A Rogue by Compulsion
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- English-language readers who enjoy classic adventure and pursuit stories
- Enthusiasts studying early twentieth-century British popular fiction
- Readers looking for a light public-domain e-book diversion
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer tight deduction and contemporary suspense structures
- Those impatient with early English narrative pacing
- Readers expecting deep social critique or literary experimentation
Reading tips
- Read chapter by chapter, noting the period narrative techniques at plot turns.
- Compare it with other British adventure novels of the same period to observe genre conventions.
- Don't fret over plausibility; treat it as retro entertainment.
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
Victor Bridges (1878–1972) was a British novelist known for his tightly plotted thrillers and detective fiction. His life spanned the late Victorian era through the 1970s, while his writing career was concentrated in the first half of the twentieth century. His representative work, A Rogue by Compulsion, exemplifies his narrative approach: centering on ordinary people forced into crisis, he holds readers with sustained suspense and fast-moving plots, balancing thrills with deduction. Because public information is limited, a full account of his life, education, and complete body of work remains difficult to provide. Only one of his works is currently held in the collection, yet this single representative novel already reveals his characteristic style and direction within popular thriller fiction.
