DOCSLIB.ORG

Twilight Stories Online

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Twilight Stories Online ZVuc2 (Download) Twilight Stories Online [ZVuc2.ebook] Twilight Stories Pdf Free Rhoda Broughton audiobook | *ebooks | Download PDF | ePub | DOC Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #10865011 in Books 2016-01-29Original language:English 9.61 x .19 x 6.69l, #File Name: 152375472984 pages | File size: 46.Mb Rhoda Broughton : Twilight Stories before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Twilight Stories: 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Be warned by your nightmares!By PattoPeople who scoff at ghosts and prophetic dreams may think better of it after reading Broughton's chilling Victorian tales.Rhoda Broughton has a wonderful talent for putting sensible, likeable people into scary situations. A correspondence between two lively matrons leads to tragedy in a haunted house. The night train to Paris threatens to end in murder. The nightmare of a child-like bride comes true. In fact, dreams have an almost Freudian weightiness in Broughton's stories, the lurking place of ghostly visitors and predators.There are just five pieces in this slender volume. But Broughton is a very fine prose stylist, and every story is a gem, rich in character development and psychological nuance. I also enjoyed the stories for their charming glimpses into bygone fashions and customs.The Victorians were fascinated by occult phenomena, and collections of weird tales like this one were immensely popular.Twilight Stories was originally published under the title Tales for Christmas Eve (1873). No doubt the holidays with their cozy family gatherings were ideal for reading terrifying tales out loud by the fire.Earlier the stories appeared in Temple Bar magazine, one of the leading literary magazines in Victorian London. Broughton's fiction held its own in company with works by Charles Dickens, Willie Collins and Mrs. Braddon.This edition of Twilight Stories is nicely produced by Victorian Secrets, a British publisher doing a great service by reviving forgotten Victorian literary treasures. The introduction by Emma Liggins is excellent.If you're like me, after you've devoured the usual Victorians, you want more. Rhoda Broughton is a delightful find.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A lot of old creepy funBy VRiddleI enjoyed reading creepy stories from older authors. Some of these authors, I remember from an anthology of stories I had in English. Nice to read with a cup of hot chocolate a fire crackling.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Excellent Victorian Ghost StoriesBy Matthew HeilmanI was particularly impressed with the five stories in this collection from 1873. "The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth" makes excellent use of the epistolary mode of storytelling. A series of witty letters exchanged between two society ladies gradually darkens to reach a creepy and shocking conclusion. This is without question one of the most deliberately ambiguous yet still satisfying ghost stories I've ever read. Aficionados of gothic fiction and fans of classic 'haunted house' stories will be very impressed with just how confidently Broughton 'drops the mic' at the story's conclusion. Her decision not to provide certain details might frustrate some readers but it makes the story all the more frightening and memorable as a result. A true masterpiece.I also very much enjoyed the subtle creepiness of "The Man With The Nose" (another effectively ambiguous tale) and the rather bitter ironic twist of "Behold It Was A Dream." "Poor Pretty Bobby" also stood out as a tender yet tragic story of young love with one very cool and chilling scene. The last of the five stories, "Under The Cloak," is not a supernatural tale but a clever and interesting story concerning an unforgettable late night journey by train.Broughton's prose is very readable and fast paced. She has a great gift for dialogue and her characters are well-developed and likable. There's plenty of subtle humor and wit in the stories but it is by no means disruptive. Her style seems more modern and I was surprised by how violent "Behold It Was A Dream" was for the 1870s. The setups and explorations of the supernatural are very effective. "Twilight Stories" is an absolute must read for fans of classic supernatural Victorian fiction.For completists, the edition edited by Marilyn Wood for Paul Watkins Publishing is the best choice if you want to add all of Broughton's ghost and mystery stories to you collection. There are 7 additional stories that were published in various periodicals after 1873. But if you're just after the very best of Broughton's ghost stories, the edition of "Twilight Stories" published by Victorian Secrets is the best option. Rhoda Broughton (29 November 1840 – 5 June 1920) was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. Her early novels earned her a reputation for sensationalism which caused her later and stronger work to be neglected by serious critics, though she was described as a queen of the circulating libraries. Somerset Maugham, in