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A good fit for
- Readers interested in Victorian essays and short pieces
- Students of nineteenth-century English literature or women's writing
- Readers who enjoy short moral essays that can be picked up and put down
- History and literature enthusiasts curious about everyday ethics and life views of the time
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer plot-driven fiction or modern narrative
- Those seeking systematic theory or academic argument
- Readers put off by nineteenth-century moralizing tone
Reading tips
- Read piece by piece, one or two at a time, without aiming to finish in one sitting.
- Note how the author draws lessons from small matters and make brief annotations.
- Compare with other Victorian essays to observe differences in style and subject.
- When encountering obvious period prejudices, record them and understand them in historical context.
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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
Charlotte M. Yonge (1823–1901) was a prolific nineteenth-century British novelist and writer of children's literature, with 65 works held in this collection. Public information is limited, but her representative works reveal the range of her writing: family novels such as The Heir of Redclyffe and The Daisy Chain centre on everyday life and moral growth; A Book of Golden Deeds and The Little Duke, aimed at young readers, recount historical stories and heroic character; she also wrote a life of John Coleridge Patteson, missionary bishop of the Melanesian Islands. Her works generally deal with family, faith, duty and history in a gentle, realistic style, and were influential among Victorian readers, with many long surviving as reading for young people.
