The Coyote
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A good fit for
- Readers who wish to do extensive reading of English short fiction to build vocabulary and language intuition
- Those with a preliminary interest in North American literature who want low-cost access to English source texts
- Teachers and organizers who need short English materials to support classes or reading groups
- Readers accustomed to fragmented reading on electronic devices who prefer free public-domain texts
Not a good fit for
- Academic readers expecting systematic literary history research or in-depth criticism
- Readers who prefer Chinese translations and are not comfortable reading English originals
- Readers who need a full-length novel with a complete plot for an immersive experience
Reading tips
- Read through once to grasp the general plot, then go back to mark unfamiliar words and key sentence patterns
- Briefly learn about the American West theme before reading to help understand the textual context
- Use the search function of the electronic edition to organize characters and scenes, and take brief reading notes
- If used in class, excerpt passages as materials for intensive English reading and discussion
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
James Roberts (1881–1934) is an author whose birth and death years are known, yet whose life is otherwise sparsely documented. His nationality, education, and professional career have no reliable records in publicly available sources, so the public record is limited and a full account of his life cannot be reconstructed. Only one work by him is held in the collection, The Coyote. Judging from the title, it most likely deals with the coyote, a common North American wild animal, and thus belongs to animal or nature writing. Works of this kind usually focus on observing and describing animal habits, habitats, and human-animal relations, with a style that tends toward realism and close detail. Lacking further works and critical material, it is difficult to assess his overall output or literary standing; he can only be regarded as an early twentieth-century writer who left a work of animal writing, and his influence remains to be further examined.
