Turns about Town
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers with college-level English who want to read English essays
- Readers interested in early twentieth-century American urban life and culture
- Office workers who like short essays and can read in fragments
- Students and enthusiasts studying the American literary essay tradition
Not a good fit for
- Readers with weak English who need a Chinese parallel text to read
- Readers who prefer strongly plotted fiction and have no patience for the essay form
- Scholars who need systematic theoretical monographs on contemporary urban studies
Reading tips
- Read piece by piece, one or two a day, keeping a relaxed pace
- Note the author's angles on the city as you read; brief notes can help
- When a passage's period background is unclear, skip it and return later rather than grinding through every word
- Pair the reading with American urban history or early twentieth-century social and cultural material
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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
Robert Cortes Holliday (1880–1947) was an American writer and literary editor, born in Indianapolis and died in New York. He worked for the New York Tribune and several publishing houses, edited The Bookman from 1919 to 1920, and served as literary executor for the poet Joyce Kilmer. His essay collections, including Walking-Stick Papers, Turns about Town, and Peeps at People, chiefly depict city scenes and everyday characters in a light, finely observant style with gentle humor, giving him a distinctive place in the American essay tradition of his time. He wrote some fifteen books in all; three are held in this collection, commonly classified under inspirational growth. His works record urban life and human nature in an essayistic manner, combining readability with reflection. Public information on the details of his life is limited, and readers generally come to know him through his writings.
