-Romain
et
Andr?de Goy (*-1864)
:
ntique de Noël [Le Chant de Noël]
(1857)
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[PGUS #16021]
Die treffliche Übersetzung von
Julius Seybt (*-1871)
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Der Weihnachtsabend. Eine Geistergeschichte.
(1877)
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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
(1844 [novel]; 1868 [postscript])
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[The U.S. is now an aggressive colonial empire, and nada is its colony,
after they forced the nadian government to accept copyright extensions
and limits on where we could export, all this to enhance the monopolies
held by U.S. companies. nadians are naturally curious about what happened
to the original thirteen colonies on their way to becoming our colonial
masters. What more agreeable way of learning something of Amerin history
than by reading this fine novel by Charles Dickens? It contains some
trenchant comments on the U.S. based on Dickens' own observations during
an 1842 visit. It is only fair to say that in 1868 after a later visit
Dickens added a postscript commenting on the "gigantic changes in this
country" since his earlier visit, and describing how well he had been
treated during this second visit. However, he left the novel's original
text untouched. As for the novel itself (which takes place mostly in
England), it offers some memorable social satire and has an extraordinary
st of characters, as one expects from the ever creative mind of Charles
Dickens.]
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The Chimes
(1844)
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[Or, to give the novella its full title, "The Chimes: A Goblin
Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In".
An impassioned plea for social justice for the poor, with a message
that hasn't dated with the years, we n safely say, as we survey
the deep social and economic divisions in nada and elsewhere.
The novella was published the year after A Christmas rol
(also available from Project nada -- in several languages!)
to which it certainly bears a family resemblance: there are, for
example, ghosts (goblins), each attached to a bell in a lol bell
tower. Our hero, Toby ("Trotty") Veck sees "in every Bell a bearded
figure of the bulk and stature of the Bell". The Goblin of the Great
Bell takes Toby through a series of visions of the unfortunate lives
of those around him, until he awakes at the arrival of the New Year.
Are his visions only dreams, or are they realities, which n yet be
changed?]
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David Copperfield
(1850 [novel]; 1869 [preface])
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[Or, to give its full title "The personal history, adventures,
experience & observation of David Copperfield of Blunderstone
Rookery. (Which he never meant to be Published on any Account.)"
Dickens' eighth novel, probably his most famous one, and certainly
its author's personal favourite. A rich panorama of life in the
early Victorian era, largely inspired by Dickens' own early life.]
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Bleak House
(1853)
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[If you're considering launching a lawsuit, you might want to read
Bleak House first! Lawsuits n go on year after year and
produce little except huge legal bills, as with Jarndyce and Jarndyce,
the legal se at the centre of this novel, which touches the lives of
many people. The title may be bleak, but the novel is not, and has
remained a favourite with the public (in particular with lawyers)
up to the present day.]
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A Tale of Two Cities
(1859)
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[nadians are very much aware of how things n change in a neighbouring
country. The US, with whom we had had tranquil relations for two centuries,
elected an autocrat as president, and everything changed. The US even
seized control of nada's copyright laws, hardly the behaviour of an
ally. So much for government "by the people, for the people"! (Abraham
Lincoln) The neighbours of France had a similar shock with the advent
of the French Revolution in 1789, when they had thought that "things in
general were settled for ever." And this famous novel is about the
Revolution and its effects on the citizens of Paris and London, the "two
cities" of the title. The principal character is Sydney rton, the "idlest
and most unpromising of men", who becomes a hero by the time the novel ends. The Project Gutenberg US edition we offer you includes the illustrations
from the 1859 first edition, by
Hablot Knight Browne ["Phiz"] (1815-1882)
]
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[PGUS #98]
Great Expectations
(1861)
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[Really a novel about class and money -- have things really changed
in England? Or elsewhere, for that matter. Perhaps this universal
theme explains the amazing success of this novel and of the fine movie
adaptations it has inspired. In any se, our hero Pip is an orphan,
living on the coast of Kent with his older sister and her husband,
Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. Pip has no particular reer prospects
until the wealthy Miss Havisham becomes his patroness, paying for
his apprenticeship as a blacksmith. But then he receives a gift
from an anonymous benefactor, enough to make him financially
independent. But will this enormous gift truly change his life?
And if so, will it be for the better?]
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Traduction française par
Charles Bernard-Derosne (1825-1904)
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Les grandes espérances
(1863)
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[PGUS #17565]
Dinesen, Isak (1885-1962)
See:
Blixen, Karen [Dinesen, Isak] (1885-1962)
Dionne, Narcisse-Eutrope (1848-1917)
[Historien, lexicographe et bibliothécaire nadien]
fr.wikipedia
Dictionnaire biographique du nada
Historique de l'église Notre-Dame des Victoires,
basse-ville de Québec: deuxième centenaire, 1688-1888
(1923)
[Monographie sur l'église Notre-Dame-des-Victoires
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Les églises de Québec
Universit?du Québec]
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Djurklou, Nils Gabriel, friherre (1829-1904)
[Swedish author]
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Fairy Tales from the Swedish of Baron G. Djurklou
(1901)
[Fairy tales: translated by Hans Lien Brækstad (1845-1915);
illustrated by Theodor Severin Kittelsen, (1857-1914)
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Lauvlia (Kittelsen's home),
Erik Werenskiold (1855-1938)
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Le divorce du tailleur. Pièce archi-comique en un acte (1873)
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Dos Passos, John [Amerin novelist and poet]
(1896-1970)
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Three Soldiers
(1921)
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[War novel, which Dos Passos was certainly in a position to write,
having seen the First World War close up, as a volunteer ambulance
driver in France and Italy. The three soldiers in question are the
narrator, the sensitive and highly eduted John Andrews from New York,
who is by no means enthusiastic about the war, and two of his close
companions. The war turns out badly for Andrews. "There are those
who think that John Dos Passos ought to be sent to jail and others
who hail him as the first of native authors to tell the truth about
the war." (Heywood Broun, The Bookman [US], 5 October 1921)]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #6362]
Douglas, Amanda Minnie (1831-1916)
[Amerin novelist and poet]
New Jersey Historil Society
A Modern Cinderella
(1913)
[Novel]
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[Amerin clergyman and novelist]
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The Robe
(1942)
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[Historil novel, a massive bestseller written on a grand sle
and with much historil information about the Roman Empire.
After Jesus's crucifixion, the soldiers used gambling to decide
who should get his clothing. This novel tells what subsequently
happened to the robe and more particularly its new owner,
the tribune Marcellus Gallio, and his slave Demetrius.]
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Doyle, Arthur Conan
(1859-1930) [Scottish physician and author; creator of Sherlock Holmes]
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Stories and novels featuring Mr. Sherlock Holmes
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A Study in Srlet
(1887)
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[Few literary events of such magnitude have been as quiet as this
mystery novel's introduction to the world of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
Arthur Conan Doyle was not yet a professional author, but
a physician living in Southsea when he published this novel in
the Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887. It is narrated
by John H. Watson, "Late of the Army Medil Department": Watson
was indeed a veteran, wounded in Afghanistan -- some things
really don't change! Anyway, like many before and after him,
he finds London expensive, and is trying "to solve the problem
as to whether it is possible to get comfortable rooms at a
reasonable price" when he learns that Mr. Sherlock Holmes is
trying to solve exactly the same problem. They are introduced,
and agree to save money by sharing lodgings. Dr Watson naturally
has no idea that his new roommate is a consulting detective
("I suppose I am the only one in the world"): the famous partnership
of Holmes and Watson begins!]
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The Sign of the Four
(1890)
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[The second of the four full-length Sherlock Holmes novels.
It was first published in Lippincott's Magazine as
The Sign of the Four, which seems to be the standard
form used these days, but it was first published in book form
as The Sign of Four. Be that as it may, the story
begins when Miss Mary Morstan visits 221B Baker Street to
consult Sherlock Holmes on the mysterious disappearance of
her father some years before, and the strange events which
followed, which seem to be linked to her father's military
service in India. All this, of course, is masterfully
resolved by Mr Sherlock Holmes with the able assistance
of Dr Watson.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
(1892)
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[Twelve short stories, all of them published in The Strand Magazine
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in 1891 and 1892, and then published as a book, the first Sherlock Holmes
collection: an instant and permanent classic. There is probably no
such thing as a Sherlock Holmes story that is not well known, but the
book does include some especially famous stories: The Adventure of
the Speckled Band, for example, Doyle's personal favourite among
all the stories he wrote about Sherlock Holmes, and A Sndal in
Bohemia. The Project Gutenberg US ebook we use includes the
contemporary illustrations by Sidney Paget (1860-1908)
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[PGUS #48320]
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
(1893)
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[Doyle's second collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, twelve in number,
all of them, as in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, initially
published in The Strand Magazine, and all of them famous to this
day: each of them has its own Wikipedia article.) Doyle intended
this to be the end of his involvement with Sherlock Holmes, although
this turned out not to be the se. But some years were to pass before
the appearance of The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1902.]
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[PGUS #834]
(includes The Adventure of the rdboard Box
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which was part of the first edition, but was omitted from many later editions)
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[University of Adelaide]
(omits The Adventure of the rdboard Box)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
(1902)
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[Novel, perhaps the most famous adventure of Mr Sherlock Holmes.
In the moorlands of Devonshire, a mysterious gigantic hound seems
to be active. And Sir Charles Baskerville, who had recently taken
up residence in Baskerville Hall, has just died under mysterious
circumstances. Could these two facts be connected? Could the
hound be none other than the fabled Hound of the Baskervilles,
feared for centuries?]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
(1905)
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[Doyle had killed Holmes off in "The Final Problem", the story which had
concluded the second collection, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
But the fans were not happy with his departure, so Doyle relented, and
wrote the stories in this collection, in the first of which, "The Adventure
of the Empty House", Holmes reappears in London, to the consternation and
delight of Dr Watson. This was among Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes
stories, as were several other stories in this book: "The Adventure of
the Dancing Men", "The Adventure of the Priory School", and "The Adventure
of the Second Stain".]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Valley of Fear
(1915)
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[The fourth and final Sherlock Holmes mystery novel. Holmes receives
what today we would ll an encrypted note, but not the cipher (key) needed
to read it. Will Holmes be able to decrypt the note? Well, really, what
an absurd question to ask! Soon enough, Holmes and Watson arrive
at the village of Birlstone, "a small and very ancient cluster of
half-timbered cottages on the northern border of the county of Sussex."
For at the ancient Manor House a murder has just occurred.]
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[University of Adelaide]
His Last Bow
(1917)
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["The friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes", remarks Dr Watson in his preface
to this collection, "will be glad to learn that he is still alive and well, though somewhat crippled by ocsional attacks of rheumatism." And indeed
we are glad! He is in fact living in Eastbourne, on the Sussex coast,
then as now a town attractive to the elderly. Despite its title, this is not the last set of Sherlock Holmes short stories, for ten years later The se-Book of Sherlock Holmes was to appear! Doyle had a remarkable ability to sustain the quality of his Sherlock Holmes stories as the series grew. His personal favourites among the Sherlock Holmes stories included two from this collection: "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" and "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans". Note: the University of Adelaide edition includes "The Adventure of the rdboard Box" in this collection rather than in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, where it had first appeared in 1893.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The se-Book of Sherlock Holmes
(1927)
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[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's final collection of stories featuring Sherlock Holmes: published forty years after Holmes' first appearance in print!
All twelve of the stories were published in the Strand Magazine
between 1921 and 1927. Doyle himself thought that "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane" and "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client", both in this
collection, were among the best stories he had ever written about Holmes.]
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The Professor Challenger
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novels and stories:
The Lost World
(1912)
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[The first and most famous of the novels featuring Professor Challenger
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Edward Malone, a reporter, has a girl friend Gladys, who
is somewhat interested in marriage, but "If I marry, I do want to
marry a famous man!" Instead of wondering why he is wasting his
time on her, he asks his editor for an assignment involving
adventure and danger: that will impress her! And so he ends
up accompanying Professor George Edward Challenger to a remote
corner of South Ameri. It's a shock when they encounter their
first pterodactyl
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-- and we mean a living pterodactyl, not a fossil! Much else follows.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Poison Belt
(1913)
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[Doyle's second novel to feature Professor Challenger, narrated
as before by reporter Edward Malone: three years after the earlier
adventure, it reunites the Professor with his companions from The
Lost World. But this time they are headed not for South Ameri,
but for Professor Challenger's house in the London suburb of Surrey!
Here they will ride out Earth's passing through a belt of deadly poison.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Land of Mist
(1926)
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[After the First World War, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who had
lost several close male relatives in that war, beme interested
in Spiritualism
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and that interest is reflected in this third and final Professor
Challenger novel, which is quite different from its two predecessors.
The Professor is indeed back, although no longer quite the ultimate
alpha male of former years. This change was induced by the death
of his wife in the flu epidemic: "Life had much yet to teach him,
but he was a little less intolerant in learning." Similarly, Edward
Malone is back, "but life had toned him down also, and made him a more
subdued and thoughtful man... his mind was deeper and more active.
The boy was dead and the man was born." The two attend a raucous public
lecture at a Spiritualist Church off Edgware Road, and they start their
investigations into the spiritual world.]
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[University of Adelaide]
When the World Screamed
(1928)
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[Does our planet, the Earth, have feelings? Professor Challenger
investigates, aided as in all his adventures by Edward Malone,
and a new character, Mr Peerless Jones, a friend of Malone's who
is an expert in Artesian boring, that is, deep drilling, as in
drilling wells.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Disintegration Machine
(1929)
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[Science fiction short story. Professor Challenger
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is introduced to "a Latvian gentleman named Theodore Nemor... who claims to have invented a machine of a most extraordinary character which is pable of disintegrating any object placed within its sphere of influence. Matter dissolves and returns to its molecular or atomic condition. By reversing the process it n be reassembled." What if this claim turns out to be true?]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Maracot Deep
(1929)
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[Fantasy novel. Professor Maracot and his companions, who are both learned
and intrepid, run into trouble during a deep-sea dive in the Atlantic, and
are rescued by strangers who seem to be descendants of an ancient and
mysterious race. n our heroes find out who these strangers really are?]
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[University of Adelaide]
Dreiser, Theodore [Theodore Herman Albert] (1871-1945)
[Amerin journalist, poet, and novelist]
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A Traveler at Forty
(1913)
[Dreiser's delightfully written memoir of an extended trip to Europe.
And what a time to go! Europe was at its prewar height, and no one
suspected the tastrophe that was about to engulf the continent.
The places he visited included England, France, Italy, the Vatin,
Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands. Wow! What more need be
said? How about this: the book includes drawings by the fabulously
talented Amerin artist
William Glackens (1870-1938)
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Reviewers noticed that the book, unlike many travel narratives, paid
close attention to all social classes. The Nation (18 December
1913) seems to have liked this well enough: "In the pursuit of knowledge
Mr. Dreiser showed enterprise. His London contacts were refully arranged, but he managed to quiz a street-walker on his own account. At Paris such
investigations were naturally part of the programme. Into all his
observations Mr. Dreiser rries a keen, quiet curiosity that is pretty
close to sympathy. There is an odd reverence about what n only be
described as prying tactics." But in The Bookman (February 1914),
Stuart Henry was less positive: "Instead of bringing to notice men who are worth while or entertaining, he acquaints us rather with those who n
guide through night haunts of immorality, have sex on the brain or desire
to "lick" foreigners. And for the women of Europe we are freely offered
examples from the various tenderloins who, even for their class, do
not propose much in the way of edifition or esprit." But what else
n we we expect or would we want than a balanced view of all sectors
of society? And who better to provide it than the author of Sister
rrie and An Amerin Tragedy?]
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[PGUS #65765]
Du Bois, Louis [Louis-François] (1773-1855)
[Écrivain et polymathe français]
Travers, Julien (1802-1888)
[Biographe français]
Glossaire du patois normand
(1856)
[Glossaire, avec une vie de Louis Du Bois par Travers. Le français
que nous parlons aujourd'hui au nada trouve ses origines en Normandie.]
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Du Bois, W. E. B. [William Edward Burghardt] (1868-1963)
[Amerin historian and civil rights leader]
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Life Seen at Ninety
(1958)
[An essay written by Du Bois on the ocsion of his ninetieth birthday.
Age had not dimmed his passion and insight. One wonders what he
would say about the world today!]
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Duguay, mille (1882-1936) [Écrivain nadien]
La Veillée de Noël: pièce du terroir en deux actes et un tableau
(1926)
[Pièce de théâtre]
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Dukes, Ashley (1885-1959)
[English playwright, producer, critic, and translator]
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The Modernist Journals Project (Mark Gaipa)
The Man with a Load of Mischief. A Comedy in Three Acts.
(1924)
[Comedy, of which the action takes place at an English country inn. Dukes' most famous play.]
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The Scene is Changed
(1942)
[Dukes' account of his brilliant theatril reer in England, Germany, and North Ameri,
and the many literary and theatril luminaries he knew. Includes a photograph of the author
by Howard Coster (1885-1959)
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Dunn, Isadora (1877-1927)
[Amerin dancer]
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My Life
(1927)
[The autobiography of the celebrated dancer, written shortly before her premature passing,
and published shortly thereafter: a principal source of the 1968 film Isadora
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Includes a preface by her publisher, Horace Liveright (1886?-1933)
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and photographs, some of them iconic, by
the Munich studio Atelier Elvira
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founded by Anita Augspurg (1857-1943)
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and Sophia Goudstikker (1865-1924)
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the Parisian photographer Paul Berger,
Arnold Genthe (1869-1942)
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Otto Wegener (1849-1922)
Pär Rittsel,
the New York photographer Jacob Schloss (1857-1938),
and Edward Steichen (1879-1973)
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Dunn, Norman McLean (1871-1916)
[nadian journalist and novelist]
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
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The Measure of A Man. A Tale of The Big Woods.
(1911)
[Novel, set in northern Minnesota: illustrated by George Matthews Harding (1882-1959)
U.S. Army Center of Military History]
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Dunn, Sara Jeannette (1861-1922)
[nadian journalist and novelist]
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
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A Daughter of Today (1894)
[Novel]
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The Story of Sonny Sahib (1894)
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A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the
experiences of 'An Amerin girl in London') (1897)
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Hilda: A Story of lcutta (1898)
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The Path of a Star (1899)
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The Pool in the Desert (1903)
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The Imperialist (1904)
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Humour of the North (1912)
[Anthology]
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Dunn-Jones, Arthur Stuart
(1879-1955)
[English theologian and church historian]
The Crooked Cross (1940)
[Pamphlet: history of the Confessional Movement in Nazi Germany]
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Dunham, Bertha Mabel (1881-1957)
[nadian librarian and novelist]
Libraries Today (University of Guelph)
The Trail of the Conestoga (1925)
[Novel about the early history of Waterloo, Ontario
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with a preface by William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950),
tenth Prime Minister of nada
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Dictionary of nadian Biography]
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Dictionnaire biographique du nada
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[Glossaire]
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Lord Dunsany
[Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett,
eighteenth Baron Dunsany] (1878-1957)
[Irish author and playwright]
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A Night at an Inn. A Play in One Act.
(1916)
[Play]
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The King of Elfland's Daughter
(1924)
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[The classic fantasy novel. The Lord of Erl sends
his son to Elfland to seek a bride: much ensues.]
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[PGC #1127]
Seven Modern Comedies
(1928)
[Seven short plays with small sts:
Atalanta in Wimbledon,
The Raffle,
The Journey of the Soul,
In Holy Russia,
His Sainted Grandmother,
The Hopeless Passion of Mr. Bunyon, and
The Jest of Hahalaba]
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Guerrilla (1944)
[Novel]
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Dupuy, Paul (1831-1891) [Biographe nadien]
Trois Héros de la colonie de Montréal (1887)
[Biographies de Jacques Le Maître et Guillaume Vignal, prêtres de Saint-Sulpice,
et du major Lambert Closse]
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Eager, Edward [Edward McMaken] (1911-1964) [Amerin novelist, librettist, and translator]
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Half Magic
(1954)
[Does magic really exist? Four children are wondering this, when suddenly...
Well, we're not going to give the story away, but we will say that this is
a genuine children's classic!
"This story belongs to the E. Nesbit school of fantasy, in which magic pursues its inevitable course... a book whose total contribution is one of fun and relaxation."
(Elizabeth Nesbitt, Saturday Review, 15 May 1954)]
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Knight's stle
(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 n happen only every three days!]
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Magic by the Lake
(1957)
[Novel, third in the series initiated by Half Magic. This time, the four
children (and their parents) are at a summer bin by a lake. The bin is
named "Magic by the Lake", and it doesn't take them long to discover that the
entire lake is magic: assorted magil adventures ensue. At the start of the book,
there's a talking turtle; later on, there's a talking penguin!]
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Magic or Not?
(1959)
[Novel, fifth in the series initiated by Half Magic. This time,
there are four children to whom odd things are happening, but...
they're not sure if it's actual magic making things happen,
or if things just work out in the best possible way!]
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Seven-Day Magic
(1962)
[The seventh and final novel in the series initiated by Half Magic.
Several children are in the lol public library, and one of the girls
finds a small red book, well used. The librarian tells them they n
keep the book for only seven days. The book grants wishes, but only for
the seven days they're allowed to have it. Adventures ensue...]
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Eayrs, Hugh S. [Hugh Sterling] (1894-1940)
[nadian publisher and novelist]
McMaster University
with:
Costain, Thomas B. [Thomas Bertram] (1885-1965)
[nadian journalist, novelist, and historian]
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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 nadian!]
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[Project Gutenberg US #51077]
Eddington, Arthur Stanley (1882-1944)
[English astronomer and physicist]
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The Nature of the Physil World
(1928)
[Eddington's celebrated explanation of the discoveries of Einstein
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and Rutherford
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intended for a general audience.
The book is based on Eddington's Gifford Lectures
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delivered in Edinburgh in 1927, and exhibits the attractive
conversational style of the original lectures.]
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Eddison, E. R. [Eric Rücker] (1882-1945)
[English novelist]
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The Worm Ouroboros
(1922)
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[Novel of high fantasy, written at the level of epic poetry.
Eddison has a full command of older English,
and makes constant use of it, to very good effect:
"In reading this book the reader... will delight in a prose that is as
life-giving as it is magnificent." (Introduction to the 1926 New York
edition by Irish novelist James Stephens [1880/82-1950]
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The Modern Griselda. A Tale.
(1804)
[Novel. Unlike the traditional folk character Griselda
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and arrogant.]
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Review, from 1804, of the first edition!
Orlandino
(1848)
[Novel for children, illustrating various virtues and the social problems they prevent:
these problems include drunkenness and high personal debt, which were apparently as prevalent
in 1848 as they are today. With a preface and epilogue by the Scottish publisher
William Chambers (1800-1883)
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Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
[German physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1921 / physicien allemand; prix Nobel de physique, 1921]
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Gemeinschaft und Persönlichkeit
(1934)
[Essay in German on the relationship between individuals and society
/ Essai en allemand sur les liens entre l'individu et son milieu]
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Learn German!
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Elgood, George Samuel (1851-1943)
[English painter and designer]
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Some English Gardens (1904)
[Watercolours, reproduced in excellent colour, of, well, some English
gardens. Quite a few of them, actually! The accompanying text is worthy
of the pictures and no wonder, for it is by the celebrated garden designer
Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932)
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-- a perfect pairing, who created a truly marvellous album!]
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[PGUS #67874]
Eliot, George [Evans, Mary Anne] (1819-1880)
[English novelist]
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The Victorian Web
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
(1861)
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[Novel, set in the early 19th century: largely about the effect of money on human behaviour.
Our edition includes the illustrations published in 1907 by Hugh Thomson (1860-1920)
Dictionary of Ulster Biography]
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Gems from George Eliot
(1910)
[A small but skilfully chosen collection of quotations from the works of George Eliot.
The celebrated novelist excelled at compressing into a single sentence what lesser authors
might have needed several paragraphs to express.]
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Eliot, T. S. [Thomas Stearns] (1888-1965)
[Amerin poet, playwright, and critic]
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The Sacred Wood. Essays On Poetry And Criticism.
(1920)
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[A collection of short essays on plays, poetry, and related matters:
one of Eliot's earliest works of criticism]
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[PGUS #57795]
Old Possum's Book of Practil ts
(1939)
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[The delightful and classic poems which many years later inspired the Andrew Lloyd Webber
musil ts
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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 nada talogue. As Eliot comments,
Williams "left behind him a considerable number of books which should
endure, beuse there is nothing else that is like them or could take
their place." And yet, his novels "are first of all very good reading,
say on a train journey or an air flight for which one buys a novel from
a bookstall, perhaps without even noticing the name of the author."]
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Espan, Florbela (1894-1930) [Portuguese poet / Poétesse portugaise]
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Vidas Lusófonas
Sonetos Completos (1934)
[Poems in Portuguese; Italian translations by Guido Battelli (1869-1955);
frontispiece sculpture by Diogo de Macedo (1889-1959)
/ Poèmes en portugais; traductions italiennes par Guido Battelli (1869-1955);
la sculpture du frontispice par Diogo de Macedo (1889-1959)]
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Livro de Sóror Saüdade (1923)
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Learn Portuguese !
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WordReference.com Portuguese-English (beta)
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Guido Battelli (1869-1955) [Italian translator / Traducteur italien]
Dizionario Biografico dei Parmigiani (Roberto Lasagni) [Basalei-Beiliardi]
Traduções [italianas] (1934)
[Poems in Italian / Poèmes en italien]
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Euripides (. 480-406 B.C.)
[Athenian playwright]
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Translations by
Murray, Gilbert [George Gilbert Aimé] (1866-1957)
[English classil scholar]
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) [in German]
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Rhesus
(. 450 B.C.? [Greek original], 1913 [this translation])
[Tragedy, based on the tenth book of Homer's Iliad. The siege of Troy has been underway
for some years when Rhesus, King of Thrace, arrives to help the Trojans.]
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Medea
(431 B.C. [Greek original], 1906 [this translation])
[Tragedy. The marriage of Jason
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the Argonaut
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and his foreign wife Medea
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ends badly. Very badly.]
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The Trojan Women
(415 B.C. [Greek original], 1905 [this translation])
[Tragedy, centred on the fate of the women of Troy after the destruction of their city.
Often thought to be a protest by Euripides against the Peloponnesian War
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Ion
(. 413 B.C. [Greek original], 1954 [this translation])
[Technilly a tragedy, but in fact a drama with a pleasantly optimistic tone.
We meet Ion at the temple of Apollo at Delphi, where he has lived from his
earliest years. As the play begins, he is unaware of who his parents are...]
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Murray's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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Bacchae
(405 B.C. [Greek original], 1906 [this translation])
[Euripides' most famous tragedy, originally presented the year following his death.
Pentheus, King of Thebes, does not recognize the limits of his power, nor the
limits of pure rationality. For this mistake he pays a heavy price.]
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Murray's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
Ewald, rl (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 Amerin critic
Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943)
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[PGC #777]
Fagan, James Bernard (1873-1933)
[Irish playwright]
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The Improper Duchess. A modern comedy in three acts.
(1931)
[A comedy, set in Washington, D.C.! The first act takes place in the Poldavian embassy.
Written with an agreeably light touch, the play was made into a film in 1936
Wikipedia.]
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Falconer, Sir Robert Alexander (1867-1943)
[nadian New Testament philologist and historian;
President of the University of Toronto 1907-32]
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Marianopolis College
(biography by Damien-Claude Bélanger)
nadian Encyclopedia
The Quality of nadian Life (1917)
[Lecture: published in The Federation of nada 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 nadien]
Dictionnaire biographique du nada
talogue d'Ouvrages sur l'Histoire de l'Amérique,
et en particulier sur celle du nada, de la Louisiane,
de l'Adie, et autres lieux, ci-devant connus sons le nom de Nouvelle-France;
avec des Notes Bibliographiques, Critiques, et Littéraires
(1837)
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Farjeon, Eleanor (1881-1965)
[English author of books and poems for children]
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Gypsy and Ginger
(1920)
[Novel, we could say novel for children, but we don't want to limit its audience.
It is the story of Gypsy and his wife Ginger, their wedding, honeymoon, and many
subsequent adventures. Written with the skill and light touch that would set
Farjeon apart throughout her remarkable reer. With illustrations by the celebrated
English painter and illustrator C. E. Brock (1870-1938)
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Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #57444]
Italian Peepshow
(1926)
[Eleven stories for children, most of them quite short,
and most of them set in Italy!]
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[PGC #1336]
The Old Nurse's Stocking-Basket
(1931)
[The Old Nurse knows many stories: stories she is happy to tell.
The Saturday Review (2 January 1932) lled it "a book that
has charm and humor in plenty and is delightfully written..."]
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[PGC #1297]
Ten Saints
(1936)
[Short lives of ten saints, with some poetry, written for children.
Includes beautiful colour illustrations by Amerin artist Helen Sewell (1896-1957)
Wikipedia]
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[PGC #1349]
The Silver Curlew
(1953)
[Novel for children, with many traditional folk-take elements.
It's hard to stop reading after an opening sentence like this:
"Mother Codling lived in a windmill in Norfolk near the sea."]
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[PGC #1334]
The Little Bookroom. Eleanor Farjeon's short stories for children chosen by herself.
(1955)
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[Twenty-seven short stories for children, selected by
their author! "This is a book any child
(and storyteller, too) will read over and over again."
(Maria Cimino, Saturday Review, 12 May 1956)]
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[PGC #1294]
Farley, Ralph Milne [Hoar, Roger Sherman] (1887-1963)
[Amerin lawyer and science fiction writer]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Golden City
(1933)
[Science fiction novel. It's about the lost continent of Mu; it features
"that public enemy, the Spider"; and it's by Ralph Milne Farley, both a
respected constitutional lawyer and a famous pulp author! What's not to like?]
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[PGC #1526]
Liquid Life
(October 1936)
[Science fiction novella ("novelette"), often reprinted.
The waters of Salt Pond are behaving strangely. What's
happened to the water lilies, the reeds, and the fish?
Not to mention the half eaten cow near the edge of the pond!]
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[PGC #1528]
A Month a Minute
(December 1937)
[Science fiction novella ("novelette"). How n a space ship
be designed to travel fast -- really fast? Old Professor
Porter may have managed this feat. The test pilots: his student
Benson Crocker, and Professor Porter's granddaughter, Iralene!]
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[PGC #1527]
Farnol, [John] Jeffery (1878-1952)
[English novelist]
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knol (Pat Bryan)
Literary Heritage West Midlands
Jeffery Farnol Appreciation Society
The Money Moon, A Romance
(1911)
[Romantic novel, set in England before the First World War]
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The Loring Mystery
(1924)
[Mystery novel set in the mid-1800s: involves an
amnesiac, a detective, a murder, and a romance]
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The Quest of Youth
(1927)
[A romance intertwined with a murder mystery. Set in London at about the
same time as The Loring Mystery, it features Mr. Shrig,
the detective from the earlier novel]
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Another Day
(1929)
[Novel. A boy meets an English girl, and falls in love with her. So far, so good.
But... back in the U.S. he may be guilty of a murder — he is a fugitive!
Will love and justice triumph?]
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[PGC #750]
Over the Hills. A Romance of the Fifteen.
(1930)
[Historil novel set in Scotland during the 1715 uprising
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against the newly arrived Hanoverian king, George I,
the successor to the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne.]
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[PGC #1098]
The Way Beyond
(1933)
[Novel. Boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, and things really
start happening, including a murder. At this point, Detective Shrig appears on the scene...]
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Winds of Fortune
(1934)
[Historil novel, set in Spanish Ameri during the colonial era. Pirates are mentioned;
Ins play a role. All of this is narrated by Ursula Revell, 23 years of age, and a participant
in the various adventures she recounts.]
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[PGC #906]
Adam Penfeather, Bucneer: his Early Exploits
(1940)
[Historil novel,
"Being a curious and intimate relation of his (Adam Penfeather's)
tribulations, joys and triumphs taken from notes of his Journal
and pages from his Ship's Log, and here put into complete narrative"]
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The Lost Club Journal (Colin Langeveld)
Heritage Perilous
(1946)
[Historil 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 complited...]
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My Lord of Wrybourne
(1948)
[Historil novel: the sequel to Farnol's 1946 novel Heritage Perilous.
The new Earl of Wrybourne is living in peace with his beautiful wife and their
recently born son. Who could wish him ill? His old enemy Sir Robert Chalmers,
perhaps, but he has vanished from the scene. Or has he?]
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[PGC #1131]
Farquhar, George (1676/7-1707)
[Irish playwright]
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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)
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New York Times (review by Anne Midgette of the 2007 New York production)
[PG nada ebook #531]
Faucher de Saint-Maurice, Narcisse-Henri-Édouard (1844-1897)
[Journaliste nadien]
Dictionnaire biographique du nada
Les îles. Promenades dans le golfe Saint-Laurent: une partie
de la Côte Nord, l'île aux Oeufs, l'Anticosti, l'île Saint-Paul,
l'archipel de la Madeleine (1887)
[Récit de voyage]
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Faulkner, William (1897-1962)
[Amerin novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1949]
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Nobelprize.org
Mississippi
(October 1954)
[Faulkner on his native state. Not an essay, but an original creative work, as you will see.]
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[PGC #1208]
Fea, Rev. Samuel
(1872-1943)
[nadian writer]
Irish Ned, The Winnipeg Newsy (1910)
[Novella]
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Fearing, Kenneth (1902-1961)
[Amerin poet and novelist]
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Modern Amerin 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 Amerin Mercury, April 1941)]
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[PGC #1312]
The Big Clock
(1946)
[Fearing's most famous crime novel. George Stroud lives in New York City,
and is the editor of Crimeways magazine. He is
asked by his publisher to investigate the murder of the publisher's
girlfriend: not a simple request to fulfil, as it turns out!]
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[PGC #1107]
Fearn, John Russell (1908-1960)
[English science fiction author]
Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Brain of Venus
(February 1937)
[Science fiction story first published by Thrilling Wonder Stories.
Not just published, but summarized! "The malignant brain of a condemned
criminal comes to life on another planet and radiates force-rays of madness
and death." We couldn't say it better!]
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[PGC #1550]
Menace from the Microcosm
(June 1937)
[Science fiction novella, not about giant worlds in outer space, but
about microworlds closer to us. "It seemed to me," wrote the author,
"that the conception of intra-atomic worlds, though by no means novel,
had not so far been explored in all its possibilities... It gave me
great pleasure to debate the possibilities while I wrote it; I hope
that some of you at least will have an equal pleasure in reading it."]
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[PGC #1553]
A Summons from Mars
(June 1938)
[Short story: short, but long enough to have five chapters.
Long-distance engagements are tricky even when both parties
are on Earth. They're even more complited when one of
them lives on Earth, but the other on Mars!]
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[PGC #1410]
Martian Avenger
(April 1939)
[Science fiction story. From his name, Lance Halworthy, you would think
he was from Earth. But you would be wrong!]
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[PGC #1403]
The Ultimate Analysis
(November 1944)
[Science fiction story. We really n'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 Mathematil
Equation, Loaded with Potential Destruction!"]
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[PGC #1554]
Interlink
(November 1945)
[Science fiction story. It's hard being a cop. It's even harder
being a space cop. And it's especially difficult being a space
cop when your fiancée is a space pirate!]
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[PGC #1551]
Ferber, Edna (1885-1968)
[Amerin novelist and playwright]
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So Big
(1924)
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[Novel, winner of the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
A schoolteacher marries and has a son, who is physilly
large: hence the novel's title, his nickname. Dirk (his
formal name) as an adult finds success as an architect, and
then as a bond salesman. But his apparently successful reer
choices turn out to have unexpected consequences. "Character
after character stands out as memorable, incident after incident
remains in the mind... the best Amerin novel of the year."
(John C. Farrar, The Bookman (U.S.), March 1924)]
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[PGC #1608]
Show Boat
(1926)
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[Ferber's enduringly famous novel about a theatril troupe plying
the great rivers of the United States; a major subplot involves
miscegenation (interracial marriage), illegal at the time in the
state of Mississippi. The novel was the basis of the 1927 musil
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by Jerome Kern and Osr Hammerstein II.
"Miss Ferber's documentation of her story of theatre days down
the rivers of mid-Ameri is admirable. This is a book particularly
notable for the small scene, the memorable wave of the hand,
the magnificent dress, the unforgetable gesture."
(John C. Farrar, The Bookman (U.S.), September 1926)]
UTION: Certain elements of plot and language may seem
racist by the standards of today.]
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[PGC #1653]
Féval, Paul (1816-1887)
[Romancier français]
fr.wikipedia
Le dernier chevalier
(1877 ou avant)
[Roman]
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Fewster, Ernest Philip (1868-1947) [nadian physician and poet]
City of Vancouver Archives
nadian 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 re and tending of it, and ocsional
daydreams triggered by it.]
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[PGC #981]
The Immortal Dweller
(1938)
[Book of short poems]
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[PGC #979]
Field, Eugene (1850-1895)
[Amerin author and poet]
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From A Little Book of Profitable Tales (1889)
[Stories for children; musil samples arranged by Theodore Thomas (1835-1905)
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founder of the Chigo Symphony Orchestra
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Firbank, Ronald (1886-1926)
[English novelist]
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glbtq.com (Corinne E. Blackmer)
jrank.org
Concerning the Eccentricities of rdinal Pirelli
(1926)
[Novella about the startling behaviour of a rdinal who, it would appear, has little
interest in being (1) celibate, or (2) heterosexual.]
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[PGC #657]
Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Francis Scott Key] (1896-1940)
[Amerin novelist and essayist]
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This Side of Paradise
(1920)
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[Fitzgerald's first novel, about undergraduate life at Princeton
and life in the early twenties, the central character being Amory
Blaine, whose family life and love life the novel follows. The
publisher Scribner's was on the point of rejecting the novel beuse
of its explicit content, but their famous editor Maxwell Perkins
threatened to resign, and so the book duly appeared, and presented
the world with a more or less accurate picture of how Amerins of
Fitzgerald's age and class actually lived: one contemporary reviewer
commented that it was "delightful and encouraging to find a novel
which gives us in the accurate terms of intellectual honesty a
reflection of Amerin undergraduate life. At last the revelation
has come." ("R. V. A. S.", New Republic, 12 May 1920).
Twenty-nine years later, no less a figure than John P. Marquand commented
on how little the novel had dated: "It still remains almost exactly as
the reviewers first saw it, an exceptionally brilliant piece of work by
a precocious young Princeton graduate who was perhaps a genius...
