The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories |
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| Selected by:
| Cox, Michael
Gilbert, R. A. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-282666-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1989 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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Responding to people's overwhelming attraction to anything frightening, this marvelous anthology of some of the very best English ghost stories combines a serious literary purpose with the simple intention of arousing a pleasurable fear of the doings of the dead. As the first volume to present the full range and vitality of the ghost fiction tradition, this selection of forty-two stories written between 1829 and 1968, demonstrates the tradition's historical development, as well as its...
More DescriptionResponding to people's overwhelming attraction to anything frightening, this marvelous anthology of some of the very best English ghost stories combines a serious literary purpose with the simple intention of arousing a pleasurable fear of the doings of the dead. As the first volume to present the full range and vitality of the ghost fiction tradition, this selection of forty-two stories written between 1829 and 1968, demonstrates the tradition's historical development, as well as its major themes and characteristics. It includes stories by Sir Walter Scott, J.S. Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Henry James, H.G. Wells, M.R. James, May Sinclair, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Bowen, T.H. White, and many others.