Taquisara

Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion), 1854-1909Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 806K words
Chapters: 81

Summary

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.Taquisara by F. Marion CrawfordAuthor: Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion), 1854-1909,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Feb 1, 2004

Editor's review

Taquisara is an English-language novel by F. Marion Crawford, classified under American and Canadian literature and now published as a free eBook by Project Gutenberg. Crawford was a prolific novelist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his works often carry romantic coloring and melodramatic narrative tension. The book works as an introduction or supplementary reading to this author and will appeal to readers interested in late-19th-century English-language popular fiction. As a public-domain eBook, it is extremely easy to obtain and suits fragmented reading on an e-reader or screen. Note that this is the original English edition, and because of its age its language is somewhat distant from modern English and the pacing is slow. Reading it alongside Crawford's biography and the period background will help in understanding character motivation and social setting.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers interested in late-19th-century English popular fiction who are willing to read the original
Literature students researching F. Marion Crawford or the history of American literature
Readers who enjoy slow-paced, melodramatic novels with complex relationships
Self-learners who want to expand their English reading through public-domain eBooks

Not a good fit for

Readers who want a Chinese translation or feel intimidated by the English original
Readers who prefer fast pacing, strong suspense, or modern narrative techniques
Beginners who need extensive annotations or a scholarly introduction to understand the text

Reading tips

Look up a brief account of Crawford's life and late-19th-century American society before starting the text.
Reading chapter summaries or a character relationship chart first can help with the slower pacing.
Keep an electronic dictionary handy to handle archaic expressions and unfamiliar words without interrupting the reading.
If time is limited, read key chapters closely and skim the rest.

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Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971

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.

FAQ

Is this book in Chinese or English?

According to the source, the language is English; it is an original English novel released as a free eBook by Project Gutenberg, with no information on a Chinese translation.

Can I understand it without annotations?

As a late-19th-century novel, it contains period expressions and cultural background, which makes reading without annotations harder. It is advisable to read with an electronic dictionary and biographical material, and to read a plot summary first if necessary.

Is it suitable for learning English?

It can serve as extended reading, but the style is old-fashioned and the pacing slow, and it was not designed for language learning. It suits learners who already have some English reading ability and an interest in literature.

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About the author

Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion), 1854-1909 Author

F. Marion Crawford (Francis Marion Crawford, 1854–1909) was a notably prolific English-language novelist. The library holds 46 of his works, spanning a wide range of subjects: long novels set in Italy, such as Saracinesca, Greifenstein and Fair Margaret: A Portrait; the two-volume Ave Roma Immortalis, which portrays the history and monuments of Rome; the Arabian tale Khaled, A Tale of Arabia; and atmospheric ghost stories including The Upper Berth and Wandering Ghosts. These works show a writer skilled at evoking foreign and historical settings, with clear narrative structure and steady plotting, accomplished both in popular long fiction and in tales of the strange. His supernatural stories in particular have been favored by later anthologies and have had some influence on the English ghost-story tradition. Because public information is limited, biographical details are not elaborated here; the outline above rests on the works in the library's holdings.