The Dark Star, Robert William Chambers
The Dark Star, Robert William Chambers
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The Dark Star

Author: Robert William Chambers

Narrator: Eloise Fairfax

Unabridged: 10 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/27/2025

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

Amid the tense politics of pre–World War I Europe, an American man becomes unwittingly bound to a mysterious woman whose fate is tied to a coveted secret known as the Dark Star. Pursued by spies and caught between rival powers, they race across borders to evade danger. As loyalty wavers and love deepens, they confront a conspiracy that could ignite global conflict, testing courage and trust at every turn.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alex on January 07, 2015

Not really what I expected given the other of Chambers' works that I've read thus far, but quite entertaining nevertheless. A "dramatic" story that somehow manages to avoid most melodrama, which I appreciated.......more

Goodreads review by DOUGLAS J BERRY on June 27, 2020

A sci fi story, a fantasy? A tale of lives that join and seperate on the way to world war one. I had forgotten the slaughter of the apache gangsters in Paris.......more

Goodreads review by Gian on February 18, 2024

(I read a print on demand copy, I am rating this edition because it's the only one with some reviewers) If one has read Chambers' magnum opus, The King in Yellow, one should know that he was all but a simple weird fiction writer. Some of the best stories in the collection were of a romantic nature, a......more

Goodreads review by mzbeastle on January 17, 2021

I'm finding so many amazing authors writing absolutely beautiful stories - and most of them wrote in the late 1800s-early 1900s. This can't be duplicated today - I've found some authors who try, but fail, to capture the atmosphere and intensity and description of these early works. Robert W Chambers......more