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20%OFFMichael Newton - The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce - 9780141442365 - V9780141442365
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The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce

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Description for The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce Paperback. A selection of ghost stories. From "The Old Nurse's Story" through to "Afterword", it covers the most terrifying tales of the genre. With a thoughtful introduction, and helpful notes, it places the stories contextually within the genre and elucidates the changing nature of the ghost story and how we interpret it. Editor(s): Newton, Michael. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141442365
SKU
V9780141442365
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About Michael Newton
Michael Newton was both an undergraduate and postgraduate at University College London. He is the author of Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children (Faber & Faber, 2002) and of a book on Kind Hearts and Coronets for the British Film Institute's Film Classics series (2003). He has also edited Edmund Gosse's Father and Son for Oxford ... Read more

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