his short story "The Round Dozen" (1924, also known as "The Ardent Bigamist") observes: "I remember Miss Broughton telling me once that when she was young people said her books were fast and when she was old they said they were slow, and it was very hard since she had written exactly the same sort of book for forty years." Rhoda Broughton never married, and some critics assume that a disappointed attachment was the impulse that made her try her pen instead of some other literary work like that of Mrs. Thackeray Ritchie. Much of her life she spent with her sister Mrs. Eleanor Newcome until the latter's death in Richmond in 1895. She therefore somehow stands in the tradition of great lady novelists like Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen or Susan Ferrier. But there are other merits that cause her to be placed in such high company. In his article on her Richard C. Tobias calls her " the leading woman novelist in England between the death of George Eliot and the beginning of Virginia Woolf's career." He compares her work with other novelists of the time and concludes that hers reaches a much higher quality. Indeed her works of the 1890s and the early 20th century are fine novels and good fun to read. [ZVuc2.ebook] Twilight Stories By Rhoda Broughton PDF [ZVuc2.ebook] Twilight Stories By Rhoda Broughton Epub [ZVuc2.ebook] Twilight Stories By Rhoda Broughton Ebook [ZVuc2.ebook] Twilight Stories By Rhoda Broughton Rar [ZVuc2.ebook] Twilight Stories By Rhoda Broughton Zip [ZVuc2.ebook] Twilight Stories By Rhoda Broughton Read Online.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Teodor Mateoc Editor
    TEODOR MATEOC editor ------------------------------------------------ Cultural Texts and Contexts in the English Speaking World (V) Teodor Mateoc editor CULTURAL TEXTS AND CONTEXTS IN THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD (V) Editura Universităţii din Oradea 2017 Editor: TEODOR MATEOC Editorial Board: IOANA CISTELECAN MADALINA PANTEA GIULIA SUCIU EVA SZEKELY Advisory Board JOSE ANTONIO ALVAREZ AMOROS University of Alicante, Spaian ANDREI AVRAM University of Bucharest, Romania ROGER CRAIK University of Ohio, USA SILVIE CRINQUAND University of Bourgogne, France SEAN DARMODY Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland ANDRZEJ DOROBEK Instytut Neofilologii, Plock, Poland STANISLAV KOLAR University of Ostrava, Czech Republic ELISABETTA MARINO University Tor Vergata, Rome MIRCEA MIHAES Universitatea de Vest, Timisoara VIRGIL STANCIU Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca PAUL WILSON University of Lodz, Poland DANIELA FRANCESCA VIRDIS University of Cagliari, Italy INGRIDA ZINDZIUVIENE Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania Publisher The Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Letters University of Oradea ISSN 2067-5348 CONTENTS Introduction Cultural Texts and Contexts in the English Speaking World: The Fifth Edition ............................................................................. 9 I. BRITISH AND COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Adela Dumitrescu, Physiognomy of Fashion in Fiction: Jane Austen ..... 17 Elisabetta Marino, “Unmaidenly” Maidens: Rhoda Broughton’s Controversial Heroines ................................................ 23 Alexandru
    [Show full text]
  • How They Wrote About It in Novels: Emma Jocelyn's and Char Hankey's Literary Aspirations
    Young Aspiring Women Writers, Romantic Love and Disillusionment in Rhoda Broughton’s A Beginner (1894) and A Fool in her Folly (1920) Graziella Stringos Abstract Despite significant writing by women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it was in the nineteenth that fiction by women became extensive and widely published, prompting numerous – sometimes prejudiced – evaluations of their works. The popular writer Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920), herself subject to adverse and biased criticism, addresses the notion of female imagination and creativity and the Victorian conception of the female writer in her two novels, A Beginner (1894) and the posthumous A Fool in her Folly (1920). Broughton relates the arduous journey of young first-time writers, Emma Jocelyn and Charlotte Hankey respectively, and exposes the limited opportunities open to them in both the private and public spheres. Two novels focus on the two young heroines – women, lovers and writers – in such a way that initiation becomes a major site for the exploration of female consciousness and experience. The convergence of the fictive and the real in the two texts also serves to highlight the relevance of literature by women. This is achieved firstly through the juxtaposition of the two heroines’ vicissitudes with those of real women, including Broughton herself; secondly, through the heroines’ admiration for other women writers, particularly Charlotte and Emily Brontë and George Eliot; and thirdly, in the echoes of texts by women writers including Jane Austen and Anne Brontë. Contemporary society’s prejudice against unconventional women is confirmed but clearly not endorsed in the endings of the two texts.
