The Haunted House: Annotated Edition

ISBN-13: 9781847494337 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 160 str.

Charles Dickens

Opis

Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends over; on Twelfth Night he and his guests gather together, and relate the supernatural experiences they have had. The resulting ghost stories thrill, shock and amuse by turns.For this work, commissioned for his periodical All the Year Round, Dickens enlisted some of the era s most famous writers, including Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, to collaborate with him on this Victorian supernatural classic."

Recenzje

The Haunted House is of the utmost significance for anyone interested in exploring the genius of Charles Dickens. Peter Ackroyd

O autorze

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was an English writer, generally considered to be the greatest novelist of the Victorian period and responsible for some of English literature's most iconic novels and characters. He continues to be one of the best-known and most read of English authors, with multiple adaptations of his work frequently being produced.