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THE PG CANADA CATALOGUE / LA COLLECTION PG CANADAComplete catalogue / Notre collectionA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X New releases / Nouveauts2015/09/16: OUR FIFTH NOVEL BY JOHN TAINE TAKES PLACE IN A MYSTERY-SHROUDED REGION OF CENTRAL ASIA! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY JOHN TAINE UNTIL 2031 !!Taine, John [Bell, Eric Temple] (1883-1960) [American mathematician and science fiction author] Wikipedia The Purple Sapphire (1924) [Adventure/science fiction novel, starting in England but moving to India and Central Asia. The daughter of a British general has been kidnapped. The search for her leads to the discovery of a lost super-civilization, somewhere north of Tibet. Naturally sapphires, large and valuable ones, come into the story!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1273] 2015/09/12: OUR FOURTH SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC BY THE SCOTTISH-AMERICAN MATHEMATICIAN JOHN TAINE TAKES PLACE IN ANTARCTICA! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY JOHN TAINE UNTIL 2031 !!Taine, John [Bell, Eric Temple] (1883-1960) [American mathematician and science fiction author] Wikipedia The Greatest Adventure (1929) [Science fiction novel. A ship runs over a weird monster in Antarctic waters and finds that it's in the middle of a huge oil slick with hundreds of dead monsters. A wealthy American scientist finances a follow-up expedition, which encounters millions more of the monsters, live and underground. But when and how did these creatures arise?] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1272] 2015/09/08: FROM THE CLOSE OF THE JAZZ AGE, A BRILLIANT COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY LOUIS BROMFIELD WHO HAD WON THE PULITZER PRIZE IN 1927! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY LOUIS BROMFIELD UNTIL 2027 !!Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956) [American novelist, journalist, and organic farmer] Wikipedia Awake and Rehearse (1929) [Short stories, originally published separately, now collected in book form by the already famous novelist, taking place in various locales. "These are stories, for the most part, of women. And what women! Hogarth and Daumier might have battled for them as models...hags, harlots, spinsters, hoofers, jeunes filles, grandes dames, priestesses..." (Gladys Graham, Saturday Review, 1 June 1929)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1271] 2015/09/02: WE BEGIN SEPTEMBER WITH A FULL-LENGTH NOVEL BY SCIENCE FICTION LEGEND JOHN TAINE! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY JOHN TAINE UNTIL 2031 !!Taine, John [Bell, Eric Temple] (1883-1960) [American mathematician and science fiction author] Wikipedia Before the Dawn (1934) [Science fiction novel. Scientists invent a "televisor" device that can detect the imprint that light leaves on objects, similar to the audio imprints in the grooves of a phonograph record. The device can play back the light imprints, letting the viewers see what happened at the time, in either real time or greatly speeded up. The playback device smacks of the Star Trek holodeck Wikipedia, in that the scientists can walk around inside the played-back activity, but they can't hear what's going on. In any case they make some remarkable discoveries...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1270] 2015/08/29: OUR FIRST WORK BY JOSEPH CONRAD IS HIS FINAL NOVEL, SUSPENSE SET IN THE TIME OF NAPOLEON! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULD STILL OFFER YOU THIS EBOOK BUT WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ITS FRONTISPIECE BY SCOTTISH ARTIST MUIRHEAD BONE (OR ANY OF HIS FINE ILLUSTRATIONS) UNTIL 2024 !!Conrad, Joseph [Korzeniowski, Jzef Teodor Konrad] (1857-1924) [Polish mariner and novelist] Wikipedia Suspense (1925) [Novel, left incomplete by Conrad, who gave instructions that no one was to complete it; but what he left was in itself a sizeable piece of work. The story is set in Italy at the very end of the Napoleonic wars, and features the young Englishman Cosmo Latham, who at the novel's opening is just arriving in Genoa, not so very far from the former emperor's place of exile, Elba. Our ebook includes a frontispiece by the Scottish artist Muirhead Bone (1876-1953) Wikipedia.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1269] 2015/08/23: OUR SECOND CLASSIC NOVEL BY SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR JOHN TAINE! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY JOHN TAINE UNTIL 2031 !!Taine, John [Bell, Eric Temple] (1883-1960) [American mathematician and science fiction author] Wikipedia The Iron Star (1930) Wikipedia [Novel. An expedition to Africa culminates in the discovery that "evolution" is not a one-way process.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1268] 2015/08/16: A JAMES BOND NOVEL, AND A FINE ONE MOONRAKER! IDEAL READING FOR YOUR SUMMER VACATION!! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY IAN FLEMING UNTIL 2035 !!Fleming, Ian [Ian Lancaster] (1908-1964) [English intelligence officer and novelist] Wikipedia Moonraker (1955) Wikipedia [The third James Bond novel. It is set in England, specifically the county of Kent. It features a rocket ("The Moonraker"), a fine villain (Sir Hugo Drax), a famous game of bridge, and much else. The 1979 film Wikipedia is quite different from the novel: read the novel and decide which you prefer. (Speaking personally, we like the novel!)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1267] 2015/08/12: TODAY SINCLAIR LEWIS ENTERS OUR CATALOGUE THE FIRST AMERICAN AUTHOR TO WIN THE NOBEL PRIZE! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY SINCLAIR LEWIS UNTIL 2022 !!Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930] Wikipedia Nobelprize.org Ann Vickers (1933) Wikipedia [Novel, the basis for the 1933 movie Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia 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)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1266] 2015/08/03: OUR LATEST TITLE BY EDGAR WALLACE IS HIS FASCINATING AUTOBIOGRAPHY PERFECT SUMMERTIME READING !Wallace, Edgar [Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar] (1875-1932) [English novelist, playwright, and screenplay writer] Wikipedia BFI screenonline Edgar Wallace. A Short Autobiography. (1926) [Original title: People. A Short Autobiography., but renamed for the 1929 edition. As you might guess, it is Edgar Wallace's autobiography. "He has told the tale in a breezy, straightaway fashion... It is really not long enough. One regrets that Mr. Wallace stopped having adventures in order to write of imaginary ones." (Saturday Review, 11 May 1929)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1265] 2015/07/30: OUR THIRD NOVEL BY B. A. McKELVIE IS SET IN BRITISH COLUMBIA DURING THE FRASER CANYON GOLD RUSH! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY B. A. McKELVIE UNTIL 2031 !!McKelvie, Bruce Alistair (1889-1960) [Canadian journalist, historian, and novelist] ABCBookworld The Black Canyon. 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 Canyon War Wikipedia, and the boys find themselves in the middle of some dangerous and exciting events!] CAUTION: certain passages in this novel may seem racist by the standards of today. HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1264] 2015/07/25: A NEW AUTHOR TODAY: SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR JOHN TAINE OUR INAUGURAL WORK BY HIM IS HIS CLASSIC NOVEL THE TIME STREAM!! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY JOHN TAINE UNTIL 2031 !!Taine, John [Bell, Eric Temple] (1883-1960) [American mathematician and science fiction author] Wikipedia The Time Stream (1946 version) Wikipedia [Science fiction novel, originally published in serial form in 1931-32. The story involves time exploration, not quite the same thing as time travel you'll see what we mean when you read the novel! Dinosaurs show up and play a major role. An enduring classic!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1263] 2015/07/22: OUR EIGHTH MYSTERY TITLE BY CYRIL HARE INVOLVES (1) HIS FAMOUS SLEUTH, FRANCIS PETTIGREW, (2) AN ORCHESTRA, AND (3) A MURDER! