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Caught in a Trap

Hutcheson, John C.Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Caught in a Trap by John C. HutchesonAuthor: Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy),Language: English, Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature, Release Date: Nov 8, 2010

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This work comes from the Project Gutenberg public-domain library and belongs to English literature (Class PR), offering a free entry point into John C. Hutcheson's narrative style. Its most immediate value is low-barrier access: the complete original text can be read on an electronic device without purchase, making it suitable for reading practice in the original, edition comparison, or literary reference. Because it is a public-domain electronic text, readers encounter unmodernized original content whose typesetting and punctuation may retain older conventions, which in fact makes it easier to observe the linguistic texture of English literature from a century ago. In terms of reading context, it works better as supplementary material for research-oriented or interest-driven reading than as casual reading for plot excitement; if you are collecting samples of a certain kind of old English fiction, or need a public-domain text you can freely quote and excerpt, this book will serve.

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Hutcheson, John C. Author

John C. Hutcheson is an English-language author about whom very little is publicly known; his nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background cannot be verified from available sources. The library currently holds seventeen of his works, most of them sea-adventure and coming-of-age novels popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Representative titles such as The Wreck of the Nancy Bell, The Penang Pirate, The Ghost Ship: A Mystery of the Sea, and The White Squall point to such typical elements as shipwrecks, desert islands, ghost ships, and storms, with plots generally centering on young sailors maturing and surviving amid dangers on the high seas. His style is plain and accessible, emphasizing adventure and pace, suited to young readers, and belongs to the popular strand of the maritime narrative tradition of his time.

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