ISBN: 7a90d4f8a30056b4ce4e6f143f417e1f

MP3 Audio CD. The Three Impostors ADVENTURE OF THE GOLD TIBERIUS. The acquaintance between Mr. Dyson and Mr. Charles Phillipps arose from one of those myriad chances which are every da… Mehr…

MP3 Audio CD. The Three Impostors ADVENTURE OF THE GOLD TIBERIUS. The acquaintance between Mr. Dyson and Mr. Charles Phillipps arose from one of those myriad chances which are every day doing their work in the streets of London. Mr. Dyson was a man of letters, and an unhappy instance of talents misapplied. With gifts that might have placed him in the flower of his youth among the most favored of Bentley's favorite novelists, he had chosen to be perverse; he was, it is true, familiar with scholastic logic, but he knew nothing of the logic of life, and he flattered himself with the title of artist, when he was in fact but an idle and curious spectator of other men's endeavors. Amongst many delusions, he cherished one most fondly, that he was a strenuous worker; and it was with a gesture of supreme weariness that he would enter his favorite resort, a small tobacco shop in Great Queen Street, and proclaim to any one who cared to listen that he had seen the rising and setting of two successive suns. The proprietor of the shop, a middle-aged man of singular civility, tolerated Dyson partly out of good nature, and partly because he was a regular customer; he was allowed to sit on an empty cask, and to express his sentiments on literary and artistic matters till he was tired or the time for closing came; and if no fresh customers were attracted, it is believed that none were turned away by his eloquence. Dyson, was addicted to wild experiments in tobacco; he never wearied of trying new combinations, and one evening he had just entered the shop and given utterance to his last preposterous formula, when a young fellow, of about his own age, who had come in a moment later, asked the shopman to duplicate the order on his account, smiling politely, as he spoke, to Mr. Dyson's address. Dyson felt profoun, 0<

1895, ISBN: 7a90d4f8a30056b4ce4e6f143f417e1f

[SC: 0.0], [PU: London: John Lane; Robert Bros, Boston, 1895], BOOKS LITERATURE PRE-1900 SHORT STORIES GOTHIC NOISBN, First edition of Machen's intricate horror novel. The work contains a… Mehr…

[SC: 0.0], [PU: London: John Lane; Robert Bros, Boston, 1895], BOOKS LITERATURE PRE-1900 SHORT STORIES GOTHIC NOISBN, First edition of Machen's intricate horror novel. The work contains a number of smaller stories within a larger narrative; two of the inset pieces, "The Novel of the Black Seal" and "The Novel of the White Powder", greatly influenced H. P. Lovecraft, who suggested they represented "the high water mark of Machen's skill as a terror-weaver" (Lovecraft). Goldstone & Sweetser 7a; H. P. Lovecraft, "Supernatural Horror in Literature", The Recluse, August 1927. Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, key design to spine and rear cover in white, front cover lettered and decorated in white, 30 pp. publisher's catalogue at rear. Title page printed in red and black. Bookplate of one George Franklin Ludington to front pastdown; bookseller's cataloguing slip tipped-in to front free endpaper. Cloth rubbed and lightly worn at extremities, contents slightly toned but clean: a very good copy.<