The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral: M.R. James (Penguin Archive) - Softcover

James, M. R.

 
9780241746745: The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral: M.R. James (Penguin Archive)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241746744 ISBN 13: 9780241746745
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2025

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There are many great English ghost stories, but they appear flimsy and emotionally spectral compared to the works of M.R. James. This selection gives the reader a flavour of his strange gifts. Often, the ghost is barely glimpsed and yet somehow sticks with the reader for years, making ordinary rooms or gardens or churches uncanny and threatening. Is that the kitchen cat? And what is it that terrible thing stalking about in the dolls’ house?

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M. R. James, the bookish and precocious son of a curate, was born in Kent in 1862. He studied at Cambridge and remained there for most of his life, becoming director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Provost of King's College and later Vice-Chancellor of the university. A brilliant scholar, he translated the New Testament apocrypha and catalogued many of the university's medieval manuscripts. His first story collection, based on stories he read aloud to friends on Christmas Eve, was published in 1904 as Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and was followed by three more. He died in 1936.

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There are many great English ghost stories, but they appear flimsy and emotionally spectral compared to the works of M.R. James. This selection gives the reader a flavour of his strange gifts. Often, the ghost is barely glimpsed and yet somehow sticks with the reader for years, making ordinary rooms or gardens or churches uncanny and threatening. Is that the kitchen cat? And what is it that terrible thing stalking about in the dolls’ house?

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241746744
ISBN 13 
9780241746745
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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