Worrying Won't Win
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A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy early twentieth-century American popular literature and want light access to public-domain works
- People seeking light reading and humorous stories to ease everyday anxiety
- Readers who need short diversions for the commute or bedtime
- Those interested in Project Gutenberg and early eBook resources
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting systematic psychological methods or professional anxiety interventions
- Readers who prefer rigorous academic analysis or in-depth literary criticism
- Readers unaccustomed to early twentieth-century language and humor
Reading tips
- Read in sections during spare moments like commutes or queues; no need to finish in one sitting
- Pay attention to the humor as you read, treating it as relaxation rather than a task
- Keep a notebook handy to jot down lines that make you smile, deepening the experience on rereading
- If the English original proves difficult, read an introduction for background first, then move into the text
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
Public information about Montague Glass (1877–1934) is limited, and his writing centers mainly on the lives of Jewish immigrant businessmen in New York. Seven of his works are held in this collection, including Potash & Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures, Abe and Mawruss, Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things, Elkan Lubliner, American, The Competitive Nephew, Object: matrimony, and Worrying Won't Win. Most of these follow the business partnership of Potash and Perlmutter, using humorous dialogue and brisk plots to portray the calculations and camaraderie of immigrant merchants in their dealings, while also touching on everyday themes such as marriage and family. Glass was skilled at revealing character and speech through comedy, and his works were popular with readers for their closeness to immigrant life.