    [Show full text]
  • Victorian Writers, Remembered & Forgotten
    University of South Carolina Scholar Commons Faculty Publications English Language and Literatures, Department of 10-2008 Victorian Writers, Remembered & Forgotten Patrick G. Scott University of South Carolina - Columbia, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/engl_facpub Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Publication Info 2008. (c) Patrick Scott, 2008 This Paper is brought to you by the English Language and Literatures, Department of at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. , Department of Rare Books & Special Collections VICTORIAN- WRITERS RentelDbered & F9rgotten . .. Mezzanine Exhibition Gallery~ Thomas Cooper Library . University of South Carolina October-November. 2008· FOREWORD This exhibition welcomed to the University the Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Victorians Institute, a two-day conference bringing to Columbia nearly a hundred Victorian scholars from the south-east and across the United States. So many of the great writers of the Victorian age are still well-known names that myriads of others get overlooked or neglected. The University of South Carolina's Department of Rare Books & Special Collections has first editions and even manuscript material from many of the best-remembered Victorian writers, but it also preserves the writings of others who are now almost forgotten. In some cases, such lesser-known items may be even rarer than long-sought-after first editions by the most famous names. The current exhibition juxtaposes work by major Victorians, such as Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot, with the work of some of these other · writers who deserve to be better-known.
    [Show full text]
  • A Beginner Macmillan's Two Shilling Library
    lA BROUGIfi"ON lERARY NIVE^v.^lTY or CAll ^^^^'T^^.-^^-^^^-Z.^ /^1e^^^^C'— Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/detajls/beginner00brourich A BEGINNER MACMILLAN'S TWO SHILLING LIBRARY. 1899. I. Rhoda Broughton. Cometh up as a Flower. Ready. 2. M » Grood-bye, Sweetheart! 3- Jessie Fothergill. Kith and Kin. 4- >> »» Probation. 5- Rhoda Broughton. Joan. 6. » » Not Wisely but Too Well. 7- Jessie Fothergill. Borderland. 8. )> >> Aldyth. 9- Rhoda Broughton. Red as a Rose is She. lO. „ „ Scylla or Charybdis? II. Mrs. Alexander. The Wooing o't. 12. >) >> Her Dearest Foe. 13- Rhoda Broughton. Belinda. 14. „ „ Doctor Cupid. 15- Le Fanu. Uncle Silas. 16. „ The House by the Churchyard 17- Rhoda Broughton. Second Thoughts. 18. »> >i A Beginner. 19. W. Clark Russell. Marooned. July x^th. 20. Mrs. Edwardes. Leah : A Woman of Fashion. ,, 21. Rhoda Broughton. Alas! July 2ith. 22. „ „ Mrs. Bligh. ,, 23- Montagu Williams . Leaves of a Life. August i^th. Between the Heather and) 24. Mary Linskill. " the Northern Sea. ) MACMILLAN and CO., Ltd., LONDON. A BEGINNER BY RHODA BROUGHTON author of 'good-bye, sweetheart!' 'nancy,' 'second thoughts/ etc. Hippolita. This is the silliest stufF that ever I heard. Theseus. The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited NEW YORK: : THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1899 First appeared in the 'Temple Bar' Magazine, 1893-94; First Edition, in wol., C7-ff7vn Zvo., 6s., April, 1894' Reprinted xZg^', Trans/erred to Macmillan &= Co., Ltd., August, i8q8 ; Reprinted, 2s., June, 1899.
    [Show full text]
  • Frances Cashel Hoey, 1830-1908: a Bibliography
    z.. f-'4- rv �b� ·E4- t q ?L­ { in this series : 4-, I Sarah Grand II Jessie Fothergill III Edmund Yates IV Indexes to Fiction in Time (1879-91), Murray's Magazine ( 1887-91), and The Quarto (1896-98) v Index to Fiction in The Lady's Realm VI Mary Cholmondeley VII Indexes to Fiction in Tinsley's Magazine I Forthcoming : The Rosa Pr aed Papers in the Oxley Memorial Library (Part 1) The Rosa Praed Papers in the Oxley Memorial Library (Part 2) Beatrice Harraden Index to Fiction in Pall Mall Magazine (1893-1914) Index to Fiction in Belgravia - Q . \�\�}�'l'��\\,�J\1�11\1QJW4V 41982 I8410.65.E - - ---- ·Y ' 1830-1908 CENG . --- ___,-o�-ro-;Q). E 419 8 2 MAHl ...... 13/09/83 FRANCES CASHEL HOEY 1830-1908 A BIBLIOGRAPHY compiled by P.D. Edwards Victorian Fiction Research Guides VIII Department of English University of Queensland I• �....... , t copyright © P. D . Edwards 1982 ISBN 0 86776 083 4 ISSN 015 3921 ! · � · , I Ill 1 '----·---{.){() _) 1933 fY7aA.Nu 2.. .?4-tO ; 6 b ·[4- Published by (9_!{2 Department of English ( University of Queensland St Lucia Australia 4067 VICTORIAN FICTION RESEARCH GUIDES Victorian Fiction Res earch Guides are issued by the Victorian Fiction Group within the Department of English, University of Queensland . The group concentrates on minor or lesser known writers active during the period from about 1860 to about 1910 . Among the writers we are presently working on are Victoria Cross, Mary and Jane Helen Findlater , Annie Hector , Annie Thomas , Morley Roberts , E.L. Voynich , Mary Linskill, Eliza Lynn Linton , Ethel M.
