The Hidden Children
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy American historical romance and frontier adventure stories
- Scholars of 19th-century American popular fiction and Chambers's work
- Readers of English-language originals who can accept old-fashioned narrative pacing
- Historical fiction fans interested in fictional narratives set during the American Revolution
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer modern, fast-paced suspense or tightly structured thrillers
- Readers sensitive to 19th-century stereotypes of Native Americans and unwilling to examine them critically
- Beginners with weak English reading skills who need a modern annotated edition
Reading tips
- First learn the background of the New York frontier during the American Revolution; the characters' entanglements will then be easier to follow.
- Read the Native American portrayals as a period textual phenomenon, alongside modern historical criticism.
- Proceed chapter by chapter and watch for planted suspense; old serial novels often drive readers with chapter-end hooks.
- If it proves difficult, read the opening and ending first, then fill in the middle adventure sections.
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
Robert W. Chambers (1865–1933) was an American novelist active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His birth and death years and nationality are relatively clear in public sources, though detailed biographical information and educational background remain limited. He was a prolific writer, with 38 works held in the collection. He is best known for the short-story collection The King in Yellow, which blends weird, horror, and supernatural elements and became an important early work of weird fiction, exerting a certain influence on later horror and fantasy writing. Beyond weird fiction, his works also span romance, historical, and popular fiction, including Athalie, The Mystery of Choice, The Hidden Children, The Common Law, The Dark Star, In Search of the Unknown, and The Slayer of Souls, demonstrating a diversity of subjects and styles. Overall, his writing is notable for atmospheric construction and narrative tension, securing him a place in popular literature and the weird tradition.
