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.
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