Moonshine and Clover
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- English readers who enjoy classical fairy tales and fantasy short stories
- English learners who want to build reading experience through light original texts
- Readers interested in late nineteenth-century British children's literature and illustration aesthetics
- Parents and readers who need short pieces for reading aloud or bedtime reading
Not a good fit for
- Readers of genre fiction who want strong plots and fast pacing
- Readers seeking modern English or contemporary-issue writing
- Readers with little patience for the fairy-tale genre and symbolic writing
Reading tips
- Read story by story, one or two at a time, so the fairy-tale atmosphere is not lost by reading it all at once.
- Read once for plot, then again to notice how images such as moonlight and clover link the themes.
- Guess unfamiliar words from context first and look them up after a section, keeping the reading fluent.
- Try reading aloud to feel the rhythm and pictorial quality of Housman's prose.
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
Laurence Housman (1865–1959) was a British writer, illustrator and playwright, and the younger brother of the poet A. E. Housman. He began his career as an illustrator and drew illustrations for collections of Tales from the Arabian Nights; he later rose to fame with his novel An Englishwoman's Love-Letters and wrote plays such as Angels and Ministers and Victoria, noted for their satirical touch, while actively supporting the women's suffrage movement. His subjects are often drawn from fairy tales, legends and Arabian stories, and his style is light and imaginative, combining the fantasy of fairy tales with the edge of satirical drama. Nine of his works are held in the collection, including Stories from The Arabian Nights, Princess Badoura, Moonshine & Clover and The Blue Moon, showing that his writing spans illustration, fiction and drama and made a distinctive place for itself in British letters from the late Victorian period into the twentieth century. Public information is limited, and no other biographical details are conjectured.
