Supernatural Tales: Excursions into Fantasy - Hardcover

Lee, Vernon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0720606802 ISBN 13: 9780720606805

Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers, 1987

Synopsis

This volume includes short stories about a 16th century assassination, a composer haunted by a ghostly voice, and a woman saved from suicide by a ghost.

About this title

Review:

Her rich imagination and her beautiful use of words raise these stories into the ranks of genius. --John Betjeman Daily Telegraph

These short stories blaze with Mediterranean colour . . . the intensity of a Flaubert is offset by the devilish wink of a Saki. Lee s endless invention and arrogant splendour of style make engrossing reading.' --Independent on Sunday

Quite literally bewildering supernatural tales, a kind of Italianate Arabian Nights . . . More than just rattling good yarns, these are works of extraordinary imagination, and one wonders why they re not better known. --Gay Times

About the Author:

VERNON LEE, the pseudonym of Violet Paget (1856 - 1935), began her career as an acclaimed art historian, before branching out into sociology and fiction. Among her many contemporary admirers were Browning, Walter Pater, Shaw, Whistler and Edith Wharton.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0720606802
• ISBN 13: 9780720606805
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 222