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$ 120 電子書 | A Gathering Darkness
作者:DH Lawrence,John Kendrick Bangs,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Wilkie Collins,WF Harvey,Wallace Irwin,WW Jacobs,MR James,Edith Nesbit,Alice Perrin,Charlotte Riddell,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,May Sinclair,James Roderick Burns 出版社:Palamedes Publishing 出版日期:2016-04-23 語言:英文 樂天KOBO - 間諜活動 - 來源網頁   看圖書介紹 |
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Thirteen Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories that send chills up the spine and create an atmosphere sure to make the reader turn on an extra light and push up the back of their armchair against the wall.
Set amidst crumbling, ill-maintained churches and imposing cathedrals, on desolate coastland, moors and marshes, even along unlit roads extending into the new suburbs of London, the stories have been chosen for their quality of writing, imaginative range and diversity of character. Here you will find strange, preoccupied gentleman farmers; scholars and antiquarians; administrators of the British Raj; cowering country girls drafted into service in leaky mansions; cussed, gnarled servants and remorseful clergymen; frustrated aristocrats, and their puzzled American cousins; crooked jurists, desperate children and modern women emancipated in ways they never imagined.
The stories, in short, are the quintessence of nineteenth century literature, except for that one small, and unexamined, crack in its magnificent window pane.
From Edith Nesbit and MR James to Wilkie Collins and WW Jacobs, late Victorian and Edwardian writers lived through a time of unparalleled change, and unprecedented challenge—but also produced some of the finest ghost stories ever written. This collection explores the many dimensions of that rapidly-shifting world: a university curator’s annoyance at receiving an uninteresting picture turns to terror when it proves far more interesting than he first imagined; the wife of a colonial administrator experiences the unexpected consequences of love which endures death; a mill family makes nervous use of an Indian talisman offering the solution to any problem, at a price.
In these thirteen classic stories of the supernatural nothing is taken for granted except, perhaps, for fear.
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