The Beetle
by:
Richard Marsh (author)
A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Heldmann/Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn of the 19th to 20th century fictions such as Stoker's Dracula, George du...
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A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Heldmann/Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn of the 19th to 20th century fictions such as Stoker's Dracula, George du Maurier's Trilby, and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels. Like Dracula and many of th
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ASIN: B008470DZI
Publisher: Amazon Books
Pages no: 292
Edition language: English
This book left me with conflicted feelings. It was a joy to read, and the language was surprisingly modern for a book written in 1897. It was actually hilariously witty in many places. However, the premise had racist undertones that continually rubbed me the wrong way.The story is split into four pa...
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