Sunrise
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy nineteenth-century English fiction and sentimental narrative
- Students of Victorian popular literature and serial publication culture
- Literature lovers seeking to broaden their reading of English fiction beyond the classics
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer fast-paced modern fiction with strong conflict
- Readers seeking serious social critique or intellectual history
- Readers impatient with long landscape descriptions and a leisurely narrative
Reading tips
- First learn about William Black's novelistic style and the period background, then begin the text.
- Proceed chapter by chapter, noting how landscape description serves characters' emotions and plot turns.
- Read alongside other Victorian novels to observe similarities and differences in popular narrative modes.
- The English original is long; set a fixed number of pages per day to avoid giving up midway because of the slow pace.
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
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Is the author William Black the poet Blake?
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About the author
William Black (1841–1898) was a Scottish novelist, born in Glasgow and died in Brighton. He studied painting and worked as a journalist before devoting himself to fiction. His works are known for their vivid depictions of the Scottish Highlands and maritime scenes, written in a graceful style with a strong sense of place. His representative novels include A Princess of Thule, Macleod of Dare, and Sunrise. Seven of his works are held in this collection, among them Judith Shakespeare, Prince Fortunatus, and The Beautiful Wretch, as well as his biography of Goldsmith for the English Men of Letters series. His books were widely popular during his lifetime. Public information on the details of his life is limited, and readers may chiefly come to know his writing through the works mentioned above.
