The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
This fabulous comedy of manners is about the residents of Durham Square, which is a respectable if not totally fashionable London address. We see their snobberies, their quarrels and reconciliations, and we discover that one of the residents of the square has been writing hugely popular romantic trash under the name of Rudolph da Vinci. There’s a memorable cast of strong-willed women, an eccentric Vicar, an admirable butler, and some Pekinese dogs. This novel is laugh-out-loud funny! - Susannah Fullerton, The International Heyer Society
While this book is a successor to the adventurous "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" it is primarily a portrayal of the mystic life of Hindus and their contribution to the occult world. It provides insight into the social, educational and administrative aspects of India prior to WWII.
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").
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").
In turn-of-the-century Glasgow, a young woman finds first love and independence.
Cream Hill is about a Connecticut hilltop purchased by the author for weekend escapes from city life.
Continues the record of the daredevil young airman's adventures as one of the leading aces of the war.—Goodreads
Jeanie Hallam had been born in America, but when she became orphaned she was sent to live with relatives in England. She returned to America with the prospect of marriage and the opportunity to raise a young girl, orphaned like herself. However the arrivals of both a young British doctor and her beautiful cousin place obstacles in her road to happiness.
“Rudi” von Ritterhaus, Viennese psychiatrist, finds himself a ghost in a strange world, when he comes to refuge in England after the Austrian anschluss. This is his story of the remaking of his world. It is also the story of a wise and tender psychiatrist seeing into the mental ills of others and bringing them healing.—Kirkus Review
The novel is set in the time of King Louis XV of France and is described as a story of love, adventure, and intrigue.
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