Anthony Lyveden
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy British popular adventure fiction and want to broaden their reading
- Literature enthusiasts interested in early twentieth-century British popular fiction
- Learners with some English foundation who want to read public-domain originals
- People who want light, chapter-by-chapter reading during commutes or travel
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting deep social critique or modernist experimental writing
- Beginners whose English reading is not yet proficient and who need sentence-by-sentence translation support
- Readers who prefer contemporary fast-paced suspense or strong plot twists
Reading tips
- Proceed chapter by chapter, reading one or two chapters a day to keep the story coherent without fatigue.
- Mark period slang or old-fashioned expressions as you go, then look them up together after finishing a chapter.
- Read the opening chapters first to judge the narrative style, then decide whether to read the whole book.
- If the English is difficult, read a Chinese summary of the main thread first, then return to the original.
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
Dornford Yates (1885–1960) was the pen name of the British writer Cecil William Mercer, formed by combining the surnames of his two grandmothers. He initially practised as a barrister, served in the military during the First World War, and devoted himself to writing after the war. Between the two world wars he was widely popular for his humorous "Berry" series and his adventurous "Chandos" thrillers; representative works include Anthony Lyveden, Berry and Co., The Brother of Daphne and Jonah and Co. His books combine light-hearted domestic comedy with tense, exciting adventure plots, reflecting the reading tastes of popular British fiction of the period. In later life he moved to Southern Rhodesia. Public information on his early life and the details of his writing is limited.
