This Freedom
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Literature lovers who want to understand the landscape of early twentieth-century British popular fiction
- Readers interested in issues of marriage, family, and personal freedom
- Readers with some English foundation who wish to try a full-length English original
- Commuters accustomed to reading ebooks in fragments during spare moments
Not a good fit for
- Readers whose English reading is not yet proficient and who need a Chinese translation for support
- Readers who prefer plot-driven, fast-paced genre fiction
- Academic readers seeking systematic research materials on literary history
Reading tips
- Read the preface or table of contents first and clarify the main character relationships before entering the main text, to reduce getting lost midway.
- Read one or two chapters at a fixed time each day; mark unfamiliar words first and look them up later, keeping the reading rhythm uninterrupted.
- When a character faces a choice, pause for a moment to think what you would do, then continue reading.
- After finishing, write a few sentences about your understanding of "freedom" and compare it with your expectations at the beginning.
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
Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson (1880–1971) was a British novelist. Born in India, the son of an army officer, he served as editor of the Daily Mirror and during World War I served in the Royal Engineers. His novel If Winter Comes, published in 1921, was widely popular in Britain and the United States and topped the American bestseller list the following year, becoming one of his best-known works. Another novel, This Freedom, sparked controversy over its treatment of women's issues, showing his engagement with social questions. Four of his works are held in this collection, including The Happy Warrior, If Winter Comes, This Freedom, and Once Aboard the Lugger—The History of George and His Mary. Public information is limited and details of his life are scarce, but the works available suggest that he was skilled at exploring society and individual destiny through accessible narrative, and that he had a wide readership in the 1920s.
