Jonah and Co.
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy British humor and light comic fiction
- English learners seeking casual reading in the original English
- Readers interested in early twentieth-century British popular literature
- Readers accustomed to using public-domain eBook resources
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer serious social themes or weighty historical subjects
- Readers who need a Chinese translation and are uncomfortable with English originals
- Mystery fans who demand tightly logical plotting
Reading tips
- Read the first two chapters to get familiar with the characters and narrative voice, then continue straight through
- Skip unfamiliar British slang at first and keep your reading rhythm
- Read alongside other works by the same author to appreciate the consistency of his humor
- Read one or two chapters a day as light bedtime or commute reading
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
Dornford Yates (1885–1960) was the pen name of the British writer Cecil William Mercer, formed by combining the surnames of his two grandmothers. He initially practised as a barrister, served in the military during the First World War, and devoted himself to writing after the war. Between the two world wars he was widely popular for his humorous "Berry" series and his adventurous "Chandos" thrillers; representative works include Anthony Lyveden, Berry and Co., The Brother of Daphne and Jonah and Co. His books combine light-hearted domestic comedy with tense, exciting adventure plots, reflecting the reading tastes of popular British fiction of the period. In later life he moved to Southern Rhodesia. Public information on his early life and the details of his writing is limited.
