A Beleaguered City: And Other Tales of the Seen and the Unseen

A Beleaguered City: And Other Tales of the Seen and the Unseen

by Margaret Oliphant
A Beleaguered City: And Other Tales of the Seen and the Unseen

A Beleaguered City: And Other Tales of the Seen and the Unseen

by Margaret Oliphant

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Overview

A haunting collection of short stories of the living and the dead by the Victorian Era Scottish author of Hester and Miss Marjoribanks.
 
Margaret Oliphant’s stories “of the seen and the unseen” are now considered some of the most remarkable explorations of the supernatural to appear in Victorian times. A prolific novelist, Oliphant said she could produce her supernatural tales “only when they came to me.” And indeed, they carry the eerie power of a visitation.
 
Twilight uncertainties mingle with philosophical depth in ‘The Library Window’; an extraordinary vision of purgatory is presented as modern city life mixed with metaphysical terror in ‘The Land of Darkness’; and the visitations come en masse in A Beleaguered City, Oliphant’s short novel of the returning dead.
 
Like the old Scottish ballads where the dead and the living rub shoulders, these remarkable tales are among Oliphant’s finest work, mixing the subtlety of Henry James with the uncanny strangeness of George MacDonald or David Lindsay.
 
This edition of A Beleaguered City and Other Tales . . . is edited and introduced by Jenni Calder.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781847674913
Publisher: Canongate Books
Publication date: 01/16/2020
Series: Canongate Classics , #95
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 432
Sales rank: 1,014,075
File size: 907 KB

About the Author

Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897) is best known as the author of nearly one hundred novels including Hester, but also wrote short stories and biographies.
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