Bat Wing
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy suspense and Gothic-atmosphere novels in the original English
- Learners who want to practice extensive English reading with public-domain ebooks
- People interested in the character of early twentieth-century popular literature
- Readers who want light suspense stories for commutes or fragmented time
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer fast-paced contemporary thriller narratives
- Readers with weak English foundations who cannot yet read novels in the original
- Readers with little patience for early English sentence patterns and wording
Reading tips
- First skim the chapter titles to grasp the structure, then proceed chapter by chapter; there is no need to look up every unfamiliar word.
- Use the e-reader's dictionary function to mark high-frequency unfamiliar words and review them together after finishing.
- Treat it as extensive reading material, focusing on following the plot; when you meet long sentences, you can skip ahead first and come back.
- Read one or two chapters at a time before bed to keep the suspense going; there is no need to finish it in one day.
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
Sax Rohmer (Rohmer, Sax, 1883-1959) was a British writer best known for creating the character Fu Manchu. Public information about the details of his life is limited, but the seventeen works held in the collection show that he was mainly active in the field of popular fiction in the first half of the twentieth century, skilled at blending suspense, horror and exotic adventure. Representative works such as The Hand of Fu-Manchu and The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu formed a series of stories around Fu Manchu, while The Golden Scorpion, Bat Wing and The Yellow Claw show his continuing interest in criminal conspiracies and mysterious incidents; titles such as Brood of the Witch-Queen and The Haunting of Low Fennel also reveal a Gothic horror flavor. His narrative pace is brisk and his plots are eerie, and he has had a certain influence on later thriller and detective writing.
