The Imitator: A Novel
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A good fit for
- Literary scholars studying American fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Deep readers interested in themes of identity, imitation, and selfhood
- University faculty and students needing public-domain English fiction texts for courses or papers
Not a good fit for
- General fiction readers seeking strong plots and fast-paced storytelling
- Ordinary readers who need a Chinese translation and find the English original difficult
- Readers unfamiliar with literary-historical context who prefer to start with accessible introductory works
Reading tips
- Learn about Pollard's identity as a critic and his era before entering the novel
- Note how "imitation" manifests in character relationships while reading, tracing thematic threads
- Read alongside other contemporaneous American novels on identity themes to compare narrative strategies
- Use the e-book to excerpt chapters and write short responses on core characters to deepen understanding
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
Percival Pollard (1869–1911) was an American literary critic and writer. His critical works are represented by Their Day in Court, and he also wrote two novels, Cape of Storms and The Imitator. His writing spans both criticism and fiction: the criticism concerns the judgment and defense of literary works, while the novels take up narrative subjects common in American literature of his time. In library catalogs his works are classified under inspirational and coming-of-age writing, reflecting the readability of his fiction in terms of character development and themes of growth. Public information about his life is limited: apart from his birth and death years, nationality, and the works mentioned above, details of his family background, education, and professional career are largely unavailable, so little can be reliably said about his personal history. Overall, Pollard left a modest mark on American letters at the turn of the twentieth century through both criticism and fiction, and his works can still serve as a reference for understanding the literary tastes and critical climate of that period.
