Tales of Men and Ghosts
Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton EBK ISBN: 9781909904118, Sovereign
The best of ghost stories from Edith Wharton, including: The Bolted Door, His Father’s Son, The Daunt Diana, The Debt, Full Circle, The Legend, The Eyes, The Blond Beast, Afterward, The Letters.
Edith Wharton, an American novelist and short story writer, most famous for her prize winning The Age of Innocence novel (ISBN: 9781909438828). Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature. She was also a garden designer, interior designer, and spoke fluent French. Wharton was one of the few foreigners in France allowed to travel to the front lines during the First World War. Throughout the war she worked tirelessly in charitable efforts for refugees and, in 1916 was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in recognition of her commitment to the displaced. Wharton produced a wealth of short stories and is particularly well regarded for her ghost stories.
Edith Wharton, ghosts, apparitions, romance, New England, symbolism, naturalism, family, psychological, drama, American classic
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Count Magnus and Other Ghost Storie
Count Magnus And Other Ghost Stories by M. R. James, EBK EIN/ISBN: 9781909676404, Sovereign,
Some of the best ghost stories including Count Magnus, Lost Hearts, Number 13, The Treasure of Abbot Thomas and many more from the master of haunted houses and terrifying accounts of apparitions and other paranormal activities, M. R. James.
Montague Rhodes James was an English author, medieval scholar and provost of King’s College, Cambridge, and of Eton College. He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre. Count Magnus and Other Stories (ISBN: 9781909676404). James redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings.
Count Magnus, Ghost Stories, apparitions, goblins, adventure, magic, celebration, festivity, Victorian, education, social class, social order, historical, ghosts, christmas
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The Haunted Man
The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain by Charles Dickens, EBK EIN/ISBN: 9781909676305, Sovereign
Redlaw is a teacher of chemistry who often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past life. He is haunted by a spirit, who is not so much a ghost as Redlaw’s phantom twin and is an awful likeness of himself.
Charles Dickens, one of the best known and most read of English writers of Victorian period. He was born into a large comfortable middle class family of Navy clerk in Portsmouth. His father John Dickens later found work in Chatham and Charles, the second of seven children went to the local school there. After moving to Camden Town in London, John Dickens was arrested and sent to debtor’s prison and young Charles aged twelve was forced to work at a factory for six shillings a week. He returned to school later after his father’s release from prison and became interested in the subject of social reform. He started making contributions to radical newspapers of the time. In 1833 Charles’s first short stories were published in the Monthly Magazine under his pen name Boz, followed by more contributions to Morning Chronicle and the London Evening Chronicle. These stories had become very popular and were later published as a book entitled Sketches by Boz. After publication of Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby Dickens had become the most popular writer in Britain and continued to write until his death in 1870. Dickens’ most famous works inlude: Great Expectations (ISBN: 9781907832536), A Tales of Two Cities (ISBN: 9781909175914), Oliver Twist (ISBN: 9781909676015), Our Mutual Friend (ISBN: 9781909438491 ).
Charles Dickens, Christmas, ghosts, human nature, Victorian, education, social class, social order, historical, English classic, World classic
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