9781614982494-161498249X-Collected Fiction Volume 2: 1896-1910

Collected Fiction Volume 2: 1896-1910

ISBN-13: 9781614982494
ISBN-10: 161498249X
Author: S T Joshi, Arthur Machen
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Hippocampus Press
Format: Paperback 542 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781614982494
ISBN-10: 161498249X
Author: S T Joshi, Arthur Machen
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Hippocampus Press
Format: Paperback 542 pages

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Collected Fiction Volume 2: 1896-1910 (ISBN-13: 9781614982494 and ISBN-10: 161498249X), written by authors S T Joshi, Arthur Machen, was published by Hippocampus Press in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Collected Fiction Volume 2: 1896-1910 (Paperback) 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 $2.29.

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This second volume of Machen’s collected fiction begins with Machen’s most accomplished novel, The Hill of Dreams (written in 1895–97 and published in 1907), which H. P. Lovecraft called a “memorable epic of the sensitive aesthetic mind.” It features Lucian Taylor, a young man from the country who struggles to become a writer in London. His ruminations on life, love, and authorship are extraordinarily poignant, and at one point he engages in a lengthy dream of being back in ancient Rome, in the town of Isca Silurum, near his birthplace in Wales.

Later in 1897 Machen wrote a series of exquisite prose poems that were later published as Ornaments in Jade (1924). These ten vignettes display Machen’s luminous prose at its most evocative, and they touch upon the possibility of strange and wondrous phenomena concealed behind the outward façade of the mundane world.

Machen’s most accomplished weird tale, “The White People,” is also found here. Its account of a young girl insidiously inculcated in the witch-cult, told entirely from her own perspective as she jots down her thoughts and impressions in a diary, achieves the pinnacle of clutching fear. A very different work is the short novel A Fragment of Life, telling of how a seemingly ordinary couple rediscover their sense of wonder in the world around them.

The novel The Secret Glory (written around 1907) is a discursive novel that searingly condemns the British school system for destroying the imaginations of its pupils. The entire work—including the final two chapters, first published only in a limited edition in 1992—is included here.

The edition has been prepared by S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on weird fiction and the author of The Weird Tale (1990) and Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012). Joshi has prepared textually corrected editions of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, and many other weird writers.

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