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Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd, zzgl. Versandkosten.
The honour of founding the modern detective story belongs to an American writer. Such tales as The Purloined Letter and The Murders in the Rue Morgue still stand unrivalled. We in America no more than the world of letters at large, did not readily realize what Poe had done when he created Auguste Dupin - the prototype of Sherlock Holmes et genus omnes, up to the present hour. On Poe's work is built the whole school of French detective story writers. Conan Doyle derived his inspiration from them in turn, and our American writers of to-day are helped from both French and English sources. It is rare enough to find the detective in fiction even to-day, however, who is not lacking in one supreme quality, - scientific imagination. Auguste Dupin had it. Dickens, had he lived a short time longer, might have turned his genius in this direction. The last thing he wrote was the Mystery of Edwin Drood, the mystery of which is still unravelled. I have heard the opinion expressed by an eminent living writer that had Dickens' life been prolonged he would probably have become the greatest master of the detective story, except Poe. [...] The second part of the Masterpieces series containing a collection of detective stories. Includes narratives from Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle and others.

Lieferung aus: Schweiz, Lieferzeit: 2 Tage, zzgl. Versandkosten.
The ghost story is as old as human speech, and perhaps even antedates it. A naïve acceptance of the supernatural was unquestionably one of the primal attributes of human intelligence. The ghost story may thus quite conceivably be the first form of tale ever invented. It makes its appearance comparatively early in the annals of literature. Who that has read it is likely to forget Pliny's account in a letter to an intimate of an apparition shortly after death to a mutual acquaintance? Old books of tales and legends are full of the ghost story. It has persisted throughout the ages. It began to attain some real standing in literature, to take its definite place, a little more than a century ago. Like the apparition it embodies it had always been and is still to-day even more or less discredited. Mrs. Radcliffe gave it a new being and even a certain dignity in her "Castle of Otranto", and after her came Sir Walter Scott who frankly surrendered to the power and charm of the theme. The line of succession has been continuous. The ghost has held his own with his human fellow in fiction, and his tale has been told with increasing skill as the art of the writer has developed. [...]Anthology of mystic stories, containing narratives from Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson and many more.

Lieferung aus: Deutschland, Versandkostenfrei.
Masterpieces of Mystery: The ghost story is as old as human speech, and perhaps even antedates it. A naïve acceptance of the supernatural was unquestionably one of the primal attributes of human intelligence. The ghost story may thus quite conceivably be the first form of tale ever invented. It makes its appearance comparatively early in the annals of literature. Who that has read it is likely to forget Pliny`s account in a letter to an intimate of an apparition shortly after death to a mutual acquaintance Old books of tales and legends are full of the ghost story. It has persisted throughout the ages. It began to attain some real standing in literature, to take its definite place, a little more than a century ago. Like the apparition it embodies it had always been and is still to-day even more or less discredited. Mrs. Radcliffe gave it a new being and even a certain dignity in her `Castle of Otranto` and after her came Sir Walter Scott who frankly surrendered to the power and charm of the theme. The line of succession has been continuous. The ghost has held his own with his human fellow in fiction, and his tale has been told with increasing skill as the art of the writer has developed. [...]Anthology of mystic stories, containing narratives from Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson and many more. Englisch, Taschenbuch.

Lieferung aus: Deutschland, Versandkostenfrei.
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Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.

Lieferung aus: Deutschland, zzgl. Versandkosten, Sofort lieferbar.
Ghost Stories, Ghost Stories.

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