The Killer and the Slain: Large Print, Walpole Hugh

Автор: Horace Walpole
Название: The Castle of Otranto
ISBN: 0140437673 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140437676
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: With this title, Walpole established the Gothic as a literary form in England. It was first published as a scholarly translation from an ancient Italian text, a supernatural tale of a fatal prophecy set in the time of the crusades and one which inspired terror in its early readers.

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: The Golden Scarecrow: Large Print
ISBN: 1678405736 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781678405731
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 11490.00 T
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Описание: Like Jeremy this book is an exercise in entering into the minds/hearts of children, but has little else in common with that book. The premise is that children come into this world with a knowledge of the world they have left behind and a spiritual link to it through a companion just referred to as their Friend. Some adults are able to mature without losing their Friend and some children push him away when they are still small. It needs the heart of a child and a willingness to believe in things we can't see, but I think that if you are willing to give it a chance, The Golden Scarecrow will repay your effort.

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: All Souls` Night: Large Print
ISBN: 1650059205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781650059204
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 10330.00 T
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Описание: Walpole's third collection of short fiction, sixteen stories, including several of his best supernatural tales. Walpole's two strongest stories in the genre are Tarnhelm; or, The Death of My Uncle Robert, a strangely moving and poignant werewolf tale told from the point of view of a sensitive little boy; and The Silver Mask, the story of a middle-aged woman's fatal obsession with a sinister and beautiful young man. The Silver Mask is in fact, a masterpiece, a classic example of how a tale can be truly terrible and ghostly with no ghost and only the wispiest hint of the supernatural. Contents: The Whistle, The Silver Mask, The Staircase, A Carnation for an Old Man, Tarnhelm; or, The Death of my Uncle Robert, Mr. Oddy, Seashore Macabre. A Moment's Experience, Lilac, The Oldest Talland, The Little Ghost, Mrs. Lunt, Sentimental but True, Portrait in Shadow, The Snow, The Ruby Glass, Spanish Dusk

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: The Old Ladies: Large Print
ISBN: 1674035675 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781674035673
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Цена: 13780.00 T
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Описание: In an old rickety building on the rock above an old grass-grown square in the city of Polchester live three old ladies. The house was a windy, creaky, rain-bitten place where tthe ladies lived as tenants. One of the tenants, Miss Beringer, has a rather nervous personality but is befriended by a kindly neighbour named Mrs. Amorest. Soon, however, she meets the third tenant, a strange woman who takes an interest in her one treasured possession, an amber figurine. Although it is the morning of Christmas Eve, the mood in the house soon turns ominous, despite Mrs Amorest's best efforts to foster a festive spirit.

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: Jeremy at Crale: Large Print
ISBN: 1674616708 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781674616704
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 25280.00 T
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Описание: Walpole wrote horror novels that tended more towards the psychological rather than supernatural, with a brooding underlying mysticism. Among his important novels is the semi autobiographical series that includes Jeremy, Jeremy and Hamlet, and this volume, Jeremy at Crale. Jeremy at Crale is the third coming of age story published by Sir Hugh Walpole. Published to critical acclaim across the world, it quickly became a bestseller.

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: A Prayer for my Son: Large Print
ISBN: 1706903065 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781706903062
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 28730.00 T
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Описание: This belongs to the Man With The Red Hair Walpole, and is again a story of a sadist, in this instance a grandfather with an overweening ego and a thirst for a gratification of his sense of power. The boy's mother, his aunt, the boy himself are prey to his madness, and the story gathers momentum until they are forced to escape from the setting which gives him his power. It's a skilful build-up of atmosphere and suspense.-Kirkus Review.

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: Above the Dark Circus: Large Print
ISBN: 1674035586 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781674035581
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 14930.00 T
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Описание: Huge Walpole's thrilling adventure novel of the 1920s revolves around Piccadily Circus. Richard Gunn is an ex-soldier in trouble after the end of the Great War. Jobless and starving in Piccadilly Circus, he encounters his nemesis, Leroy Pengelly. From this encounter the secrets of their shared past start to unravel... A novel which combines elements of the horror and supernatural - at which Walpole was so skilled - with the puzzle element of the whodunnit - all wrapped up in one unsettling and uncanny whole.

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: A Prayer for my Son: Large Print
ISBN: 1674035594 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781674035598
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 19530.00 T
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Описание: My homeward course led up a long ascent, Where the road's watery surface, to the top Of that sharp rising, glittered to the moon And bore the semblance of another stream Stealing with silent lapse to join the brook That murmured in the vale. All else was still: No living thing appeared in earth or air, And, save the flowing water's peaceful voice, Sound there was none-but lo an uncouth shape...

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: Above the Dark Tumult: An Adventure: Large Print
ISBN: 1706662637 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781706662631
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 21830.00 T
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Описание: Huge Walpole's thrilling adventure novel of the 1920s revolves around Piccadily Circus. Richard Gunn is an ex-soldier in trouble after the end of the Great War. Jobless and starving in Piccadilly Circus, he encounters his nemesis, Leroy Pengelly. From this encounter the secrets of their shared past start to unravel... A novel which combines elements of the horror and supernatural - at which Walpole was so skilled - with the puzzle element of the whodunnit - all wrapped up in one unsettling and uncanny whole. Published in the US as Above the Dark Tumult.

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: The Old Ladies
ISBN: 1706695861 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781706695868
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 25280.00 T
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Описание: In an old rickety building on the rock above an old grass-grown square in the city of Polchester live three old ladies. The house was a windy, creaky, rain-bitten place where tthe ladies lived as tenants. One of the tenants, Miss Beringer, has a rather nervous personality but is befriended by a kindly neighbour named Mrs. Amorest. Soon, however, she meets the third tenant, a strange woman who takes an interest in her one treasured possession, an amber figurine. Although it is the morning of Christmas Eve, the mood in the house soon turns ominous, despite Mrs Amorest's best efforts to foster a festive spirit.

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: John Cornelius: His Life and Adventures: Large Print
ISBN: 1706891237 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781706891239
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 39070.00 T
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Описание: Walpole, as the biographer of the life of John Cornelius, wrote a long, first person narrative of the life of a genius who could never bring his world of dreams in tune with the world of reality for himself or for those who read his books, a writer who strove desperately to produce serious novels, and who died famous and acknowledged for three slim volumes of fairy tales. Walpole wrote romantically of a character whose life was never very real, and who could not find happiness, except at odd moments because of this gulf between him and the world.

Автор: Walpole Hugh
Название: The Killer and the Slain: Large Print
ISBN: 1674619308 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781674619309
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 20680.00 T
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Описание: As boys, Jimmie Tunstall was John Talbot's implacable foe, never ceasing to taunt, torment, and bully him. Years later, John is married and living in a small coastal town when he learns, much to his chagrin, that his old adversary has just moved to the same town. Before long the harassment begins anew until finally, driven to desperation, John murders his tormentor. Soon he starts to suffer from frightening hallucinations and his personality and physical appearance begin to alter, causing him increasingly to resemble the man he killed. Is it merely the psychological effect of his guilt, or is it the manifestation of something supernatural - and evil? The tension builds until the chilling final scene, when the horrifying truth will be revealed about the killer - and the slain.