The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft - Rilegato

Lovecraft, H. P.

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ISBN 10: 0871404532 ISBN 13: 9780871404534

Casa editrice: Liveright Pub Corp, 2014

Riassunto

The New Annotated H. P. LovecraftIn this volume, Leslie S. Klinger reanimates Lovecraft with clarity and historical insight, charting the rise of the erstwhile pulp writer, whose rediscovery and reclamation into the literary canon can be compared only to that of Poe or Melville. Weaving together a broad base of existing scholarship with his own original insights, Klinger appends Lovecraft's uncanny oeuvre and Kafkaesque life story in a way that provides context and unlocks many of the secrets of his often cryptic body of work.Over the course of his career, Lovecraft—"the Copernicus of the horror story" (Fritz Leiber)—made a marked departure from the gothic style of his predecessors that focused mostly on ghosts, ghouls, and witches, instead crafting a vast mythos in which humanity is but a blissfully unaware speck in a cosmos shared by vast and ancient alien beings. One of the progenitors of "weird fiction," Lovecraft wrote stories suggesting that we share not just our reality but our planet, and even a common ancestry, with unspeakable, godlike creatures just one accidental revelation away from emerging from their epoch of hibernation and extinguishing both our individual sanity and entire civilization.The New Annotated Sherlock HolmesAt the Mountains of MadnessWeird TalesAstounding Stories

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"The actual book is as vivid as the stories themselves, and beautiful to boot, with its inky black cover and gold embossed tentacles. Perfect for anyone who enjoys exploring the outer regions of the imagination and guaranteed to give you the shivers on a cold winter's night." --Sarah Vine, Christmas Books 2014, Daily Mail

"Lovecraft will now garner increased critical attention because of Leslie S. Klinger's sumptuous The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. While Klinger has supplied a sensitive introductory overview of the writer and his legacy, as well as marginal notes (mainly identifying the historical elements in the twenty-two selected stories), the great attractiveness of this volume lies in its illustrations." --The Times Literary Supplement

"Annotator Les Klinger is the man you want to have by your side, as you explore the Lovecraftian Darkness."

--Neil Gaiman

"The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft, with its astonishingly informed and detailed notes and photographs, edited by Leslie S. Klinger, is a treasure trove for Lovecraft readers, for whom it will be an essential purchase. A pleasure to peruse, encyclopediac in its information, and deeply sympathetic with its subject."

--Joyce Carol Oates

L'autore:

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction. Leslie S. Klinger is the best-selling author of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, The New Annotated Dracula, and The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. Klinger is a practicing lawyer and a member of the Baker Street Irregulars. He lives in Malibu, California. Alan Moore is a magician and performer, and is widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. His seminal works include From Hell, V for Vendetta, and Watchmen, for which he won the Hugo Award. He was born in 1953 in Northampton, UK, and has lived there ever since.

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• Editore: Liveright Pub Corp
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0871404532
• ISBN 13: 9780871404534
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 852
• Redattore: Klinger Leslie S.