The Works of Louis Becke: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions

Becke, Louis, 1855-1913Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Summary

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 Works of Louis Becke: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by BeckeAuthor: Becke, Louis, 1855-1913,Language: English, Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature, Release Date: May 26, 2009

Editor's review

This book is not a collection of works in the conventional sense, but a linked index to Louis Becke's works already available on Project Gutenberg. Becke was an English-language author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries known for his South Seas fiction; his short stories and sketches mostly drew on Pacific island life. The index's value is instrumental: it brings together titles scattered across the Gutenberg platform, making it easy for readers to locate and search individual pieces and for researchers to quickly grasp how his works are distributed in electronic text. It is suited to bibliographic checking and surveying his works rather than continuous reading. For readers familiar with public-domain e-book resources and accustomed to navigating by tables of contents, this index can save a great deal of search time; but those expecting to read actual stories or narratives must download the corresponding titles separately. Overall, it is a key, not the room itself.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Literary researchers studying Louis Becke and his South Seas fiction
Readers and information gatherers accustomed to Project Gutenberg electronic texts
Editors or translators who need to quickly locate electronic versions of Becke's individual titles
Advanced readers interested in English-language writing about the Pacific islands during the colonial period

Not a good fit for

General readers hoping to read full novels or stories directly
People unfamiliar with e-book platforms and how to use linked indexes
Beginners expecting introductions, annotations, or literary criticism

Reading tips

First browse the index structure, mark titles of interest, then go to the corresponding Project Gutenberg pages to download the full texts.
Can be used alongside a selection of Becke's South Seas short stories, checking titles and publication context against the index while reading.
Researchers can combine the index with bibliographic tools to build their own title concordance.
When reading electronically, save the links to avoid repeated searching when platform pages change.

About the publisher

Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971

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.

FAQ

Does this book include the full texts of Becke's works?

No. It is a linked index pointing to electronic versions of Becke's works on Project Gutenberg, offering title navigation rather than the texts themselves. To read a specific work, you need to obtain the full text separately through the links in the index.

What language proficiency is needed to read this index?

The index and Becke's original works are in English. Readers need basic English reading ability—enough to understand titles, author information, and platform navigation terms. No complex literary terminology is involved.

Is it suitable for academic citation?

It can serve as a clue for locating electronic text versions, but should not be cited directly as an academic source. Formal citations should rely on the full-text version of the specific work, with its publication information and textual status verified.

This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.

About the author

Becke, Louis, 1855-1913 Author

Louis Becke (1855–1913) was an English-language writer active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; details of his life and nationality are limited in publicly available sources. The library holds thirty-eight of his works, including novels and short-story collections, mostly concerned with seafaring, island life and adventure. Representative titles include By Reef and Palm, Rídan The Devil And Other Stories, Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories, The Trader's Wife, Yorke The Adventurer and Tessa. His writing is often set against the backdrop of Pacific islands and maritime experience, with a realistic tone that portrays sailors, traders and islanders in foreign settings and the human nature they reveal, giving his work a distinct flavour of sea adventure. The library classifies his works under inspirational growth; his books retain a readership within the tradition of maritime adventure fiction, though overall scholarly material on him remains limited.