The Tales of the Thames (Thriller & Action Adventure Books - Boxed Set) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Golden Ashes, White Wings to the Raven, A Gentleman's Gentleman, Aladdin of London …By Max Pemberton
Length70h 5m
About this audiobook
The Tales of the Thames gathers Max Pemberton's river-centered tales of intrigue, pursuit, disguise, and peril, using London's great waterway as both setting and symbolic artery of empire, commerce, and criminal secrecy. Written in the brisk, atmospheric manner of late-Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction, the collection blends thriller mechanics with action-adventure spectacle: fogbound wharves, sudden reversals, social masquerade, and the uneasy proximity of respectability and danger. Its literary context is the age of sensation, detective romance, and imperial adventure. Max Pemberton was a prolific English novelist and journalist whose career placed him close to the periodical culture that shaped modern popular suspense. His familiarity with newspapers, serialized storytelling, and metropolitan life helped form a fiction alert to pace, topicality, and public appetite. The Thames, with its traffic, mystery, and social variety, offered him an ideal imaginative landscape for dramatizing modernity's excitements and anxieties. This volume is recommended to readers who enjoy classic adventure fiction with a strong sense of place and historical atmosphere. It will particularly appeal to admirers of Conan Doyle, Haggard, and late-nineteenth-century mystery writing, as well as anyone interested in London as a literary geography of danger, movement, and revelation.
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.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length70 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 10, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Tales of the Thames (Thriller & Action Adventure Books - Boxed Set) (Annotated)
25ALADDIN OF LONDON (pt. 3)
2Introduction
26ALADDIN OF LONDON (pt. 4)
3Historical Context
27WHITE MOTLEY (pt. 1)
4Synopsis (Selection)
28WHITE MOTLEY (pt. 2)
5NOVELS
29WHITE MOTLEY (pt. 3)
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6A GENTLEMAN'S GENTLEMAN (pt. 1)
30WHITE MOTLEY (pt. 4)
7A GENTLEMAN'S GENTLEMAN (pt. 2)
31SHORT STORIES
8A GENTLEMAN'S GENTLEMAN (pt. 3)
32JEWEL MYSTERIES, FROM A DEALER'S NOTE BOOK (pt. 1)
9THE DIAMOND SHIP (pt. 1)
33JEWEL MYSTERIES, FROM A DEALER'S NOTE BOOK (pt. 2)
10THE DIAMOND SHIP (pt. 2)
34JEWEL MYSTERIES, FROM A DEALER'S NOTE BOOK (pt. 3)
11THE DIAMOND SHIP (pt. 3)
35SIGNORS OF THE NIGHT (pt. 1)
12THE DIAMOND SHIP (pt. 4)
36SIGNORS OF THE NIGHT (pt. 2)
13THE SEA WOLVES (pt. 1)
37SIGNORS OF THE NIGHT (pt. 3)
14THE SEA WOLVES (pt. 2)
38THE MAN WHO DROVE THE CAR (pt. 1)
15THE SEA WOLVES (pt. 3)
39THE MAN WHO DROVE THE CAR (pt. 2)
16THE SEA WOLVES (pt. 4)
40TALES OF THE THAMES
17THE LADY EVELYN
41BARBARA OF THE BELL HOUSE
18BOOK I THE ESCAPADE (pt. 1)
42THE CAROUSAL: A STORY OF THANET
19BOOK I THE ESCAPADE (pt. 2)
43JACK SMITH—BOY
20BOOK II THE ENGLISHMAN
44THE DONNINGTON AFFAIR
21BOOK III THE LIGHT (pt. 1)
45THE DEVIL TO PAY
22BOOK III THE LIGHT (pt. 2)
46Analysis
23ALADDIN OF LONDON (pt. 1)
47Reflection
24ALADDIN OF LONDON (pt. 2)
48Memorable Quotes
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