The Silver Horde

Beach, Rex, 1877-1949Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 585K words
Chapters: 59

Summary

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 Silver Horde by Rex BeachAuthor: Beach, Rex, 1877-1949,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Jul 1, 2004

Editor's review

Rex Beach was an early twentieth-century American writer of popular fiction, and The Silver Horde belongs to the adventure narrative tradition he excelled in. This book is released by Project Gutenberg as a public-domain electronic text in the original English, classified under American and Canadian literature. The information available is limited, but it is certain to be an English-language novel e-book aimed at general readers, suitable for those who wish to encounter early American popular literature and can read English originals directly. Its value lies not in scholarly annotation but in experiencing the narrative rhythm and character construction of adventure fiction of that era. As a public-domain e-book, it has no modern introduction, so readers must fill in the author and historical context themselves. It is best treated as lightweight practice material for reading English originals, focusing on plot progression and dialogue style, without expecting deep literary analysis. For readers studying American popular fiction or Beach's work, this is an accessible primary text.

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Readers who want to practice reading English originals and prefer adventure narratives
Literature enthusiasts interested in early twentieth-century American popular fiction
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Not a good fit for

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Literary researchers who need scholarly introductions and in-depth textual analysis

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First look up basic information about the author Rex Beach and understand his writing background before starting the text.
Read quickly with plot as the main thread; mark unfamiliar words first and deal with them together after finishing.
Record the relationships among main characters and the key points of conflict to help grasp the narrative structure of popular fiction.
If using it for English study, select dialogue passages for close reading and retelling practice.

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Beach, Rex, 1877-1949 Author

Rex Beach (1877–1949) was an American writer of popular fiction, active roughly from the late nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth century. Public information about him is limited, and details of his early life and education are difficult to confirm, but the fifteen works held in the collection show that he was especially known for adventure and inspirational coming-of-age themes. Representative novels such as The Spoilers, The Iron Trail, Flowing Gold, The Winds of Chance, The Barrier, The Net, and Rainbow's End, along with the short-story collection The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure, are mostly set against frontier development, gold rushes, railroad construction, and maritime adventure. Their tightly plotted, fast-paced narratives portray characters who rise to meet hardship. His works were widely serialized and adapted into early films, and he had a notable influence on the development of popular American adventure fiction in the early twentieth century.