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The World for Sale, Complete
Set in the Canadian West, the story follows the lives of the residents of two competing towns, Lebanon and Manitou, as tensions rise between their differing cultural philosophies and backgrounds.
"The World for Sale" by Gilbert Parker is a novel. Set in the Canadian West, the story follows the lives of the residents of two competing towns, Lebanon and Manitou, as tensions rise between their differing cultural philosophies and backgrounds.
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Harvest-time was almost come, and the great new land was resting under coverlets of gold. From the rise above the town of Lebanon, there stretched out ungarnered wheat in the ear as far as sight could reach, and the place itself and the neighbouring town of Manitou on the other side of the Sagalac River were like islands washed by a topaz sea.
Standing upon the Rise, lost in the prospect, was an old, white-haired man in the cassock of a priest, with grey beard reaching nearly to the waist.
For long he surveyed the scene, and his eyes had a rapt look.
A smile came to his lips—a rare, benevolent smile. He had seen this expanse of teeming life when it was thought to be an alkali desert, fit only to be invaded by the Blackfeet and the Cree and the Blood Indians on a foray for food and furs. Here he had come fifty years before, and had gone West and North into the mountains in the Summer season, when the land was tremulous with light and vibrating to the hoofs of herds of buffalo as they stampeded from the hunters; and also in the Winter time, when frost was master and blizzard and drift its malignant servants.
Even yet his work was not done. In the town of Manitou he still said mass now and then, and heard the sorrows and sins of men and women, and gave them “ghostly comfort,” while priests younger than himself took the burden of parish-work from his shoulders.
Contents
- 01Introduction
- 02Note
- 03Prelude
- 04Chapter I. “The Druses Are Up!”
- 05Chapter II. The Whisper from Beyond
- 06Chapter III. Concerning Ingolby and the Two Towns
- 07A word about Max Ingolby.
- 08Chapter IV. The Coming of Jethro Fawe
- 09Chapter V. “By the River Starzke... It Was So Done”
- 10Chapter VI. The Unguarded Fires
- 11Chapter VII. In Which the Prisoner Goes Free
- 12Chapter VIII. The Sultan
- 13Chapter IX. Matter and Mind and Two Men
- 14Chapter X. For Luck
- 15Chapter XI. The Sentence of the Patrin
- 16Chapter XII. “Let There Be Light”
- 17Chapter XIII. The Chain of the Past
- 18Chapter XIV. Such Things May Not Be
- 19Chapter XV. The Woman from Wind River
- 20“What is it?” asked Fleda, opening the door of the house.
- 21Chapter XVI. The Mayor Fills an Office
- 22Chapter XVII. The Monseigneur and the Nomad
- 23Chapter XVIII. The Beacons
- 24Chapter XIX. The Keeper of the Bridge
- 25Chapter XX. Two Life Pieces
- 26“It’s a fine day.”
- 27Chapter XXI. The Snare of the Fowler
- 28Chapter XXII. The Secret Man
- 29“You are wasting your time.”
- 30Chapter XXIII. The Return of Belisarius
- 31Chapter XXIV. At Long Last
- 32Chapter XXV. Man Proposes
- 33Chapter XXVI. The Sleeper
- 34Chapter XXVII. The World for Sale
About this edition
- Author
- Gilbert Parker
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 195 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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