Download or read book 7 best short stories by Hugh Walpole written by Hugh Walpole and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Walpole's skill at scene-setting and vivid plots, as well as his high profile as a lecturer, brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. Walpole sought critical as well as financial success, and longed to write works that equalled those of Trollope, Thomas Hardy and Henry James. He was a good friend of Virginia Woolf, and rated her as an influence; she praised his gift for seizing on telling detail: "it is no disparagement to a writer to say that his gift is for the small things rather than for the large ... If you are faithful with the details the large effects will grow inevitably out of those very details". Joseph Conrad said of him, "We see Mr. Walpole grappling with the truth of things spiritual and material with his characteristic earnestness, and we can discern the characteristics of this acute and sympathetic explorer of human nature." Check out this seven short stories by this author carefully selected by critic August Nemo: - The Whistle. - The Silver Mask - The Staircase. - A carnation for an old man. - Tarnhelm - Mr. Oddy. - Seashore Macabre.
Download or read book Fortitude Being a True and Faithful Account of the Education of an Adventurer written by Hugh Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 7 best short stories Ghost Stories written by Sheridan Le Fanu and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the book series 7 best short stories specials, selection dedicated to a special subject, featuring works by noteworthy authors. The texts were chosen based on their relevance, renown and interest. This edition is dedicated to ghost stories. The critic Augst Nemo brings seven tales with tormented souls that will make you shiver: - An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House by Sheridan le Fanu. - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell. - A Warning to the Curious by M. R. James. - Nightmare-Touch by Lafcadio Hearn. - The Furnished Room by O. Henry. - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling. - The Open Window by Saki Bonus: Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft.
Download or read book Tarnhelm written by Hugh Walpole and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hugh Walpole Collection Novels written by Hugh Walpole and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, (1884 - 1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s, but has been largely neglected since his death. Between 1909 and 1941 he wrote thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two original plays and three volumes of memoirs. In the 1920s and 1930s Walpole was much in demand not only as a novelist but also as a lecturer on literature, making four exceptionally well-paid tours of North America. In this book: The Cathedral, 1922 Jeremy, 1919 The Dark Forest, 1916 The Secret City, 1919 The Golden Scarecrow, 1915
Download or read book The Old Ladies written by Hugh Walpole and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage book contains Hugh Walpole's 1924 novel, "The Old Ladies". This book was written whilst Walpole was staying with his parents in Switzerland. It was begun without much prior thought, and served as a welcome break from another book he had been writing by which he had been utterly absorbed. Inspired by a peculiar old lady encountered by Walpole in Switzerland, this sinister and engrossing tale will appeal to fans of eerie literature, and will be of special interest to collectors of Walpole's masterful work. The chapters of this book include: "Mrs. Amorest Pays a Visit", "Evening in the House - Agatha Payne", "Life of May Beringer", "Red Amber", "Christmas Eve - Polchester Winter Piece", "Agatha Secretly", "Death of Hopes", "May Beringer Tries to Escape", etcetera. Many texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.
Download or read book Wintersmoon written by Hugh Walpole and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walpole wrote horror novels that tended more towards the psychological rather than supernatural, with a brooding underlying mysticism. Wintersmoon begins: I am asking you again to marry me as I did a fortnight ago. Janet Grandison turned towards him and said: Yes. You've been very honest. I believe, he said, honesty to be the only thing for us. From the beginning I have always known that you valued that-honesty I mean-more perhaps than anything. I value it too. She smiled. I believe you do. But we all do. We make a fetish of it. It seems to me sometimes almost the only good thing that has survived the war.
Download or read book All Souls Night written by Hugh Walpole and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "All Souls' Night" by Hugh Walpole. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Hugh Walpole Best Novels written by Hugh Walpole and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, (1884 - 1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s, but has been largely neglected since his death. Between 1909 and 1941 he wrote thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two original plays and three volumes of memoirs. In the 1920s and 1930s Walpole was much in demand not only as a novelist but also as a lecturer on literature, making four exceptionally well-paid tours of North America. In this book: The Cathedral, 1922 Jeremy, 1919 The Dark Forest, 1916
Download or read book The Silver Thron a Book of Stories by Hugh Walpole written by Hugh Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Cornelius written by Hugh Walpole and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-23 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walpole, as the biographer of the life of John Cornelius, wrote a long, first person narrative of the life of a genius who could never bring his world of dreams in tune with the world of reality for himself or for those who read his books, a writer who strove desperately to produce serious novels, and who died famous and acknoledged for three slim volumes of fairy tales. Walpole wrote remantically of a character whose life was never very real, and who could not find happiness, except at odd moments because of this gulf between him and the world. Walpole's romantic flights have realistic intermission to temper them.
Download or read book The Door in the Hedge written by Robin McKinley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ensorcelled princesses to a frog that speaks, an enchanting collection of fairy tales from the Newbery Medal–winning author. The last mortal kingdom before the unmeasured sweep of Faerieland begins has at best held an uneasy truce with its unpredictable neighbor. There is nothing to show a boundary, at least on the mortal side of it; and if any ordinary human creature ever saw a faerie—or at any rate recognized one—it was never mentioned; but the existence of the boundary and of faeries beyond it is never in doubt either. So begins “The Stolen Princess,” the first story of this collection, about the meeting between the human princess Linadel and the faerie prince Donathor. “The Princess and the Frog” concerns Rana and her unexpected alliance with a small, green, flipper-footed denizen of a pond in the palace gardens. “The Hunting of the Hind” tells of a princess who has bewitched her beloved brother, hoping to beg some magic of cure, for her brother is dying, and the last tale is a retelling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses in which an old soldier discovers, with a little help from a lavender-eyed witch, the surprising truth about where the princesses dance their shoes to tatters every night.
Download or read book The Islington Mystery written by Arthur Machen and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Islington Mystery” is a classic horror mystery story by one of the modern masters of supernatural and horror fiction, Arthur Machan. Arthur Machen (1863 – 1947) was a Welsh author and renowned mystic during the 1890s and early 20th century who garnered literary acclaim for his contributions to the supernatural, horror, and fantasy fiction genres. His seminal novella “The Great God Pan” (1890) has become a classic of horror fiction, with Stephen King describing it as one of the best horror stories ever written in the English language. Other notable fans of his gruesome tales include William Butler Yeats and Arthur Conan Doyle; and his work has been compared to that of Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Oscar Wilde. This chilling tale of inexplicable circumstances in London's borough of Islington is highly recommended for fans of the macabre and is not to be missed by collectors of vintage supernatural fiction. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Download or read book The Best Short Stories of and the Yearbook of the American Short Story written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library Review written by Robert Duncan Macleod and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Best Short Stories written by Martha Foley and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1926 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Yearbook of the American short story, 1978-1980.
Download or read book The Novels of Hugh Walpole written by Hugh Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
