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Who it's for
A good fit for
- English-speaking readers interested in early twentieth-century American popular fiction
- Learners who want to practice extensive English reading through short stories
- Researchers studying sports writing or magazine literature
- Readers who enjoy light dialogue and humorous slices of everyday life
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting a full-length plot or complex character arcs
- Beginners with weak English who need extensive annotations
- Readers seeking modern formatting and introductory materials
Reading tips
- Read through once for the plot, then revisit the dialogue for period-specific vocabulary.
- Pair it with background material on early twentieth-century American sports culture.
- Use it as extensive reading material, finishing it in two or three sittings and noting new words.
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
Charles E. Van Loan (1876–1919) was an American sportswriter and fiction writer, best known for his humorous short stories about baseball. As a longtime sports reporter, he knew the daily life and characters of the playing field, and this reporter's eye shapes his fiction: the plots are brisk, the dialogue lively, and athletes, coaches, and small figures on the sidelines are drawn with exaggeration and goodwill. Old Man Curry: Race Track Stories turns to horse racing, spinning light-hearted tales around owners, jockeys, and gamblers, while Fore! is, as its title suggests, about golf. Public information about him is limited and many details of his life are uncertain, yet by bringing the immediacy of sports journalism into popular fiction he earned a place in early twentieth-century American sports literature.
