Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of James Whitcomb Riley
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019
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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.Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of James Whitcomb Riley by RileyAuthor: Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Feb 8, 2019Editor's review
This file is not a collection of Riley's poems or prose but an index page of James Whitcomb Riley's works in Project Gutenberg, gathering and locating the Riley titles the project has released. Its practical value lies in retrieval rather than reading for pleasure: readers can learn which Riley works Project Gutenberg includes and then find the corresponding texts by link or number. Riley was an American poet from Indiana known for dialect verse and rural themes, but this index itself contains no poems and offers no literary criticism or biography. For researchers it serves as an entry point to public-domain electronic texts; for ordinary readers who want to read Riley's poetry, they should go directly to a specific collection rather than linger on the index page. Use it as a reference tool: skim the structure of the entries first, then decide where to search next.Who it's for
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Does this index contain Riley's poems?
No. It is an index page of Riley's works in Project Gutenberg, listing bibliographic entries and locating information; the poems themselves are in the corresponding individual e-books. To read the poems, use the index to find the relevant title and then open the text.Who was Riley, and is he worth reading?
James Whitcomb Riley was an American poet of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, known for Indiana dialect verse and rural life themes, and widely read by American readers of his day. Whether he is worth reading depends on your interest in American regionalist literature and dialect poetry; this index itself offers no works by which to judge.How is an index page different from an ordinary e-book?
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About the author
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916 AuthorJames Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) was an American poet known for his folksy children's verse and dialect poetry. The library holds 22 of his works, including children's collections such as Riley Child-Rhymes, The Book of Joyous Children and A Child-World, along with Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury, Riley Songs of Home, several volumes of The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, and the Rubáiyát of Doc Sifers. These works draw mainly on childhood, family and everyday human feeling; their language is plain and their rhythm light, with a marked flavor of Midwestern American speech that makes them well suited to reading aloud. Commonly classified under inspirational growth, they are often treated as warm, optimistic reading for young people. Given the limits of the available material, details of his life are sparse, and this introduction rests chiefly on the character of his works.