Romance
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy classic English novels with adventure and romance
- Readers interested in the work of Conrad or Ford Madox Ford
- Literature students studying collaborative writing and narrative perspective
- Readers looking to broaden their reading of English-language novels in the original
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer fast-paced genre fiction
- Readers unaccustomed to the narrative tone of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Readers who want a single consistent prose style
Reading tips
- Familiarize yourself with each author's style first, then read the book to see the differences and fusion.
- Note the scope of the narrator's knowledge and track how suspense is delayed.
- Mark passages where the tone shifts and revisit them after finishing to see if they reflect the collaboration.
- Read alongside other works by both authors for deeper understanding.
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
Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) was a British novelist, poet and critic. Nine of his works are held here, spanning novels and fairy tales. Among the novels, The Good Soldier is the best known; the Fifth Queen series (The Fifth Queen, The Fifth Queen Crowned and Privy Seal: His Last Venture) deals with court and political themes, while Romance and The Inheritors were written in collaboration with others. His fairy tales include The Brown Owl: A Fairy Story and The Queen Who Flew: A Fairy Tale, showing that he wrote for different kinds of readers. Public information is limited and biographical details are hard to verify, but his works range widely in subject, are carefully structured and psychologically attentive, and hold a place in the history of the modern British novel.
