Infelice
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Students and scholars of nineteenth-century American women's literature and popular fiction
- English-language readers who enjoy sentimental, family-ethics long-form narratives
- Learners who need public-domain English texts for reading practice or corpus work
- Literature enthusiasts interested in the tradition of American Southern literature
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer fast-paced modern fiction with strong plots
- Readers with limited English reading ability who need a Chinese translation
- Readers with little patience for nineteenth-century sentimental narrative style
Reading tips
- Before reading, learn the common themes of nineteenth-century American sentimental fiction to enter the text's context.
- Proceed chapter by chapter and note changes in the main characters' relationships to avoid confusion from the large cast.
- Slow down at long passages of psychological description and pay attention to how the narrator portrays women's circumstances.
- After finishing, compare with works by American women writers of the same period to compare narrative styles.
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.
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About the author
Augusta J. Evans (1835–1909) was a nineteenth-century American novelist. Public information about her is limited; she is known to have nine works, including Inez: A Tale of the Alamo, St. Elmo, Macaria, Beulah, Vashti Or, Until Death Us Do Part, Devota, Infelice, and At the Mercy of Tiberius. These titles suggest that her fiction drew on historical events and on emotional and moral themes, often centering on women's fates, marriage, and faith, with detailed plotting and a sentimental, didactic tone. Inez is set against the events of the Alamo, showing her interest in history, while works such as St. Elmo revolve around love and family. Her novels are representative of nineteenth-century American popular fiction and offer insight into the creative concerns of women writers of her time.
