The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
A father is heartbroken after losing his young daughter, whom he thinks of as a beautiful pearl he can never get back.
A scheming woman seeks to advance the career of a soldier she loves, while refusing marriage to an aristocrat who could improve her situation.
More short stories chronicling the adventures of a witty, working-class British soldier named Smithy and his comrades, including Nobby Clark. Set in the early 20th century, these stories focus on daily life, antics, and schemes in the army.
Broke and almost "on the beach" in the Fiji Islands, Bob Stanton hardly guessed that just around the corner lay the maddest adventure life could offer in the tropics.
Volume XV. Brussilov’s Offensive and the Intervention of Rumania.
Perched up high on the edge of cliffs on Byford Moor, Northumberland, Coomber House was a desolate place. Strange sounds reverberated through its empty rooms and hallways; was it the booming of breaking waves crashing against the rocks below, or ghostly echoes from the old mine workings? Such is the setting for this puzzling country house mystery. But our story begins in London, three hundred miles south of the moor in a King’s Cross restaurant. Lowly clerk, Mr Brown is minding his own business when he overhears two men plotting to kidnap a Miss Joscelyn Marlowe. She is sitting a few tables away . . . —Goodreads
A historical novel that delves into the life of Minette, the sister of Charles II of England. The story is set against the backdrop of the 17th century, focusing on her marriage to Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, and her diplomatic efforts to negotiate the Treaty of Dover.—Goodreads.
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.
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