| A Fragment of Life by Arthur Machen, Fiction, Classics, Literary, Horror Contributor(s): Machen, Arthur (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598181599 ISBN-13: 9781598181593 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: All day long a fierce and heavy heat had brooded Over the City, and as Darnell neared home he saw the mist lying on all the damp lowlands, wreathed in coils about Bedford Park to the south, and mounting to the West, so that the tower of Acton Church loomed out of a grey lake. He lived in the grey phantasmal world, akin to death, that has, somehow, with most of us, made good its claim to be called life. But so went forth Darnell, strangely mistaking death for life, madness for sanity, and purposeless and wandering phantoms for true beings. He was sincerely of opinion that he was a City clerk, living in Shepherd's Bush -- having forgotten the mysteries and the far-shining glories of the kingdom which was his by legitimate inheritance. . . . |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Horror - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.70 lbs) 120 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Machen, Arthur: - "Arthur Machen (1863 - 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror (Stephen King has called it "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language"). He is also well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons." |