"The Temptress" by William Le Queux is an early 20th-century novel about a marriage born in the shadow of imprisonment. In the somber setting of a New Caledonia penal colony, a convict exchanges vows with a woman who appears to be his devoted bride. This is far from a tale of love. The dreary wedding marks not a union, but a prison for the wife, whose heart simmers with disdain for her new husband and a desperate longing to escape her entanglements, setting the stage for dark desires and a quest for liberation. Her disappointment with her marital fate propels the suspenseful crime narrative forward.
The Temptress
By William Le Queux
On a desolate island, vows bind a convict and his bride, but her heart yearns for his demise, sparking a dangerous path to freedom.
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About the AuthorWilliam Tufnell Le Queux was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat, a traveller, a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available; his claims regarding his own abilities and exploits, however, were usually exaggerated. His best-known works are the anti-French and anti-Russian invasion fantasy The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) and the anti-German invasion fantasy The Invasion of 1910 (1906), the latter becoming a bestseller.
William Tufnell Le Queux was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat, a traveller, a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available; his claims regarding his own abilities and exploits, however, were usually exaggerated. His best-known works are the anti-French and anti-Russian invasion fantasy The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) and the anti-German invasion fantasy The Invasion of 1910 (1906), the latter becoming a bestseller.
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