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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in early English popular fiction
- Enthusiasts of detective and thriller genre literature
- Readers concerned with the historical evolution of drug narratives
- Readers seeking light, entertaining public-domain fiction
Not a good fit for
- Readers sensitive to racial stereotyping
- Readers expecting serious, in-depth analysis of social issues
- Readers who prefer literary, intricately structured works
Reading tips
- First learn about serialization and genre conventions of early twentieth-century popular fiction, then enter the text.
- While reading, note villain characterization and exotic imagination, and take critical notes.
- There is no need for word-by-word close reading; grasp the main suspense and character relationships.
- After reading, compare with detective fiction of the same period to see similarities and differences in narrative conventions.
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.
