Twenty
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A good fit for
- Readers interested in early twentieth-century English literature and women's writing
- Readers who want free English-language ebooks for extensive reading
- Teachers selecting short English passages for classes or reading groups
- Advanced readers accustomed to looking up background information on their own rather than relying on annotations
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- Beginners who need detailed annotations and introductions to read the English original smoothly
- Readers of popular fiction who expect strong plot and fast-paced narrative
- Readers who only want a Chinese translation and are unwilling to engage with the English original
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- Read through once to grasp the narrative thread, then return to the dialogue and details, paying attention to the author's ironic tone.
- Jot down unfamiliar cultural references as you read and look them up afterwards, so as to avoid frequent interruptions.
- For a reading group, choose one or two scenes for close reading and compare them with how contemporary British women writers handled similar material.
- Use the metadata on the Gutenberg page to confirm the edition, and cite the electronic source when quoting.
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About the author
Stella Benson (1892–1933) was a British feminist, novelist, poet and travel writer, born in Shropshire. She lived for a time in California and set several novels in China, often blending fantasy, satire and social observation. Her representative works include I Pose, This Is the End, Living Alone and The Poor Man; the library also holds Twenty and Kwan-yin. In 1932 she won the French Prix Femina for a foreign novel, and she died in Tonkin, northern Vietnam, in 1933. Public information is limited and many details of her life are uncertain, yet her surviving works show a concern with women's lives and cross-cultural experience, written in a witty and imaginative style that gives her a distinctive place in early twentieth-century British literature.