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY OF OUR EIGHT CYRIL HARE EBOOKS UNTIL 2029 !!Hare, Cyril [Clark, Alfred Alexander Gordon] (1900-1958) [English judge and novelist] Wikipedia When the Wind Blows (1949) [Mystery novel; some editions use the alternative title The Wind Blows Death. After giving some legal assistance to the local amateur orchestra, Francis Pettigrew finds himself named the orchestra's treasurer, which complicates his otherwise idyllic existence. A murder then occurs, making things even more complicated.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1262] 2015/07/17: TODAY'S EBOOK BY CYRIL HARE IS AN ENDURING CLASSIC: IT'S AN EXCELLENT MYSTERY, AND MARKS THE FIRST APPEARANCE IN LITERATURE OF HARE'S FAMOUS LAWYER-SLEUTH FRANCIS PETTIGREW! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY OF OUR SEVEN CYRIL HARE EBOOKS UNTIL 2029 !!Hare, Cyril [Clark, Alfred Alexander Gordon] (1900-1958) [English judge and novelist] Wikipedia Tragedy at Law (1942) [Mystery novel. Even in wartime, the justice system continues its operations. Which explains how London barrister Francis Pettigrew finds himself travelling from town to town on the assize circuit Wikipedia. Far removed from London he may be, but Pettigrew discovers that life on the circuit is far from dull!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1261] 2015/07/12: OUR FOURTH CLASSIC CHILDREN'S NOVEL BY EDWARD EAGER! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY EDWARD EAGER UNTIL 2035 !!Eager, Edward [Edward McMaken] (1911-1964) [American novelist, librettist, and translator] Wikipedia Seven-Day Magic (1962) [The seventh and final novel in the series initiated by Half Magic. Several children are in the local public library, and one of the girls finds a small red book, well used. The librarian tells them they can keep the book for only seven days. The book grants wishes, but only for the seven days they're allowed to have it. Adventures ensue...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1260] 2015/07/11: A CLASSIC NOVEL FOR CHILDREN (THE THIRD IN OUR CATALOGUE!) BY EDWARD EAGER! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY EDWARD EAGER UNTIL 2035 !!Eager, Edward [Edward McMaken] (1911-1964) [American novelist, librettist, and translator] Wikipedia Magic or Not? (1959) [Novel, fifth in the series initiated by Half Magic. This time, there are four children to whom odd things are happening, but... they're not sure if it's actual magic making things happen, or if things just work out in the best possible way!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1259] 2015/07/07: TODAY'S EBOOK IS AN ENHANCED DIGITAL EDITION OF CHARLES NORDHOFF'S THE PEARL LAGOON WE NOW INCLUDE CHARLES NORDHOFF'S PREFACE, AND THE ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY ANTON OTTO FISCHER! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY CHARLES NORDHOFF UNTIL 2018, OR ANY EBOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY ANTON OTTO FISCHER UNTIL 2033 !!Nordhoff, Charles Bernard (1887-1947) [American novelist] Wikipedia 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) Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1258] Previous edition (text, but no preface or illustrations): HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #769] 2015/07/04: TODAY'S EBOOK IS A VERY GREAT CLASSIC ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S FIRST AND PERHAPS FINEST NOVEL! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY UNTIL 2032 !!Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1954] Wikipedia Nobelprize.org The Sun Also Rises (1926) Wikipedia [Novel, following the progress of a group of friends as they travel from Paris, cross the Pyrenees, and end up in Pamplona, Spain. "Written in terse, precise, and aggressively fresh prose, and containing some of the finest dialogue yet written in this country, the story achieves a vividness and a sustained tension that make it unquestionably one of the events of a year rich in interesting books" (Cleveland B. Chase, Saturday Review, 11 December 1926)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1257] 2015/06/18: OUR SECOND NOVEL BY EDWARD EAGER CONTINUES THE STORY HE BEGAN IN HALF MAGIC WHICH YOU WILL ALSO FIND IN OUR CATALOGUE! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY EDWARD EAGER UNTIL 2035 !!Eager, Edward [Edward McMaken] (1911-1964) [American novelist, librettist, and translator] Wikipedia Knight's Castle (1956) [Novel, second in the series initiated by Half Magic. Four children discover a magic item, an enchanted toy soldier. But an act of magic can happen only every three days!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1256] 2015/06/17: TODAY WE'RE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT OUR VERY FIRST TITLE BY THE CELEBRATED COLLABORATORS NORDHOFF AND HALL! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY NORDHOFF AND HALL UNTIL 2022 !!Nordhoff, Charles Bernard (1887-1947) [American novelist] Wikipedia with: Hall, James Norman (1887-1951) [American novelist] Wikipedia Men Without Country (1942) [The novel opens early in World War II, just after the fall of France. An American reporter is in London to get stories on Frenchmen who have fled France to fight with Charles de Gaulle. He meets with a Captain Freycinet, who has quite a story to tell, a story which begins in the Caribbean. "The famous authors of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' have passed a neat, small miracle. In a little over a hundred pages, in small format and good large type, they have told a tale of escape, patriotism, French Guiana, Vichy, Free France, everything tight and right and thrilling. This is old craftsmanship at work, spinning a yarn of the most contemporary flavor..." (N. L. Rothman, Saturday Review, 27 June 1942)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1255] 2015/06/14: TODAY, WE CONGRATULATE AND THANK THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR THEIR APPARENT SUCCESS IN BLOCKING THE TYRANNICAL "TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP": LET'S HOPE IT STAYS BLOCKED! HERE IN CANADA, OUR POLITICAL PARTIES JUST DON'T SEEM TO CARE, WITH ONE EXCEPTION THANK YOU, GREEN PARTY OF CANADA !! TO CELEBRATE THIS VICTORY FOR THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, WE'RE POSTING A VERY SPECIAL EBOOK, A BRILLIANTLY IMAGINATIVE CHILDREN'S NOVEL BY EDWARD EAGER! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY EDWARD EAGER UNTIL 2035 !!Eager, Edward [Edward McMaken] (1911-1964) [American novelist, librettist, and translator] Wikipedia Half Magic (1954) [Does magic really exist? Four children are wondering this, when suddenly... Well, we're not going to give the story away, but we will say that this is a genuine children's classic! "This story belongs to the E. Nesbit school of fantasy, in which magic pursues its inevitable course... a book whose total contribution is one of fun and relaxation." (Elizabeth Nesbitt, Saturday Review, 15 May 1954)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1254] 2015/06/12: A CLASSIC COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY UNTIL 2032 !!Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1954] Wikipedia Nobelprize.org Winner Take Nothing (1933) Wikipedia [Fourteen short stories, some of them extremely famous: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, for example, and The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1253] 2015/06/01: OUR FIRST THREE TITLES BY LOUIS BROMFIELD WERE NOVELS; OUR FOURTH IS AN EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY LOUIS BROMFIELD UNTIL 2027 !!Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956) [American novelist, journalist, and organic farmer] Wikipedia The World We Live In (1944) [Nine short stories, set in various locales (the U.S., Monte Carlo, Switzerland...) and with various sets of characters, but all showing Louis Bromfield's creative powers and unobtrusively excellent style of writing.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1252] 2015/05/25: OUR THIRD TITLE BY LOUIS BROMFIELD A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN FAMILY SAGA! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY LOUIS BROMFIELD UNTIL 2027 !!Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956) [American novelist, journalist, and organic farmer] Wikipedia Mrs. Parkington (1943) [Novel: the basis for the 1944 film of the same name Wikipedia. Mrs. Parkington, born in Leaping Rock, Nevada, has ascended the social ladder and is now a lady of great wealth. But the children of the wealthy often lack the qualities of their forebears. "'Mrs. Parkington' is in the old and rich tradition of Thackeray and Trollope, Howells and Mrs. Wharton... if the book is tuned to the familiar theme from shirt-sleeves to shirt-sleeves in three generations, the melody is full-blooded, the interest does not flag." (Howard Mumford Jones, Saturday Review, 9 January 1943)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1251] 2015/05/24: A YEAR AFTER FINISHING HIS FAMOUS BEAU GESTE TRILOGY, P. C. WREN PUBLISHED A FURTHER VOLUME NOT A NOVEL, BUT A FINE SET OF STORIES !Wren, P. C. [Percival Christopher] (1885-1941) [English novelist] Wikipedia Good Gestes. Stories of Beau Geste, his Brothers, and certain of their Comrades in the French Foreign Legion. (1929) [Twelve short stories, accurately described by the book's title. "The Geste brothers figure again in a series of gruesome short stories of the Foreign Legion. Each one is a masterpiece of adventure and horror." (The Bookman [U.S.] September 1929)] CAUTION: certain language in these stories may seem racist by the standards of today. HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1250] 2015/03/15: OUR FIRST EBOOK BY IRELAND'S MAURICE WALSH IS HIS MOST FAMOUS SHORT STORY, THE QUIET MAN: IT INSPIRED THE CLASSIC 1952 MOVIE! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY MAURICE WALSH UNTIL 2035 !!Walsh, Maurice (1879-1964) [Irish novelist] Wikipedia The Quiet Man (1933) [Short story, the basis for the 1952 film Wikipedia of the same name, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. Shawn Kelvin had left Ireland at age twenty, but fifteen years later he returns to the land of his birth. As the story's title suggests, he is a quiet man, and a quiet life is what he is seeking. But his arrival back is not free of incident!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1249] 2015/05/11: AS OF TODAY, WE OFFER YOU ALL THREE TITLES IN P. C. WREN'S BEAU GESTE TRILOGY !Wren, P. C. [Percival Christopher] (1885-1941) [English novelist] Wikipedia Beau Ideal (1928) [The third of the three central novels of the Beau Geste series. John Geste, whom we met in the first novel, is missing in Africa. Isobel Rivers asks a wealthy American friend, Otis Vanbrugh, to find him. The obvious first step: Otis must join the French Foreign Legion!] CAUTION: certain language in the novel may seem racist by the standards of today. HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1248] 2015/05/02: IN 1926, TWO YEARS AFTER HIS SMASH HIT BEAU GESTE, P. C. WREN PUBLISHED THIS SEQUEL, SET ONCE AGAIN IN THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION, BUT THIS TIME FEATURING NOT AN ENGLISHMAN, BUT MAJOR DE BEAUJOLAIS, AN OFFICER IN THE LEGION !Wren, P. C. [Percival Christopher] (1885-1941) [English novelist] Wikipedia Beau Sabreur (1926) [Novel, the first sequel to Beau Geste, and like its famous predecessor set in the French Foreign Legion. But there are some major differences! Our hero is Major Henri de Beaujolais, a veteran of the Spahis Wikipedia and of the French Secret Service. Mind you, he is an Old Etonian Wikipedia! "We unreservedly recommend 'Beau Sabreur' as one of the most eminently readable books of recent years." (Saturday Review, 21 August 1926)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1247] 2015/04/13: P. C. WREN'S CLASSIC TALE OF ADVENTURE IN THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION !Wren, P. C. [Percival Christopher] (1885-1941) [English novelist] Wikipedia Beau Geste (1924) [The first and most famous novel in Wren's Beau Geste trilogy, reflecting the views of its time, but an evergreen classic nonetheless. The three orphaned Geste brothers leave England to join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa: much adventure ensues. The novel was followed by two sequels, and four film adaptations.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1246] 2015/04/03: OUR FOURTH TITLE BY ROBERT E. HOWARD! !Howard, Robert E. [Robert Ervin] (1906-1936) [American fantasy and horror author] Wikipedia Skull-Face (October-December 1929) Wikipedia [Novella, set in London, but Atlantis comes into the picture; also hashish!] CAUTION: certain elements of plot and language may seem racist by the standards of today. HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1245] 2015/03/31: WE CELEBRATE THE LAST DAY OF MARCH BY BRINGING YOU THE FOURTH AND FINAL NOVEL IN FORD MADOX FORD'S PARADE'S END CYCLE !Ford, Ford Madox [Hueffer, Ford Madox] (1873-1939) [English novelist] Wikipedia Last Post (1928) Wikipedia [The fourth and final novel in the Parade's End tetralogy. Christopher Tietjens is now living in rural Sussex, making his living as a dealer in old furniture. The novel is somewhat separate from the earlier three, since we are now well and truly in peacetime. But memories of the War linger on; and Tietjens' family ensures that his life is not unduly peaceful.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1244] 2015/03/29: TODAY, WE'RE DELIGHTED TO BRING TO OUR CATALOGUE THE THIRD NOVEL IN FORD MADOX FORD'S PARADE'S END CYCLE !Ford, Ford Madox [Hueffer, Ford Madox] (1873-1939) [English novelist] Wikipedia A Man Could Stand Up. A Novel. (1926) Wikipedia [The third novel of the Parade's End cycle. The First World War is ending, and life continues, but it is not the same life as before. Christopher Tietjens must now adjust his personal life and his professional life to the changes that peacetime has brought.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1243] 2015/03/24: TODAY'S EBOOK IS THE SECOND NOVEL IN FORD MADOX FORD'S PARADE'S END CYCLE! YES, THAT PARADE'S END THE ONE MADE INTO A BBC TELEVISION SERIES WRITTEN BY TOM STOPPARD, AND STARRING BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH! LOOK IN OUR CATALOGUE AND YOU'LL FIND THE NOVEL WHICH STARTS THE CYCLE, SOME DO NOT... !Ford, Ford Madox [Hueffer, Ford Madox] (1873-1939) [English novelist] Wikipedia No More Parades. A Novel. (1925) Wikipedia [The second of the Parade's End novels, set behind the front lines in France in 1915. Christopher Tietjens is now a Captain in charge of some major logistics operations. These operations include moving a group of railway workers, volunteers from Canada! Captain Tietjens is more of an idealist at the novel's start than at its end.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1242] 2015/03/19: TODAY'S EBOOK IS NEVIL SHUTE'S FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL, AND THE TWELFTH OF HIS NOVELS TO JOIN OUR CATALOGUE! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY OF NEVIL SHUTE'S NOVELS UNTIL 2031 !!Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist] Wikipedia Australian Dictionary of Biography Marazan (1951 [1952] revised edition of the 1926 original version, with a new Author's Note) Wikipedia [Shute's first published novel, republished with minor revisions, and a new introduction by our author. The plot involves aviation, drug smuggling, Italy... also Marazan Sound, in the Isles of Scilly Wikipedia, off Cornwall.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1241] 2015/03/12: IN 1932, THE SWORD IN THE STONE STILL LAY IN T. H. WHITE'S FUTURE. BUT IT WAS AN AGE OF CLASSIC MYSTERY NOVELS NO WONDER HE WAS INSPIRED TO WRITE TODAY'S EBOOK THE FOURTH OF HIS TITLES TO JOIN OUR CATALOGUE! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY T. H. WHITE UNTIL 2035 !!White, T. H. [Terence Hanbury] (1906-1964) [English novelist] Wikipedia Darkness at Pemberley (1932) [Mystery novel, partly set at Cambridge University, where White himself had recently studied, but also at Pemberley, in Derbyshire. If you are an admirer of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, you might surmise that the name of Darcy comes into the novel. You will be right!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1240] 2015/03/09: OUR LATEST NOVEL BY NEVIL SHUTE HAS TWO LOCALES: AUSTRALIA AND OREGON! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY OF NEVIL SHUTE'S NOVELS UNTIL 2031 !!Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist] Wikipedia Australian Dictionary of Biography Beyond the Black Stump (1956) Wikipedia [Novel. An American geologist, Stanton Laird, arrives in a very remote area of Western Australia, and meets Mollie Regan. There is a mutual attraction, but also some degree of cultural conflict. We'd tell you more, but we don't want to give away the plot if you're curious and not very patient, check the Wikipedia article!] CAUTION: Certain language in this ebook today would be considered racist. HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1239] 2015/03/05: AS OF TODAY, WE OFFER SIX OF MAZO DE LA ROCHE'S MAGNIFICENT JALNA NOVELS CANADIAN CLASSICS, AND MARVELLOUS READING ! