Six Feet Four
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Chinese readers who enjoy Western adventure and suspense fiction
- English learners who want to practice long-form reading with original English texts
- Enthusiasts of early twentieth-century American popular literature
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer contemporary fast-paced suspense and have little patience for old-fashioned style
- Readers who do not read English originals at all and need a Chinese translation
Reading tips
- Read a chapter first to get the feel of the language, then go chapter by chapter mapping characters and clues
- Guess unfamiliar words from context first and look them up after finishing the chapter
- Read alongside background material on American Western history to understand the setting
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
Jackson Gregory (1882–1943) was an American writer, teacher, and journalist, born in Salinas, California, and a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. A prolific author of more than forty books, he was best known for his Western and detective fiction. His representative works include The Everlasting Whisper, The Desert Valley, The Short Cut, Wolf Breed, Judith of Blue Lake Ranch, Man to Man, Six Feet Four, and The Bells of San Juan; this library holds ten of his works. His novels are typically set on the American Western frontier, with tight plots and strong action, often centering on ranches, the wilderness, and conflicts between characters, and blending suspense with adventure. Several of his works were adapted into films. Overall, his writing has a certain influence in popular literature, though public information about his life and work remains limited and awaits further verification.
