The Jester
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- Self-learners who enjoy English-language novels and want to build up their reading volume
- Students and teachers studying early twentieth-century English literature
- Readers used to reading public-domain books in fragmented sessions on electronic devices
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- Beginners who need a Chinese translation or a heavily annotated edition
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- Read through the whole book first to grasp the storyline, then go back a second time for unfamiliar words and background information.
- Read on an electronic device with a dictionary tool at hand, jotting down character relationships and plot clues as you go.
- Place the work within the context of early twentieth-century English literature and read it alongside other writers of the period.
- After each chapter, write a few sentences in English summarizing it to check comprehension and build up expressions.
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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
LM (Leslie Moore, 1888–1978) is an author about whom little public information is available; details of his life, nationality, and education remain unrecorded. Two of his works are held in the collection: Antony Gray,—Gardener and The Jester. Judging by their titles and character-centered premises, both books revolve around particular individuals—the former taking gardening as its thread, the latter built around the figure of a jester—and seem to dwell on personal fortunes and everyday situations, with an emphasis on narrative and character portrayal rather than broad social panorama. Given the limited materials, it is difficult to establish the overall arc of his writing, its literary affiliation, or its later reception. Readers encountering this author through these two works should treat them as the principal basis for understanding a still little-explored individual case in early twentieth-century English-language writing.