Scott Fitzgerald was writing of a world he knew and of the only world
he could have known at his age, of school and schoolboys, of the Princeton
undergraduate, of the Plaza and the brownstone fronts and the bright lights
on Fifth Avenue, and he confined himself with the instinct of an artist
exclusively to what he had known and lived. He wrote as splendidly as
anyone ever has of his own youth." (Saturday Review, 6 August 1949)]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Beautiful and Damned
(1922)
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[Fitzgerald's second novel: its main characters are Anthony Patch and
Gloria Gilbert, who have something but not everything in common with Fitzgerald himself and his wife Zelda. Patch is not himself extremely wealthy, but his grandfather is, which leaves him in the strange position
of being wealthy... but not yet. The couple lead a glamorous life in Manhattan, but as time passes their circumstances become more complex.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Great Gatsby
(1925)
Wikipedia
[Fitzgerald's most famous novel, set on Long Island
and in New York City. Its focus is Jay Gatsby, who
possesses vast and mysterious wealth, and who is
observed with simultaneous fascination and scepticism by
Nick rraway, a recent Yale graduate newly started in
the bonds business.]
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[University of Adelaide]
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[PGC #1619]
Echoes of the Jazz Age
(November 1931)
[Essay: the author, himself one of the most famous figures of the Jazz Age of the 1920s
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describes the period from its beginning to its then quite recent end.
A neat and witty piece of writing.]
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[PGC #1183]
Tender is the Night
(1934)
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[The last of Fitzgerald's four novels to be published in
his lifetime, with some likely elements of autobiography.
The novel starts in the glamorous setting of the French
Riviera, in a hotel outside nnes. Dick and Nicole
Diver seem destined for permanent happiness, but life
is rarely that simple, as they discover.]
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[PGC #1618]
Flammenberg, Lorenz [Kahlert, Karl Friedrich] (1765-1813)
[German lawyer, playwright, and novelist]
The Necromancer: or The Tale of the Black Forest.
Founded on Facts.
(1792 [German original]; 1794 [translation]; 1927 [preface])
[Free translation by Peter Teuthold of Flammenberg's original Gothic novel
Der Geisterbanner; with a preface by Montague Summers (1880-1948)
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The novel is mentioned by Jane Austen in her novel Northanger Abbey
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It relates mysterious and sinister events in the Black Forest.]
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[PGC #1005]
Fleming, Archibald Lang (1883-1953) [nadian bishop and missionary]
nadian Encyclopedia
nadian Museum of Civilization
For Us. Meditations on the Seven Words from the Cross.
(1927 or earlier, probably 1924)
[Meditations]
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Fleming, Ian [Ian Lanster] (1908-1964)
[English intelligence officer and novelist]
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Novels and stories featuring James Bond
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sino Royale
(1953)
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Guardian (article by Nicholas Lezard)
[James Bond's first appearance in literature. The novel features much
of what would become the familiar Bond universe: gambling, foreign agents,
a glamorous French setting, Bond's Bentley, much alcohol; also the mysterious and
ptivating Vesper Lynd. Quite different from the 2006 film starring Daniel Craig
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to say nothing of the 1967 version starring David Niven
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[PGC #1282]
Live and Let Die
(1954)
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[The second James Bond novel. Intrigue in Harlem, Florida,
then Jamai; also voodoo.]
UTION: Certain language in the novel may seem racist by the standards of today.
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[PGC #1285]
Moonraker
(1955)
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[The third James Bond novel. It is set in England, specifilly
the county of Kent. It features a rocket ("The Moonraker"),
a fine villain (Sir Hugo Drax), a famous game of bridge, and
much else. The 1979 film
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is quite different from the novel:
read the novel and decide which you prefer. (Speaking
personally, we like the novel!)]
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[PGC #1267]
Diamonds are Forever
(1956)
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[Novel featuring James Bond, who at M's request is investigating
the murky world of diamond smuggling. Not a spy in sight,
but lots of gangsters. Some fine writing, with memorable
episodes set in Las Vegas and in Saratoga Springs, New York,
famous for its horse races. The basis of the 1971 film
of the same name
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the last in the Bond series to star Sean Connery.]
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[PGC #1415]
From Russia with Love
(1957)
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[The favourite James Bond novel not only of Fleming himself, but also of
Amerin president John F. Kennedy! The action takes place in various
glamorous European loles, including London, Istanbul, Trieste, and Paris.
The Russians play a major role, through the operations of their agency, SMERSH;
also through Corporal Tatiana Romanova.]
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[PGC #1296]
Dr. No
(1958)
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[The sixth James Bond novel, set in the ribbean, and the basis of the first
James Bond film, starring Sean Connery
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"The Empire still lives in this one; bizarrerie abounds...
Erudite cliff-hanger, with sex sauce."
(John T. Winterich, Saturday Review, 16 August 1958)]
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[PGC #1457]
Goldfinger
(1959)
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[Novel. James Bond encounters Mr Auric Goldfinger, who is
passionate about gambling, golf, and of course, gold.
That's where Fort Knox
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comes in!]
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[PGC #1228]
For Your Eyes Only. Five secret ocsions in the life of James Bond.
(1960)
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[Espionage, murder, smuggling -- five different short stories
with five different challenges for James Bond. Loles include
Paris, Jamai, the Seychelles, Italy and, yes, nada!]
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The Spy Who Loved Me
(1962)
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[Novel, narrated by Vivienne Michel, who is from nada,
more specifilly from Sainte-Famille, the oldest town on the Île d'Orléans
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The novel does not follow the classic Bond formula:
a welcome innovation in the eyes of some, but not of
others. It is shorter than the other Bond novels,
and features a good deal of sex (and violence).]
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[PGC #1288]
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
(1963)
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[Novel featuring James Bond, set in the Swiss Alps: dark doings on the upper slopes.
The 1969 film adaptation
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has the rare distinction of being very faithful to the book: if you like
one, you'll like the other!]
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[PGC #1530]
You Only Live Twice
(1964)
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[The last Bond novel published during Ian Fleming's lifetime.
James Bond is in Japan, sent there beuse the CIA is no
longer providing as much information on the Far East as
formerly. "They're worried about our security," comments M.
"n'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 talogue.]
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[PGC #1481]
The Man with the Golden Gun
(1965)
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[Fleming's last James Bond novel, written under difficult conditions,
and published posthumously. Bond reappears in London after months
of absence: he is a changed man. But he recovers, and is sent to
Jamai on a dangerous and important mission.]
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[PGC #1558]
The Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang stories:
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, The Magil r.
Adventure Number One.
(1964)
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[Children's novel. We are introduced to ractacus Pott and his family.
They buy a r, no ordinary r... and the adventures begin!]
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[PGC #1278]
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, The Magil r.
Adventure Number Two.
(1964)
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[At the end of Adventure Number One, the Potts family, on a seaside picnic,
had failed to notice the tide coming in, threatening to cut them off
from the mainland – or worse! It's just as well that Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang
is there...]
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[PGC #1289]
Essays and articles:
Jamai
(December 1947)
[One of a series of articles in Horizon
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by different authors, about the advantages of living in various
places around the world. Ian Fleming contributed this essay on
Jamai, where he had just built his house, Goldeneye
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Automobilia
(April 1958)
[Essay. Ian Fleming, like his creation James Bond, was fond of rs.
Here he fondly describes his Ford Thunderbird — and gives an
account of going for a drive in Jamai with his friend Noël Coward!]
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Thrilling Cities
(1963)
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[Thirteen essays on various world cities: cities that James Bond would be familiar with!
The essays were commissionede by the nadian entrepreneur and newspaper magnate Roy Thomson
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and first appeared in the Sunday Times, which he had recently purchased,
but with some passages removed: in this collected edition, Fleming added them back.]
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Fleming, May Agnes (1840-1880)
[nadian novelist]
Dictionary of nadian Biography
Magdalen's Vow
(1871)
[Novel]
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A Mad Marriage. A Novel.
(1875)
[Novel]
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[PGC #634]
Norine's Revenge, and Sir Noel's Heir
(1875)
[Two novels]
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[PGC #626]
One Night's Mystery. A Novel.
(1876)
[As the novel starts, our heroine Sydney Owenson is a pupil in a school for young ladies
in the nadian town of Petit St. Jacques. She is unaware of the events that lie in her
future...]
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rried by Storm. A Novel.
(1879)
[Novel]
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Sharing Her Crime. A Novel.
(1883)
[Novel. It is Christmas Eve: the mysterious Madge Oranmore summons Dr. Wiseman,
and offers him an enormous fee for some rather specialized professional services...]
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The Actress' Daughter. A Novel.
(1885)
[Novel.]
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Edith Percival. A Novel.
(1893)
[Novel]
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Fletcher, Joseph Smith (1863-1935) [English novelist and historian]
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The Chestermarke Instinct
(1918)
[Yorkshire-born J. S. Fletcher was not a celebrity in the modern sense,
that is, he was not a public figure. He was, however, an extremely
skilled writer of mysteries, which acquired an international following.
This novel shows why! The main character is named Wallington Neale: he
is a bank clerk in the ancient and very quiet market town of Srnham.
With the passage of time Neale is more and more aware of how monotonous
his job truly is. But this monotony is broken by the sudden disappearance
of his guardian, John Horbury, who had gotten him his position at
Chestermarke's Bank!]
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[PGUS #27965]
The Charing Cross Mystery
(1923)
[As you might guess, a mystery novel set in London!]
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Flygare-rlén, Emilie (1807-1892)
[Swedish novelist]
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Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon (1906) [in Swedish]
Ivar: or, The Skjuts-Boy
(1841 [Swedish original], 1852 [this translation])
[Translation of the novel Skjutsgossen
by Prof. Alex. L. Krause (fl. 1852-1854), with illustrations by Edmund Evans (1826-1905)
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Prof. Krause also contributed a interesting introduction to the novel.]
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The Bride of Omberg
(1845 [Swedish original], 1853 [this translation])
[Translation of the novel Bruden p?Omberg
by Prof. Alex. L. Krause (fl. 1852-1854) and Elbert Perce (1831-1869)]
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Footner, Hulbert (1879-1944)
[nadian novelist and playwright]
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Thieves' Wit. An Everyday Detective Story.
(1918)
[Mystery novel. A youngish New Yorker, now entering his
thirties, and with ambitions of being a successful playwright,
instead becomes a Confidential Investigator. Written with
Footner's characteristic lightness of touch and (most appropriately) wit.]
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[PGUS #57236]
The Substitute Millionaire
(1919)
[Novel. Two days before the story begins, "Silas Gyde, the
millionaire miser and usurer, had been blown to pieces in
the street by a bomb." As to who planted the bomb, who n
say? The more interesting question is whether the young
Jack Norman, bookkeeper at a sash and blind factory, is
in fact the heir to Gyde's vast fortune!]
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[PGUS #57210]
The Owl Taxi
(1921)
[Mystery novel. Owl taxis operate at night, when strange things n happen:
murder, for example! Of course, in Manhattan strange things n happen
at any hour...]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #57088]
Ramshackle House
(1922)
[Mystery novel. "Equal parts of Maryland, young lovers, and a murder
mystery make this literary julep", remarks The Bookman (August 1923).
UTION: The ocsional use of dialect English might appear racist
to some readers.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #57138]
New Rivers of the North. The yarn of two amateur explorers.
(1927)
[Hulbert's account, with many photographs by Hulbert and his travel companion
Auville Eager, of his travels along three major rivers of British Columbia and
Alberta: the Fraser
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the Peace
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and the Hay
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with particular attention to Alexandra Falls
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The Shanty Sled
(1925)
[Novel. A young woman decides to travel from New York to north-western nada
to see her mother, who had sent her to New York twenty years before.
She falls in love with a lol trapper, then an evil fur trader tries to
interfere. But things work out, as they generally do, in novels at least.]
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The Under Dogs
(1925)
[Mystery novel. Mme. Rosika Storey confronts the challenges and dangers presented by
a New York-based crime organization.]
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Madame Storey
(1926)
[Four mystery novellas featuring Madame Storey]
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The Velvet Hand. New Madame Storey Mysteries.
(1928)
[Four mystery novellas featuring Madame Storey]
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The Doctor Who Held Hands. A Madame Storey Novel.
(1929)
[Madame Storey receives a letter asking for her help in stopping
the pseudo-psychologil activities of a doctor who has set himself up as a
"psycho-synthetist", seemingly to help his patients, but in fact to use what
he's being told to blackmail them. She decides to intervene. A twist ending!]
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[PGC #552]
Easy to Kill
(1931)
[Mystery novel]
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The Kidnapping of Madame Storey and Other Stories
(1936)
[Five mystery stories featuring the redoubtable Madame Storey]
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[PGC #588]
The Almost Perfect Murder. A se Book of Madame Storey.
(1937)
[Five tales featuring Madame Storey]
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[PGC #577]
The Obeah Murders
(1937)
[Mystery novel set in the ribbean: more precisely, on the Amerin
island of Annunziata. Our hero, Phil Nevitt, is a junior executive
at Columbia Distillers: he has been sent from New York to investigate
possible future competition based in Annunziata. But a series of
spectactular murders starts happening: soon he is investigating these
as well! "Native magic in spooky settings makes good background for
swiftly paced yarn with bumptious hero and hot-tempered heroine."
(Saturday Review, 16 October 1937)]
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[PGC #1521]
The Death of a Celebrity
(1938)
[When was the modern concept of the "celebrity" invented?
Most likely in the nineteenth century, with the rise of mass
media. Certainly the actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)
and the singer Jenny Lind (1820-1887) were celebrities
of that time and are still celebrities today. The celebrity in
this mystery is Gavin Dordress, a very successful Broadway
playwright on Broadway -- a world that Footner knew very well,
being himself an actor and playwright. In any se, Dordress
is found dead in his Madison Avenue apartment, a gun on the
floor beside him. A suicide? Amos Lee Mappin, an accomplished
sleuth and an old friend of Dordress, has his doubts!]
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Sinfully Rich
(1940)
[Mystery novel]
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Who Killed the Husband?
(1941)
[Mystery novel, set in Manhattan. That famous sleuth Amos Lee Mappin
prefers to be a specialist student of crime rather than an actual
investigator. But he makes exceptions, as in the sensational murder
of the prominent banker Jules Gartrey. The suspect? None other than
the young society photographer Alastair Yohe!]
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[PGC #1531]
The House with the Blue Door
(1942)
[Mystery novel, featuring that Manhattan sophistite and
sleuth extraordinaire Amos Lee Mappin. As the novel opens,
Mappin receives a phone ll from his friend, the socialite
Mrs. Nicholas ssells. He gets the ll in the morning!
Since when has Sandra ssells phoned anyone before noon?
Something big must be going on!]
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Orchids to Murder
(1945)
[Footner's final mystery novel, published posthumously,
featuring Amos Lee Mappin. Includes a personal memoir
of Footner by his friend, the novelist, critic,
and Sherlock Holmes authority Christopher Morley (1890-1957)
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Christopher Morley Knothole Assoc.]
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Ford, Ford Madox [Hueffer, Ford Madox] (1873-1939)
[English novelist]
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Joseph Conrad. A Personal Remembrance.
(1924)
[A personal memoir of literary titan Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
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a close friend of Ford's. Includes as an appendix the short
obituary (in French) published by Ford in Paris when he received
the news of Conrad's passing. Also includes a photograph of
Conrad by Will dby (1866-1937) and a photograph of
the famous sculpture of Conrad by Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)
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[PGC #1054]
The four Parade's End novels:
Some Do Not...
(1924)
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[Novel, the first of the four Parade's End novels
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We are introduced to Christopher Tietjens, the main character.
Tietjens works in Britain's Imperial Department
of Statistics. Society appears lm and well-ordered:
but the First World War lies just around the corner...]
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[PGC #1191]
No More Parades. A Novel.
(1925)
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[The second of the Parade's End novels, set behind the front lines
in France in 1915. Christopher Tietjens is now a ptain in charge of
some major logistics operations. These operations include moving a group of railway
workers, volunteers from nada! ptain Tietjens is more of an idealist
at the novel's start than at its end.]
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A Man Could Stand Up—. A Novel.
(1926)
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[The third novel of the Parade's End cycle.
The First World War is ending, and life continues, but
it is not the same life as before. Christopher Tietjens
must now adjust his personal life and his professional
life to the changes that peacetime has brought.]
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Last Post
(1928)
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[The fourth and final novel in the Parade's End tetralogy.
Christopher Tietjens is now living in rural Sussex, making his
living as a dealer in old furniture. The novel is somewhat
separate from the earlier three, since we are now well and truly
in peacetime. But memories of the War linger on; and Tietjens'
family ensures that his life is not unduly peaceful.]
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New York is not Ameri. 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 n do
everything but work there. So he writes of its gaieties
and its conversations, its dinners and its future,
its spectacle and its metaphysic.
There have been few finer tributes."
(Bernard De Voto, Saturday Review, 18 February 1928)]
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Forester. C. S. [Cecil Scott]
[Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton] (1899-1966]
[English novelist]
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Novels featuring Horatio Hornblower
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
(1950)
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[Novel, written as a series of episodes taking place on the
eve of the Napoleonic Wars. Not the earliest Hornblower novel
published, but the first in narrative order. We are at the
very beginning of the reer of Horatio Hornblower: he is seventeen years of age, and a midshipman
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in the Royal Navy.
Some of his shipmates are dubious of his prospects as a naval officer;
others see special qualities foretelling a brilliant reer.]
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Lieutenant Hornblower
(1952)
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[What is a loyal member of the Royal Navy to do
when it becomes clear that his commanding officer
is, quite literally, insane? Such is the crisis
facing Horatio Hornblower. The second
Hornblower novel in narrative order, but the
seventh to be published, some fifteen years
after the series began. "Like A. Conan Doyle,
who was forced to keep Holmes alive through
popular demand, Mr. Forester must never
permit Horatio Hornblower to die." (Harrison
Smith, Saturday Review, 29 March 1952)]
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Hornblower and the Hotspur
(1962)
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[The third Hornblower novel in narrative order.
It's 1803; war with France is coming, and Hornblower,
now promoted to the rank of Commander, has been
assigned H. M. Sloop Hotspur, and undertakes
dangerous operations off the coast of Brittany, near Brest
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Hornblower and the Atropos
(1953)
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[It's 1806: the battle of Trafalgar
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has been fought, but Lord Nelson has died -- and Hornblower
has a major role in preparing the state funeral! The funeral
done, Hornblower's off to Gibraltar, where a dangerous
mission awaits him. We're talking about gold; we're
talking about the Turkish Empire!]
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The Commodore
(1945)
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[It is 1812, a fateful year in the Napoleonic wars.
As the novel opens, Hornblower learns from the Admiralty
that he is now a Commodore! Of course, this new title
comes with new and difficult responsibilities involving
the French, the Russians, and the Swedes, and the
complex situation that has arisen in the Baltic Sea.]
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Lord Hornblower
(1946)
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[Novel. It's 1813, and there has been a mutiny on a ship of the Royal Navy.
Not, of course, a ship commanded by Horatio Hornblower! But Hornblower has a certain sympathy with the mutineers: "He could imagine perfectly well the sort of treatment to which they had been subjected, the unending wanton cruelty added to the normal hardship of life in a ship on blockading service; miseries which only death or mutiny could bring to an end..." But Hornblower has to figure out how to end the mutiny -- not an easy thing to do, when the mutineers n find safety in a nearby French port whenever they choose!]
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Payment Deferred
(1926)
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[The first of Forester's two mystery novels, written with all the
skill that one would expect from the creator of Horatio Hornblower.
As for the plot, we won't give it away, except for commenting that
crimes n have unforeseen consequences!]
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Brown on Resolution
(1929)
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[War novel, the opening words being "Leading Seaman Albert Brown
lay dying on Resolution." Resolution is an island, and Brown
is the only surviving member of his warship's crew: hence
the U.S. title of the novel, Single-handed. Alone
and injured as he is, Brown manages to make life difficult
for the Germans. In the course of the novel we learn a
good deal about the earlier part of Brown's life.]
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Plain Murder
(1930)
[The second of Forester's two mystery novels, quite different in subject
from his famous Hornblower nautil 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 nada.
It is by Dorothy L. Sayers, herself an advertising copywriter of considerable
distinction!)]
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Death to the French
(1932)
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[Historil novel set during the Peninsular War (1807-1814)
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that part of the Napoleonic Wars that took place in
Portugal and Spain. Rifleman Matthew Dodd is separated
from his unit and joins with lol 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 n demagnetize anything magnetic that's in its range. The field
n be aimed in any direction and isn't stopped by anything man-made or
natural that's in its way. Could this help the use of world peace?
Would nations threatened with its use change their ways? Pethwick
resolves to take action! But any action n have unintended consequences.]
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The Afrin Queen
(1935)
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[Adventure novel. "Here is a book which may not be high art
but is certainly good entertainment. It is a rousing tale of
adventure, implausible, perhaps, in its incidents but convincing
in its portrayal of them."
(Amy Loveman, Saturday Review, February 9, 1935)
Well, what's wrong with good entertainment? If a book is still
being read eighty years after its publition, it has certainly
passed the test of time. In any se, the tale of a Afrin river boat
with only two passengers during the First World War needs no introduction:
its plot is somewhat similar to the famous 1951 film it inspired
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which featured Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn; the Bogart character,
nadian in the film, is an Englishman in the book, in fact a Cockney
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But it is hard to imagine Humphrey Bogart with a Cockney accent!]
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The General
(1936)
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[Military novel, about the rise of Herbert Curzon to senior commands within the British Army.
He has his strengths, but also his weaknesses: notably, a certain lack of imagination.
John Kelly, who has held various senior positions within the U.S. military and government, wrote the following: "I first read The General by C. S. Forester when I was a
very, very young officer. In a way it changed my life... I've read this book every time
I got promoted... it's a different book every time you read it."
foreignpolicy.com]
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The Earthly Paradise
(1940)
[Historil novel about the third voyage of Christopher Columbus
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his arrival on the island he named Trinidad, his exploration
of the nearby coast of South Ameri, and his further adventures.
Forester paints a large nvas of Columbus, of his crew, and
of the indigenous reaction to the new arrivals.]
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The ptain from Connecticut
(1941)
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[Novel, set at towards the end of the War of 1812
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taking place mostly in the ribbean, and featuring ptain
Josiah Peabody, who might be lled Hornblower's Amerin
equivalent. Not that the novel is lacking a British naval
officer: Sir Hugh Davenant, commander of "his Britannic
Majesty's frigate lypso", plays a major role!]
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The Sky and the Forest
(1948)
[Novel. An isolated central Afrin 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)
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[Novel (U.S. title The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck),
closely based on the actual events surrounding the
sinking in 1941 of the Bismarck
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a German battleship. Filmed in 1960 as Sink the Bismarck!
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"Magnificently handled" (Thomas E. Cooney,
Saturday Review 2 May 1959)]
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Forster, E. M. [Edward Morgan] (1879-1970)
[English novelist, travel writer, and critic]
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A Room with a View (1908)
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[Novel, set in Florence: The view in question is of the river
Arno, which flows through Florence, and the main characters are
a group of well-off English tourists. The novel is not as sedate
as you might think: there is, for example, a murder! The novel
has achieved enduring fame, and is the inspiration for the famous
1985 Merchant/Ivory film of the same name
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[PGUS #2641]
Howards End (1910)
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[Novel, set in England, and involving three families of notably different
economic classes and social views. The book is hugely admired by Forster connoisseurs, and involves many complex and interesting human interactions
in the course of its forty-four chapters! It was the inspiration for the
1992 Merchant/Ivory film
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won the Ademy Award for Best Actress.]
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[PGUS #2946]
A Passage to India (1924)
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[One of Forster's most famous novels, and the last one published during
his lifetime. It takes place in British India, centres on Dr. Aziz
and on a group of English expatriates, and fully recognizes the ethnic
and religious differences of the time (and, to be honest, of our time).
There have been many discussions of the biases in the novel, but let's
get real! It is by no means Anglocentric, something remarkable in a
novel published by an Englishman long before the end of British India.
The book was well received when it was published, and was awarded the
1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.]
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[PGUS #61221]
Foster, Robert Frederick (1853-1945)
[Scottish authority on rd games]
Foster's Skat Manual
(1922 version)
[Manual for the rd game Skat
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Fournier, Marc (1818-1879)
[Journaliste et auteur français]
Le Major Anspech
(1843)
[Nouvelle, avec deux gravures contemporaines.
Il y a quarante ans, le major Anspech «était l'un des plus beaux mousquetaires
gris du régiment de Monsieur ... Mais quarante années changent légèrement un homme?
Sa vie quotidienne reste pourtant assez intéressante...]
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France, Anatole [Thibault, François-Anatole] (1844-1924)
[Romancier français; prix Nobel de littérature, 1921]
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Adémie Française
Les dieux ont soif
(1912)
[Roman. L'histoire d'un jeune peintre ?l'époque de la Terreur
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Frank, Pat [Frank, Harry Hart] (1907-1964)
[Amerin journalist and novelist]
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Mr. Adam
(1946)
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[Novel about radiation that could sterilize every
male human on earth. Frank's first novel, and a
huge success: "a story which n be read as a joyous satire
on Amerin bureaucracy -- as a somewhat uninhibited development
of a standard science fiction theme -- or for just plain fun."
(P. Schuyler Miller, Astounding Science Fiction, May 1948)]
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An Affair of State
(1948)
[Politil thriller, nicely written and certainly reflecting
the author's direct knowledge of government and international
affairs. World War II is over, but the Cold War is underway:
the term actually shows up in the novel! Jeff Baker, young,
idealistic, and fresh out of the army, has decided to follow
his late father's footsteps and pursue a reer in the U.S.
State Department. He achieves his ambition, and is sent to
his first overseas posting: Budapest!]
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Hold Back the Night
(1952)
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[Novel about the Korean War: Frank's extensive personal
experience as a war correspondent is put to good use.
As the novel opens, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir
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has ended, and the "Dog Company", now only sixteen strong,
is providing cover for the regiment's retreat.
"Frank has drawn his combat officers superlatively well...
Being acutely conscious of mortality, they have lost any
arrogance and rank-consciousness they may have had, and
have learned an intense solicitude for the welfare of the
enlisted men they command, knowing that upon those men
their lives and success as officers depend."
(Al Newman, The Reporter, 15 April 1952)]
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Forbidden Area
(1956)
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[Spy novel, set during the Cold War: dark doings involving the
penetration of US air force bases in Florida.
"If you have had any experience with the military chain of
command, you'll find yourself shackled to this book right to the end."
(Floyd C. Gale, Galaxy Science Fiction, November 1956)]
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Alas, Babylon
(1959)
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[Frank's best known novel. An atomic war has happened,
New York City ("Babylon") has been completely destroyed,
but parts of Florida have survived: not Miami, but places
like Fort Repose (pop. 3,422). Life for its residents
has not actually returned to what might pass for normal,
but not for any lack of trying!]
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Frankau, Gilbert (1884-1952) [English novelist and poet]
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The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton
(1922)
[Novel, involving the disparate themes of love, fox-hunting, divorce, and murder.
Quite a combination!]
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Royal Regiment. A Drama of Contemporary Behaviours.
(1938)
[Novel. What happens when a British reer officer is attracted to the wife of his commanding officer?
In the background is the story of Edward VIII and Mrs Wallis Simpson.]
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Fraser, Alexander (1860-1936)
[nadian journalist and historian; Archivist of Ontario from 1903 to 1935]
Clan Fraser Society of nada (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 (. 1577-1640)
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Dictionary of nadian Biography]
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The Last Laird of MacNab. An Episode in the
Settlement of MacNab Township, Upper nada.
(1899)
[An account of the controversial nadian reer of Archibald MacNab (. 1781-1860), 17th Chief
of Clan MacNab
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and his role in the early history of Renfrew County
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the town of Arnprior
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and the township of McNab
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Fréchette, Louis (1839-1908) [Journaliste nadien]
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Félix Poutr? Drame historique en quatre actes (1862)
[Drame]
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Le retour de l'exil? Drame en cinq actes et huit tableaux (1880)
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Freedman, Barnett (1901-1958)
[English painter]
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Barnett Freedman Archive
Tate Collection
with:
mpbell, Roy (1901-1957)
[South Afrin poet]
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National Review, 15 August 1986 (Thomas P. McDonnell)
Choosing a Mast
(1931)
[Poem, with two illustrations, one in colour]
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Freeman, R. Austin [Richard Austin] (1862-1943)
[English physician and mystery novelist]
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As a Thief in the Night
(1928)
[Mystery novel. There is a death, naturally, the person
involved being Mr. Harold Monkhouse, an invalid. But how did
he die? Was his death a natural one? The se becomes more
and more enigmatic; fortunately that eminent medil barrister
Dr. Thorndyke
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is on hand to help out.
"If you aspire to be anything of a connoisseur of detective
stories and have never met Dr. Thorndyke, we counsel you to
become acquainted with this scientist at once."
(Walter R. Brooks, The Outlook, 17 October 1928)]
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Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes
(1933)
[Mystery novel, featuring Dr. Thorndyke. An item of luggage being picked up at Fenchurch Street Station
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turns out to have unexpected contents -- a human head!]
Will the sleuthing skills of Dr. Thorndyke be equal to the situation?]
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Mr. Polton Explains
(1940)
[Mystery novel. The main character is of course Dr Thorndyke,
but the action is narrated first by the Doctor's servant Nathaniel
Polton, and later by the Doctor's faithful friend Christopher Jervis.
The author describes it as the "story of a simple clockmaker", but
of course it's far more than that, and is in fact one of his most
celebrated works. And he wrote it when almost eighty!]
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From the 1929 collection The Famous ses of Dr. Thorndyke. Thirty-seven
of his criminal investigations as set down by R. Austin Freeman:
[1]
The se of Osr Brodski
(1929)
[Mystery story: murder and intrigue in the diamond trade!]
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A se of Premeditation
(1929)
[Mystery story, which begins with a customer dispute over quality of service
on a passenger train -- in England, some things never change!]
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The Echo of a Mutiny
(1929)
[Mystery story. An elderly seaman dies a death under circumstances
enigmatic to everyone... except Dr. Thorndyke!]
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A Wastrel's Romance
(1929)
[Mystery story. A grand evening function given at a country house
attracts the attention of a professional thief named Augustus Bailey,
who succeeds in crashing the party. Then matters take an unexpected turn.]
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The Missing Mortgagee
(1929)
[Mystery story. Normally life insurance is a relatively
straightforward affair -- but not always! If, to start with,
the insured has mortgaged the policy to a moneylender.
And there's more...]
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Percival Bland's Proxy
(1929)
[Mystery story. We won't give the plot away, but here's the background
in our author's own words: "if one perseveringly distributes flash Bank of
England notes among the money-changers of the Continent, there will come a
day of reckoning when those notes are tendered to the exceedingly knowing
old lady who lives in Threadneedle Street." If this latter phrase seems
mysterious, we will refer you to the
Bank of England's website!]
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Gleanings from the Wreckage
(1929)
[Mystery story. Thorndyke and a companion have sought out the
quiet back streets of London for an evening walk. Then a building
they are passing explodes loudly into flame.]
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Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939)
[Austrian physician and psychoanalyst]
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Psychopathology of Everyday Life
(1901 [original German version]; 1914 [this translation])
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[Why do we forget things and then remember them? And why do we have
slips of the tongue? This is the book that made Freud a household name
worldwide, introduced to the world the concept of the "Freudian slip"
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and made Freud a household name worldwide.
This translation of Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens is by
Abraham Brill (1874-1948)
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who brought psychoanalysis to the United States, and was the first
person to translate Freud into English!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #67332]
Friel, Arthur Olney (1885-1959) [Amerin journalist and novelist]
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Tiger River
(1923)
[Novel: high adventure in the South Amerin jungle.
The tigres in the novel are "tigers" (jaguars), but in Spanish.]
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Frost, Robert [Robert Lee] (1874-1963)
[Amerin poet]
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West-Running Brook
(1928)
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[Collection of lyric poems, with four beautiful woodcuts by J. J. Lankes (1884-1960)
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Vanderbilt University,
a personal friend of the poet.
"Here... is the metaphysil lyric as no one but Robert Frost
could write it. And so it is throughout 'West-Running Brook.'
The ripe repose, the banked emotion, the nicely blended
tenderness and humor are everywhere."
(Louis Untermeyer
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Saturday Review, 28 December 1928)]
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Fyleman, Rose Amy (1877-1957)
[English children's author]
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Fairies and Chimneys
(1918)
[Poems: with a colour frontispiece by an anonymous artist]
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The Rainbow t and other stories
(1922)
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Forty Good-Night Tales
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Folk-Tales from Many Lands
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Snippy and Snappy (1931)
[Story book with pictures]
Wanda Gág's original black and white version:
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)
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Gailly de Taurines, Charles (1857-1941)
[Historien français]
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Site Charles Gailly de Taurines
La Nation nadienne.
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
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Galsworthy, John (1867-1933)
[English novelist, playwright, and social activist;
1932 Nobel Prize in Literature]
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THE FORSYTE SAGA
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The Man of Property (1906 [novel]; 1922 [preface])
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[The novel that began it all! As the story starts, we are introduced
to various generations of Forsytes at a family gathering, hosted
by old Jolyon, the oldest male in the family, and we meet
the many Forsytes, among them Soames, old Jolyon's nephew, who is
destined to play a central role in this and in the succeeding novels.
The Forsytes as a group are not truly wealthy, there is no actual family
fortune, and so there is a certain unease in their relations with the
world and with each other. This ambiguity is a primary source of
conflict in every age, then, now, and in the distant past. Hence
Galsworthy lls his story a saga, like the sagas of Viking times a
millennium earlier: "we may be sure that tribal instinct was even then
the prime force, and that 'family' and the sense of home and property
counted as they do to this day." Truer and sadder words were never
written, as is demonstrated by the life of Soames Forsyte, the Man of
Property after whom the novel is named: he is obsessed with the notion
of property and ownership, a sure sign that someone is not truly rich
and certainly not happy. And so with this first instalment we launch
the Forsyte Saga, which was the favourite reading of the Edwardian era, won Galsworthy the 1932 Nobel Prize, and inspired two very famous TV
adaptations, by the BBC in 1967 and by ITV in 2002. In short, this
and the ensuing instalments of the Forsyte Saga are enduring classics,
which never cease to entertain as well as instruct. Enjoy!]
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Garneau, François-Xavier (1809-1866)
[Historien et poète nadien]
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Gask, Arthur [Arthur Cecil] (1869-1951)
[Australian novelist, journalist, and dentist]
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Secret of the Sandhills
(1921)
[In 1921, Arthur Gask, a UK-trained dentist who had arrived in
Adelaide the previous year, printed at his own expense one
thousand copies of this, his first novel -- and sold all of
them in the space of three weeks! Gask was to become a famous
mystery author, numbering H.G. Wells and Bertrand Russell
among his admirers, and this first novel does indeed involve
murder. It takes place, naturally, in and around Adelaide:
its oceanside suburbs of Glenelg and Henley Beach
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have some magnificent sand beaches.]
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The Red Paste Murders
(1923)
[Arthur Gask's first mystery novel The Secret of the Sandhills
proved successful not only in Australia but in London, where an English
edition was issued by Herbert Jenkins (famous as the publisher of PG
Wodehouse), who published his subsequent novels, starting with this one.
Like its predecessor, it was well received and sold well. The setting
once again, is Adelaide; there are murders, several of them; the mysterious
red paste comes from Colombo (Sri Lanka), where it is used by tiger hunters
"before they go into the jungle after tigers, and it makes a man afraid
of nothing in the world." Gask "has a sense of style, and of humour,"
commented The Register, an Adelaide newspaper (30 November 1923).
"This is distinctly a book to be read."]
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The Secret of the Garden
(1924)
[Novel, narrated by its chief character, John Archibald Cups, "aged
thirty-two, ledger clerk of ten years' standing in the Consolidated
Bank of South Australia", who is framed by his employer and sentenced
to five years in jail -- with hard labour! His account of the trial
shows little respect for the justice system, and is a nicely written
piece of mockery. He is sentenced, but the warder taking him to prison
has a medil episode which our hero takes full advantage of, so instead
of being bundled off to prison he finds himself taking a tram to the
suburb of North Adelaide. Here he finds shelter in an unexpected place,
and help from an unexpected person -- "the eccentric recluse. Dr Robert rmichael". And that's just the beginning of the adventure!]
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Cloud the Smiter
(1926)
[Mystery novel, marking the first appearance of Gilbert Larose,
Gask's favourite sleuth in the many mystery novels he was to write
in the years to come. The novel begins innocently enough. A young
medil student from Sydney is taking a short holiday in Adelaide,
and takes his bicycle for a solitary ride outside the city. Since he
is alone, and in an area he does not know, naturally he has some
problems with his tires and his lamp. He encounters two strangers
who, it turns out, are up to no good. They seem to be part of a gang
headed by someone lled the Smiter. Lots of things are happening,
clearly. And we're only in the first chapter! As the novel proceeds,
we learn much more about what the gang is up to -- think big, think
evil! Inspector Romilly of the Adelaide police gets involved, and
decides that expert help is needed, so sends an urgent telegram to
Sydney: "He had a personal friend there in the Head Detective Office, the great Gilbert Larose..." And that is how we meet Larose, who immediately
beme and remained Gask's favourite sleuth through the rest of his life
(and novels). Does Larose's intervention make a difference? Of course
it does! "Another pital Australian mystery story... It is a story that
you won't want to put down until finished." (The World's News
[Sydney], 3 July 1926)]
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The Dark Highway
(1928)
[Mystery novel, marking the second appearance in literature of Gask's
sleuth Gilbert Larose. "A man still under thirty, he was by far the
greatest detective that the Commonwealth had ever known... In his ideas
he was a poet, an artist, and a dreamer--in fact, he was almost the last
man one would have associated in any way with crime, yet crime in all
its phases was the study and obsession of his life." The dark highway
in the title is a desolate stretch of the road between Adelaide and
Melbourne. "To the traveller, this part of the Adelaide-Melbourne route
has always been the one most dreaded--beuse of its drifting sands, its
loneliness, and the absence of all help should help be required." An
appropriate setting for some sinister events! Murders, actually, which
seem to have everything to do with horse-racing, in particular the race
for the Christmas Cup at the Port Adelaide Racing Club!]
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The Lonely House
(1929)
[One of Arther Gask's most popular mystery novels. The house in
question is indeed lonely, being loted on a remote part of South Australia's coast, far from any roads. It would be hard to imagine
a more isolated lotion. But as it happens Gilbert Larose, "the
best known of all the detectives of the great Commonwealth of
Australia", normally a resident of Sydney, is visiting the area.
He is recovering from typhoid fever, and the quiet and law-abiding
lifestyle of South Australia will, it is thought, help his
convalescence. He arrives "expecting to be intensely bored and
wondering gloomily how he would be able to fill in his time." Well,
boredom turns out not to be a problem at all. Quite the contrary!]
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The Shadow of Larose
(1930)
[Mystery novel, featuring Gilbert Larose, "the star of all the detectives
of the great Commonwealth of Australia, the prince of all the trackers of
crime". Charlie Edis, the Adelaide bank clerk at the centre of the story,
is undoubtedly a killer, in fact he's killed twice. But a killer is not
always a murderer. A tricky situation, which certainly justifies bringing
in Gilbert Larose from Sydney!]
