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A good fit for
- Readers of historical fiction interested in the Age of Discovery and Columbus's voyages
- English learners seeking to practice long-form reading with an original English text
- Researchers and literature enthusiasts studying the work of the American woman writer Johnston
- Readers who enjoy character-driven stories set against a real historical year
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking rigorous historical scholarship and the latest research findings
- Readers who need a Chinese translation and cannot easily read the English original
- Casual readers who prefer fast-paced modern genre fiction
Reading tips
- First gain a basic outline of European and American history around 1492, then enter the novel's plot.
- While reading, note how the author links fictional characters to real historical events, and distinguish fact from literary invention.
- With the English original, advance a fixed number of chapters each day and look up nautical and geographic terms as needed.
- After reading, compare it with other Age of Discovery works of the period to form a multi-angle understanding.
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About the author
Mary Johnston (Johnston, Mary, 1870-1936) was an American novelist, with 18 of her works held in this collection. Public information about her is limited, and many details of her life are difficult to verify, yet her fiction is fairly consistent in subject matter: she was skilled at narrative set against historical backgrounds, especially the society and fates of characters in colonial Virginia. Prisoners of Hope: A Tale of Colonial Virginia, By Order of the Company, and 1492 all draw on the early colonial and maritime era, while The Long Roll and Cease Firing concern the American Civil War. Her writing often uses love, loyalty, and conflict as threads, placing individual lives within large historical change; her plots move briskly and the atmosphere of the period is distinct. Representative works such as To Have and to Hold and Lewis Rand had some influence among readers of popular historical fiction at the time, making her one of the notable writers of early twentieth-century American historical romance.
