Anamsaleem: 299 books

Excerpt nd then go off into the mountains with the Rodneys,--the society reporters will do the rest." "With the Rodneys? My dear fellow, suppose that they object to the substitution! Really, you know, it's not to be thought of." "Deuce take it, man, the Rodneys...

A young girl frantically summons a gentleman walking by on the street to come in and help her grandfather. Arthur Outhwaite answers her cry for help only to find himself as the last person to see her grandfather alive and left with the admonishment from the dying man to deliver a letter to someone, and to that person only.

A new book by Harold Bindloss is always welcome. He tells a story well indeed, but one likes his books best perhaps for the environment which he knows so well how to sketch. He has written charming stories of the Canadian Northwest and one remembers with pleasure his novels Prescott of Saskatchewan and Winston of the Prairie

I have introduced in the Vicar of Bullhampton the character of a girl whom I will call,—for want of a truer word that shall not in its truth be offensive,—a castaway. I have endeavoured to endow her with qualities that may create sympathy, and I have brought her back at last from degradation at...

Likened to James Joyce and Franz Kafka, W.N.P. Barbellion's Journal is one of the great diaries and caused a sensation when first published in 1919. Begun when its author was 13 years old, the Journal at first catalogues his misadventures in the Devon countryside - collecting birds' eggs, spying girls...

The Little Gray Lady, by F. Hopkinson Smith, Published in 1909

Excerpt standing in the world. Men there as I learnt afterwards, are sought for themselves quite as much as they are elsewhere; and though my groom's top-boots were neat, and my horse a very tidy animal, my entry into Ballyglass created no sensation whatever. In about four days after...

Excerpt have never met a bear, but I'd just like to try one." "Dear sister, you frighten me. Oh, do not think of such a thing! Indeed, Marian, I am never happy when you are away in the woods. I am always afraid of your meeting with some great wild beast, which may devour you....

Excerpt nera who lack this power. The group of Sajouins must therefore be subdivided into several lesser groups. First of all we have the true Sajouins; and of these the Saimiri or Titi is the most distinguished species. This pretty little creature is about equal in size to a squirrel,...

Set amidst the vast prairies of western Canada, Prescott of Saskatchewan is an engaging novel that highlights the importance of friendship, loyalty, and love in times of adversity. When Prescott's dear friend goes missing, he eagerly heads up the search effort—until he himself is accused of murdering...

Canada, the scene of so many of this author's novels, furnishes only the starting point for this story. When he first has news of impending war Andrew Johnstone, whose career as a soldier was early cut short by an accident, returns to his home in Scotland hoping that there will be work there even...

This robust outdoor novel tells the story of the remaking in the great western forests of a man who had failed in London. His engineering victory over a waterfall, and his defeat of a wily syndicate of land thieves, accomplished through the inspiration of a wonderful woman's love, make a thrilling...

English novelist Harold E. Bindloss spent a number of years in Western Canada during his youth. Because of these experiences, many of his novels deal with the prairies and their settlement. He produced over 30 such novels in addition to many other works, including In the Niger Country (1898), Wide...

The morning was bright after heavy rain, and when Osborn looked out of the library window a warm, south-west breeze shook the larches about Tarnside Hall. Now and then a shadow sped across the tarn, darkening the ripples that sparkled like silver when the cloud drove on. Osborn frowned, for he had...