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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers studying American Southern literature and late nineteenth-century fiction
- Classic literature enthusiasts who enjoy themes of character growth and moral choice
- Teachers and students who need public-domain English novels as course supplements
- Readers accustomed to slow-paced narrative who value character portrayal
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting fast-paced plots or strong suspenseful conflict
- Readers sensitive to social attitudes limited by their era
- Readers seeking modern vernacular or contemporary subject matter
Reading tips
- Learn the historical background of the American Reconstruction-era South before entering the text
- Proceed chapter by chapter and note character relationships as you go to grasp the narrative thread
- Infer unfamiliar words or period expressions from context rather than checking every word
- After finishing, briefly compare the narrative techniques with similar Southern literary works
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
Thomas Nelson Page (1853–1922) was an American writer. Public information about the details of his life is limited, but the twenty-four works by him held in this collection give a clear sense of his writing. His work is rooted in the American South: the novel Red Rock: A Chronicle of Reconstruction confronts the social changes that followed the Civil War, and Gordon Keith likewise unfolds Southern manners and the upheavals of the era. Short works such as The Burial of the Guns and The Spectre in the Cart often deal with memories of war, rural legends, and stories with a touch of mystery. Page's writing is often nostalgic, attentive to local scenery and human temperament, and his works are an important sample for understanding the literary tastes of the late nineteenth-century American South.