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY MAZO DE LA ROCHE UNTIL 2032 !!de la Roche, Mazo (1879-1961) [Canadian novelist and playwright] Wikipedia Young Renny (1935) [The fourth Jalna novel. Renny and Meg Whiteoak are now in their twenties, a complicated time of life for anyone, but particularly for Whiteoaks. Family members of various ages, from the formidable Adeline down, participate fully in the turbulent but generally happy life of Jalna.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1238] 2015/02/26: AFTER COMPLETING THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING, T. H. WHITE PUBLISHED THIS FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF HIS STAY IN THE WEST OF IRELAND THE THIRD OF HIS WORKS TO JOIN OUR CATALOGUE! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY T. H. WHITE UNTIL 2035 !!White, T. H. [Terence Hanbury] (1906-1964) [English novelist] Wikipedia The Godstone and the Blackymor (1959) [Travel memoir. Our author visits the West of Ireland, where the distant past is not so distant. "The style is beyond criticism... And the mind that controls the style is educated and intelligent, humorous, reflective, and entirely engaging." (Leonard Wibberley, Saturday Review, 13 June 1959)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1237] 2015/02/23: OUR TENTH NOVEL BY NEVIL SHUTE IS A CLASSIC WARTIME ESCAPE ADVENTURE, AND WAS AN IMMEDIATE HIT WHEN PUBLISHED! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY OF NEVIL SHUTE'S NOVELS UNTIL 2031 !!Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist] Wikipedia Australian Dictionary of Biography Pied Piper (1942) Wikipedia [Novel. An elderly Englishman, retired from the law, goes to France for a holiday. But it's April 1940 and World War II has just begun! Getting to France proves easy, but the return trip to England is a very different matter especially since he's no longer travelling alone! The film adaptation Wikipedia, starring Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, and Anne Baxter, was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1236] 2014/11/19: A PIRATE STORY BY ROBERT E. HOWARD !Howard, Robert E. [Robert Ervin] (1906-1936) [American fantasy and horror author] Wikipedia Black Vulmea's Vengeance (November 1938) [Story. The pirate Black Terence Vulmea encounters a cruel British Navy captain 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 America, Vulmea and the captain encounter hostile savages, escaped slaves, and a giant anaconda. The thrill count is high, as is the body count.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1235] 2015/02/17: A CLASSIC AND WONDERFUL BOOK FOR CHILDREN FROM AN UNEXPECTED AUTHOR THE LEGENDARY GENETICIST AND STATISTICIAN J. B. S. HALDANE! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU THIS EBOOK UNTIL 2035 !!Haldane, J. B. S. [John Burdon Sanderson] (1892-1964) [Indian geneticist and statistician] Wikipedia My Friend Mr Leakey (1937) [Six marvellously witty stories for children, famous to this day] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1234] 2015/02/14: OUR VALENTINE'S DAY PRESENT TO YOU: A NOVEL BY T. H. WHITE, FAMOUS FOR THE SWORD IN THE STONE, AND AUTHOR OF MANY OTHER WONDERFUL WORKS SUCH AS TODAY'S EBOOK! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY EBOOKS BY T. H. WHITE UNTIL 2035 !!White, T. H. [Terence Hanbury] (1906-1964) [English novelist] Wikipedia Mistress Masham's Repose (1946) Wikipedia [Novel. Maria is ten years old, and lives in a gigantic house, or rather palace, in rural England, which is gradually collapsing: its name is Malplaquet. She is an orphan, and has a guardian, Mr. Hater, and a governess, Miss Brown, neither of them easy to get along with. Perhaps you are hooked already! Here's what a contemporary reviewer, Basil Davenport, had to say: "When all is said, 'Mistress Masham's Repose' is a book like no other. All its extravagances hang together, like the rococo and chinoiserie in which the builders of Malplaquet delighted." (Saturday Review, 28 September 1946)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1233] 2015/02/08: MYSTERY CONNOISSEURS ADMIRE THE NOVELS OF CYRIL HARE AND SO DO WE! WE NOW OFFER SIX OF HIS CLASSIC NOVELS ! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU ANY OF THESE SIX EBOOKS UNTIL 2029 !!Hare, Cyril [Clark, Alfred Alexander Gordon] (1900-1958) [English judge and novelist] Wikipedia Suicide Excepted (1939) [Mystery novel. Whether a death was a suicide or not can be very important to insurance companies. "Brainy and brisk." (Saturday Review, 11 December 1954)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1232] 2015/01/29: WE NOW OFFER FIVE NOVELS FROM MAZO DE LA ROCHE'S MASTERPIECE, THE JALNA SERIES ! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU THIS EBOOK UNTIL 2032 !!de la Roche, Mazo (1879-1961) [Canadian novelist and playwright] Wikipedia Mary Wakefield (1949) [The third Jalna novel, taking place in the 1890s, years before the events described in Jalna and Whiteoaks. The recently widowed Philip Whiteoak has two young children, and needs a governess: the young and beautiful Mary Wakefield, freshly arrived from England. Her arrival naturally causes great commotion at Jalna. "Sometimes we have thought we had been given a little too much of Jalna... this volume convinces us that we really needed more of the chronicle. Taken as a whole, the work begins to stand up as one of the best achievements of Canadian literature". (Allan Nevins, Saturday Review, 29 January 1949). The novel is dedicated to the celebrated Canadian sculptor Walter Allward (1876-1955) Wikipedia, creator of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1231] 2015/01/26: AN ESSAY ON JAMAICA BY IAN FLEMING! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU THIS EBOOK UNTIL 2035 !!Fleming, Ian [Ian Lancaster] (1908-1964) [English intelligence officer and novelist] Wikipedia Jamaica (December 1947) [One of a series of articles in Horizon Wikipedia, by different authors, about the advantages of living in various places around the world. Ian Fleming contributed this essay on Jamaica, where he had just built his house, Goldeneye Wikipedia.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1230] 2015/01/21: OUR FIFTH CLASSIC MYSTERY NOVEL BY CYRIL HARE ! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU THIS EBOOK UNTIL 2029 !!Hare, Cyril [Clark, Alfred Alexander Gordon] (1900-1958) [English judge and novelist] Wikipedia He Should Have Died Hereafter (1958) [Mystery novel; some editions use the alternate title Untimely Death. Francis Pettigrew is now retired from his law practice. But retiring from sleuthing is not so easy, as he discovers on what was supposed to be a holiday to remote and beautiful Exmoor Wikipedia.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1229] 2015/01/13: IT'S A PLEASURE TO WELCOME JAMES BOND TO OUR CATALOGUE! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU THIS EBOOK UNTIL 2035 !!Fleming, Ian [Ian Lancaster] (1908-1964) [English intelligence officer and novelist] Wikipedia Goldfinger (1959) Wikipedia [Novel. James Bond encounters Mr Auric Goldfinger, who is passionate about gambling, golf, and of course, gold. That's where Fort Knox Wikipedia comes in!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1228] 2015/01/12: OUR VIRGINIA WOOLF SERIES CONTINUES WITH HER CELEBRATED 1929 STUDY OF WOMEN AND LITERATURE, A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN !!Woolf, Virginia [Adeline Virginia] (1882-1941) [English novelist and essayist] Wikipedia A Room of One's Own (1929) Wikipedia [Woolf's famous, influential, and wide-ranging treatise on women and fiction, written in an easy and very readable style, reflecting its origins as a pair of public readings] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1227] 2015/01/08: IAN FLEMING (NEW TO THE CANADIAN PUBLIC DOMAIN, AND TO OUR CATALOGUE) LIKED CARS: HE EVEN WROTE AN ESSAY ABOUT HIS THUNDERBIRD! FIGHT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS! IF THEY WERE IN EFFECT TODAY, WE COULDN'T OFFER YOU THIS EBOOK UNTIL 2035 !!Fleming, Ian [Ian Lancaster] (1908-1964) [English intelligence officer and novelist] Wikipedia Automobilia (April 1958) [Essay. Ian Fleming, like his creation James Bond, was fond of cars. Here he fondly describes his Ford Thunderbird and gives an account of going for a drive in Jamaica with his friend Nol Coward!