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"Ackroyd's tales of ghosts are all the more touching for the common humanity of the awestricken witnesses - labourers and vicars, nurses and seamstresses - striving to describe the indescribable. Funny, bizarre and frightening by turns, this is a rich and compelling assembly of stories for winter nights." (Rebecca Stott New Statesman)
"Ackroyd remains a spectral presence throughout, appearing now and then to introduce a story" (Edward King Sunday Times)
"To spend time with this compact, handsome volume in the darkening nights of autumn is to lay oneself open to feelings of persistent disquiet...It represents Ackroyd's latest exploration of interests that have dominated his professional life: the weird, promiscuous mingling of present, past and future which he perceives to be threaded through human existence." (Jonathan Barnes TLS)
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The English, Peter Ackroyd tells us in this fascinating collection, see more ghosts than any other nation. Each region has its own particular spirits, from the Celtic ghosts of Cornwall to the dobies and boggarts of the north. Some speak and some are silent, some smell of old leather, others of fragrant thyme. From medieval times to today, stories have been told and apparitions seen - ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace, spooks who just want to have fun.
The English Ghost is a treasury of such sightings - which we can believe or not, as we will. The accounts, packed with eerie detail, range from the door-slamming, shrieking ghost of Hinton Manor in the 1760s and the moaning child that terrified Wordsworth's nephew at Cambridge, to the headless bear of Kidderminster, the violent daemon of Devon who tried to strangle a man with his cravat and the modern-day hitchhikers on Blue Bell Hill. Comical and scary, like all good ghost stories, these curious incidents also plumb the depths of the English psyche in its yearnings for justice, freedom and love.
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- VerlagChatto & Windus
- Erscheinungsdatum2010
- ISBN 10 0701169893
- ISBN 13 9780701169893
- EinbandTapa dura
- SpracheEnglisch
- Anzahl der Seiten288
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