The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke
"The History of Emily Montague" by Frances Brooke is a novel published in 1769. Often considered the first Canadian novel, this epistolary work follows a love story set in Quebec shortly after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Through letters exchanged between Emily Montague, Colonel Rivers, and other characters, the novel weaves romance with observations about English, French, Huron, and Iroquois cultures in colonial Canada. Brooke includes travelogue elements, offering detailed
descriptions of the colony while exploring social norms and cultural relations in this sentimental tale. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Read or download for free
| How to read | Url | Size | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read now! | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16300.html.images | 735 kB | |||
| EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16300.epub3.images | 336 kB | |||
| EPUB (older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16300.epub.images | 352 kB | |||
| EPUB (no images, older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16300.epub.noimages | 339 kB | |||
| Kindle | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16300.kf8.images | 654 kB | |||
| older Kindles | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16300.kindle.images | 678 kB | |||
| Plain Text UTF-8 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16300.txt.utf-8 | 650 kB | |||
| Download HTML (zip) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16300/pg16300-h.zip | 320 kB | |||
| There may be more files related to this item. | |||||
Similar Books
About this eBook
| Author | Brooke, Frances, 1724?-1789 |
|---|---|
| Title | The History of Emily Montague |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Emily_Montague |
| Credits | Produced by Andrew Sly |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 57.3 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Québec (Québec) -- History -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 16300 |
| Release Date | Jul 15, 2005 |
| Most Recently Updated | Dec 12, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 443 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! | |