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The Lane that Had No Turning

Sir Gilbert Parker · 1900

Original text in English.

A collection of stories and short parables devoted to an invented parish in the province of Quebec, written by a Canadian settled in London.

Short stories · 32 parts · about 80 000 words · about 5 h 47 of reading

Contents

1. The Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier G.C.M.G3 min
2. INTRODUCTION4 min
3. ITHE RETURN OF MADELINETTE14 min
4. IIWHEN THE RED-COATS CAME12 min
5. III“MAN TO MAN AND STEEL TO STEEL”14 min
6. IVMADELINETTE MAKES A DISCOVERY4 min
7. VWHAT WILL SHE DO WITH IT?5 min
8. VITHE ONE WHO SAW7 min
9. VIITHE PURSUIT12 min
10. VIIIFACE TO FACE14 min
11. IXTHE BITER BITTEN2 min
12. XTHE DOOR THAT WOULD NOT OPEN20 min
13. THE ABSURD ROMANCE OF P’TITE LOUISON9 min
14. THE LITTLE BELL OF HONOUR29 min
15. A SON OF THE WILDERNESS9 min
16. A WORKER IN STONE14 min
17. THE TRAGIC COMEDY OF ANNETTE4 min
18. THE MARRIAGE OF THE MILLER4 min
19. MATHURIN10 min
20. THE STORY OF THE LIME-BURNER8 min
21. THE WOODSMAN’S STORY OF THE GREAT WHITE CHIEF5 min
22. UNCLE JIM12 min
23. THE HOUSE WITH THE TALL PORCH5 min
24. PARPON THE DWARF27 min
25. TIMES WERE HARD IN PONTIAC7 min
26. MEDALLION’S WHIM15 min
27. THE PRISONER7 min
28. AN UPSET PRICE12 min
29. A FRAGMENT OF LIVES5 min
30. THE MAN THAT DIED AT ALMA15 min
31. THE BARON OF BEAUGARD19 min
32. THE TUNE McGILVERAY PLAYED18 min

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