Ethel M. Dell

Broschiertes Buch

The Keeper of the Door

Beschreibung

Ethel Dell was an English writer of romance novels in the beginning of the 20th century. Her stories were often set in India and the British colonial possessions. Her stories were considered too racy at the time and her cousins used to try and count the times she used the words passion, tremble, pant and thrill. This story begins with a young man in a hammock who is slight of build and missing an arm. "She made a face at him and gave the hammock a vicious twitch which caused him to rock with some violence for several seconds. As he was wont pathetically to remark everyone bullied him because he was small and possessed only one arm having shed the other by inadvertence somewhere on the borders of the Indian Empire."

Autor

Ethel May Dell Savage, better known by her pen name Ethel M. Dell, was a British writer of more than 30 bestselling romance novels and several short tales. Dell was born on August 2, 1881, to a middle-class family in Streatham, a London neighborhood. Her father was a clerk in the City of London, and she has an older sister and brother. Dell began writing stories at a young age, and many of them have been published in popular journals. Her stories were primarily romantic in nature, set in the British Raj and other former British colonial territories. Some thought her stories were too sexual. Dell worked on her first novel, The Way of an Eagle, for several years before releasing it with T. Fisher Unwin after being rejected by eight other publishers. The book was part of Unwin's First Novel Library, a series that celebrated a writer's first novel. The Way of an Eagle was first published in 1911 and went through thirty printings by 1915.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Book Jungle
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 902g
• ISBN-13: 9781438514956
• ISBN-10: 1438514956
• Artikelnr.: 26216888