The Girls of Friendly Terrace or, Peggy Raymond's Success

Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 2.8
Word count
349K words
Chapters
35

Tags

English Originals Children's Literature Campus LifeFamily BondsInspirationComing of AgeSpiritual ComfortGrowing UpYouthful VibeHeartwarming NarrativeParent-Child ReadingFemale Perspective

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.The Girls of Friendly Terrace; or, Peggy Raymond's Success by Harriet L. SmithAuthor: ,Language: English, Class: PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres, Release Date: Apr 14, 2014

Editor's review

This work is an electronic book in the juvenile literature category of the Project Gutenberg collection. The original author is Harriet L. Smith, and the story centers on the growth of several girls in the "Friendly Terrace" community and on Peggy Raymond, with the subtitle highlighting the theme of "success." As a public-domain juvenile novel, its value lies in presenting the everyday narrative style of early twentieth-century English-language children's literature: friendship among neighbors, family life, and mutual help among girls form the main thread; the plot is gentle and the language plain, making it a useful sample for understanding what young people's reading looked like in that era. Reading highlights include the portrayal of the ensemble of characters and the community atmosphere, as well as the moral-educational meaning conveyed through small everyday events; the pace is slow and the conflicts are not intense. For Chinese readers, it is better suited as extensive reading material in the original English or as documentary reading in the history of children's literature than as entertainment reading with a strong plot. The electronic edition is easy to obtain and suits short, chapter-by-chapter reading on screen or in print, and it is also convenient for teachers to excerpt for classroom discussion of friendship and responsibility.

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Reading tips

  1. Read one or two chapters a day, first going through the plot and then reviewing new words, so as to keep the reading flowing.
  2. Prepare a character list and note the personalities of the girls and changes in their relationships to help sort out the ensemble narrative.
  3. Choose passages about friendship and responsibility for reading aloud or translation practice, to experience the language style of the period.
  4. If used for teaching, excerpt scenes of everyday conflict and organize students to discuss ways of handling them and the theme of character.

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Contents

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FAQ

Is this book suitable for English beginners to read directly? Not very suitable for complete beginners or elementary learners. The original is an early twentieth-century English juvenile novel; its sentences tend to be long, and some wording carries the flavor of the period, so it requires a certain vocabulary and the ability to read whole paragraphs. Intermediate learners and above are advised to read through the plot first and then deal with new words.
Do I need to know the author or series background to read this book? No. The story revolves around the girls of the Friendly Terrace community, and the relationships are gradually revealed through everyday narration, so you can start directly from Chapter One. If you want version information, you can refer to the author and classification information on the Project Gutenberg page, but there is no need to study the background in advance.
Is this book related to Robinson Crusoe? There is no direct relation. This book is about the everyday growth of girls and focuses on community life and friendship; Robinson Crusoe is a desert-island survival adventure. The two are only superficially similar in a common word in the title; their content, style, and target readers are all different, so there is no need to read with expectations of adventure.

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