The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
These comic stories are set during World War I and the period just after, when the genteel world of Edwardian England had changed beyond recognition.
The unsolved mystery of the violent deaths of the Crown Prince of Austria and his sweetheart, Marie Vetsera, have led novelists, historians and playwrights to construct fantastic theories. The known facts in the case are pure drama in themselves, but in THE MASQUE OF KINGS Mr. Anderson, while preserving the tragic and romantic elements, has added the beauty of language and characterization, and a philosophical viewpoint that makes his play unique. His chief contribution is Rudolph’s abortive attempt to seize the government from his father, the Emperor, and the Prince. The human side of the story is used by the author as the basis for a magnificent discussion on dictatorship and democracy which gives this work its universal appeal.—Dramatists.com
This book was John Steinbeck's first novel, a work of historical fiction based loosely on the life and death of 17th-century privateer Henry Morgan.—Wikipedia.
Since childhood Margi Leigh had aspired to marry a doctor. As her best chance of achieving this was to become a nurse, Margi did just that. Then Sam Ryall, Senior Houseman at Memorial Hospital, fell in love with Margi—and life seemed to be complete. Or rather it would have been except that the ambitious Sam had no intention of marrying until he had at least one foot on the ladder of success.
When Margi inherited a nice house in a good part of town, the plan to help Sam formed in her mind—but complications pile up in this enjoyable story of a girl’s inheritance and how it back-fired.—flyleaf
Dark Laughter dealt with the new sexual freedom of the 1920s, a theme also explored in the author’s 1923 novel Many Marriages and later works. Dark Laughter was Anderson’s only best-seller during his life.
A Lebanese iconoclast emigrates to America and embarks on a quixotic quest for the truth.
Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949. The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (or Ingsoc in the government's invented language, Newspeak) under the control of a privileged elite of the Inner Party, that persecutes individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrime".--Wikipedia.
With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. Along the way he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, the particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and the unexpected kindness of strangers.--Goodreads.com.
"Two Stolen Idols" is a high-stakes adventure and mystery novel that follows a perilous journey caught in a web of international intrigue and crime.—Amazon
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