May Sinclair was an innovator of modern fiction, a late Victorian who was also a precursor to Virginia Woolf. In her Uncanny Stories (1923), Sinclair combines the traditional ghost story with the discoveries of Freud and Einstein. The stories shock, enthral, delight and unsettle. Two lovers are doomed to repeat their empty affair for the rest of eternity...A female telepath is forced to face the consequences of her actions...The victim of a violent murder has the last laugh on his assailant...An amateur philosopher ...
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May Sinclair was an innovator of modern fiction, a late Victorian who was also a precursor to Virginia Woolf. In her Uncanny Stories (1923), Sinclair combines the traditional ghost story with the discoveries of Freud and Einstein. The stories shock, enthral, delight and unsettle. Two lovers are doomed to repeat their empty affair for the rest of eternity...A female telepath is forced to face the consequences of her actions...The victim of a violent murder has the last laugh on his assailant...An amateur philosopher discovers that there is more to Heaven than meets the eye. Specially included in this volume is 'The Intercessor' (1911), Sinclair's powerful story of childhood and abandoned love, a tale whose intensity compares with that of the Brontes.
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Acceptable. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. First edition. Sm 8vo Hardcover. 362pp. B/W illustrations. Good book and no dust jacket. Covers slightly soiled and edgworn. Spine lightly sunned. Page edges toned. From the collection of Charles Edward Roberts, owner and founder of Wonder Book & Video. With his signature on his personalized bookplate on front pastedown. (ghost stories, english, detective and mystery fiction, mystery and detective fiction, great britain ) Inquire if you need further information.
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NEAR FINE WITHOUT D.J. ILLUSTRATED BY JEAN DE BOSSCHERE. PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BURGANDY CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT TITLES TO THE SPINE. OTHER THAN SOME MODEST SURFACE RUB AT THE CORNERS AND SPINE ENDS AN EXCELLENT CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY OF THIS CLASSIC SET OF SUPERNATURAL STORIES.
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Very Good. 1923. Cloth, 12mo, 247 pp, followed by 40 page publisher's catalog for Autumn 1923. 21 illustrations by Jean de Bosschere. Boards are scuffed, with some spotting and discoloration. Corners bumped with light fraying. Spine is slightly discolored with small tear at head. Book dealers sticker on front pastedown. Toning to edges of block. Pages toned as well, but are mostly clean with a few spots of foxing. Sound binding. Very Good, overall. (Subject: Literature. )
