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The Lock And Key Library: Classic Mystery And Detective Stories - Modern English

by Julian Hawthorne (Editor)

2020-06-23 18:21:38

Contains various narratives from Rudyard Kipling, Wilkie Collins, and many others. Originally published in 1909......... Somewhere in the Other World, where there are books and pictures and plays and shop windows to look at, and thousands of men who ... Read more
Contains various narratives from Rudyard Kipling, Wilkie Collins, and many others. Originally published in 1909......... Somewhere in the Other World, where there are books and pictures and plays and shop windows to look at, and thousands of men who spend their lives in building up all four, lives a gentleman who writes real stories about the real insides of people; and his name is Mr. Walter Besant. But he will insist upon treating his ghosts—he has published half a workshop full of them—with levity. He makes his ghost-seers talk familiarly, and, in some cases, flirt outrageously, with the phantoms. You may treat anything, from a Viceroy to a Vernacular Paper, with levity; but you must behave reverently toward a ghost, and particularly an Indian one. Less

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File size664.037 KB
Print pages360
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9783867413602
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Julian Hawthorne
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Julian Hawthorne was the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He wrote poetry, novels, non-fiction, a series of crime novels based on the memoirs of New York's Inspector Byrnes, and edited several collections ...

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