The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
The theme is an analysis of the years in which a girl, widowed after ten days of radiant happiness and embittered by the war and its toll, seeks forgetfulness in a whirl of meaningless activity, recognizing her emptiness of life but finding a barrier between her own frozen emotions and any human impact.—Kirkus Review
The scene is on a fruit farm in Nova Scotia, and the descriptions of out-of-door life have charm. The young farmer, Derek, forms an illicit connection with an only half-civilized young Indian girl who comes with her tribe to pick the fruit. She returns next year with a baby, and Derek, whose impulses are kind and his nature rather weak, marries the girl. The wretchedness of such a marriage is tragic. To add to the tragedy, Derek is in love with another girl, and she with him. The novel is unusual in subject and treatment, and is sincerely handled.—The Outlook, April 18, 1923
This is, in reality, the story of a dead woman. Her influence over the living characters in the novel is like shadows cast by a candle, hence the title. It is a study of complex human relations.—St. Paul Pioneer Press
Sherwood Anderson’s Beyond Desire is Notable For its criticism of the materialist economy that plagued the workers in the industrial South of the 1930s. The novel denounces the exploitation of men, women, and even children, and calls attention to their struggle to survive in inhumane working conditions. Witnessing the inequities of the industrial South, Anderson protested its economic system and aligned himself with other novelists who in the 1930s sought in communism the solution to the plight of workers.—Celia Esplugas
A young married couple take over running an “International Detective Agency.”
Lisabel Durrant and Rena Mackay find themselves at the Rose and Squirrel, Rosamund's new home following her decision to move out and earn her own living. Lisabel and Rena, there to salvage the gardens of a nearby estate, are bystanders and occasional confidantes as Rosamund's young widowed stepmother Eleanor deposits her very young baby boy on her stepdaughter. Many challenges face these young women as they grow into adulthood.
Sylvia Thompson’s glorious, passionate novel of the Second World War is a sumptuous romance set in the imperturbable correctness of demi-monde Paris, and in fast-moving 1930s London and Boston. Blanche negotiates the intrigue of others and stifles her passion with a stoic sadness.—Goodreads
A young Florentine woman’s life is buffeted by betrayal in love and upheaval in religion.
What is there for an Irish lad to do when the old women of his village start leveling curses at visiting archaeologists, curses that may inadvertantly light upon innocent residents? Mickey Connor has a capital idea—he’ll gather a small band of friends and take them up into the hills, to live there until the tumult in town subsides. But the idyll that Mickey envisions is short-lived. For even in the hills of the newly independent Irish Free State, it’s no easy thing, he discovers, to have “a bit of a war.”
A study of girl's characters is afforded in this story; characters disclosed under the searching light of a girls' camp in the Adirondacks. That camp life is a fine test for the individual girl is clearly shown, and with is the mystery of one girl, Lorna Thornton, is interwoven. This is a story about girls and for girls, and it will give readers something more than mere entertainment.—dust jacket
A spoiled teenager falls overboard an ocean liner and is rescued by a fishing schooner, where the crew forces him to work.
A young woman watches with concern as her adopted brother turns to irreligious forces in the hopes of reconnecting with his dead fiancée.
A collection of novellas and short stories, many of a nautical theme.
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