9780192141637-0192141635-The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories

The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories

ISBN-13: 9780192141637
ISBN-10: 0192141635
Author: Michael Cox, R.A. Gilbert
Publication date: 1987
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 504 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780192141637
ISBN-10: 0192141635
Author: Michael Cox, R.A. Gilbert
Publication date: 1987
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 504 pages

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The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories (ISBN-13: 9780192141637 and ISBN-10: 0192141635), written by authors Michael Cox, R.A. Gilbert, was published by Oxford University Press in 1987. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.96.

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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).

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