The New Tenant
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Casual readers who like light suspense, intrigue, and identity-reversal stories
- Literature students studying early twentieth-century English popular fiction genres
- Readers who need short public-domain English texts for extensive reading practice
- Commuters or readers who want a fast-paced story in spare moments
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting modern psychological suspense or complex narrative structure
- Readers sensitive to typed characters and period prejudices in old fiction
- Researchers seeking the depth of serious literary analysis
Reading tips
- Don't look up the ending in advance; read in chapter order to preserve the experience of suspense
- When you reach a turn in a character's identity, look back at earlier foreshadowing to appreciate the genre's technique
- Note period expressions and social attitudes separately and look them up together afterward
- Compare with other short works by Oppenheim to observe how his suspense formulas repeat and vary
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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FAQ
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About the author
E. Phillips Oppenheim (Edward Phillips Oppenheim, 1866–194) was a writer known for mystery and espionage fiction. Public information about him is limited, and the biographical details in our records are incomplete. The existing catalogue shows that he was a prolific author, with 61 of his works held on this site, including The Great Impersonation, The Double Traitor, The Governors, The Lost Ambassador, The Yellow House, and Stolen Idols. These works generally centre on disguise and false identity, political intrigue, detective pursuit, and adventure; their plots are tightly paced and full of suspense, and he was skilled at advancing the narrative through complex relationships among characters. His works are often classified under inspirational growth, reflecting readers' interest in the choices and turning points of fate faced by his characters.
