The Oxford Book Of English Ghost Stories
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The Oxford Book Of English Ghost Stories
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Author : Michael Cox
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1989
The Oxford Book Of English Ghost Stories written by Michael Cox and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Ghost stories categories.
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.
The Oxford Book Of English Ghost Stories
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Author : Michael COX
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Oxford Book Of English Ghost Stories written by Michael COX and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
The Oxford Book Of Victorian Ghost Stories
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Author : Michael Cox
language : en
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2003
The Oxford Book Of Victorian Ghost Stories written by Michael Cox and has been published by Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with English fiction categories.
Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.
The Young Oxford Book Of Ghost Stories
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Author : Dennis Pepper
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1996
The Young Oxford Book Of Ghost Stories written by Dennis Pepper and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A collection of ghost stories from mainly U.K. authors. B/W illus. 8-14 yrs.
The Collected Ghost Stories
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Author : M. R. James
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-01
The Collected Ghost Stories written by M. R. James and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-01 with Fiction categories.
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.
12 Victorian Ghost Stories
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Author : Michael Cox
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1997
12 Victorian Ghost Stories written by Michael Cox and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Fiction categories.
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.
The Oxford Book Of Australian Ghost Stories
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Author : Ken Gelder
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1994
The Oxford Book Of Australian Ghost Stories written by Ken Gelder and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Ghost stories categories.
Three phantoms wander the desert; a ghostly lover claims his bride at an outback station; a dead man appears beside a blood-red waterhole; a jackaroo witnesses a ghostly struggle; a frightful monster haunts the Nullarbor Plain. This anthology of Australian ghost stories - from the 1850s to the present - draws together a neglected but striking genre of fiction that works to remind those who recently settled this country how unsettled it actually is. New arrivals stumble across empty houses with ghostly occupants; lonely bushmen fantasise about ghostly women; Aborigines tell of bunyips, bugeens and 'living ghosts'; the bush is full of beckoning spectral images; and Death himself is seen prowling the streets. In these stories Australia becomes the 'down-underworld', a place where the departed will inevitably be resurrected in time, and where the dead continue to make their presence felt.
The Penguin Book Of Ghost Stories
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Author : Michael Newton
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2010-02-25
The Penguin Book Of Ghost Stories written by Michael Newton and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-25 with Fiction categories.
This terrifying selection of ghost stories brings together the very best classic works from the masters of the supernatural Phantom coaches, evil familiars, shadowy houses, spectral children and mysterious doppelgangers haunt these tales. They range from the famous, such as M. R. James's tale of an ancient curse, 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad' and W. W. Jacobs's story of gruesome wish-fulfilment, 'The Monkey's Paw', to lesser-known masterpieces: Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Thrawn Janet', telling of a parish priest tormented for life by his encounter with the undead; Charles Dickens's unsettling account of a railway signal-man and an ominous portent; and Edward Bulwer Lytton's 'The Haunted and the Haunters', where a cursed house harbours a diabolical secret. Michael Newton's introduction discusses why ghost stories scare us and why they flourished from the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth century, examining their changing conventions throughout history. This edition also includes further reading, notes, a glossary and a chronology. Edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton
The New Young Oxford Book Of Ghost Stories
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Author : Dennis Pepper
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2000
The New Young Oxford Book Of Ghost Stories written by Dennis Pepper and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Tells stories about all kinds of ghosts, including children, snooker-players, ventriloquist's dummies, and warriors.
The Oxford Book Of English Short Stories
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Author : Antonia Susan Byatt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1999
The Oxford Book Of English Short Stories written by Antonia Susan Byatt and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Angleterre - Mœurs et coutumes - Romans, nouvelles, etc categories.
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, edited by A. S. Byatt, who has published several collections of short stories, is the first anthology to take the English short story as its theme. The thirty-seven stories featured here are selected from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, byauthors ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan, though many draw ingeniously from the richness of earlier English literary writing. There are all sorts of threads of connection and contrast running through these stories. Their subjects vary from the sublime to the ridiculous, from the momentous to the trivial, from the grim to the farcical. There is English empiricism, English pragmatism, English starkness, English humour,English satire, English dandyism, English horror, and English whimsy. There are examples of social realism, from rural poverty to blitzed London; ghost stories and tales of the supernatural; surreal fantasy and science fiction. There are stories of sensibility, precisely delineated, from Hardy'sreluctant bride to the shocked heroine of Elizabeth Taylor's The Blush, from H. E. Bates's brilliant fusion of class, sex, death, and landscape, to D. H. Lawrence's exploration of a consciousness slowly detaching itself from its world. There are exuberant stories by Saki and Waugh, Wodehouse andFirbank, with a particularly English range from high irony to pure orchestrated farce. The very range and scope of the collection celebrates the eccentric differences and excellences of English short stories Some of A. S. Byatt's choices clearly take their place in the grand tradition of story-telling, while others are more unusual.Many break all the rules of unity of tone andnarrative, appearing to be one kind of story before unexpectedly turning into another. They pack together comedy and tragedy, farce and delicacy, elegance and the grotesque, with language as various as the subject-matter. As A. S. Byatt explains: 'My only criterion was that those stories I selectedshould be startling and satisfying, and if possible make the hairs on the neck prickle with excitement, aesthetic or narrative.'