Cursed
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy early twentieth-century English-language popular fiction
- English learners who need free English e-books as extensive reading material
- Readers interested in popular genre literature within American literary history
- Readers who want low-cost access to public-domain English classics
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting contemporary pacing and narrative technique
- Beginners whose English reading ability is not yet sufficient for unabridged originals
- Readers who need detailed annotations or introductions to enter the text
Reading tips
- Read the first two chapters to judge whether the narrative pace suits your taste before deciding to read the whole book.
- Prepare a dictionary tool; mark unfamiliar expressions first and look them up together after finishing a section.
- Read alongside other American popular fiction of the same period to observe genre conventions.
- Read chapter by chapter, limiting each session to one or two chapters to avoid fatigue from long stretches of English.
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
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About the author
George Allan England (1877–1936) was an American writer of popular fiction in the early twentieth century, known for science fiction, adventure, and mystery-tinged works. Four of his books are included here: Darkness and Dawn, The Flying Legion, The Air Trust, and Cursed. These titles suggest that his writing often centered on post-apocalyptic scenarios and the rebuilding of civilization, aerial adventure, futuristic technology, and social and economic themes, drawing readers with suspenseful plots and imaginative premises. He is a noteworthy figure in early science fiction and popular adventure literature. Because public information is limited, his life and full body of work cannot be described in detail, yet these titles still reflect his active presence and thematic interests in early twentieth-century American genre fiction.
