Wild Folk
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy nature observation and natural-history essays
- Learners hoping to practice English reading in short pieces
- Readers interested in early twentieth-century American nature-popular-science writing
- Ordinary readers wanting to cultivate interest in observing nearby animals
Not a good fit for
- Readers needing systematic zoology textbooks or modern taxonomic materials
- Readers who prefer strong-plot fiction and lack patience for essays
- Readers expecting many illustrations or field-guide presentation
Reading tips
- Read by scattered chapters, one or two a day, ideally alongside outdoor observation.
- Note unfamiliar animal names first, then look them up after finishing the piece.
- Keep a notebook of the author's observational angles and compare with your daily observations.
- As English learning material, focus intensive reading on passages describing habits.
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
Samuel Scoville (1872–) is an English-language author about whom relatively little biographical information is publicly available; details of his nationality, education, and personal life are scarcely documented. Judging from the five works held in the collection, his writing spans natural observation, biography, historical narrative, and adventure stories. Wild Folk focuses on wildlife and the natural world, A Biography of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher portrays the American clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, and Brave Deeds of Union Soldiers recounts the courageous deeds of Union soldiers. Everyday Adventures and The Inca Emerald lean toward popular adventure narrative. Overall, his prose is accessible and readable, emphasizing storytelling and weaving historical figures, wartime episodes, and exotic adventures into narratives suited to general readers, with varied subjects and a plain, straightforward style.
