M R James

Four Ghost Stories

"'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'"; "An Episode of Cathedral History"; "Casting the Runes"; And "The Diary of Mr. Poynter"

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of four stories of the supernatural by early twentieth-century medievalist and antiquarian M. R. James, exemplifying how James redefined the ghost story and how his connection to academia, antiquities, and medievalism inspired and informed his fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penn State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 127mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 113g
• ISBN-13: 9780271078557
• ISBN-10: 0271078553
• Artikelnr.: 47116988

Autorenporträt

Montague Rhodes James authored four collections of ghost stories: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919), and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925). He was a provost of King's College, Cambridge, and Eton College, as well as a respected scholar of medievalism.