Yule-Tide Yarns

Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 3.2
Word count
553K words
Chapters
56

Tags

English Originals Foreign Literature Adventure JourneyFamily BondsTender SentimentLight ReadingAncient StyleExotic Culture

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.Yule-Tide Yarns by G. A. HentyAuthor: ,Language: English, Class: PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres, Release Date: Jun 18, 2015

Editor's review

Yule-Tide Yarns is a digitized reprint from Project Gutenberg of a collection of stories set around the Christmas season, attributed to G. A. Henty and classified under juvenile literature in the Project Gutenberg catalogue. Judging by the title and classification, it is a typical late-Victorian seasonal reader: Christmas holidays serve as the narrative setting, the audience is young readers, and the emphasis falls on adventure, comradeship, and festive atmosphere. The main value of such a work today is as a stylistic and historical specimen—it allows us to observe the narrative pacing, moral concerns, and festive imagination addressed to young readers of the period, and it works well as supplementary material for the popular-fiction strand of an English literature course. Note that this is an electronic reprint of a public-domain text, without a modern editor's introduction or notes; it should be read as a period text rather than a contemporary children's book. It suits reading piece by piece rather than in one sitting.

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Reading tips

  1. Read one piece at a time, and after each, briefly retell the main plot points.
  2. Note how the Christmas settings connect with the characters' words and actions, and observe how a seasonal reader is constructed.
  3. If using the book for language study, excerpt old-fashioned expressions and dialogue patterns and organize them into flashcards.
  4. Read alongside other Christmas-themed short stories of the same period and compare themes.

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FAQ

Is this book suitable as a bedtime story read directly to children? Not very suitable for reading aloud as is. The text is nineteenth-century English, and its sentence patterns and vocabulary are difficult for contemporary children; modern notes are also lacking. If parents are willing to read it first and retell the stories, it can serve as source material for holiday tales.
What does Yule-Tide in the title mean? Yule-Tide refers to the period around Christmas, an older English term for the Christmas season. The title means "stories of the Christmas season," indicating that the whole collection is set against the holiday background.
Who is G. A. Henty? G. A. Henty was a nineteenth-century British author known for historical adventure novels for young readers. The book is attributed to him in the Project Gutenberg catalogue and classified as juvenile literature; for the specific contents and writing background, refer to the original text.

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