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The House on the Island
(1931)
[The start of this mystery finds Gilbert Larose not in Adelaide,
nor in any part of his beloved Australia, but in London, Scotland Yard
to be specific, in the office of the Chief Commissioner. Yes, he is
now internationally famous! "Why, it's proverbial in Australia that
Larose n reason back as quickly as he n reason forward, and they
say that when a murder's been committed, no matter how long after,
he n still see the very shadow that the murderer st upon the wall."
He has been brought in to deal with a crime wave in the East Counties
that has been going on for six months. But immediately on landing in
England he makes it clear that he is no ordinary detective, by foiling
a pickpocket who was attempting to rob him. Did he turn the pickpocket
in? No, he took him to dinner, persuaded him that he also was a
pickpocket, and over that dinner learned a great deal about the
realities of crime in the pital: "it was such an opportunity for me to
learn from the opposite mp how you gentlemen here work, for I was able
to go into places I could not have got into in any other way." Talk about
a quick study! That's the end of the trailer; for the main feature,
download the ebook!]
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Gentlemen of Crime
(1932)
[Mystery novel. Gilbert Larose is back, and this time he's fighting
blackmail! Mr Ephraim Smith, after a successful banking reer in
New York City, has moved to the United Kingdom and has been happily
engaged in a lavish lifestyle: a house in Park Lane, a stle in the
English countryside, an estate in Scotland, and so on. Then he gets
a letter demanding that he make a relatively small donation to the
Norwich Children's Hospital. "If you fail to do so within three days,
the consequences will be unpleasant." He does not make the donation,
and arson ensues, costing him three thousand pounds. Things get worse
from then on. It's a good thing that Gilbert Larose is on the se!]
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The Hidden Door
(1934)
[Gothic detective novel. Yes, seriously! Here's the opening sentence:
"Grim and grey was Thralldom stle. Eight hundred years and more its
mighty walls had reared their heights to Heaven, scorched by the suns,
buffeted by the tempests and fretted by the lashing rains." And that's
just the beginning! Is there more to be said? Well yes! Arthur Gask
once again shows his mastery of the writer's craft, and his detective,
Gilbert Larose, yet again shows that he is equal to any kind of challenge!]
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The Judgment of Larose
(1934)
[Mystery novel, featuring Gilbert Larose. Sir James Marley likes
to have guests at Southdown Court in Eastbourne, on the Sussex Coast,
but this decidedly grand house party is the unexpected scene of a murder!
Just before his murder, ptain Dane had won more than two thousand pounds
at the nearby Goodwood Racecourse, and the circumstances certainly need
scrutiny. Who better to undertake this scrutiny than Gilbert Larose?]
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The Poisoned Goblet
(1935)
[As this mystery novel opens, Gilbert Larose is in his private office at Scotland Yard, deep in conversation with a senior investigator, Naughton Jones, who is about to go on medil leave. Larose learns to his amazement that he will be Jones' replacement! How did this happen? Through the intervention of Lady Helen Ardane, the wealthy Amerin widow of a whiskey distiller, who lives in Norfolk (not that far from Sandringham!). She is extremely rich, twenty-seven years of age, and has a son, four years of age, who is at imminent risk of being kidnapped. Expertise is needed: hence
her procuring Larose's assignment to the se!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Master Spy
(1936)
[Not a standard mystery novel, although murder is mentioned, and
Gilbert Larose takes centre stage. But he is not the Gilbert Larose
we have learned to love! He is "the one time international detective,
now a country squire and married to the beautiful and wealthy widow,
who up to the time of her marriage with him had been Lady Helen Ardane".
Yet he is not living a life of total leisure: the British Secret Service
needs his help! Does the novel deliver the espionage adventure promised
by the title? And does Larose still possess his remarkable sleuthing
abilities? The answer to both questions: Definitely!]
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The Jest of Life
(1936)
[Novel, but not a mystery novel; instead, a light-hearted satire of life
in Adelaide. As the novel opens, we are introduced to "Mr. Montague Twiggs,
dental surgeon of Adelaide, South Australia". Sounds like Gask wrote a
self-portrait! Or did he? If this is a self-portrait, Gask had some quite
unusual experiences. For example, it turns out that Mr Twiggs' spirit could
migrate into the bodies of other people. Archdeacon Bottleworthy to start
with, of Adelaide thedral! Merriment ensues.]
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The Night of the Storm
(1937)
[Mystery novel, featuring Gilbert Larose, of course! A man has
been killed, of that there is no doubt: his name was Edwin Asher
Toller, and he lived in the village of Stratford St Mary, six
miles from the ancient city of Colchester: he was the bailiff
(estate manager) of "the Priory", most definitely a Stately Home
of England, complete with butler, gardener, and four servants.
"The place has been in the possession of the Brabazon-Fanes,
who are one of the best county families round here, for hundreds
of years... The late General Brabazon-Fane, the last male of the
line, died two years ago and the property descended to his three
daughters Beatrice, Eva, and Margaret." All three sisters are
suspects -- what a mess! n Gilbert Larose lend a helping hand?
Of course he n!]
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The Grave-Digger of Monks Arden
(1938)
[A Gilbert Larose mystery novel. The gravedigger of the title is
named Daunt, and the name was appropriate, for "he gave to many who
encountered him in the country lanes at night the suggestion of
a prowling beast of prey." He was gravedigger "of the ancient
church of St. Benedict, in the little village of Monks Arden,
about three miles from Saffron Walden", a small and historic
town in the northwest corner of Essex. Some strange events
have been happening: events lling for the supreme talents
of Gilbert Larose, who seems doomed never to fully leave
behind his former reer as a detective, much as he might wish
to enjoy in peace his new status as a country squire in the pleasant
solitude of rmel Abbey.]
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The Vengeance of Larose
(1939)
[Gilbert Larose is of course unrivalled as a criminal investigator.
But given the way the world has been going in the late 1930s, his
talents n now have an impact not just on lol investigations but
on international affairs as well. Which turns out to be the se.
England is in danger: Larose takes to his new assignment like a duck to
water. H.G. Wells, no less, considered this to be Gask's finest novel!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The House on the Fens
(1940)
[As this mystery novel opens, Dr Methuen, who has his practice
in Wimpole Street, a very fashionable address then and now, has
just had the difficult experience of breaking to a patient the
sad news that the patient's prospects for survival are not good.
The patient is now angry with his "smiling, sleek, complacent
friends" who will presumably outlive him. There is a change
of scene: we are now in Hampstead, where Sir George and Lady
Almaine are giving a party, one of the guests being his old
friend Major Henry Sampon. By the end of the evening, Major
Sampon is dead! How did this happen? And is there a connection
with Dr Methuen and his patient? This all sounds very complited,
but fortunately Gilbert Larose is one of the guests -- who better
to solve this mystery than that legendary Australian sleuth?]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Tragedy of the Silver Moon
(1940)
[Mystery novel, featuring Gask's famous sleuth Gilbert Larose.
It begins in what seems to be a medil practice, but Professor
Paris Starbuck is not a doctor! "The Professor was a man of
varied attainments, and in his time had been a chemist's errand boy,
an employee in the Zoologil Gardens, a kennelman to a veterinary
surgeon, a conjurer, and a chauffeur and handyman to an East End
practitioner of medicine. From the experiences gained in these
occupations he now rried on a very successful practice as a quack
doctor, styling himself 'Professor' to avoid trouble with the police."
Of course, this kind of deception becomes difficult to maintain if
a customer dies!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Beachy Head Murder
(1941)
[Mystery novel, in which Gask's famous sleuth Gilbert Larose
makes his appearance, but takes a lesser role than usual.
The narrator is the eminently respectable Jason Brown:
"I open Flower Shows, I give away prizes at the lol sports
and I am on the Boards of Management of several public institutions."
However: "But I was not always so esteemed. I was a hunted man once."
Clearly there's a story waiting to be told!]
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[University of Adelaide]
His Prey was Man
(1942)
[A Gilbert Larose mystery. It's hard to imagine anyone in a more
fortunate position than Colonel Basil Hilary: "apart from his beautiful
young wife and baby, he was in perfect health, of ample means, and the
proud possessor of many hundreds of acres of good and fertile land in
the county of Norfolk." But trouble comes, in the form of the Colonel's
new game-keeper who, it appears, knows some things about the young
Mrs Hilary that she would rather be kept secret. Blackmail and murder
are now on the horizon -- it's a good thing that the famous Australian
detective Gilbert Larose now also lives in Norfolk!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Man of Death
(1945)
[Mystery novel, which opens as follows: "'Mr. Larose, I am being
watched,' said the small, scholarly-looking man with the high forehead.
'I live alone in a lonely house on a lonely shore, and I do not know
what it means. I am concerned about what is going to happen next.'"
Gilbert Larose's visitor, or should we say client, is Professor Mildmay,
who had practiced medicine before becoming Professor of Anthropology
at mbridge University, and for the past eight years has been living
on his own at Blackstone Gap, Norfolk. Larose is inclined at first
to think his visitor a crank, but quickly changes his opinion!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Hatton Garden Crime
(1945)
[A short story, which does not feature Gask's famous sleuth
Gilbert Larose! Hatton Garden
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is an area of central London that has long been famous as a centre
of the jewellery trade. "For many years," the story begins, "Reuben
Leyden had been one of the best-known diamond dealers in Hatton
Garden... almost fabulous sums of money had at times, in the course
of a few minutes, changed hands in his modest suite of rooms." One
day... no, let's stop right there! To learn more, just read this
very short story. Hint: there may be a murder!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Dark Mill Stream
(1947)
["At eight and thirty years of age," this Gilbert Larose mystery begins,
"Chester Hardacre was a well set-up, good-looking man, with good features
and large, fearless blue eyes... Of strong personality, he was a well-known
character in Hoichow, the chief seaport of Hainan Island, only a few miles
distant from the mainland of China, where he had been a trader for fifteen
years." But if he earned a lot, he also spent a lot. And he has a sinister
personal reputation. n he improve his life by moving to faraway England?]
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[University of Adelaide]
The House with the High Wall
(1948)
[Mystery novel, written in the aftermath of the Second World War.
To judge from the opening words, Arthur Gask certainly did not
believe that war solves anything: "The aftermath of war is always
terrible. Peace is only for the dead, while unrest and disillusionment
are the portion of the living. With the bloodshed dying down, the
highways of the world are thronged with bewildered men and women
walking aimlessly where once they trod with such resolution and
such strength." Certainly in this novel we learn that the end of
the war did not mark the end of murders -- and of theft! In this
se, of an emerald necklace. There is indeed a house, loted in
Suffolk, and after the war it was supplied with a high wall: six
feet high and four miles long! And behind this wall lives Mrs.
Dona Bian and her peacocks. She is from South Ameri, and is
said to be rich -- how else could she afford the peacocks? No need
to say more, except that Gilbert Larose turns up opportunely. He is
now almost fifty, "a smiling, happy-looking man, rrying his age well."
One thing has not changed: his ability to solve mysteries and ensure
that the truth comes out!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Storm Breaks
(1949)
[Mystery novel, featuring Gilbert Larose. The young and impressionable
Mary Hinks meets Birtle Dane, who is "with a big firm of wine merchants
in the wonderful city of Bordeaux", where he lives "in a big house upon
the bank of the beautiful Garonne river". He tells her that life there
is "much brighter and gayer than in England", and events move fast,
particularly beuse Mary's father is much impressed by the apparent
wealth of his prospective son-in-law. If you think that Mary's father
is a poor judge of character, and that trouble lies ahead, you may well
be right! And if Gilbert Larose is present, anything is possible!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Vaults of Blackarden stle
(1950)
[Not a Gothic novel, as the title might suggest, but a mystery novel.
The stle is loted in Norfolk: this might lead you to believe that
it featurea Gask's famous sleuth Gilbert Larose, who has long since
moved from Australia and has been living the good life in Norfolk: he
is now rather well off. Not that Larose shows any sign of giving up
his detective work, as this story demonstrates!]
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[University of Adelaide]
Marauders by Night
(1951)
[A Gilbert Larose novel, set in 1925! As the novel opens, a very
serious conference is underway at Scotland Yard. In the Eastern
Counties (Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk) there have been no fewer
than five major robberies. In attendance is Gilbert Larose, "then
in his twenty-ninth year and the youngest Detective Inspector at
Scotland Yard... a good-looking young fellow with a pleasant smiling
face. Transferred from Australia to the Criminal Investigation
Department in London, in four years he had earned an almost legendary
reputation." And Larose's achievements in this se will only
increase this reputation!]
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[University of Adelaide]
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865)
[English novelist and biographer]
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The Gaskell Web
The Gaskell Society
The Grey Woman and Other Tales
(1865)
[Short stories, with a few illustrations by
George Du Maurier (1834-1896)
[grandfather of the novelist Daphne Du Maurier]
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and Joseph Swain (1820-1909)
The website of Bob Speel]
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Gibb, Sir George Dunn (1821-1876)
[nadian 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 historil and scientific treatise, with a poem;
published under the pseudonym "rribber"]
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Gibbons, Charles Harrison (1869-1931)
[nadian journalist and novelist]
A Sourdough Samaritan
(1924)
[Novel. A young Britisher, Lawrence Fitzmaurice, decides to go
to the Dawson Creek/Klondike gold rush
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He gets there, but his entire
outfit is stolen. With no money or supplies, he signs on with the lol R.N.W.M.P.
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detachment, and matters proceed from there. "Mr. Charles Harrison
Gibbons knows his Klondyke well, and in this volume he has given of his best...
There is a hero, of course, straight from England, and unused to
the ways of the country, who makes good, however, in the Mounted Police;
a heroine from the States, a kindly old Jew, and lots of villains and
rough characters. But the tale depends less on the plot than on the
detailed description of life and manners in a mining mp."
(The World's News (Sydney, Australia), 29 November 1924)]
UTION: A character in the novel has a nickname, starting with N,
which today would be considered unacceptably racist.
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The Marbled tskin
(1928)
[Novel. South Afri, a mountain queen (she's got the tskin),
and much else — if you like H. Rider Haggard's adventure novels,
this should be very much to your taste!]
UTION: Certain language in the novel may seem racist by the standards of today.
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Gibbs, Philip [Philip Armand Hamilton] (1877-1962)
[English journalist and historian]
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Adventures in Journalism
(1923)
[Gibbs' account of his early years as a journalist. And what years
they were! He published his first newspaper article while still a
teenager, and in this beautifully written memoir recounts the final
years of what had seemed an unshakeable peace, the subsequent outbreak
and disastrous course of the First World War, and the shaky "peace"
that followed. He visited post-war Vienna, for example ("Ladies of
good family could not buy underclothing or boots. Professional men,
aristocrats, Ministers of State, lived on thin soup, potatoes, war
bread, and the very nurses in the hospitals were starving.") and
Turkey, where the "victorious" powers learned the limits of their
power. Gibbs seems to have met everyone: for example he was the
first journalist to interview the Pope -- yes, in this book he
tells how he obtained the interview!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #65577]
Gibson, Wilfrid [Wilfrid Wilson] (1878-1962)
[English poet]
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Islands
(1932)
[A collection of poems written by Gibson between 1930 and 1932]
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Coldknuckles
(1947)
[Narrative poem. A young boy (Isaac Bell, nicknamed Coldknuckles)
is on his way home to his family's sheep farm, and happens to see
a travelling circus on the road. He decides to run away to the circus,
after which event his life takes some unexpected turns.]
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[PGC #1040]
Gide, Andr? (1869-1951)
[Romancier français; prix Nobel de littérature, 1947]
fr.wikipedia
alalettre.com
Retour de l'U.R.S.S. (1936)
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[Récit de voyage, assez controvers?lors de sa parution.
«C'est témoigner mal son amour que le borner ?la louange et je pense
rendre plus grand service ?l'U.R.S.S. même et ?la use 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 déj? que vont s'élever mes critiques...»]
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[PGC no 105]
English translation by
Dorothy Bussy (1865-1960)
[English translator and novelist]
Wikipedia:
Return from the U.S.S.R. (1937)
[Gide's famous and controversial account of his 1936
visit to the U.S.S.R. in a contemporary translation
by Gide's friend Dorothy Bussy. His book was hardly
a frontal attack on the Stalinist regime, but he was
an observant visitor and saw that not all was well.
This viewpoint was not acceptable in the left-wing
cultural circles of Paris, and a massive uproar ensued.]
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Gilchrist, Anne (1828-1885)
[English biographer and essayist]
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Mary Lamb (1883)
[Biography of English author Mary Anne Lamb (1764-1847)
Wikipedia]
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Gill, Eric [Arthur Eric Rowton] (1882-1940)
[English artist and type designer]
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National Archives (UK)
Identifont
With:
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936)
[English journalist and theologian]
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The Amerin Chesterton Society
Gloria in Profundis
(1927)
[Poem, with two wood engravings]
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Gingras, Jules Fabien
(1826-1884)
[Traducteur et lexicographe nadien]
Recueil des expressions vicieuses et des anglicismes et les plus fréquents
(1861)
[Dictionnaire]
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Gobineau, Arthur de (1816-1882)
[Écrivain et diplomate français]
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www.tocqueville.culture.fr
Voyage ?Terre-Neuve
(1861)
[Récit de voyage]
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[PGC no 506]
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
[German scientist, poet, playwright, and statesman /
scientifique, poète, dramaturge et homme d'État allemand]
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Novelle
(1828)
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[Novella in German / Nouvelle en allemand.
Eine ritterliche Idylle als Sinnbild einer geordneten
Feudalgesellschaft wird durch das Hereinbrechen der ungezähmten
Natur in Form eines Brands und entlaufener Raubtiere in Gefahr
gebracht. Durch die Musik, die Dichtung und den Glauben, verkörpert
durch ein Kind, wird sie wieder in den Bann geschlagen.]
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[PGC #1471/no 1471]
Learn German!
Apprenez l'allemand!
Golding, Louis (1895-1958)
[English novelist]
Wikipedia
Five Silver Daughters
(1934)
[Novel, on a truly epic sle.
Mr Sam Silver lives on Oleander Street in Manchester;
his neighbour and close friend Isaac Emmanuel (hero of
Mr. Emmanuel, also in our talogue) is often
to be found in his kitchen. Messrs Silver and Emmanuel
are eminently respectable; in fact, Mr Silver in the
course of the novel rises to a position of truly
spectacular wealth. Which makes him an odd person to
open his kitchen to the anarchists and other politil
types who gathered there. Of course, his five daughters
were part of the reason that the anarchists were fond
of visiting. And this is the story of these five very
different daughters and how they fared in adult life,
in England and elsewhere.]
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[PGC #1660]
Mr. Emmanuel
(1939)
[Novel. Bruno Rosenheim, a young Jewish refugee in England.
is increasingly distraught about what might be happening to
his mother back in Germany. Isaac Emmanuel, a Lanshire
solicitor who knows Bruno, becomes concerned, and investigates,
even going to Germany. He makes some exciting and disturbing
discoveries, and has some exciting and disturbing personal
experiences. "'Mr. Emmanuel' is a tract for the times, and
the voice of a people speaks through it, but it is also an
absorbing, stirring, first-rate work of fiction."
(Ben Ray Redman, Saturday Review, 22 July 1939)]
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[PGC #1607]
Honey for the Ghost
(1949)
[Novel, somewhat different from Golding's other novels,
since it has strong elements of fantasy and horror: it
"begins with infinite leisure but builds to an incomparable
climactic terror of devil-worship and possession."
(Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas,
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Winter-Spring 1950)]
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[PGC #1638]
The Dangerous Places
(1951)
[Novel, in essence a sequel to Mr. Emmanuel, set in
various countries of central Europe during the Second World War,
and vividly depicting the life of the Jews in particular who are
contending with the unfolding disaster. Their best hope for the
future seems to be Palestine, if they n get there.]
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[PGC #1639]
Goldoni, rlo (1707-1793)
[Italian playwright]
Wikipedia
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The Servant of Two Masters
(1745 [Italian original], 1928 [this translation])
[Translation of Goldoni's most famous comedy
Il servitore di due padroni, translated by the celebrated
English musicologist Edward Joseph Dent (1876-1957)
Wikipedia
arts.jrank.org.]
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[PGC #606]
The original Italian play, from Liber Liber:
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The Comedies of rlo Goldoni
(1760-76 [Italian and French originals], 1892 [this translation])
[Translations by Helen Zimmern (1846-1934)
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of Goldoni's
A Curious Mishap (Un curioso accidente, 1760),
The Beneficent Bear (Le bourru bienfaisant, 1771),
The Fan (Il ventaglio, 1765),
and The Spendthrift Miser (L'avare fastueux, 1776).
These were based on earlier translations, three of them
by unknown hands, the fourth being a German translation
published around 1875 by Theophil Zolling (1849-1901)
de.wikipedia.
Includes an introduction by Zimmern.]
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We also offer Zimmern's translations as individual ebooks:
A Curious Mishap
(1760 [Italian original], 1892 [this translation])
[Translation of the comedy Un curioso accidente.
A revision by Helen Zimmern (1846-1934)
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of an earlier translation by an unknown hand.]
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The Fan
(1765 [Italian original], 1892 [this translation])
[Translation of Goldoni's celebrated comedy Il ventaglio
it.wikipedia,
translated into German around 1875 by Theophil Zolling (1849-1901)
de.wikipedia
using the pseudonym "G. Ritter"; Zolling's German translation
Der Fächer
served as the basis for this translation into English
by Helen Zimmern (1846-1934)
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Text [in Italian] (Liber Liber)
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The Beneficent Bear
(1771 [French original], 1892 [this translation])
[Translation of Le bourru bienfaisant
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written by Goldoni in French in celebration of the marriage of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette.
A revision by Helen Zimmern (1846-1934)
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of an earlier translation by an unknown hand.]
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The Spendthrift Miser
(1776 [French original], 1892 [this translation])
[Translation of L'avare fastueux
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the second comedy written by Goldoni in French.
A revision by Helen Zimmern (1846-1934)
Wikipedia
of an earlier translation by an unknown hand.]
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Goncourt, Edmond de (1822-1896) [Écrivain français]
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Goncourt, Jules de (1830-1870) [Écrivain français]
fr.wikipedia
Quelques créatures de ce temps
(1856 [Une voiture de masques (titre original)];
1878 [nouvelle édition, avec la préface d'Edmond de Goncourt])
[Nouvelles. «Voici vingt-deux comédiens de la troupe du bon Dieu: des hommes.
Ils ont ôt?leurs masques, et vont vous conter leur histoire.?(postface de 1856)]
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[PGC no 724]
Graham, George Rex (1813-1894) [Publisher]
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Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII, No. 2
(February 1848)
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)
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Benson John Lossing (1813-1891)
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New York State Library,
A. B. Ross,
and John Sartain (1808-1897)]
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Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII, No. 3
(March 1848)
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[Literary magazine: includes
contributions by
Mrs. A. M. F. Annan,
Charles Washington Baird (1828-1887),
Frank Byrne,
Robert T. Conrad (1810-1858),
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
Wikipedia,
Jane R. Dana,
Enna Duval [Anne Hampton Brewster] (1818-1892),
Elizabeth J. Eames (1813-1856)
Library Company of Philadelphia,
Louisa M. Green,
Henry Beck Hirst (1813-1874),
William Howe Cuyler Hosmer (1814-1877),
Mary Lockhart Lawson,
Elizabeth Lyon Linsley,
Donald Grant Mitchell [Ik. Marvel] (1822-1908)
Wikipedia,
George Pope Morris (1802-1864)
Wikipedia,
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
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)
[nadian 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 loted in
Lausanne, Switzerland, and fully reflecting the different
nationalities of the students and the dark events of the
years preceding the Second World War. Graham had herself
been a student at the Pensionnat des Allières in Lausanne:
rarely has a privileged upbringing been put to better use
than in the writing of this novel. "Miss Graham's picture
of Lausanne and of the school, her statement of each girl's
character and her demonstration of how it is influenced by
what has been done to her, are deft and delightful."
(Katharine Simonds, Saturday Review, 23 April 1938)]
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Earth and High Heaven
(1944)
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[Novel, which won the Governor General's Literary Award
and was a massive success outside nada as well.
Eri 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 nada
and on Montreal which remain true to this day.]
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Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
[Scottish banker and novelist]
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The Wind in the Willows
(1908)
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[Novel. No ordinary novel, but one which has become permanently
famous around the world. And yet Grahame had trouble finding
publishers! It was published in the U.S. only after Theodore
Roosevelt, president at the time, persuaded Scribners to accept
the book, a decision we n all be sure they never regretted.
Another famous admirer was A. A. Milne, author of Winnie the
Pooh, who adapted part of it into a play. The main characters
are animals, living alongside a river in southern England: Mole,
Rat (technilly a water vole, not a rat), Badger, and of course
Mr Toad. For more details, simply check out the excellent Wikipedia article. Or, still better, why not take the plunge and start reading
the book immediately? Once you've started reading, you won't want
to stop! "It is difficult to describe the impression made by this beautifully written book, or to determine whether it was intended
for children, for grown people, or for grown-up children--perhaps
it was meant for all. It is full of dewy nature, breathes the open
air of field, winding river, and forest." (The Nation,
24 December 1908) The Adelaide ebook comes with a superb set of colour illustrations
by the Amerin wildlife painter
Paul Bransom
(1885-1979)
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which we consider fully the equal of the famous 1931 illustrations
by Ernest H. Shepard, which are still under copyright as of 2021,
and were supposed to be entering the public domain in 2027, not so
long from now.
The Tr*mp/Trudeau copyright extensions, an act of cultural vandalism,
will keep the Shepard illustrations under copyright until 2047.
]
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[University of Adelaide]
Grandmaison, Marie de [Dufour, Marie-Félicie] (née en 1846)
[romancière française]
En voyage (vers 1900)
[Récit de voyage pour enfants, avec des aquarelles par un peintre
anonyme mais d'un talent hors du commun. / Travel story for children,
with watercolours by an anonymous but very talented painter.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS no68356]
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)
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Grenfell, Sir Wilfred (1865-1940)
[English medil missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador]
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Adrift on an Ice-Pan (1909)
[Memoir]
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A Labrador Doctor: The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell M.D. (Oxon.), C.M.G. (1919)
[Autobiography]
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Gréville, Henry [pseudonyme
d'Alice-Marie-Céleste Durand-Gréville, née Fleury] (1842-1902)
[Romancière française]
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New York Times (1879)
La fille de Dosia (1876)
[Roman]
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L'expiation de Savéli (1876)
[Roman]
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Les Koumiassine (1877)
[Roman]
Tome premier:
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La Maison de Maurèze (1877)
[Roman. La plus grand vertu est exigée d'une épouse pour protéger l'honneur du nom de la famille; quant au mari....?]
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Suzanne Normis, roman d'un père (1877)
[Roman]
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Marier sa fille (1878)
[Roman. Une mère assez pauvre cherche un beau-fils
assez riche.]
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La Niania (1878)
[Roman]
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Croquis (1879)
[Roman]
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Lucie Rodey (1879)
[Roman sur les inconvénients des mariages arrangés: la convoitise, la cupidit?..]
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L'héritage de Xénie (1880)
[Roman]
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Le moulin Frappier (1880)
[Roman]
Tome premier:
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Cit?Ménard (1880)
[Roman]
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Madame de Dreux (1881)
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Angèle (1883)
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Louis Breuil, histoire d'un pantouflard (1883)
[Roman: étude de la bourgeousie française ?l'époque de
la guerre franco-prussienne
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L'Ingénue (1883)
[Roman: l'action se déroule ?Paris et ?Dieppe]
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Un crime (1884)
[Roman]
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Idylles (1885)
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Le mors aux dents
(1885)
[«Ce roman renferme l'histoire d'un mari inconstant
et joueur qui trompe sa femme, mange sa dot, et après l'avoir
ruinée et désespérée se tue dans un accès de repentir, pour lui
rendre la possibilit?du bonheur et celle de changer contre un
autre son nom déshonor??(synopsis qu'en fait la
Revue Internationale, le 10 février 1885)]
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Clairefontaine (1885)
[Roman]
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Nikanor (1887)
[Roman]
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La seconde mère (1888)
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Péril (1891)
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Chénerol (1892)
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Grey, Zane (1872-1939)
[Amerin novelist]
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Under the Tonto Rim (1926)
[Novel. Lucy Watson, newly graduated from normal school
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takes up her first assignment, in the wilderness community
of Cedar Ridge: "The only instructions given Lucy were that she was
to go among the families living in the backwoods between Cedar Ridge
and what was lled the Rim Rock and to use her abilities to the best
advantage in teaching them to have better homes." Lucy takes full
advantage of this very wide mandate.]
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Valley of Wild Horses (1927 [U.S copyright date; published in book form in 1947])
[Western novel, which opens with the birth (in the Texas Panhandle
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of our cowboy hero, Panhandle Smith ("Pan"),
and follows his adventures through to manhood.
These adventures take him westward...]
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[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 me from.]
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[PGC #922]
The Shepherd of Guadaloupe (1930)
[Novel. After military service in Europe, Clifton Forrest returns to his native New Mexico,
where surprises await him.]
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[PGC #836]
30,000 on the Hoof (1940)
[Western novel, about the adventures of Logan Huett, a young soldier (and then ex-soldier) in Arizona at
the end of the nineteenth century. ttle ranching plays a role, as you might guess.]
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[PGC #1167]
Grey Owl [Belaney, Archibald Stansfeld] (1888-1938)
[nadian naturalist and author]
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Parks nada
The Men of the Last Frontier
(1931)
[An account of life in the nadian wilderness. Grey Owl's first book.]
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Pilgrims of the Wild
(1934)
[Tales of the nadian 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 nadian literary editor Hugh S. Eayrs (1894-1940)
Quill & Quire, May 1940
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The Adventures of Sajo and her Beaver People (1935)
[Short stories, with many illustrations by the author]
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Grimm, Jacob Ludwig rl (1785-1863)
[German philologist / philologue allemand]
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Grimm, Wilhelm rl (1786-1859)
[German philologist / philologue allemand]
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Kinder und Hausmärchen gesammelt durch die Brüder Grimm
(1857 [Große Ausgabe. Siebente Auflage.]) [Tales / contes]
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1. Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich
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[The Frog Prince
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Le Roi Grenouille
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[PGC #784/no 784]
2. Katze und Maus in Gesellschaft
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[t and Mouse in Partnership
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Chat et souris associés
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3. Marienkind
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L'Enfant de Marie
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[PGC #791/no 791]
4. Mährchen von einem, der auszog das Fürchten zu lernen
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[The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was
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Conte de celui qui s'en alla pour connaître la peur
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5. Der Wolf und die sieben jungen Geislein
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[The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
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Le Loup et les Sept Chevreaux
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6. Der treue Johannes
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Jean-le-Fidèle]
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7. Der gute Handel
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8. Der wunderliche Spielmann
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[The Wonderful Musician
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Le Merveilleux Ménétrier]
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9. Die zwölf Brüder
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[The Twelve Brothers
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Les Douze Frères
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[PGC #831/no 831]
10. Das Lumpengesindel
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[The Pack of Ragamuffins
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De la raille]
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[PGC #847/no 847]
11. Brüderchen und Schwesterchen
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[Brother and Sister
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Frérot et Soeurette
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[PGC #851/no 851]
12. Rapunzel
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Raiponce
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[PGC #907/no 907]
13. Die drei Männlein im Walde
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[The Three Little Men in the Wood
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Les Trois Petits Hommes de la forêt
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[PGC #920/no 920]
14. Die drei Spinnerinnen
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[The Three Spinners
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[PGC #936/no 936]
15. Hänsel und Grethel
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[Hansel and Gretel
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Hansel et Gretel
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16. Die drei Schlangenblätter
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[The Three Snake-Leaves /
Les Trois Feuilles du serpent]
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[PGC #944/no 944]
17. Die weiße Schlange
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[The White Snake
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Le Serpent blanc
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[PGC #932/no 932]
18. Strohhalm, Kohle und Bohne
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[The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean
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Bout de paille, braise et haricot]
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[PGC #951/no 951]
Learn German!
Apprenez l'allemand!
Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm (1886)
[Stories: translated by Lucy Crane (1842-1882);
illustrated by Walter Crane (1845-1915)]
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Griswold, Hattie Tyng (1840-1909)
[Amerin 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 Amerin authors]
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Grove, Frederick Philip (1879-1948)
[nadian novelist, poet, and essayist]
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Over Prairie Trails (1922)
[Essays]
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Settlers of the Marsh (1925)
[Novel]
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A Search for Ameri (1927)
[Autobiographil novel]
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Our Daily Bread (1928)
[Novel]
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It Needs to be Said...
(1929)
[Lectures on literature, art, and politics]
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The Yoke of Life
(1930)
[Novel]
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Fruits of the Earth (1933)
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The Master of the Mill (1944)
[Novel]
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Consider Her Ways (1947)
[Novel]
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Guest, Edgar Albert (1881-1959)
[Amerin poet]
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The Passing Throng
(1923)
[A collection of poetry, much of it light verse, written in the
easy and very approachable style which made Guest
one of the most widely read poets of his time.]
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Guinot, Eugène (1812-1861)
[Journaliste et vaudevilliste français]
La Cour du Grand-Duc
(1843)
[Nouvelle, avec deux gravures contemporaines.
«La fin de l'année dramatique avait ramen??Paris les troupes licenciées
des théâtres de province...»]
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[PG nada no 844]
Haggard, H. Rider [Henry Rider] (1856-1925)
[English colonial administrator and novelist]
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King Solomon's Mines
(1885, with prefaces from 1898 and 1907)
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[One of the earliest Afrin adventure novels and surely the most famous
of them all, featuring Alan Quatermain. It would be hard for an Englishman
writing in 1885 not to reflect the colonialism and racism of the time, and Haggard is no exception, but also by no means the worst offender in this
regard, perhaps beuse he had direct experience of South Afri, having
lived there for seven years. The plot of the novel is not that far
removed from reality, since at the time lost empires were in fact being
discovered, and as for King Solomon, there is a long Jewish history in
Afri from antiquity up to the present day!]
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[University of Adelaide]
She. A History of Adventure.
(1887)
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[Adventure novel, and a very famous one, often adapted to film.
It starts sedately enough: we are at mbridge University, where
we meet Ludwig Horace Holly. But Holly becomes the guardian of
the young and very handsome Leo Vincey; he and Holly travel to
Afri following instructions left by Vincey's late father. And
here in the ves of Kôr they meet the ancient, powerful, and
beautiful Ayesha, the "She" of the book's title: many adventures
follow. No wonder the novel has ptivated so many readers, and
inspired so many novelists! The Adelaide EPUB we offer you includes
the illustrations from the 1887 edition.]
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[University of Adelaide]
Ayesha. The Return of She.
(1905)
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[Not a sequel to She, says Haggard in his introduction, but "the
conclusion of an imaginative tragedy... whereof one half has been already published." Yes, Ayesha is back -- but this book's adventures take place
not in Afri, but in Thibet! (Haggard's exotic spelling of what we ll
"Tibet".) "It is a ripe and richly imaginative piece of work: the supernatural elements that pervade it are handled with a sure and effective craftsmanship, and the thrilling and picturesque incidents and episodes of the great quest are told with unfailing vigour and fertility of invention."
(The Bookman [UK], November 1905)]
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[University of Adelaide]
Haldane, J. B. S. [John Burdon Sanderson] (1892-1964)
[Indian geneticist and statistician]
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My Friend Mr Leakey
(1937)
[Six marvellously witty stories for children, famous to this day]
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Haliburton, Thomas Chandler (1796-1865)
[nadian essayist and humorist]
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
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The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville (1836)
[Stories]
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The Attach? or, Sam Slick in England — Vol. 1 (1843)
[Stories]
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The Attach? or, Sam Slick in England — Vol. 2 (1844)
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The Attach? or, Sam Slick in England — Complete (1844)
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Nature and Human Nature (1844)
[Stories]
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Humour of the North (1912)
[Anthology]
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Hall, James Norman (1887-1951)
[Amerin novelist]
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Mid-Pacific
(1928)
[Autobiographil essays on travel and literature, with a special emphasis on
Hall's adopted home of Tahiti. "One of the finest writers about life in both
common and strange places is James Norman Hall." (Frederick O' Brien,
Saturday Review, 4 August 1928)]
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[PGC #1572]
Lost Island
(1944)
[Novel, not a long one, about an island in the South Seas during the
Second World War. It is the story of an Amerin military engineer,
George Dodd, and his first encounter with Polynesia. Not a war story
in the usual sense.]
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Nordhoff, Charles Bernard (1887-1947)
[Amerin novelist]
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Faery Lands of the South Seas
(1921)
[The first collaboration by Nordhoff and Hall involving the South Seas,
a memoir of their first visit to Tahiti and points beyond:
"a book which is neither super-romantic nor tediously informative...
one of the most pleasing volumes of travel and observation recently
published." (The Outlook, 4 January 1922)
Includes some attractive small illustrations by Amerin artist
George A. Picken (1898-1971)
Smithsonian Institution.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #54479]
The Hurrine
(1936)
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[Novel, set in the nineteenth century, about an island in
the Tuamotu Archipelago
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shared by Polynesians and Europeans, and what
happens before, during, and after a major hurrine.
One of Nordhoff and Hall's most popular novels, and the
basis for John Ford's 1937 movie of the same name
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[PGC #1378]
The Dark River
(1938)
[Novel. An Englishman named Alan Hardie arrives in Tahiti
for what turns out to be a permanent visit. The novel has
a very straightforward plot, "but as a travelogue of Tahiti
and the Tuamotus it makes almost anybody in a disheartened
pre-war world feel like getting away from it all while there
is yet time." (Elmer Davis, Saturday Review, 25 June 1938)]
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[PGC #1559]
Botany Bay
(1941)
[Historil novel, principally about the sailing of the First Fleet
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and the founding of the British penal colony in Australia, at Botany Bay
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near the future Sydney. A more agreeable way of learning Australian
history could hardly be imagined, with incidental information on the
British penal system of the time, and on the aftermath of the 1783
partition of British North Ameri: our hero, Hugh Tallant, was a
Loyalist, but one who ended up in Australia rather than nada!]
UTION: Certain language in the novel may seem racist
by the standards of today.
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[PGC #1562]
Men Without Country
(1942)
[The novel opens early in World War II, just after the fall of France. An Amerin
reporter is in London to get stories on Frenchmen who have fled France to
fight with Charles de Gaulle. He meets with a ptain Freycinet, who has
quite a story to tell, a story which begins in the ribbean.
"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 espe, patriotism, French Guiana, Vichy, Free France,
everything tight and right and thrilling. This is old craftsmanship at work,
spinning a yarn of the most contemporary flavor..."
