The Threatening Eye
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy traditional English popular fiction and a suspenseful atmosphere
- Learners who want free public-domain English novels for extensive reading
- Readers interested in English literature of the late nineteenth to early twentieth century
- Readers who need short English reading material to fill fragmented reading time
Not a good fit for
- Readers who only read Chinese translations and are not used to English originals
- Readers expecting a fast-paced modern mystery or detective structure
- Researchers who need detailed annotations and a scholarly introduction
Reading tips
- Read the first few chapters to get a feel for the narrative pace, then decide whether to read the whole book.
- Take notes on character relationships and suspense clues as you read to help sort out the plot.
- Use it as English extensive reading material, completing it section by section and building vocabulary.
- After reading, look up the author's other seafaring adventure works to learn more about his writing style.
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
E. F. Knight (Edward Frederick Knight, 1852–1925) was a British writer known for his works on sailing, travel and military observation. Seven of his books are held in the collection, ranging from accounts of his own voyages to travel narratives and wartime reportage. The Cruise of the “Alerte” records a long voyage under sail, while Sailing deals with the craft of seamanship, showing his close familiarity with life on the water. A Desperate Voyage and The Threatening Eye lean toward adventure and suspense. Albania: A Narrative of Recent Travel and Turkey: The Awakening of Turkey, the Turkish Revolution of 1908 reflect his attention to the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire, and The Harwich Naval Forces: Their Part in the Great War turns to naval activity in the First World War. His writing rests on firsthand experience and is concrete and readable. Public information about his life is limited.
