The English Ghost
Spectres through Time
(Sprache: Englisch)
An enormously enjoyable spooky collection of ghost-sightings over the centuries, full of the spirit of place, in true Ackroyd style.
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An enormously enjoyable spooky collection of ghost-sightings over the centuries, full of the spirit of place, in true Ackroyd style.
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The English see more ghosts than any other nation. From medieval times to the present day, stories have been told about ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace and spooks who just want to have fun. The English Ghost is a treasure trove of such sightings; comical and scary, like all the best ghost stories, these accounts, packed with eerie detail, range from the moaning child that terrified Wordworth's nephew at Cambridge to modern day hitchhikers on Blue Bell Hill.
Autoren-Porträt von Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Peter Ackroyd
- 2011, 288 Seiten, Maße: 13,2 x 1,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Random House UK
- ISBN-10: 0099287579
- ISBN-13: 9780099287575
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.09.2011
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „The English Ghost “
"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" -- Simon Griffith Mail on Sunday "A rich and compelling assembly of stories for winter nights" New Statesman "This is a wonderful little book. It's properly old-fashioned and unorthodox, a scrapbook of clues, tittle-tattle, hints and mortal byways" -- Roger Clarke Independent "Ackroyd's collection glides seamlessly from terror to humour to downright peculiarity: it is the ideal read as the nights darken and Halloween approaches" -- Tina Jackson Metro "A fascinating anthology of sightings of ghosts in England over the centuries" -- Andrew Lycett Literary Review
Pressezitat
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 Simon Griffith Mail on Sunday
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