Denounced: A Romance
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A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy Victorian popular romance and melodrama
- Literature enthusiasts who want to understand the narrative conventions of late nineteenth-century English serial fiction
- Readers who need a public-domain English novel for leisure reading or language practice
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- Readers who prefer modern, tightly paced narrative and deep psychological characterization
- Readers with little patience for old-fashioned melodramatic conventions
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- Read chapter by chapter, treating each as a serial installment rather than trying to finish it in one sitting
- Notice how reputation and accusation drive the plot, and compare it with contemporary popular novels
- When encountering old-fashioned expressions in English, first infer from context, then look words up in batches
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About the author
John Bloundelle-Burton (1850–1917) was a British novelist, born John Edward Bloundelle-Burton around 1850. He began his career as a journalist for the London Standard and turned to full-time fiction writing in 1885, publishing some sixty works. He wrote mainly historical and adventure novels, often set against European dynastic wars, religious conflict, and sea voyages, with plots centering on reversals of fortune, unjust accusation, and loyalty, in a popular and dramatically vivid style. Fourteen of his works are held in the collection, including Fortune's My Foe: A Romance, Across the Salt Seas: A Romance of the War of Succession, In the Day of Adversity, Clash of Arms: A Romance, Denounced: A Romance, The Scourge of God: A Romance of Religious Persecution, The Hispaniola Plate, and The Seafarers, along with such representative titles as The Silent Shore, The Denounced, and Bitter Heritage. Public information is limited, and details of his life remain largely uncertain; later readers chiefly regard him as a prolific author of late Victorian popular historical adventure fiction.