    [Show full text]
  • NINETEENTH-CENTURY GENDER STUDIES ISSUE 11.3 (WINTER 2015) Special Issue: Relations: Literary Marketplaces, Affects, and Bodi
    NINETEENTH-CENTURY GENDER STUDIES ISSUE 11.3 (WINTER 2015) Special Issue: Relations: Literary Marketplaces, Affects, and Bodies of 18th- and 19th-Century Women Writers Guest Edited by Julia Fuller, Meechal Hoffman, and Livia Arndal Woods “Ashamed of the Inkpot”: Virginia Woolf, Lucy Clifford, and the Literary Marketplace By Mary Jean Corbett, Miami University The literary and artistic world is so ordered that those who enter it have an interest in disinterestedness. —Pierre Bourdieu, “The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed” <1> Most critics working in the contested terrain of fin-de-siècle literary and cultural history would agree that Virginia Woolf’s essays, reviews, and first two novels diminished the achievements of both the male and female writers of that era. The version of literary history she knew—and, indeed, helped to construct—is far less varied, progressive, or inclusive than that constructed by scholars over the last several decades, in which the reaction against “Victorianism,” for instance, is seen to be already well under way at least a generation before the queen’s demise. Still, the motivating factors in this erasure have yet to be fully explored. It’s my belief that rethinking Woolf’s relationship to the immediate past in relation to new narratives about late-Victorian literary culture can lead us to new conclusions about where and how Woolf does or does not borrow from, resist, reframe, or reject the legacies of her precursors. As I’ve argued elsewhere, the active disavowal of what I call second-generation Victorian women writers, while certainly shaped in part by her familial context, is but one facet of Woolf’s broader and deeper drive to establish relations with an earlier, “greater” Victorian generation while bypassing an intermediate and, to her mind, imperfect one (Corbett).
    [Show full text]
  • VICTORIAN SENSATIONS H&F Fm 3Rd.Qxd 9/15/2006 4:30 PM Page Ii H&F Fm 3Rd.Qxd 9/15/2006 4:30 PM Page Iii
    H&F_fm_3rd.qxd 9/15/2006 4:30 PM Page i VICTORIAN SENSATIONS H&F_fm_3rd.qxd 9/15/2006 4:30 PM Page ii H&F_fm_3rd.qxd 9/15/2006 4:30 PM Page iii ᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑ VICTORIAN SENSATIONS ķ Essays on a Scandalous Genre EDITED BY Kimberly Harrison and Richard Fantina The Ohio State University Press Columbus ᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑ H&F_fm_3rd.qxd 9/15/2006 4:30 PM Page iv Copyright ©2006 by The Ohio State University Press. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Victorian sensations : essays on a scandalous genre / edited by Kimberly Harrison and Richard Fantina. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978–0-8142–1031–4 (alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0–8142–1031–7 (alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978–0-8142–9108–5 (cd-rom) ISBN-10: 0–8142–9108–2 (cd-rom) 1. English fiction—19th century—History and criticism. 2. Sensationalism in litera- ture. I. Harrison, Kimberly, 1969– II. Fantina, Richard. PR878.S44V53 2006 823'.809353—dc22 2006005531 Cover design by Laurence Nozik. Text design by Jennifer Shoffey Forsythe. Type set in Adobe Garamond by Jennifer Shoffey Forsythe. Printed by Thomson Shore, Inc. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48–1992. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 H&F_fm_3rd.qxd 9/15/2006 4:30 PM Page v ᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑᪑ CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Richard Fantina and Kimberly Harrison ix Part One Sensation: Genre, Textuality, and Reception 1.
    [Show full text]
  • Artist Failures in the Fiction of Henry James
    Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 1974 Artist Failures in the Fiction of Henry James Robert E. Terrill Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Terrill, Robert E., "Artist Failures in the Fiction of Henry James" (1974). Dissertations. 1441. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/1441 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 1974 Robert E. Terrill ARTIST FAILURES IN THE FICTION OF HENRY JAMES by Robert E. Terrill A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Loyola University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Mey 1974 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to thank the director of the dissertation, Dr. John Gerrietts, and the members of the committee, Dr. Joseph Wolff and Dr. Martin J. Svaglic. I also acknowledge the assistance of the staff of the E. M. Cudahy.Library in obtaining materials on inter­ library loan. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Page I. JAMES'S INTEREST IN THE FINE ARTS, ARTISTS, AND THE ISSUES OF AESTHETIC CONSCIOUSNESS •• 1 II. RODERICK HUDSON •• . 28 III. THE TRAGIC MUSE. • • • • • 76 IV. THE SACRED FOUNT • . 143 v. THE STORIES OF ARTISTS AND WRITERS • . 183 BIBLIOGRAPHY • .
