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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy nineteenth-century American small-town short stories
- Independent learners who want to read public-domain English literature extensively in the original
- Teachers and students who need short texts for literature classroom discussion
- Readers interested in Project Gutenberg ebook resources
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking strong plots, twists, or suspense
- Readers accustomed to contemporary colloquial narrative who lack patience for old-fashioned syntax
- Beginners hoping for detailed annotations and introductions
Reading tips
- On the first pass, focus on character relationships; on the second, note how dialogue reveals character.
- Compare with the same author's Five Hundred Dollars, contrasting subject matter and technique.
- English learners can read the dialogue passages aloud to feel the rhythm of nineteenth-century English.
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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
Heman White Chaplin (1847–1924) was an American lawyer and humorist. A graduate of Harvard University in 1867, he practiced law in Boston while contributing in his spare time to periodicals such as Harper's Monthly and The Century Magazine. His stories are mostly set in small New England fishing towns; his prose is finely observant, with a warm and humorous tone that captures the texture of everyday life. His representative works include Five Hundred Dollars and Other Stories of New England Life and By the Sea; the collection also holds Saint Patrick, In Madeira Place, The Village Convict, and others. Public information about his life is limited, and this account rests mainly on his university, his place of practice, and the journals that published him, with emphasis on the observation and humor of his New England fiction.
