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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100307269248
ISBN-139780307269249
eBay Product ID (ePID)66019526
Product Key Features
Book TitleGhost Stories
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicFantasy / Paranormal, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Ghost
Publication Year2008
GenreFiction
AuthorPeter Washington
Book SeriesEveryman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight14.8 Oz
Item Length7.4 in
Item Width4.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-006499
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal823/.0873308
Table Of ContentRobert Louis Stevenson The Body-Snacher Guy de Maupassant The Horla Henry James The Friends of Friends W.W. Jacobs The Monkey's Paw M.R. James 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' Saki (H.H. Munro) The Open Window Katherine Mansfield The Daughters of the Late Colonel P.G. Wodehouse Honeysuckle Cottage L.P. Hartley W.S. Edith Wharton The Looking Glass Elizabeth Bowen The Happy Autumn Fields Vladimir Nabokov The Visit to the Museum Eudora Welty Clytie Jorge Luis Borges The Circular Ruins Elizabeth Taylor Poor Girl Walter de la Mare The Quincunx Penelope Lively Uninvited Ghosts Alison Lurie The Highboy Ray Bradbury Another Fine Mess Acknowledgments
SynopsisA new anthology of classic ghost stories--the second volume in the beautiful and collectible Pocket Classics format. The chilling classic stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. Revenge comes from beyond the grave in Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body-Snatcher," while visions of the dead come between the living in Henry James's "The Friends of the Friends." P. G. Wodehouse gives us a farcical take on the haunted house in "Honeysuckle Cottage," and in L. P. Hartley's "W.S.," a writer is fatally stalked by his own aggrieved creation. Here are ghosts of every stripe and intent in stories from writers as varied as Elizabeth Bowen and Jorge Luis Borges, Eudora Welty and Vladimir Nabokov, Ray Bradbury and Edith Wharton, among others. In the hands of these masters, the ghost story ranges far beyond mere horror to encompass comedy and tragedy, pathos and drama, and even a touch of poetry.
LC Classification NumberPR1309.G5G47 2008