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1226] 2015/01/05: WE BEGIN 2015 WITH A GREAT CLASSIC WHICH ARRIVED IN THE CANADIAN PUBLIC DOMAIN ON JANUARY 1ST T. H. WHITE'S THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING. IF THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP "FREE TRADE" PROPOSALS WERE IN EFFECT TODAY AND COPYRIGHTS WERE EXTENDED, YOU'D HAVE TO WAIT ANOTHER TWENTY YEARS FOR THIS EBOOK. IT'S ELECTION YEAR IN CANADA TELL YOUR CANDIDATES THAT THE PUBLIC DOMAIN BELONGS TO US, THE PEOPLE OF CANADA, AND WE EXPECT OUR GOVERNMENT TO STAND UP FOR US AND DEFEND OUR PUBLIC DOMAIN AGAINST ATTACKS BY FOREIGN CORPORATIONS AND THEIR GOVERNMENTS !White, T. H. [Terence Hanbury] (1906-1964) [English novelist] Wikipedia The Once and Future King (1958) Wikipedia [White's famous tetralogy: four novels about the early life and subsequent reign of King Arthur. The first three novels had previously appeared separately, but the first of them, The Sword in the Stone, was revised substantially for this 1958 republication. The novels, like life itself, are a mixture of tragedy and comedy.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1225] 2014/12/31: WE WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR! TO ADD TO YOUR PLEASURE, WE'RE DELIGHTED TO OFFER YOU C.S. LEWIS'S THIRD AND FINAL SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL, WHICH COMPLETES THE STORY BEGUN IN OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET AND CONTINUED IN PERELANDRA. ALL THREE NOVELS ARE SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS, AND YOU WILL FIND ALL THREE IN OUR CATALOGUE !Lewis, C. S. [Clive Staples] (1898-1963) [Irish critic, novelist, poet, and theologian] Wikipedia That Hideous Strength. A modern fairy-tale for grown-ups. (1945) Wikipedia 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1224] 2014/12/25: FOR THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS IT IS OUR PLEASURE TO OFFER YOU TWELVE MYSTERY STORIES (ONE FOR EACH DAY!) BY BARONESS ORCZY, FEATURING LADY MOLLY ROBERTSON-KIRK BETTER KNOWN AS LADY MOLLY OF SCOTLAND YARD !Baroness Orczy [Orczy, Emmuska] (1865-1947) [English novelist] Wikipedia Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (1910) Wikipedia [Twelve mystery stories. Early on the narrator comments that "we shouldn't have half so many undetected crimes if some of the so-called 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 Gutenberg Canada catalogue: Hulbert Footner's Madame Storey!)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1223] 2014/12/20: TODAY'S EBOOK IS POETRY (RATHER GOOD LIGHT VERSE) FROM AN UNEXPECTED SOURCE THE VANCOUVER BOARD OF TRADE !Beeman, Herbert (d. 1931) [Canadian businessman and poet] ABCBookworld For Our Bureau. Being the Bureau Ballads contributed to Volumes One and Two of "Via Vancouver," the journal of the Foreign Trade Bureau of the Vancouver Board of Trade, by the Secretary, Herbert Beeman. (1924) [Expertly written light poems, taking as their inspiration the subject matter of the weekly Luncheon Lectures at the Foreign Trade Bureau of the Vancouver Board of Trade. Trade patterns being what they are, some of the poems are surprisingly topical even today.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1222] 2014/12/11: A SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC BY C. S. LEWIS !Lewis, C. S. [Clive Staples] (1898-1963) [Irish critic, novelist, poet, and theologian] Wikipedia Perelandra (1943) Wikipedia 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 called 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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1221] 2014/12/06: A NOVEL BY BARONESS ORCZY, SET DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, AND FEATURING THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL !Baroness Orczy [Orczy, Emmuska] (1865-1947) [English novelist] Wikipedia Sir Percy Hits Back (1927) Wikipedia [Historical novel, the ninth in the Scarlet 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 calls for the unique talents of Sir Percy Blakeney, the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1220] 2014/12/02: THREE INTERESTING AND VERY READABLE LECTURES ON CANADIAN HISTORY AND POLITICS BY THE LEGENDARY J. W. DAFOE !Dafoe, John Wesley (1866-1944) [Canadian journalist] Wikipedia Canada, an American Nation (1935) ["American" as in "North American" three lectures delivered by Dafoe in 1934 at Columbia University and published in the following year with some additional material. Dafoe "thought the time and occasion opportune to discuss... the common foundation of early North American feeling and belief upon which the structures of government in both countries rest." As these lectures show, Dafoe combined the writing and speaking skills of a fine professional journalist with a deep knowledge of history and politics: hence, no doubt, the honour of the invitation from Columbia to deliver these lectures.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1219] 2014/11/26: A COLLECTION OF TALKS AND SERMONS BY C. S. LEWIS SELECTED FOR PUBLICATION BY LEWIS HIMSELF !Lewis, C. S. [Clive Staples] (1898-1963) [Irish critic, novelist, poet, and theologian] Wikipedia 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1218] 2014/11/22: OUR NINTH NOVEL BY NEVIL SHUTE IS SET IN THE NOVELIST'S TWO HOMES AUSTRALIA AND ENGLAND !Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist] Wikipedia Australian Dictionary of Biography Requiem for a Wren (1955) [Novel. Alan Duncan is returning to his native Australia after years spent in England during the Second World War, in which he served and was wounded. No sooner is he off the plane in Melbourne when he learns that there has just been a mysterious death in the family household: of a housemaid. But this housemaid is connected to our hero more closely than he thinks: like himself, she had been in England and served in the military, as a Wren Wikipedia. Before the novel ends, Duncan learns much more about her.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1217] 2014/11/16: OUR SECOND CLASSIC STORY BY ROBERT E. HOWARD !Howard, Robert E. [Robert Ervin] (1906-1936) [American fantasy and horror author] Wikipedia Worms of the Earth (November 1932) Wikipedia [Short story, set in Roman Britain. The Picts, led by Bran Mak Morn, are confronting the Romans. And Bran is considering using the "worms of the earth" in this battle. Dangerous allies, it would seem. And hard to track down!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1216] 2014/11/14: IN 1937, CYRIL HARE LAUNCHED HIS ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER AS A MYSTERY NOVELIST WITH TODAY'S TITLE FINE READING FOR A NOVEMBER WEEKEND !Hare, Cyril [Clark, Alfred Alexander Gordon] (1900-1958) [English judge and novelist] Wikipedia Tenant for Death (1937) [Cyril Hare's first mystery novel. Hare was a magistrate, learned in the law, and therefore familiar with the term "tenant for life" -- the holder of a property only while alive: that is, the property does not form part of his estate. But what is a tenant for death? Mr. Colin James may be an example: as the novel starts, he has mysteriously disappeared from the house he had rented, and gone to France. There is a murder, needless to say; also Inspector Mallett of Scotland Yard.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1215] 2014/11/07: WE'RE DELIGHTED TO INTRODUCE ROBERT E. HOWARD TO OUR CATALOGUE BY PUBLISHING ONE OF HIS MOST FAMOUS HORROR STORIES !Howard, Robert E. [Robert Ervin] (1906-1936) [American fantasy and horror author] Wikipedia Pigeons from Hell (May 1938) Wikipedia [Mystery and fear in a house that is large, old, abandoned, and on an old plantation in the American South. One of Howard's most famous stories.