The Lost Army
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Intermediate learners who want to practise reading original English texts and prefer adventure subjects
- Students or enthusiasts studying nineteenth-century English juvenile literature and adventure fiction
- Readers who enjoy traditional plots of pathfinding, marches, and wilderness survival
- Readers looking to expand their reading with free public-domain ebooks
Not a good fit for
- Readers of contemporary fiction who want modern pacing, complex psychology, and twists
- Readers sensitive to the era's attitudes and expressions that may appear dated or prejudiced
- Readers who need a Chinese translation and are unwilling to read the English original
Reading tips
- Read one chapter first to get a feel for the language rhythm, then decide whether to read closely chapter by chapter or skim quickly.
- Keep a map or geography notes and mark the places and march routes mentioned in the book as you go.
- Record unfamiliar military and camp vocabulary in one place and look it up after finishing.
- Read it alongside other juvenile adventure novels of the same period to observe similarities and differences in genre conventions.
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
Thomas Wallace Knox (1835–1896) was an American author whose biographical details are limited in publicly available sources; he left behind fourteen works. His writing focuses mainly on travel accounts and adventure narratives, with forays into wartime experience and animal stories. Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field records his Southern travels during the war, while Overland through Asia depicts life in Siberia, China, and Tartar regions. The Boy Travellers in the Far East and The Boy Travellers in South America are series aimed at young readers, introducing foreign places and customs in the form of travelogues. Horse Stories, and Stories of Other Animals and The Underground World concern animal tales and the world beneath the surface, respectively. Wide-ranging in subject and plain in style, these works combine reportage with readability and occupy a modest place in the travel literature and juvenile reading of their time.
