Concerning Sally

Hopkins, William John, 1863-1926Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 682K words
Chapters: 69

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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. Concerning Sally by William John Hopkins. Author: Hopkins, William John, 1863-1926. Language: English. Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature. Release Date: Aug 18, 2011

Editor's review

Concerning Sally is a novel by William John Hopkins, released by Project Gutenberg under the category of American and Canadian literature. The electronic edition was released in August 2011 and reissued in 2019. Project Gutenberg, founded by Michael Hart in 1971, was the first provider of free electronic books. This is an English public-domain text, suitable for readers interested in early American fiction and public-domain literary resources. While reading, pay attention to characterization and narrative style, and appreciate the language of early twentieth-century American fiction. As this is the original electronic text, it has not been modernized by editors, so readers should adapt to its formatting and wording. It is advisable to understand plot and character relationships in light of the historical context, rather than judging by the pacing of contemporary fiction. For readers with a good command of English, this is a freely available literary reading material.

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Hopkins, William John, 1863-1926 Author

William John Hopkins (1863–1926) is an English-language author about whose life little public information survives; his exact nationality and educational background remain to be verified. Judging from the six works held in the collection, his subjects are quite varied: narrative works for younger readers such as The Clammer and the Submarine, The Doers, The Sandman: His Sea Stories and The Sandman: His Farm Stories; seafaring and whaling tales such as She Blows! And Sparm at That!; and a character- and situation-centred novel, Concerning Sally. Overall his prose tends toward plain, fluent storytelling, blending life at sea, rural experience and children's adventure, with the flavour of popular reading from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. These works are now mostly read and studied as period literature.