Devil's Dice
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Light to moderate readers who want to try suspense novels in the original English
- Readers who enjoy old-style serialized pacing and strongly plot-driven stories
- People who study or are interested in early twentieth-century English popular literature
- Learners who need short-chapter texts for segmented English reading practice
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking modern psychological suspense and complex character arcs
- People sensitive to coincidence-driven plots and old-fashioned gender depictions
- Readers with weak English who depend on sentence-by-sentence translation to proceed
Reading tips
- Read in segments according to chapter hooks; pause at the end of each chapter and guess what happens next before continuing.
- Before reading, note the main characters and their relationships to reduce the cost of identifying them midway.
- Circle the recurring imagery of "gambling" and "fate," and look back at its structural role after finishing.
- If practicing English, retell the plot in three to five sentences every two chapters; this is more effective than word-by-word translation.
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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FAQ
I haven't read Le Queux. Is this a good introduction?
The title is "Devil's Dice." Is it about gambling?
Will the original English be very difficult to read?
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About the author
William Le Queux (1864–1927) was a British writer of popular fiction, with 74 of his works held in this collection. He is best known for invasion-scare and spy-adventure stories; The Invasion of 1910, which depicts a German invasion of Britain and the siege of London, drew considerable attention in its day, and The Great War in England in 1897 belongs to the same vein. His other works centre on mystery, intrigue and international espionage, such as The Zeppelin Destroyer, The Secrets of Potsdam, The Closed Book: Concerning the Secret of the Borgias and The Golden Face: A Great ‘Crook’ Romance, all marked by tight plotting and dense suspense. Le Queux often set fictional crises against real places to create a sense of urgency, and his work had some influence on the development of early spy fiction and thrillers. Public information is limited, so biographical details are not elaborated here.
