Wunpost

Dane CoolidgeProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 374K words
Chapters: 38

Summary

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.Wunpost by Dane CoolidgeAuthor: Coolidge, Dane, 1873-1940,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Dec 2, 2009

Editor's review

Wunpost is an English novel by Dane Coolidge, included in Project Gutenberg under the category of American and Canadian literature. Coolidge was active in the early twentieth century, and his works mostly revolve around the American western frontier and adventure themes, a vein this book continues. As a public-domain eBook, its value lies first in the accessibility of historical material and text: readers can obtain at zero cost the original face of early twentieth-century American popular literature and observe how novels of the time organized plot, shaped characters, and handled regional experience. For readers studying American western narrative or the evolution of popular literature, this is a primary text that can be cited directly. When reading, one might place it within the genealogy of similar western novels for comparison and note how the author handles scene and dialogue. As an early digitized text, its layout and punctuation may retain the original form, so it is advisable to approach it with close reading rather than quick entertainment in mind. If one seeks only plot excitement, the pacing may feel different from today's genre fiction, but as literary-historical evidence, its readability holds.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers studying American western literature and the evolution of popular fiction
Those who need public-domain English texts for corpus or textual analysis
Readers interested in the narrative methods of early twentieth-century American fiction
Literature enthusiasts who wish to access Coolidge's works at low cost

Not a good fit for

Casual readers expecting modern fast-paced adventure stories
Readers unaccustomed to reading English originals who need a Chinese translation
Those with low tolerance for the layout differences of early digital texts

Reading tips

Read the first two chapters first to confirm the narrative perspective and regional setting, then decide the pace for the rest.
Read alongside a brief history of American western literature, noting the continuation and variation of genre conventions.
When doing textual analysis, record the proportion of dialogue and scene description to facilitate comparison with similar works.
For language learning, extract three to five typical sentence patterns per chapter and imitate them.

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Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971

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.

FAQ

Is this book in Chinese or English?

According to Project Gutenberg, the book is in English and is a public-domain English eBook. The main text is the original English, with no Chinese translation included.

Do I need to know the author first to read this book?

Not necessarily. Dane Coolidge's works mostly involve American western themes, so you can go straight into the text; if you want to understand its position, first look up the basic outline of American western popular fiction, then return to this book for comparison.

Will the eBook layout affect reading?

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About the author

Dane Coolidge Author · American · 1873–1940

Dane Coolidge (1873–1940) was an American writer, naturalist and photographer. Born in Natick, Massachusetts, and raised in California, he graduated from Stanford University and collected mammal specimens for several museums in Britain and the United States before turning to literary work. He is known for his Western novels, including Hidden Water, Shadow Mountain and The Desert Trail. Eight of his works are held in this collection, commonly grouped under inspirational growth. Drawing on Western life and mining camps, his fiction is tightly plotted with vivid characters, and several of his works were adapted into films. He also pursued ethnographic research on Native Americans, an interest that runs through his writing.