Revenge!
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy late Victorian English short stories
- Those who collect public-domain English ebooks for light reading
- Readers interested in the revenge motif and popular narrative structure
- Learners who need short materials for English reading practice
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting deep psychological description or modern narrative techniques
- Beginners who need a Chinese translation or detailed annotations
- Readers who prefer full-length novels and complete world-building
Reading tips
- Read one story first to gauge the language difficulty, then decide whether to continue.
- While reading, note the foreshadowing before each reversal to appreciate the layout techniques of popular fiction.
- Read alongside background material on late 19th-century English newspaper serial fiction.
- If English is difficult, read a plot summary first, then return to the original text for comparison.
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
Robert Barr (1850–1912) was an English-language writer active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Public information about his life and nationality is limited, and 21 of his works are held in this collection. He wrote mainly fiction, spanning detective, adventure, and humorous or satirical subjects. He created the shrewd French detective Eugène Valmont and also wrote tales with historical and craft elements, such as The Sword Maker, as well as works focused on everyday life and character, including In the Midst of Alarms and Jennie Baxter, Journalist. Barr was skilled at unfolding plots in a light tone, with lively dialogue and brisk pacing, earning him a place in popular fiction. His works remain of interest to scholars of popular English literature and early detective fiction.
