Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Vaughan Kester

Kester, Vaughan, 1869-1911Project 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 Vaughan Kester by Vaughan KesterAuthor: Kester, Vaughan, 1869-1911,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Aug 15, 2018

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This file is a Project Gutenberg index of works by the American author Vaughan Kester (1869–1911). It is not a literary work itself but a key to his collected works. Kester's life was short, and his works mostly depict life in the American South and Midwest. This index lists the related electronic texts already available on Project Gutenberg, making it easy for readers to find them. Its value is practical: it saves the trouble of searching page by page and shows at a glance which titles are available and where to download them, making it a suitable starting point for research or reading. Since it is an index rather than a text, the reading experience is utilitarian and it is not suited to continuous reading. For readers studying American fiction from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, it is a low-cost search tool; ordinary literature lovers should have a clear goal before using it.

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Kester, Vaughan, 1869-1911 Author

Vaughan Kester (1869–1911) was an English-language writer about whom little is known; public sources give no clear record of his nationality or education. What can be identified are six works attributed to him, including the novels The Prodigal Judge, The Manager of the B. & A., The Fortune of the Landrays, and The Just and the Unjust, along with the story collection The Hand of the Mighty, and Other Stories and an index of his Project Gutenberg works. Judging from these titles and genres, he wrote mainly novels and short stories, often centering on law, the courtroom, family fortunes, and business management, with a recurring interest in moral judgment and the complexity of his characters' circumstances. He belongs to the tradition of plot-driven popular fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; his works have recently reached new readers through public digital libraries, though systematic scholarly study of him remains scarce.