The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
Jean-Christophe (1904‒1912) is the novel in 10 volumes by Romain Rolland for which he received the Prix Femina in 1905 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915.
The first four volumes are sometimes grouped as Jean-Christophe, the next three as Jean-Christophe à Paris, and the last three as La fin du voyage ("Journey's End").
The fictitious life story of an old-time railway man who, beginning as a roundhouse boy, became the head of a great railway system. He was rough and ready, "a pioneer, a fighter, a builder, a climber." The type is not uncommon in American constructive industry; but the author has made his seeker for power strongly individual and convincing.—The Outlook, October 1925.
Fictional story about the lives of two young brothers in a small Ontario town believed to be patterned after residents who lived in the Village of Elora, Ontario, where the author spent his childhood years.
A gripping adventure novel that transports readers to the rugged and unforgiving landscapes of the Canadian North-West. The narrative captures the essence of the wilderness and the relentless drive of those who seek their fortune in the world's most desolate corners. The story weaves a tale of ambition, human endurance, and the moral complexities that arise when men are pitted against both nature and their own inner demons.—Amazon
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.
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