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- Literature enthusiasts curious about early twentieth-century American popular fiction
- Upper-intermediate and advanced English learners seeking long-form extensive reading material
- Readers interested in Western or adventure themes and stories of growth through adversity
- Those studying public-domain eBooks and the history of early electronic publishing
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- After finishing, revisit how the title's "handicap" is concretely embodied in the story and sort out the theme.
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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
Jackson Gregory (1882–1943) was an American writer, teacher, and journalist, born in Salinas, California, and a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. A prolific author of more than forty books, he was best known for his Western and detective fiction. His representative works include The Everlasting Whisper, The Desert Valley, The Short Cut, Wolf Breed, Judith of Blue Lake Ranch, Man to Man, Six Feet Four, and The Bells of San Juan; this library holds ten of his works. His novels are typically set on the American Western frontier, with tight plots and strong action, often centering on ranches, the wilderness, and conflicts between characters, and blending suspense with adventure. Several of his works were adapted into films. Overall, his writing has a certain influence in popular literature, though public information about his life and work remains limited and awaits further verification.
