The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories write by Michael Cox. This book was released on 2008. The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The thrill and chill of the ghost story is displayed in all its variety and vitality through this marvellous anthology. Ranging from the early 19th century to the 1960s, the collection reveals the development of the genre, and showcases many of its greatest expositors - from Sir Walter Scott, H. G. Wells, M. R. James, T. H. White, Walter de la Mare, and Elizabeth Bowen in the UK to Edith Wharton in America. Though its heyday coincided with the golden age of Empire in the nineteenth century, the ghost story enjoyed a second flowering between the two World Wars and its popularity is as great as ever.
The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories write by Michael Cox. This book was released on 2003. The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.
The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories
The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories write by Dennis Pepper. This book was released on 2000. The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tells stories about all kinds of ghosts, including children, snooker-players, ventriloquist's dummies, and warriors.
Collected Ghost Stories
Collected Ghost Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Collected Ghost Stories write by Montague Rhodes James. This book was released on 2007. Collected Ghost Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M.R. James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge. His classic supernatural tales draw on the terrors of the everyday, in which documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings where imagination runs riot. Lonely country houses, remote inns, ancient churches or the manuscript collections of great libraries provide settings for unbearable menace, from creatures seeking retribution and harm. These stories have lost none of their power to unsettle and disturb. This edition presents all of James's published ghost stories, including the unforgettable 'Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad' and 'Casting the Runes', and an appendix of James's writings on the ghost story. Darryl Jones's introduction and notes provide a fascinating insight into James's background and his mastery of the genre he made his own. --! From publisher's description.
The Oxford Book of Exploration
The Oxford Book of Exploration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Book of Exploration write by Robin Hanbury-Tenison. This book was released on 2005. The Oxford Book of Exploration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Selected by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, whom the Sunday Times called the 'greatest explorer of the last twenty years', this is a comprehensive anthology of the writings of explorers through the ages, now fully revised and updated. The ultimate in travel writing, these are the words of those who changed the world through their pioneering search for new lands, new peoples, and new experiences. Divided into geographical sections, the book takes us to Asia with Vasco da Gama, Francis Younghusband, and Wilfred Thesiger, to the Americas with John Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, and Alexander Von Humboldt, to Africa with Dr David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley, to the Pacific with Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook, and to the Poles with Robert Peary and Wally Herbert. Driven by a desire to discover that transcends all other considerations, the vivid writings of these extraordinary people reveal what makes them go beyond the possible and earn the right to be known as explorers.