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1214] 2014/11/02: OUR FOURTH JALNA NOVEL, BY MAZO DE LA ROCHE THE SAGA OF THE WHITEOAK FAMILY CONTINUES !de la Roche, Mazo (1879-1961) [Canadian novelist and playwright] Wikipedia The Master of Jalna (1933) [Novel. Finch has returned from England and rejoined the rest of the Whiteoak family at Jalna. Of course, this doesn't mean that things are quiet and settled after all, we're talking about the Whiteoaks! "In this latest instalment, the family vicissitudes are dominated by red-haired Rennie the strongest-willed of all since the passing of old Gran... he presides at the mansion, raises horses, decides vital family issues, and keeps the clan together." (Allan Nevins, Saturday Review, 16 September 1933)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1213] 2014/10/29: AT PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA, WE AIM TO PLEASE! IN PARTICULAR, WE TRY TO MAKE OUR EBOOKS READABLE EVERYWHERE ON YOUR MOBILE PHONE, FOR EXAMPLE, OR YOUR TABLET. THAT'S WHY WE'RE PRESENTING YOU TODAY WITH AN UPDATED EPUB VERSION OF THIS FINE NOVEL BY NEVIL SHUTE !Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist] Wikipedia Australian Dictionary of Biography The Far Country (1952) Wikipedia [Novel. Our heroine, Jennifer Morton, emigrates to Australia, escaping a life of poverty in England. But her new life in Australia is by no means free of incident.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #947] 2014/10/24: IN 1947, C.S. LEWIS HAD PUBLISHED HIS THREE FAMOUS SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS, BUT THE NARNIA SERIES STILL LAY IN THE FUTURE. WHAT AN EXCELLENT TIME FOR HIM TO WRITE THIS ESSAY ON STORIES !Lewis, C. S. [Clive Staples] (1898-1963) [Irish critic, novelist, poet, and theologian] Wikipedia 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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1212] 2014/10/22: A NOVEL BY NEVIL SHUTE WHICH DEMONSTRATES HIS STRENGTHS AS A NOVELIST: SKILFUL WRITING, STRONG BELIEFS, COMBINED WITH A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF HOW SOCIETY WORKS AND HOW PEOPLE THINK !Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist] Wikipedia Australian Dictionary of Biography Ruined City [U.S. title: Kindling] (1938) Wikipedia [Novel, with some elements which are timeless. Henry Warren is "successful": he is the head of a London financial firm. But he is in the middle of a divorce, and needs barbiturates to get to sleep. A set of curious incidents lands Warren in a northern town which is in a state of economic collapse after the closure of the local shipyard. Then things start happening.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1211] 14/10/18: TOAY'S EBOOK IS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE LEGENDARY ANGLO-AMERICAN CRITIC LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH THE FOURTH OF HIS BOOKS TO JOIN OUR CATALOGUE !Smith, Logan Pearsall (1865-1946) [American essayist and editor] Wikipedia Unforgotten Years (1938) [Smith's autobiography. "But the story he tells is more than his own; it constitutes a picture of a vanished world, the one inhabited by his Quaker family in Germantown, and by Henry James in England, and Santayana and Bernard Berenson on the Continent, the scene of a provincial Quaker corner of America, and of a sophisticated and expatriate America-in-Europe... nobody could fail to be charmed by the delicious savor of this exquisite and economical writing." (Irwin Edman, Saturday Review, 31 December 1938)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1210] 2014/10/11: A RAYMOND CHANDLER RARITY HIS LAST COMPLETED NOVEL FEATURING PHILIP MARLOWE !Chandler, Raymond [Raymond Thornton] (1888-1959) [American novelist and screenplay writer] Wikipedia Playback (1958) Wikipedia [The last Philip Marlowe mystery novel completed by Chandler, set in a resort town on the coast of California. Marlowe is to follow a woman named Eleanor King, newly arrived in Los Angeles. Whether this is her real name is only one of the mysteries in store for Marlowe.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1209] 2014/10/07: TODAY WILLIAM FAULKNER JOINS OUR CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS, WITH THIS SCINTILLATING SHORT PIECE ABOUT HIS NATIVE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI !Faulkner, William (1897-1962) [American novelist; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1949] Wikipedia Nobelprize.org Mississippi (October 1954) [Faulkner on his native state. Not an essay, but an original creative work, as you will see.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1208] 2014/10/05: TODAY WE COMPLETE OUR DIGITAL EDITION OF EDGAR WALLACE'S "EDUCATED EVANS" TRILOGY !Wallace, Edgar [Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar] (1875-1932) [English novelist, playwright, and screenplay writer] Wikipedia BFI screenonline Good Evans! Being Further Adventures of Educated Evans. (1927) [Wallace's third and final book featuring Educated Evans, "The World's Chief Turf Adviser"] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1207] 2014/10/02: A CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION STORY BY C. M. KORNBLUTH !Kornbluth, Cyril M. (1924-1958) [American writer of science fiction] Wikipedia Frederik Pohl blog entry (20 April 2009) 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...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1206] 2014/09/27: A. G. MACDONELL WAS NOT ONLY A NOVELIST, BUT ALSO A PLAYWRIGHT AND DRAMA CRITIC WHO BETTER TO DISCUSS THAT TRANSCENDENT FIGURE OF LONDON'S WEST END, NOL COWARD ?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 Nol 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1205] 2014/09/25: EDGAR WALLACE'S FIRST BOOK FEATURING THAT EMINENT RACETRACK AUTHORITY, EDUCATED EVANS !Wallace, Edgar [Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar] (1875-1932) [English novelist, playwright, and screenplay writer] Wikipedia BFI screenonline Educated Evans (1924) [Thirteen "episodes" set in the world of horse-racing, a world with which Wallace was personally familiar. They mark the first appearance in literature of Wallace's famous character Educated Evans, "The World's Premier Turf Prophet".] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1204] 2014/09/19: OUR CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND ON THEIR VIGOROUSLY DEBATED REFERENDUM A FINE EXERCISE IN DEMOCRACY! WE THOUGHT TODAY WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT TIME TO RECOMMEND FROM OUR CATALOGUE THIS CLASSIC SCOTTISH NOVEL WITH AN UPDATED AND IMPROVED EPUB EDITION FOR YOUR TABLET/SMARTPHONE CONVENIENCE !Macdonell, A. G. [Archibald Gordon] (1895-1941) [Scottish journalist, playwright, and novelist] Wikipedia England, Their England (1933) Wikipedia [A classic humour novel, winner of the 1933 James Tait Black Memorial Prize Wikipedia for fiction. Our hero, Donald Cameron, 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #695] 2014/09/16: IT IS A PRIVILEGE TO INTRODUCE TO OUR CATALOGUE THE TITANIC FIGURE OF W. E. B. DU BOIS !Du Bois, W. E. B. [William Edward Burghardt] (1868-1963) [American historian and civil rights leader] Wikipedia Life Seen at Ninety (1958) [An essay written by Du Bois on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. Age had not dimmed his passion and insight. One wonders what he would say about the world today!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1203] 2014/09/14: TODAY'S EBOOK IS BY C. S. LEWIS A FASCINATING PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL STUDY OF "LOVE" !Lewis, C. S. [Clive Staples] (1898-1963) [Irish critic, novelist, poet, and theologian] Wikipedia The Four Loves (1960) Wikipedia [Philosophical/theological 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1202] 2014/09/10: OUR TWELFTH TITLE BY EDGAR WALLACE IS OUR FIRST TITLE FEATURING HIS FAMOUS CHARACTER MR. COMMISSIONER SANDERS !Wallace, Edgar [Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar] (1875-1932) [English novelist, playwright, and screenplay writer] Wikipedia BFI screenonline Sanders [U.S. title: Mr. Commissioner Sanders] (1926) [Novel, one in a series of novels featuring Wallace's famous creation Mr. Commissioner Sanders, a colonial administrator in Africa.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1201] 2014/09/06: TWO YEARS AFTER THE APPEARANCE OF PASSENGER TO TEHERAN (WHICH IS IN PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA'S CATALOGUE), VITA SACKVILLE-WEST PUBLISHED THIS FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF HER FURTHER TRAVELS IN IRAN !Sackville-West, Vita [Victoria Mary] (1892-1962) [English novelist, poet, essayist, gardener, and travel writer] Wikipedia Twelve Days. An account of a journey across the Bakhtiari Mountains in South-western Persia. (1928) [Travel book, with photographs. Our author and several friends decide to travel across the Bakhtiari Mountains of Iran: a difficult but fascinating journey...