Tracked by Wireless
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Genre readers who enjoy early spy and detective fiction and seek plot suspense and a sense of being tracked
- Technology-and-culture enthusiasts interested in how wireless technology entered popular literary imagination
- English learners who need light reading material in public-domain English ebooks
- Literature students studying the narrative conventions of early twentieth-century popular fiction
Not a good fit for
- Serious fiction readers expecting complex psychological characterization and literary experimentation
- Readers impatient with old-fashioned narrative pacing and period language
- Nonfiction readers seeking systematic knowledge of technological or spy history
Reading tips
- Read in chapter-sized installments, one or two chapters at a time, using end-of-chapter suspense to sustain momentum.
- While reading, note the function wireless communication serves in the plot; simple notes can help track the clues.
- If the English original is difficult, read a synopsis first, then return to the text to reduce the comprehension burden.
- After finishing, compare it with spy fiction of the same era to see how technological imagination and narrative conventions differ.
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
William Le Queux (1864–1927) was a British writer of popular fiction, with 74 of his works held in this collection. He is best known for invasion-scare and spy-adventure stories; The Invasion of 1910, which depicts a German invasion of Britain and the siege of London, drew considerable attention in its day, and The Great War in England in 1897 belongs to the same vein. His other works centre on mystery, intrigue and international espionage, such as The Zeppelin Destroyer, The Secrets of Potsdam, The Closed Book: Concerning the Secret of the Borgias and The Golden Face: A Great ‘Crook’ Romance, all marked by tight plotting and dense suspense. Le Queux often set fictional crises against real places to create a sense of urgency, and his work had some influence on the development of early spy fiction and thrillers. Public information is limited, so biographical details are not elaborated here.
