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    Ghost Stories
    Ghost Stories
    Ghost Stories
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    Ghost Stories

    By Charles Dickens

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    Frighteningly believable, spine-tingling stories of prophetic dreams and visions, as well as more fantastical adventures with goblins and apparitions. These short works display the imagination of a master storyteller given free rein.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSovereign
    Release dateNov 15, 2012
    ISBN9781909438071
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    Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

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      `Is it haunted,' I asked .....`Well,' cried the landlord, in an outburst of frankness that had the appearance of desperation - `I wouldn't sleep in it.' Ghost Stories (Collector's Library) throughout Charles Dickens career he often turn his hand to writing short pieces of ghostly fiction traditionally during Christmas. This beautiful book collector's edition is an enchanting way to renew or form a relationship with this author's works. The books small around A5 in size, well made with red cloth and then paper cover, gold page edges and a fine paper and print. Illustration inside are selected originals. We have a mix of stories here from his first successful pieces of work from the Pickwick Papers you will find five ghost stories all are included in this collection. Other stories some remain chilling but not all. For me the shortest of stories were the ones I loved the most, but Dickens usual traits are everywhere, style, wit, biting irony, humorous incidents and moral observation keeping them all entertaining and some creepy in just the right places. Stand outs for me The Madman's Manuscript, The Ghost in the Bride's Chamber, The Trail for Murder and The Signalman. Short Stories with a helpful short summary below of what to expect. The Queer Chair - From The Pickwick Papers - Humours Story of nightmare elements. A Madman's Manuscript - Loved this, ten pages of madness - From The Pickwick Papers The Goblins who Stole a Sexton - From The Pickwick Papers - Feels like an early draft of A Christmas Carol. Goblins in their lair. The Ghosts of the Mail - From The Pickwick Papers - Fantasy time-travel and adventure Baron Koeldwetout's Apparition - An excerpt from Nicholas Nickleby The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain - It is the fifth and last of Dickens' Christmas novellas. Dickens again playing around with elements that later went into A Christmas Carol. To be Read at Dusk - two part tale, one a supernatural riddle, the other deals with the warning spirit of a twin brother. The Ghost in the Bride's Chamber - from the lazy tour of two idle apprentices - a story about a ghost that is doomed to walk the earth for evermore. The Haunted House - Dickens invites a group of authors to stay in a haunted house. Two stories by Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell penned a story in Dickens style but its not here. The Trial for Murder - (a. k. a. "To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt") Revenge from beyond the Grave. The Signalman - Dickens wrote this tale, also known as "No. 1 Branch Line, the Signalman," after being himself involved in a train wreck in which he (and, apparently, his mistress) narrowly escaped injury - an incident that haunted him for the rest of his life. Christmas Ghosts - Light-heart and festive the author summarises his favourite stories. The Lawyer and the Ghosts - Dickens has fun with the notions of ghosts, irony by raising the question. Four Ghost Stories - A Quartet ;D The Portrait-Painter's Story - They say art should imitate life, strange one this! Andrea Bowhill

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