Beltane the Smith
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy classical historical adventure and romantic romance
- General readers interested in medieval settings and craft themes
- Learners who need long English reading material and prefer popular narrative
- Teachers and students studying early twentieth-century popular English fiction
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer tight modern genre fiction and fast pacing
- Readers with little patience for old-fashioned English description and lengthy exposition
- Readers expecting strict historical accuracy or scholarly annotation
Reading tips
- Read the first two or three chapters to judge whether the style suits you, then decide between reading through and selecting the adventure passages.
- As you read, note how the hero's craft identity drives the plot, and sort out the character relationships as you go.
- When using it as English-learning material, read action and dialogue scenes closely to accumulate old-fashioned narrative expressions.
- If the length makes it heavy going, divide it by chapters, reading one or two at a time with a brief review.
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
Jeffery Farnol (1878–1952) was a British novelist born in Aston, Birmingham. He studied stage design and later went to the United States to work on scene painting. Over his career he wrote more than forty historical romance and adventure novels, including The Broad Highway, The Amateur Gentleman and Black Bartlemy's Treasure, with thirteen of his works held in this collection. His novels are mostly set in the Regency period and combine romance with adventure in a fluent, popular style. Together with Georgette Heyer, he helped to establish the Regency romance genre. Public information on the details of his life is limited; this introduction is based mainly on his works and their themes.
