The Secret of Sarek
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The Secret of Sarek

  1. 430 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Secret of Sarek

About this book

This early work by Maurice Leblanc was originally published in 1919 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. In "The Secret of Sarek," the action takes place almost entirely on the fictional Island of Sarek in 1917, in which Leblanc deftly blends crime fantasy and science fiction. Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was born on 11th November 1864 in Rouen, Normandy, France. He was a novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective, Arsène Lupin. From the start, Leblanc wrote both short crime stories and longer novels - and his lengthier tomes, heavily influenced by writers such as Flaubert and Maupassant, were critically admired, but met with little commercial success. Leblanc was largely considered little more than a writer of short stories for various French periodicals when the first Arsène Lupin story appeared. It was published as a series of stories in the magazine 'Je Sais Trout', starting on 15th July, 1905. Clearly created at editorial request under the influence of, and in reaction to, the wildly successful Sherlock Holmes stories, the roguish and glamorous Lupin was a surprise success and Leblanc's fame and fortune beckoned. In total, Leblanc went on to write twenty-one Lupin novels or collections of short stories. On this success, he later moved to a beautiful country-side retreat in Étreat (in the Haute-Normandie region in north-western France), which today is a museum dedicated to the Arsène Lupin books. He died in Perpignan (the capital of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France) on 6th November 1941, at the age of seventy-six.

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Table of contents

  1. THE SECRET OF SAREK
  2. Maurice Leblanc
  3. FOREWORD
  4. CHAPTER I. THE DESERTED CABIN
  5. CHAPTER II. ON THE EDGE OF THE ATLANTIC
  6. CHAPTER III. VORSKI’S SON
  7. CHAPTER IV . THE POOR PEOPLE OF SAREK
  8. CHAPTER V. “FOUR WOMEN CRUCIFIED”
  9. CHAPTER VI. ALL’S WELL
  10. CHAPTER VII. FRANÇOIS AND STÉPHANE
  11. CHAPTER VIII. ANGUISH
  12. CHAPTER IX. THE DEATH-CHAMBER
  13. CHAPTER X. THE ESCAPE
  14. CHAPTER XI. THE SCOURGE OF GOD
  15. CHAPTER XII. THE ASCENT OF GOLGOTHA
  16. CHAPTER XIII. “ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!”
  17. CHAPTER XIV. THE ANCIENT DRUID
  18. CHAPTER XV. THE HALL OF THE UNDERGROUND SACRIFICES
  19. CHAPTER XVI. THE HALL OF THE KINGS OF BOHEMIA
  20. CHAPTER XVII. “CRUEL PRINCE, OBEYING DESTINY”
  21. CHAPTER XVIII. THE GOD-STONE