The Return
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A good fit for
- Adult readers who enjoy English literature and psychological atmosphere
- Students who need public-domain fiction for English or literature courses
- Book club members looking for works that invite discussion of atmosphere and inner life
- Readers who prefer slow-paced narrative and reading in installments
Not a good fit for
- Beginners with weak English who cannot yet read a long English novel smoothly
- Genre-fiction readers who prefer fast plots and strong action
- People who only want short stories and are unwilling to commit to longer reading
Reading tips
- Read the first two or three chapters to get a feel for the language and atmosphere, then decide whether to read closely or casually.
- Keep pen and paper to note character relationships and atmospheric clues; reviewing afterward makes things clearer.
- If the original is hard going, read a plot summary first to lower the barrier before entering the text.
- Suited to bedtime or commute reading in installments; leave a few minutes after each session to savor the scene.
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
Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) was a British poet and novelist. He was born in Charlton, Kent, in 1873 and died in Twickenham in 1956. He worked for an oil company for nearly twenty years and wrote in his spare time; in 1902 he published Songs of Childhood under a pen name. His poetry, represented by The Listeners and Other Poems and Peacock Pie, is musical in language and skilled at creating mysterious, delicate atmospheres, while his fiction and short stories often deal with supernatural themes in a restrained, thought-provoking style. In 1921 Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and in 1947 he received the Carnegie Medal. Besides poetry and fiction, he wrote children's books such as The Three Mulla-mulgars. Eleven of his works are held in the collection, covering poetry, novels, and fairy tales, showing that his writing spans both adult and children's literature and has influenced later English fantasy writing and children's poetry.
