The Spider
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- English-language readers who enjoy classic British mystery and detective stories
- Learners who want to practice extensive English reading with public-domain eBooks
- Literature enthusiasts studying the narrative conventions of popular fiction
Not a good fit for
- Readers who need a Chinese translation and are not comfortable reading English originals
- Readers who prefer modern, fast-paced thrillers with strong plot twists
Reading tips
- Read the first few chapters to sort out the characters and the central mystery, then follow the clues.
- Mark unfamiliar words and look them up after finishing a chapter to keep reading fluent.
- Take notes on suspicious characters and foreshadowing, then review how the clues come together at the end.
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
Fergus Hume (1859–1932) was a British novelist. Born in England, he moved with his family to New Zealand as a child, studied at the University of Otago and qualified as a lawyer. In 1885 he went to Melbourne, and the following year he published The Mystery of a Hansom Cab at his own expense, achieving instant fame; the book is regarded as a bestselling classic in the history of detective fiction. In 1888 Hume returned to England to settle, and thereafter devoted himself to detective and suspense fiction, producing more than a hundred works in his lifetime, of which 66 are held in this collection, including The Silent House, The Gentleman Who Vanished and The Spider. He died in Essex in 1932.
