📚 About this eBook

Author:
➡️ Hay, John (1915–2011) — The person who wrote The Run.

Illustrator:
➡️ Grose, David (1922–2016) — The artist who created the drawings or illustrations for the book.

Title:
➡️ The Run — The book’s title.

Edition:
➡️ First edition — The original version of the book as published in print in 1959.

Original Publication:
➡️ Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959.
This tells us where and when the physical book was first published.

Credits:
➡️ Mentions Steve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net.
They helped digitize the book — scanning, proofreading, and formatting it so it could become an eBook.

Language:
➡️ English — The language the eBook is written in.

LoC Class (Library of Congress Classification):
➡️ QL: Science: Zoology — How the Library of Congress categorizes it (in this case, zoology).

Subjects:
➡️ These describe what the book is about:

• Cape Cod (Mass.)

• Natural history — Massachusetts — Cape Cod

• Alosa pseudoharengus (that’s the scientific name for the alewife, a fish)

• Fishes — Migration

So, The Run is about fish migration — especially alewives — in Cape Cod.

Category:
➡️ Text — Means this eBook contains mainly text (not audio, video, or interactive content).

EBook-No.:
➡️ 77074 — The catalog number assigned by Project Gutenberg or a similar archive.

Release Date:
➡️ October 17, 2025 — The date this eBook was officially published online.

Copyright Status:
➡️ Public domain in the USA — Means the book is free to read, share, and download legally because its copyright has expired in the U.S.