Captain June
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- English learners who want to practice extensive reading with a short English children's novel
- Readers interested in late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century American children's literature
- Teachers looking for free public-domain electronic texts for supplementary classroom reading
- Families who want to read a classic English short story together with their children
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting the pace and themes of contemporary popular young adult fiction
- Beginning readers who need a Chinese translation or bilingual edition
- People with little patience for older English expressions who prefer effortless reading
Reading tips
- Read through once to grasp the main storyline without rushing to look up every new word, keeping the reading flow smooth.
- On the second pass, mark recurring old-fashioned usages and period background words, look them up together, and take brief notes.
- If used for classroom or family reading, divide by chapters and hold short discussions about characters and everyday scenes afterward.
- Read alongside other public-domain short works of American children's literature from the same period to compare narrative styles.
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
Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1870–1942) was an American novelist born in Shelbyville, Kentucky. She is best known for her bestselling 1901 novel Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, which was later adapted many times for the stage and screen. Beyond that signature work, the collection also includes Lovey Mary, Calvary Alley, A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill, The Honorable Percival, Quin, and Captain June, among ten titles in total. Her fiction often draws on everyday life in the towns and countryside of the American South, written in a gentle, humorous tone and frequently moving readers through the circumstances and kindness of ordinary people. Rice also founded the Cabbage Patch Settlement House in Louisville and devoted herself to poverty relief, so that her writing and her social concern illuminate each other.