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1200] 2014/09/02: NOUS ACCUEILLONS... M. ARSNE LUPIN !Leblanc, Maurice (1864-1941) [Romancier franais] fr.wikipedia L'Agence Barnett et Cie (1928) fr.wikipedia [Huit nouvelles. Qu'tait-ce que ce curieux personnage qui avait nom Jim Barnett ? demande notre romancier dans sa prface, et fournit lui-mme la rponse : M. 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A young schoolmaster arrives at an English school, and, without quite planning it, finds his lifetime vocation.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1197] 2014/08/17: WITH TODAY'S EBOOK, WE OFFER ALL FOUR OF THE ORIGINAL MISS PICKERELL NOVELS !MacGregor, Ellen (1906-1954) [American librarian and novelist] Wikipedia 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1196] 2014/08/09: WE NOW OFFER NO FEWER THAN THREE NOVELS FEATURING THE REDOUBTABLE MISS PICKERELL !MacGregor, Ellen (1906-1954) [American librarian and novelist] Wikipedia 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 capital 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!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1195] 2014/08/08: TODAY'S EBOOK IS THE VERY FIRST OF ELLEN MACGREGOR'S NOVELS FOR CHILDREN, FEATURING MISS PICKERELL !MacGregor, Ellen (1906-1954) [American 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.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1194] 2014/08/04: HERE'S ONE VERY GOOD REASON TO OPPOSE THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP'S ABSURD PROPOSAL TO EXTEND COPYRIGHTS IN CANADA BY TWENTY YEARS: IF WE KEEP OUR OWN COPYRIGHT RULES, INSTEAD OF LETTING FOREIGN GOVERMENTS CHANGE THEM FOR US, EVELYN WAUGH'S NOVELS WILL ENTER THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, AS THEY SHOULD, ON 1 JANUARY 2017, NOT 2037 YES, YOU READ THAT RIGHT: 2037! IN THE MEANTIME, IT'S OUR PLEASURE TO OFFER YOU A FINE ESSAY ABOUT WAUGH BY ROSE MACAULAY WHO KNEW WAUGH PERSONALLY !Macaulay, Dame Rose [Emilie Rose] (1881-1958) [English novelist and essayist] Wikipedia Evelyn Waugh (December 1946) [Essay: a beautifully written and surprisingly comprehensive survey of the works of Evelyn Waugh Wikipedia, up to and including the then recently published Brideshead Revisited Wikipedia.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1193] 2014/08/02: TODAY A VERY SPECIAL NAME JOINS THE PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA CATALOGUE THE POET ROBERT FROST! AND TODAY'S EBOOK CONTAINS FOUR MAGNIFICENT WOODCUTS BY HIS CLOSE FRIEND, J. J. LANKES, WHO WAS GEOGRAPHICALLY ALMOST A CANADIAN BORN IN BUFFALO, ACROSS THE RIVER FROM FORT ERIE, ONTARIO !Frost, Robert [Robert Lee] (1874-1963) [American poet] Wikipedia West-Running Brook (1928) Wikipedia [Collection of lyric poems, with four beautiful woodcuts by J. J. Lankes (1884-1960) Wikipedia Vanderbilt University, a personal friend of the poet. "Here... is the metaphysical lyric as no one but Robert Frost could write it. And so it is throughout 'West-Running Brook.' The ripe repose, the banked emotion, the nicely blended tenderness and humor are everywhere." (Louis Untermeyer Wikipedia, Saturday Review, 28 December 1928)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1192] 2014/07/31: FIRST CAME PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA, THEN CAME THE EPUB STANDARD WHICH MEANS THAT SOME FINE EARLY TITLES HAVEN'T BEEN AVAILABLE IN EPUB. FIVE YEARS AFTER THEIR FIRST APPEARANCE ON OUR SITE, WE'RE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT OUR EPUB VERSION OF THESE FINE TRAVEL ESSAYS BY STELLA BENSON !Benson, Stella (1892-1933) [English novelist] Wikipedia The Little World (1925) [Travel essays, describing our author's visits to numerous exotic locations. "Have no fears that "The Little World " is not interesting and well-written and clever and alive. Stella Benson is never, in any of these respects, a disappointment; she is too expert a journalist to fail the readers who for her sake alone will wander through India and China, and go across the American continent, and touch Africa, and swelter in Aden." (Saturday Review, 5 December 1925)] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #267] 2014/06/26: TODAY'S EBOOK IS THE FIRST OF FORD MADOX FORD'S CLASSIC PARADE'S END NOVELS !Ford, Ford Madox [Hueffer, Ford Madox] (1873-1939) [English novelist] Wikipedia Some Do Not... (1924) Wikipedia [Novel, the first of the four Parade's End novels Wikipedia. We are introduced to Christopher Tietjens, the main character. Tietjens works in Britain's Imperial Department of Statistics. Society appears calm and well-ordered: but the First World War lies just around the corner...] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1191] 2014/06/20: IF YOU WERE TO LOSE ANY OF YOUR PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA EBOOKS TO FIRE OR ANY OTHER ACCIDENT, NO PROBLEM: SIMPLY VISIT US AND DOWNLOAD FREE REPLACEMENTS WE'RE HERE TO HELP! IN 1942, THINGS WEREN'T SO SIMPLE, AS ROSE MACAULAY TESTIFIES !Macaulay, Dame Rose [Emilie Rose] (1881-1958) [English novelist and essayist] Wikipedia 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 Macaulay sensed that her most famous creation, The Towers of Trebizond, lay ahead of her!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1190] 2014/07/14: HERE AT PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA, WE LOVE THE USING THE EPUB EBOOK FORMAT (ESPECIALLY ON TABLETS), AND WE ALSO LOVE GWEN RAVERAT'S WONDERFUL AND WONDERFULLY ILLUSTRATED MEMOIR PERIOD PIECE, WHICH WE PUBLISHED BACK IN 2011! WE'VE NOTICED THAT A FEW LITTLE CHANGES WOULD MAKE THE EPUB THAT MUCH HANDSOMER, SO TODAY'S "NEW RELEASE" IS THAT NEW AND IMPROVED EPUB ENJOY !Raverat, Gwen [Gwendolen Mary] (1885-1957) [English artist] Wikipedia Period Piece. A Cambridge Childhood. (1952) Wikipedia [Autobiography, marvellously written and profusely illustrated by its author. 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But the sensational events found in her brother's action novels are quite foreign to the sympathetic world of Anna Buchan.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1189] 2014/07/06: NEVIL SHUTE WROTE TODAY'S NOVEL SHORTLY BEFORE HIS PASSING WHEN CLEARLY HE WAS AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS LITERARY POWERS !Shute, Nevil [Norway, Nevil Shute] (1899-1960) [Australian novelist] Wikipedia Australian Dictionary of Biography Trustee from the Toolroom (1960) Wikipedia [Novel, published shortly after Shute's passing. Keith Stewart is a technical writer, specializing in model machinery. He is swept into a world of intrigue, involving family, mysterious wealth, and exotic locales!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1188] 2014/07/04: HERE AT PROJECT GUTENBERG CANADA WE TRY TO GET OUR EBOOKS EXACTLY RIGHT. THIS CARE AND ATTENTION SOMETIMES DELAYS OUR PUBLICATION DATES WHICH EXPLAINS WHY THE EBOOK WE INTENDED FOR CANADA DAY (OUR SITE'S SEVENTH BIRTHDAY!) IS ACTUALLY APPEARING ON THE NATIONAL HOLIDAY OF A CERTAIN OTHER COUNTRY! IT'S A VERY CANADIAN NOVEL BY ONTARIO'S MAZO DE LA ROCHE, BASED, IT WOULD SEEM, ON THE LIFE OF HER FAMOUS COUSIN, H. R. MACMILLAN A LEGENDARY FIGURE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA !de la Roche, Mazo (1879-1961) [Canadian novelist and playwright] Wikipedia Growth of a Man (1938) [Novel, which follows Shaw Manifold from his boyhood in Southern Ontario to his adulthood as a forester in British Columbia. H. R. Macmillan Wikipedia, de la Roche's cousin, and a central figure in the history of British Columbia's forest industry, appears to have inspired the novel!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1187] Complete catalogue / Notre collectionYou will find thousands of other interesting titles at Project Gutenberg's US and Australian websites. Many of the Canadian ebooks listed below were originally created for these two sites, which have kindly made them available to us. You will find a large catalogue of excellent titles in French at Ebooks Libres et Gratuits, who have also kindly made their catalogue available to us.Nous tenons remercier nos partenaires, Projet Gutenberg US, Ebooks libres et gratuits et Projet Gutenberg Australie, qui vous offrent des milliers de livres captivants. Les deux premiers possdent un vaste catalogue de titres en franais. Ce sont nos partenaires qui se sont occups de numriser de nombreux documents ci-dessous.AAnonymous Select Comic Tales. From the Best Authors. (ca. 1808) [A collection of tales, mostly anonymous, selected by an anonymous editor, but including stories by Franois Blanchet (1707-1784) fr.wikipedia and Charles Johnstone (ca.1719 - ca.1800) Compendium of Irish Biography. Colour frontispiece and title page by an anonymous artist. All in all, a work with a good deal of anonymity.