Sunlight Patch
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- English learners who want low-cost extensive reading of English novels
- Readers and researchers of early twentieth-century American popular literature
- Digital humanities enthusiasts who need public-domain English texts for corpus analysis
- Readers who prefer reading on electronic devices and favor free public-domain books
Not a good fit for
- Readers who want a Chinese translation and are unwilling to read the English original
- Leisure readers seeking strong plots and fast-paced contemporary fiction
- Deep researchers who need detailed introductions or author studies
Reading tips
- Skim the first few chapters to confirm whether the narrative style and subject match your expectations before committing to a full read.
- Prepare an electronic dictionary or vocabulary notebook and mark unfamiliar words as you go, so as not to interrupt the reading rhythm.
- If using it for corpus research, first count chapter lengths and high-frequency words, then set a sampling reading plan.
- After finishing, look up the author Harris's life and the background of American fiction of the same period to help situate the text.
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
Credo Fitch Harris (1874–1956) was an American writer, journalist, and radio station manager who settled for many years in Kentucky and served as manager of station WHAS in Louisville, with a career spanning journalism, literature, and broadcasting. His novels cover a variety of subjects, and his representative works include Toby, Sunlight Patch, Where the Souls of Men Are Calling, and Wings of the Wind. Toby was adapted into a film, showing the reach of his work at the time. Overall, his writing combines realistic concern with popular readability. Public information on his early life and the origins of his writing is limited; the works and positions noted above are the main details currently confirmed.
