Ella Barnwell

Bennett, Emerson, 1822-1905Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 471K words
Chapters: 48

Summary

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.Ella Barnwell by Emerson BennettAuthor: Bennett, Emerson, 1822-1905,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Mar 21, 2005

Editor's review

Ella Barnwell is a novel by 19th-century American author Emerson Bennett, available through Project Gutenberg and classified under American and Canadian literature. Bennett was known for frontier tales and historical romances, and this book continues his narrative style of ample plotting, with characters' fates interwoven with the backdrop of their era. For readers seeking a sense of 19th-century American popular fiction, it offers a usable sample: it reveals the emotional conflicts and adventure elements that readers of the time favored, and conveys how early American novels balanced moral narrative with dramatic effect. The electronic edition is free to access, convenient for browsing at any time, and suitable as supplementary reading for courses in American literary history. It is best read with literary-historical context as a guide, situating it within 19th-century American publishing and reading culture rather than measuring its pace against contemporary bestsellers.

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Readers interested in 19th-century American literature and publishing history
Literature students studying the narrative traditions of American popular fiction
Readers hoping to expand their reading of English-language originals through free e-books
General readers who enjoy plot-driven classic fiction

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Readers who prefer contemporary fast-paced suspense or urban fiction
Beginners whose English reading ability is not yet sufficient for 19th-century long sentences

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Proceed chapter by chapter, summarizing character relationships and plot developments in one or two sentences after each chapter to help grasp the long narrative.
Read alongside reference materials on 19th-century American literary history, noting the thematic differences between popular fiction and canonical works.
When encountering unfamiliar expressions in the English original, mark them first and look them up afterward to avoid frequent interruptions that disrupt narrative continuity.

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What kind of work is this book?

It is a novel by 19th-century American author Emerson Bennett, classified by Project Gutenberg under American and Canadian literature. It has the plot-driven and romantic qualities common to popular fiction of the time and serves as a useful sample for understanding the landscape of 19th-century American fiction.

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Project Gutenberg provides a free electronic text, convenient to access and search on a computer or e-reader, and suitable for readers on a budget or those who wish to consult it at any time. The text is the English original, so reading requires some ability to handle long English sentences.

Do I need to know the author's other works first?

Not necessarily. The book can be read independently, but familiarity with the 19th-century American popular fiction environment in which Bennett wrote will make his narrative choices easier to understand. You may first skim a brief introduction to the author and his era, then begin the text.

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Bennett, Emerson, 1822-1905 Author · American · 1822–1905

Emerson Bennett (1822–1905) was an American popular novelist of the nineteenth century, known for long stories on frontier and adventure themes. Public information about his life and education is limited, and the available details of his works are also fairly concentrated: only one of his works, Ella Barnwell, is held in this collection. Judging from the existing materials, he wrote for a broad popular readership and was skilled at unfolding frontier life and adventurous experiences in long narratives, with clearly varied plots that reflect the typical interests of nineteenth-century American popular literature. Such works met the contemporary demand for tales of the borderlands and thrilling incidents, and they offer a useful sample for later readers seeking to understand the popularity of frontier and adventure themes in nineteenth-century American popular fiction.