Arthur Morrison

Gebundenes Buch

The Shadows Around Us

Beschreibung

The Shadows Around Us - Authentic Tales of the Supernatural The incidents set forth in the ensuing pages are as completely testified to as written facts well may be-that is to say, infinitely more care has been taken to verify and substantiate them than is taken to authenticate the matter-of-fact news published in a daily newspaper and accepted by everybody without question. For several of the cases the compiler is indebted to the investigations of the Society for Psychical Research. THE VAULT AT AHRENSBURG, THE LICHWAKE AT MONIFIETH, THE STRANGE EXPERIENCE OF MR. ROBERT BRUCE, THE WRAITH OF FRANCIS TANTUM, THE APPARITION OF LIEUTENANT COLT, THE STRANGE CASE OF ESTHER T--, THE POLTERGEIST OF LEIGNITZ CASTLE, THE BINSTEAD MYSTERY, THE TRANSLATION OF MAURICE TULLING, THE HAUNTED HOUSE AT WILLINGTON, NO. 15 ST. SWITHIN'S LANE, THE STRANGE CASE OF EMÉLIE SAGÉE, THE HAUNTING OF WILLIAM MOIR, CURIOUS INCIDENT AT BEAUMARIS, A DOUBLE CASE

Autor

English author and journalist Arthur Morrison (born 1 November 1863; died 4 December 1945) is best known for his realistic books, his depictions of working-class life in London's East End, and his Martin Hewitt-centered detective tales. Additionally, he authored various publications on Japanese art while collecting Japanese artwork. Through donations and purchases, the British Museum now holds a large portion of his collection. Morrison's novel A Child of the Jago is his most well-known piece of fiction (1896). Morrison published his first piece of significant journalism in the newspaper The Globe in 1885. He was hired in 1886 to a position at the People's Palace in Mile End after rising to the rank of the third-class clerk. He was granted reading privileges at the British Museum in 1888, and he went on to publish a series of 13 sketches titled Cockney Corner that chronicled daily life in a number of London neighborhoods, including Soho, Whitechapel, and Bow Street. Around 1,800 Japanese woodblock prints were given by Morrison to the British Museum in 1906.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu Press
• Seitenzahl: 118
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9781365205255
• ISBN-10: 1365205258
• Artikelnr.: 45514303