The Joyful Heart
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- English learners who want light English prose practice and prefer short chapters
- Readers of literature and history interested in early twentieth-century American popular moral essays
- Readers who need something to flip through before bed or while commuting and do not seek systematicity
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking modern empirical psychological methods or concrete emotional management tools
- Philosophy readers who need systematic ethical theory or an academic research framework
- Readers sensitive to the temporal limitations of Western essays from a century ago and easily pulled out of the reading experience
Reading tips
- Read piece by piece, one or two at a time, and jot down a sentence of your own rebuttal or resonance in the margin afterward.
- Skip unfamiliar expressions at first and return to them after reading the whole piece, so as not to get stuck on individual words and lose the rhythm.
- Read it alongside similar essays and note how the language of life exhortation has changed over the past century.
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
Robert Haven Schauffler (1879–1964) was an American writer, poet, and editor. He has received little attention in the Chinese-speaking world, and public information about him is limited; what is chiefly visible is a literary career that combined editing with original writing. He compiled several anthologies of holiday and poetry collections, showing a sustained interest in public festive culture and the poetic tradition. Such anthologies were usually aimed at general readers, placing the origins and customs of holidays alongside related poems and prose, and were both informative and readable. His representative work, The Joyful Heart, reflects his gentle and bright writing tendency, with attention to everyday pleasure and spiritual comfort. Overall, Schauffler's contribution lies more in bringing literature to a popular readership through editorial and essay-like writing than in difficult theory or avant-garde form.
