Monday, July 29, 2013

His Dog - by Albert Payson Terhune


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It took me awhile to find a dog book, which is free to both UK and US readers and which does not (not to give too much away) end disastrously.  I offer for your inspection, His Dog by American author Albert Payson Terhune. (US Edition)  (UK Edition)  This is a 1922 novel set in New Jersey.
Link struck a match. Shielding the flame, he pushed the tangle of grass to one side with his foot.
There, exposed in the narrow space thus cleared and by the narrower radius of match flare, crouched a dog. The brute was huddled in a crumpled heap, with one foreleg stuck awkwardly out in front of him at an impossible angle.
I didn't say it had an easy beginning!  This is the kind of story where someone becomes a better person for a chance meeting with a dog.
I want to dedicate today's to a little terrier mix who I tried to rescue this week and who did not make it.  Run free little guy!

So, you see   . . .  I had to do a dog story.

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Friday, July 12, 2013

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin


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Miles Franklin is the Australian novelist best known for her novel in the style of a memoir, "My Brilliant Career."  (US Edition)  (UK Edition  That book is unfortunately not free in the UK, so instead I am substituting a 1909 novel published first in the UK with a puzzling name,  Some Everyday Folk and Dawn.  The book starts with a dedication:

"TO THE ENGLISH MEN WHO BELIEVE IN VOTES FOR WOMEN THIS STORY IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED, BECAUSE THE WOMEN HEREIN CHARACTERISED WERE NEVER FORCED TO BE "SUFFRAGETTES," THEIR COUNTRYMEN HAVING GRANTED THEM THEIR RIGHTS AS SUFFRAGISTS IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1902."

This is followed by a glossary of Australian slang in American equivalents and English interpretations.  This gives us such helpful information as a bloke is a guy is a fellow.  This will help my readers on both sides of the Atlantic!

As to the actual book:

Having surrendered our tickets and come through a down-hill passage to the dusty, dirty, stony, open space where vehicles awaited travellers, the usual corner "pub."—in this instance a particularly dilapidated one—and three tin kangaroos fixed as weather-cocks on a dwelling over the way, and turning hither and thither in the hot gusts of wind, were the first objects to arrest my attention in the town of Noonoon, near the river Noonoon, whereaway it does not particularly matter. The next were the men competing for our favour in the matter of vehicular conveyance.

It soon develops that although the cabbies might be competitive, the boarding house can't be bothered to take in lodgers and thus begins the protagonist's effort to switch lodgings. I don't need to tell you it will be a quirky journey.

It is becoming increasingly difficult, once again, to find free books.  Several years ago I had the same difficulty.  Books I suggested before, such as "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," now have their free versions embargoed for some reason.  I suspect those who sell the same titles are reporting the free titles for some transgression.  During the time it takes for Amazon to ensure the free title is not a copyright violation, the most inexpensive copy will sell well.

This blog is a guide to the best free and inexpensive classic literature for the US & UK Kindle. If you enjoy my suggestions, please tell your friends who read to give my blog a try. 
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UK readers may go to this Amazon link to subscribe.  (Slightly more than half my readers are from the UK)

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Here is a video of my mother, at 97, a new convert to the Kindle!

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