The Starbucks

Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 307K words
Chapters: 31

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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 Starbucks by Opie Percival ReadAuthor: Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Aug 3, 2006

Editor's review

This work comes from the hand of Opie Percival Read, a late-nineteenth-century American popular novelist, and belongs among his novels marked by local color and a humorous touch. The public-domain electronic text provided by Project Gutenberg gives readers low-cost access to American narrative literature from more than a century ago. Read's writing often takes small-town Southern life as its backdrop, with lively dialogue and brisk plotting, making it a suitable sample for understanding popular reading tastes around the American Gilded Age. For readers studying American literary history, the development of popular fiction, or the circulation of public-domain ebooks, this little book offers the original text and version information and has documentary reference value. When reading, one might place it in the context of late-nineteenth-century American newspaper serial fiction and note the period features of narrative rhythm and character voice. As an early digitized text, it is best read alongside an introduction or literary-historical materials to better appreciate its documentary significance and textual interest.

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Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939 Author

Opie Percival Read (1852–1939) was an American writer. Public information about his life and education is limited, and the library records do not note his nationality or detailed career. The available records show that the library holds nine of his works, including The Jucklins: A Novel, My Young Master: A Novel, A Yankee from the West: A Novel, Old Ebenezer, The Colossus: A Novel, Up Terrapin River, Bolanyo, and The Starbucks. Judging from these titles and subtitles, Read devoted himself mainly to long-form fiction, drawing on American regional society and characters, with a narrative flavor characteristic of popular fiction from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century: plain language, emphasis on plot momentum, and attention to character portrayal. Because public information is limited, his specific life, creative development, and literary standing are difficult to describe in detail, but the works above sufficiently reflect his sustained writing in fiction and his thematic preferences.