![]() ![]() Yen How, has been cited as a possible basis for Sax Rohmer's much better known Dr. Some contemporary critics described this novel as a fictionalisation of Charles Henry Pearson's National Life and Character: A Forecast (1893). Pearson responded by ordering Shiel to double the length of the serial to 150,000 words, but Shiel cut it back by a third for the book version, which was rushed out that July as 'The Yellow Danger'. The early chapters incorporated actual headline events as the crisis unfolded, and proved a success with the reading public. ![]() Arthur Pearson Ltd, to capitalise on public interest in a crisis in China (which became known as the Scramble for Concessions.) The Empress of the Earth ran weekly in Short Stories in 1898. This began as a serial contracted by Peter Keary (1865?1915), of C. Shiel's (1865-1947), popular reputation was made by another work for hire. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£6.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. ![]() First published in 1901 and re-issued in 1963, this is a first edition, first impression of the new edition by Souvenir Press of 1981. ![]()
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