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Author | : Michael Cox |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 019955630X |
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The thrill and chill of the ghost story is displayed in all its variety and vitality through this marvellous anthology. Ranging from the early 19th century to the 1960s, the collection reveals the development of the genre, and showcases many of its greatest expositors - from Sir Walter Scott, H. G. Wells, M. R. James, T. H. White, Walter de la Mare, and Elizabeth Bowen in the UK to Edith Wharton in America. Though its heyday coincided with the golden age of Empire in the nineteenth century, the ghost story enjoyed a second flowering between the two World Wars and its popularity is as great as ever.
Author | : Michael Cox |
Publisher | : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 0192804472 |
Download The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.
Author | : Dennis Pepper |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780192781789 |
Download The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tells stories about all kinds of ghosts, including children, snooker-players, ventriloquist's dummies, and warriors.
Author | : Michael Cox |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Ghost stories |
ISBN | : |
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This selection of forty-two stories written between 1829 and 1968 is the first to present the full range and vitality of the English tradition of literary ghost fiction. Fully satisfying what Virginia Woolf called 'the strange human craving for the pleasure of being afraid', it demonstratesthe traditions historical development as well as its major themes, and characteristics. The fictional ghost story is dominated by English authors, from J. S. Le Fanu and M. R. James to Walter de la Mare and Robert Aickman, and by American authors, such as Edith Wharton, writing in the English tradition. As the editors stress in their informative introduction, a good ghost story,though it may raise many profound questions about life and death, entertains as much as it unsettles us. Featuring such authors as Algernon Blackwood, H. Russell Wakefield, Henry James, and Elizabeth Bowen, this anthology combines a serious literary purpose with the plain intention of arousingpleasing fear at the doings of the dead.
Author | : M. R. James |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2022-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download The Collected Ghost Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Collected Ghost Stories" by M. R. James. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Michael Cox |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Ghost stories |
ISBN | : 9780192880383 |
Download The Oxford Book of Twentieth-century Ghost Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Montague Rhodes James |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Ghost-stories of an Antiquary Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780192781673 |
Download The Young Oxford Book of Timewarp Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A collection of stories about time, exploring all the different ways that we can twist and play with time. The stories take in trips to the future, package holidays to the past, visitors from other times with unwelcome messages, a thief with the power to stop time altogether, a man in lovewith someone who died years before he was born, a star fleet that paradoxically caused its own destruction, and many more. With a sure appeal for everyone who likes an exciting, thought-provoking story, as well as fans of science fiction and ghost stories, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of stories to amuse, amaze, and enthral.
Author | : Timothy Chesters |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2011-01-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199599807 |
Download Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This work describes the ideological, intellectual, and literary role of ghost stories in late Renaissance France. It takes in prominent literary figures as well as lesser known tracts and pamphlets to shed light on the beliefs, fears, and desires of a period on the threshold of modernity.
Author | : Michael Cox |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download 12 Victorian Ghost Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Victorian writers excelled at the ghost story. Here editor Michael Cox brings together well wrought tales of haunted houses, vengeful spirits, spectral warnings, invisible antagonists, and motiveless malignity from beyond the grave. Traditional in form but inventive and infused with a relish of the supernatural, these classic ghost stories still retain their original power to unsettle and surprise.