Ghost Stories of an Antiquary — M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
Topics: класика
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by M. R. James
These stories are dedicated to all those who at various times have listened to them.
Contents
Canon Alberic’s Scrap-book Lost Hearts The Mezzotint The Ash-tree Number 13 Count Magnus “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
If anyone is curious about my local settings, let it be recorded that St Bertrand de Comminges and Viborg are real places: that in “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You” I had Felixstowe in mind. As for the fragments of ostensible erudition which are scattered about my pages, hardly anything in them is not pure invention; there never was, naturally, any such book as that which I quote in “The Treasure of Abbot Thomas”. “Canon…
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