Two Prisoners
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- English learners who want to practice reading with a short original English text
- General readers interested in American Southern local-color literature
- Literature teachers and students who need public-domain short fiction materials
- Casual readers who prefer warm, tightly paced narratives
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting a long, complex plot or intense dramatic conflict
- Beginners unused to late nineteenth-century English expression
Reading tips
- Read through once for the plot, then revisit key dialogue to sense shifts in the characters' attitudes.
- Mark period vocabulary as you go and look it up after finishing, so the reading rhythm isn't interrupted.
- After reading, write a brief three-to-five-line summary noting how the two prisoners' situations and choices differ.
- Read it alongside other Southern-themed short stories and compare narrative perspectives.
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
Thomas Nelson Page (1853–1922) was an American writer. Public information about the details of his life is limited, but the twenty-four works by him held in this collection give a clear sense of his writing. His work is rooted in the American South: the novel Red Rock: A Chronicle of Reconstruction confronts the social changes that followed the Civil War, and Gordon Keith likewise unfolds Southern manners and the upheavals of the era. Short works such as The Burial of the Guns and The Spectre in the Cart often deal with memories of war, rural legends, and stories with a touch of mystery. Page's writing is often nostalgic, attentive to local scenery and human temperament, and his works are an important sample for understanding the literary tastes of the late nineteenth-century American South.
