Short novel e-books (2h to read) of Gilbert Parker

Volume 4. A YOUNG LION OF DEDAN HE WOULD NOT BE DENIED THE FLOWER OF THE FLOCK THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS A YOUNG LION OF DEDAN Looking from the minaret the Two could see, far off, the Pyramid...

Volume 2. FIELDING HAD AN ORDERLY THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE A TREATY OF PEACE AT THE MERCY OF TIBERIUS ALL THE WORLD'S MAD FIELDING HAD AN ORDERLY His legs were like pipe-stems, his body was lik...

Volume 3. THE MAN AT THE WHEEL A TYRANT AND A LADY THE MAN AT THE WHEEL Wyndham Bimbashi's career in Egypt had been a series of mistakes.

"O de worl am roun an de worl am wide-- O Lord, remember your chillun in de mornin!

Volume 2. CHAPTER X As Ranulph had surmised, the ship was the Narcissus, and its first lieutenant was Philip d'Avranche.

AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING Volume 5. XLI.

Volume 4. CHAPTER XXIII With what seemed an unnecessary boldness Detricand slept that night at the inn, "The Golden Crown," in the town of Bercy: a Royalist of the Vendee exposing himself to de...

Volume 1. CONTENTS Volume 1. A LODGE IN THE WILDERNESS ONCE AT RED MAN'S RIVER THE STROKE OF THE HOUR BUCKMASTER'S BOY Volume 2. TO-MORROW QU'APPELLE THE STAKE AND THE PLUMB-LINE Volume 3. WH...

CHAPTER XIX THE SIGN FROM HEAVEN The agitation and curiosity possessing Rosalie all day held her in the evening when the wooden shutters of the tailor's shop were closed and only a flickering lig...

CONTENTS Volume 1. EMBERS ROSLEEN WILL YOU COME BACK HOME?

CHAPTER I THE TWO MEET "Well, good-bye, Dyck.

INTRODUCTION 'The World for Sale' is a tale of the primitive and lonely West and North, but the primitiveness and loneliness is not like that to be found in 'Pierre and His People'.

CHAPTER I THE MAZARINES TAKE POSSESSION From the beginning, Askatoon had had more character and idiosyncrasy than any other town in the West.

CHAPTER IV THIRTEEN YEARS AFTER AND THE CLERK OF THE COURT TELLS A STORY It was hard to say which was the more important person in the parish, the New Cure or M'sieu' Jean Jacques Barbille.

CHAPTER XVI MISFORTUNES COME NOT SINGLY Judge Carcasson was right.

CHAPTER VI "HERE ENDETH THE FIRST LESSON" The stillness of a summer's day in Prairie Land has all the characteristics of music.

Volume 6. CHAPTER XXXIX The bell on the top of the Cohue Royale clattered like the tongue of a scolding fishwife.

Volume 4. A MAN, A FAMINE, AND A HEATHEN BOY THE HEALING SPRINGS AND THE PIONEERS THE LITTLE WIDOW OF JANSEN WATCHING THE RISE OF ORION A MAN, A FAMINE, AND A HEATHEN BOY Athabasca in the F...

CHAPTER XX TWO LIFE PIECES "It's a fine day."

Volume 2. TO-MORROW QU'APPELLE THE STAKE AND THE PLUMB-LINE TO-MORROW "My, nothing's the matter with the world to-day!

INTRODUCTION The Translation of a Savage was written in the early autumn of 1893, at Hampstead Heath, where for over twenty years I have gone, now and then, when I wished to be in an atmosphere co...

Volume 2. A PRAIRIE VAGABOND SHE OF THE TRIPLE CHEVRON THREE OUTLAWS A PRAIRIE VAGABOND Little Hammer was not a success.

Volume 1. CONTENTS Volume 1. THE PATROL OF THE CYPRESS HILLS GOD'S GARRISON A HAZARD OF THE NORTH Volume 2. A PRAIRIE VAGABOND SHE OF THE TRIPLE CHEVRON THREE OUTLAWS Volume 3. SHON MCGANN'S ...

