The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
One of a set of four "readers" written with the aim of teaching children about different countries through stories involving visiting children. Here they are in Queensland, Australia, where the emphasis is on sugar cane plantations and sugar production.
Lucy Armstrong, a World War II widow, arrives at an island in the British West Indies where she is to be the new head mistress at a school. She must face several social and personal hostilities as she finds her place in this new setting.
A Syrian Arab’s fortunes rise and fall as he wanders away from his home by the sea.
Max Aitken was was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century. He talks mostly about his younger years.
Published as a four part serial in Photoplay Magazine, Nov. 1923-Feb. 1924. Here is a thrilling mystery story of the adventures that befell a company of motion picture players while on location in the big woods of the great Northwest. Full of interest and suspense--from the introduction.
A newly widowed 50-year-old woman moves into an apartment complex in Pasadena, California, where she encounters other women going through the same changes she is.—Goodreads
This article discusses the transition from the rationalism of eighteenth century English literature to the irrationalism of the ninetheenth century.
A collection of short stories from Canadian authors who were active in the 1920s.
A sailor gives his account how he completed the first solo sailing voyage around the world.
A group of men hunt for the kidnappers of a friend’s wife.
Katharine Howard, Queen of England, reaches the height of her power, only to find that idealism and integrity are fragile weapons against court intrigue and religious faction.
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