Fergus Hume

Madame Midas (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The woman known as Madame Midas may seem cold and cruel, but her heart wears the scars of misfortune. The daughter of a self-made man, she had everything taken from her by a deceitful gambler of a husband. Devoting her life to work, she hardens herself, but the past refuses to die. Madame Midas is a novel by Fergus Hume.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513278827
• Artikelnr.: 61425453

Autorenporträt

Fergus Hume (1859-1932) was an English novelist. Born in Worcestershire, Hume was the son of a civil servant of Scottish descent. At the age of three, he moved with his family to Dunedin, New Zealand, where he attended Otago Boy's High School. In 1885, after graduating from the University of Otago with a degree in law, Hume was admitted to the New Zealand bar. He moved to Melbourne, Australia, where he worked as a clerk and embarked on his career as a writer with a series of plays. After struggling in vain to find success as a playwright, Hume turned to novels with The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), a story of mystery and urban poverty that eventually became one of the most successful works of fiction of the Victorian era. Hume, who returned to England in 1888, would go on to publish over 100 novels and stories, earning a reputation as a leading writer of popular fiction and inspiring such figures as Arthur Conan Doyle, whose early detective novels were modeled after Hume's. Despite the resounding success of his debut work of fiction, Hume died in relative obscurity at a modest cottage in Thundersley.