The Lost Child
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- English majors studying nineteenth-century English literature
- English readers who want to read Victorian fiction for free
- Literary historians interested in Kingsley's works
- Intermediate and advanced learners who need public-domain English texts for extensive reading practice
Not a good fit for
- Beginner readers who need a Chinese translation or detailed notes
- General readers who prefer the pace and subjects of contemporary fiction
- Young readers with no foundation in reading English originals
Reading tips
- First learn about Henry Kingsley's life and the background of Victorian fiction before reading the text.
- Keep an English dictionary at hand to look up nineteenth-century usage and unfamiliar words.
- Proceed chapter by chapter, and after finishing, briefly note the character relationships and main plot.
- Read alongside other Victorian novels to observe shared narrative features and differences.
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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
Henry Kingsley (1830–1876) was a British novelist and the younger brother of Charles Kingsley. Born at Barnack in Northamptonshire, he went to Australia in 1853 and spent five years there gold-digging, an experience that later supplied material for his writing. After returning to England, he made his name with The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn (1859). His other novels include Ravenshoe and The Lost Child. His works often draw on colonial life in Australia and on English social manners, with vivid narrative and careful characterization, earning him a place in Victorian fiction. He edited the Edinburgh Daily Review and died in 1876 at Cuckfield, Sussex.
