At Large
Tags
Summary
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers with some English who want to build a feel for the language through original essays
- Lovers of traditional English essays who prefer a calm, introspective style
- Learners looking for light English extensive reading on the commute or before bed
- Readers interested in Cambridge's humanistic atmosphere and late-nineteenth-century English intellectual life
Not a good fit for
- Beginners with limited English vocabulary who need a Chinese translation
- Readers who prefer strong plots and fast-paced narrative
- Readers seeking systematic writing techniques or practical methodology
Reading tips
- Read one essay through first, mark unfamiliar words and fine sentences, then read it again to feel the rhythm.
- Read one or two essays a day, with note-taking and a short English reading response; avoid overloading.
- Read alongside a Chinese or bilingual edition; for long sentences, find the main clause first, then the modifiers.
- Compare the passages on leisure and nature with your own experience and write a few annotations.
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.
Contents
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 31
- 32
- 33
- 34
- 35
- 36
- 37
- 38
- 39
- 40
- 41
- 42
- 43
- 44
- 45
- 46
- 47
FAQ
Is this book in Chinese or the original English?
Can I read this book without any English?
Is this book suitable for learning English?
Comments
Find this book
This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.
About the author
Arthur Christopher Benson (1862–1925) was an English writer whose 18 works are held in this collection, commonly classified under inspirational and personal growth. Public information is limited, and details of his life are difficult to verify, yet his writings reveal a clear authorial bent. Essay collections such as Essays, Beside Still Waters, The Thread of Gold and The Silent Isle dwell on inner experience and reflections on life, in a gentle, restrained prose that carries a contemplative and gently exhortatory tone; The Isles of Sunset and The Child of the Dawn use imagination and allegory to express a longing for spiritual peace. Hugh: Memoirs of a Brother and Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton recall departed friends in a sincere biographical manner. His works often draw moral and spiritual reflection from everyday observation, in a calm, inward style suited to readers seeking consolation and self-growth.
