King Spruce, A Novel
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers looking to broaden their reading of English-language originals who enjoy regional fiction
- History and literature enthusiasts interested in American forestry and river log-driving life
- Students and scholars studying early twentieth-century American popular literature
- Readers of long novels who prefer a slower pace and heavy environmental description
Not a good fit for
- Readers of popular fiction expecting strong suspense or fast-paced plotting
- Beginners with limited English reading experience who need annotated editions
- Readers interested only in contemporary subjects who lack patience for historical settings
Reading tips
- Read the first five chapters to see whether the dialect dialogue and narrative pace suit your reading habits.
- Keep pen and paper handy to note character relationships and logging and river-driving terminology, reducing comprehension barriers.
- Read alongside background material on northeastern American forestry history to appreciate the novel's regional flavor.
- If using it as English-learning material, close-read passages with more dialogue rather than looking up every word.
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
Holman Day (1865-1935) was an American writer active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Public information about him is limited, and details of his life remain little known to Chinese readers. Fourteen of his works are held in the collection, centered on New England rural and coastal life and spanning novels and verse stories. Representative works include King Spruce, set against the lumber industry; The Landloper, the romance of a man on foot; and Blow The Man Down, a romance of the coast. Pine Tree Ballads and Up in Maine tell in verse of Yankee daily life in Maine. His plain, humorous style draws on dialect and local color, and his works, often classed as inspirational coming-of-age writing, portray ordinary people striving and growing amid nature and their home soil.
