Hawk Carse

Anthony GilmoreProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

3.3

Word count: 107K words
Chapters: 11

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.Hawk Carse by Anthony GilmoreAuthor: Gilmore, Anthony,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Oct 21, 2009

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Hawk Carse is a work by Anthony Gilmore, released by Project Gutenberg as a free eBook and classified under American and Canadian literature. The title points to a character named Hawk Carse; judging by the common form of public-domain popular fiction, such works tend to rely on character action and plot momentum, making them a useful entry point into early English-language genre writing. The editorial value of this book lies in open access to the text: there is no marketing packaging, and readers face the original narrative directly, with judgment left entirely to them. The electronic format is convenient for reading in segments on a phone or e-reader, and for copying the original text to take language notes. Note that the materials provide no plot summary, annotations, or introduction; readers seeking systematic literary analysis will need to look elsewhere for background material. Overall, it suits readers willing to actively explore public-domain texts and curious about early English-language popular fiction, rather than those seeking authoritative interpretation or classroom teaching support.

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Read the first two chapters to get a feel for the narrative pace, then decide whether to read through or select passages.
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Use an English dictionary alongside; guess unfamiliar words first and look them up afterward to keep reading fluent.
After reading, look up information about the author Anthony Gilmore to fill in background knowledge.

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About the author

Anthony Gilmore Author

Anthony Gilmore is a pen name shared by the American writers Harry Bates and Desmond W. Hall. Publicly available information on the two men is limited, and details of their lives are not recorded in the sources at hand. Beyond their writing, the two served respectively as editor and assistant editor of the magazine Astounding Stories, a position that gave them a keen sense of the tastes and editorial policies of the pulp science-fiction readership of the time. Under the name Gilmore they created the Hawk Carse space-adventure series, including Hawk Carse, The Affair of the Brains, The Passing of Ku Sui and The Bluff of the Hawk. The series ran in Astounding Stories between 1931 and 1932 and was collected in book form as Space Hawk in 1952. Marked by fast-paced space adventure and a clash between good and evil, the stories are representative of early space-opera pulp science fiction.