The Keeper of the Door - Softcover

Dell, Ethel M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606643312 ISBN 13: 9781606643310

Publisher: Aegypan, 2009

Synopsis

"I do!" Olga declared fiercely, even as her voice was choking with emotion. "I do love him!" "You love Noel -- more than me?" Max took her by the shoulders, and turned her face toward his when she shied away. "You think you can be happy with him?" She quivered in his hold. "You ask such -- impossible things," she said. "They are only impossible," Max said, his face nearing hers, "because you are afraid to tell me the truth. You are afraid to tell me that you are sacrificing yourself. You are afraid to be honest -- even with yourself."

About this title

About the Author

Ethel M. Dell (1881 - 1939) was a British writer of over 30 popular romance novels and several short stories from 1911 to 1939. Ethel Dell worked on a novel for several years, but it was rejected by eight publishers. Finally the publisher T. Fisher Unwin bought the book for their First Novel Library, a series which introduced a writer's first book. This book, entitled The Way of an Eagle, was published in 1911 and by 1915 it had gone through thirty printings. Her debut novel is very characteristic of Ethel M. Dell's novels. There is a very feminine woman, an alpha male, a setting in India, passion galore liberally mixed with some surprisingly shocking violence and religious sentiments sprinkled throughout. While readers adored Ethel M. Dell's novels, critics hated them with a passion; but she did not care what the critics thought. She considered herself a good storyteller - nothing more and nothing less. She continued to write novels for a number of years. She made quite a lot of money, from £20,000 to £30,000 a year, but remained quiet and almost pathologically shy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Aegypan
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1606643312
• ISBN 13: 9781606643310
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 440