Mad Barbara
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- English learners seeking to improve extensive reading through public-domain English novels
- Readers interested in early twentieth-century British popular literature
- Groups needing a long English text for book-club discussion
Not a good fit for
- Literary scholars looking for highly experimental modernist works
- Readers sensitive to old-fashioned gender attitudes and unwilling to analyze context
Reading tips
- Read the first five chapters to clarify character relationships, then proceed chapter by chapter and note key turns
- Guess unfamiliar words from context first, and look them up after finishing the chapter
- Consult background materials on early twentieth-century British society to understand the period logic of characters' behavior
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
Warwick Deeping (1877–1950) was a British novelist whose career spanned the first half of the twentieth century; nine of his works are held on this site. Public information about him is limited, and his early life and education cannot be reliably established, but his surviving works show a gift for narrative set against historical and legendary backgrounds, as well as an interest in women's lives and domestic and moral themes. Such representative novels as Bertrand of Brittany, The King Behind the King and Uther and Igraine draw on medieval British legend and struggles for royal power, with compact plots and a strong romantic colouring; A Woman's War, The Pride of Eve and The Slanderers turn to social reality, focusing on women's predicaments under the pressures of marriage, reputation and public opinion. His novels are fluently narrated and vividly characterised, and he found a readership in the fields of popular historical and sentimental fiction.
