The Fortune Hunter
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in early American popular fiction and adventure-romance themes
- Learners who want to use free public-domain resources for extensive English reading practice
- Enthusiasts studying early twentieth-century American genre fiction
- Casual readers who enjoy light plots and do not seek profound themes
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting the depth and complex structure of serious literature
- Beginners with weak English skills who rely on detailed annotations
- Readers who prefer contemporary subjects and contemporary narrative techniques
Reading tips
- Read the first few chapters to establish the relationships between characters, then proceed chapter by chapter to avoid losing track of the thread
- Note the stylistic differences the two authors may bring, and compare the touches of different passages after finishing
- Read with the background of contemporary American attitudes toward wealth in mind to understand the significance of the fortune-hunter figure
- Use reading notes to record changes in the main characters' motivations, which helps in following the plot
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
Louis Joseph Vance (1879–1933) was an American writer of popular fiction in the early twentieth century. Public information about his life is limited, but the fifteen works by him held in the collection give a sense of his writing. He was skilled at tightly plotted adventure and detective novels, often featuring secret organizations, disguised identities, stolen treasures, and clever lone-wolf figures. The Lone Wolf Returns and The False Faces revolve around the character of the Lone Wolf, showing his ability to create serial characters, while The Destroying Angel, The Black Bag, and The Brass Bowl drive their stories through suspense and pursuit. His novels emphasize pace and entertainment; his characters are drawn into intrigue and danger, with frequent twists, making them suited to popular reading. Some of his works were adapted for film and television, giving him a degree of influence on early popular adventure literature.
