The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
Lloyd George has become the Prime Minister heading a coalition Government. Major issues include the war at sea, rationing and conscription, the Western Front, the Russian Revolution and the United States entry into the war.
In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and—to his amazement—give him hope.--goodreads.com.
The book portrays a group of paisanos—a small band of errant friends enjoying life and wine in the days after the end of the Great War. The central character Danny inherits two houses from his grandfather where he and his friends go to live. Danny’s house, and Danny’s friends, Steinbeck compares to the Round Table, and the Knights of the Round Table. Most of the action is set in the time of Steinbeck’s own late teenage and young adult years, shortly after World War I. The book was one of the author’s early works and an immediate hit for which film rights were sold. Steinbeck did however receive criticism for what was viewed by some as a stereotypical portrayal of Hispanic-Americans. The movie was not made until 1942 and starred Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr and John Garfield.—Wikipedia.
Four young ladies, left with a very slender provision for their support, resolve to spend their capital in the effort to fit themselves for earning their livelihood. One draws, a second sings, a third is bent on climbing the educational ladder, and the fourth has no special endowment but good sense. Their hopes and fears, successes and failures, are well told, everything being kept strictly within limits of moderation. The promise of the voice is the one most falsified, and this is eminently true to fact. There are a hundred successes of the drawing-room for one of the concert.—The Spectator Archive
A novel set in Quebec about the touching history of an abandoned and forgotten wayside cross erected in the mid 1800's at a rural intersection and how a descendant, a lame young lad, changes all that by bringing love back to the village, a love that his ancestor's pride had driven out.
An author is placed in a dilemma when he’s approached to provide background for a biography of a novelist with whom he’s had a relationship.
A medical process that makes black people look white revolutionizes American society.
In Randall and the River of Time we’re taken along on a young man’s journey from a naïve child to a mature, experienced adult. Although just a teenager during WWI, Charles Randall learns quickly how to stay alive during battle. During his first leave he meets two people who forever change his life. The wife of another military man intrigues and fascinates him. Sadly, a telegram announcing the death of her husband arrives, and he is drawn further into her web. However, he is also fortunate enough to impress a highly influential man with his knowledge and scientific evaluations of flares used for the war effort. His inventiveness results in a welcome, but unexpected chain of events including financial benefits as well as special treatment. As this relationship builds him up, so the other one tears him down. Randall’s impromptu marriage takes him down a lonely, desperate path full of deception and adultery as he finds himself in prison for manslaughter.
Un roman qui explore les thèmes de la cupidité, de la trahison et de l'ambiguïté morale. Avec pour toile de fond la fin du XIXe siècle, l'histoire se déroule dans une petite principauté européenne, où se joue un drame complexe d'intrigues politiques et financières.
A gifted young woman born into a strict upper middle class Victorian family struggles for decades to balance duty to her controlling mother with a driving need to learn and to create her art.
A man’s apparently accidental death soon arouses suspicions.
Simple rhymes and poems for young children, richly illustrated.
A young man and his distant cousin, who suffers from a mysterious affliction, fall in love in the idyllic Colombian countryside.
A young miner accepts a mysterious commission that will test his faithfulness and restore justice to a faltering kingdom.
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