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Ghost Stories
Peter Washington
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Description for Ghost Stories
Hardcover. Tales about ghosts are as old as human culture itself but the ghost story as a distinguished literary form reached its apogee in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This collection of stories include comedy and tragedy, pathos, drama and poetry. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 128 x 30. Weight in Grams: 438.
Tales about ghosts are as old as human culture itself but the ghost story as a distinguished literary form reached its apogee in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As traditional religions declined in the West during those years, people looked for new ways of describing the spiritual realities explained by religion. The ghost story is a literary expression of this need, its rise corresponding to the growing popularity of Spiritualism. Ghost stories balance the increasingly powerful scientific materialism of the age with intimations that there are other orders of experience which we cannot define and only glimpse. ... Read more
Tales about ghosts are as old as human culture itself but the ghost story as a distinguished literary form reached its apogee in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As traditional religions declined in the West during those years, people looked for new ways of describing the spiritual realities explained by religion. The ghost story is a literary expression of this need, its rise corresponding to the growing popularity of Spiritualism. Ghost stories balance the increasingly powerful scientific materialism of the age with intimations that there are other orders of experience which we cannot define and only glimpse. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
500
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Series
Everyman's Library Pocket Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
500
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841596013
SKU
V9781841596013
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About Peter Washington
Peter Washington is General Editor of Everyman's Library. He is the editor of a number of anthologies in the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets series, including Love Poems, Erotic Poems, Prayers and Meditations, Poems of Food and Drink and Poems of Sleep and Dreams.
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