Автор: Machen Arthur Название: Collected Fiction Volume 2: 1896-1910 ISBN: 161498249X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781614982494 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4598.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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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 fa ade 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.
Автор: Machen Arthur Название: Collected Fiction Volume 1: 1888-1895 ISBN: 1614982481 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781614982487 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4598.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Welsh writer Arthur Machen (1863-1947) is one of the towering figures in the Golden Age of weird fiction, and his novels and tales have influenced generations of weird writers and remain immensely popular among readers. But much of his work has been difficult to obtain, remaining buried in obscure magazines and newspapers of a century ago or published in expensive limited editions.
This is the first edition of Machen's fiction to be based on a thorough examination of his manuscripts and early publications. It is also the first edition to arrange Machen's fiction chronologically by date of writing.
This first volume contains his charming picaresque novel The Chronicle of Clemendy (1888), an exquisite imitation of the medieval narratives of Chaucer and Boccaccio. At this time Machen was a young journalist who had moved from his native Wales to London, and he wrote a number of humorous and slightly risqu sketches for fashionable London magazines.
But then he published "The Great God Pan" (1894), one of the pioneering works in the entire range of weird fiction. It was condemned by contemporary reviewers as the work of a diseased mind. Machen followed it up with the episodic novel The Three Impostors (1895), containing the brilliant segments "The Novel of the Black Seal" (which features the Little People, a sub-human race lurking on the edges of civilization), "The Novel of the White Powder," and other vivid narratives.
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.
Автор: Machen, Arthur Название: The Great God Pan ISBN: 0241341124 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241341124 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1055.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 'I will not read it; I should never sleep again' A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong, and a series of increasingly strange events follow: sinister woodland rituals, disappearances, suicides... Viewed as immoral and decadent on first publication in 1894, Machen's weird tale has since established itself as a classic of its genre and has been described by Stephen King as 'one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language'.
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Автор: Arthur Machen Название: The White People and Other Weird Stories ISBN: 0143105590 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143105596 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offers an exercise in the bizarre leaving you disoriented and on edge. From the first page, the author turns even fundamental truths upside-down, as his character Ambrose explains, "there have been those who have sounded the very depths of sin, who all their lives have never done an `ill deed`" setting the stage for a tale entirely without logic.
Автор: Machen Arthur Название: The House of Souls ISBN: 1644393441 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644393444 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5449.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Four of Machen`s classic novellas (A Fragment of Life, The White People, The Great God Pan, and The Inmost Light) collected in one volume.
Автор: Machen Arthur Название: The Great God Pan ISBN: 1644393387 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644393383 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5449.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Machen Arthur Название: Great God Pan ISBN: 1497351197 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781497351196 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1205.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Machen Arthur Название: The House of Souls ISBN: 1644393433 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644393437 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3047.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Four of Machen`s classic novellas (A Fragment of Life, The White People, The Great God Pan, and The Inmost Light) collected in one volume.
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