The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Brossura

Lovecraft, H. P.

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ISBN 10: 0143106481 ISBN 13: 9780143106487

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2011

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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), 9780143106487

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H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived most of his life. Frequent illnesses in his youth disrupted his schooling, but Lovecraft gained a wide knowledge of many subjects through independent reading and study. He wrote many essays and poems early in his career, but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories, after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, to which he contributed most of his fiction. His relatively small corpus of fiction—three short novels and about sixty short stories—has nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field, and he is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction. H. P. Lovecraft died in Providence in 1937.

S. T. Joshi is a freelance writer and editor. He has edited Penguin Classics editions of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (1999), and The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (2001), as well as Algernon Blackwood’s Ancient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories (2002). Among his critical and biographical studies are The Weird Tale(1990), Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination (1995), H. P. Lovecraft: A Life(1996), and The Modern Weird Tale (2001). He has also edited works by Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, and H. L. Mencken, and is compiling a three-volume Encyclopedia of Supernatural Literature. He lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington.

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A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition with cover art by Travis Louie.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0143106481
• ISBN 13: 9780143106487
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Disegnatore: Louie Travis
• Numero di pagine: 448
• Redattore: Joshi S. T.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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