Marcy the Blockade Runner
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy nineteenth-century British and American boys' adventure novels
- Intermediate English learners who want to use public-domain English novels for extensive reading practice
- History enthusiasts interested in the maritime blockade during the American Civil War
- Literature students studying the narrative conventions of early juvenile fiction
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting modern fast-paced suspense or complex character psychology
- Beginners whose English reading ability is not yet sufficient for nineteenth-century English syntax
- Researchers seeking rigorous military history analysis of the Civil War
Reading tips
- It will read more smoothly if you first learn the basic background of the Union blockade during the American Civil War.
- Read it as a sample of genre fiction and notice how the young protagonist is shaped into a moral exemplar.
- English learners can read one or two chapters a day and note common nineteenth-century expressions and nautical vocabulary.
- After finishing, compare it with modern young-adult adventure novels and consider changes in narrative pace and values.
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
Harry Castlemon (1842-1915) was an American author of adventure stories for young readers, though public information about his life and education is limited. Forty of his works are held in the collection, most following young protagonists through frontier and wartime adventures. Frank on the Prairie, Frank Before Vicksburg and Frank on the Lower Mississippi center on a character named Frank and deal with prairie life and the fighting on the Mississippi; Marcy the Blockade Runner and The First Capture; or, Hauling Down the Flag of England draw on blockade running and naval warfare; Elam Storm, the Wolfer; or, The Lost Nugget, George in Camp; or, Life on the Plains and Guy Harris, the Runaway feature a wolf hunter, camp life and a runaway boy. Told with tight plotting for young readers and stressing courage and adventure, these books are a representative example of nineteenth-century American juvenile fiction.
