The Gloved Hand
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- If you are reading only for language practice, set a fixed daily amount and, after reading, retell the plot in your own words.
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About the author
Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872–1962) was an American author and anthologist whose biographical details remain limited in publicly available sources. His best-known contribution is the multi-volume poetry anthology The Home Book of Verse, which gathered a large body of English verse for family reading and recitation and has long been regarded as a representative popular anthology of its kind. Beyond editing, he wrote detective and mystery fiction, including The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet, The Holladay Case, and Mysterium Arcae Boulé, whose plots revolve around puzzling cases and reflect the reasoning pleasures of early detective fiction. He also wrote travel sketches such as The Charm of Ireland, recording Irish scenery and travel impressions. Eighteen of his works are held in the collection, spanning poetry anthologies, detective novels, and travel writing, showing that his work combined anthologizing with popular narrative.
