The Cross and Crown
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in old public-domain English works and religious-ethical narrative
- Those who want to encounter early English popular literature in short or novella-length form
- Readers who need public-domain English texts as extensive reading material for language study
- Enthusiasts of American and Canadian literary bibliography and overlooked works
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking detailed introductions, annotations, and author biographies
- Readers who prefer the pacing of contemporary fiction and have limited patience for old-fashioned English narrative
- Readers strongly averse to religious symbolism and overt didacticism
Reading tips
- Read the first two chapters to confirm the narrative voice and language difficulty, then decide whether to read closely or extensively.
- Prepare a simple character chart; old-fashioned narratives often have many characters, and this helps you follow the plot.
- Mark religious symbols or allusions, then revisit them after finishing to understand their structural role.
- For language study, read a short section each day and copy out long sentences to appreciate old-fashioned English syntax.
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
T. D. Curtis is an author about whom very limited public information is available; his nationality, dates of birth and death, and personal background cannot be confirmed. Four of his works are held in the collection, and they fall mainly into two seemingly distant fields: religion and cheese-making. His representative works The Cross and Crown and God indicate an interest in Christian faith and spiritual themes, while Hints on cheese-making, for the dairyman, the factoryman, and the manufacturer and Hints on Dairying address farmers, factory workers, and manufacturers, discussing the practical techniques of cheese-making and dairy production. This combination of religious writing and agricultural technical manuals gives him a distinctive and not easily categorized profile as an author. Lacking biographical material, we can presently know him only through the subjects and intended readership of his surviving works, and further details remain to be verified.
