The Long Shadow
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Genre-fiction readers interested in early twentieth-century American Westerns
- Students and researchers of B. M. Bower or American popular literature
- Intermediate and advanced English learners who want to practise extensive reading with public-domain originals
- Those who need early American fiction texts for teaching or as writing reference
Not a good fit for
- General readers seeking fast-paced modern narrative with strong twists
- Readers with weak English who find nineteenth- and twentieth-century English originals difficult
- Readers who only want Chinese translations and are unwilling to engage with public-domain electronic originals
Reading tips
- Read a chapter or two first to get a feel for the language before deciding whether to read it through, so you are not put off by old-fashioned expression.
- Keep a simple character chart and update it as you read, which helps sort out names and identities in a multi-character narrative.
- Guess unfamiliar words from context first and check them after finishing a passage, to keep reading fluently.
- Read it alongside other Western works by the same author to observe her habitual methods of characterisation and scene description.
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
Bower, B. M. (1871–1940) was an early American writer of Western fiction. Public information about her is limited, and Chinese-language sources record few details of her life. The library holds 30 of her works, including Chip, of the Flying U; Lonesome Land; The Gringos; The Phantom Herd; Sawtooth Ranch; The Flying U's Last Stand; Starr, of the Desert; and Good Indian. These titles show that she specialized in stories set on ranches and in the wilderness of the American West, dealing with cowboy life, ranch management, and personal conflicts. Her plots are brisk and her characters plainly drawn, in the manner of early popular Western fiction. The Flying U series is especially representative, centering on everyday ranch life and adventure in direct, fast-paced prose suited to a wide readership. Her work holds a place in early twentieth-century American popular literature and has had some influence on later Western writing.
