[gmonthly] PG Canada - *June* news summary

Michael S. Hart hart at pobox.com
Sun Jul 26 21:02:00 PDT 2009


Here is the news from PG Canada for June.

We published a total of 15 ebooks during the month: we have now published a cumulative total of 340 ebooks.

The New Releases section at the top of the PGC main page always gives the details of new releases for the most recent three months.

LANGUAGES:
- 13 in English
- 2 in French

CANADIAN CONTENT
- 7 of this month's 15 ebooks were by Canadians or had a connection to Canada.

FICTION/NONFICTION
- 8 fiction
- 7 nonfiction

GENRES

- 3 novels
- 3 books of essays
- 2 biographies (one of them an autobiography)
- 2 children's books
- 2 manuals
- 1 book of short stories
- 1 book of poetry
- 1 book of geography

To complement our recent edition of the later volumes of Proust's cycle of novels À la recherche du temps perdu, we published a 1927 set of reviews and articles on Proust by his contemporary Paul Souday (1869-1929).

We also published "Sister Teresa" (1909 version) by Irish novelist and art critic George August Moore (1852-1933), and the 1925 edition of his monumental three-part autobiography "Hail and Farewell".

Authors new to PGC this month included:

Auzias-Turenne, Raymond (1861-1940) [Écrivain et diplomate français]
Chase, Alvin Wood (1817-1885) [American physician and entrepreneur]
Dunham, Bertha Mabel (1881-1957) [Canadian librarian and novelist]
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) [American novelist]
Johnson, Clifton (1865-1940) [American author and photographer]
Lindsey, Charles (1820-1908) [Canadian journalist]
Moore, George Augustus (1852-1933) [Irish novelist and art critic]
Souday, Paul (1869-1929) [Critique littéraire français]
Sterrett, Virginia Frances (1900-1931) [American illustrator]
Verga, Giovanni (1840-1922) [Italian novelist]

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Thanks as ever for your support!

Mark


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