Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of James De Mille

De Mille, James, 1833-1880Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of James De Mille by James De MilleAuthor: De Mille, James, 1833-1880,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: May 1, 2019

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This file is not a work of literature to be read continuously, but an index compiled by Project Gutenberg of the works of James De Mille (1833–1880) already available online. Its core value is instrumental: it gathers De Mille's scattered entries in the Project Gutenberg collection in one place, so readers can follow the trail and quickly locate publicly available electronic texts by this Canadian author. For those studying nineteenth-century North American popular literature, adventure fiction, or Canadian literature in English, this index serves as an entry point to the primary texts: survey the list to see how the works are distributed, then take them up one by one. Note that the index contains no body text, plot, or commentary; the reading experience is close to consulting a bibliography and is not suited to readers expecting story content. Appropriate uses are reference searching, preliminary subject surveys, and organizing electronic texts—not reading straight through or casual entertainment.

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About the author

De Mille, James, 1833-1880 Author

James De Mille (1833-1880) was a nineteenth-century novelist writing in English, though details of his life are scarce in publicly available sources and what is known rests largely on his works. Eighteen of his books are held here, spanning a wide range of genres: the utopian and adventurous fantasy of A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, mystery and detective fiction such as The Cryptogram, Lost in the Fog and Cord and Creese, social novels including A Castle in Spain and The American Baron, and books for young readers like The B. O. W. C.: A Book For Boys and Fire in the Woods. His writing is marked by outlandish plots, puzzles and brisk pacing, with touches of satire and moral instruction, giving him a place in Victorian popular fiction and boys' adventure literature.