Foul Play
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy Victorian popular fiction and melodrama
- Readers interested in the interaction between nineteenth-century British theater and the novel
- Literature enthusiasts who wish to read original English public-domain works
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer modern psychological realism and understated narrative
- Beginners who need detailed historical annotations or a Chinese translation
- Those impatient with coincidence-driven plots and good-versus-evil oppositions
Reading tips
- Proceed chapter by chapter, reviewing character relationships and the线索 of injustice every few chapters.
- Note the theatrical quality of dialogue and scene descriptions, and consider their connection to stage performance of the time.
- If using the book for English reading practice, mark key vocabulary at plot turns and retell the passages.
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.
Contents
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About the author
Charles Reade (1814–1884) was an English novelist and playwright of the Victorian era. Fifteen of his works are included in the collection, among them The Cloister and the Hearth: A Tale of the Middle Ages, Hard Cash, It Is Never Too Late to Mend, Peg Woffington, Put Yourself in His Place, A Perilous Secret, and Griffith Gaunt, or, Jealousy. Public information about his life is limited, and biographical details are difficult to verify, yet his works show a gift for blending history with modern social concerns. The Cloister and the Hearth is a meticulously researched medieval tale, while his other novels draw on Victorian social reality, addressing such themes as the law, prisons, money, and marriage with intricate plots and vivid characters. Reade also wrote for the stage, and his works are tightly structured with lively dialogue, combining a sense of theatre with readability and forming a distinctive style between the Victorian novel and drama.
