The Great Awakening

London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, No date. Early reprint. Hardcover. Good. 256pp. Duodecimo. Red cloth over boards with black ink stamped titles on the backstrip and front board. Spine slanted. Cloth of the boards lightly soiled and rippled. Numerical notation on front pastedown. Partial ink stamp on rear pastedown. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer John Ruyle. Bleiler Checklist. In Hubin. Oppenheim (1866-1946) was known for his suspense fiction and he is considered to be one of the originators of the thriller genre. He published at least 160 novels from 1887 until just before his death. "The Great Awakening" also appeared as "A Sleeping Memory.