Ghost Stories
$14.99
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
18 June 2018
Summary
Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series
‘Still as the night was, the mysterious population of the distant moonlit woods was not yet lulled to rest’
The aim of a good ghost story is to make the blood freeze, pleasurably, and this M. R. James achieves to perfection in these wonderful stories. His most atmospheric settings include English country houses and gardens, the north end of the churchyard, the yew-maze in ‘Mr Humphreys and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241341629 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241341620 |
| Author: | M.R. James |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 18 June 2018 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 18mm |
| Series: | The Penguin English Library |
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About The Author
M.R. James
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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