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 Maids of La Rochelle’ introduces the sisters Elizabeth and Anne Temple, who are in their twenties, and their teenage half-sister Janie. In their youth they were farmed out in various different places, including living for some years in France. Now their father has died, and although they seem barely to have seen him when growing up, they’re all grieving. They’re also rather worried about money, but circumstances work in their favour, and they move to a cottage in Guernsey. The book relates their attempts to make friends, their clashes with the ‘white witch’ who was still an important personage on the island in the 1920s, and the very low key romances that develop when two young men come into Elizabeth and Anne’s lives.—adapted from https://suesbookreviews.blogspot.com/
A collection of stories and articles written by the author during his time serving as a special war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune from June to December 1943. Steinbeck wrote about the experiences of the ordinary people, those who were doing the actual fighting, and those who did the vast number of unglamorous but vital support jobs which kept the armed forces operating.—Wikipedia.
An analysis of the role played by commodity production in recovery from the Depression of 1929.
Marquis Roderigo de Cordovina is leaving his Portuguese estates in Lisbon because he is being pressured to join the German military and command a mechanical battalion. He meets Miss Anne Strangeways in the seaplane terminal. The two board an airboat for London. Shortly thereafter, they meet again at the home of Princess Rosina Di Gomez who is the niece of the Portuguese Ambassador. At this point the plot changes to encompass the arrival of Mr. Mirakel, a mysterious, wealthy, well-connected personage who insinuates himself in the company. Thereafter, the book becomes a strange fantasy about a remote land of tropical perfection where war, and rumors of war, are unknown!—Rakuten kobo
This book covers a period of about 300 years from when Samual de Champlain founded Quebec City in 1608, through the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759, to the Quebec City of the late 1800s.
The story follows 'Count' Arthurs, a young man from Toronto visiting school friends on his first post-college vacation. Upon arrival, he finds his friends tense, distracted, and troubled by strange events, including the mysterious deaths of two acquaintances and the shadowy presence of a local religious or utopian group known as the Dreamers (led by a figure named Maskin).
One Man Posse combines the stories “One-Man Posse,” “Sleeper Pays a Debt,” “Satan’s Gun Rider” and “Sleeper Turns Horse Thief,” which were originally published in Mavericks Magazine in 1934, and “Sun and Sand,” which was originally published in Western Story Magazine in 1935.
After his father disappeared under suspicion of committing murder, Tom Jorden had grown up bitter. Gold-hunting in the Yukon would prove to be the young man's testing ground.
Mulford’s last Hopalong Cassidy book. The crime in question? The robbery of a train. The culprits have taken the loot and fled over a shallow river separating Texas from neighboring Oklahoma Territory. This jurisdictional head-scratcher requires a clever lawman like Hoppy to unravel it. The sheriff and his deputies cannot follow the bandits into Oklahoma because it is void of legal structure; it’s ungoverned. A lawman without the law would be ineffectual. At the same time, Hoppy reasons, if the bandits were apprehended by Texas lawmen operating outside of Texas, a legal quagmire between competing sovereigns would certainly result. How does Hoppy serve his writ?
Der Roman ist ein „Ideenroman“, der in der Endphase der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie spielt. Die Handlung weicht häufig in allegorische Exkurse zu verschiedensten existenziellen Themen ab, die den Menschen und das menschliche Empfinden betreffen. Ein besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabei den Werten Wahrheit und Meinung sowie der Art und Weise, wie die Gesellschaft Vorstellungen über das Leben und das gesellschaftliche Zusammenleben strukturiert.
The novel is a "story of ideas", which takes place in the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's last days. The plot often veers into allegorical digressions on a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings. It has a particular concern with the values of truth and opinion and how society organizes ideas about life and society.
"To the little Acadian village of St. Gudule there came one autumn night a lovely girl from Mont Parnasse, bringing to Monsieur Ulysse Plamondon memories of his youth".
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