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #560] Aunt Ann's Lesson-Book, for Very Young Children. In Words of One and Two Syllables. 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(1847) [Stories for children, with illustrations] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped Story of Simple Simon (this edition ca. 1850-1864) [Traditional children's poem Wikipedia, nicely illustrated by an unknown hand] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #514] Dan Drake's Rhymes and Dame Duck's Jingles (1859) [Illustrated poems] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped 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] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped Comic Animals and their Adventures. With Alphabet and Rhymes. (ca. 1880?) [Alphabet book and children's story: includes illustrations by G. H. Thompson (fl. 1833-1884) and Louis Wain (1860-1939) Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped Text with captions Text with captions zipped WAAC: The Woman's Story of the War (1930) [Autobiography: an intimate account of the writer's personal experience of the First World War. Not your standard war memoir!] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped Metropolitan Cook Book, Edition of Aug. 1954 (1954) [Cookbook. published by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped Abbott, John Stevens Cabot (1805-1877) [American historian] Wikipedia The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and his Companions in their explorations of the prairies, forests, lakes, and rivers, of the New World, and their interviews with the savage tribes, two hundred years ago. (1875) [History, mostly concerning Ren-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped Abbott-Smith, George (1864-1947) [Canadian theologian and philologist] A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1937 [third edition: first edition published in 1921, second edition in 1923]) [Dictionary of New Testament Greek, with many references to how Greek words in the New Testament were used in the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament to represent their Hebrew counterparts] HTML zipped DjVu PDF Because of the specialized nature of this work, and the advanced Greek and Hebrew typography of the printed edition, we present this monument of scholarship as a downloadable set of scans approximately 42 megabytes in size. You should download the file, unzip it, and use the main HTML page to navigate to the appropriate pages. As an alternative, you can download the scans in DjVu format (15 megabytes) or as a PDF file (54 megabytes).Acland, Peregrine Palmer (1890-1963) [Canadian novelist] The Dusty Bookcase (Brian Busby) Field Punishment No.1 (James Calhoun) All Else Is Folly. A Tale of War and Passion. (1929) [One of the most famous Canadian novels about the First World War, describing the experiences of a young soldier, Alexander Falcon, who finds himself transported from a ranch in southern Alberta to the battlefields of France, with part of the novel being set at an English country house, Bendip Towers. No less a figure than Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) Wikipedia contributed the preface: "Major Acland's is, I imagine, the first really authentic work of imaginative writing dealing with the War to come out of one of the great British Dominions... it will be little less than a scandal if the book is not read enormously widely. And that is the truth."] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #1162] Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) [English essayist and playwright] Wikipedia NNDB Cato. A Tragedy. (1713) [Tragedy, extremely popular throughout the eighteenth century, describing the last days of Cato the Younger (95-46 B.C.) Wikipedia, a leading opponent of Julius Caesar. Our edition includes some introductory remarks by the playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped Wikipedia [PGC #496] Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 B.C.) [Athenian playwright] Wikipedia Translations by Murray, Gilbert [George Gilbert Aim] (1866-1957) [English classical scholar] Wikipedia Australian Dictionary of Biography Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) [in German]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 Wikipedia, a battle in which Aeschylus is believed to have fought. The tone of the play is surprisingly sympathetic to the Persians.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #752] Wikipedia ancient-literature.com H. W, Smyth's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)The Suppliant Women (ca. 463 B.C. [Greek original], 1930 [this translation]) [A very early Greek tragedy, notable for the importance of the chorus in the drama. The daughters of Danaus Wikipedia arrive as refugees in Argos, seeking protection from forced marriage in Egypt.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped [PGC #841] Wikipedia ancient-literature.com H. W, Smyth's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)Prometheus Bound (fifth century B.C. [Greek original], 1931 [this translation]) [Tragedy. Prometheus Wikipedia has given mankind the gift of fire. Zeus in anger has chained him to a mountain in the Caucasus. Two millennia after the original, Shelley wrote a famous sequel, Prometheus Unbound Wikipedia] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped UTF-8 text UTF-8 text zipped [PGC #751] Wikipedia ancient-literature.com H. W, Smyth's edition of the original Greek text (Perseus Digital Library)Alain-Fournier, pseudonyme de Fournier, Henri Alban (1886-1914) [Romancier franais] fr.wikipedia Le Grand Meaulnes (1913) [Roman] HTML et Texte Albani, Emma (1847-1930) [Canadian opera singer] Wikipedia Dictionary of Canadian Biography Library and Archives Canada La Scena Musicale (article by Gilles Potvin) The Virtual Gramophone (recordings!) 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Le Gramophone virtuel (biographie)] HTML HTML zip Texte Texte zipAllen, Grant [Charles Grant Blairfindie] (1848-1899) [Canadian scientist, novelist, and historian] Wikipedia Peter Morton's Grant Allen website grantallen.org Philistia (1884) [Novel] Text Biographies of Working Men (1884) [Short biographies of Thomas Telford, George Stephenson, John Gibson, William Herschel, Jean-Franois Millet, James Garfield, and Thomas Edward] Text Text Falling in Love, with other essays on more exact branches of science (1889) [Essays on science] HTML and Text What's Bred in the Bone (1890) [Novel] Text The Great Taboo (1890) [Novel] Text Recalled to Life (1891) [Novel] Text Anglo-Saxon Britain (1891) [History] HTML and Text Science in Arcady (1892) [Essays on science] HTML and Text Michael's Crag (1893) [Novel] Text Post-Prandial Philosophy (1893) [Light essays] HTML and Text The British Barbarians (1895) [Science fiction novel] Text The Woman Who Did (1895) Wikipedia [Novel, controversial at the time of its publication. Herminia Barton is very well educated, rather poor, and thinks for herself: she does not wish to marry, a fact which largely determines the course of the novel. We include the 1895 title page, which was created by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) Wikipedia.] HTML HTML zipped Text Text zipped EPUB [PGC #950] PG US ebook An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay (1897) [Detective short stories] Text Twelve Tales, with a Headpiece, a Tailpiece, and an Intermezzo: Being Select Stories by Grant Allen, Chosen and Arranged by the Author (1899) [Allen's own selection of his personal favourites among the many short stories he created. In the very interesting introduction he explains how, essentially by accident, he became a writer of fiction.] CAUTION: Certain language in this ebook today would be considered grossly racist. 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