Mary, Mary
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in Irish literature and early twentieth-century English literature
- Readers hoping to ease into public-domain English originals through a short work
- Readers who enjoy dialogue and local color and do not demand strong plot
- Learners who want to read English books in fragmented time and train their language sense
Not a good fit for
- Readers of popular fiction expecting tense plots and strong dramatic conflict
- Those with weak English who are unused to reading early English expressions
- Beginner learners seeking detailed annotations and introductions
Reading tips
- Read one chapter first to feel the rhythm of the language before deciding whether to read closely, so you do not give up midway because of early English expressions.
- Mark unfamiliar expressions as you read and look them up afterward, balancing comprehension and language learning.
- Read brief introductions to other works by Stephens alongside this book to form an initial impression of his style.
- If time is limited, start with passages rich in dialogue to appreciate the characters' tone and humor.
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
James Stephens (Stephens, James, 1882-1950) was an Irish writer and poet. Eight of his works are collected here, spanning novels, fairy-tale collections, poetry, and documentary prose, showing a wide range of subjects. His representative works include The Crock of Gold, Irish Fairy Tales, The Insurrection in Dublin, The Demi-gods, Mary, Mary, The Adventures of Seumas Beg, Reincarnations, and Here Are Ladies. His writing often draws on Irish folklore and myth, with a light, humorous narrative and a language rich in poetry and imagination; his documentary work records his first-hand observations of the 1916 Dublin Rising. Public information is limited, and the details of his life are hard to verify, yet these works are enough to show his distinctive place in the Irish literary tradition.
