Around the Yule Log
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy Christmas and winter-themed literature and want to create a holiday atmosphere
- Readers interested in early American and Canadian literature
- Families looking for holiday read-aloud or fireside shared-reading material
- Readers studying public-domain eBooks and holiday culture materials
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer modern fast-paced plots and strong suspense
- Readers seeking scholarly works on Christmas history
- Beginners uncomfortable reading English originals
Reading tips
- Schedule reading for December evenings, one or two chapters at a time, to match the holiday atmosphere.
- Read the opening first to get a sense of the narrative tone, then decide whether to read straight through.
- Read aloud with family in turn, turning scenes from the book into a fireside shared-reading activity.
- After reading, note the holiday imagery that appears as a cultural observation record.
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
Willis Boyd Allen (1855–1938) was an American writer and editor, born on July 9, 1855, at Kittery Point, Maine, and died in New Hampshire in 1938. A Harvard graduate, he practiced law before turning to writing full time. He wrote chiefly for young readers and produced more than thirty books. Three of his works are held here: The North Pacific: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War, Gulf and Glacier; or, The Percivals in Alaska, and Around the Yule Log. These works draw on historical events and the far northern regions, with some family and holiday themes, and are clearly narrated with attention to adventure and character, reflecting his popular writing for young people. Public information on his editorial work and literary reputation is limited.
