High Spirits [antikvár]

HOW THE HIGH SPIRITS CAME ABOUT A Chapter of Autobiography Ghost stories came into my life before I could read. How well I remember the first one; it was at a party given by my parents, and it was not yet time for me to go to bed, because I remember that the sun was sinking outside the windows, and as the guests ate tulip jellies—they were streaked red and yellow and topped with whipped cream of a deliciousness that seems to have departed from the earth—Mrs. Currie told the strange tale of the Disappearance of Oliver Lurch. He was a farm youth in Kentucky who had gone out one night from a gathering just like ours, to fetch some wood for the fire, had not returned and when the others went to seek him he could be heard calling from the sky, 'Here I am! Here I am! Help me! I am Oliver Lurch!' The cries became fainter and fainter, and Oliver was heard and seen no more. There were those who said he had been carried off by a great eagle but—a grown man? What sort of eagle was that? It must have been Something Else. I fell asleep that night fearing the Mighty Clutch. And since then I have always felt that any party would be the better for a ghost story. The first uncanny tale I read, when I was ten, was Frankenstein, which terrified me unforgettably and gloriously. None of the film versions, in my opinion, comes near the effect Mary Shelley produces by her special quality of prose. A story in this collection. The Cat That Went To Trinity, obviously owes much to this favourite of mine, and although it is far from serious, it is not meant to be derisive of the great original. No disrespect toward serious spectres is intended herein. Although I have read tales of ghosts and the supernatural eagerly all my life I never thought of writing one until I went to Massey College in the University of Toronto, in 1963. The college had a Christmas ;

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Cím: High Spirits [antikvár]

Szerző: Robertson Davies

Kiadó: Penguin Books Ltd

Kötés: Ragasztott papírkötés

ISBN: 0140065059

Méret: 130 mm x 200 mm

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