Turned Adrift
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- General readers who enjoy English sea adventures and tales of peril
- Learners who want to practice English reading with a public-domain novel
- English teachers who need free electronic texts for classroom excerpts
- Readers interested in late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century popular fiction
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting a modern, carefully annotated edition or in-depth literary criticism
- Readers who prefer fast-paced contemporary narrative and lack patience for older prose
- Readers who need a Chinese translation and are not used to reading English originals
Reading tips
- Read the first few chapters to grasp the characters and situation, then proceed chapter by chapter to avoid giving up because of the old-fashioned style.
- Keep a vocabulary notebook of high-frequency expressions from nautical and everyday scenes, and review them after finishing.
- For classroom use, select passages about danger at sea or characters' choices for close reading and discussion.
- Read alongside a map or basic navigation references to help understand the book's spatial and situational descriptions
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
Harry Collingwood (1851-1922) was a British writer of maritime adventure fiction. Public information about him is limited, and many details of his life remain unknown. The library holds 34 of his works, mainly nautical and military adventure stories, commonly classified as inspirational coming-of-age reading. Representative titles include Across the Spanish Main, The Cruise of the Esmeralda, The Rover's Secret, Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun, The Voyage of the Aurora, Turned Adrift, A Pirate of the Caribbees, and A Middy of the King. Set largely at sea, these novels involve pirates, warships, and distant waters, with tightly plotted stories that focus on young protagonists maturing through danger. Some draw on historical warfare, such as the Russo-Japanese War. His style is popular adventure writing that emphasizes courage, discipline, and responsibility, and is suited to young readers.
