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  Reprinted Pieces - Essays from...

  Charles Dickens

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  Sketches, essays and half-fictions Dickens wrote for his own magazine and gathered afterwards: a walk through a London workhouse, a bill-sticker, a Christmas tree, the police at work, a schoolroom and a ghost story that is not one. The pieces were written to fill a weekly and read like a novelist thinking aloud between novels. A Christmas Tree and the detective-police pieces are the most anthologised, and the shabby-genteel ones are better. Thirty plates by painters including John Atkinson Grimshaw and Alfred Sisley follow Dickens through the London streets and river light his essays inhabit.

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  Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales -...

  Hans Christian Andersen

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  Two school series of Andersen in one volume: the fir tree, the ugly duckling, the steadfast tin soldier, Thumbelina, the snow queen, and in the second series the wild swans, the red shoes, the little mermaid, the swineherd and the emperor's new clothes. It was edited for American classrooms, with a pronouncing vocabulary of the Danish names at the end. Andersen wrote for adults as much as for children, and the sadness in the fir tree and the mermaid is left where he put it. Thirty-seven plates of northern coast and city, from Caspar David Friedrich to Vilhelm Hammershøi, give the tales the weather and the streets they came from.

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  Rome - A Priest's Manuscript on...

  Emile Zola

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  The priest of the Lourdes book goes to Rome with a manuscript on the Index, believing that the Church can be persuaded to stand with the poor, and spends three months in antechambers learning what the Vatican is. Zola went there himself in 1894 and asked for an audience with Leo XIII, which was refused. The city is drawn as an archaeology of power, and the audience with the Pope is the coldest scene he ever wrote. Fifty-seven plates, from Mantegna to Canaletto and Guardi, trace the cities of stone and water where the novel's power is enacted.

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  Death at 830 - From their pens...

  Christopher St. John Sprigg

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Christopher St John Sprigg.

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  In the Fire of the Forge - A...

  Georg Ebers

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  Nuremberg in 1281: a smith's forge, a knight, a girl of the patrician class, and an Emperor — Rudolph of Hapsburg — holding a diet in a city where the guilds and the old families are not speaking. Ebers found the medical papyrus that bears his name and dug in Egypt for years; the free imperial city here is reconstructed from charters, and the forge is not a metaphor. Fifty-four plates of castles and coastal fortifications, from Peel Castle to Windsor, by painters including Thomas Bardwell and Robert George Kelly, give the medieval world of the romance its visual counterpart.

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  A Book of Ghosts: 18

  Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, E....

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  "Unearthing the Final Shadows of a Victorian Master."
  
  For the true connoisseur of the macabre, the journey does not end with the well-known classics. Volume 18 of the A Book of Ghosts series represents the deep-strata of Sabine Baring-Gould's supernatural imagination. This volume is dedicated to the rare, the obscure, and the previously uncollected—stories that bridge the gap between his work as a folklorist, a priest, and a pioneer of English horror.
  
  The Scholar of the Supernatural: In this advanced volume, we see Baring-Gould at his most experimental. These selections move beyond the standard haunting to explore "The Archaeology of Terror"—where the horror is found in ancient artifacts, forgotten church records, and the dark corners of regional history. The prose here is steeped in the "Antiquarian Realism" that would later inspire the likes of M.R. James, focusing on the danger of intellectual curiosity and the physical weight of the past.
  
  A Collector's Essential: This volume is designed for those who seek to complete the definitive portrait of a Victorian polymath. It highlights Baring-Gould's unique ability to find the "unholy" within the "holy," using his deep knowledge of ecclesiastical history to craft scares that feel grounded in ancient truth.
  
  This archival edition is a must-have for scholars of Gothic literature, bibliophiles of the strange, and anyone dedicated to the preservation of classic British weird fiction.
  
  Complete the legacy. Buy "A Book of Ghosts: Volume 18" today and own a piece of supernatural history.

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