A prolific writer with many novels to her name,Margaret Oliphant couldproduce her few supernatural tales'only when they came to me'. And theycame with the twilight uncertainties and the philosophical depth of'The Library Window',or with the extraordinary vision of purgatoryimagined as modern city life mixed with metaphysical terror in'The Landof Darkness'or in A Beleaguered City,her extraordinary short novel of the returning dead.Likethe old Scottish ballads where the dead and the living rub shoulders,these remarkable tales are among Oliphant's finest work,mixing thesubtlety of Henry James with the uncanny strangeness of George MacDonaldor David Lindsay.
Publisher: Canongate BooksISBN: 9781841950600Number of pages: 432Weight: 278 gDimensions: 196 x 126 x 26 mmEdition: Main
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