(N. L. Rothman, Saturday Review, 27 June 1942)]
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[PGC #1255]
The High Barbaree
(1945)
[Novel. What if a South Pacific island had remained undiscovered
until in 1943 an Amerin plane crashed onto it? The plane is
the High Barbaree, presumably named after the traditional
sailors' ballad
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[PGC #1570]
Hamilton, James Cleland (1836-1907)
[nadian lawyer]
The Georgian Bay. An account of its position,
inhabitants, mineral interests, fish, timber and other
resources. Papers read before the nadian Institute.
(1893)
Royal nadian Institute
[Lectures: sketches by Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860)
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
Simon Fraser University,
photograph by Richard Scougall ssels (1859-1935)
Library and Archives nada,
map by H. J. Browne (fl. 1862-78)]
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Osgoode Hall - Reminiscences of the Bench and Bar
(1904)
[History]
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Hammett, Dashiell [Samuel Dashiell] (1894-1961)
[Amerin author and politil activist]
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Novels:
Red Harvest
(February 1929)
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[Novel, featuring Hammett's famous creation, the detective
known only as the Continental Op
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Dark doings in a mining town: criminal gangs,
and a criminal police force. What's a private
detective to do? Lots, as it turns out!]
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[PGC #1409]
The Dain Curse
(July 1929)
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[Hammett's second mystery novel, set in San Francisco:
it concerns a family curse; also a religious cult, and drugs
-- has lifornia always been like this? It also features
Hammett's famous creation, the detective known only as the
Continental Op
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[PGC #1395]
The Maltese Falcon
(February 1930)
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[The classic detective novel, and the inspiration for the classic
motion picture starring Humphrey Bogart
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Private detective Sam Spade, a San Francisco now utterly vanished,
and a mysterious statuette, "the black figure of a bird".
What more n one ask for?]
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[PGC #1387]
The Glass Key
(April 1931)
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[Mystery novel, set in an amoral world of crime and corruption.
Hammett's own choice as his best novel.]
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[PGC #1408]
The Thin Man
(January 1934)
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[Hammett's final novel, one of his most famous,
and the inspiration for the classic film
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Nick Charles was formerly with the Trans-Amerin Detective Agency,
but has left all that behind him. Or has he?
"Verdict: Extra-Swell" (Saturday Review, 13 January 1934)]
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[PGC #1379]
Short stories:
They n Only Hang You Once
(November 1932)
[The last of Hammett's three short stories featuring private detective Sam Spade
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[PGC #1290]
His Brother's Keeper
(February 1934)
[Short story about boxing, narrated by a boxer, Kid Bolan]
UTION: Certain language in this story may seem racist by the standards of today.
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[PGC #1291]
Hare, Cyril [Clark, Alfred Alexander Gordon] (1900-1958)
[English judge and novelist]
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Tenant for Death
(1937)
[Cyril Hare's first mystery novel. Hare was a magistrate, learned in the law,
and therefore familiar with the term "tenant for life" -- the holder
of a property only while alive: that is, the property does not form
part of his estate. But what is a tenant for death? Mr. Colin James
may be an example: as the novel starts, he has mysteriously disappeared
from the house he had rented, and gone to France. There is a murder,
needless to say; also Inspector Mallett of Scotland Yard.]
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[PGC #1215]
Suicide Excepted
(1939)
[Mystery novel. Whether a death was a suicide or not n be very important to
insurance companies. "Brainy and brisk." (Saturday Review, 11 December 1954)]
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[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
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Far removed from London he may be, but Pettigrew discovers that
life on the circuit is far from dull!]
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[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 pable hands of our barrister.]
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[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.]
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[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 lol amateur orchestra, Francis Pettigrew
finds himself named the orchestra's treasurer, which complites
his otherwise idyllic existence. A murder then occurs, making
things even more complited.]
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[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!]
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[PGC #593]
That Yew Tree's Shade
(1954)
[Mystery novel. Francis Pettigrew has retired from his legal practice in London
to what he expects to be an agreeable and uneventful existence
in the rural paradise of Yew Hill, Markshire. Life there is indeed
agreeable, but not uneventful -- especially after Pettigrew is asked
to substitute for an ailing lol magistrate.]
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[PGC #1024]
He Should Have Died Hereafter
(1958)
[Mystery novel; some editions use the alternate title Untimely Death.
Francis Pettigrew is now retired from his law practice.
But retiring from sleuthing is not so easy, as he
discovers on what was supposed to be a holiday to
remote and beautiful Exmoor
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[PGC #1229]
Harrison, Charles Yale (1898-1954)
[nadian journalist and novelist]
Wikipedia
The nadian Encyclopedia
Generals Die in Bed
(1930)
Wikipedia
Sarah Ellis (Quill & Quire, Feb 2002)
[Harrison's most famous novel: an unnamed young nadian
soldier's account of warfare, both in the trenches and behind the
lines, in France during the First World War. The novel is
graphic in its description of warfare.]
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
[Amerin novelist]
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With Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900-1931)
[Amerin illustrator]
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Tanglewood Tales
(1853 [text] 1921 [illustrations])
[Greek myths retold for children]
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Hay, Ian [Beith, John Hay] (1876-1952)
[English novelist and playwright]
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Half a Sovereign. An Improbable Romance.
(1926)
[Satiric novel, with an unexpected turn, about passengers on a cruise.
"There is good historil precedent for Ian Hay's choice of a Ship of Fools
as the medium of his humorous satire, and there are many obvious advantages
which this framework affords. For the fools may thus be studied intensively,
and the presence of landlubbers on board a yacht is full of comic possibilities.
Needless to say Ian Hay has made fine use of his opportunity."
(The Bookman [U.K.], October 1926)]
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Heine, Thomas Theodor (1867-1948)
[German writer and riturist / écrivain et rituriste allemand]
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Der Teufel im Warenhaus
(1935)
[Satiric tale, with the author's illustrations / conte satirique, illustr?par l'auteur]
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Lusi
(1935)
[Satiric tale, with the author's illustrations / conte satirique, illustr?par l'auteur]
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Heming, Arthur Henry Howard (1870-1940)
[nadian painter and writer]
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The Drama of the Forests
(1921)
[Novel]
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The Sun Also Rises
(1926)
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[Novel, following the progress of a group of friends as
they travel from Paris, cross the Pyrenees, and end
up in Pamplona, Spain.
"Written in terse, precise, and aggressively fresh
prose, and containing some of the finest dialogue
yet written in this country, the story achieves a
vividness and a sustained tension that make it
unquestionably one of the events of a year rich in
interesting books"
(Cleveland B. Chase, Saturday Review, 11 December 1926)]
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Men Without Women
(1927)
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[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)]
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Winner Take Nothing
(1933)
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[Fourteen short stories, some of them extremely famous: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,
for example, and The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio]
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Green Hills of Afri
(1935)
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Review by John Chamberlain [New York Times, 25 Oct 1935]
Review by C. G. Poore [New York Times, 27 Oct 1935]
[Not a novel, but an account of Hemingway's 1933 visit to what is now Tanzania.
It includes both safari lore and literary criticism.]
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Across the River and Into the Trees
(1950)
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Review by John O'Hara [New York Times, 10 Sept 1950]
[Novel. An Amerin colonel is visiting the Adriatic coast
shortly after World War II. He has much to think about,
including a young Italian woman named Renata.]
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The Old Man and the Sea
(1952)
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[One of Hemingway's most famous novels. The old fisherman Santiago has ught nothing for eighty-four days. Then things change.]
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Hémon, Louis (1880-1913) [Romancier français]
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Dictionnaire biographique du nada
Encyclopédie nadienne
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
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Maria Chapdelaine (1913) [Roman]
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Maria Chapdelaine (1913)
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The Golden Bees. The Story of Betsy Patterson and The Bonapartes.
(1928)
[Historil novel about Elizabeth Patterson (1785-1879)
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the Baltimore-born first wife of Jérôme Bonaparte, Napoleon's youngest brother]
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Herbst, Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm (1825-1882)
[German historian / historien allemand]
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie [de.wikisource: unkorrigiert]
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie [Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: Fraktur (Leipzig, 1905)]
Goethe in Wetzlar. 1772.
Vier Monate aus des Dichters Jugendleben. (1881)
[History in German / Histoire en allemand]
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Heywood, Thomas (. 1570-1641)
[English actor, playwright, pamphleteer, and poet]
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The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists: Thomas Heywood
(1888)
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[No one today is likely to dispute Shakespeare's preeminence among
Elizabethan playwrights. But many other playwrights were popular at the
time: at least some of their works are certainly worth our time. But how
to choose? For this "unexpurgated edition" in the famous Mermaid Series,
the choosing is done for us by an excellent judge,
Arthur Wilson Verity (1863-1937)
: he was famous for his editions of Shakespeare. A fine introduction
was added by
John Addington Symonds (1840-1893)
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the famous Renaissance scholar and poet. The edition includes numerous
short footnotes to help with unusual words and phrases. It's hard to
imagine a more attractive or practil introduction to Heywood!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #67267]
Hilton, James (1900-1954) [English novelist]
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The Passionate Year
(1924)
[This novel could be compared to Goodbye, Mr Chips from ten
years later, since it takes place at a boys' school in England, where
the main character is a teacher. But Kenneth Speed is at the start of
his reer, not near its end, and his adult life has only recently begun,
while Mr Chips was a veteran. But the novel is not chiefly the story of
Speed's reer at Millstead, but of his involvement with the headmaster's
daughter, their marriage, and the events that follow as new factors surface.
That's a lot of passion!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #68676]
Lost Horizon
(1933)
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[Novel, made into a famous 1937 movie directed by Frank pra and starring
Ronald Colman
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A plane crashes in the Himalayas, and its crew find themselves
in a desolate mountain wasteland. However, there is more to
the area than at first appears: there is Shangri-La...]
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Good-bye, Mr. Chips
(1934)
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[Novel: an enduringly popular twentieth-century classic, later adapted to screen and stage.
A young schoolmaster arrives at an English school, and, without quite planning it, finds
his lifetime votion.]
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[PGC #1197]
Random Harvest
(1941)
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[Novel, telling the story of Charles Rainier from the end of
the First World War to the beginning of the Second: the memory
loss Rainier had suffered during the earlier war plays a major
role in the novel. The book was a gigantic success, and inspired
(with some plot changes) Mervyn LeRoy's celebrated 1942 film
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starring Ronald Colman and Greer Garson.]
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So Well Remembered
(1945)
[Novel, following the life of George Boswell, councillor and then mayor
of Browdley, formerly a village but now a fairly substamtial manufacturing
city in Lanshire. The Depression and then the Second World War bring
their various challenges; as does Boswell's not entirely stable marriage.
England today is greatly changed from when this novel was written: it
may bring special pleasure to those who admire the best qualities of
England as it formerly was, before the rancours of the present day.]
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[PGC #1609]
Nothing So Strange
(1947)
[Novel, set in the 1940s, the era of military conflict and of
breakthroughs in atomic physics. Dr. Mark Bradley, a young
mathematician, has been involved in a plane crash, from which
he has not fully recovered. Just the sort of situation to
interest Jane Waring, an enterprising young English journalist!]
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[PGC #1622]
Morning Journey
(1951)
[Novel, centred around the making of a film lled Morning Journey,
and the interactions between its director, Paul Saffron, and his leading
lady, Irish-born rey Arundel. In the course of the novel we learn not
only about Hollywood, but also Dublin's Abbey Theatre, London's West End,
and New York's Broadway. This was the world in which Hilton lived: Mrs.
Miniver won him the 1942 Ademy Award for best adapted screenplay!]
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Time and Time Again
(1953)
[Hilton's final novel: the story of Charles Anderson,
his schooldays during the First World War, his time at mbridge,
and his reer as a diplomat, through to the early 1950s.
The lengthy period covered, the focus on a single individual,
and the attractive narrative style rell 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.]
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Hodgson, William Hope (1877-1918)
[English novelist, poet, mariner, and fitness trainer]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The House on the Borderland
(1908)
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[Hodgson's hugely famous and hugely influential novel
of supernatural horror. Two travellers in the West of Ireland
happen upon the ruins of a house beside a lake, and in
this house they find the journal of its final resident,
the Recluse.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #10002]
Men of the Deep Waters
(1914)
[Short stories]
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The Voice of the Ocean
(1921)
[Poem]
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Hofland, Barbara (1770-1844)
[English novelist and children's author]
University of Nebraska (Alex Toews)
English Poetry 1579-1830
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
The Daughter-in-law, her Father, & Family
(1812)
[Novel, dealing with relationships within families, the moral questions which n arise, and
their resolution: themes that would be typil of Mrs. Hofland's later novels.
Our edition includes a frontispiece by Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848)
Burney Centre, McGill University,
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
Tate Collection
Friends of Claines]
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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 dedited. Includes a frontispiece
by an unnamed artist.]
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The Clergyman's Widow, and her Young Family
(1812)
[Novel. A widow and her family living in England during the Napoleonic Wars confront the many obstacles that lie in their path.]
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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
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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,
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Tate Collection
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Decision, a Tale
(1824)
[Novel]
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[PGC #591]
Patience, a Tale
(1824)
[Novel, with a frontispiece by
Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848)
Burney Centre, McGill University,
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
Tate Collection
Friends of Claines]
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Moderation, a Tale
(1825)
[Novel about the virtue of Moderation, as illustrated in the life of our heroine, Emma rysford]
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[PGC #650]
The Young Pilgrim, or Alfred mpbell'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 ptain 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 mpbell, the Young Pilgrim; Containing Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land.]
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[PGC #587]
The Good Grandmother, and her Offspring. A Tale. Second Edition with Additions.
(1828 [this expanded version], 1817 [original shorter version])
[Novel, described by its author as "the history of an humble family, from the depths of poverty and affliction to a situation of comparative competence". Our edition includes a frontispiece by
Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848)
Burney Centre, McGill University,
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
Tate Collection
Friends of Claines]
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[PGC #663]
Rich Boys and Poor Boys, and Other Tales
(1833)
[Six short stories for the young, often dealing with questions of ethics. The collection's title
could mislead some: the third story, The Passionate Little Girl, features a girl,
Sophia Daventree, as its main character.]
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William and his Uncle Ben.
A Tale Designed for the Use of Young People.
(1826)
[Novella for children, with a frontispiece by
Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848)
Burney Centre, McGill University,
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
Tate Collection
Friends of Claines]
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The Stolen Boy, an Indian Tale
(1828 [this expanded version], 1827 [original shorter version])
[Novel, based, our author says, on actual events. Our hero Manuel, eight years of age,
is living in San Antonio, when events take an unexpected turn. Our edition includes a frontispiece by
Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848)
Burney Centre, McGill University,
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
Tate Collection
Friends of Claines]
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The Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy
(1829)
[Novel. At the novel's opening, Charles Crusoe, thirteen years of age, asks his mother if
he is related to the famous Robinson Crusoe, and is told that he is not. His future adventures,
however, strongly resemble those of the earlier Crusoe.]
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The Young det [1836 version]
(1836 [this revised version]; 1827 [original version])
[Novel, set in India during the period of the East India Company
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We include the fine frontispiece by S. Williams from the 1856 edition
on which our ebook is based.]
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Choice Library for Young People. Tales for Youth. [Volume 3 of 5]
(. 1850-1867)
[Collection of stories for children, anonymously edited. Includes three stories by Mrs. Hofland,
five anonymous or pseudonymous stories, and individual stories by
James Bird (1788-1839),
Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849)
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William Henry Harrison (. 1795-1878),
Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855)
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Jane Margaret Strickland (1800-1888)]
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Hofmannsthal, Hugo von [Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann,
Edler von Hofmannsthal]
(1874-1929)
[Austrian playwright and poet / dramaturge et poète autrichien]
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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]
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Novelle
(1828)
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[Novella in German / Nouvelle en allemand.
Eine ritterliche Idylle als Sinnbild einer geordneten
Feudalgesellschaft wird durch das Hereinbrechen der ungezähmten
Natur in Form eines Brands und entlaufener Raubtiere in Gefahr
gebracht. Durch die Musik, die Dichtung und den Glauben, verkörpert
durch ein Kind, wird sie wieder in den Bann geschlagen.]
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Kleist, Heinrich von [Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von] (1777-1811)
[German playwright and poet / dramaturge et poète allemand]
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Das Erdbeben in Chili
(1807/1810)
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[Novella in German / Nouvelle en allemand.
Das Erdbeben des Titels macht die kirchliche und staatliche Rechtsprechung zu Nichte. In der Folge setzen sich in Abwesenheit der staatlichen Ordnung zwischenmenschliche Güte und Barmherzigkeit durch. Bei Wiederherstellung der kirchlichen Ordnung und der damit einher gehenden Sündenvorstellung kommt es zu einem Ausbruch menschlicher Gewalt, der Schuldige wie Unschuldige zum Opfer fallen.]
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Hogg, James (1770-1835)
[Scottish novelist and poet]
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NNDB
The Shepherd's lendar (Volume 1 of 2)
(1829)
[A collection of stories by Hogg, most of them originally published in
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
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The Shepherd's lendar (Volume 2 of 2)
(1829)
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Hokusai [Katsushika Hokusai] (1760-1849)
[Japanese artist]
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Wikimedia Commons
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Salaman, Malcolm Charles (1855-1940)
[English art historian and critic]
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Hokusai
(1930)
[Monograph on the celebrated Japanese artist, illustrated in colour]
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Holme, Charles Geoffrey (1887-1954)
[Anglo-Amerin art historian]
Drawings in Pen & Pencil from Dürer's Day to Ours
(1922)
["The Studio"
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was a London art magazine published between 1893 and 1964. Its
founder was Charles Holme (1848-1923), who was succeeded as editor
by his son, Charles Geoffrey Holme. In addition to its regular issues,
The Studio from time to time published magnificently illustrated
monographs, some of them, such as this one, very large: it includes
drawings from the end of the fifteenth to the start of the twentieth
century. The drawings were selected by Holme, and supplied with lively
and informative "notes and appreciations" by English painter and designer
George Sheringham (1884-1937)
Wikipedia.
The individual artists are too many to discuss here, but are listed
at the start of the book; most of them have substantial articles at
Wikipedia.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #65836]
Hooper, James W. (born 1827)
[Amerin schoolteacher]
Three Score and Ten in Retrospect
(1900)
[Autobiography]
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Housman, Laurence (1865-1959)
[English playwright and social activist]
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Stories from The Arabian Nights
(1911 edition)
[Six of the famous Arabian Nights stories
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retold by the famous playwright,
with many colour illustrations by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)
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Howard, Brian [Brian Christian de Claiborne] (1905-1958)
[English poet and journalist]
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Evelyn Waugh Newsletter (Robert Murray Davis)
God Save the King
(1931)
[Poems]
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Howard, Robert E. [Robert Ervin] (1906-1936) [Amerin
fantasy and horror author]
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Skull-Face
(October-December 1929)
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[Novella, set in London, but Atlantis comes into the picture; also hashish!]
UTION: certain elements of plot and language may seem racist by
the standards of today.
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Worms of the Earth
(November 1932)
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[Short story, set in Roman Britain. The Picts, led by Bran Mak Morn, are confronting the Romans.
And Bran is considering using the "worms of the earth" in this battle. Dangerous allies, it
would seem. And hard to track down!]
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Pigeons from Hell
(May 1938)
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[Mystery and fear in a house that is large, old, abandoned, and on an
old plantation in the Amerin South. One of Howard's most famous stories.]
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Black Vulmea's Vengeance
(November 1938)
[Story. The pirate Black Terence Vulmea encounters a cruel British Navy
ptain who kills his crew, takes him prisoner, and threatens to hang him.
Vulmea tempts him with a story of buried treasure. In the course
of the search, somewhere in the jungles of South Ameri, Vulmea and the
ptain encounter hostile savages, esped slaves, and a giant
anaconda. The thrill count is high, as is the body count.]
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Huch, Rirda [Rirda Octavia] (1864-1947)
[German historian / historienne allemande]
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Frühling in der Schweiz
(1938)
["Jugenderinnerungen von Rirda Huch":
autobiographil essay in German / essai autobiographique
en allemand. Aus Jena in den späten 30er Jahren blickt Rirda Huch
in diesen Jugenderinnerungen auf ihre Zeit in der Schweiz kurz vor der
Jahrhundertwende zurück. Nach ihrer Promotion an der Universität Zürich
hatte sie dort zunächst als Bibliothekarin, später als Lehrkraft gearbeitet
und dabei erste Versuche als Schriftstellerin gewagt. Die Liebe zur Schweiz
("deutscher als Deutschland"), der Landschaft, den Menschen und der Gesellschaft,
prägten sie ein Leben lang.]
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Hughes, Langston [James Mercer Langston] (1902-1967)
[Amerin poet and playwright]
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The Big Sea
(1940)
[A wondrously wide ranging and beautifully written autobiography
by the famous Amerin biracial poet, very much in tune with today's
discussions of race, multiracialism, and intersectionality.
UTION: A less racist book than this would be hard to imagine,
but society has changed since it was written, and some of the
language in the book would today be considered offensive.]
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Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960)
[Amerin anthropologist, civil rights activist, and novelist]
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Dust Tracks on a Road. An Autobiography.
(1942)
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[Autobiography of the famous anthropologist, civil rights activist,
and novelist. In many ways she was a social conservative: her originality
of thought is evident in this fine memoir, which takes us from her
childhood in the Afrin-Amerin town of Eatonville, Florida
through university and her subsequent reer as a field anthropologist.
"...Miss Hurston has never been anybody but herself, and her book
radiates that self with such warmth and vitality and humor and charm
that it is a tonic to read." (Henry C. Tracy, Common Ground, Spring 1943)]
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Hutcheson, Francis (1694-1746)
[Irish philosopher]
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Dictionary of Ulster Biography
Ulster History Circle
The International Association for Scottish Philosophy
GASHE
History of Economic Thought
An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas
of Beauty and Virtue, In Two Treatises
(1725)
[Hutcheson's most famous work of moral philosophy. Our ebook is based on the fourth edition,
published in London in 1738.]
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Huxley, Aldous [Aldous Leonard] (1894-1963) [English novelist and essayist]
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Crome Yellow
(1921)
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[Aldous Huxley's first novel, light and satiril 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]
Antic Hay
(1923)
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[Satiril novel. Theodore Gumbril, a recent graduate of Oxford,
decides to quit his job as a schoolmaster: a voyage of discovery
follows. Very much a part of the reaction to the darkness of
the First World War.]
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On the Margin. Notes and Essays.
(1923)
[The first of Huxley's many essay collections. This initial volume
has twenty-seven essays on extremely diverse topics: Voltaire, various
English poets, Huxley's fellow essayist Lytton Strachey, Tibet...
"These short pieces are filled with wit and charm."
(John C. Farrar, The Bookman (U.S.), September 1923)]
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[PGUS #60866]
Little Mexin and Other Stories
(1924)
[Huxley's third collection of stories. The first and longest,
Uncle Spencer, is nearly half the book. "My Uncle Spencer,"
says the narrator, "was a man of about forty when first I me
from my preparatory school to stay with him." But Uncle Spencer,
in spite of his English name, lives in eastern Belgium, which is
where the story begins. The final story, Young Archimedes,
twice adapted to film, is set in Italy, near the Apennines, and
centres on a boy who starts showing signs of an exceptional musil
talent. Little Mexin, the title story, is not about someone
from Mexico, but about a hat, apparently a Mexin one, which as hats
go was in fact very large. The narrator bought it in Ravenna, during
his first visit to Italy, "and my shadow on the pavements of Ravenna
was like the shadow of an umbrella pine." But it brought an unexpected benefit. Without it, people would never have thought he was a painter.
"And I should never, in consequence, have seen the frescoes, never have talked with the old Count, never heard of the Colombella. Never....
When I think of that, the little Mexin seems to me more than ever
precious." Three shorter stories fill out the volume: we leave them
to you to explore!]
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[PGUS #64814]
Those Barren Leaves
(1925)
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[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 n 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 Etrusn language
and the breeding of mice and rabbits."
(T.K. Whipple, Saturday Review, 7 March 1925)]
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Brave New World
(1932)
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The Guardian (Robert McCrum)
The Guardian (John Naughton)
[Novel. What if the future were a tyranny, but one cunningly designed to
keep the mass of society ignorant of this? The people would be
provided with many, many distractions, daily life would be dominated by
sex and drugs, and pervasive mass media would suppress the possibility of
any original thought: in such a society the ruling elite would not need to
fear any kind of rebellion. If you think that Huxley's vision seems to be
the way things are in fact turning out, you're not the only one!]
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Brave New World Revisited
(1958)
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[Extended essay. Huxley considers whether the predictions of
the future in his novel Brave New World still seemed
accurate. His conclusion? "The prophecies made in 1931 are coming
true much sooner than I thought they would."]
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Island
(1962)
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[Huxley's final novel, set on an imagined tropil island
named Pala. Will Farnaby, a journalist, wants to visit the
island, not normally open to outsiders, but arranges to be
shipwrecked on it. His secret agenda is to gain access to
the island's oil reserves, but once he is on the island and
sees how people live, his priorities change.]
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Ibáñez, Vicente Blasco (1867-1928)
[Spanish novelist / romancier espagnol]
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fr.wikipedia
es.wikipedia
Bibliote Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Oriente (1907)
[Travel book / Récit de voyage]
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Learn Spanish ! / Apprenez l'espagnol !
Curso:
Spanish Language & Culture
Diccionarios bilingües:
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WordReference.com Espagnol-Français
Diccionario español:
es.wiktionary
La vuelta al mundo de un novelista - tomo I
(1924)
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[Relatos de viaje del gran escritor valenciano: Estados Unidos,
Cuba, Panam? Hawai, Japón, Corea y Manchuria!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #63810]
La vuelta al mundo de un novelista - tomo II
(1924)
[Relatos de viaje del gran escritor valenciano: China, Mao,
Hong-Kong, Filipinas, Java, Singapore, Birmania y lcuta!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #63816]
La vuelta al mundo de un novelista - tomo III
(1925)
[Relatos de viaje del gran escritor valenciano: India, Ceilán,
Sudán, Nubia y Egipto!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #67917]
Ichak, Frida (1879-1952)
[Lithuanian author and translator / écrivain et traductrice lituanienne]
de.wikipedia
Wer war wer in der DDR?
Ludwig Rubiner - Ein Dichter des Expressionismus
Das Perpetuum mobile
(1914)
[Monograph in German on the history of the concept of perpetual motion
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/ Monographie en allemand sur l'histoire du concept du mouvement perpétuel
fr.wikipedia]
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"L'Illustration" (1843-1944)
[Hebdomadaire français]
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Le Rat amoureux
(1843)
[Conte, dont l'action se déroule dans le Maine (France).
L'auteur n'est identifi?que par ses initiales: A. S.]
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[PGC no 641]
La Vengeance des Trépassés
(1843)
[Nouvelle (avec cinq illustrations contemporaines) qui conte l'histoire de Léonor,
une jeune fille espagnole, nièce d'un archevêque. L'auteur n'est identifi?que par ses initiales: F. G.]
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[PGC no 727]
Innis, Harold Adams (1894-1952)
[nadian politil economist]
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nadian Encyclopedia
A History of the nadian Pacific Railway
(1923)
[A study of the CPR
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without the usual focus on the memorable personalities involved in its building.
Instead, Innis examines the geographil and politil circumstances surrounding
the CPR's creation, and the resulting economic and social revolution in Western nada.
The first of Innis's classic studies of the interaction of geography, communitions,
and economics.]
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[PGC #800]
Peter Pond - Fur Trader and Adventurer (1930)
[Biography]
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
National Archives of nada
Peter Pond's 1785 map (National Archives of nada / NMC 8433)
An Introduction to the Economic History of Ontario
from Outpost to Empire (1935)
[Essay]
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Minerva's Owl (1947)
[Presidential Address to the Royal Society of nada:
an overview of the central role of communitions throughout history]
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A Plea for Time (1950)
[Lecture delivered at the University of New Brunswick,
commemorating the 150th anniversary of UNB's founding]
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Roman Law and the British Empire (1950)
[Lecture delivered at the University of New Brunswick,
commemorating the 150th anniversary of UNB's founding]
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Empire and Communitions (1950)
[History from the viewpoint of communitions]
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The Strategy of Culture (1952)
[Essays]
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Irwin, Will [William Henry] (1873-1948)
[Amerin novelist]
Online Archive of lifornia
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The Readjustment (1910) [Novel]
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Isle, June (active around 1864)
[Amerin children's author]
Happy Hearts
(1864)
[Christmas story for children: with illustrations
attributed to contemporary engravers
John D. Felter (active between 1861 and 1879)
and Elias James Whitney (b. 1827)]
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Jackson, Charles [Charles Reginald] (1903-1968)
[Amerin novelist]
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The Lost Weekend
(1944)
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[Charles Jackson's first and most famous novel, about an altogether
too exciting weekend experienced by a New York writer named Don Birnam,
who has an alcohol problem, to say the least. That alone makes it
relevant to nada today! It was made into an equally famous movie
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which however omitted the novel's strong gay element, which is unfortunate,
since gay bars were central to gay culture throughout the twentieth
century: writers are notoriously prone to alcohol problems, gays as well,
so gay writers (such as Jackson himself) are presumably at double risk.
In any se, the novel remains famous to this day, as does the film,
which won the 1944 Ademy Award for Best Picture.]
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The Fall of Valor
(1946)
[There were gay elements in Charles Jackson's famous first novel,
The Lost Weekend, but in his second novel these elements
dominate. John Grandin is a successful ademic in New York City:
he has been promoted to a full professorship, Scribners has just
accepted a book of his for publition, and so on. And yet, "John
Grandin had lately found himself living under an emotional suspense.
For hours, sometimes, he had a sense that something was about to
happen to him, something untoward, perverse, impossible to fit into
his comfortably ordered life." Which turns out to be precisely the
se. Our young professor and his wife (to whom he has not been
paying a great deal of attention) go on vation to Nantucket,
Massachusetts. And on the boat from New Bedford to Nantucket, they
meet Cliff Hauman, a ptain in the Marines, newly married.
And Professor Grandin finds that he is thinking more or more of
Cliff's "resplendent young manhood". Where does all this lead, if
anywhere? To find out, read the novel!]
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James, Montague Rhodes (1862-1936)
[English mediaevalist and writer of ghost stories]
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Ghosts & Scholars
The Five Jars (1922)
[Novel]
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The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James
(1931)
[Omnibus edition of James' famous ghost stories, incorporating his four
earlier collections, with some additional items not included in these earlier volumes.]
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Ebooks of individual titles from The Collected Ghost Stories:
- non Alberic's Scrap-book (1894)
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- Lost Hearts (. 1894)
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- The Mezzotint
(1904)
[Mezzotints
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are a special type of engraving.
This story is about a "rather indifferent" mezzotint
which turns out not to be so very ordinary.]
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- The Ash-tree
(1904)
[Beside an old country house in Suffolk there stood an old tree...]
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[PGC #1064]
- Number 13
(1904)
[A ghost story set in the mediaeval Danish city of Viborg.
James knew Denmark and the Danish language well;
you will find in our talogue many of his fine translations
of stories by Hans Christian Andersen.]
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- Count Magnus
(1904)
[Strange things n happen in Sweden.]
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- "Oh, Whistle, and I'll come to you, My Lad"
(1904)
[Archaeologil investigations, even amateur ones conducted during golfing vations,
n have unexpected outcomes.]
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- The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
(1904)
[History records that a sixteenth-century abbot concealed a large amount of gold
somewhere on the monastery grounds. But history failed to record its precise
whereabouts.]
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- A School Story
(1911)
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- The Rose-Garden (1911)
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- The Tractate Middoth
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- sting the Runes
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- The Stalls of Barchester thedral (1910)
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- Martin's Close
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- Mr. Humphreys and his Inheritance
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- The Residence at Whitminster
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- The Diary of Mr. Poynter
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- An Episode of thedral History
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- The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance
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- Two Doctors
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- The Haunted Dolls' House
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- The Uncommon Prayer-book
(1921)
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- A Neighbour's Landmark
(1924)
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- A View from a Hill
(1925)
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- A Warning to the Curious
(1925)
[Strange doings in East Anglia, the former Anglo-Saxon kingdom]
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[PGC #1079]
- An Evening's Entertainment
(1925)
[A fireside story, and an unusual one]
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[PGC #1068]
- There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
(1924)
[In Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale a story is told but quickly interrupted:
the entire text of the story is "There was a man dwelt by a churchyard..."
But M. R. James knew what happened next!]
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- Rats
(1929)
[When a ghost story's title is Rats, no summary is needed!]
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[PGC #1075]
- After Dark in the Playing Fields
(1924)
[The playing fields in question are those of Eton
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where James was Provost.]
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- Wailing Well
(1928)
[A member of a Scout troop visiting a rural area wants to use
an abandoned well, a well with an evil reputation...]
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Edited by M. R. James:
Le Fanu, Joseph Thomas Sheridan (1814-1873)
[Irish writer of ghost stories and tales of horror]
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Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery
(1923)
[Mystery tales]
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Jameson, Malcolm (1891-1945)
[Amerin naval officer and science fiction author]
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Tarnished Utopia
(1941)
[Science fiction novel. Allan Winchester is an Amerin paratrooper during WW2.
He's taken prisoner, but espes to Munich, where he meets a young German
woman. They flee from the Gestapo, and take cover in an abandoned cellar.
Here they eat something similar to gelatine, fall asleep, and wake up hundreds,
perhaps thousands, of years in the future...]
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[PGC #1343]
The Giant Atom
(December 1943)
[Novel, in its 1945 edition retitled Atomic Bomb. An unscrupulous
atomic energy company generates a trans-uranic element which turns
out to be able to absorb all other elements into itself and grow,
giving off intense heat and deadly radiation in the process.]
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[PGC #1366]
The nine Bullard stories:
Admiral's Inspection
(April 1940)
[Jameson's inaugural story featuring Lieutenant Bullard.
We meet the Lieutenant just after his appointment to
the spaceship Pollux. Jameson's own background
as a naval officer adds a sense of reality to the story.]
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[PGC #1323]
White Mutiny
(October 1940)
[Short story. Tensions n arise in any military environment —
including (especially?) spaceships!]
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[PGC #1324]
Blockade Runner
(March 1941)
[Short story. "The Earth, mistress of the remnants of what had
been the far-flung Tellurian Empire... was lying helpless before
the might of two of her erstwhile colonies." n this blockade
be overcome?]
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[PGC #1325]
Slacker's Paradise
(April 1941)
[Short story. Some military victories don't actually require any effort.]
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[PGC #1327]
Devil's Powder
(June 1941)
[Short story. Strange behaviour erupts on the spaceship Pollux.
ptain Bullard has his suspicions: alcohol or drugs!]
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[PGC #1329]
Bullard Reflects
(December 1941)
[Short story. The Dazzle Dart game between the crews of the stor
and the Pollux had ended, and it had been an exciting one.
But not as exciting as the events that were to follow...]
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[PGC #1330]
Brimstone Bill
(July 1942)
[Short story. Who, you might ask, is Brimstone Brill?
An "itinerant preacher" on Venus, it would seem —
but that's only the beginning of the story!]
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[PGC #1331]
The Bureaucrat
(April 1944)
[Short story. Bullard has been promoted to Grand Admiral.
But military promotions are dangerous: will he now lose
touch with the realities of military life in outer space?]
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Orders
(December 1945)
[The final Bullard story, published posthumously. Bullard has a run-in
with the magnificently named Lionel Wallowby, Undersecretary of State
for Asteroidal Affairs.]
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[PGC #1333]
Jarvis, William Henry Pope (1876-1944)
[nadian journalist and novelist]
The Letters of a Remittance Man to his Mother
(1908)
[Novel in the form of letters written by an English remittance man
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recently arrived in nada.
With a frontispice by Ontario artist Alfred Morton Wickson (1882-1947)
City of Toronto Art Collection:
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2
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Trent University Art Collection.]
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The Great Gold Rush. A Tale of the Klondike.
(1913)
[A novel with a difference. In essence, an account of the Klondike Gold Rush
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only lightly fictionalized,
by someone who was there!]
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[PGC #742]
Don Quixote in Finance, or Has nada a Medici?
A Tale of Treasons, Stratagems and Spoils.
(probably 1920; no later than 1923)
[Subtitled "For Circulation amongst the Legislators of nada."
Politil pamphlet attacking the conduct of nada's financial elite, and the undue power Jarvis believed they held over the governments of his day. Similar attacks are made today, but rarely with such eloquence. Illustrated with many personal anecdotes from Jarvis's wide experience.]
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Jenkins, Herbert George (1876-1923)
[English publisher and author]
Mrs Bindle. Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles.
(1922)
[Humour]
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[PGC #637]
The Bindles on the Rocks. Some Further Incidents in the Life of Mr and Mrs Bindle.
(1924)
[Novel. Joseph Bindle has lost his job and has fallen on hard times, but he and Mrs. Bindle
rise to the challenge.]
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Jennings, Amelia Clotilda (d. 1895) [nadian poet and novelist]
Dictionary of nadian Biography
Isabel Leicester, A Romance (1874)
[Novel]
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Jennings, Osr (. 1850-1914)
[Anglo-French medil researcher and bibliographer]
Early Woodcut Initials
(1908)
[Monograph "containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of
ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,
selected and annotated by Osr Jennings, M.D., Member of the
Bibliographil Society". Beuse of the many illustrations,
this ebook may take some extra time to load. Dr. Jennings
had a deep knowledge of the history of printing, as is obvious
from this classic work, which at times comes close to being a
history of the invention and early development of printing, with
more than a hundred mentions of Johannes Gutenberg, the patron
of Project nada! But these studies were not the only
or even the primary field in which Osr Jennings worked! "For many
years he practised in Paris, and won a considerable reputation by his
writings on the mechanil treatment of diseases of the spinal cord,
and particularly on the treatment of the morphine habit, on which he
wrote several monographs. He was an enthusiastic believer in the
virtues of cycle exercise and, we believe, very successfully reduced
his own weight by this means." (Obituary, British Medil Journal
19 December 1914).]
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[PGUS #65847]
Jerome, Jerome K. (1859-1927)
[English author, editor, and playwright]
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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
(1889)
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[Few books of humour have withstood the years as well as this famous
account of how Jerome and two friends, accompanied by Montmorency the dog,
went on a boating trip down the river Thames. What a crew! And what
a trip! The illustrations, classics in their own right, are by Jerome's close friend, the well known illustrator
Arthur Frederics [Frederick Arthur Hipp] (1849-1929).
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[University of Adelaide]
My Life and Times
(1925) [The memoirs of the celebrated author of Three Men in a Boat
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An interesting and entertaining account of a life led in the literary circles of the
Victorian and Edwardian eras.]
