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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy early American popular fiction and stories of everyday human feeling
- Literature enthusiasts who want to read more works by Alice Hegan Rice
- Readers of English-language originals who prefer gentle narratives and do not seek strong plots
- Undergraduates and enthusiasts studying early twentieth-century American popular literature
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting suspense, action, or strongly dramatic plots
- Beginners who need detailed introductions and extensive notes to enter the text
- Readers who prefer fast-paced contemporary narratives and lack patience for old-fashioned prose
Reading tips
- Read the opening chapters first to get a feel for the relationships and narrative tone, then decide on the reading pace.
- While reading, note how the author uses everyday scenes to portray character; brief character notes can help.
- Read alongside other works by Rice to observe similarities and differences in subject matter and character handling.
- When reading the English original, if you encounter old-fashioned expressions, first infer from context, then check them in a focused way.
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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FAQ
Is this book similar in style to Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch?
The materials do not provide a detailed plot. What should I do to prepare before reading?
Is it suitable as practice material for reading English originals?
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About the author
Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1870–1942) was an American novelist born in Shelbyville, Kentucky. She is best known for her bestselling 1901 novel Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, which was later adapted many times for the stage and screen. Beyond that signature work, the collection also includes Lovey Mary, Calvary Alley, A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill, The Honorable Percival, Quin, and Captain June, among ten titles in total. Her fiction often draws on everyday life in the towns and countryside of the American South, written in a gentle, humorous tone and frequently moving readers through the circumstances and kindness of ordinary people. Rice also founded the Cabbage Patch Settlement House in Louisville and devoted herself to poverty relief, so that her writing and her social concern illuminate each other.
