購物比價找書網找車網
FindBook
排序:
 
 有 1 項符合

ww jacobs

的圖書
圖書介紹 - 資料來源:樂天KOBO   評分:
圖書名稱:A Gathering Darkness

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.

Table of Contents

  1. MR James, The Mezzotint
  2. Charlotte Riddell, Nut Bush Farm
  3. Mary Elizabeth Braddon, The Shadow in the Corner
  4. John Kendrick Bangs, The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall
  5. Wilkie Collins, Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman
  6. Alice Perrin, The Summoning of Arnold
  7. Edith Nesbit, John Charrington's Wedding
  8. WF Harvey, Across the Moors
  9. DH Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner
  10. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Mr Justice Harbottle
  11. Wallace Irwin, The Transplanted Ghost
  12. WW Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw
  13. May Sinclair, Where their Fire Is Not Quenched
  14. Afterword: MR James, Stories I Have Tried to Write: Thoughts and Observations on the Writing of Ghost Stories
贊助商廣告
 
金石堂 - 今日66折
十小時讀懂國高中六年的世界史
作者:宮崎正勝
出版社:五南圖書出版股份有限公司
出版日期:2020-03-28
66折: $ 231 
金石堂 - 今日66折
東施妹妹愛搞怪【成語故事模擬PISA實戰版】
作者:陳淑玲,呂倩如,趙文霙,周芃谷
出版社:五南圖書出版股份有限公司
出版日期:2015-03-25
66折: $ 185 
金石堂 - 今日66折
STEM大冒險:超驚奇的工程魔法-配合108課綱科技領域,培養創意設計與實作能力
作者:尼克.阿諾
出版社:五南圖書出版股份有限公司
出版日期:2019-07-28
66折: $ 231 
金石堂 - 今日66折
心靈的本質有聲書第9輯
66折: $ 1056 
 
博客來 - 暢銷排行榜
我可能錯了:森林智者的最後一堂人生課
作者:比約恩.納提科.林德布勞 (Björn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankler, Navid Modiri)
出版社:先覺
出版日期:2023-02-01
$ 355 
博客來 - 暢銷排行榜
光逝去的夏天 (5)
出版日期:2025-02-13
$ 119 
金石堂 - 暢銷排行榜
霰草忍法帖(08)
作者:春輝
出版社:青文出版社股份有限公司
出版日期:2025-02-27
$ 111 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 暢銷排行榜
底層邏輯:看清這個世界的底牌
作者:劉潤
出版社:時報文化出版企業股份有限公司
出版日期:2022-03-29
$ 316 
 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 新書排行榜
放下執念,你可以改寫你的人生腳本:國際溝通分析師的14個自我療癒小練習
作者:周司麗
出版社:小樹文化
出版日期:2025-03-05
$ 315 
金石堂 - 新書排行榜
鎳克爾男孩(普立茲小說獎作品)
作者:科爾森.懷特黑德
出版社:二十張出版
出版日期:2025-03-05
$ 332 
博客來 - 新書排行榜
與妳相戀到生命盡頭 7 (首刷限定版)
作者:あおのなち
出版社:東立
出版日期:2025-03-06
$ 136 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 新書排行榜
情書30周年紀念版
作者:岩井俊二
出版社:新經典文化
出版日期:2025-03-12
$ 270 
 

©2025 FindBook.com.tw -  購物比價  找書網  找車網  服務條款  隱私權政策