The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
An obituary of Canada's foremost early 21st Century humourist.
The story is deceptively simple: the entanglement of two families in a northern town called Aldworth. One, the Lockwoods, wealthy and powerful, in a position to patronise and help the second family, the poor Hunters, who have been left fatherless with a weak, ineffectual mother.
Though the thudding heart of the story draws the reader inexorably along, hoping for the meek to conquer the strong, it is a surprising book in many ways, not least for its subversive portrayal of family – the children are often the adults, the parents the untrustworthy, unwise ones, and Whipple makes it clear that what we call today the nuclear family is not the answer to happiness. But what may be most satisfying about the book is how the climax is reached as a result of character.This is twentieth-century British fiction at its very best.—Goodreads
A romance novel involving a French marquis and an English heiress. Laurient, Marquis of Rochfallain refuses to save his family estate by marrying the daughter of a war profiteer and works as a farm hand instead in the south of France.
This edition is the original, unabridged, full-length story where the Bobbsey children visit a western ranch, experience ranch life and solve a mystery involving stolen livestock.
The Same Old Troddles is part of a series that features the character Troddles, known for humorous and whimsical adventures.
A female painter becomes the court artist of the Empress Dowager of China.
Interesting novel of an adventurer who is compelled to winter with an Eskimo tribe and then decides to stay on, and marry an Inuit wife. "But back in New York, where he has been given up for dead, a returned explorer's filmshots of a walrus-hunt reveal the lost Winslow. His wife, Celina, sends her oldest friend to bring the truant back..."—Goodreads
A Collection of Documentary Evidence and Guide Materials Prepared by the American and British Prosecuting Staffs for presentation before the International Military Tribunal at Nurnberg, Germany in support of the Major Trial (The Blue Series).
Ben the tramp, the awkward Cockney with no home and no surname, turns detective again – and runs straight into trouble.
Ben encounters a dead man on a London bridge and is promptly rescued from the same fate by a posh lady in a limousine. But like most posh ladies of Ben’s acquaintance, this one isn’t what she seems. Seeking escape from a gang of international conspirators, Ben is whisked off to the mountains of Scotland to thwart the schemes of a poisonous organisation and finds himself in very unfamiliar territory.
With its startling prelude, Detective Ben is a glorious adventure, told with the unsurpassed mixture of humour and creepy thrills that made J. Jefferson Farjeon famous and Ben the tramp one of the best-loved characters of the Golden Age.—Goodreads
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