
Language
en
Duration
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Series
The Whitefriars Library of Wit and Humour. Second Series
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by David Edwards, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2018-03-17
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1832–1902
Best known for fast-moving historical adventures, this prolific Victorian writer turned real wars, distant places, and imperial history into stories that thrilled generations of young readers. Before becoming a hugely popular novelist, he worked as a journalist and war correspondent, giving his fiction a strong sense of action and detail.
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