Destiny
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- English-language readers who enjoy early twentieth-century American popular fiction and regional stories
- Students who need public-domain English novels for extensive reading practice or textual analysis
- Readers interested in lesser-known works under the American and Canadian literature classification
- Readers who want plot-driven fiction for commuting or leisure reading
Not a good fit for
- Serious readers seeking the depth and complex narrative experimentation of literary classics
- Researchers who need detailed author biographies and annotated background
- Modern readers unaccustomed to early English expression and popular plot conventions
Reading tips
- Read the first few chapters to grasp the character relationships and regional background before entering the main plot.
- While reading, note each key choice a character makes and consider how the theme of fate is driven by the plot.
- Compare it with other American popular novels of the same period to observe similarities and differences in narrative conventions and period tastes.
- For English study, select one passage per chapter for close reading and organize vocabulary and sentence patterns.
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
Charles Neville Buck (1879–1957) was an American novelist born in Woodford County, Kentucky, and a graduate of the University of Louisville. He first worked as a journalist and cartoonist before turning to fiction. Many of his novels are set in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky, and his representative works include The Call of the Cumberlands, A Pagan of the Hills, The Lighted Match, The Portal of Dreams, The Tempering, and The Key to Yesterday. Eleven of his works are held in this collection. Buck was known for depicting mountain rural life and the fate of his characters, often with romantic and dramatic plots. Several of his novels were adapted into silent films, giving him a certain influence in early twentieth-century American popular literature. Public information about his life and writing remains limited, and a fuller scholarly assessment of his work has yet to be established.
