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The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories Michael Cox

The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories von Michael Cox

The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories Michael Cox


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Zusammenfassung

This selection of forty-two stories written between 1829 and 1968 presents the full range and vitality of English tradition of literary ghost fiction. Satisfying what Virginia Woolf called 'the strange human craving for the pleasure of being afraid', it demonstrates traditions historical development and its major themes, and characteristics.

The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories Zusammenfassung

The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories Michael Cox

With their evocative settings amid mists and shadows, in ruinous houses, on lonely roads and wild moorlands, in abandoned churches and over-grown gardens, ghost stories have long exercised a universal fascination. Here at last is an anthology of some of the very best English ghost stories which combines a serious literary purpose with the plain intention of arousing a pleasurable fear at the doings of the dead.
This selection of forty-two stories, written between 1829 and 1968, is the first to present the full range and vitality of the ghost fiction tradition by demonstrating its historical development as well as its major themes and characteristics. It includes stories by Walter Scott, M. R. James, Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham and T. H. White.
Elizabeth Bowen suggested that the ghost story works "through a series of happenings whose horror lies in their being just, just, out of time," and the success of a story may be judged by what Edith Wharton called its "thermometrical quality; if it sends a cold shiver down the spine, it has done its job and done it well." The challenge of this most demanding form has been taken up by a host of writers, both 'specialists' like J. S. Le Fanu and Algernon Blackwood, and those, such as Henry James and H. G. Wells, for whom ghost stories were only a part of their literary output. Nor does this collection overlook the important contribution of women writers, with eight stories included from Amelia Edward's The Phantom Ghost (1864) to Elizabeth Bowen's Hand in Glove (1952).

The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories Bewertungen

"A splendid book."--The Chicago Tribune
"The 42 stories gathered here are luminous examples of how affecting an immaculately wrought ghost story can be."--Booklist


"A splendid book."--The Chicago Tribune
"The 42 stories gathered here are luminous examples of how affecting an immaculately wrought ghost story can be."--Booklist


"A splendid book."--The Chicago Tribune
"The 42 stories gathered here are luminous examples of how affecting an immaculately wrought ghost story can be."--Booklist

"A splendid book."--The Chicago Tribune
"The 42 stories gathered here are luminous examples of how affecting an immaculately wrought ghost story can be."--Booklist


"A splendid book."--The Chicago Tribune


"The 42 stories gathered here are luminous examples of how affecting an immaculately wrought ghost story can be."--Booklist


Über Michael Cox


About the editors:
Michael Cox is editor of M. R. James's ghost stories for the Oxford World's Classics series; R. A. Gilbert is an antiquarian bookseller and author of A. E. Waite: A Bibliography.

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GOR002923560
9780192141637
0192141635
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories Michael Cox
Gebraucht - Gut Gelesen
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Oxford University Press
1986-11-30
522
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