The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy From the Master of the Morbid Imagination - Brossura

Bennett, Arnold

Brossura

ISBN 10: 149496452X ISBN 13: 9781494964528

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Riassunto

“It is said by some authorities to be the best ghost story that has appeared since Bulwer Lytton’s ‘House of the Brain.’ The novel is a love story as well as a ghost story, and it has a good complicated plot in the course of which things happen with all that variety and frequency which is a ghost is able to devise.” -The New York Times

“”An exciting story of opera singers and railway accidents and channel-boat disasters and trapdoors and revenge and jealousy that is strong enough to be carried beyond death, and of love that triumphs even over such fatal jealousy.” –Book Review Digest

“Whether his mood be fantastic or serious, his work is always first-class, and though his output is enormous, signs of haste are never apparent in the writing or construction.” -Academy

When Carl Foster, a young doctor, sees beautiful Rosetta Rosa at a London opera he is instantly captivated -- and almost as rapidly finds himself plagued by mysterious occurrences. When another of Rosa's paramours un-expectedly dies, Carl begins to wonder if her glamour carries a deadly curse.

First published in 1907, "The Ghost" was the first of the many 'fantasias on modern times' written by Arnold Bennett. These illustrated his ability to produce not only realistic novels, perfected in his portrayals of provincial English life set in the Staffordshire scenery of his childhood, but also more 'sensational' stories, written after his move to London where he developed a far more cosmopolitan interest. A supernatural story, "The Ghost" tells the tale of a beautiful opera star, Rosetta Rosa, whose beauty seems to cast a spell upon all those who meet her. When Carl Foster, a young doctor, sees Rosa at a London opera, and is instantly captivated, he soon finds himself plagued by mysterious happenings, and begins to see a malignant, spectral figure everywhere he turns. When another man enraptured by Rosa mysteriously dies, Carl begins to wonder whether loving her could bring with it a deadly curse ...Moving between London and Paris, this fast-paced story draws the reader into a ghostly world of twists, turns, drama and suspense.

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L'autore:

Arnold Bennett was a playwright, essayist, critic and journalist. Born in Hanley, Stoke on Trent, and the eldest child of a pawnbroker who had bettered himself and become a solicitor. He became a solicitors clerk at frist in his father's office, and from 1889 in London. He joined the staff of Woman magazine and later became editor. His first novel to be published, A Man From the North appeared in 1898. He went on to write is famous Five Towns Novels, but never returned to the Potteries of his birth. He died on 27 March 1931 from typhoid shortly after a visit to France.

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 149496452X
• ISBN 13: 9781494964528
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 238