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Johnson, Clifton (1865-1940)
[Amerin author and photographer]
Jones Library, Amherst, Massachusetts
The Picturesque St. Lawrence (1910)
[Geographil and historil survey, with many
of Johnson's own photographs]
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Johnson, Emily Pauline [Tekahionwake (Mohawk name)] (1861-1913) [nadian poet and writer]
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
nadian Encyclopedia
nadian Born
(1903)
[Johnson's second published collection of verse]
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Legends of Vancouver (1911)
[Stories]
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Flint and Feather (1912)
[Poetry; introduction by Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832-1914)]
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The Mocsin Maker (1913)
[Stories; introduction by Gilbert Parker (1862-1932), appreciation by Charles Mair (1838-1927)]
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The Shagganappi (1913)
[Stories; introduction by Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946)]
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Johnson, Owen McMahon (1878-1952)
[Amerin novelist]
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Time Magazine (31 March 1924)
The Wasted Generation
(1921)
[Novel]
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Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
[English lexicographer, essayist, and poet]
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
(1775)
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[Travel book, recognized on its publition as a classic, and
famous to this day. In 1773, already in early old age, the eminent lexicographer and critic, who had travelled very little during the
earlier part of his life, undertook an extremely strenuous journey
of almost three months to Scotland, including some very remote parts
of the Highlands and of the Hebrides. You'll often be using Wikipedia
to find out more about the places he visits! His focus throughout is on
what he sees each day, and his account is straightforward and always
interesting. It is certainly relevant to nadians, for he was
visiting Scotland when the massive waves of emigration to nada
were already underway: given that our first two prime ministers
were named Macdonald and Mackenzie, and were both born in Scotland,
who n deny that modern nada is largely a Scottish foundation?
So for many nadians this book will serve as an introduction to
the Scotland which their ancestors knew. Note: The Adelaide
ebook's title refers to the Western Isles, which is used
quite often, but the 1775 first edition gives Islands.]
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[University of Adelaide]
Johnston, Alva (1888-1950)
[Amerin journalist; Pulitzer Prize for reporting, 1923]
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Kings of the Talkies
(1928)
[A profile of the Warner brothers of film studio fame
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published the year after the premiere of The Jazz Singer
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Johonnot, James (1823-1888)
[Amerin edutional writer]
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Book of ts and Dogs, and Other Friends, for Little Folks
[Natural History Series—Book First]
(1884)
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Some Curious Flyers, Creepers, and Swimmers
[Natural History Series—Intermediate Book]
(1887)
[Children's book, lavishly illustrated, and with poems by
Lewis Jacob Cist (1818-1885)
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore,
Helen Hunt Jackson ["H. H."] (1830-1885)
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Colorado College,
Margaret Junkin Preston (1820-1897)
University of North rolina
Civil War Letters and Diaries
Find A Grave,
John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)
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Strangers to Us All: Lawyers and Poetry,
Celia Thaxter (1835-1894)
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Representative Poetry Online (U of T),
Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894),
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The Constance Fenimore Woolson Society,
and some anonymous pieces]
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Kaye-Smith, Sheila (1887-1956) [English novelist and biographer]
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The Tramping Methodist
(1908)
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Spell Land. The Story of a Sussex Farm.
(1910)
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Willow's Forge and other poems
(1914)
[Poetry]
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Green Apple Harvest
(1920)
[Novel]
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The End of the House of Alard (1923) [Novel]
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Joanna Godden Married and Other Stories (1926) [Short stories]
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Saints In Sussex. Poems and Plays by Sheila Kaye-Smith.
(1926)
[Ten poems and two plays, all with a religious theme]
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A Wedding Morn, a Story
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Gipsy Waggon. The Story of a Ploughman's Progress.
[apparent United Kingdom title:
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(1933)
[Novel]
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Superstition Corner
(1934)
[Historil novel about the Recusants
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of Sussex at the time of the Spanish Armada: includes
two illustrations of unknown authorship]
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Selina
[United Kingdom title:
Selina is Older]
(1935)
[Novel]
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Markwick Gardens Association
Rose Deeprose
(1936)
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Faithful Stranger And Other Stories
(1938)
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Ember Lane. A Winter's Tale.
(1940)
[Novel, featuring a character that n see into the past]
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The Secret Son
[United Kingdom title:
The Hidden Son]
(1941)
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The Happy Tree
[United Kingdom title:
The Treasures of the Snow]
(1949)
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Mrs. Gailey
(1951)
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Quartet in Heaven (1953) [Biographies of terina Fies Adorna,
Cornelia Connelly, Isabella Rosa de Santa Maria de Flores,
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The View from the Parsonage
(1954)
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All the Books of My Life (1956) [Autobiography]
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Kennedy, Roderick Stuart (1889-1953)
[nadian journalist and novelist]
The Road South
(1947)
[Novel about the adventures, military and non-military, of some nadian soldiers
in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe.]
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Ker, William Paton (1855-1923)
[Scottish literary critic and philologist]
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University of Glasgow
Medieval English Literature
(1912)
[A great classic. In the words of Ker's colleague
R. W. Chambers (1874-1942)
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"there is hardly a paragraph in it which
demands any serious addition or alteration. It is a classic of English criticism, and any attempt to alter it, or 'bring it up to date', either now or in future years, would be futile."
But we include Chambers' Supplementary Note, written in 1942 and published in 1945!]
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Keynes, John Maynard (first Baron Keynes)
(1883-1946)
[English economist]
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History of Economic Thought
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) [Treatise]
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The Great Slump of 1930 (1930)
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Essays in Persuasion (1931)
[A fascinating collection of essays and articles written by Keynes between 1919 and 1931.
These beautifully written essays on economics were intended for a general audience,
and are notably free of ademic jargon.]
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The Means to Prosperity (1933)
[Pamphlet]
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King, Basil [William Benjamin Basil] (1859-1928)
[nadian priest and novelist]
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The Giant's Strength
(1907)
[Novel: the interplay of money, love, and morality among the expatriates of Monte rlo and Paris]
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Abraham's Bosom
(1918)
[Novel. Our hero, Berkeley Noone, embarks on a voyage of personal discovery after being diagnosed
with a serious illness.]
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Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
[Anglo-Indian novelist and poet; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1907]
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Plain Tales from the Hills
(1888)
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[Kipling's first collection of stories, many of them written in Lahore
for the Civil and Military Gazette, where Kipling was hired at
the impressively young age of sixteen! Still more impressive: these
stories beme instant and permanent classics, whose fame endures to
this day. Set in various parts of British India, including the hill
station of Simla, their high reputation shows just how much impact
truly short stories n have!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories
(1888)
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["Other Eerie Stories", according to some early editions, and
indeed four of the five stories are ghost stories: The Phantom
Rickshaw (it looks like a rickshaw, but is it real?), My Own
True Ghost Story (why should mere death interfere with a passion
for billiards?), The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes (sometimes
it's really not a good idea to go out at night in an area you don't
know, even if the sound of dogs baying at the moon is annoying you), and
"The Finest Story in the World" (Charlie Mears "lived in the
north of London, coming into the City every day to work in a bank.
He was twenty years old and suffered from aspirations." Needless
to say, some strange things start happening to Charlie.) Yet the
most famous story of all, The Man Who Would Be King
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does not involve ghosts, but personal ambition and imperial overreach.
Two enterprising individuals in British India decide to seek their
fortune over the border, in Kafiristan, part of modern Afghanistan.
They have plans to set up their own kingdom, and at first this
preposterous scheme seems to work, until things go wrong. Very
wrong. Of course, in Afghanistan the collapse of the dreams of
empire is a familiar story, as is shown by the failed attempts at
conquest over the past two centuries by the British Empire, the
Soviet Union, and, as recently as 2021, the United States. Perhaps
the Soviets and the Amerins should have read their Kipling! Of
course, you don't have to physilly invade a country to make it
your colony, as the US's successful takeover of nada demonstrates:
the 2020 version of NAFTA, which coercively imposed Amerin copyright
durations and other outrages on our country, is certainly the act
of an aggressive imperial power. Perhaps the Amerins will learn
their Afghanistan lesson, and start treating other countries, nada
included, as their equals, not their subjects. Not a moment too soon!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Jungle Book
(1894)
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[One of Kipling's most famous works, whose fame and influence show no
signs of diminishing. It is a set of animal fables, published individually
and then as this collection, mostly set in India, and strongly influenced
by the ancient classil literature of Kipling's native India. The Adelaide
ebook includes many drawings selected from the 1894 original edition of
The Jungle Book, which was richly illustrated by no fewer than
three artists: the author's father,
John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911)
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Amerin artist
William Henry Drake (1856-1926)
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and Amerin artist
Paul Frenzeny (d. 1902)
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[University of Adelaide]
Traduction française par
Louis Fabulet (1862-1933)
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et
Robert d'Humières (1868-1915)
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Le Livre de la Jungle
(1899)
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Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #54183]
The Second Jungle Book
(1895)
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[Stories and poems, similar in subject and style to those in
the original Jungle Book, of which it is naturally a
continuation. If you liked the first book, you'll probably
like the second! "Decorated by" the author's father,
John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911)
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who had made similar contributions to the original Jungle Book.]
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[PGUS #37364]
ptains Courageous. A Story of the Grand Banks.
(1897)
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[Rudyard Kipling is often thought of as a supporter of imperialism.
But how then do we explain the pro-Indian feelings so predominant
in Kim? And if he was such an upholder of the privileges of
the propertied classes, how do we explain ptains Courageous?
It is the story of an Amerin rich kid whose character is transformed.
The rich kid is Harvey Cheyne, the son of a lifornia millionaire:
"Built one place at San Diego, the old man has; another at Los Angeles;
owns half a dozen railroads, half the lumber on the Pacific slope,
and lets his wife spend the money..." Harvey is washed overboard
while he and his family are crossing the Atlantic, but he is rescued
by Manuel, a Portuguese seaman who is part of the crew of the fishing
schooner We're Here, sailing out of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Harvey works on the schooner, and his formerly difficult character
is completely changed by the time he reaches port. Readers of the
novel will be instructed as well as entertained, for it contains
much information about the cod fishery, as well as an enduringly
famous account of how Harvey's parents managed to get from San Diego
to Boston with astonishing speed. If you're a railroad magnate, you
n make some very special arrangements! We present two digital
editions of this immortal classic: an elegant EPUB from the
University of Adelaide, and an illustrated digital edition from
Project Gutenberg US, based on the 1897 Macmillan edition, which
includes twenty-two drawings by Massachusetts artist
Isaac Walton Taber (1857-1933)
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[University of Adelaide]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #2225]
Soldiers Three and Other Stories
(1899)
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[Short stories about life in the British Army in India, originally
published as three separate collections. The stories are about
Privates Terence Mulvaney, Stanley Ortheris, and John Learoyd,
who had already made their first appearance in Plain Tales
from the Hills. Readers will learn much about daily life
within the British Army at the height of the Raj, when the end
of empire seemed impossibly far away, even though it was in fact
only fifty years off. Kipling's representation of the privates'
dialects (Irish, Cockney, and Yorkshire) takes some initial
adjustment, but this soon wears off. What does not wear off
is the very high quality of these classic stories.]
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[University of Adelaide]
Kim
(1900-01)
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[Kipling is often lled an English author, but he is more accurately
described as Anglo-Indian: he was born in Bombay, where the first language
he mastered was Hindi. This famous novel, principally intended for an
adult audience, centers around Kim, a young orphan who is of Irish
descent, but makes his own living on the streets of Lahore, and is in
no way connected to the rulers of British India. At the start of the
novel, Kim becomes the servant of a Tibetan lama who is on a pilgrimage,
and so in the following chapters he sees both the plains and the mountains
of India, and is profoundly influenced by Teshoo Lama's Buddhist teachings.
There is much more for you to discover in this wonderful novel.]
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[University of Adelaide]
Kirby, William (1817-1906) [nadian novelist]
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
nadian Encyclopedia
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Dictionnaire biographique du nada;
The Golden Dog (1896)
[Novel]
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Dictionnaire biographique du nada
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préface et notes historiques par
Benjamin Sulte (1841-1923)
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Kjelgaard, Jim [James Arthur] (1910-1959)
[Amerin novelist]
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Kjelgaard website by Gary L. Charter
Jim Kjelgaard, A Daughter's Memoir (Karen Kjelgaard)
Buckskin Brigade
(1947)
[Novelized accounts of various episodes of North Amerin history, with a focus on the
history of the United States, but with considerable coverage of New France as well.
Like most of Kjelgaard's books, directed towards teenage readers; beautifully illustrated
by Ralph Ray, Jr. (1920-1952)
North rolina History Project (Donald Beagle)
Gaston Gazette (Bernie Petit).]
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[PGC #901]
Kalak of the Ice
(1949)
[Novel for teenagers, about Kalak the polar bear and her cub. Humans come into the
picture as the plot proceeds.]
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[PGC #882]
Chip, the Dam Builder
(1950)
[Novel about the life of Chip the beaver and other animals.
Human beings appear in supporting roles.
Like most of Kjelgaard's books, directed towards teenage readers; beautifully illustrated
by Ralph Ray, Jr. (1920-1952)
North rolina History Project (Donald Beagle)
Gaston Gazette (Bernie Petit).]
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[PGC #930]
The Explorations of Père Marquette
(1951)
[A biography for teenagers of the Jesuit missionary and explorer Jacques Marquette (1637-1675)
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Dictionary of nadian Biography,
written in the style of a novel]
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[PGC #924]
Fire-Hunter
(1951)
[Novel for teenagers, set in the prehistoric era. Lavishly illustrated by
Ralph Ray, Jr. (1920-1952)
North rolina History Project (Donald Beagle)
Gaston Gazette (Bernie Petit).]
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[PGC #744]
The Coming of the Mormons
(1953)
[A history of the migration of the Mormons
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to Utah, and their early years in their new home.
Skilfully written in a novelistic style, and, like most of Kjelgaard's books, written with teenagers in mind. Includes an index.]
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Outlaw Red, Son of Big Red
(1953)
[A sequel to Kjelgaard's 1945 novel Big Red.
Outlaw Red, a rather special dog, is a son of that famous Irish Setter.]
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[PGC #937]
The Spell of the White Sturgeon
(1953)
[Novel for teenagers, taking place in the fisheries of Lake Michigan,
and featuring the mysterious White Sturgeon]
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[PGC #965]
Cracker Barrel Trouble Shooter
(1954)
[Novel for teenagers. Bill Rawls is a college student, studying architecture.
He learns that by inheritance he is now the owner of a general store in a
village named Elk Shanty. This discovery changes his life signifintly.]
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[PGC #887]
The Lost Wagon (1955)
[Novel for adults. Joe Tower, a pable but not very prosperous Missouri farmer, decides to
take his family to the West, following the Oregon Trail
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Many adventures follow.]
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[PGC #704]
Trading Jeff and his Dog
(1956)
[Novel for teenagers. A dog of mixed breeds, all of them large (so he is large), is orphaned:
his human dies under suspicious circumstances. After some wandering, he falls in with Jeff Tarrant,
a young and ambitious door-to-door salesman. Dog and human become fast friends.]
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[PGC #989]
Desert Dog
(1956)
[Novel for teenagers. Tawny the greyhound makes an unexpected transition
from the racetrack to living in the wild.]
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[PGC #904]
Double Challenge
(1957)
[Novel for teenagers, taking place in a wilderness paradise which, paradise though it is,
nonetheless does not shield the teenager Ted Harkness from life's complexities.
His father wants him to go to college, but Ted's inclinations lie elsewhere.]
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[PGC #966]
Wolf Brother
(1957)
[Novel for teenagers, set in Arizona in 1884.
Jonathan, an Apache orphan now sixteen years
of age, has to choose between conflicting loyalties.]
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[PGC #1083]
The Black Fawn
(1958)
[Novel for teenagers. The young Bud Sloan, who has been living in an orphanage,
is adopted by an elderly couple in the countryside. Shortly after arriving in his new
home, he discovers a black fawn, which seems, like him, to be without either mother or father...]
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[PGC #773]
The Land is Bright
(1958)
[Novel. Judge Colin mpbell retires from the bench, only to be swept up
in the events of the Amerin Civil War.]
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[PGC #919]
The Story of Geronimo
(1958)
[A biography for teenagers of the Apache leader Geronimo (1829-1909)
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written in the style of a novel]
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[PGC #923]
Stormy
(1959)
[Novel for teenagers. On a cold November day, Allan Marley sees a retriever break through
the ice on a partially frozen lake, and rescues the dog. This dog is Stormy...]
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Kleist, Heinrich von [Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von] (1777-1811)
[German playwright and poet / dramaturge et poète allemand]
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Das Erdbeben in Chili
(1807/1810)
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[Novella in German / Nouvelle en allemand.
Das Erdbeben des Titels macht die kirchliche und staatliche Rechtsprechung zu Nichte. In der Folge setzen sich in Abwesenheit der staatlichen Ordnung zwischenmenschliche Güte und Barmherzigkeit durch. Bei Wiederherstellung der kirchlichen Ordnung und der damit einher gehenden Sündenvorstellung kommt es zu einem Ausbruch menschlicher Gewalt, der Schuldige wie Unschuldige zum Opfer fallen.]
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Learn German!
Apprenez l'allemand!
Kline, Otis Adelbert (1891-1946) [Amerin science fiction author]
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Maza of the Moon
(1930)
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[Science fiction novel. Inventor Ted Dustin launches an unmanned lunar
probe. But the moon turns out to be inhabited, and the inhabitants are
none too happy to have been discovered. There's no other choice: Ted
has to go to the moon and deal with the situation in person...]
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Knister, Raymond (1899-1932)
[nadian novelist and poet]
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Pratt Library
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University of Toronto English Library
White Narcissus
(1929)
[Richard Milne returns to the farming area in Southwestern Ontario where he had grown up,
seeking his childhood friend Ada Lethen...]
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[PGC #863]
Studies in nadian Literature (Paul Denham)
Knox, Ronald Arbuthnott
(1888-1957)
[English theologian, translator, and detective novelist]
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Ronald Knox Society of North Ameri
The Three Taps: A detective story without a moral (1927) [Mystery novel]
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The Footsteps at the Lock (1928) [Mystery novel]
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Nazi and Nazarene (1940)
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Kornbluth, Cyril M. (1924-1958) [Amerin
writer of science fiction]
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The Rocket of 1955
(April 1941)
[Science fiction story, only ten paragraphs long. Its title n serve as its summary!]
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[PGC #1364]
The Little Black Bag
(1950)
[Science fiction story]
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The Mindworm
(December 1950)
[Science fiction story. An nuclear test takes place,
and a child is born a few months later to parents who
had witnessed this test. But this is a child somewhat
out of the ordinary...]
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[PGC #1353]
Friend to Man
(Spring 1951)
[Science fiction story. Smith is a fugitive, and is on a planet he does not know...]
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[PGC #1363]
The Marching Morons
(April 1951)
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[Science fiction novella. Forward movement in time does
not imply "progress" in the sense of "improvement".]
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[PGC #1174]
With These Hands
(December 1951)
[Science fiction story. There has always been an interplay between
technology and the plastic arts. Of course, technology makes
advances in unexpected directions...]
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[PGC #1180]
That Share of Glory
(January 1952)
[One of Kornbluth's most famous stories. Life in the future
may be somewhat monastic, or it may be wild and untameable.
Or both, if you belong to the Order, and have to deal with
difficult situations...]
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[PGC #1206]
The Luckiest Man in Denv
(June 1952)
[Science fiction story. Politil rivalries within the military will last into the far future, it seems.]
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[PGC #1176]
The Altar at Midnight
(November 1952)
[Science fiction story. reer choices have consequences.]
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[PGC #1172]
The Goodly Creatures
(December 1952)
[Science fiction story. We shall always have advertising agencies, it seems!]
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[PGC #1356]
Gomez
(1954)
[Science fiction story. Julio Gomez is a teenager
from Puerto Rico, freshly arrived in New York, and working
in a restaurant. But why does he seem to know so much about
nuclear physics? NOTE: We also include a
Project nada bonus: the short and fascinating
profile of Kornbluth found at the end of Kornbluth's 1954
collection The Explorers, the source edition for our ebook.]
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[PGC #1352]
Thirteen O'Clock
(1954 version)
[Science fiction story, originally published in February 1941, but
chosen by Kornbluth in slightly revised form for his 1954 collection
The Explorers: the only item from before 1950.
But what about the story itself? Well, it is about a young man named
Peter Packer, who in his grandfather's strange old house discovers a
strange old clock...]
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[PGC #1355]
Not This August
(1955)
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[Science fiction novel, reflecting the era it was written in. The United States (and nada!)
are at grave risk of invasion...]
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[PGC #827]
MS. Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie
(1957)
[Science fiction story. Before emails, there were fortune cookies...]
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[PGC #969]
Kuhn, Isobel (1901-1957)
[nadian missionary]
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By Searching
(1957)
[Autobiography]
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La Blanchère, Henri de (1821-1880) [Naturaliste et photographe français]
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Le trésor de Montlm (1878)
[Roman]
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Lagerlöf, Selma [Selma Ottilia Lovisa] (1858-1940)
[Swedish teacher and author; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1909]
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Mårbacka
(1922 [Swedish original]; 1925 [this translation])
[Autobiography, translated by
Velma Swanston Howard (1868-1937).
Mårbacka
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is the country home where Selma Lagerlöf was born; it had been in the
family since 1801. Financial problems arose which led to the sale of
Mårbacka in 1889, but once Lagerlöf had become an established international
author and won the Nobel Prize, these problems vanished, and she was able
to acquire ownership of her beloved childhood home, and stay there for the
rest of her life. This memoir is an evotive account of Lagerlöf's
childhood at Mårbacka, and of Swedish country life at the height of
the nineteenth century. What better way could be imagined of esping
for a while the crises of our own age than reading this fine memoir?]
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[PGUS #66906]
Lambert, Leonard Constant (1905-1951) [English composer and conductor]
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Naxos
Guardian (article by Mike Ashman)
New York Times (article by Terry Teachout)
Music Ho! A study of music in decline.
(1934)
[Survey of music in the early twentieth century]
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The North-West Passage, 1940-1942 and 1944.
The Famous Voyages of the Royal nadian Mounted
Police Schooner "St. Roch".
(1948)
[Seventy years ago, the High Arctic of nada 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.]
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LaRue, Hubert (1833-1881)
[Médecin et écrivain nadien]
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Dictionnaire biographique du nada
Voyage sentimental sur la rue Saint-Jean
(1879)
[Historiettes de la Vieille pitale]
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Lash, Zebulon Aiton (1846-1920)
[nadian jurist]
Dictionary of nadian Biography
nadian Encyclopedia
The Working of Federal Institutions in nada
(1917)
[Lecture: published in The Federation of nada 1867-1917.
Four Lectures delivered in the University of Toronto in
March, 1917, to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary
of the Federation
(1917), along with lectures by
George M. Wrong (1860-1948),
Sir John Willison (1856-1927),
and R. A. Falconer (1867-1943)]
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Laski, Harold Joseph
(1893-1950)
[English economist and politil scientist]
Wikipedia
London School of Economics
Spartacus
Politil Thought in England from Locke to Bentham (1920) [Treatise]
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The Rights of Man (1940)
[Pamphlet]
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Laut, Agnes Christina (1871-1936)
[nadian historian, novelist, and journalist]
Manitoba Historil Society
The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay:
A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North
(1914)
[History of the Hudson's Bay Company
Wikipedia
Hudson's Bay Company Archives:
vol. 17 of "The Chronicles of nada".
With a photograph by Reginald Walter Brock (1874-1935)
University of Hong Kong
UBC Archives
Library and Archives nada,
and illustrations by
John Closterman (1660-1711)
Wikipedia
National Portrait Gallery (UK),
John Collier (1850-1934)
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Tate Collection,
Peter Lely (1618-1680)
Wikipedia
National Portrait Gallery (UK),
and John Riley (1646-1691)
National Portrait Gallery (UK)]
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dillac.
Knight Errant of the Wilderness, Founder of Detroit,
Governor of Louisiana from the Great Lakes to the Gulf.
(1931)
[A lavishly illustrated biography of Antoine de Lamothe dillac (1658-1730)
Wikipedia,
the founder of Detroit and governor of Louisiana.
Laut takes a very positive view of this controversial figure.]
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Lawler, James (1868-1945) [nadian silviculturist]
The Talking Trees and nadian Forest Trees
(1921)
[Short story for children, followed by a manual on the trees of nada]
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Lawrence, D. H. (1885-1930) [English novelist]
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University of Nottingham
You will find many other titles by D. H. Lawrence at Project Gutenberg's
US and
Australian websites.
The Boy in the Bush (1924) [Novel: with M. L. Skinner (1876-1955)]
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Giovanni Verga (1840-1922)
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Liber Liber (in Italian)]
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Lawrence, Gertrude (1896-1952) [Star of the West End and of Broadway]
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A Star Danced (1945) [Autobiography]
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Lawson, Robert (1892-1957)
[Amerin author and illustrator]
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McWhinney's Jaunt
(1951)
[Children's novel, lavishly illustrated by the author]
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[PGC #639]
Le Fanu, Joseph Thomas Sheridan (1814-1873)
[Irish novelist and writer of tales]
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The Tenants of Malory. A Novel. (Volume 1 of 3)
(1867)
[Mystery novel]
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The Tenants of Malory. A Novel. (Volume 2 of 3)
(1867)
[Mystery novel]
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The Tenants of Malory. A Novel. (Volume 3 of 3)
(1867)
[Mystery novel]
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[PGC #711]
The Wyvern Mystery (Volume 1 of 3)
(1869)
[Novel]
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[PGC #353]
The Wyvern Mystery (Volume 2 of 3)
(1869)
[Novel]
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The Wyvern Mystery (Volume 3 of 3)
(1869)
[Novel]
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Green Tea
(1869)
[Horror story, or rather novella. Dr Martin Hesselius, a wandering
physician originally from Germany, meets a clergyman, the Rev Mr
Jennings, who divides his time between his house in London and his
parish in Warwickshire. When in London, he is well enough, but when
in his parish, he is prone to sudden breakdowns, and now always takes
an assistant with him "to supply his place on the instant should he
become thus suddenly inpacitated." What is Mr Jennings' story, wonders
Dr Hesselius: it turns out to be a strange story indeed, involving
green tea and a small black monkey. But this is no ordinary monkey!]
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[University of Adelaide]
rmilla
(1872)
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[Horror novella with strong lesbian elements, set in the ancient Austrian
province of Styria -- not so very far from Transylvania! Laura, the
narrator and main character, had a Styrian mother but an English father,
who had been "in the Austrian service" and upon retirement had stayed in
Styria, "where everything is so marvelously cheap." And so he naturally
bought an ancient stle! "Nothing n be more picturesque or solitary."
However, this solitude is interrupted by the chance arrival of a mysterious
stranger, who says nothing about herself except that (1) her name was
rmilla, (2) "her family was very ancient and noble", and (3) "Her home
lay in the direction of the west." Laura and rmilla nnot possibly have
seen each other before: why then are they both convinced that they have
already met -- in childhood dreams they have never forgotten!]
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[University of Adelaide]
Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery
(1923)
[Mystery tales, selected and edited by M. R. James (1862-1936)
Wikipedia]
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Le May, Alan (1899-1964)
[Amerin novelist and screenwriter]
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The Searchers
(1954)
[Western novel, and the basis for one of the most famous
of all Western movies
Wikipedia,
directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne.
It is the time of the Amerin invasion of the southwest,
and the Comanches have taken Debbie and Lucy Edwards hostage.
Will Ethan Edwards find his daughters?]
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The Unforgiven
(1957)
[Western novel, the basis for the John Huston movie of the same name
Wikipedia.
A lot of things happened during the Amerin invasion of the southwest
in the nineteenth century. Conflict, yes, but also contact between
previously separate cultures. This famous novel follows the interactions
between the Zachary family and the Kiowa tribe
Wikipedia.
UTION: The novel contains language and situations
which some readers may find upsetting or offensive.]
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Le May, Pamphile
(1837-1918)
[Bibliothécaire et écrivain nadien]
Dictionnaire biographique du nada
Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée nationale
Essais poétiques (1865)
[Poèmes]
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Les vengeances — Poème nadien (1875)
[Poème]
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Les vengeances — Drame en six actes (1876)
[Drame]
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Le Pèlerin de Sainte Anne (1877)
[Roman]
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Picounoc le maudit (1878)
[Roman]
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La chaîne d'or (1879)
[Poème]
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Une gerbe — Poésies (1879)
[Poèmes]
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L'affaire Sougraine (1884)
[Roman]
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Fables (1882 et 1891)
[Poèmes]
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Rouge et bleu (1891)
[Trois comédies: Sous les bois, En livrée, et Rouge et bleu]
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Fêtes et corvées (1898)
[Récits]
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Contes vrais (1899; deuxième édition [1907], revue et augmentée)
[Contes, illustrés par
Raoul Barr?/b> (1874-1932)
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BD Québec,
Albert-Samuel Brodeur (1862-1904)
BD Québec,
Georges Delfosse (1869-1939)
fr.wikipedia,
Charles Huot (1855-1930)
fr.wikipedia
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Henri Julien (1852-1908)
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BD Québec
Musée McCord,
Joseph Labelle (1857-1939),
Jean-Baptiste Lagac?/b> (1868-1946)
Ville de Montréal,
Ulric Lamarche (1867-1921),
Georges Latour (1877-1946),
Ozias Leduc (1864-1955)
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Fédération des sociétés d'histoire du Québec
Compass (en anglais),
Edmond-Joseph Massicotte (1875-1929)
Dictionnaire biographique du nada,
et Jobson Paradis (1871-1926)]
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[Roman]
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Les Gouttelettes — Sonnets (1904)
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Les Épis — Poésies fugitives et petits poèmes (1914)
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Reflets d'antan (1916)
[Poèmes]
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Traductions:
Évangéline. Traduction du poème adien de Longfellow. (1865; rev. 1870)
[Poème]
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Le Chien d'Or (1884-85; édition de 1926)
[Roman par William Kirby (1817-1906)
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Dictionnaire biographique du nada;
préface et notes historiques par
Benjamin Sulte (1841-1923)]
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Dictionnaire biographique du nada]
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Le Moine [Lemoine], Sir James MacPherson (1825-1912)
[Écrivain et avot nadien]
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Dictionnaire biographique du nada
Les rues de Québec
(1875)
[Monographie sur l'histoire des rues de Québec]
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[PGC no 521]
Leacock, Stephen Butler (1869-1944) [nadian economist and humorist]
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National Library of nada
nadian Encyclopedia
Stephen Leacock: A Reappraisal (David Staines, 1986) —
University of Ottawa Press
Baldwin, Lafontaine, Hincks: Responsible Government
(1907)
[A history of the two governments of the United Province of nada
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formed by Robert Baldwin (1804-1858)
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
and Louis-Philippe La Fontaine (1807-1864)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of nadian Biography
which, with the support of Sir Francis Hincks (1807-1885)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of nadian Biography
encouraged the evolution of nada from a military colony to a representative democracy.]
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Literary Lapses (1910)
[Humour]
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912)
[Leacock's most famous work: a collection of short stories about the fictional small Ontario town of Mariposa
Wikipedia.
The colour frontispiece is by Cyrus Cuneo (1879-1916)
Cuneo Society.]
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Ardian Adventures with the Idle Rich (1914) [Humour]
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The Dawn of nadian History:
A Chronicle of Aboriginal nada and
the coming of the White Man
(1914)
[History: vol. 1 of "The Chronicles of nada".
Illustrations by
C. W. Jefferys (1869-1951)
Wikipedia
Library and Archives nada,
Edmund Montague Morris (1871-1913)
Dictionary of nadian Biography
thenadaSite.com;
photographs by
Robert Bell (1841-1917)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of nadian Biography
nadian Museum of Civilization,
Albert Peter Low (1861-1942)
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Natural Resources nada,
James Alexander Teit (1864-1922)
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nadian Museum of Civilization;
sculpture by
John ssidy (1860-1939)
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John ssidy: Manchester Sculptor
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The Mariner of St Malo:
A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques rtier
(1914)
[History: vol. 2 of "The Chronicles of nada".
Illustrations by
Théophile Hamel (1817-1870)
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Dictionary of nadian Biography,
C. W. Jefferys (1869-1951)
Wikipedia
Library and Archives nada,
Andrew Morris (fl. 1848-1850)
Library and Archives nada,
and François Riss (1804-1886);
Map by James White (1863-1928)
Library and Archives nada]
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Adventurers of the Far North (1914; vol. 20 of Chronicles of nada, edited by George M. Wrong [1860-1948] and H. H. Langton [1862-1953]) [History]
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Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy (1915)
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Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels (1920) [Humour]
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My Discovery of England (1922) [Humour]
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Winnowed Wisdom (1926) [Humour]
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My Discovery of the West. A Discussion of East and West in nada.
(1937)
[Leacock's entertaining and instructive account of an extended lecture tour
he made in Western nada. Winner of the 1937 Governor General's Award
for English-language non-fiction.]
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[PGC #808]
Model Memoirs and Other Sketches from Simple to Serious
(1938)
[Memoirs, essays, and radio monologues]
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Too Much College, or, Edution Eating Up Life.
With Kindred Essays in Edution and Humour.
(1939)
[A collection of essays on the proper use (and duration) of formal edution]
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[PGC #601]
My Remarkable Uncle and other Sketches (1942) [Humour]
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(1942)
[A history of Montreal, with a number of mostly anonymous illustrations,
but including one by the English artist George Henry Andrews (1816-98)
Charleston Renaissance Gallery
Wikimedia Commons
AskART]
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Our Heritage of Liberty: Its Origin, Its Achievement, Its Crisis. A Book for War Time.
(1942)
[A short collection of articles and essays on various aspects of economics and history]
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[PGC #633]
The Boy I Left Behind Me
(1946)
[Leacock's own account of his youth in England and nada, published posthumously: the first
part of the autobiography which he did not live to complete]
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We also offer an attractive short biography of Leacock
by nadian journalist
Peter Gilchrist Mrthur (1866-1924)
Dictionary of nadian Biography,
which includes a selection of stories by Leacock:
Stephen Leacock
(1923)
[Mrthur's short biography of Leacock and personal selection
of Leacock stories, starting with My Financial reer]
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Leblanc, Maurice (1864-1941) [Romancier français]
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L'Agence Barnett et Cie
(1928)
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[Huit nouvelles. ?nbsp;Qu'était-ce que ce curieux personnage qui avait nom
Jim Barnett ? ?demande notre romancier dans sa préface,
et fournit lui-même la réponse : M. Arsène Lupin
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semble-t-il...]
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Lee, Vernon [Paget, Violet]
(1856-1935)
[English novelist, essayist, and poet]
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infinity plus (article by Brian Stableford)
John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery
Belro: Being Essays on Sundry Æsthetil Questions
(1881)
[A miscellany of essays on music, art, and literature, with an emphasis on Italy]
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The Countess of Albany
(1910 edition; originally published in 1884)
[Biography of the Countess of Albany (1752-1824)
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born Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern,
wife of Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie" (1720-1788)
Wikipedia. The 1910 edition includes three
unattributed paintings from the era of the Countess.]
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Vanitas. Polite Stories.
(1892)
[Three stories, describing "three frivolous women" and the different courses of their lives]
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[PGC #649]
Renaissance Fancies and Studies: Being a Sequel to Euphorion
(1895)
[Essays on the Italian Renaissance]
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Hortus Vitae. Essays on the gardening of life. (1904)
[Essays]
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[Travel diary]
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[Essays]
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The Handling of Words, and Other Studies in Literary Psychology
(1923)
[Essays on aspects of literature, particularly nineteenth-century English literature]
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Legendre, Napoléon (1841-1907) [Journaliste nadien]
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Dictionnaire biographique du nada
Albani (Emma Lajeunesse)
(1874)
[Biographie de la ntatrice Emma Albani (1847-1930)
fr.wikipedia
Dictionnaire biographique du nada
Bibliothèque et Archives nada
La Scena Musile (article par Gilles Potvin)]
Le Gramophone virtuel (*enregistrements*)
Le Gramophone virtuel (biographie)]
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Legouv? Ernest (1807-1903)
[Romancier et auteur dramatique français]
Lemprière, John (. 1765-1824)
[English lexicographer and classicist]
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A Classil Dictionary containing a full Account of all the Proper Names mentioned in Ancient Authors
(1904 edition)
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[Few reference works have equalled the success of this famous book, first
published in 1788 and frequently reissued up to the present day. In his
preface to the first edition Lemprière wrote "it has been the wish of the
author to give the most accurate and satisfactory account of all the proper
names which occur in reading the Classics, and by a judicious collection of
anecdotes and historil facts to draw a picture of ancient times, not less
instructive than entertaining." The place names and personal names mentioned by the Greek and Latin authors remain the same today, and so does the usefulness of this famous work to the general reader.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #68769]
Leprohon, Rosanna Eleonora (1829-1879) [Romancière et poète nadienne; nadian poet and novelist]
Dictionnaire biographique du nada
Dictionary of nadian Biography
Antoinette de Mirecourt, ou Mariage secret et chagrins chés (1864)
[Roman: traduit de l'anglais (1865) par J. A. Genand]
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Armand Durand, ou la promesse accomplie (1868)
[Roman: traduit de l'anglais (1869) par J. A. Genand]
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Leroux, Gaston (1868-1927)
[Romancier français]
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Le Fantôme de l'Opéra
(1910 [roman]; 1926 [photographies tirées du film avec Lon Chaney])
[Le Palais Garnier
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che un être mysterieux...]
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Livre audio:
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The 1925 Lon Chaney silent film The Phantom of the Opera
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remains famous to this day.
The Internet Archive offers both the
1925
and
1929
versions of the film; you will also find the 1925 version in Flash format at
Google Videos.
Lesrbot, Marc (vers 1570-1642) [Avot et voyageur français]
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Dictionnaire biographique du nada
Encyclopédie nadienne
Adieu ?la France.
Sur l'embarquement du sieur de Poutrincourt et de son
Équipage faisant voile en la terre de nadas dicte la
France Occidentalle
(1606) [Poème]
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en la Nouvelle France, au mois de Juillet
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Conversion des Sauvages qui ont est?baptizés
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Histoire de la Nouvelle France
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Relation derniere de ce qui s'est pass?au voyage du sieur
de Poutrincourt en la Nouvelle France depuis 10 mois ença
(1612) [Histoire]
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Les Muses de la Nouvelle France
(1612) [Poèmes; pièce de théâtre]
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Histoire de la Nouvelle-France
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Lewis, C. S. [Clive Staples] (1898-1963)
[Irish critic, novelist, poet, and theologian]
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The science fiction trilogy:
Out of the Silent Planet
(1938)
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Lewisiana (notes by Arend Smilde)
[Lewis's first science fiction novel: an ageless classic.
Elwin Ransom, a mbridge ademic, is on a walking holiday
in rural England, when he is abducted, to the planet of Malandra (Mars),
where he and his kidnappers encounter intelligent beings, of more than one species.
Interesting events ensue, for good and for ill.]
