[2021 marks the 50th birthday of Project Gutenberg, the amazing web resource for full texts from across literary and cultural history. So this week I wanted to share a handful of the American literary works you can read in full on PG—add yours for a crowd-sourced weekend reading list, please!]
Helen
Hunt Jackson’s historical novel Ramona (1884)
complicatedly links realism
and the romance, as illustrated by the longstanding Southern California pageant which portrays
the novel’s idealized romance without necessarily engaging with its tragic
Native American histories. But as with so many complex literary works (and just
about all of the other literary works as well), those ambiguities are all the
more reason to read and respond for yourself—and fortunately when it comes to Ramona, you can do so for free on PG!
Next Project
Gutenberg reading tomorrow,
Ben
PS. What would
you add to our reading list?
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