His Unknown Wife

Tracy, Louis, 1863-1928Project Gutenberg · United StatesMar 2023

Rating 3.2
Word count
399K words
Chapters
40

Tags

Motivation and Growth Suspense ThrillerFate and FortuneMarriage MysteryLove EntanglementsIdentity MysteryUrban Romance

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.His Unknown Wife by Louis TracyAuthor: Tracy, Louis, 1863-1928,Language: English, Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature, Release Date: Jan 26, 2011

Editor's review

His Unknown Wife is an English novel by Louis Tracy, made available as a free eBook by Project Gutenberg. Tracy's works are known for their strong narrative drive, and the title alone suggests a mystery built around identity and marriage—well suited to readers who enjoy traditional plot-driven fiction. While reading, pay attention to how the characters' relationships are gradually revealed, and observe how the author sustains suspense through dialogue and scene changes. As a public-domain eBook, it is easy to obtain and works well for reading in short sessions on a commute or before bed. Because it is an original English text with period language, beginners may need a dictionary. Overall, it is an old-fashioned novel suited to relaxed reading or English reading practice; don't expect the complex structure of modern psychological suspense.

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Reading tips

  1. Read the first two chapters to sort out the character relationships before moving on with the plot.
  2. When you encounter period expressions, first guess from context; look up words after finishing a passage.
  3. After each chapter, note the suspense developments in one sentence to keep track of the reading thread.
  4. If using it for English study, choose a dialogue passage for reading aloud and retelling practice.

About the publisher

Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971

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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FAQ

What kind of story is this mainly? Judging from the title and the author's style, it is an English novel whose plot revolves around identity and marriage, with the suspense setup of traditional popular fiction. For the specific plot, refer to the original text; readers can approach it as a plot-driven work.
How difficult is the English? It is an early twentieth-century English novel with period expressions; sentence structure is not complex, but the vocabulary includes old-fashioned usage. Intermediate readers can read it with a dictionary, while beginners are advised to use a guide or parallel text.
Is the electronic edition suitable for taking reading notes? Yes. The electronic text makes it easy to search for names and keywords and to copy passages for notes. It is advisable to record character relationships and suspense developments chapter by chapter; reviewing your notes afterward will help you grasp the narrative thread more clearly.

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About the author

Tracy, Louis, 1863-1928 Author

Louis Tracy (1863–1928) was an English writer of popular fiction in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, best known for tightly plotted mystery and adventure stories. His works often revolve around mysterious inheritances, disappearances, mistaken identities, and criminal puzzles, with representative titles including The Wheel O' Fortune, Number Seventeen, The King of Diamonds, The Great Mogul, and The Stowmarket Mystery. He excelled at blending detective reasoning with exotic settings and suspenseful chases, producing fast-paced, incident-filled narratives that were both entertaining and highly readable. The library holds 30 of his works, commonly classified under inspirational growth, though their core remains popular mystery and adventure fiction. Public information is limited, and details of his life remain to be further verified.