A Temporary Dead-Lock
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Literature lovers interested in late nineteenth-century American short stories
- Intermediate learners who need short English extensive-reading material and prefer to finish in one sitting
- Readers who enjoy city-life subjects and a lightly ironic tone
- Students and teachers studying the narrative structure of American magazine short stories
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting long, complex plots and multi-strand narratives
- Beginners who need modern notes and background introductions
- Newcomers unfamiliar with older English expressions and the historical background
Reading tips
- Read through once for the plot, then revisit the dialogue to appreciate the irony and wit
- Note how the deadlock is set up and resolved, and trace the key points of narrative development
- Read alongside other American short stories of the same period to compare structure and period expression
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Thomas Allibone Janvier (1849–1913) was an American writer and historical author born in Philadelphia to parents with literary backgrounds. He worked early on as a newspaper reporter and later published stories of New York life under the pen name "Ivory Black." His works span a range of subjects, including adventure and exotic imagination in novels such as The Aztec Treasure-House and In the Sargasso Sea, collections of folklore like Legends of the City of Mexico, and a study of Henry Hudson. He also wrote about Christmas customs in Provence and life on New York's East Side, balancing reportage with literary interest. Thirteen of his works are held in the collection. Public information is limited, and details of his life remain largely unknown, but his writings show a sustained attention to local scenes and historical subjects.
