Orrain: A Romance
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A good fit for
- Learners who want to practice reading with a complete English original and prefer plot-driven texts
- Readers interested in late nineteenth-century English popular romance
- Researchers who need a free electronic text for close reading or quotation
- Leisure readers who enjoy old-style romantic adventure and can accept the language style of the period
Not a good fit for
- Genre-fiction readers expecting modern pacing, strong twists, and tight structure
- Readers sensitive to outdated gender attitudes and period expression who are unwilling to examine them
- Students who need an authoritative annotated edition or scholarly introduction
Reading tips
- Read the opening chapters first to gauge the language difficulty, then decide whether to read straight through or select key plot passages.
- Keep pen and paper handy to track character relationships and the timeline; old-style romances often turn on circumstance, and clarifying the threads makes it easier to get into.
- When you meet an unfamiliar expression, infer from context first and look it up after finishing the chapter, so as not to break the rhythm too often.
- If using it for research, compare it side by side with common conventions of English popular fiction from the same period.
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About the author
S. Levett-Yeats (Sidney Kilner Levett-Yeats, 1858–1916) was a British novelist born into a family of Indian civil servants. He served in the Indian Army in his early years, then joined the Punjab civil service, where he worked for about fifteen years before turning to writing full time. Under the name S. Levett-Yeats he published historical romances, including The Honour of Savelli, Orrain, The Chevalier d'Auriac, A Galahad of the Creeks and The Heart of Denise, and Other Tales. His works are mostly set in France, Italy and Burma, with plots centering on adventure, honour and love, and bear a distinct colouring of historical romance. Public information is limited regarding his early education, literary influences and the contemporary reception of his works; what can be confirmed is chiefly the outline of his life given above and these five works.
