A Romance in Transit

Lynde, Francis, 1856-1930Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 3.1
Word count
223K words
Chapters
23

Tags

English Originals Foreign Literature Coincidence of FateLove EntanglementsRomantic ComedyUrban RomanceHeartwarming NarrativeAmerican Literature

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 Romance in Transit by Francis LyndeAuthor: Lynde, Francis, 1856-1930,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Aug 10, 2010

Editor's review

A Romance in Transit is an English novel by Francis Lynde, made available through Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg, the first provider of free electronic books, was founded by Michael Hart in 1971, and this work is one fruit of its open-access mission. Lynde excelled at stories that interweave adventure and romance against an American Western backdrop; the title suggests a plot framework combining railway travel with the development of a romance, making the book suitable for readers interested in late nineteenth-century American literature. Highlights of reading it: first, it is in the public domain and may be freely distributed and read; second, as a sample of early American popular fiction, it helps readers understand the narrative style and thematic tastes popular at the time; third, the English original is of manageable length, making it suitable as supplementary material for English reading practice. It suits reading on commutes and journeys, echoing the "in transit" theme, and also works as short, casual extended reading for literature enthusiasts. Given limited information, readers are advised to open the text first and then plan which chapters to read closely and which to skim.

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Reading tips

  1. Read the first chapter first to grasp the characters and the journey setup, then decide whether to read the whole book
  2. Keep a notebook to record changes in railway scenery and character relationships
  3. English learners can read dialogue passages closely with a dictionary and skim scenic descriptions

About the publisher

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.

Contents

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FAQ

Is this book in Chinese or English? According to Project Gutenberg records, the book's language is English and the original is in English; no Chinese translation information is provided. Chinese readers need some English reading ability or should use translation tools for assistance.
What is Project Gutenberg? Project Gutenberg was founded by Michael Hart in 1971 and is the earliest project providing free ebooks; it is dedicated to digitizing public-domain works for free access by readers. This book is one of its collected works.
Is this book suitable for learning English? As early American popular fiction, its language is relatively plain, though some wording and sentence patterns bear the marks of the era. It is suitable as extensive reading material for learners with some foundation; when encountering unfamiliar words, they can infer meaning from context.

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About the author

Lynde, Francis, 1856-1930 Author

Francis Lynde (1856–1930) is a writer about whom little biographical information is publicly available; only his name and dates can be confirmed. The library holds 17 of his works, including The City of Numbered Days, The Grafters, A Romance in Transit, The King of Arcadia, The Wreckers, A Fool for Love, The Price, and Branded. Judging from these titles, his fiction tends to center on engineering projects, business dealings, travel, and emotional entanglements, with a flavor of social realism and adventure narrative, often placing characters in conflicts of interest and moral dilemmas. Given the limited public record, his nationality, education, and personal history cannot be reliably established, and scholarly discussion of his literary standing is sparse. Nevertheless, his substantial output of popular fiction offers useful material for studying the reading tastes of the English-speaking world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and some of his works remain in print and retain interest for readers today.