A New Sensation

Ross, Albert, 1851-1916Project Gutenberg · United StatesMar 2023

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Word count: 438K words
Chapters: 44

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.A New Sensation by Albert RossAuthor: Ross, Albert, 1851-1916,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Oct 5, 2012

Editor's review

This work falls under the category of public-domain ebooks in American and Canadian literature, digitized and released by Project Gutenberg; its author is the nineteenth-century writer Albert Ross. As an old novel, its value lies more in the documentary and reading-history dimension: readers can use it to observe the plot appeal, characterization, and linguistic habits of late-nineteenth-century English popular narrative, and to see how a pioneering ebook platform brings dormant old texts back into public view. Its length and subject matter make it a suitable candidate for fragmented reading, and also make it something readers interested in public-domain literature, early English fiction, or digital library projects can dip into at leisure. A caveat: it is not a bestselling new work in the contemporary sense, and its narrative pacing and ideas bear clear marks of its era; readers may wish to approach it with a historical eye, as a window onto the popular English literature of an earlier day, rather than as a work to be read for strong plotting or modern concerns.

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Reading tips

Read the first chapter or two to judge whether the narrative pacing suits your taste before deciding whether to read it through.
Treat it as English extensive reading material; mark unfamiliar old words as you go and look them up afterward.
Pay attention to dialogue and period expressions as you read, and note passages that reflect the ideas of the time.
If using it for a course or reading group, discuss it alongside other public-domain short stories for comparison.

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Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971

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Is this book a contemporary new release?

No. It is a public-domain ebook digitized and released by Project Gutenberg; its author, Albert Ross, lived in the nineteenth century, and the text itself bears clear marks of its era. What the platform has done is digitize and publicly distribute it.

What level of English is needed to read this book?

The text is an old English novel, so sentence structures and vocabulary may feel dated; an intermediate or higher reading level will make it smoother. Beginners can use a dictionary or a parallel translation and treat it as extensive reading material.

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About the author

Ross, Albert, 1851-1916 Author · American · 1851–1916

Albert Ross (1851–1916) was a pen name used by the American writer Linn Boyd Porter, whose true identity and life are only sparsely recorded in publicly available sources. Under this pen name he published popular fiction, one of the more representative works being A New Sensation. In Chinese book classification his works are often placed under inspirational and personal growth, which fits the character of popular fiction aimed at ordinary readers and attentive to emotion and life experience. Because reliable documentation about him is limited, what is known today comes mainly from the works published under his name; these works tend to center on the circumstances, choices, and growth of ordinary people, with plain language and smooth narration, and they found a certain readership in the popular reading market of the time. Overall, he was an American author who wrote under a pen name and was known for popular narrative.