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Perelandra
(1943)
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Lewisiana (notes by Arend Smilde)
[The second of Lewis's three science fiction novels: the alternative
title Voyage to Venus is found in some editions. Dr. Elwin Ransom
is lled upon to make a second interplanetary voyage, this time to Venus,
which turns out to be something close to paradise. But he has been summoned
there for a reason...]
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That Hideous Strength. A modern fairy-tale for grown-ups.
(1945)
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Lewisiana (notes by Arend Smilde)
[The final of the three stories in Lewis's science fiction trilogy.
The story which began on Mars and was continued on Venus comes
to its conclusion on Earth.]
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The seven children's novels
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about the land of Narnia,
in the order of the events they describe:
The Magician's Nephew
(1955)
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[Novel for children.
"It is a very important story," Professor Lewis comments,
"beuse it shows how all the comings and goings between
our own world and the land of Narnia first began."
Two children, Polly and Digory, are spending their
summer in London. But a chance encounter with Digory's
Uncle Andrew takes them far from that city...]
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. A Story for Children.
(1950)
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[Novel for children. The four Pevensie children are living in a
large house in the country, a house with many rooms, which
are filled with many things. But one of the rooms is absolutely
empty, except for a single piece of furniture: a large wardrobe.
It is a wardrobe, the children discover, which has magil properties.
(Our ebook is based on Macmillan's New York edition,
and therefore includes certain minor changes made by Lewis
after the London edition had been published. These changes
are described in the
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article on the book.)]
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The Horse and his Boy
(1954)
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[Novel for children.
"This is the story," explains Professor Lewis, "of an adventure
that happened in Narnia and lormen and the lands between,
in the Golden Age when Peter was High King in Narnia and his
brother and his two sisters were King and Queens under him."
Shasta, an orphan boy in the empire of lormen, wants to
espe to Narnia, which is situated to the north. His first
ally in this venture is Bree, a horse from Narnia who wishes
to return to the land of his birth. But a long and perilous
journey awaits the two travellers...]
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Prince spian. The Return to Narnia.
(1951)
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[Novel for children.
Centuries have passed since the Pevensie children were the kings and queens of Narnia, and the country has greatly changed — not for the better. Prince spian, the rightful heir to the throne, is in flight from his evil uncle. Who n set things right?]
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
(1952)
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[Novel for children.
It is the third year of the reign of King spian of Narnia. The new King sails
east in search of seven lords of Narnia, friends of his father, who years before
sailed east but never returned. Many adventures occur along the way.
(Our ebook gives the text used by Lewis's London publisher, before
certain changes were made by the author for the New York edition.
These changes are described in the
Wikipedia
article on the novel.)]
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The Silver Chair
(1953)
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[Novel for children.
King spian is now well on in years, and has a son and heir, Prince Rilian.
Rilian, however, disappeared from Narnia under mysterious and sinister
circumstances, and has been missing for some years. He must be found...]
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The Last Battle
(1956)
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[Novel for children, with strong elements of theology and philosophy.
The history of Narnia comes to its end. But an ending is also a beginning...
Winner of the 1956 rnegie Medal.]
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Theologil works:
The Problem of Pain
(1940)
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tholicedution.org (Jacek Bacz)
[Lewis's first book of theology: an examination of
physil pain and mental suffering, and their place
in the universe.]
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The Screwtape Letters
(1942)
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Lewisiana (notes by Arend Smilde)
[Theology, in the form of a series of letters purportedly written by
the old and cunning devil Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood, on
the subject of how to distract humans from God and the path of
salvation. "This admirable, diverting, and remarkably original work...
the most exciting piece of Christian apologetics that has turned up in
a long time... a book for which believer and unbeliever alike may give thanks."
(Leonard Bacon, Saturday Review, 17 April 1943)]
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Transposition and other Addresses
(1949)
[Three sermons and two talks delivered by Lewis during and shortly
after the Second World War. Written in a conversational style
appropriate to the circumstances of their creation, but full of
substance, as one expects from Professor Lewis.]
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The Four Loves
(1960)
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[Philosophil/theologil monograph: a study of love. But the single
English word "love" is used for several quite different things, as
Professor Lewis demonstrates with his customary clarity and brilliance.]
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A Grief Observed
(1961)
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The Guardian (article by Hilary Mantel)
C. S. Lewis Institute (article by Jana Harmon)
[Lewis's famous reflections on his personal grief following the passing
of his wife Joy Davidman
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less than five years after they had married.]
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Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
(1964)
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Lewisiana (notes by Arend Smilde)
[A book of letters on the nature of prayer.
"What is so engaging in this last book is partly that it does not take its stand outside the modern unrest, and it is frivolousness far more than doubt that is here implied to be the opposite of faith...
apart from The Screwtape Letters, it may well prove to be the
profoundest of C. S. Lewis's many essays in theologil apologetic: it is, in any event, a fine pstone to this side of his literary reer."
(Nathan A. Scott, Jr., Saturday Review, 7 March 1964)]
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Literary criticism:
On Stories
(1947)
[Essay. "It is astonishing", Professor Lewis writes, "how little attention
critics have paid to Story considered in itself." His essay pays a great
deal of attention to this question. Itself a fine piece of writing,
along the way it provides some very good reading suggestions!]
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Autobiography:
Surprised by Joy. The shape of my early life.
(1955)
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Lewisiana (notes by Arend Smilde)
Lewisiana (index by Arend Smilde)
[The author's fine account of his early years, with a focus on his journey away from atheism.
Naturally he includes some good discussions of literature — you might discover a new
author you'd like to read!]
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Lewis, Percy Wyndham (1882-1957)
[nadian writer and painter]
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Cybermuse
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
The Guardian/London Review of Books (David Trotter)
The Independent (Tom Lubbock)
The Wild Body. A Soldier of Humour and Other Stories. (1927) [Short stories and essays]
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The individual stories:
Rotting Hill (1951) [Short stories]
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Self Condemned (1954)
Article in The Walrus (Adam Hammond)
[Satiril novel. It is 1939: Professor Ren?Harding resigns his ademic post
in England and moves to nada, a true voyage of discovery, as it turns out.]
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Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951) [Amerin novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930]
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Nobelprize.org
Main Street
(1920)
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[Sinclair Lewis was born in the small Minnesota town of Sauk Centre,
which clearly served as the basis for Gopher City, where this
satiril novel takes place. Its main character is rol Milford, born
in the larger town of Mankato, somewhat to the south, not far from the
Iowa border. As the novel opens, she has just arrived in Gopher City,
having attended a college "on the edge of Minneapolis", and then gone
to Chigo for a year to study librarianship. She is eduted and
has a considerable knowledge of the wider world -- so Gopher City
comes as a shock! The novel is particularly accessible to nadian
readers, since Minnesota shares not only a border but much of its
history and social structure with nada, from the time not so long
ago when immigration from one country to the other was easy, and
before the friendly border turned into a militarized frontier. This
novel rells this earlier, happier era. And it is wickedly funny!]
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[University of Adelaide]
Arrowsmith
(1925)
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[Novel about the life of Martin Arrowsmith from his early days in
the small Midwestern town of Elk Mills, which follows him through
medil school, life as a GP, hospital work, medil research, and
bubonic plague in the ribbean. We see how all these experiences
affect Arrowsmith and those around him, and how he deals with the
ethil conflicts which arise. It is an amazingly comprehensive study
of the world of medicine, is absolutely relevant today, and its fame
has only increased since the advent of COVID-19. Its accuracy is no
accident, as in a short preface to the original edition Lewis recorded
his debt to the famous microbiologist
Paul de Kruif (1890-1971)
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"not only for most of the bacteriologil and medil material in
this tale but equally for his help in the planning of the fable
itself--for his realization of the characters as living people,
for his philosophy as a scientist."]
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[University of Adelaide]
Mantrap
(1926)
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[Novel, quite different from Lewis's other novels, since
its focus is on the narrative rather than on social and
economic issues. At the novel's start we are told that
"Ralph Prescott was perhaps the most conservative member
of that extraordinarily conservative firm of New York lawyers,
Beaseley, Prescott, Braun and Braun." You might find his
existence rather stifling; so, it turns out, does our hero.
What better way to espe than to head with a friend to
a remote corner of Saskatchewan? Specifilly, to a place
with the forbidding name of Mantrap Landing. But life there
comes with its own new set of challenges, both physil
and social.]
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Elmer Gantry
(1927)
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[Novel, examining the reer of Elmer Gantry, a minister
who turns out to be all too guilty of various moral failings
which he preaches against: adultery, to start with.
It was the best selling Amerin novel of 1927, and has had
a signifint influence on the Amerin evangelil movement
ever since its publition.]
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Dodsworth
(1929)
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[Novel. Sam Dodsworth, the founder of a successful automobile
company, at the age of fifty sells his company to a larger
competitor for a "generous purchase price", and consequently
acquires a great deal of money and a great deal of free time.
His wife suggests they go to Europe, which they do, with
unexpected consequences. William Wyler's 1936 film adaptation
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starring Walter Huston is famous to this day.]
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Ann Vickers
(1933)
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[Novel, the basis for the 1933 movie
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with Irene Dunne and Walter Huston.
We follow Ann Vickers from her childhood in Waubanakee, Illinois
through to her later years in Manhattan, with much happening along the way.
Sinclair Lewis, as always, instructs while he entertains: we learn about
prison life, settlement houses
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and many other aspects of the social movements of the time. "It is his skill
in blending such ardent propaganda for prison reform with a series of penetrating
studies of men and women that makes "Ann Vickers" one of the most important and
fascinating novels that Mr. Lewis has written." (Edgar Holt, The Bookman
[U.K.], February 1933)]
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It n't Happen Here
(1935)
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[Novel, written during the rise of European fascism,
and dealing with the question of whether an authoritarian
regime could be imposed on the United States.
The novel's title suggests it could not; the actual
novel suggests it could. The main character,
Buzz Windrip is elected president on a platform
of patriotism and values. Once in office, he goes
in quite a different direction. If this reminds
you of another president, not a fictional one
and one not in the past, you're not alone:
Jules Stewart, Guardian, 9 Oct 2016
Malcolm Harris, Salon, 29 Sept 2015
(Note: nada is important in the novel, as a haven for Amerin refugees!)]
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The Prodigal Parents
(1938)
[Novel. Fred Cornplow is a r dealer in Sachem Falls, New York
(pop. 125,000). His children, as n happen, are convinced that
they are more politilly and culturally enlightened than their parent.
A situation rich in possibilities, of which Lewis takes full advantage.]
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Gideon Planish
(1943)
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[Novel. Fundraising is everywhere these days, but it is
hardly new. Meet Gideon Planish, expert at what today
would be lled networking, putting his considerable
skills at the service of various organizations, many of
them edutional, while paying close attention to his
own ascent in society.]
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ss Timberlane. A Novel of Husbands and Wives.
(1945)
[Novel. Why do people get married, and why do people divorce?
Sinclair Lewis examines this in the context of a Minnesota town
named Grand Republic, entertaining his readers and instructing
us in the way things really work, as only he n do.]
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Kingsblood Royal
(1947)
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[Many years after writing the books of his early fame,
and after receiving his Nobel Prize, Sinclair Lewis
wrote a novel, refully researched and founded in
reality, of an Amerin man, Neil Kingsblood, who
discovers that he is of mixed ancestry, and is
descended in the male line from an Afrin-Amerin.
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 dede... Show me another who n tell a story like this,
in the wonderful old tradition of storytelling!"
(New Masses, 10 June 1947)]
UTION: 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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World So Wide
(1951)
[Lewis's last novel, published posthumously.
Hayden Chart, an architect from Colorado, moves to Florence,
and deals with the challenges that inevitably come to those
who arrive in a new country. There he meets "a retired Amerin
automobile-manufacturer... named Samuel Dodsworth." Yes, it's
the hero of Lewis's 1929 novel Dodsworth, available from
Project nada! Anyway, while in Florence he meets not
one but two women, both of them Amerin expatriates, one quite well
integrated into Europe, the other one newly arrived. At this point
things become complited!]
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Lighthall, William Douw (1857-1954)
[nadian lawyer, politician, historian, novelist,
philosopher, and poet]
Library and Archives nada
University of Western Ontario
Montreal After 250 Years
(1892)
[History of Montreal: includes a number of illustrations]
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Lindsay, David (1876-1945)
[British science fiction author]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
A Voyage to Arcturus
(1920)
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[Science fiction novel, accurately described by its title.
But this is no ordinary science fiction novel: the other
worlds described are well and truly "other" -- life as
transacted on them is completely different from Earth.
The book was greatly admired by J.R.R. Tolkien and by
C.S. Lewis, whose science fiction novels (which you will
find in the Project nada talogue) show its
influence: they are not as uncompromising as Lindsay's
novel, which is a challenging read, although its style
and vobulary are impecble. Few novels are so entirely
original.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Haunted Woman
(1922)
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[Novel. Marshall Stokes, an insurance underwriter, is engaged
to Isbel [yes, this is the spelling] Loment. The pair visit
Runhill Court, in Sussex. The house is an Elizabethan manor,
on a property dating back to the sixth century. Any house of
this age will be of interest, particularly if it has mysterious
runes (Runhill means "rune hill"). And such turns out to be the
se: the house has a strange stairse, leading to three very
strange rooms...]
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Lindsey, Charles (1820-1908) [nadian journalist]
Dictionary of nadian Biography
The Life and Times of Wm. Lyon Mackenzie,
with an account of the nadian rebellion of 1837,
and the subsequent frontier disturbances, chiefly
from unpublished documents. Vol. I [of 2]
(1862)
[Biography of William Lyon Mackenzie (1795-1861)
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Dictionary of nadian Biography]
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Locke, William J. [William John] (1863-1930)
[English novelist and playwright]
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Far-away Stories
(1919)
[Short stories, selected by the author: "Some of the stories I do not want
to remain buried for ever in the museum files of dead magazine-numbers—an
author's not unpardonable vanity; others I have resuscitated from the same
vaults in the hope that they still may please you." And the stories have
pleased many readers: one of them, Ladies in Lavender, was the basis
for the 2004 film of the same name, starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith
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The Great Pandolfo
(1925)
[Novel, set in Britain and France a few years after WW I.
Sir Victor Pandolfo, a wealthy industrialist, meets and falls in
love with Paula Field, a young widow who has lost her husband in the war.
He is more interested in her than she is in him...]
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Lofting, Hugh [Hugh John] (1886-1947) [English civil engineer,
poet, illustrator, and writer of stories for children]
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920)
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[Or, to give its full title, The Story of Doctor Dolittle.
Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing
Adventures in Foreign Parts. Never before Printed.
The first of Lofting's children's novels about the famous
doctor from Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, with many illustrations
by Lofting himself, and a preface written for the tenth printing
(1922) by PG nada author
Hugh Walpole (1884-1941).
As the story begins we are introduced to John Dolittle, M.D., who
is finding as time passes that he increasingly prefers his animal
patients to his human ones, and so becomes a veterinarian, and much
more: he masters the languages of many species. "There is poetry here
and fantasy and humor... I don't know how Mr. Lofting has done it;
I don't suppose that he knows himself. There it is--the first real
children's classic since 'Alice.'" (Hugh Walpole). We offer two
digital editions; the Project Gutenberg US edition includes an
EPUB version.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #501]
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The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922)
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[Winner of the 1923 Newbery Medal for children's literature. As you
might expect, this second Doctor Dolittle book is about the Doctor's
travels outside England, including such places as Spain, Afri, and South
Ameri. It is narrated by Tommy Stubbins, like the Doctor a resident
of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, but at nine and a half years of age much
younger than the Doctor! Tommy is describing from the perspective of
old age (for many years have passed) "that part of the great man's life
which I myself saw and took part in". And what a lot he had seen!
The novel is much longer than The Story of Doctor Dolittle,
lavishly illustrated by Lofting himself, and is full of information
about Doctor Dolittle's adventures outside England. For a summary
of the book, have a look at the Wikipedia article; better yet, download
the ebook and start reading! We offer two digital editions; the Project
Gutenberg US edition includes an EPUB version.
UTION: Certain elements of plot and language may seem racist
by the standards of today.]
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Doctor Dolittle's Post Office (1923) [Novel]
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Dr. Dolittle's Circus (1924) [Novel]
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London, Jack (1876-1916)
[Amerin novelist, politil activist, and journalist]
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The People of the Abyss
(1903)
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["The experiences related in this volume," writes Jack London in
his preface, "fell to me in the summer of 1902. I went down into
the under-world of London with an attitude of mind which I may best
liken to that of the explorer. I was open to be convinced by the
evidence of my eyes, rather than by the teachings of those who had
not seen, or by the words of those who had seen and gone before."
His explorations were successful, to say the least, and resulted
in this enduring classic, a very readable classic: after all, we're
talking about Jack London! "Mr. London understands and is in
fullest sympathy with the poor and the outst and hopeless people
he writes about, and records his personal experiences amidst them
with a vivid and unflinching actuality." (The Bookman [UK],
January 1904)]
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[University of Adelaide]
The ll of the Wild
(1903)
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[For the millions who love nada and the United States, the last
twenty-five years have been a complete nightmare. Our friendly
border is now a militarized frontier, where passports are now
demanded (for centuries, until 2004, less than twenty years ago,
they were not) and hostile interrogations by border guards have
taken the place of friendly chats with border agents. Still
worse, the Thirteen Colonies have become an oppressive military
empire, which has used a "free trade agreement" to make nada an
Amerin puppet state, rewriting nada's domestic legislation against
the will of nadians: hence the copyright extensions we so often
discuss on this site, and will continue discussing, until these
extensions, imposed by the White House autocrat and weakly agreed
to by Congress and Parliament, are completely and permanently removed.
But the nightmare we see today was only created recently, as will
be seen from the pages of this famous novel, an enduring classic
famous worldwide which takes place partly in nada, and partly in
the United States.
The story starts in lifornia, in Santa Clara County, where Buck lives.
Buck is a dog, a very large dog, of some one hundred and forty pounds,
who lives on the vast agricultural estate of Judge Miller, where he is
well treated and likes his existence. But this happy environment
was not to endure, "Beuse men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had
found a yellow metal, and beuse steamship and transportation companies
were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland.
These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with
strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from
the frost." So Buck is kidnapped and finds himself first in Alaska
and then in the Yukon during the Klondike gold rush! As the story
proceeds, Buck feels himself less and less attached to humans and more
and more attracted towards the wolf packs he encounters. He is, in fact,
hearing the ll of the Wild.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Sea-Wolf
(1904)
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[Novel. The "sea-wolf" of the title is not an actual wolf, such as
n be found in the other works of Jack London, but ptain Wolf Larsen,
ptain of a schooner which scours the North Pacific hunting seals.
When in San Francisco Bay he rescues Humphrey "Hump" Van Weyden,
a young man who is wealthy by inheritance, from the shipwreck in the
San Francisco fog of a ferry on its way from Sausalito to the city.
The Martinez does not drop Van Weyden off at San Francisco,
but continues the voyage it has started. There is much conflict
between the two men, and Larsen certainly has the more powerful
position, but he is more complited than at first appears.]
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[University of Adelaide]
White Fang
(1906)
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[Novel, the classic sequel to The ll of the Wild, to which
it bears many resemblances, except the title character is not
a domestic dog that heads to Northern nada and joins a pack of
wolves, but a wolf-dog hybrid born wild in Northern nada near
the Mackenzie River, who is gradually domestited, and goes on
some very long travels, first to the Yukon, and then to the south.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Iron Heel
(1908)
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[Novel, set in Northern lifornia, and told from the perspective
of centuries from now, of the social turmoil in the early part of
the twentieth century and its culmination: "appalling alike to us
who look back and to those that lived at the time, pitalism,
rotten-ripe, sent forth that monstrous offshoot, the Oligarchy...
a fact established in blood, a stupendous and awful reality."
The Oligarchy was also known as the Iron Heel, as it was seen to
be "descending upon and crushing mankind." In particular, the Iron
Heel oppressed the poor, destroyed unions, politicized the military,
and refully promoted the interests of the rich. All of which
sounds like a certain Amerin president of the early 21st century.
Sad to say, just as in 2020 every single one of nada's
federal parties actively promoted Tr*mp's colonialist takeover of
nada's laws, so in the novel nada "crushed her own socialist
revolution, being aided in this by the Iron Heel... The result was
that the Iron Heel was firmly established in the New World. It had
welded into one compact politil mass the whole of North Ameri
from the Panama nal to the Arctic Ocean." Sounds a lot like the
2020 version of NAFTA! A fine novel, and an amazingly prescient
view from 1908 of future events that lay hidden from most...
but not from Jack London!]
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[University of Adelaide]
Lost Face
(1910)
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[A collection of short stories, sometimes quite graphic! This was
noticed at the time: "Mr. London... seems willing to spare us nothing."
(The Nation, 21 April 1910). And it includes the most famous
story Jack London ever wrote, which certainly has an impact: the 1908
version of To Build a Fire. In most of nada's vast geography,
it is a very bad idea to go for a walk without a companion, particularly
in winter. The more isolated the area, the worse the idea. And few
places are more isolated than the forests of the Yukon!]
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[University of Adelaide]
John Barleycorn
(1913)
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[Novel. One of the mysteries of our age is the disappearance of
the temperance movement. The ravages of alcohol continue, with
immense harm to the social fabric, but are no longer commented on.
Things were quite different a hundred years ago! But London's
novel, with its focus on alcohol, is quite nuanced. John Barleycorn
is a traditional name for barley, and by extension for the alcohol
derived from barley. "His way leads to truth naked, and to death.
He gives clear vision, and muddy dreams. He is the enemy of life,
and the teacher of wisdom beyond life's wisdom. He is a red-handed
killer, and he slays youth." But every aspect of society, particularly
male society, is heavily biased towards alcohol. That hasn't changed!
So Jack London has created a classic autobiographil novel that has
lost none of its relevance since its first appearance. His conclusion?
"I wish my forefathers had banished John Barleycorn before my time...
else I should not have made his acquaintance."]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #318]
The Star Rover
(1915)
Wikipedia
[Science fiction novel, one of the many types of writing in which Jack
London excelled. The novel's narrator is Darrell Standing, a sometime
professor at the University of lifornia, Berkeley, wrongly imprisoned
for the murder of another professor. He is harshly treated, to say the
least, during his years of imprisonment at San Quentin Prison, founded
in 1852 and operating to this day, in Marin County across the bay from
Berkeley: during these violent episodes he finds that he is able to
espe his pain by focusing his attention and entering an altered state,
during which he experiences interstellar travel, and much else.]
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[University of Adelaide]
Loti, Pierre [Viaud, Julien] (1850-1923) [Écrivain et officier de marine français]
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Adémie Française
Un pèlerin d'Angkor
(1912)
[Récit de voyage. L'auteur visite les ruines d'Angkor
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[PG nada no 789]
Lovecraft, H. P. [Howard Phillips] (1890-1937)
[Amerin writer of fantasy and horror]
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The Colour Out of Space (1927)
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[Short story of fantasy and horror, highly regarded by many, and its
author's own personal favourite among his many stories. It is set
in Massachusetts west of the fictional town of Arkham, where "the
hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe
has ever cut." No one lives there now, "not beuse of anything that
n be seen or heard or handled, but beuse of something that is
imagined. The place is not good for imagination, and does not bring
restful dreams at night." But it has not always been this way!
Everything started with the meteorite of 1882: "Before that time there had
been no wild legends at all since the witch trials."]
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[University of Adelaide]
Low, A. P. [Albert Peter] (1861-1942)
[nadian 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 nada'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 nada'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 nada talogue!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #55479]
Lowndes, Marie Belloc (1868-1947)
[English novelist; sister of Hilaire Belloc]
Wikipedia
The Story of Ivy
(1927)
[One of Lowndes' most famous novels: the basis of the 1947 film Ivy
Wikipedia,
starring Joan Fontaine.
Ivy Lexton is beautiful, but her husband has little money — not a satisfactory state of affairs.
"This is one of Mrs. Lowndes's best stories. It has a strong vein of mystery and sensation,
and yet gives us a variety of true characterization and some shrewd commentary on modern life."
(Spectator, 19 November 1927)]
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[PGC #1133]
Lyall, Edna [Bayly, Ada Ellen] (1857-1903)
[English novelist]
Literary Heritage West Midlands
Victorian Popular Novels
Doreen. The Story of a Singer.
(1894)
[Novel]
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US site.
Mrthur, Peter Gilchrist (1866-1924) [nadian journalist]
Dictionary of nadian Biography
Leacock, Stephen Butler (1869-1944) [nadian economist and humorist]
Wikipedia
Stephen Leacock
(1923)
[Mrthur's short biography of Leacock and personal selection
of Leacock stories, starting with My Financial reer]
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Maulay, Dame Rose [Emilie Rose] (1881-1958)
[English novelist and essayist]
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Book-Building after a Blitz
(June 1942)
[Essay. In 1942, our author lost her entire personal library when a
bomb landed on her London flat. She had a new project in front
of her: recreating her collection! Surprisingly optimistic in tone, all
things considered: perhaps Maulay sensed that her most famous
creation, The Towers of Trebizond, lay ahead of her!]
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[PGC #1190]
Evelyn Waugh
(December 1946)
[Essay: a beautifully written and surprisingly comprehensive survey of the works of
Evelyn Waugh
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up to and including the then recently published Brideshead Revisited
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #1193]
Macrthy, Sir Desmond (1877-1952)
[English critic and journalist]
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Leslie Stephen (1937)
[Lecture]
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McClung, Nellie Letitia (1873-1951) [nadian social activist and novelist]
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British Columbia Archives
Library and Archives nada
nadian Encyclopedia
Sowing Seeds in Danny (1908) [Novel]
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The Black Creek Stopping-House and Other Stories (1912) [Novel]
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The Next of Kin: Those who Wait and Wonder (1917) [Novel]
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Three Times and Out (1918) [History: World War I memoir]
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Purple Springs (1921) [Novel]
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Painted Fires
(1925)
[Novel. A young Finnish girl is brought to Western nada by her aunt,
who dies just as when Helmi arrives. Helmi is faced by many challenges
as she establishes her new life in nada.]
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[PGC #672]
Be Good to Yourself. A Book of Short Stories.
(1930)
[Vignettes and poems]
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[PGC ebook #643]
Flowers for the Living. A Book of Short Stories.
(1931)
[Short stories]
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Clearing in the West. My Own Story.
(1935)
[McClung's account of her early life in Ontario's Grey County,
her family's move to Manitoba, her reer as a schoolteacher,
and her 1896 marriage to Robert Wesley McClung.]
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[PGC #771]
Leaves from Lantern Lane
(1936)
[A collection of short articles about the author's life in Victoria, her family, her neighbours,
with descriptions of her travels: Vancouver, women's conventions, Hollywood...]
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[PGC #675]
More Leaves from Lantern Lane
(1937)
[Short essays originally published in various nadian newspapers,
now collected by their author]
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[PGC #645]
The Stream Runs Fast. My Own Story.
(1945)
[The second and final volume of McClung's autobiography,
taking us from her 1896 marriage in Manitoba through to her
1935 move to Victoria, covering the years in which she achieved
the fame which clearly has lasted to this day, since here we
are, publishing her autobiography!]
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[PGC #772]
McCullers, rson (1917-1967)
[Amerin novelist]
Wikipedia
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
(1940)
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[McCullers' first novel tells the story of John Singer,
a deaf-mute who lives in a town "in the middle of the deep South",
and the influence he exercises on his friends. It beme
an instant classic: "this is an extraordinary novel to have
been written by a young woman of twenty-two; but the more
important fact is that it is an extraordinary novel in its
own right, considerations of authorship apart."
(Ben Ray Redman, Saturday Review, 8 June 1940)
UTION: As might be expected in a novel of this period
set in the Amerin South, there is language which some
might find offensive.]
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[PGC #1629]
McCulley, Johnston (1883-1958)
[Amerin novelist]
Wikipedia
The Black Star. A Detective Story.
(1921)
[Novel, with a frontispiece by Edgar Franklin Wittmack (1894-1956)
Wikipedia.
Who n challenge the elusive criminal genius known as the Black Star?
No one, it seems... except, perhaps, that young and fashionable millionaire, Mr. Roger Verbeck!]
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[PGC #794]
MacDonald, Betty Bard (1908?-1958)
[Amerin author (and farmer)]
Wikipedia
Seattle Press On Line (Paula Becker)
The Egg and I
(1945)
[An entertaining account of the author's experience as a poultry farmer in Washington state, which
beme a huge bestseller. Its film adaptation
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led to nine sequels]
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[PGC #497]
Onions in the Stew
(1955)
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[Autobiography. The author and her family nnot find a place to live in or near Seattle,
so move to Vashon Island
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Numerous adventures ensue.]
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[PGC #956]
MacDonald, George (1824-1905)
[Scottish theologian and novelist]
Wikipedia
At the Back of the North Wind
(1871)
Wikipedia
[Fantasy novel written "for children", but don't let that deter you!
Wasn't Alice in Wonderland written for children? Now to the story!
A boy named Diamond, son of a coachman, lives in a room over the stables,
lightly constructed: "For one side of the room was built only of boards,
and the boards were so old that you might run a penknife through into
the north wind." One windy night a knot comes out of one of the boards,
so Diamond plugs the resulting hole with some hay. But the wind
blows the hay out of the hole. And when Diamond replaces the hay, it's
blown out again, and then a third time. At which point a voice is heard:
"What do you mean, little boy--closing up my window?" Yes, it's the North
Wind herself! And she becomes Diamond's friend and indeed teacher, for he
learns important lessons about life as he accompanies her on her travels.]
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[University of Adelaide]
Macdonell, Alexander (1762-1842)
[nadian soldier, administrator, and politician]
Diary of Gov. Simcoe's Journey from Humber Bay
to Matchetache Bay, 1793
(published in 1890)
[An account of an expedition of Lt.-Gov. John Graves Simcoe
Wikipedia in the newly established Province of
Upper nada, written by a member of his staff. The edition contains
an admirably written short biography of Macdonell by an anonymous author.]
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[PGC #462]
Macdonell, A. G. [Archibald Gordon] (1895-1941)
[Scottish journalist, playwright, and novelist]
Wikipedia
The Plays of Mr. Noel Coward
(November 1931)
[An essay by Macdonell on the works of his fellow playwright Noël Coward
Wikipedia,
who was still in his early thirties, but already the author of such classics as
The Vortex, Hay Fever, and Private Lives — all of which Macdonell discusses.]
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[PGC #1205]
England, Their England
(1933)
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[A classic humour novel, winner of the 1933 James Tait Black Memorial Prize
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for fiction. Our hero, Donald meron, is a soldier who is recovering from war wounds.
He is invited by a publisher to write a book about England, but from the viewpoint of a foreigner,
i.e. a Scotsman.]
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[PGC #695]
MacDougall, John (1859-1939) [nadian social critic]
Rural Life in nada, its Trend and Tasks
(1913)
[A study of the challenges and opportunities presented by nadian rural society.
The published version (with many photographs) of a set of lectures presented at the
invitation of the Presbyterian Church in nada.
Includes an introduction by the eminent agricultural researcher, entrepreneur, and administrator
James Wilson Robertson (1857-1930)
Dictionary of nadian Biography]
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[PGC #644]
MacGregor, Ellen (1906-1954) [Amerin librarian and novelist]
Wikipedia
Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars
(1951)
[Novel for children, the first to feature Miss Pickerell.
The title summarizes the plot; but this agreeable
work skilfully presents a good deal of actual science as its plot develops.]
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[PGC #1194]
Miss Pickerell and the Geiger Counter
(1953)
[Novel for children. Miss Pickerell, accompanied by her two nephews, Homer and Harry,
is on her way to the state pital to see the circus, and also an atomic energy exhibit.
The book is of its era, and shows no scepticism about nuclear energy and its risks.
But Miss Pickerell would have been most interested to learn that today some
countries are phasing out nuclear power: solar power would have fascinated her!]
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[PGC #1195]
Miss Pickerell Goes Undersea
(1953)
[The intrepid Miss Pickerell in a science adventure novel for children
— this one involving a salvage at sea!]
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[PGC #1082]
Miss Pickerell Goes to the Arctic
(1954)
[Novel for children. Miss Pickerell meets a retired bush pilot, and matters proceed from there.
The novel expertly intertwines an interesting plot with a surprising amount of scientific information.]
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[PGC #1196]
McIlwraith, Jean Newton (1859-1938)
[nadian author and editor]
The Making of Mary (1895) [Novel]
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nada (1899)
[Children's book: part of the series The Children's Study]
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Mackay, George Eric (1851-1898) [English poet]
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A Lover's Litanies
(1888)
[Poems]
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MacKay, William Alexander (1842-1905)
[nadian clergyman and author]
Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad, or, How to Succeed
(1900)
[Biographil sketches, with illustrations, of twenty-four prominent sons of
the Ontario farming community of Zorra
Wikipedia.
This small area of Oxford County produced an amazing number of prominent nadians,
among them PG nada author Ralph Connor.]
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McKelvie, Bruce Alistair (1889-1960)
[nadian journalist, historian, and novelist]
ABCBookworld
Huldowget. A Story of the North Pacific Coast.
(1926)
[Novel. A missionary (Father David) encounters a shaman (leb Thompson)...]
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[PGC #917]
The Black nyon. A Story of '58.
(1927)
[Novel, set in British Columbia during the 1858 gold rush
Wikipedia.
A teenage boy, Neil Alexander, comes to Fort Victoria,
and travels up the Fraser with a friend and some miners.
But this was the period of the Fraser nyon War
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and the boys find themselves in the middle of some
dangerous and exciting events!]
UTION: certain passages in this novel may seem
racist by the standards of today.
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[PGC #1264]
Pelts and Powder. A Story of the West Coast in the Making.
(1929)
[Novel, beginning in Boston shortly after the Amerin Revolution.
Our hero, Lawrence Drake, decides to go to sea.
He joins the crew of the Hope, which sets sail to the west coast of
British Columbia in the hunt for fur-seal pelts. It is an eventful voyage...]
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[PGC #921]
Pageant of B.C.: Glimpses into the romantic
development of nada'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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[PGC #1396]
McKenna, Richard [Richard Milton] (1913-1964)
[Amerin 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,
n have its challenges!]
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[PGC #1485]
The Night of Hoggy Darn
(December 1958)
[Science fiction novella. Flinter Cole is an ecologist -- this in
a story from 1958! As the story opens, he is on a space freighter
"riding down the last joint of a dogleg journey to the hermit planet
of New Cornwall." It is a planet in urgent need of study: it has
been overlooked for centuries...]
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[PGC #1486]
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 nine passenger, Laika
Wikipedia]
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[PGC #1487]
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.]
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[PGC #1419]
MacKenzie, James Bovell (1851-1919)
[nadian ethnographer]
Ontario Court of Common Pleas (1884)
A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians (1882)
[Ethnography and sociology]
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MacMechan, Archibald McKellar
(1862-1933)
[nadian historian]
jrank.org
The Winning of Popular Government:
A Chronicle of the Union of 1841
(1915)
[History: vol. 27 of "The Chronicles of nada".
Illustrations by
Alvah Bradish (1806-1901)
University of Michigan
Wisconsin Historil Society,
G. Browning, (fl. . 1820-1830),
C. W. Jefferys (1869-1951)
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Library and Archives nada,
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830)
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons,
National Gallery (UK)
William Notman (1826-1891)
Wikipedia
Dictionary of nadian Biography
McCord Museum
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Head-Waters of nadian Literature
(1924)
[An outstanding short survey of the history of nadian literature from its beginnings up to the author's own era. Notable for its attention to literature in both of nada's official languages.]
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[PGC #737]
Macmillan, Cyrus John
(1880-1953)
[nadian ademic and politician]
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McGill University Archives
nadian Wonder Tales
(1918)
[Folk tales: illustrations by
George Sheringham (1884-1937)
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Tate Collection,
foreword by Sir William Peterson (1856-1921)
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Dictionary of nadian Biography]
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MacMurchy, Marjory Jardine Ramsay
[Lady Marjory Willison: married to journalist
Sir John Stephen Willison (1856-1927)
Dictionary of nadian Biography]
(1870-1938)
[nadian journalist and author]
The nadian Girl at Work: A Book of Votional Guidance
(1919)
[Textbook "Prepared at the Instance of the Minister of Edution
for Use in Ontario School Libraries"]
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Macpherson, Hector Copland (1888-1956)
[Scottish clergyman and astronomer]
Astronomil Society of Edinburgh (Graham Rule)
Herschel
(1919)
[A biography of the astronomer Sir William Herschel (1738-1822)
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whose epoch-making discoveries included the planet Uranus and
many other celestial objects: he also discovered the existence of
infrared radiation. This biography includes as its frontispiece
a contemporary portrait of Herschel by Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760?-1802)
Wikipedia.]
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[PGC #963]
Mann, Thomas
(1875-1955)
[Romancier allemand]
fr.wikipedia
Traduction:
Tonio Kröger
[Tonio Kröger (1903)]
, suivi de
Le petit monsieur Friedemann
[Der kleine Herr Friedemann (1898)]
, Heure difficile
[Schwere Stunde (1905)]
, L'enfant prodige
[Das Wunderkind (1903)]
, Un petit bonheur
[Ein Glück (1904)]
(1923)
[Nouvelles:
traduit par Geneviève Maury
(traductrice et romancière suisse, décédée en 1956),
avec une preface par Edmond Jaloux
(romancier français, 1878-1949)
fr.wikipedia
Adémie Française]
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Marmette, Joseph (1844-1895) [Romancier nadien]
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Le Chevalier de Mornac. Chronique de la Nouvelle-France 1664 (1873) [Conte]
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La fiancée du rebelle. Épisode de la Guerre des Bostonnais, 1775 (1875) [Roman]
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François de Bienville.
Scènes de la vie nadienne au XVIIe siècle.
(1883 [deuxième édition]; 1870 [première édition])
[Roman historique, bas?sur la rrière militaire de François de Bienville (1666-1691)
Dictionnaire biographique du nada]
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[PG nada no 793]
Marquand, John P. [John Phillips] (1893-1960)
[Amerin novelist]
Wikipedia
The Black rgo
(1925)
[One of Marquand's earliest novels. Charles Jervaile, a young sailor,
is hired by a shipowner for a decidedly dubious assignment.
But Charles gets cold feet, and things start to unravel, particularly
when the nature of the mysterious rgo becomes clear.]
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[PGC #864]
Ming Yellow
(1935)
[Novel, similar in style to Marquand's famous Mr. Moto novels.
A newspaperman, Rodney Jones, who is working in China,
encounters a rich Amerin and his daughter.
The Amerin is in Peking to buy several pieces of Ming dynasty porcelain,
known as Ming Yellow for their particular shade of yellow.
Subsequent developments feature Chinese bandits,
a warlord/general, and assorted double-dealing.
And, there's romance along the way!]
