A Bachelor Husband
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy English popular romance fiction and want easy extensive reading
- Enthusiasts studying early twentieth-century British popular literature
- Students who need free public-domain English reading material for practice
- Casual readers interested in old-fashioned marriage and family themes
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking modern experimental narrative or deep intellectual content
- Beginners not yet comfortable with the feel and rhythm of early English fiction
- Readers hoping for strong suspense or historical research
Reading tips
- Read a chapter or two first to test the feel; if the pace seems slow, switch to a fixed number of pages per day.
- Jot down details of character relationships and views on marriage to make it easier to recall the period background.
- Read it alongside other British popular fiction of the same period and compare themes and methods.
- Use the e-reader's annotation function to mark interesting dialogue, then revisit character changes after finishing.
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
Ruby Mildred Ayres (1883–1955) was a British writer of romantic fiction. She was born in England on 28 January 1883, the daughter of an architect. After marrying an insurance broker in 1909 she began writing, and over more than four decades produced roughly 150 love novels that sold over eight million copies worldwide. Many of her works were serialised in newspapers, and some were adapted into films. Her representative titles include The Beggar Man, The Phantom Lover, The Second Honeymoon and A Bachelor Husband. She died in Weybridge on 14 November 1955. Public information about her education and detailed life is limited; her surviving works suggest a popular storyteller who built plots around courtship and marriage for a mass readership, making her one of the prolific writers of early twentieth-century British romantic fiction.
