The International Spy
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in early spy fiction and adventure genre literature
- Students and teachers studying the narrative modes of early twentieth-century English popular fiction
- Language learners looking for public-domain English eBooks for light reading
- Readers needing genre-literature samples for comparative reading or classroom discussion
Not a good fit for
- Nonfiction readers seeking real intelligence knowledge or international political analysis
- Readers sensitive to the era's prejudices in early popular fiction and unwilling to examine them critically
- Researchers needing modern annotated editions or authoritative scholarly versions
Reading tips
- Read it first as genre fiction, attending to how suspense is built and characters are introduced, then look back to analyze the narrative conventions.
- While reading, note the portrayals of international relations, national identity, and gender roles, and make brief annotations.
- Compare it with later, more mature spy novels to observe how the genre evolved in plot and character.
- The English electronic text makes word lookup easy; record unfamiliar expressions as you go, combining reading with language learning.
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
George Allen Upward (1863–1926) was a British poet, lawyer, politician and teacher, born in Worcester. His work was included in Des Imagistes (1914), the first Imagist anthology edited by Ezra Pound, which gave him a place in the modernist poetic movement. He also wrote fiction, including Athelstane Ford, The International Spy and The Queen Against Owen, works of historical adventure and spy stories with strong plots that show his command of popular narrative. Public information about his life and writing is limited; later assessments tend to focus on his connection with Imagism and the popular appeal of his novels. He took his own life in his later years.