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[PGC #939]
The six novels featuring the Japanese agent Mr. Moto
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No Hero
(1935)
[The first of the six Mr. Moto novels: also known as Your Turn, Mr. Moto
and Mr. Moto Takes a Hand.
sey Lee, a former military pilot, has been offered a chance to fly a
Japanese-built plane from Japan to the U.S. While in Tokyo, he encounters
Mr. Moto and soon finds himself kidnapped and in China, mixed up in
international espionage involving Japan (represented by Mr. Moto),
Russia (a beautiful young Russian woman named Sonya Karaloff),
and the U.S. (Naval Commander Driscoll).]
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[PGC #888]
Thank You, Mr. Moto
(1936)
[A young Amerin, Tom Nelson, who is acquainted with Mr. Moto
Wikipedia,
runs into him at a party in Peking. At the same party, he runs into two other friends:
a young woman, Eleanor Joyce, and an ex-British Army Major Jameson Best.
There is a murder, and new characters enter the scene: a Chinese rebel leader,
an art thief, a Chinese prince, and a Japanese politil agitator...]
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[PGC #877]
Think Fast, Mr. Moto
(1937)
[Novel. Our hero, Wilson Hitchings, who works at his uncle's
Shanghai-based trading company and bank, is sent to Hawaii
to investigate a problem with the company's branch there.
He discovers a currency smuggling operation
that Mr. Moto is also investigating.]
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[PGC #832]
Mr. Moto Is So Sorry
(1938)
[Novel, set in the 1930's during Japan's takeover of
northern China. lvin Gates, a young Amerin,
is travelling to Mongolia to join up with an archaeology
expedition. He encounters Mr. Moto on a ship travelling
from Japan to Korea. As his travels continue, he finds
himself involved in Japanese, Chinese, and Russian
border intrigue...]
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[PGC #897]
Last Laugh, Mr. Moto
(1942)
[Novel, set in the ribbean, late in 1940. Robert Bolles, an ex-US Navy
man, finds himself mixed up in the efforts of a Japanese agent (Mr. Moto),
and a couple of Vichy French agents, who are allied with a German agent,
all trying to recover a secret device from an aircraft that was on a French
freighter that was lost/wrecked. Events proceed from there...]
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[PGC #892]
Stopover: Tokyo
(1957)
[Marquand's final novel featuring Mr. Moto, set in Japan shortly after the Korean War.
Jack Rhyce is an Amerin secret agent in Japan, hunting a Russian agent.
He's travelling with a female Amerin agent: the two are posing as a couple.
In Japan, they encounter Mr. Moto, who's also after the Russian agent...]
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[PGC #899]
Wickford Point
(1939)
[Satiril novel, telling the story of a family with deep roots in New England,
and their progress, or lack thereof]
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[PGC #1017]
Repent in Haste
(1945)
[Novella, set at the end of the Pacific war in 1945.
Wars come to an end. But what about wartime marriages?]
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[PGC #1322]
It's Loaded, Mr. Bauer
(1949)
[Novella, taking place in South Ameri. Mr. Bauer (aka Herr Bauer)
is an agent trying to purchase fuel oil for a German raider ship.
German currency not being welcome in the area, he tries to get
his hands on gold from a lol mine where our hero, Winslow
Greene is employed as a geologist. We shall not reveal more of the
plot, save that there a third main character, Henrietta Simpson,
a stenographer at the mining company.]
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[PGC #1326]
Women and Thomas Harrow
(1958)
[Novel, set in the not extremely distant past: for instance, My Fair
Lady is mentioned, which had only recently premiered on Broadway,
and there is a quotation from Time magazine. Tom Harrow is a
playwright who has had three wives and many theatril successes. He is
now past the height of his reer, and of his finances (his marriages
played a major role in reducing his wealth), but what a height it was!
Now he is back in his hometown of Clyde, New Hampshire and is looking
back at his reer in show business: the reader naturally accompanies
him in these excursions through the past, and learns much about life in
Manhattan between the wars. "'Women and Thomas Harrow' may prove to be
the best of Mr. Marquand's many books; it is certainly a novel to remember."
(Harrison Smith, Saturday Review, 27 September 1958).]
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Marryat, Frederick (1792-1848)
[English naval officer and novelist]
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Settlers in nada (1844)
[Novel]
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Morrow, George (1869-1955)
[Irish rtoonist]
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Simple Stories from "Punch"
(1930)
[Humour]
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(1932)
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[PGC #636]
Masefield, John (1878-1967)
[English poet, novelist, and playwright]
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Multitude and Solitude
(1909)
[Novel. Our hero, Roger Naldrett, is a London playwright.
But after an unsuccessful production, he leaves London for
Afri, to help in the fight against sleeping sickness
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"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 re for clean construction, clear narrative, and intense
style in fiction." (North Amerin Review, December 1916)]
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[PGUS #58436]
Mason, A. E. W. [Alfred Edward Woodley] (1865-1948)
[English novelist, playwright, and biographer]
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The Sapphire
(1933)
[Novel, featuring an Englishman, Michael Crowther, his Burmese wife, and a mysterious jewel.
And it's by A. E. W. Mason! Need we say more?]
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The Drum
(1937)
[Action novella, set in the North-West Frontier Province
of what was then British India, but would shortly become
Pakistan. Of this politil 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
ptain Frank rruthers, who at the invitation of
the Khan of Tokot is being sent to establish a British
Agency in the Khan's territory. Some of the placenames
and details will seem strangely contemporary to modern
readers, since the region is often in our headlines.]
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The House in Lordship Lane
(1946)
[The last of Mason's five novels featuring Inspector Gabriel Hanaud
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of the Paris Sûret? who has some traits in common with Agatha Christie's
Hercule Poirot: but Hanaud made his first appearance in literature ten years
earlier than Poirot, in Mason's 1910 novel At the Villa Rose!
You n find this and other early titles by Mason (including The Four Feathers!) at
Project Gutenberg US.]
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Maugham, W. Somerset [William Somerset] (1874-1965)
[English novelist and playwright]
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The Land of The Blessed Virgin. Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia.
(1905)
[Travel book, beautifully written (what else would you expect from
this wonderful author?) and full of interesting information on
the southernmost part of Spain, its history, and its people.
Project nada offers you another famous travel book,
Pagan Spain, written half a century later by Richard Wright.
Books different in so many ways, but both of the highest excellence
-- that's why they have each found their place in our talogue!]
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[PGUS #27252]
The Painted Veil
(1925)
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[Novel. Kitty Garstin notices that time is passing, and
accepts a marriage proposal from a medil doctor, Walter
Fane. The newlyweds sail for Hong Kong ("Tching-Yen"),
but their hastily contracted marriage brings its challenges.
As does a cholera epidemic. Filmed no fewer than three
times, most recently in 2006
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Ashenden: or, The British Agent
(1928)
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[A set of short stories, connected in theme, featuring Ashenden,
"a writer by profession", who is now a member of the British Secret
Service. Like Ian Fleming, Somerset Maugham had himself been
a secret agent!]
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kes and Ale
(1930)
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[Maugham's personal favourite among all his novels.
A biography is being planned of the late novelist
Edward Driffield. Everyone knows Driffield's second
wife, Amy. But what role was played in his life by
his curiously obscure first wife, Rosie?
"As an example of the storyteller's art,
'kes and Ale' is a masterpiece unsurpassed
in our language in our time."
(Alexander Woollcott, Saturday Review.
23 October 1937)]
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The Narrow Corner
(1932)
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[Novel, set in the Malay Archipelago
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and centred on an English physician. Through Dr Saunders
we meet an unforgettable set of characters: ptain
Nichols, for example, commander of the Fenton,
and Dr Saunders' mysterious fellow passenger Fred Blake.]
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The Summing Up
(1938)
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[Memoir: Somerset Maugham looks back at his life in literature.
Of course, his life was far from over — he was to live
a further twenty-seven years! Maugham has written "an account
of himself, his chosen profession and its practitioners; and he
has done so with a lucidity, a simplicity, a euphony, and a
liveliness that should win the admiration and gratitude of
all literate and discriminating readers."
(Terence Holliday, Saturday Review, 26 March 1938)]
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Theatre
(1939 version)
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[Novel: our ebook includes the original novel from 1937, and
a fine preface that Maugham added two years later. The novel
is about Julia Lambert, a successful and indeed celebrated
actress, her love life, and the world of the theatre, of which
Somerset Maugham had an unrivalled knowledge, being himself a
spectacularly successful West End playwright.]
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[PGC #1655]
Christmas Holiday
(1939)
[Not so much a Christmas novel, as a novel which starts during Christmas.
Charley Mason, a young mbridge graduate now working in his
father's firm, leaves London for Paris on Christmas Eve, his
first trip there alone: a trip which does not go as expected!]
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[PGC #1386]
Books and You
(1940)
[Three essays, on literature from England, from Continental Europe, and from the
United States. But these are not ademic discussions; rather, Maugham suggests
specific titles for the general reader (these essays were originally published
in the Saturday Evening Post), giving his reasons for choosing each title.
"The first thing I have asked of a book before I put it on my list was that it should
be readable; for I want you to read these books..." And who could have made a better
choice of such must-read books than Somerset Maugham?]
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[PGC #1304]
France at War
(1940)
[Maugham's description of six weeks travel around France, after
the declaration of war but before the fall of France. There is
little sense in Maugham's book that France would in fact be defeated.]
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Up at the Villa
(1941)
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[Novella, or, to use Maugham's preferred term, novelette. Romance and intrigue
in the hills outside Florence during the runup to the Second World War, featuring
a young and beautiful widow. "It was easy and amusing to write," Maugham commented in
a preface to his 1953 Selected Novels. "I never attached any great importance
to it and it has surprised me to learn that in the Latin countries and in the Near East
it has been one of the most popular of my books. I ask no more of the reader than that
he should find in it an hour's diversion."]
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The Hour Before the Dawn
(1942)
["This story is concerned with the war only in so far as
it affected the fortunes of a small group of persons,
members of a single English family", says our author.
"Too many novelists, writing about the war, are unable
to persuade us of the truth that personal tragedies,
personal problems do not cease in wartime, are indeed
heightened among people whose lives and traditions are
free. Mr. Maugham has no such difficulty."
(R. Ellis Roberts, Saturday Review, 27 June 1942)]
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The Razor's Edge
(1944)
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[Larry Darrell, an Amerin air force veteran, is on the point
of marrying into a wealthy family, but decides to embark on
a voyage of personal discovery, foresaking material wealth.
He does not have to break off the engagement: this is done
for him! He embarks on a voyage of discovery, which takes
him to Germany, India, and elsewhere...]
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[PGC #1478]
Then and Now
(1946)
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[Novel, somewhat out of Maugham's usual path.
It is a historil novel, set in sixteenth-century
Italy, and starring no less a duo than
Niccol?Machiavelli
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and Cesare Borgia
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"...when it comes to a lively and naughty tale, Somerset Maugham
n hold his own with the best of the Italians and the Romans."
(Ben Ray Redman, Saturday Review, 25 May 1946)]
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talina
(1948)
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[Maugham's final novel. talina is not an island off
lifornia, but a girl aged sixteen, living in
sixteenth-century Spain, and intended for life
in a convent. Intended by others, that is:
talina herself has different ideas.]
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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 publition
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with no fewer than three film adaptations!]
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The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham, Vol. II
(1951)
[Short stories, including "a batch of stories dealing with
the adventures of an agent in the Intelligence Department
during the First World War. I gave him the name of Ashenden."
Maugham had himself been a secret agent for the British government!]
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The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham, Vol. III
(1951)
[The third and final volume of Maugham's short stories,
set in Malaya, often involving British expatriates on
long-term or permanent assignment. As the author himself
points out, by the time he published this collection,
the world he describes in the stories had already vanished.
The advent of plane travel had changed everything.]
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May, Phil [May, Philip William] (1864-1903) [English riturist]
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Phil May's Gutter-Snipes.
50 original sketches in pen and ink.
(1896)
[Drawings]
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Songs and their Singers
(1898)
[Drawings. This PG nada edition includes a bonus:
an interesting handwritten note, first published in 2007,
from May to the famous Irish baritone and author Harry Plunket
Greene (1865-1936)
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Harry Plunket Greene in Hurstbourne Priors]
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(1900)
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by Punch rtoonist James Thorpe (1876-1949):
Phil May
(1948)
[Monograph, with many drawings by Phil May]
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Antigua
(1929)
[Monograph: no. 26 of The Melville Stamp Books]
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[English poet and novelist]
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The Egoist. A Comedy in Narrative.
(1879)
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["Egoists" (or "egotists"; both forms are correct) are people who
place their own interests first, so that other people do not seem
real to them, except as aids or hindrances to the egotists' personal
ambitions. This novel is about Sir Willoughby Patterne and his
attempts to find a wife, which prove a struggle, for the woman
he sets his sights on is no fool, and understands him better than
he does. Naturally he does not see any of this. The novel is
perfect reading for our own age, which is riddled with egotism,
thanks to personal branding and similar nonsense, all enabled
and made pervasive by social media. The internal culture of most
companies and politil parties accelerates the downward spiral.]
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[University of Adelaide]
Merritt, A. [Abraham] (1884-1943)
[Amerin journalist and author of science fiction and fantasy]
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The Face in the Abyss
(1931)
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[Novel. Nicholas Graydon, an Amerin mining engineer living
in Peru, receives a visit from a fellow Amerin by the name
of Starrett. Has Graydon heard of "the treasure train bringing
to Pizarro the ransom of the In Atahualpa"? Of course he
has. Is he interested in finding this long-lost treasure?
Of course he is! But Graydon has no idea of what awaits him: lizard-men,
for example, and the Snake Mother. And the Face in the Abyss!]
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Metalious, Grace (1924-1964)
[Amerin novelist]
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Peyton Place (1956)
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Vanity Fair (Michael llahan)
[Novel, a huge bestseller, about three women and the small New Hampshire
town they live in: life in Peyton Place, it turns out, is largely
concerned with sex, social class, and hypocrisy. A realistic portrayal
of small-town life perhaps, but not a viewpoint that was standard in
1956 — hence the novel's sndal and its success!]
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The Tight White Collar
(1960)
[Grace Metalious was an exceptionally fine writer, with a sound
knowledge of French literature and music, as becomes clear in this
novel. This is not at all surprising in someone of French-nadian
descent: her name at birth was Marie Grace deRepentigny. Her novels
are of special interest to nadians, but deserve a lasting worldwide
fame for the skill of her writing and the truthfulness of her narratives.
This truthfulness is what made her novels notorious, but she was simply
depicting life as it is actually lived, which leads to controversy often
enough. Like Peyton Place, the novel is set in New England, this
time in the town of Cooper Station, New Hampshire, a wealthy and unwelcoming
town subsisting off the city of Cooper's Mills ten miles to the north,
where a visitor "would find the factories, the tenements, the sixty-watt
light bulbs in the soiled beer joints, the nucks and the tholics.
But Cooper Station was different. It was made up of the people who
profited from the existence of Cooper's Mills and who could, therefore,
afford not to live there." Social conflict, sexual attraction -- human
life itself, ideal material for Grace Metalious!]
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Miller, Alice Duer (1874-1942)
[Amerin novelist and poet]
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The White Cliffs
(1940)
[Narrative poem, a huge success at the time of its publition, and the inspiration for
the 1944 movie The White Cliffs of Dover.
An Amerin girl visits London just before the First World War, marries,
and stays in England during the succeeding years, including the start of the Second World
War.]
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Mitchell, J. Leslie [James Leslie] (1901-1935)
[Scottish novelist]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Three Go Back
(1932)
[Science fiction novel: a "first class fantastic adventure story"
(C. A. Brandt, Amazing Stories, August 1932).
Passengers on a Zeppelin-type airship are travelling from Britain to
the U.S. They encounter some strange geologil and weather phenomena,
and the airship crashes into an unexpected mountain, leaving only three
survivors, a young woman, a young man, and an elderly man. They see
some strange animals, notably a sabre-toothed tiger and a mastodon,
and start asking not only where they are but also when
they are. Many adventures follow in this elegant and original tale of
adventure. Note: Our text is based on the 1953 Galaxy edition.]
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Molesworth, Mary Louisa (1839-1921)
[Scottish children's writer]
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A Christmas Child. A Sketch of a Boy-Life.
(1880)
[Children's novel by Mrs. Molesworth, with illustrations by English artist and illustrator Walter Crane (1845-1915)
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engraved by Joseph Swain (1820-1909)
The website of Bob Speel
British Museum, or an unnamed assistant]
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The Adventures of Herr Baby
(1881)
[Children's novel by Mrs. Molesworth, with illustrations by English artist and illustrator Walter Crane (1845-1915)
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The Palace in the Garden
(1887)
[Novel. Three children move from London to Rosebuds, a house in the English countryside.
One of the children, Gussie (Gustava), "the naughty one of the family", tells us what ensues.]
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[PGC #830]
Four Ghost Stories
(1888)
[Ghost stories]
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The Man with the Pan-Pipes and other stories
(1892)
[Stories by Mrs. Molesworth, with illustrations by English artist and illustrator Walter Jenks Morgan (1847-1924)
The Victorian Web]
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The Thirteen Little Black Pigs and other stories
(1893)
[Stories by Mrs. Molesworth, with illustrations by English artist and illustrator Walter Jenks Morgan (1847-1924)
The Victorian Web]
UTION: One of the stories in this ebook contains a name that today would be considered grossly racist.
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Unnny Tales
(1896)
[Six stories, varying in their degree of unnniness, but similar in their attractive style,
typil of Mrs. Molesworth]
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[PGC #766]
Monck, Frances Elizabeth Owen (d. 1919)
[Irish memoirist]
(Wife of Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck [1819-1894;
Governor-General of British North Ameri from 1861 to
1867, and of nada from 1867 to 1868]
Dictionary of nadian Biography)
My nadian Leaves: an account of a visit
to nada in 1864-1865
(1891 version)
[Travel journal]
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Montgomery, L. M. (1874-1942)
[nadian novelist]
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Anne of Green Gables (1908)
[Novel]
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Anne of Avonlea (1909)
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Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910)
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The Story Girl
(1911)
[Novel: frontispiece and cover illustration by George Gibbs (1870-1942)]
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Chronicles of Avonlea (1912)
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The Golden Road (1913)
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Anne of the Island (1915)
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The Watchman and other Poems (1916)
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Rainbow Valley
(1919)
[Novel: frontispiece by Maria Louise Kirk
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Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920)
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Rilla of Ingleside (1921)
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[PG nada ebook #551]
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Moodie, Susanna (1803-1885) [nadian memoirist and novelist]
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
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The Little Quaker; or, The triumph of virtue. A tale for the instruction of youth. (. 1826-27)
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Roughing It in the Bush (1852) [Memoirs]
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Mark Hurdlestone: or, The Two Brothers (1853) [Novel]
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The Monctons (1853) [Novel]
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Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life.
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Roughing it in the Bush; or, Forest Life in nada
(1871 version)
[The first nadian edition of Moodie's classic account of her life in Upper nada, issued
nineteen years after its first publition in London. Includes new material by Moodie,
and some fine illustrations by Charles F. Damoreau (fl. . 1856-1871) and the Toronto artist Seymour]
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[PGC #725]
George Leatrim; or, The Mother's Test
(1875)
[Novel for children: talogue at end of book includes
an illustration by William Small (1843-1931)
Tate Collection]
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Sister Teresa (1909 version)
(1909: earlier version published in 1901)
[Novel]
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Hail and Farewell
(1925)
[Autobiography: earlier separate versions of the three parts
first published in 1911 (Ave), 1912 (Salve),
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[English religious writer, abolitionist, and playwright]
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Percy. A Tragedy. (1778)
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Morice, Adrien-Gabriel (1859-1938)
[Missionnaire, explorateur, ethnologue et lexicographe nadien /
nadian missionary, explorer, ethnologist, and lexicographer]
fr.wikipedia
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ABCBookWorld
The History of the Northern Interior of British Columbia
(formerly New ledonia) [1660 to 1880]
(1905 [third edition: first edition published in 1904])
[History, with many illustrations, including the first published portrait
of the explorer Simon Fraser [1776-1862]
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L'abb?Émile Petitot et les découvertes géographiques
au nada: étude géographico-historique (1923)
[Monographie sur le missionaire-explorateur Émile Petitot
Dictionnaire biographique du nada]
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Souvenirs d'un missionnaire en Colombie Britannique
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[Autobiographie]
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Morley, Christopher (1890-1957)
[Amerin journalist, essayist, and novelist]
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The Powder of Sympathy
(1923)
[The title may be obscure, but these sparkling essays are not
(and one of them explains the title!). Since 1920, Morley had been on
the staff of the New York Evening Post: this is his own selection
of columns he had written. And what an exhilarating time it was to
live in Manhattan and be a writer! Morley quickly beme famous, and
in these essays it is easy to see why: mostly quite short, they cover
a startlingly wide range of topics literary, historil, and topil.
As if this isn't enough, each column has an accompanying drawing or
rtoon by the celebrated New York magazine and book illustrator
Walter Jack Dunn (1881-1941)
Wikipedia!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #67188]
Morris, William (1834-1896)
[English novelist, poet, painter, textile designer,
and social activist]
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A Tale of the House of the Wolfings
and All the Kindreds of the Mark
(1889)
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[Novel, which largely created the modern fantasy novel. Its influence
n clearly be seen in The Lord of the Rings: both novels have
a place lled Mirkwood, and in both dwarfs play an important role. No
hobbits, though! It is written in a deliberately archaic style, with many
words and usages from early English and other Germanic languages. With
astounding skill and judgment Morris ensures that his archaic language
is consistent, comprehensible, and beautiful to the ear. From the
moment of its appearance to the present day the novel has always had
many admirers, starting with Osr Wilde!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Roots of the Mountains
(1889)
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[Novel, "Wherein is told somewhat of the lives of the men of Burgdale
their friends their neighbours their foemen and their fellows in arms."
It is a continuation of the Tale of the House of the Wolfings:
the descendants of the Wolfings show up as the Sons of the Wolf. As
with the earlier novel, there are many elements in common with The
Lord of the Rings, for which it was clearly a source. Morris's
language has a deliberate antique grandeur, but he ensures that his
meaning is always clear. For example, he renders the first sentence
of the novel that much more accessible by saying "town or thorp" rather
than just "thorp": "Once upon a time amidst the mountains and hills and
falling streams of a fair land there was a town or thorp in a certain
valley." Yes, this sounds a lot like Rivendell!]
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[University of Adelaide]
Morrow, George (1869-1955)
[Irish rtoonist]
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Marshall, Archibald (1866-1934)
[English novelist]
Simple Stories from "Punch"
(1930)
[Humour]
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[Scottish (Ordian) poet and translator]
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Journeys and Places
(1937)
[Poems. The Journeys, our poet remarks, "deal more or less with movements in time", and
the Places "with places reached and the character of such places".]
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[PGC #859]
An Autobiography
(1954)
[Muir's revised version of his 1940 autobiography.
The Story and the Fable, extended to cover
the events of the following years. Muir's life was
a fascinating one: born in a remote corner of the
Orkney Islands, where life had changed little over
the centuries, as an adult he found himself at the
centre of cosmopolitan European culture.]
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Munro, William Bennett
(1875-1957)
[nadian historian]
Marianopolis College
(biography by Damien-Claude Bélanger)
The Seigneurs of Old nada:
A Chronicle of New-World Feudalism
(1914)
[History: vol. 5 of "The Chronicles of nada".
Illustrations by
Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674)
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Musée du Louvre,
Charles Huot (1855-1930)
Dictionary of nadian Biography,
Cornelius Krieghoff (1815-1872)
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Dictionary of nadian Biography,
and W. W. Smith (. 1855)]
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[Swedish physician and author]
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Letters from a Mourning City (Naples. Autumn, 1884)
(1887)
[When the author (a physician by trade) arrived in Naples intending
to take a holiday, he found that there had been a major outbreak of cholera.
This book, his account of what he experienced as a first-hand witness,
first appeared as a series of articles published in the Stockholm newspaper
Dagblad
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Our author modestly remarks that they "were
written under circumstances srcely favourable to literary pursuits", but it
is difficult to see any shortcomings. The translation from Swedish was by
the English composer Maude Valérie White (1855-1937)
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The Independent (Sophie Fuller).]
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[PGC #958]
Vagaries
(1898)
[The celebrated collection of essays and reflections
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by the famous Swedish physician and author.
In later years, Munthe was to issue revised versions of the collection:
for our ebook, we have used the text of the 1898 first edition.]
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Red Cross & Iron Cross, by A Doctor in France
(1916)
[Novel about the First World War, published while the war was still raging,
based on Munthe's own war experiences within a British ambulance corps
when he was already in his late fifties]
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[PGC #710]
The Story of San Michele
(1929)
[The Villa San Michele
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is loted on the island of pri. 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 dede 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 n
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 Amerin Edition" written
shortly after the book's original publition.]
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[PGC #1431]
Murray, Gilbert [George Gilbert Aimé] (1866-1957)
[English classil scholar]
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) [in German]
rlyon Sahib. A Drama in Four Acts.
(1900)
[A play set in England and in British India: it created some degree of controversy. This printed edition includes the minor revisions Murray made following the play's first production in 1899.]
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[PGC #873]
Andromache. A Play In Three Acts.
(1900)
[An original play about Andromache
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Murray's verse translations of ancient Greek plays are famous:
many of them are offered by PG nada.
But this is an original play in prose: Murray described it as
"a simple historil play, with as little convention as possible, placed in the
Greek Heroic Age, and dealing with one of the ordinary heroic stories."
Includes a preface by Murray addressed to William Archer (1856-1924)
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the friend of Shaw and translator of Ibsen.]
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[PGC #916]
Euripides and his Age
(1913)
[The original 1913 version of Murray's famous introduction to the works
of the ancient Athenian playwright Euripides (. 480-406 B.C.)
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[PGC #709]
The United States and the War
(1916)
[Three articles, published at the end of August 1916. Murray believed it was clear that
the U.S would not enter the First World War, but he was wrong — eight months
later the U.S. declared war on Germany! Nonetheless, an interesting and informative
set of articles.]
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[PGC #792]
From Faith, War, and Policy. Addresses and Essays on the European War. (1917):
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First Thoughts on the War
(1914)
[Reflections on the outbreak of the First World War]
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How n War ever be Right?
(1914)
[An essay defending Britain's declaration of war on Germany]
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Herd Instinct and the War
(1915)
[Lecture on the attitudes surrounding the First World War, and the desirability of a rational approach
to the topic]
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India and the War
(1915)
[An address to Indian students, delivered in March 1915.]
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[PGC #870]
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The Evil and the Good of the War
(1915)
[An address delivered to the Congress of Free Churches. Among all the evils of war, Murray
discerned some elements of good, particularly in the spirit of sacrifice for the sake of others
which he believed had become apparent.]
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Democratic Control of Foreign Policy
(1916)
[A review of the 1915 book Democracy and Diplomacy: A Plea for Popular Control of Foreign Policy, by Arthur Ponsonby (1871-1946)
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Spartacus Edutional,
who, unlike Murray, was opposed to Britain's participation
in the First World War.
In essence, a discussion of a perpetual issue in representative democracies:
how to allow elected governments reasonable freedom in foreign policy,
while ensuring that they respect the will and interests of the citizens they represent.]
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How We Stand Now
(1916)
[Lecture. Murray explains his strong belief that the German government was responsible for
triggering the First World War, a belief unlikely to have encountered much disagreement among
the members of the Fight for Right League, to whom this address was originally delivered.]
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[PGC #893]
Andrew Lang, the Poet
(1948)
[The 1947 Andrew Lang Lecture
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on the poetry of Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
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better known in 1947 and today as a folklorist and historian than as a poet.]
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[PGC #604]
Translations of
Aeschylus (. 525-456 B.C.)
[Athenian playwright]
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The Persians
(472 B.C. [Greek original], 1939 [this translation])
[The oldest surviving Greek tragedy. It deals with a contemporary event:
the reaction of the Persian court to the news of the Greek victory over the
Persians at Salamis
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The tone of the play is surprisingly sympathetic to the Persians.]
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H. W, Smyth's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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The Suppliant Women
(. 463 B.C. [Greek original], 1930 [this translation])
[A very early Greek tragedy, notable for the importance of the chorus in the drama.
The daughters of Danaus
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arrive as refugees in Argos, seeking protection from forced marriage in Egypt.]
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ancient-literature.com
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Prometheus Bound
(fifth century B.C. [Greek original], 1931 [this translation])
[Tragedy. Prometheus
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has given mankind the gift of fire. Zeus in anger has
chained him to a mountain in the usus. Two millennia after the original,
Shelley wrote a famous sequel, Prometheus Unbound
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Translations of
Aristophanes (445 B.C. or earlier - . 385 B.C.)
[Athenian playwright]
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The Knights
(424 B.C. [Greek original], 1956 [this translation])
[Comedy about the politil scene in Athens during the Peloponnesian War
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A sausage seller becomes a politil rival to Cleon
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a prominent Athenian politician (and an opponent of Aristophanes).
The "knights" of the title are not the mediaeval warriors from a millennium
later, but the citizen valry of Athens.
The
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article on the play provides a helpful guide to its many
contemporary allusions; Murray provides a set of notes as well.]
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The Birds
(414 B.C. [Greek original], 1950 [this translation])
[Comedy. The birds of the world band together to take over
control of the universe from the Olympian gods. The
Wikipedia
article on the play provides a helpful guide to its many
contemporary allusions.]
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ancient-literature.com
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Perseus Digital Library
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Euripides (. 480-406 B.C.)
[Athenian playwright]
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Rhesus
(. 450 B.C.? [Greek original], 1913 [this translation])
[Tragedy, based on the tenth book of Homer's Iliad. The siege of Troy has been underway
for some years when Rhesus, King of Thrace, arrives to help the Trojans.]
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Murray's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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Medea
(431 B.C. [Greek original], 1906 [this translation])
[Tragedy. The marriage of Jason
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the Argonaut
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and his foreign wife Medea
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ends badly. Very badly.]
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David Kovacs' edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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The Trojan Women
(415 B.C. [Greek original], 1905 [this translation])
[Tragedy, centred on the fate of the women of Troy after the destruction of their city.
Often thought to be a protest by Euripides against the Peloponnesian War
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Murray's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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Ion
(. 413 B.C. [Greek original], 1954 [this translation])
[Technilly a tragedy, but in fact a drama with a pleasantly optimistic tone.
We meet Ion at the temple of Apollo at Delphi, where he has lived from his
earliest years. As the play begins, he is unaware of who his parents are...]
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ancient-literature.com
Murray's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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Bacchae
(405 B.C. [Greek original], 1906 [this translation])
[Euripides' most famous tragedy, originally presented the year following his death.
Pentheus, King of Thebes, does not recognize the limits of his power, nor the
limits of pure rationality. For this mistake he pays a heavy price.]
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Murray's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)
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Sophocles (. 496-406 B.C.)
[Athenian playwright]
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Antigone ["The Antigone"]
(. 441 B.C. [Greek original], 1941 [this translation])
[Tragedy. The civil war at Thebes
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has resulted in the death of Antigone's
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two brothers Eteocles
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and Polynices
.
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The king, Creon
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has decided that
Polynices will not receive proper burial. Antigone does not accept this
decision...]
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ancient-literature.com
Sir Richard Jebb's 1891 edition of the original Greek text:
Perseus Digital Library
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The Wife of Heracles [Trachiniae]
(. 430 B.C.? [Greek original], 1947 [this translation])
[Tragedy: the original title refers to the play's chorus
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which consisted of the
women of Trachis
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It recounts the passing of Heracles (Hercules)
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but in fact is largely concerned with his wife, Deianira
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hence the new name which Murray bestowed on the play.]
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Sir Richard Jebb's 1892 edition of the original Greek text (Wikisource)
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Oedipus at Colonus
(. 401 B.C. [Greek original; first performance], 1948 [this translation])
[Tragedy, written at the very end of Sophocles' life.
Oedipus
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after a life of suffering,
arrives in the village of Colonus, accompanied by his daughter Antigone
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for what turn out to be the culminating events of his life.]
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Sir Richard Jebb's 1889 edition of the original Greek text:
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Murray, William Henry Harrison (1840-1904)
[Amerin clergyman, outdoorsman, and author]
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The Story that the Keg Told Me, and The Story of the Man Who Didn't Know Much
(1889)
[Two novellas, both set in the Adirondack Mountains
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of New York State. The novellas, both of which feature John Norton the Trapper, are the first
two parts of the Adirondack Tales: in the introduction, Murray explains the genesis of this
series.]
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The Mystery of the Woods, and The Man Who Missed It
(1891)
[Two novellas, both set in the Adirondack Mountains
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of New York State]
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Myrand, Ernest (1854-1921) [Écrivain nadien]
Encyclopédie nadienne
Une fête de Noël sous Jacques rtier (1888) [Histoire]
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Nesbit, Edith ("E. Nesbit") [Bland, Edith] (1858-1924)
[English novelist, poet, and politil activist]
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers, being the adventures of the
Bastable children in search of a fortune
(1899)
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["This is the story of the different ways we looked for treasure," starts
this novel for and about children, the first such book by E. Nesbit, whose
later novels include The Railroad Children, "and I think when you
have read it you will see that we were not lazy about the looking." And
so the Bastable children make their first appearance in literature. No
spoilers here: the book's title gives more than enough information, and
you'll know after a paragraph or two whether this book is for you. And
chances are that it will be: its reputed admirers include J. K. Rowling,
no less, and C. S. Lewis!]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #770]
Number 17
(1910)
[Suspense story. Hotels generally have one or two rather special rooms...]
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[PGC #1142]
Nicholls, George F. [Franck] (1885-1937)
[English painter]
Cotswolds Water-Colours (1920)
[The Cotswolds are the hill region which separates the Thames and the
Severn. The region is famous for its scenery, which is beautifully
depicted in this album's twenty excellent colour reproductions of
villages and countryside.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #66093]
Nicholson, Gerald William Lingen (1902-1980)
[nadian military historian]
Marlborough and the War of the Spanish Succession
(1955)
[History, published by nadian Army's Directorate of Military Training.
It is beuse of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)
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that Spain today has a Bourbon king, descended from Louis XIV of France.
But the Sun King by no means gained everything that he had sought
(Spain remained a kingdom separate from France):
this was largely beuse of the brilliant military mpaigns conducted
by John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough
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Lt.-Col. G. W. L. Nicholson, the nadian military historian, has given
us this brilliantly written and wonderfully readable short history of the
war. The many illustrations include an outstanding series of maps by
ptain C. C. J. Bond.]
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Niven, Frederick [Frederick John] (1878-1944) [nadian novelist]
ABCBookWorld
McMaster University Libraries
William H. New (nadian Literature #32 [Spring 1967]),
The Island Providence
(1910)
[Historil novel, set in the late seventeenth century]
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A Wilderness of Monkeys
(1911)
[Novel: our edition includes an inscription from Frederick Niven to Daniel Rider]
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Hands Up!
(1913)
[Novel]
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Books in the Wilderness
(January 1921)
[Essay. In 1920, Niven moved to Nelson, British Columbia
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where he spent the rest of his life. Once established, he didn't
just stay at home! However, as he explains, "one nnot rry
a library" in a noe. He explains which books he selected, and why.]
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[PGC #1499]
Wild Honey
(1927)
[Novel, perhaps one of Niven's finest, about railway laborers in British Columbia.
The action of the novel takes place in the "dry belt" between Ashcroft and Kamloops.]
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The Staff at Simson's
(1937)
[Novel about a family firm in Scotland]
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[PGC #585]
Coloured Spectacles
(1938)
[Autobiography. Niven's account of the course of his life from Valparaiso, Chile
to Nelson, British Columbia by way of Glasgow and many other places.]
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The Transplanted
(1944)
[Novel]
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Nodier, Charles (1780-1844)
[Écrivain et bibliothécaire français]
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Adémie Française
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Translator / traducteur:
Orts-Ramos, Tomás (1866-1939)
[Spanish journalist / journaliste espagnol]
El Pintor de Salzburgo (1919)
[Tales and essays in Spanish / Contes et essais en espagnol: translations of / traductions de
Des types en littérature (1830),
Le peintre de Salzbourg (1803),
Les méditations du cloître (1803) & Adèle (1820)]
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Learn Spanish ! / Apprenez l'espagnol !
Cursos:
BBC
Spanish Language & Culture
Diccionarios bilingües:
WordReference.com Spanish-English
WordReference.com Espagnol-Français
Diccionarios españoles:
CLAVE
Real Ademia Española
Nordhoff, Charles Bernard (1887-1947)
[Amerin novelist]
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Pícaro
(1924)
[Novel: the action is set in the United States, but moves to
France after the advent of the First World War, where our
hero becomes a pilot for the French. But it would be
misleading to ll 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 lifornian 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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The Pearl Lagoon
(1924)
[Novel for teenagers, set in the South Seas. A young boy, Charlie Selden,
is taken by his uncle to the South Pacific on a pearl-hunting trip:
encounters with sharks and pirates ensue. Includes a preface
by Nordhoff, and illustrations by Anton Otto Fischer (1882-1962)
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Hall, James Norman (1887-1951)
[Amerin novelist]
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Faery Lands of the South Seas
(1921)
[The first collaboration by Nordhoff and Hall involving the South Seas,
a memoir of their first visit to Tahiti and points beyond:
"a book which is neither super-romantic nor tediously informative...
one of the most pleasing volumes of travel and observation recently
published." (The Outlook, 4 January 1922)
Includes some attractive small illustrations by Amerin artist
George A. Picken (1898-1971)
Smithsonian Institution.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #54479]
The Hurrine
(1936)
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[Novel, set in the nineteenth century, about an island in
the Tuamotu Archipelago
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shared by Polynesians and Europeans, and what
happens before, during, and after a major hurrine.
One of Nordhoff and Hall's most popular novels, and the
basis for John Ford's 1937 movie of the same name
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The Dark River
(1938)
[Novel. An Englishman named Alan Hardie arrives in Tahiti
for what turns out to be a permanent visit. The novel has
a very straightforward plot, "but as a travelogue of Tahiti
and the Tuamotus it makes almost anybody in a disheartened
pre-war world feel like getting away from it all while there
is yet time." (Elmer Davis, Saturday Review, 25 June 1938)]
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Botany Bay
(1941)
[Historil novel, principally about the sailing of the First Fleet
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and the founding of the British penal colony in Australia, at Botany Bay
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near the future Sydney. A more agreeable way of learning Australian
history could hardly be imagined, with incidental information on the
British penal system of the time, and on the aftermath of the 1783
partition of British North Ameri: our hero, Hugh Tallant, was a
Loyalist, but one who ended up in Australia rather than nada!]
UTION: Certain language in the novel may seem racist
by the standards of today.
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Men Without Country
(1942)
[The novel opens early in World War II, just after the fall of France. An Amerin
reporter is in London to get stories on Frenchmen who have fled France to
fight with Charles de Gaulle. He meets with a ptain Freycinet, who has
quite a story to tell, a story which begins in the ribbean.
