For two weeks we had been lodging temporarily in the top of a comfortable little hotel, called the Grand something (most of the Parisian hotels are Grand), the window of which commanded a superb view of the great city, the vaudeville playhouse of the world. Pour la première fois the dazzle and glitter had burst upon us, confusing first, but now assuming form and coherence. If we and incomprehensible at could have had each a dozen eyes instead of two, or less greed to see and more patience ...

IN range of my outlook seaward as I lay on the yellow strand was a grotesque figure standing near and gazing inland. His powerful frame was broad and squat; his long arms, ending with immense hands, hung loosely at his sides; his hair was ragged; and out of his blank face blue eyes wide apart. So accustomed was I to his habitually placid expression that the keenness with which he was looking roused me fully out of the lethargy into which extreme exhaustion had plunged me. "Well, Christophe...

1897Traduit de l’anglais par George ElwallÉditions de la Revue blanche, 1901Dans ces quatorze nouvelles où il utilise souvent le procédé du retournement final, Morrow explore l'âme humaine au travers de personnages souvent en marge de la société - simple d'esprit, condamné pour meurtre, chercheur d'or un peu illuminé ou chirurgien mystérieux - mais qui nous touchent par l'universalité de leurs sentiments exacerbés. Vengeance, jalousie, amour, peur ou remords sont ains...

Dans ces quatorze nouvelles ou il utilise souvent le procédé du retournement final, Morrow explore l'âme humaine au travers de personnages souvent en marge de la société - simple d'esprit, condamné pour meurtre, chercheur d'or un peu illuminé ou chirurgien mystérieux - mais qui nous touchent par l'universalité de leurs sentiments exacerbés. Vengeance, jalousie, amour, peur ou remords sont ainsi tour a tour évoqués dans ces courts récits dignes d'un maître du genre.W.C. Morrow fut cé...

Présentation de l'éditeurWilliam Chambers Morrow s’est rendu célèbre en 1897 grâce à la publication de ce recueil de nouvelles. Il enchanta Apollinaire et Alfred Jarry, qui n’hésiteront pas à en faire un héritier de l'œuvre d'Edgar Allan Poe. Sont ici recueillies quatorze histoires où l’on meurt beaucoup, et rarement dans son lit. Morrow est un maître du conte cruel, usiné à froid, sans recherche d’effet, et d’autant plus impressionnant. L’humour n’est pas loin, ma...

Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the fifth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 5 in the series spans the years 1872 to 1901 and includes stories from a wide range of male authors; British, French and American. Includes tales by Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling. Readers new to this genre will discover its pleasures; th...

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