The Wire Tappers
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A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy early detective suspense and technology-themed fiction
- Enthusiasts studying early twentieth-century American popular literature
- Readers interested in wiretapping, privacy, and technology ethics
- Those looking for a brisk English public-domain novel to practice reading
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking modern hard-edged techno-thrillers or complex twists
- Readers impatient with century-old English expression and narrative pacing
Reading tips
- Read a few pages first to get a feel for the language and pace, then decide whether to read closely or extensively; do not insist on looking up every word.
- While reading, note the correspondence between wiretapping methods and characters' psychology, and how the author uses technology to drive suspense.
- After finishing, make brief notes comparing it with contemporary privacy issues, contrasting the continuation and change of anxiety under technological shifts.
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
Stringer, Arthur (1874–1950) was an English-language writer active in the first half of the twentieth century. Public information about him is limited, and details of his life such as nationality and educational background are not clearly recorded. Twelve of his works are held in the collection, covering both fiction and poetry. In fiction, he wrote a series of novels set against the North American prairie, including The Prairie Wife, The Prairie Child and The Prairie Mother, noted for their delicate touch and their attention to family relationships and women's circumstances; he also explored urban suspense and psychological thriller themes in works such as The Wire Tappers, The Shadow and The Man Who Couldn't Sleep, which are tightly plotted and skilled at building tension. His poem Hephaestus, Persephone at Enna, and Sappho in Leucadia shows his taste for classical mythology. Overall, his writing spans popular fiction and poetry, with varied subjects and a plain, readable style.
