Gilbert Parker
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A woman stuck in a loveless marriage is torn between her duty and desire to reconcile with a former fiancé after an extended absence. The Judgement House tests the importance of one's family, integrity and social status. Jasmine Grenfel is a determined woman who has encountered her share of rich and powerful men. Rudyard Byng is a successful entrepreneur, while Ian Stafford is a rising political star. Both men are enchanted by Jasmine but only one...
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Northern Lights, Complete by Gilbert Parker
Excerpt: ...bright with the brightness of vitality and content. Even the old man at the window of this lonely house, in a great lonely stretch of country, with the cedar hills behind it, had a living force which defied his seventy odd years, though the light in his face was hard and his voice was harder still. Under the shelter of the foothills, cold as the day was, his cattle were feeding in the open,...
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The Battle of the Strong - Complete A Romance of Two Kingdoms by Gilbert Parker
Excerpt: ...in the Hardi Biaou, and saw him safely into the hands of an escort from Detricand. CHAPTER XLII Three days later there was opened in one of the chambers of the Emperor's palace at Vienna a Congress of four nations-Prussia, Russia, Austria, and Sardinia. Detricand's labours had achieved this result at last. Grandjon-Larisse, his old enemy in battle, now his...
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From the pen of Gilbert Parker comes one of the most popular Canadian novels of the late nineteenth century. First published simultaneously in Canada and the United States in 1896, The Seats of the Mighty is set in Quebec City in 1759, against the backdrop of the conflict between the English and the French over the future of New France. Written and published after Parker's move to England, the novel attempts to romanticize French Canada without alienating...