Mince Pie
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Literary readers who enjoy British and American essays and light, humorous prose
- English learners who want to practice reading with short English essays
- Readers interested in early twentieth-century American literary life
- People who need fragmented reading on the subway or before sleep
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer long, continuous plots or strongly story-driven fiction
- Readers seeking systematic literary history or in-depth academic analysis
- Beginners who find reading the English original very difficult and have no aids
Reading tips
- Read one or two short pieces a day, not necessarily in order; skip around by interest.
- English learners can read a piece through first, then look up new words and read it aloud to feel the rhythm of the prose.
- Keep a notebook of favorite sentences and humorous expressions for later imitation in writing.
- Read it alongside Morley's other essay collections to appreciate his personal style.
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
Christopher Morley (Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957) was an American writer, editor, and essayist with a prolific output; fifteen of his works are held in this collection. His representative works include Parnassus on Wheels (the source of the Japanese title Yūrei Shoten), Where the Blue Begins, Tales from a Rolltop Desk, Shandygaff, Mince Pie, Chimneysmoke, and Plum Pudding. These titles show that Morley's writing spans fiction, essays, and short sketches, often centering on bookshops, books, and the reading life, with a light, humorous tone and a strong bookish, nostalgic flavor. He also frequently drew on everyday trifles and city life, revealing warmth and wit through plain narration. Parnassus on Wheels, built around a traveling bookshop, is well known among book lovers and best embodies his distinctive blend of storytelling and essay. Given the limited materials in the collection, details of his life, education, and career are not well documented publicly, so no conjecture is offered here; this note confines itself to a brief account of his subjects and style.
