Gargoyles
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in early twentieth-century American literature
- Readers who enjoy urban satire and grotesque character ensembles
- Those who want to expand their English-language reading through public-domain eBooks
- Literature enthusiasts studying the development of Hecht's writing
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer strong plots and fast-paced stories
- Beginners whose English reading is not yet proficient and who need annotated support
- Readers expecting a full author biography and a companion introduction
Reading tips
- Read the opening chapters first to get used to Hecht's satirical tone before deciding whether to read the whole book.
- Prepare a simple character chart and jot down recurring figures as you go.
- Read it as a period text, paying attention to the contrast between urban spaces and characters' words and actions.
- Read the English original slowly with a dictionary; there is no need to rush.
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
Ben Hecht (1894–1964) was an American writer active in the first half of the twentieth century. Details of his life are limited in publicly available sources, and five of his works are held in this collection. These works span several genres: A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago captures everyday urban life through city sketches; Erik Dorn and Gargoyles show his novels' observation of society and human nature; Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath carries a mysterious and fantastic quality; and The Florentine Dagger: A Novel for Amateur Detectives ventures into detective fiction. Overall, his style is distinctive, blending sharp social observation and psychological portrayal into popular narrative forms. His varied subjects gave his work a notable presence in American letters and popular reading of his time.
