Flood Tide
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy a leisurely pace and close attention to characters' daily lives
- Scholars and students of early twentieth-century American women writers and regional literature
- Readers looking for light English reading on the commute or before bed
- Readers interested in the sea, tidal imagery, and descriptions of coastal life
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer strong plots and fast-paced suspense or action
- Beginners unused to earlier English usage and long descriptive passages
- Advanced researchers seeking systematic literary-historical notes or a scholarly introduction
Reading tips
- Read the first two chapters to grasp the characters' relationships and the story's setting, then proceed chapter by chapter without rushing.
- Keep a small notebook to track characters' names and how their relationships change, so that similar names do not become confusing.
- Mark the passages where the tide appears and consider how the natural imagery echoes the unfolding plot.
- With the English original, read in installments alongside a dictionary, one chapter a day, to keep a steady pace.
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
Sara Ware Bassett (1872–1968) was an American author born in Newton, Massachusetts, in 1872. She taught kindergarten in public schools before beginning her writing career in 1907. Her novels are mostly set in small-town New England life, with a warm and everyday atmosphere. In addition to more than forty novels, she wrote informational books for young readers, telling the stories behind crafts and inventions such as sugar, glass, porcelain, printing, the steam engine, and wireless communication. Representative works include The Story of Sugar, The Story of Glass, and The Story of Porcelain, as well as Christopher and the Clockmakers, Steve and the Steam Engine, Paul and the Printing Press, and Walter and the Wireless. These books combine instruction with narrative interest, helping young readers understand technological change through the experiences of their characters. Public information on the details of her early education and writing career is limited.
