Wedding Day

Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney), 1915-1979Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

2.5

Word count: 7.8K words
Chapters: 1

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Wedding Day by Winston K. MarksAuthor: Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney), 1915-1979,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Feb 4, 2019

Editor's review

Wedding Day is an English short work by Winston K. Marks published on Project Gutenberg and classified under American and Canadian literature. The author lived from 1915 to 1979, and the work has the common character of mid-twentieth-century English popular fiction: concise length, concentrated plot, and plain language. As a public-domain ebook, its outstanding advantages are that it is free and easy to obtain; it is suitable for finishing during a commute or in fragmented time, and it is also convenient for English learners to use as short-form extensive reading material. Readers can use it to see how early English short stories quickly establish a situation and advance conflict within limited space. However, the Project Gutenberg page provides quite limited information, with no detailed writing background or commentary, so readers should not expect an in-depth introduction. Overall, this is a lightweight, practical sample of English reading, more suitable for interest reading or language practice than as a core research text.

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The short story can be read in two or three sittings; at the end of each, summarize that part in one sentence.
If using it for English study, extract three to five useful expressions and make sentences with them to reinforce memory.

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Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney), 1915-1979 Author

Winston K. Marks (1915–1979) was an American science fiction writer, born Winston Kinney Marks. Public information about his life and education is limited, and what is known comes mainly from his published work. The library holds 15 of his works, including "...So They Baked a Cake," "The Mind Digger," "Tabby," "Mate in Two Moves," "Unbegotten Child," "Brown John's Body," "Backlash," and "Breeder Reaction." These are mostly short science fiction stories dealing with technological ethics, human weakness, and social absurdity. They often use a light, humorous tone to frame a cool-headed look at technology out of control and the human condition; some titles are also classified under inspirational growth. He was active during the mid-twentieth-century boom of American science fiction magazines, and his stories appeared in popular science fiction periodicals, exerting some influence on later short-form science fiction writing.