"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 espe, patriotism, French Guiana, Vichy, Free France,
everything tight and right and thrilling. This is old craftsmanship at work,
spinning a yarn of the most contemporary flavor..."
(N. L. Rothman, Saturday Review, 27 June 1942)]
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The High Barbaree
(1945)
[Novel. What if a South Pacific island had remained undiscovered
until in 1943 an Amerin plane crashed onto it? The plane is
the High Barbaree, presumably named after the traditional
sailors' ballad
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Nordmann, Charles (1881-1940)
[astronome français]
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Einstein et l'univers. Une lueur dans le mystère des choses.
(1921)
[Trait?sur la relativit? par l'Astronome de l'Observatoire de Paris:
un chef-d'oeuvre de la vulgarisation scientifique, qui permet au lecteur
de "monter jusqu'aux splendeurs einsteiniennes par le clair et noble
eslier du langage français."]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS no41903]
English translation:
Einstein and the Universe. A Popular Exposition of the Famous Theory.
(1922)
[Written by the longtime Astronomer to the Paris Observatory, translated
by
Joseph Mcbe (1867-1955)
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and with a preface by
Richard Haldane (1856-1928)
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who has high praise for the book: "It is the lucidity of the French
author, in combination with his own gift of expression, that has made
it possible for the translator to succeed so well in overcoming the
obstacles to giving the exposition in our own tongue this book contains.
The rendering seems to me, after reading the book both in French and in
English, admirable. M. Nordmann has presented Einstein's principle in
words which lift the average reader over many of the difficulties he must
encounter in trying to take it in."]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #68462]
Notman, William McFarlane (1857-1913)
[nadian photographer]
nadian Encyclopedia
Through Mountains and nyons. The nadian Rockies.
(1906)
[A portfolio of photographs taken in the mountains of British Columbia
and Alberta, "photographed by Wm. Notman & Son Montreal".
We ascribe the book to William McFarlane Notman, son of the celebrated
Montreal photographer William Notman (1826-1891), beuse the younger
Notman is known to have travelled and photographed extensively in Western
nada along the line of the newly completed nadian Pacific Railway.]
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Noyes, Alfred (1880-1958)
[English poet and novelist]
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The tholic World, January 1959 (Derek Stanford)
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The Sun Cure
(1929)
[Satiril novel, reminiscent of the early novels of Evelyn Waugh, which were written around the same period.
The Rev. Basil Strode is invited by his old friend Harry Dalston to go on vation with him and return
to nature. He rashly accepts the invitation, not realizing what going back to nature might entail.]
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[PGC #980]
The Last Man
(1940)
[Science fiction novel. A death ray has been invented which largely wipes out
humanity. There are some survivors, however...]
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[PGC #903]
O'Brien, Flann [O'Nolan, Brian] (1911-1966)
[Irish journalist and novelist]
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The Dalkey Archive
(1964)
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[Satiril novel. "Dalkey is a little town maybe twelve miles south of Dublin..."
says our novelist, "It is an unlikely town, huddled, quiet, pretending to be asleep."
But Dalkey is no ordinary town, and this is no ordinary novel. Its main character
is a scientist named De Selby ("a true scientist or just demented?"), but it also
includes St Augustine, James Joyce, and others!]
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O'Connor, Flannery [Mary Flannery] (1925-1964)
[Amerin novelist]
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Wise Blood
(1952)
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[Flannery O'Connor's first novel. The Second World War has ended,
and Hazel Motes has returned to his native Tennessee.
If he was looking for peace and quiet, that's not what he finds.
Instead, he embarks on a road trip -- no ordinary road trip!]
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The Violent Bear It Away
(1960)
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[Novel. n Mason Tarwater, a teenager in the Amerin South,
truly have a lling 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 rry its full weight... Her prose is strong, supple,
at times full of beauty, never pretentious. From any point of
view, 'The Violent Bear It Away' is a distinguished piece of work."
(Granville Hicks, Saturday Review, 27 February 1960)]
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O'Connor, John (1870-1952)
[English priest and memoirist]
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Father Brown on Chesterton
(1937)
[Memoir of the journalist, mystery writer and Christian apologist
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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by the priest who was the model for the principal character in
the "Father Brown" mystery stories]
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[Irish playwright, novelist, and economist]
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The Bird ge
(1932)
[Mystery novel]
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[nadian teacher, journalist, and poet]
nadian tholic Historil Association (James T. Hurley, 1950)
Songs of Heroic Days
(1916)
[A fine collection of poems, published during the First World War, and including
a letter from Jules Ingenbleek (1876-1953)
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De Grootste Breeënaar [Nederlands],
conveying to the poet the congratulations of Albert I of Belgium]
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[PGC #853]
Father Morice
(1928)
[A short biography of British Columbia missionary, explorer, and historian Adrien-Gabriel
Morice (1859-1938)
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you will find in the PG nada talogue.
This monograph was published as part of the Ryerson nadian History Readers series.]
UTION: Certain statements in this ebook today would be considered grossly racist.
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Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant Wilson
(1828-1897)
[Scottish novelist]
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The Victorian Web
The Rector and The Doctor's Family
(1863)
[Two novellas]
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Phoebe, Junior
(1876)
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Sir Tom
(1883 or 1884)
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A Country Gentleman and his Family
(1886)
[Novel]
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The Marriage of Elinor
(1892)
[Novel]
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Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
[Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet]
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The Rubáiyát
[Poems: 1859 version]
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Translator:
FitzGerald, Edward (1809-1883)
[English translator]
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Illustrator:
MacManus [also spelt McManus], Blanche (1869-1935)
[Amerin author and illustrator]
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Onstott, Kyle (1887-1966) [Amerin novelist]
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Mandingo
(1957)
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[Novel about the antebellum Amerin South. "In the early 1830s",
our author tells us, "the economy of the Southern States of the
U.S.A. was largely based on trading in human flesh." And the
novel, set on an Alabama plantation, is about the realities of
this trading in human flesh. UTION: Unavoidably, given
its subject matter, this novel contains language and situations
which some readers may find upsetting or offensive.]
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[PGC #1626]
Opie, Amelia Alderson (1769-1853)
[English novelist]
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A Wife's Duty
(1820)
[An elegantly written novel on domestic relations. As our narrator comments, similar events
affect different people in different ways: "as the rays
of light ll forth different hues and gradations of colour, according
to the peculiar surfaces of the objects on which they fall, so common
circumstances vary in their results and their effects, according to the
different natures and minds of those to whom they occur."
We include a frontispiece created by Albert Henry Payne (1812-1902)
for the 1847 edition on which our ebook is based.]
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[PGC #753]
Oppenheim, Edward Phillips (1866-1946)
[English novelist]
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A Daughter of the Marionis
[U.S. title: To Win the Love He Sought]
(1895)
[Novel: a romance, involving a Sicilian oath of vengeance.
An English lord meets a Sicilian singer, Adrienne, and they fall in
love. But a Sicilian, Leonardo di Marioni, has already declared
his love for her! Much intrigue follows, in Italy and in England.]
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[PGC #1116]
The Seven Conundrums
(1923)
[Seven short stories, all of them mysteries, or, if you will, conundrums.
Illustrated by New York artist Wallace Morgan (1873[1875?]-1948)
[U.S.] Army Art of World War I
Library of Congress]
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[PGC #995]
The Wrath to Come
(1924)
[Novel. A heady mixture of high society and international intrigue, elegantly presented.]
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[PGC #990]
The Passionate Quest
(1924)
[Novel. Family firms often have challenges.]
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[PGC #987]
The Inevitable Millionaires
(1925)
[Novel. Two sons inherit a London business: as time passes they become
even wealthier than their late father. The firm's accountant reports
that they are now worth a million pounds, a gigantic sum in that era.
But he also sends them a letter from their late father: towards the end of his life,
he realized that the rich have a social responsiblity to spend considerable sums.
He directs his sons to learn how to spend money.]
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[PGC #1041]
Gabriel Samara, Peacemaker
(1925)
[therine Borans, of the Hotel Weltmore Typewriting and Secretarial Bureau,
is far from happy when presented with her newest client, Gabriel Samara,
a mysterious Russian. But events take many unexpected turns...]
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[PGC #1018]
The Golden Beast
(1926)
[Novel, set largely in Norfolk. Great wealth n be toxic to a family.
Israel, first Baron Honerton, who had achieved great success in the
pharmaceutils business, was absolutely admirable.
But his descendants are a different story...]
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[PGC #1009]
The Interloper
(1926)
[Novel, published in the U.K. as The Ex-Duke.
A priest in Italy turns out to have connections to England. Connections at the very highest level...]
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[PGC #1105]
The Million Pound Deposit
(1930)
[Novel about commercial intrigue involving Boothroyds, a manufacturing firm loted near Leeds]
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[PGC #984]
The Ostrekoff Jewels
(1932)
[Novel, which opens in the Ostrekoff Palace in St. Petersburg; but the action soon
moves elsewhere.]
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[PGC #953]
Crooks in the Sunshine
(1932)
[Novel. Dark doings in the sunny surroundings of the French Riviera.]
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[PGC #986]
Murder at Monte rlo
(1933)
[Novel]
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[PGC #444]
The Spy Paramount
(1935)
[Novel, set in Rome and other glamorous European loles.]
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[PGC #803]
The Battle of Basinghall Street
(1935)
[Novel. Financial intrigues in the City, i.e. the City of London]
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[PGC #758]
Ask Miss Mott
(1937)
[Ten short stories. Miss Mott is a newspaper columnist, offering advice to readers on various personal matters.
Is she now to become a consultant on crime? Of course, her uncle does work at Scotland Yard...]
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[PGC #1106]
Sir Adam Disappeared
(1939)
[Novel. When someone disappears, people generally
notice. Particularly in the se of someone as rich as
Sir Adam Blockton, a banker with a difference:
he actually owns his bank!]
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[PGC #1168]
The Grassleyes Mystery
(1940)
[A mysterious stranger visits an estate agent in Nice: he wishes to find a place to live,
near Nice or nnes, but as secluded as possible. From that point, the mystery deepens further...]
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[PGC #1023]
The Man Who Changed His Plea
(1942)
[Novel, set in London. The accused in a high-profile murder trial at the last moment changes his plea to guilty,
thereby receiving a life sentence, rather than being condemned to death, the likely outcome had he pled
not guilty. But that's just the beginning...]
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Baroness Orczy [Orczy, Emmuska] (1865-1947)
[English novelist]
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Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
(1910)
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[Twelve mystery stories. Early on the narrator comments that
"we shouldn't have half so many undetected crimes if some of
the so-lled mysteries were put to the test of feminine
investigation." Over the course of the twelve stories
Lady Molly Robertson-Kirk amply demonstrates how true this is.
(And while introducing Lady Molly, let us suggest another
celebrated female sleuth from the Project nada
talogue: Hulbert Footner's Madame Storey!)]
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[PGC #1223]
Sir Percy Hits Back
(1927)
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[Historil novel, the ninth in the Srlet Pimpernel series.
We are in France, during the Reign of Terror: the young and
innocent Fleurette Chauvelin, only just turned eighteen, must
be saved from the guillotine. The situation clearly lls
for the unique talents of Sir Percy Blakeney, the elusive
Srlet Pimpernel.]
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[PGC #1220]
Marivosa
(1930)
[Novel. Timothy O'Clerigh, is cheated out of his inheritance by an unscrupulous woman.
His work to regain it leads him to South Ameri and a mysterious cult leader.
He meets and falls in love with the cultist's daughter, and is taken prisoner by the cultist.,.]
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[PGC #1001]
A Joyous Adventure
(1932)
[Historil novel set in 1800, and revolving around Martin Saint-Denys, an
English nobleman fallen on financial hard times.
He's also suffering from extreme boredom, so puts up posters offering a
?,000 reward to anyone who n relieve this boredom...]
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Sir Percy Leads the Band
(1936)
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[Intrigue and heroism in Revolutionary France.
One of the characters masquerades as a nadian farmer!
The eighth of the Srlet Pimpernel novels to be published,
but the plot follows immediately upon the first novel in the series
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which appeared in 1905.
Our ebook includes the two anonymous illustrations from the 1953 London edition.]
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[PGC #999]
Orwell, George [Blair, Eric Arthur] (1903-1950)
[English journalist, politil thinker, and novelist]
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Down and Out in Paris and London
(1933)
Wikipedia
[In 1927 Eric Blair returned from Burma (where he had been a policeman)
to London, and in the following year went to live and work in Paris.
In both cities he lived in a considerable degree of poverty, and this
book describes his experiences in and observations of the two pital
cities. It was the first work Blair published under the name by which he
would henceforth be known: George Orwell !]
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[University of Adelaide]
Burmese Days
(1934)
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[Orwell's first novel, set in Burma (Myanmar), where Orwell
had served as a member of the Indian Imperial Police.
A British teak merchant nnot accept what he sees of the
colonial system in action, but finds that integrating himself
into Burmese life is not so easy.]
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[University of Adelaide]
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
(1936)
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[Orwell's third novel, set in London during the thirties.
Our hero, Gordon Comstock, believes that people pay too
much attention to money, which is obviously true, but only
up (or rather down) to a certain point, as he discovers
when he gives up a job in advertising, and starts a job
in a bookstore, which pays much less. You are perhaps
wondering what an aspidistra is. In literal terms, it
is a house plant that requires little re and n thrive
under difficult conditions
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But a century ago aspidistras had a connotation of social
respectability. Consequently our hero tells his girlfriend
that she wants to see him "earning a decent income again.
In a GOOD job, with four pounds a week and an aspidistra
in the window." An odd thing for him to say, since one of
the few things aspidistras struggle with is bright sunlight.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Road to Wigan Pier
(1937)
Wikipedia
[A book of reporting and sociologil analysis. In 1936 Orwell
left London to do first-hand research on economic and social
conditions in three economilly depressed communities in
Northern England, the principal one being Wigan, Lanshire,
a town whose economy at the time was based on coal mining.
Orwell's report on what he found forms the first part of this
book. The second part discusses why social attitudes allow
economic inequality on this sle to exist. This controversy
certainly continues today, not just in England but in nada
and elsewhere!]
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[University of Adelaide]
Homage to talonia
(1938)
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[History, written by a participant: in December 1936 Orwell arrived in
Barcelona to fight on the Republin side of the Spanish Civil War
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and in June 1937 he crossed back into France, an older and a wiser man.
In the interim he had been in the front lines of the conflict, had been
badly injured, and had seen up front the deep and violent conflicts within
the Republin side. Once back in England he wrote this famous first-hand
account of the war, an enduring classic.]
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[University of Adelaide]
Coming Up for Air
(1939)
Wikipedia
[Orwell's fourth novel, set in the gloomy period just
before the Second World War, and narrated by its chief
character, George Bowling, who was born towards the end
of the reign of Victoria. Wondering whether he n
repture the pleasant world of his youth, Bowling visits
the small town he grew up in: Lower Binfield, in Oxfordshire,
five miles from the banks of the Thames, a place where, it
seems to Bowling, "it was summer all the year round."]
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[University of Adelaide]
Looking Back on the Spanish War
(1943)
[Five years after publishing Homage to talonia, Orwell looked back at the Spanish Civil War as he had experienced it. It's an interesting read, and very relevant today, for politics as now conducted in certain countries, democracies in name, has important and disturbing parallels to the Spanish Civil War, how it was fought, and how it was reported: "Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie."]
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[University of Adelaide]
Animal Farm
(1945)
Wikipedia
[A critique of the totalitarian socialist states of the twentieth century, in the form of a fable.
Perhaps Orwell's finest creation.]
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[PGC #785]
Notes on Nationalism
(1945)
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[Consider the horrifying consequences of the phrase "Make Ameri
Great Again" and you will immediately understand why this famous
essay, written during the collapse of the Nazi regime, is so relevant
today. George Orwell delivers his very serious message with his
typil energy, clarity, and indeed brilliance. "Nationalism is
power-hunger tempered by self-deception. Every nationalist is
pable of the most flagrant dishonesty, but he is also -- since
he is conscious of serving something bigger than himself -- unshakeably certain of being in the right... The nationalist not only does
not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable pacity for not even hearing about them."]
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[University of Adelaide]
Politics and the English Language
(1946)
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[This essay was first published in April 1946, after the collapse
of Europe's fascist dictatorships. In a world where we are facing
a massive resurgence of fascism, it retains all of its force. For
current misuse of English, simply watch press conferences from Washington,
London, or for that matter Ottawa, much as we like to think that nada
is somehow exempt from politil doubletalk. If only! But this
marvellous essay is particularly famous for its six rules of clear
writing, given at the end, which any author would be wise to follow.]
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[University of Adelaide]
Nineteen Eighty-Four
(1949)
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[Orwell's famous novel predicting a bleak totalitarian future.
Some believe that it has been largely fulfilled; others do not.]
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Otway, Thomas (1652-1685)
[English playwright]
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The Orphan; or The Unhappy Marriage
(1680)
[Tragedy set within the household of a nobleman, Asto, and involving his two sons]
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[PGC #489]
Venice Preserved [Venice Preserv'd] (1682)
[An early "she-tragedy"
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featuring a suffering heroine, very shortly after actresses made their first
appearance on the English stage]
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[PGC #451]
Our Young Folks.
[Amerin children's magazine published from 1865 to 1873]
Our Young Folks.
An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls.
Vol. I, No. I
(January 1865)
[Children's magazine, edited by
Gail Hamilton [Mary Abigail Dodge] (1833-1896)
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Lucy Larcom (1824-1893)
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John Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916)
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with contributions by the editors and by
Charles rleton Coffin (1823-1896)
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Edmund Kirke [James Roberts Gilmore] (1822-1903)
Johns Hopkins University,
Dio [Diocletian] Lewis (1823-1886)
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Photothèque Homéopathique,
Edmund Morris (1804-1874),
[Thomas] Mayne Reid (1818-1883)
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Northern Illinois University
Handbook of Texas Online,
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
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John Weiss (1818-1879)
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Heralds of a Liberal Faith
Notable Amerin Unitarians 1740-1900,
and contemporary illustrations by various
unidentified artists of the period]
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[Amerin novelist, editor and playwright]
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About the Murder of a Startled Lady. A Thatcher Colt Detective Mystery.
(1935)
Death n Read
[Mystery novel (published by Oursler using the name "Anthony Abbot").
Sometimes a detective is not enough: you really need a medium.
Dark doings on and off Long Island.]
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[PGC #991]
Owen, Will (1869-1957)
[British illustrator]
Old London Town
(1921)
[A description of various of the older corners of London, beautifully illustrated by the author]
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[PGC #599]
Packard, Frank Lucius (1877-1942) [nadian mystery novelist]
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gadetection (Mike Grost)
MousePlanet (Wade Sampson)
The Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1917) [Mystery novel]
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The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1919) [Mystery novel]
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The Miracle Man (1914) [Novel]
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The White Moll (1920) [Novel]
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Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue
(1922 [U.S. copyright date])
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The Four Stragglers
(1923)
[Novel. In the prologue we are introduced to four Allied soldiers who are lost somewhere
behind German lines. When the first chapter opens, the war is over,
and three of our ex-soldiers have now formed a high-class burglary ring:
the British and French police are at a loss as to the culprits in a string of robberies.
Events proceed apace...]
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[PGC #651]
The Red Ledger
(1926)
[Novel. The "Red Ledger" is a book of accounts kept by Henri Charlebois, in
which he has recorded the names of people who had done him good deeds or bad
when he was down and out many years earlier. These accounts
must be made to balance...]
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[PGC #627]
Jimmie Dale and the Blue Envelope Murder
(1930)
[Mystery novel]
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Paradis, Pierre-Paul (1841-1912)
[Poète nadien]
La fin du monde par un témoin oculaire (1895)
[Poème]
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Parker, Dorothy (1893-1967)
[Amerin satirist, poet, critic, and social activist]
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Big Blonde
(1929)
[Short story, winner of the 1929 O. Henry Award
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The big blonde in question is Hazel Morse, who,
when we meet her, is "a model in a wholesale
dress establishment", whose thoughts are largely
devoted to men. Then she meets Herbie Morse,
an attractive man and a heavy drinker. Where
will events now take her?]
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Parker, Sir Gilbert (1862-1932)
[nadian novelist and essayist]
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Pierre and his People (1892) [Novel]
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Mrs. Falchion (1892) [Novel]
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The Translation of a Savage (1893) [Novel]
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The Trespasser (1893) [Novel]
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The Trail of the Sword (1894) [Novel]
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When Valmond me to Pontiac (1895) [Novel]
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A Lover's Diary (1896) [Novel]
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The Pomp of the Lavilettes (1896) [Novel]
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Romany of the Snows (1896) [Novel]
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The Seats Of The Mighty (1896)
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There Is Sorrow On The Sea (1896)
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The Battle Of The Strong (1898) [Novel]
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The Lane That Had No Turning (1900)
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Parables Of A Province (1900)
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The Right Of Way (1901)
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Donovan Pasha, And Some People Of Egypt (1902)
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The March Of The White Guard (1902)
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Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk (1904)
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The Weavers (1907) [Novel]
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The Money Master: being the curious history of Jean Jacques Barbille, his labours, his loves and his ladies (1915)
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
Pioneers of France in the New World (1865) [History]
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The Jesuits in North Ameri in the Seventeenth Century (1867) [History]
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Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV (1877) [History]
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Montlm and Wolfe (1884) [History]
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Historic Handbook of the Northern Tour.
Lakes George and Champlain; Niagara; Montreal; Quebec.
(1885)
[A selection made by Parkman from his celebrated historil books on
the intertwined histories of New France and New England in the 17th
and 18th centuries. Intended for the use of tourists visiting the famous
historil sites along the St. Lawrence Valley.]
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Paston, George [Symonds, Emily Morse] (1860-1936)
[English novelist, critic, and art historian]
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Old Coloured Books (1905)
[A general title, but the monograph has a very specific topic: the
blossoming of etching and engraving in England which began at the end
of the eighteenth century. The monograph includes sixteen nicely chosen
and beautifully printed colour illustrations.
Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827)
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has pride of place, but other artists are by no means overlooked:
quite the contrary!]
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[PGUS #33682]
Pennell, Joseph (1857-1926)
[Amerin artist]
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Wikimedia Commons
The Victorian Web
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Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (1855-1936)
[Amerin travel writer, art critic, biographer and gastronome]
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Our Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
(1893 version)
[Travel book, inspired by the all but identilly named
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768)
by Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), which you will also find in the
Project nada talogue. But unlike Laurence Sterne,
the Pennells travelled on a tandem tricycle. And Joseph Pennell
created a huge and dazzling set of drawings to illustrate their
book! Really, these drawings are the main reason we have added
this book to our talogue.]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #56438]
with
Squire, J. C. [John Collings] (1884-1958)
[English poet and critic]
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A London Reverie. Fifty-six drawings
by Joseph Pennell arranged with an introductory
essay and notes by J. C. Squire (1928)
[Portfolio of drawings, with descriptions and introductory essay]
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La culotte du brigadier (1879)
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Phillpotts, Eden (1862-1960)
[English novelist]
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Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Lynthrope. The Mystery of Sir William Wolf.
(1937)
[Detective novel. Mystery lovers will wolf this one down.]
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Saurus
(1938)
[Novel. If Earth were to receive a visitor from another world, that visitor might not
particularly resemble mankind, and might find our customs curious.]
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Pickthall, Marjorie Lowry Christie (1883-1922) [nadian poet]
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
The Selected Poems of Marjorie Pickthall
(1957)
[Poems selected and with an introduction by Lorne Pierce (1890-1961)
Wikipedia]
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Pierce, Lorne Albert (1890-1961) [nadian critic, biographer, and literary editor]
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nadian Encyclopedia
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New History for Old.
Discussions on aims and methods in writing and teaching history.
(1931)
[An interesting set of lectures on nadian literature and history, with particular reference
to edution]
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Unexplored Fields of nadian Literature
(1932)
[A brief, nicely written, and very well informed overview of nadian literature in English]
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Three Fredericton Poets.
Writers of the University of New Brunswick
and the New Dominion.
Alumni Oration, Enenia, May 19, 1933.
(1933)
[Lecture. It is a curious fact that three of the chief figures of nadian poetry
in English were all born in the space of eleven years, and that all three
were students at the University of New Brunswick.
Pierce discusses these three famous poets:
Charles G. D. Roberts (1860-1943)
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New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia
University of New Brunswick,
Bliss rman (1861-1929)
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Dictionary of nadian Biography
New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia,
and Francis Sherman (1871-1926)
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New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia
University of New Brunswick]
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1957 anthology of poems by Marjorie Pickthall (1883-1922),
which you will find in our talogue under that author's name.
Piper, H. Beam [Henry Beam] (1904-1964)
[Amerin science fiction author]
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Dearest
(March 1951)
[Science fiction short story from near the beginning of Piper's
writing reer. Colonel Ashley Hamilton is participating in a family
intervention, of which he is the target. And a psychiatrist is present
-- yes, they want him declared mentally incompetent! (Needless to say,
he's quite rich.) But sometimes those who seem demented are actually
the only ones who are seeing things as they really are...]
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Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen
(1965)
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[Science fiction novel. Corporal lvin 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! lvin adapts
quickly to his new environment, and becomes known first as
Kalvan, then as Lord Kalvan.]
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Down Styphon!
(November 1965)
[Piper's final science fiction short story, rrying forward the story
of Lord Kalvan, whose earlier history is told in the full-length novel
Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen -- also available from Project nada!]
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Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) [Amerin poet and novelist]
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The Colossus
(1960)
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[Forty-four poems, previously published in various periodils,
but here collected into a single volume]
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The Bell Jar
(1963)
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Poetry Foundation (Emily Gould)
[Plath's only novel, but a famous one, with strong elements of autobiography.
It is 1953, and Esther Greenwood has just arrived in New York City:
she and eleven others have won a contest, the prize being one month of
employment at a famous fashion magazine. But afterwards, depression sets in...]
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Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
[Amerin poet, editor, and author of novels and short stories]
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Metzengerstein
(1832)
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[Horror story. Poe entered the story in a writing contest, it did
not win, but Philadelphia's Saturday Courier wisely decided
to publish it anyway. "Horror and fatality have been stalking abroad
in all ages," Poe begins. "Why then give a date to this story I have
to tell?" And indeed he does not provide a date, but he does provide
a place, Hungary, where "The families of Berlifitzing and Metzengerstein
had been at variance for centuries. Never before were two houses so illustrious, mutually embittered by hostility so deadly." There is
an ancient prophesy, an ancient tapestry, and much more. In short,
we are very much in the world of Poe's most famous stories, and this
inaugural story reveals him as already a master of horror and fantasy!
The University of Adelaide digital edition includes a fine 1909 colour
illustration from British artist
Byam Shaw (1872-1919)
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[University of Adelaide]
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
(1838)
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[Poe's only novel, but a famous one. The hero and narrator is from
the famous seafaring town of Nantucket, then at the height of its
prosperity. Pym's father was "a respectable trader in sea-stores",
so it is not surprising that in his late teens Pym embarks on a series
of adventures at sea. To find out more about these truly astounding
adventures, the simplest course is to read the novel!]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Fall of the House of Usher
(1839)
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[One of Poe's most famous works, included in his 1840 collection
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, whose title nicely
describes the character of this eternal classic. The narrator
of the story has received a letter from his childhood friend
Roderick Usher: "The writer spoke of acute bodily illness -- of
a mental disorder which oppressed him -- and of an earnest desire
to see me, as his best, and indeed his only personal friend, with
a view of attempting, by the cheerfulness of my society, some
alleviation of his malady." Naturally he visits his friend of
former years, and on his arrival is shocked by what he finds! The
University of Adelaide digital edition includes two fine illustrations,
from 1909 one in colour by the British artist Byam Shaw (1872-1919)
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and another one from 1919 in black and white by the Irish illustrator
and stained glass artist Harry Clarke (1889-1931)
Wikipedia.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The three mystery stories, featuring C. Auguste Dupin:
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
(1841)
Wikipedia
[What was the first modern mystery story, and where was it written?
Well, it wasn't written in England, but in the United States, by
Edgar Allan Poe, no less! And it has remained famous ever since
its first appearance. It features C. Auguste Dupin who is "of an
illustrious family", but has little money, and therefore readily
accepts the narrator's offer of covering the rent and maintenance
for both of them in "a time-eaten and grotesque mansion, long
deserted... and tottering to its fall in a retired and desolate
portion of the Faubourg St. Germain." Shortly afterwards they
(and the rest of Paris) learn of the shocking murders in the
Rue Morgue, which interest Dupin greatly. But he is not satisfied
with merely reading reports about the police investigation: "The
Parisian police, so much extolled for acumen, are cunning, but no more."
He would rather make up his own mind, after a personal examination
of the evidence. Fortunately he knows the Prefect of Police
"and shall have no difficulty in obtaining the necessary permission."
Which turns out to be the se, and matters preceed from there!
The University of Adelaide ebook includes a famous 1895 illustration by
Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)
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[University of Adelaide]
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
(1842)
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[Mystery story, "A Sequel to 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'".
As the story opens, things have lmed down in Paris, or, as
Poe's narrator puts it, "continuing to occupy our chambers in
the Faubourg Saint Germain, we gave the Future to the winds,
and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world
around us into dreams." Needless to say, this lm state of
affairs does not continue. For the Paris police are now very
much aware of the talents of the Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin,
and now often consult him in difficult ses, for example the
one involving Marie Roget. This sequel to The Murders in
the Rue Morgue, the first modern mystery story, is
independently famous, being the first mystery story based on a
historil event, to be specific the 1841 death, under circumstances
mysterious to this day, of Mary Rogers of New York City.
Note: We have retained the ebook's spelling "Roget",
and have not added a circumflex accent.]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Purloined Letter
(1844)
Wikipedia
[The final mystery story by Edgar Allan Poe, considered by
its author perhaps the best of his "tales of ratiocination",
as he lled his mysteries. Once again, the Prefect of the
Paris police lls on the services of C. Auguste Dupin for help
with a puzzling se -- the theft of a letter from the royal
apartments, which contains compromising information. But
where n the letter be found?]
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[University of Adelaide]
The Masque of the Red Death (1845 version)
(1845)
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[Short story. The "Red Death" has reached the realms of Prince Prospero,
but he has the answer, at least for the aristocracy. "When his dominions
were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and
light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and
with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his stellated abbeys...
The abbey was amply provisioned. With such preutions the courtiers might
bid defiance to contagion. The external world could take re of itself."
Sounds a lot like the arrival of COVID-19 in our own times, with the
well-off secluding themselves and leaving the "essential workers" and
the marginalized to fend for themselves. That hasn't worked out too well
for anyone. As for Prince Prospero... well, read the story! It comes
with three fine illustrations by the Irish artist Harry Clarke (1889-1931)]
Wikipedia.]
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[University of Adelaide]
Pope, Sir Joseph
(1854-1926)
[nadian civil servant and biographer]
Dictionary of nadian Biography
The Day of Sir John Macdonald:
A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion
(1920)
[History/biography: vol. 29 of "The Chronicles of nada"]
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) [Story book]
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[Poète russe]
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Le Tourbillon de Neige
(1831 [version originale russe]), 1843 [cette traduction])
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[Un beau conte, accompagn?d'une très belle illustration. La fille d'un seigneur russe a «prêt?l'oreille aux paroles galantes d'un pauvre enseigne qui était venu passer quelques jours de cong?dans sa famille. Il va sans dire qu'il était lui-même très-amoureux de Marie...»]
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Powys, T. F. [Theodore Francis] (1875-1953)
[English author]
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Mr. Weston's Good Wine
(1927)
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[Novel, with elements of theology. Mr Weston appears to be a
travelling wine merchant, who has just arrived in the small
village of Folly Down. But why does time suddenly seem to stop?
And why are such strange things suddenly happening?
"In this story of three startled hours of a November
night, a night of sudden apolypse in the village
of Folly Down, Mr. T. F. Powys has produced what is
so far the most memorable of his tales."
(Hamish Miles, Saturday Review, 7 April 1928)]
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Pratt, E. J. [Edwin John Dove] (1882-1964)
[nadian poet]
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nadian Poetry Online
Victoria College, University of Toronto
Many Moods
(1932)
[A collection of forty-four poems, of varying length and subject]
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The Fable of the Goats and Other Poems
(1937)
[Poetry collection: winner of Pratt's first Governor General's Award, in 1937]
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Brébeuf and His Brethren
(1940)
[Poem describing the life of Saint Jean de Brébeuf
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his upbringing in Normandy, his coming to nada, his work among the Hurons
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and his eventual martyrdom
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The poem includes considerable historil detail,
and consequently comes with a map of Huronia.]
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They are Returning
(1945)
[Poem, written at the close of the Second World War, on the imminent return
of the nadians to their native country, and on how the war had changed them]
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Behind the Log
(1947)
[A poem (based on actual events) describing the voyage of convoy S. C. 42 during the Battle of the Atlantic
Wikipedia.
In his foreword Pratt describes the poem's genesis:
"In the spring of 1945 my friend, Professor Lorne Richardson (then a Commander
of the Royal nadian Navy), asked me if I should like to spend some time at sea
in order to gather material and atmosphere for a poem... I was granted every
facility to go out with destroyers and corvettes, and collect from officers and
crews facts, stories, moods, technil terms and the ever-maturing crop of nautil idioms."]
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Towards the Last Spike.
A verse-panorama of the struggle to build the first
nadian transcontinental from the time of the proposed
Terms of Union with British Columbia (1870) to the
hammering of the Last Spike in the Eagle Pass (1885).
(1952)
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[Narrative poem about the building of the nadian Pacific Railway;
winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, 1952]
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Pratt, Fletcher (1897-1956)
[Amerin military historian and science fiction writer]
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U.S.A.: The Aggressor Nation (1938)
[Essay: Pratt, a military historian, examines the proposition that
Amerin foreign and military policy has over the years been morally
superior to that of other nations.]
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The Blue Star (1952)
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[Science fiction novel, one of Pratt's most famous works, set in a universe
not our own: in it there exist the Blue Stars, which are not celestial
bodies, but a special type of jewel: "the witch-stone... barely a finger
joint across, but seeming to have depth, so that even in the ndlelight
all the sapphirean fires of ocean and cold hell were in its heart." The
Blue Stars are held only by certain families, or rather by certain women
of certain families, and their power is wielded not by these woman but by
their men, as one of these men is told: "while you wear this jewel, you
are of the witch-families, and n read the thoughts of those in whose
eyes you look keenly. But only while you are my man and lover, for this
power is yours through me. If you are unfaithful to me, it will become
for you only a piece of glass; and if you do not give it up at once when
I ask it back, there will lie upon you and it a deadly witchery, so that
you n never rest again." This leads to some exciting situations!]
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[PGUS #56889]
Potemkin Village (1953)
[What is a Potemkin village? In the course of this science fiction
novella Pratt, a famous military historian among other things, provides
the answer: "Oh, back in the old imperial days an Empress named therine
went on a progress through the country to see how it was getting along under
her prime minister, Potemkin. He went ahead of her and had villages set up,
just the dummy fronts of houses, with actors to play the part of villagers."
n such a deception be engineered centuries later in a Russian space colony
on Venus?]
Project Gutenberg US
[PGUS #69042]
The Battles that Changed History (1956)
[History]
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[nadian physician and novelist]
nadian Medil Association Journal, March 1931
The Mac's of '37. A Story of The nadian Rebellion.
(1910)
[Novel describing the adventures of our heroine, Marie Malpine, during the Rebellion of 1837
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Laura the Undaunted. A nadian Historil Romance.
(1930)
[Historil novel about the beginnings of Upper nada (Ontario),
centred on the early years of Laura Secord
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and culminating in the events of the War of 1812
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nadian Medil Association Journal, March 1931
Writing under the name of Eric Bohn:
How Hartman Won. A Story of Old Ontario.
(1903)
[Novel, the hero of which, like our novelist, is a medil doctor!]
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Pringle, Henry Fowles (1897-1958)
[Amerin journalist and biographer; Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 1932]
Britain's Best
(1931)
[Profile of the legendary Toronto-born star of the West End and Broadway,
Beatrice Lillie (1894-1989)
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memorable role with Julie Andrews in the 1967 film
Thoroughly Modern Millie
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[PGC #658]
Proust, Marcel
(1871-1922)
[Romancier français]
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?LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU
Du côt?de chez Swann (1913)
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?l'ombre des jeune filles en fleurs
(1918)
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Le côt?de Guermantes
(1921-22)
[Roman]
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Sodome et Gomorrhe
(1922-23)
[Roman]
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La Prisonnière
(1923)
[Roman: édition préparée par
Robert Proust (1873-1935) et
Jacques Rivière (1886-1925)
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Le temps retrouv?/i>
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[Écrivain anglais]
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La Bible d'Amiens
(1880 [version anglaise], 1904 [cette traduction])
[Traduction par Proust de The Bible of Amiens: histoire et philosophie]
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You might also be interested in reading
Ruskin's original English version,
although it naturally lacks Proust's famous preface and notes.
Sésame et les Lys :
des trésors des rois, des jardins des reines
(1865 [version anglaise], 1906
[cette traduction])
[Traduction de de Sesame and Lilies :
Two lectures delivered at Manchester in 1864: regards sur la littérature et l'édution.
Préface et commentaire par Proust.]
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[PG nada no 700]
You n find Ruskin's work in the original English at
Project Gutenberg US.
Putman, John Harold (1866-1940)
[nadian teacher and administrator]
J. H. Putman Public School, Ottawa (S. Fraser)
Egerton Ryerson and Edution in Upper nada
(1912)
[Biography of Egerton Ryerson
Wikipedia
Dictionary of nadian Biography,
with a focus on his crucial role in creating the edutional system of Ontario.]
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Raven-Hill, Leonard (1867-1942)
[English author and illustrator]
Tate Collection
Our Battalion. Being some slight impressions of
His Majesty's Auxiliary Forces, in mp and Elsewhere.
(1902)
[A not entirely reverent account of aspects of life in the British armed forces, published by Punch magazine
Wikipedia: Raven-Hill was for many years a contributor to that celebrated weekly.]
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Raverat, Gwen [Gwendolen Mary] (1885-1957)
[English artist]
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Period Piece. A mbridge Childhood.
(1952)
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[Autobiography, marvellously written and profusely illustrated by its author. Raverat was a granddaughter of Charles Darwin
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Read, David Breakenridge (1823-1904)
[nadian lawyer, municipal politician, and historian]
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The Lieutenant-Governors of Upper nada and Ontario 1792-1899
(1913)
[Historil biographies: with many portraits of the viceregal luminaries
by Ontario illustrator James Everett Laughlin (1870-1944)]
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Reed, Charles Bert
(1866-1940)
[Amerin obstetrician and historian]
Masters of the Wilderness
(1914; initial essay first published in 1909)
[Essays on the history of the Hudson's Bay Company, on the fur trade, and