The English Ghost
Spectres through Time
(Sprache: Englisch)
Die Engländer, so Peter Ackroyd, sehen mehr Geister als alle anderen Nationen. Jede Region hat ihre besonderen Geister, manche riechen nach altem Leder, manche duften nach Thymian, es gibt solche, die schweigen und solche die reden. Manche suchen Rache,...
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Die Engländer, so Peter Ackroyd, sehen mehr Geister als alle anderen Nationen. Jede Region hat ihre besonderen Geister, manche riechen nach altem Leder, manche duften nach Thymian, es gibt solche, die schweigen und solche die reden. Manche suchen Rache, andere spuken nur zum Spaß. Vom Mittelalter bis heute werden Geschichten über gesichtete Geister weitergegeben - dies ist eine die Jahrhunderte überspannende, faszinierende wie auch unterhaltsame Sammlung solcher Berichte.
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The English, Peter Ackroyd tells us in this fascinating collection, see more ghosts than any other nation. Each region has its own particular spirits, from the Celtic ghosts of Cornwall to the dobies and boggarts of the north. Some speak and some are silent, some smell of old leather, others of fragrant thyme. From medieval times to today, stories have been told and apparitions seen - ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace, spooks who just want to have fun.
The English Ghost is a treasury of such sightings - which we can believe or not, as we will. The accounts, packed with eerie detail, range from the door-slamming, shrieking ghost of Hinton Manor in the 1760s and the moaning child that terrified Wordsworth's nephew at Cambridge, to the headless bear of Kidderminster, the violent daemon of Devon who tried to strangle a man with his cravat and the modern-day hitchhikers on Blue Bell Hill. Comical and scary, like all good ghost stories, these curious incidents also plumb the depths of the English psyche in its yearnings for justice, freedom and love.
Autoren-Porträt von Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is internationally known as a novelist and cultural historian. His non-fiction books include Albion: The Origin of the English Imagination, the prize-winning London: a Biography, Thames: Sacred River and most recently Venice: Pure City
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Peter Ackroyd
- 2010, 288 Seiten, Maße: 14,7 x 3,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Random House UK
- ISBN-10: 0701169893
- ISBN-13: 9780701169893
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Ackroyd's book has its fair share of terrified hauntees and, unless you're a sceptic, there are plenty of scenes that will make the hairs on the back of your neck bristle." "-- Mail on Sunday""Ackroyd's collection glides seamlessly from terror to humour to downright peculiarity: it is the ideal read as the nights darken and Halloween approaches." "-- Metro""This is a wonderful little book. It's properly old-fashioned and unorthodox, a scrapbook of clues, tittle-tattle, hints and mortal byways." "-- Independent""From the Trade Paperback edition."
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