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| Title | : | The Beleagured City: and Other Tales of the Seen and the Unseen (Canongate Classics) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.61 (538 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1841950602 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 420 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-21 |
| Language | : | English |
"Like Henry James? Try these." according to Stephen Constantelos. I've seen individual stories from this collection reviewed here, so I'm writing here to recommend this compilation which has a good introduction and a few helpful explanatory notes. I read the whole collection some years ago and just re-read three of my favorites, The Open Door, Earthbound, and The Beleaguered City.If you happen to enjoy ghost stories--alluringly called "Tales of the Seen and Unseen" by Oliphant, she uses these words in the text intermittently to excellent effect--where there is much more atmosphere and character than plot,
Haunted by a sense that the living and the dead are separated by no more than a narrow and disputed borderland, the tales that Margaret Oliphant liked to call her "stories of the seen and the unseen" are now recognized as among the most remarkable explorations of the supernatural to appear in Victorian times. Edited and introduced by Jenni Calder.. A prolific writer with many novels to her name, Margaret Oliphant could produce her few supernatural tales "only when they came to me." And they came with the twilight uncertainties and the philosophical depth of The Library Window, or with the extraordinary vision of purgatory imagined as modern city life mixed with metaphysical terror in The Land of Darkness or in A Beleaguered City, her extraordinary short novel of the returning dead. Like the old Scottish ballads where the dead and the living rub shoulders, these remarkable tales are among Oliphant's finest work, mixing the subtlety of Henry James with the uncanny strangeness of George MacDonald or David Lindsay
Margaret Oliphant was a prolific writer with many novels to her name.
About the AuthorMargaret Oliphant was a prolific writer with many novels to her name.
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