The Highflyers
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- English learners who want low-cost extensive reading of original English novels
- Readers interested in early twentieth-century American popular literature
- Literature students who need lightweight public-domain texts as research material
- Casual readers who enjoy plot-driven narrative and do not seek profound themes
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer Chinese translations and are not comfortable with the English original
- Serious literary readers seeking deep thought or modern literary technique
- Beginner English readers who need detailed notes and introductions
Reading tips
- Read a chapter or two first to gauge the language difficulty and narrative pace, then decide whether to read closely or extensively.
- Guess unfamiliar words from context first and look them up after finishing the chapter to keep reading fluid.
- Read alongside background material on early twentieth-century American history to help understand the period context.
- If using the book for English study, retell the plot in two or three sentences after each chapter to check comprehension.
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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
Clarence Budington Kelland (1881–1964) was an American author. Public information about his life and nationality is limited, but the library holds twelve of his works, which offer a glimpse of his writing. He is best known for a series of novels featuring the boy Mark Tidd, such as Mark Tidd in the Backwoods, Mark Tidd: His Adventures and Strategies, and Mark Tidd's Citadel, which center on the adventures and clever schemes of young people; the plots are brisk and humorous, with a strong flavor of small-town America. Other works, including Scattergood Baines, Sudden Jim, The Highflyers, Catty Atkins, and Youth Challenges, likewise take vivid ordinary characters and everyday town life as their subjects. His prose is plain and lively, and he moves the story forward through dialogue. Overall, his writing is light and witty, emphasizing characterization and homely humor, and is suited to popular reading.
