THE WEB (Annotated)

The Web is a tightly woven work of early twentieth-century popular fiction, built around the metaphor of entanglement: crime, secrecy, social ambition, and human weakness draw its characters into a pattern from which escape is never simple. Kummer's prose is brisk, theatrical, and suspenseful, favoring sharp scenes, revealing dialogue, and a steadily tightening plot. The novel belongs to the livel...