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By: Gilbert Parker (1862-1932) | |
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The Right of Way
Charley Steele is a successful and brilliant Canadian lawyer. He has a nagging wife, Kathleen, and a lazy brother-in- law, Billy. In spite of his success, he is disillusioned with his life, drinks too much, and is deeply troubled by his agnosticism which leads to trouble and confusion. When Billy embezzles money, Charley discovers the theft and sets out to make things right. Charley however, ends up in a waterfront saloon where he encounters a barroom brawl and becomes unconscious. Charley loses his memory and ends up in the Canadian Northwoods where he falls in love with a pretty postmistress, Rosalie... | |
Old Quebec The Fortress of New France | |
Northern Lights | |
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt | |
Complete Works of Gilbert Parker | |
Quotes and Images From The Works of Gilbert Parker | |
At the Sign of the Eagle | |
A Lover's Diary | |
Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk | |
The Money Master | |
The Battle of the Strong:A Romance of Two Kingdoms | |
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt | |
Seats of The Mighty | |
The Trail of the Sword | |
Pierre and His People, Tales of the Far North | |
Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People" | |
The Lane That Had No Turning | |
The Judgment House | |
Quotations from the PG Collected Works of Gilbert Parker | |
Michel and Angele | |
Wild Youth | |
You Never Know Your Luck | |
Carnac's Folly | |
Parables of a Province | |
Embers | |
When Valmond Came to Pontiac | |
The World for Sale | |
No Defense | |
The March of the White Guard | |
The Going of the White Swan | |
The Translation of a Savage | |
Mrs. Falchion | |
An Unpardonable Liar | |
John Enderby | |
The Pomp of the Lavilettes | |
There Is Sorrow on the Sea | |
Lane that had no Turning, and Other Tales concerning the People of Pontiac
This is a collection of short stories by Gilbert Parker. Parker was a Canadian writer who wrote a number of bestsellers that had a lasting influence on Canadian literature, but whose importance for his time is now largely overlooked. One of the prime examples of his art is the short story collection The Lane that had no Turning, which is a series of short stories set in the fictional provincial town of Pontiac in Quebec. This collection "contains some of his best work, and is viewed by some as being in the tradition of such Gothic classics as Stoker's Dracula and James's The Turn of the Screw... | |
Lover's Diary
A collection of 83 rather besotted love sonnets by Gilbert Parker, written early in his career, with an accompanying interesting and someone apologetic Introduction by the author himself. Sir Gilbert Parker, as he came to be known, went on to become politically active, as well as a great story-teller, prolific novelist, and mature poet, centering his stories in the area of Quebec, Canada. See more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Gilbert_Parker,_1st_Baronet |