Farewell
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Learners who want to practice close reading of English with short original texts
- Readers interested in the style of late 19th-century English literary language
- English teachers who need public-domain texts for classroom passage analysis
- Readers who read short English works on commutes or in fragments of time
Not a good fit for
- Beginners seeking a clear plot summary and detailed introduction
- Readers expecting a Chinese translation or bilingual edition
- Researchers who need a systematic literary-historical context
Reading tips
- Read through once for overall tone, then a second time to check unfamiliar words and syntactic difficulties.
- Choose passages to read aloud or copy out, to feel the rhythm and diction of English prose.
- Look up basic background on the author and work beforehand to compensate for the text's limited information.
- For classroom use, excerpt dialogue or descriptive passages for analysis of style and narrative perspective.
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
William Henry Stacpoole is an author about whom very little public information is available. The library currently holds only one work by him, Farewell. Because no reliable records of his life, nationality, or dates of birth and death can be found, it is impossible to trace his full career; only a brief note on the extant work is possible. The title Farewell itself suggests departure, parting, and closure, and usually implies a sentimental, retrospective tone, perhaps centering on broken relationships, the passage of time, or the end of a phase of life. Writing of this kind tends to emphasize atmosphere and inner reflection, with delicate and restrained language rather than dramatic plot conflict. It should be noted that these observations rest only on the title and common literary conventions; no further material confirms the work's actual content or artistic features. Stacpoole's name does not appear in major literary histories on the available evidence, and his influence and readership remain unrecorded. This note is therefore only a preliminary pointer for readers approaching his work, pending fuller documentary and biographical material.
