An excellent anthology, full of uncanny pleasures and unsettling tales. Guaranteed to make your flesh crawl.

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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.
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Presents the full range of classic English ghost fiction, including some of the very best and most frightening ghost stories ever written.
`Review from previous edition handsome Oxford collection of spooks...plenty of flesh-creeping matter here' The Times `The perfect book for long winter evenings of drawn curtains and flickering firelight.' Books and Bookmen `an excellent cross-section of familiar and unfamiliar stories' New Stateman `an excellent collection, varied and original' Susan Hill `Some of the best and scariest ghost stories ever written' Cosmopolitan `a wonderful cross-section of the familiar and less well-known' Oxford Times `Excellent collection of famous and less known authors illustrates the variety of this very English genre.' The Times `All in all, this is a remarkably well-chosen selection.' Sunday Telegraph `Entertaining, unsettling classics to read by firelight - if you dare.' Woman and Home
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New contemporary look for a bestselling collection of ghost stories An enjoyable and wide-ranging anthology including some of the most frightening ghost stories ever written Writers included: M. R. James, T. H. White, Elizabeth Bowen, Sir Walter Scott, H. G. Wells, J. S. Le Fanu, Vernon Lee, and W. S. Maugham
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New contemporary look for a bestselling collection of ghost stories An enjoyable and wide-ranging anthology including some of the most frightening ghost stories ever written Writers included: M. R. James, T. H. White, Elizabeth Bowen, Sir Walter Scott, H. G. Wells, J. S. Le Fanu, Vernon Lee, and W. S. Maugham
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199556304
Publisert
2008
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
386 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
528