The Marriage of Esther: Large Print

By: Boothby, Guy

Two men, a fight, and a series of calamitous circumstances. The bar of the Hotel of All Nations, Thursday Island. Time, 9.35, one hot evening towards the end of summer. The room contains about twenty men, in various stages of undress; an atmosphere like the furnace doors of Sheol; two tatterdemalions lolling, apart from the rest, at the end of a long counter; a babel of voices, with the thunder of the surf, on the beach outside, over all.Boothby was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England and is best known for such works as the Dr Nikola series; about an occultist criminal mastermind who is a Victorian forerunner to Fu Manchu, and Pharos, the Egyptian. Rudyard Kipling was his friend and mentor and his books were remembered with affection by George Orwell.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1712792717
• ISBN13: 9781712792711
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"