Peregrine's Progress
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy classic adventure and romance tales and want a light reading experience
- Readers looking to expand their reading of public-domain English novels and become familiar with early modern English prose
- Enthusiasts of early twentieth-century British popular fiction willing to explore the genre
- Self-learners who need free English reading material and can set their own pace
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer fast-paced contemporary narrative and lack patience for old-fashioned prose
- Readers hoping for serious social analysis or intellectual depth from the novel
- Beginners with weak English who need extensive annotations
Reading tips
- Read primarily for plot; enjoy the story as it unfolds and don't dwell too long on old-fashioned expressions.
- Keep a simple chart of characters and events to help track the encounters and shifting relationships along the journey.
- After reading, compare with other British popular novels of the same period to observe common conventions and language features of the genre.
- If time is limited, read in stages, concentrating on a few chapters at a time and briefly reviewing what came before.
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
Jeffery Farnol (1878–1952) was a British novelist born in Aston, Birmingham. He studied stage design and later went to the United States to work on scene painting. Over his career he wrote more than forty historical romance and adventure novels, including The Broad Highway, The Amateur Gentleman and Black Bartlemy's Treasure, with thirteen of his works held in this collection. His novels are mostly set in the Regency period and combine romance with adventure in a fluent, popular style. Together with Georgette Heyer, he helped to establish the Regency romance genre. Public information on the details of his life is limited; this introduction is based mainly on his works and their themes.
