Worldly Ways & Byways
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy British and American essays and sketches of manners from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Readers who want an easygoing introduction to the social etiquette and manners of an earlier era
- Learners with good English reading ability who prefer short nonfiction
- Casual readers looking for something to read in spare moments, without seeking a systematic theoretical framework
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting systematic sociological analysis or rigorous historical research
- Readers who prefer fiction with strong plots and fast-paced narratives
- Beginners whose English reading is not yet proficient and who need annotated assistance
Reading tips
- Read selectively by essay rather than insisting on going from start to finish; one or two pieces at a time is enough
- While reading, pay attention to the author's observations of social details and appreciate the gentle irony
- Consult background material on late nineteenth-century British and American social customs for smoother comprehension
- Mark unfamiliar expressions first, then look them up after finishing the whole piece
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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
Eliot Gregory (1854–1915) was an American essayist. Public information about him is limited, and few details of his life survive; he is known chiefly for his collections of social commentary, The Ways of Men and Worldly Ways & Byways. Gregory's writing focuses on the social customs, personal intercourse, and manners of his time, observing and commenting in essay form on urban life and the habits of fashionable society. His tone is cool and somewhat ironic, combining an observer's keen eye with a critic's restraint. Such social criticism was well received by American readers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and his name is associated with the tradition of observing worldly manners. Two of his works are held in this collection, both collections of social commentary, which shows where the focus of his writing lay.
