Peter and Jane Or, The Missing Heir
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Casual readers who want an English public-domain family-suspense novel
- English learners who wish to try a complete full-length original text
- Students needing a late nineteenth-century popular-fiction sample for a literature course
- Readers of light classics interested in the "missing heir" motif
Not a good fit for
- Readers who read only Chinese and do not wish to engage with the English original
- Readers expecting modern fast-paced twists and strong suspense
- Beginners who need an authoritative translation or a heavily annotated edition
Reading tips
- Read the chapter titles and opening first; identify how characters are addressed and the narrative perspective before entering the main text.
- Draw a simple clue chart around the "missing heir," recording each revelation of information.
- Read a fixed amount each day; skip unfamiliar words that do not affect the main line, and look them up after finishing.
- After reading, summarize in a few sentences how the suspense is resolved, to check whether you have grasped the structure.
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
Sarah Broom Macnaughtan (1864–1916) was a Scottish novelist. She was born on 26 October 1864 in Partick, near Glasgow, and died in London on 24 July 1916. Three of her works are held here, including A Lame Dog's Diary, Peter and Jane; or, The Missing Heir, and the wartime diary My War Experiences in Two Continents. During the First World War she joined a Red Cross ambulance unit, witnessed the siege of Antwerp, and later went to Russia and Armenia to help refugees, receiving the Belgian Order of Leopold. Her wartime diary was edited by her niece and published in 1919. Her writing is closely tied to her wartime experience, and offers historical value for understanding relief work and refugee assistance of that period.
