The Dominant Dollar
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- English literature enthusiasts looking to broaden their reading of early American fiction
- Digital humanities readers studying Project Gutenberg and public-domain ebooks
- English learners who need early twentieth-century English-language material for extensive reading
- General readers interested in old novels set in the American Midwest
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- Readers expecting strong plots and the fast pace of contemporary fiction
- Chinese readers with limited English proficiency who are unwilling to look up words
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- Read the first two chapters first to judge whether the narrative pace and language difficulty suit your reading habits.
- Use a dictionary or the word-selection function of an e-reader to build up early twentieth-century English expressions as you read.
- After finishing, look up a brief biography of the author, Will Levington Comfort, to understand the background of his brief writing career.
- If using it for research, note the social attitudes and language features reflected in the book and compare them with other novels of the same period.
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About the author
The American novelist Will Lillibridge (1878–1909) was born in 1878 in the Dakota Territory. He studied dentistry and practiced in Sioux Falls, writing at night while seeing patients by day. In his short life he left four works, winning fame with the Western novels Ben Blair and Where the Trail Divides, as well as The Dominant Dollar and the story collection A Breath of Prairie and other stories. His writing often draws on life in the American West and on the prairie, centering on personal choices and growth within frontier settings, with plain narration that emphasizes turning points in his characters' fates; for this reason his works are classed here as inspirational growth. Public information is limited, and details of his life and the full range of his work remain to be verified. He died in Sioux Falls on January 29, 1909, at the age of only 31.
