Flowing Gold
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy adventure and industry-themed popular novels
- Readers interested in the social landscape of early twentieth-century America
- Literature enthusiasts studying American popular literary genres
- Those looking for public-domain English reading material for leisure
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting serious social critique or deep intellectual exploration
- Those completely unfamiliar with and unwilling to engage with an oil-industry backdrop
- Readers who prefer contemporary narrative pacing and contemporary values
Reading tips
- Read chapter by chapter, following the plot rather than scrutinizing every sentence
- Pay attention to depictions of industry settings and character choices as a slice of the era
- Skim unfamiliar industry jargon and focus first on character relationships and the main conflict
- After reading, briefly review common motifs in American popular fiction of the same period
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
Rex Beach (1877–1949) was an American writer of popular fiction, active roughly from the late nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth century. Public information about him is limited, and details of his early life and education are difficult to confirm, but the fifteen works held in the collection show that he was especially known for adventure and inspirational coming-of-age themes. Representative novels such as The Spoilers, The Iron Trail, Flowing Gold, The Winds of Chance, The Barrier, The Net, and Rainbow's End, along with the short-story collection The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure, are mostly set against frontier development, gold rushes, railroad construction, and maritime adventure. Their tightly plotted, fast-paced narratives portray characters who rise to meet hardship. His works were widely serialized and adapted into early films, and he had a notable influence on the development of popular American adventure fiction in the early twentieth century.
