The Forbidden Way

Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 522K words
Chapters: 53

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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.The Forbidden Way by George GibbsAuthor: ,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Jan 6, 2015

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This book is George Gibbs's novel The Forbidden Way, digitized by Project Gutenberg as a free eBook. The metadata places it in the American and Canadian literature class, making it a useful entry point for understanding early twentieth-century English-language popular fiction. The Project Gutenberg edition means the text is easy to obtain, search, and cite, and readers can get into the story quickly on an e-reader. Gibbs's works generally move at a brisk pace with clear character relationships and do not demand much background knowledge, so the book works well for extensive reading or leisure reading in English. For those studying Project Gutenberg itself, it is also a concrete sample of how public-domain texts are digitized, classified, and released. However, the metadata provides no plot summary or literary assessment, so readers should not approach it expecting a scholarly monograph; it is better treated as an English novel to try freely—read a few chapters to get a feel for the narrative rhythm before deciding whether to go deeper.

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