    [Show full text]
  • Cambridge Companion Crime Fiction
    This page intentionally left blank The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the ‘detective’ fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime in film and on TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form. The collection, by an international team of established specialists, offers students invaluable reference material including a chronology and guides to further reading. The volume aims to ensure that its readers will be grounded in the history of crime fiction and its critical reception. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO CRIME FICTION MARTIN PRIESTMAN cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 2ru,UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521803991 © Cambridge University Press 2003 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the
    [Show full text]
  • Rhoda Broughton, Ouida, and Female Sexuality Caroline E
    Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Graduate Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2015 Anticipating the New Woman figure through subversions of feminine identity: Rhoda Broughton, Ouida, and female sexuality Caroline E. Martin Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Martin, Caroline E., "Anticipating the New Woman figure through subversions of feminine identity: Rhoda Broughton, Ouida, and female sexuality" (2015). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 14479. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/14479 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Anticipating the New Woman figure through subversions of feminine identity: Rhoda Broughton, Ouida, and female sexuality by Caroline E. Martin A thesis submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS Major: English (Literature) Program of Study Committee: Sean Grass, Major Professor Michèle Schaal Abby Dubisar Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2015 Copyright © Caroline E. Martin, 2015. All rights reserved. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ......................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Henry James's Europe
    Henry James’s Europe Heritage and Transfer Edited by Dennis Tredy, Annick Duperray and Adrian Harding OpenBook Publishers To access digital resources including: blog posts videos online appendices and to purchase copies of this book in: hardback paperback ebook editions Go to: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/72 Open Book Publishers is a non-profit independent initiative. We rely on sales and donations to continue publishing high-quality academic works. Dennis Tredy is a tenured associate professor (maître de conférences) at the University of Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle, where he teaches American Literature and Creative Writing. He has published numerous articles on the works of Henry James, Truman Capote and Vladimir Nabokov, and his doctoral thesis of 2002 dealt with The ‘Innocent Reflector’ and Its Function in the Works of Henry James’s ‘Experimental Period’. His most recent studies of Henry James have dealt with the reception of James’s work in Europe, with James’s reception of English and French authors, and with film adaptations of the works of James. Annick Duperray is Emeritus Professor of American Literature at the Université of Provence (Aix-Marseille Université). She is volume editor for two of the four volumes of the critical edition of Henry James’s Nouvelles complètes (Editions Gallimard/Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 2003). Her publications include an analytical study of Henry James’s tales, Echec et écriture : essai sur les nouvelles d’Henry James (1993) and a contribution to Henry James in Context (David McWhirter ed., Cambridge University Press, 2010). She also edited The Reception of Henry James in Europe (Continuum Books, 2006).
    [Show full text]
  • Download the Catalogue
    A DEDICATION COPY IN A PRESENTATION BINDING 1. BEARCROFT (Philip). An Historical Account of Thomas Sutton Esq; And of His Foundation in Charter- House. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Vertue, one double-page and one single-page plate. First Edition. 8vo. [229 x 142 x 31 mm]. xvi, 275, [1] pp. Bound in contemporary red goatskin, the covers tooled in gilt with a wide border of an insect roll between three fillets and an inner floral crested roll, with a lozenge-shaped centrepiece composed of a pair of crowns, floral tools, fleurons, drawer-handles, and pointillé scrolls. The spine divided into six panels with raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second on a green goatskin label, the others with small floral tools and scrolls, the edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with the gilt insect roll, marbled endleaves, gilt edges. (Joints cracked but firm, and rubbed, upper headcap chipped, tips of the corners worn). [ebc6655] London: printed by E. Owen, and sold by F. Gyles in Holborn; W. Hinchliffe in Cornhill; Mess. J. and P. Knapton in Ludgate-street; J. Stagg in Westminster-Hall; and S. Birt in Ave-Mary-Lane, 1737 £1000 A little dust-soiling at the head, but a very good copy, printed on thick paper and in a splendid, if somewhat worn, binding. The work was dedicated to the 16 Governors of the "Hospital of King James founded in Charter-House in the County of Middlesex", all of whom are listed. They include The Right Honourable William Earl of Dartmouth, and his bold ink signature "Dartmouth" appears opposite the Dedication leaf.
    [Show full text]