Painted Windows
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in essays on Christian themes and character sketches
- Readers of history and literature curious about the religious culture of modern Britain
- General readers who prefer gentle moral observation and slow, reflective prose
- Students in religious studies or literature courses seeking supplementary reading
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking systematic theology or apologetic argument
- Readers hoping for contemporary psychological counseling or self-help methods
- Readers uninterested in religious topics who prefer purely literary fiction
Reading tips
- Begin with the table of contents and the opening pages; grasp the metaphor of the "painted windows" before going on to the individual pieces.
- After each piece, note the characters' traits and the author's judgments, and compare his angles of observation.
- Read alongside background material on early twentieth-century British religious culture.
- There is no need to read every piece in sequence; group them by figure or theme and annotate as you go.
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
Harold Begbie (1871–1929) was a British writer and journalist born in Suffolk. He worked successively for the Daily Chronicle and the Globe, and under the pen name "the Gentleman with the Broom" published the political commentary The Mirrors of Downing Street, alongside works such as Painted Windows. He produced nearly fifty books covering religious studies, biography, political satire, children's literature and poetry; his representative works include The Story of Baden-Powell and The Bed-Book of Happiness. Public information on his early education and private life is limited. Judging from his surviving works, he combined a journalist's concern with real affairs and a writer's accessible style, moving easily between political commentary, biography and light reading, and addressing general readers with wide-ranging subjects and social observation.
