Lying Prophets: A Novel
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in English regional fiction and late Victorian literature
- Literature students studying Eden Phillpotts or English regional writing
- Readers who enjoy slow-paced character portrayal and are willing to savour period language
- Teachers who need a public-domain English novel text for course reading
Not a good fit for
- Genre-fiction readers who prefer strong plot and fast pacing
- Readers with limited English reading experience who are unfamiliar with nineteenth-century fiction style
- Beginners who need modern notes and a detailed introduction
Reading tips
- First learn something about the author's life and the basic features of English regional fiction, then begin the text
- Read chapter by chapter and note character relationships and lines of moral conflict to grasp the themes
- When encountering period usage or regional expression, infer from context rather than looking up every word
- Read alongside other regional novels to observe differences in characterisation and narrative perspective
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
Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) was a prolific English author whose works span novels and short stories. Sixteen of his books are included here, among them Children of the Mist, The Red Redmaynes, The Grey Room, The Spinners, The Torch and Other Tales, The Human Boy, The Human Boy and the War, and The Poacher's Wife. These works show him building suspenseful and emotionally charged narratives around rural settings and family relationships, with a style that combines realism and romance. Some of his books centre on boyhood and growth, and are therefore classed as inspirational coming-of-age reading. Public information about the details of his life is limited, yet his works hold a modest place in English and American popular fiction, offering readers a glimpse of the variety of early twentieth-century British storytelling.
