Private Spud Tamson

Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 299K words
Chapters: 30

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Private Spud Tamson by R. W. CampbellAuthor: ,Language: English, Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature, Release Date: Nov 8, 2014

Editor's review

Private Spud Tamson is an English-language novel whose protagonist, Spud Tamson, is typically associated with military or wartime narratives; it belongs to the English literature category (PR). As a Project Gutenberg electronic text, its main value is as a freely available public-domain English original that is easy to search and cite, suitable for understanding character portrayal and narrative style in early popular English fiction. The electronic edition has no modern publisher's notes or introduction, so it is better suited to readers with some English reading ability who are willing to look up background information themselves. It can be used as extensive reading material for English learning or as a sample for studying the textual form of public-domain eBooks. Note that the Gutenberg edition is an unmodernized original text; some spellings and punctuation may retain older usage.

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After reading, briefly record character relationships and main plot lines to avoid confusion in multi-threaded narratives.

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