A Reader of Curious Books: Early Work from the Pages of Walford's Antiquarian Magazine - Softcover

Machen, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798986390482

Verlag: Darkly Bright Press & Design, L. L. C., 2023

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The work displayed in A Reader of Curious Books paints an intellectual portrait of Arthur Machen as a young man. All of the writer's future themes and favorite subjects can be found in its pages: Christian history and liturgy, folklore, early man, the history of world literature, psychic phenomenon, orthodoxy versus heresy-to name only a few. For the certified bibliophile, a lover of literary exploration or the merely curious, a collection of this sort justifies itself. The archaic dispatches are both entertaining for the quality of the prose and interesting for the array of arcane subjects covered. The forgotten books reviewed in this collection become living characters with each title owing its existence to the simple suggestion that it does exist. In a sense, this lost bookshelf functions best as does the library of Don Quijote-a dusty chamber of the possibly dangerous, perhaps banal books which feed the imagination of man... that mad mammal.

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Arthur Machen (1863 - 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror (Stephen King has called it "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language"). He is also well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Darkly Bright Press & Design, L. L. C.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798986390482
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 150
• Herausgeber: Tompkins Christopher
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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