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By Firelight: A Guide to Speculative Fiction Before 1900 (Text Only Version)
By Firelight: A Guide to Speculative Fiction Before 1900 (Text Only Version)
By Firelight: A Guide to Speculative Fiction Before 1900 (Text Only Version)
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Those who read by candlelight in centuries past left us an embarrassment of riches in stories of ghosts, werewolves, and other spooks, of lost loves and lost worlds, and of the then new world of science. This book, with its one hundred spoiler-free reviews, is your guide to many of those old tales. It offers plot summaries, analyses, not-quite humble opinions, and short author biographies, all told in a lively and engaging style.
Beginning with Daniel Defoe’s 1705 “The Apparition of Mrs. Veal”—often called the first modern ghost story (it’s not)—and ending with John Buchan’s 1899 dreamy “The Far Islands,” the reader will find informative and thoughtful explorations of both familiar and less well-known works such as John Polidori’s “The Vampyre,” Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Wilhelm Hauff’s “The Severed Hand,” and Elizabeth Gaskell’s “The Grey Woman.”
For the reader curious about old-fashioned things going bump in the night, this collection provides an enjoyable directory

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Release dateApr 14, 2017
ISBN9781370746446
By Firelight: A Guide to Speculative Fiction Before 1900 (Text Only Version)
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Denise Longrie

Denise Longrie’s first foray into writing, undertaken at the age of seven, depicted the capture of a remarkably cooperative wild horse and displayed an equally remarkable disregard for the laws of physics. Her world has broadened since then and her respect for the laws of physics has come through experience, such as falling off flesh-and-blood horses.In college, she studied journalism in the days when students used contraptions called typewriters.Among her published work are several poems, appearing in small press periodicals. She has a self-published chapbook of poetry, Sotto Voce, and a self-published short story, Always Coming Home in which no one falls off a horse. She edited her mother’s memoires of immigration to the U.S. as teenager. A budding Esperantist, (saluton, nekonataj amikoj!), she is also currently working a retelling of the Sigurd/Siegfried myths, titled Siegfried Dragon Slayer.

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