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Who it's for
A good fit for
- General readers interested in nineteenth-century American women's fiction and domestic narrative
- Students who need a public-domain English novel as reading practice or for quotation
- Literature enthusiasts interested in fiction about faith and morality
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer strong plotting and fast-paced modern fiction
- Beginners unaccustomed to nineteenth-century English narrative style and syntax
- Readers seeking detailed annotations or an introduction
Reading tips
- Read the chapter summaries first to grasp the character relationships, then read closely chapter by chapter.
- Excerpt passages where the protagonist faces moral choices and compare them with works of the same period.
- For English reading practice, read one chapter a day and note unfamiliar words and long sentences.
- For reading groups, set discussion questions around family, faith, and women's roles.
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
Susan Warner (1819-1885) was a nineteenth-century American author known for inspirational coming-of-age fiction; her name and dates of birth and death appear in library catalog records. Public information about her is limited, and details of her life and education are difficult to establish with certainty, yet the library holds thirty-one of her works, which indicates a prolific and steady writing career. The Wide, Wide World is her best-known work, alongside Queechy, Diana, Nobody, Daisy, The End of a Coil, and Hills of the Shatemuc. Her fiction generally centers on young people's growth, family life, and moral trials, with a gentle and detailed style that emphasizes inner change and the formation of character. She found readers in the popular fiction market of her time and contributed to the later tradition of the coming-of-age novel.