Volume 1. CONTENTS Volume 1. ACROSS THE JUMPING SANDHILLS A LOVELY BULLY THE FILIBUSTER THE GIFT OF THE SIMPLE KING Volume 2. MALACHI THE LAKE OF THE GREAT SLAVE THE RED PATROL THE GOING OF TH...

with a refined, and perhaps overrefined, and sensitive, not to say meticulous, civilisation, is always more sensational than the touch of the representative of "the thousand years" with the wide, l...

Volume 1. CONTENTS Volume 1. WHILE THE LAMP HOLDS OUT TO BURN THE PRICE OF THE GRINDSTONE-AND THE DRUM THE DESERTION OF MAHOMMED SELIMON THE REEF OF NORMAN'S WOE Volume 2. FIELDING HAD AN ORDE...

Volume 3. CHAPTER XVI The night and morning after Guida's marriage came and went.

CHAPTER XXVIII NAHOUM TURNS THE SCREW Laughing to himself, Higli Pasha sat with the stem of a narghileh in his mouth.

Volume 4. XX Upon the ramparts XXI La Jongleuse XXII The lord of Kamaraska XXIII With Wolfe at Montmorenci XXIV The sacred countersign XX UPON THE RAMPARTS The Gov...

EPILOGUE CHAPTER XII AT THE RECEIPT OF CUSTOM "What are you laughing at, Kitty?

To the Memory of Madge Henley.

CHAPTER I IN THE DAYS OF CHILDHOOD "Carnac!

Volume 3. THE BRIDGE HOUSE THE EPAULETTES THE HOUSE WITH THE BROKEN SHUTTER THE FINDING OF FINGALL THREE COMMANDMENTS IN THE VULGAR TONGUE THE BRIDGE HOUSE It stood on a wide wall between tw...

Volume 2. CHAPTER X Ferrols's recovery from his injuries was swifter than might have been expected.

CONTENTS: THE INVASION ELEVEN YEARS AFTER IN FRANCE--NEAR FIVE MONTHS AFTER IN JERSEY FIVE YEARS LATER DURING ONE YEAR LATER IN JERSEY--A YEAR LATER INTRODUCTION This book is a protest a...

CHAPTER XII HE STANDS BETWEEN TWO WORLDS The next morning he went down to the family solicitor's office.

Volume 4. LITTLE BABICHE AT POINT O' BUGLES THE SPOIL OF THE PUMA THE TRAIL OF THE SUN DOGS THE PILOT OF BELLE AMOUR LITTLE BABICHE "No, no, m'sieu' the governor, they did not tell you right.

CHAPTER X THE MOON WAS NOT ALONE Out on the prairie under the light of the stars a man had fought the first great battle of his life, and had emerged victorious.

AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING CHAPTER XXIX THE WILD RIDE There had been a fierce thunder-storm in the valley of the Chaudiere.

Volume 5. XXV In the cathedral XXVI The secret of the tapestry XXVII A side-wind of revenge XXVIII "To cheat the Devil yet" XXIX "Master Devil" Doltaire XXX "Where all...

CHAPTER IX OLD DEBTS FOR NEW Jo Portugtais was breaking the law of the river--he was running a little raft down the stream at night, instead of tying up at sundown and camping on the shore, or si...

Volume 4. TIMES WERE HARD IN PONTIAC MEDALLION'S WHIM THE PRISONER AN UPSET PRICE A FRAGMENT OF LIVES THE MAN THAT DIED AT ALMA THE BARON OF BEAUGARD THE TUNE McGILVERAY PLAYED TIMES WERE HA...

Volume 3. XIV Argand Cournal XV In the chamber of torture XVI Be saint or imp XVII Through the bars of the cage XVIII The steep path of conquest XIX A Danseuse an...

Volume 1. CONTENTS Volume 1. THE LANE THAT HAD NO TURNING Volume 2. THE ABSURD ROMANCE OF P'TITE LOUISON THE LITTLE BELL OF HONOUR A SON OF THE WILDERNESS A WORKER IN STONE Volume 3. THE TRAGI...

Volume 2. VII "Quoth little Garaine" VIII As vain as Absalom IX A little concerning the Chevalier de la Darante X An officer of marines XI The coming of Doltaire ...

CHAPTER XVIII A GREAT DECISION Months went by.