Hidden Water
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Casual readers who enjoy Western themes and plot-driven action
- Learners who want to use popular fiction for extensive English reading
- Readers interested in early American mass genre fiction
- Readers who need light reading for commuting or bedtime
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting serious literary depth and complex characterization
- Readers seeking rigorous factual knowledge of American Western history
- Readers sensitive to stereotyped images in traditional Western narratives
Reading tips
- Focus on extensive reading, following the plot without looking up every word, to avoid breaking the rhythm
- English learners can excerpt a few landscape and action description sentences per chapter and imitate their narrative patterns
- While reading, note how genre elements such as water and ranches drive conflict, and keep simple genre notes
- Can be compared with other Western novels to observe common patterns in character setup for similar material
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
Dane Coolidge (1873–1940) was an American writer, naturalist and photographer. Born in Natick, Massachusetts, and raised in California, he graduated from Stanford University and collected mammal specimens for several museums in Britain and the United States before turning to literary work. He is known for his Western novels, including Hidden Water, Shadow Mountain and The Desert Trail. Eight of his works are held in this collection, commonly grouped under inspirational growth. Drawing on Western life and mining camps, his fiction is tightly plotted with vivid characters, and several of his works were adapted into films. He also pursued ethnographic research on Native Americans, an interest that runs through his writing.
