The Complete Works of Max Pemberton (Annotated)

di Everett Ormeray (Autore)

Max Pemberton (Autore)

e-artnow, 2021

The Complete Works of Max Pemberton gathers the fiction of a writer central to late Victorian and Edwardian popular literature, where adventure, detection, romance, and technological speculation meet. Pemberton's narratives move briskly through drawing rooms, battlefields, criminal underworlds, and maritime or continental settings, combining melodramatic suspense with journalistic immediacy. Read together, these works illuminate the tastes and anxieties of their age: imperial rivalry, social mobility, scientific progress, and the allure of danger beneath respectable modern life. Max Pemberton (1863–1950) was a prolific English novelist, journalist, and editor whose career was shaped by the expanding mass readership of the periodical press. His editorial work and close involvement with popular magazines helped refine his instinct for pace, cliffhanger structure, and topical appeal. Living in an era fascinated by crime, empire, invention, and war, Pemberton transformed contemporary preoccupations into accessible narratives that entertained while registering the pressures of modernity. This collection is recommended to readers interested in the broader landscape surrounding better-known contemporaries such as H. Rider Haggard, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Anthony Hope. It offers both pleasure and historical value: energetic storytelling, vivid atmosphere, and a revealing archive of popular imagination at the turn of the twentieth century. This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience. - A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions. - A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation. - A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.

• Autore: Everett Ormeray, Max Pemberton
• Curatore: e-artnow
• Anno edizione: 2021
• Editore: e-artnow
• Formato: EPUB2 con Adobe DRM
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 4064066387020