The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
In Book II, Jean Christophe in Paris, we find him living with no friends and no money. Slowly, he starts to make a living and builds a network of friends and enemies. However, he is filled with anti-semitism and bitterness. In Part I, The Market-Place, an act of kindness leads to unforeseen consequences.
In the first book of the series, Jean Christophe, the third section, Youth, explores Jean Christophe's next few years around age twenty. His sincerity, integrity and unswerving honesty have made existence impossible for him in the little Rhine town of his birth.—Goodreads.
The first collection of fairy tales by Mary De Morgan.
A police constable investigates two murders in which the solutions have a dizzying number of possible permutations.
Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) was a Mohawk leader prominent in his community in the late 18th century.
In the month of roses, things always happened to Richard—His father, the Black Prince, died in June; he came to England in June; and his flaming ardor for his first queen and only beloved, exquisite Anne of Bohemia, was born on the turbulent June night he had planned a tryst with another woman. It was also the month when this sensitive, handsome young king relinquished boyhood and put his life at stake to placate pitchfork-bearing rebels, starting his lifelong battle of wits to free the peasants from oppression and pull England from the morass of war. Suspense, seething emotions, and rare tenderness animate a warm, intimate view of the most complex, controversial British ruler in history, his passionate love for Anne of Bohemia, and the glittering, lusty panorama of the Middle Ages. —back cover
The problem of the livestock and dairy industries in Canada is vitally linked to the problem of wheat. Depression in Great Britain in the twenties supported exports of dairy products and livestock to the United States in spite of the tariff. Increase in the tariff in 1930 and low prices of wheat stimulated the production of cattle in Western Canada, which in turn weakened the position of the cattle industry in Eastern Canada and accentuated dependence on dairying and, with the empire agreements, on hog raising... — from the Introduction
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