That Fortune
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in nineteenth-century American literature who are willing to read originals
- Readers who like works about fate and life choices
- Learners needing public-domain English e-books as reading material
- Essay-minded readers used to slow reading who do not demand strong plots
Not a good fit for
- Readers with weak English who rely on Chinese translations
- Readers expecting fast-paced, strongly plotted stories
- Readers seeking systematic literary-historical research materials
Reading tips
- Read through once to grasp the overall tone, then revisit key passages rather than grinding word by word.
- Note how the author handles fate and chance; keep brief notes for review.
- Read alongside other public-domain American works to sense similarities and differences in period style.
- If time is limited, set small chapter goals and keep a steady pace rather than reading it all at once.
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
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) was an American writer and editor, with fifty-seven of his works held in this catalog. His subjects are notably wide-ranging: there are familiar essays on gardening and everyday leisure such as My Summer in a Garden, a study of a fellow writer in Washington Irving, and travel accounts of foreign places, including In the Levant, My Winter on the Nile and Our Italy, the last concerning Italy. The chapters associated with The Gilded Age indicate that he also took part in writing on social themes. The catalog classifies him under inspirational growth, suggesting that some of his works carry a tone of counsel and self-reflection. Public information is limited, so rather than dwelling on biographical detail, readers may begin with his essays and travel writings and appreciate their easy, unhurried style and close observation.
