The Great God Pan And the Hill of Dreams - Brossura

Machen, Arthur

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ISBN 10: 0486443450 ISBN 13: 9780486443454

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2006

Riassunto

"Of creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few can hope to equal Arthur Machen."--H. P. Lovecraft
Arthur Machen (1863-1947), Welsh novelist and essayist, is considered one of the most important and influential writers of his time. While displaying a preoccupation with pagan themes and matters of the occult (an interest he shared with his close friend, the distinguished scholar A. E. Waite), his writing transcends the genre of supernatural horror. Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as Paul Bowles and Jorge Luis Borges are just a few of the literary notables who are counted among his admirers. Machen is also a key figure in the development of pulp magazine fiction (e.g, Weird Tales), a line of ancestry that leads directly to today's popular graphic novels. Further, Machen's name often crops up in the writings of theorists and practitioners of psychogeography, a school of thought and literature which explores the hidden links between the landscape and the mind.
In The Great God Pan, Arthur Machen delivers a tense atmospheric story about a string of mysterious suicides. With its suggestive visions of decadent sexuality, the work scandalized Victorian London. Lyrical and introspective, The Hill of Dreams established Machen as one of the great prose masters of the language. As a penetrating portrayal of the accursed artist, redolent with soulful longing and genteel decay, it ranks as a landmark work in English literature.

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Contenuti:

The Great God Pan Introduction by the Author I. The Experiment II. Mr. Clarke's Memoirs III. The City of Resurrections IV. The Discovery in Paul Street V. The Letter of Advice VI. The Suicides VII. The Encounter in Soho VIII. The Fragments The Hill of Dreams Introduction by the Author Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII

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Book by Machen Arthur

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0486443450
• ISBN 13: 9780486443454
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 236