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 discussion of the dynamics of the Canadian pulp and newsprint industry in 1929.
A penetrating evocation of the moral and religious values of a Bordeaux community. In Brigitte, we see how the ideals of love and companionship are stifled in the presence of a self-righteous woman whose austere religious principles lead her to interfere—disastrously—in the lives of others. One by one the unwitting victims fall prey to the bleakness of her "perfection." A conscientious schoolteacher, a saintly priest, her husband and stepdaughter and an innocent schoolboy are all confronted with tragedy and upheaval. But the author's extraordinary gift for psychological insight goes on to show how redeeming features inevitably surface from disaster. The unfolding drama is seen through the discerning eye of a young Louis—Brigitte's stepson—whose point of view is skillfully blended into the mature and understanding adult he later becomes.—Amazon
Recueil de contes et poèmes pour enfants.
Tzu-Hsi, Dowager Empress of China, the last of the great Asiatic rulers, died in 1908. Tzu-Hsi was not of royal birth, but at the age of 16 her striking beauty won her the coveted honor of a place in the Imperial harem. From the first she found great favor in Emperor Hsien-feng's eyes and when his wife died it was Tzu-Hsi who was chosen to succeed her; the lovely concubine was named Empress of the Western Palace and her incredible career had begun. Like her mighty western contemporary, Queen Victoria, Tzu-Hsi achieved her greatest glory in the days of her long widowhood, and her story tells the history of contemporary China.— Book’s dust jacket
Revolt is the fourth book in Volume I of Jean-Christophe. Here he finally finds peace in a remote corner of Switzerland.--Amazon.
The Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL) is a British not-for-profit institution founded in 1910, dedicated to promoting international friendship pursuant to its royal charter, an ethos which binds its global membership. This document gives an account of the inception of the Over-Seas League movement and some details of the original idea to which it owes its direct inspiration.
Jack Hadley crossed the border to kill the renegade, Ranse Brennan. But Hadley picked a dangerous time to enter Mexico on such a chore. For one thing, the bandit leader, Megares, was stirring up a revolution and making it hot for gringos. For another, Ranse Brennan turned up as a colonel in Megares’ cut-throat army!—Google Books
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