A Gamble with Life
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- Read the first chapter to judge whether the narrative pace suits you before deciding to read the whole book.
- Mark unfamiliar words as you go and look them up after finishing the chapter, so reading is not interrupted.
- Read it alongside other works by Hocking to see his recurring subjects and methods.
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About the author
Silas Kitto Hocking (1850–1935) was an English Cornish novelist and Methodist minister, born in St Stephen-in-Brannel in 1850 and died in Highgate in 1935. Ordained in 1870, he left the ministry in 1896 to devote himself to writing and to Liberal politics, producing some fifty novels in all. His fiction often centres on the poor and on the moral dilemmas of ordinary people. His best-known work, Her Benny: A Story of Street Life, follows street children in Liverpool and sold over a million copies, establishing his reputation; The Squire's Daughter and A Gamble with Life continue in the same vein of popular storytelling combined with ethical concern, finding a wide readership and earning him recognition as a novelist with a reforming spirit.
