| Title : | The Oxford book of English ghost stories |
| Material Type: | printed text |
| Authors: | Michael Cox, Editor ; R.A. Gilbert, Editor |
| Publisher: | Cape Town : Oxford University Press |
| Publication Date: | 2008 |
| Pagination: | xvii, 504 p. |
| Size: | 21 cm |
| ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-19-955630-4 |
| General note: | Includes bibliographical notes (p. [495]-499)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [500]-504) |
| Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) |
| Descriptors: | English literature
Ghost
Horror tales
|
| Class number: | 823.01 |
| Abstract: | 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. |
| Contents note: | Sir Walter Scott: The Tapestried Chamber; Amelia B.Edwards: The Phantom Coach; J.S. Le Fanu: Squire Toby’s Will; M.E. Braddon: The Shadow in the Corner; F.Marion Crawford: The Upper Berth; Vernon Lee: A wicked Voice; Bram Stoker: The Judge’s House; E. Nesbit: Man-Size in Marble; Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch: The Roll-Call of the Reef; Henry James: The Friends of the Friends; H.G Wells: The Red Room; W. W. Jacobs: The Monkey’s Paw; Mary E. Wilkins: The Lost Ghost; M.R. James: ‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, my Lady’; Alegernon Blackwood: The Empty House; Oliver Onions: The Cigarette Case; Barry Pain: Rose Rose; E.F. Benson: The Confession of Charles Linkworth; Richard Middleton: On the Brighton Road; E.G. Swain: Bone to His Bone; Arthur Gray: The True History of Anthony Ffryar; W.Somerest Maugham: The Taipan; May Sinclair: The Victim; L.P Hartley: A Visitor From Down Under; John Buchan: Fullcircle; W.F. Harvey: The Clock; H. Russell Wakefield: Old Man’s Beardl; Edith Wharton: Mr Jones; A.M. Burrage: Smee; Hugh Walpole: The Little Gost; A.E. Coppard: Ahoy, Sailor,boy!; Thomas Burke: The Hollow Man; Charles Williams: Et in Sempiternum Pereant; L.T.C. Rolt: Bosworth Summit Pound; A.N.L. Munby: An Encounter in the Mist; Elizabeth Bowen: Hand in Glove; V.S. Prithchet: A Story of Don Juan; Christopher Woodforde: Cushi; Walter De La Mare: Bad Company; Simon Raven: The Bottle of 1912; Robert Aickman: The Cicerones; T.H. White: Soft Voices at Passenham; |
| Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=16948 |
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