The World's Great Snare

A Victorian Suspense Romance of Aristocratic Intrigue, Forbidden Love, Wealth, and Temptation

von E. Phillips Oppenheim

180 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The World's Great Snare is a fin-de-siècle novel of temptation, intrigue, and social peril, in which Oppenheim turns the machinery of melodrama toward the moral traps set by money, desire, reputation, and cosmopolitan adventure. Its plot moves with the velocity that would become his signature: sudden reversals, charged conversations, and a keen awareness that drawing rooms, clubs, and foreign resorts can be as dangerous as battlefields. Stylistically, it stands between the Victorian sensation novel and the modern thriller, translating social anxiety into suspense. E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946), later celebrated as the "Prince of Storytellers," wrote from within a commercial and imperial Britain fascinated by secrecy, mobility, and risk. Before becoming a hugely prolific novelist, he worked in his family's leather business in Leicester, an experience that sharpened his sense of class aspiration, finance, and worldly calculation. These interests helped shape his fiction's characteristic blend of romance, crime, diplomacy, and ethical testing. Readers interested in the origins of popular suspense fiction will find this book especially rewarding. It offers not only entertainment but a revealing glimpse of late-Victorian fears: that civilization's glittering surfaces may conceal snares for the ambitious, the passionate, and the unwary.

• Themen: Belletristik Thriller / Spannung
• ISBN: 9788028332563
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.11.2023
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Sharp Ink