Dr jane mainley piddock (36 resultados)

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Hardback. Condición: New. The much-loved author Montague Rhodes James is best known today for his ghost stories. Their popularity has kept them in print since the first collection was issued in 1931, and they've earned a cult following. But for all this literary success, his lifetime's correspondence has remained inaccessible in a Cambridge University archive - until now.This first ever collection of his personal letters has been meticulously curated, transcribed and annotated by Jamesian scholar Jane Mainley-Piddock to offer an unprecedented and overdue insight into a great and singular mind. Through notoriously illegible handwriting, we learn of James's fear of spiders and his love of cats; his musings on the work of other contemporary authors; and a whole life's thoughts on a host of subjects - which shed light on the man himself: his family, his work, his relationships and preoccupations.Essential reading for any fan, Casting the Runes brings at last to the fore a writer adored for his fiction who himself has long remained in the shadows.…

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Hardcover. Condición: New. Now celebrated as the finest English writer of ghost stories, MR James was known to his contemporaries as the scholarly Provost of King's College Cambridge and later of Eton. This first published collection of his letters - deciphered from his notoriously difficult handwriting - includes affectionate boyhood missives to his parents, discussions of academic politics with colleagues, and chatty notes to friends revealing his fear of spiders and love of cats.…

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Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. The much-loved author Montague Rhodes James is best known today for his ghost stories. Their popularity has kept them in print since the first collection was issued in 1931, and they've earned a cult following. But for all this literary success, his lifetime's correspondence has remained inaccessible in a Cambridge University archive until now.This first ever collection of his personal letters has been meticulously curated, transcribed and annotated by Jamesian scholar Jane Mainley-Piddock to offer an unprecedented and overdue insight into a great and singular mind. Through notoriously illegible handwriting, we learn of James's fear of spiders and his love of cats; his musings on the work of other contemporary authors; and a whole life's thoughts on a host of subjects which shed light on the man himself: his family, his work, his relationships and preoccupations.Essential reading for any fan, Casting the Runes brings at last to the fore a writer adored for his fiction who himself has long remained in the shadows. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardback. Condición: New. The much-loved author Montague Rhodes James is best known today for his ghost stories. Their popularity has kept them in print since the first collection was issued in 1931, and they've earned a cult following. But for all this literary success, his lifetime's correspondence has remained inaccessible in a Cambridge University archive - until now.This first ever collection of his personal letters has been meticulously curated, transcribed and annotated by Jamesian scholar Jane Mainley-Piddock to offer an unprecedented and overdue insight into a great and singular mind. Through notoriously illegible handwriting, we learn of James's fear of spiders and his love of cats; his musings on the work of other contemporary authors; and a whole life's thoughts on a host of subjects - which shed light on the man himself: his family, his work, his relationships and preoccupations.Essential reading for any fan, Casting the Runes brings at last to the fore a writer adored for his fiction who himself has long remained in the shadows.…

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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing. A tight, bright, square copy in a fine dust jacket, signed by the editor on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. FINE hardback in FINE price clipped dustwrapper. 2023 Unbound, First Edition, First Printing. Foreword by Mark Gatiss. NO inscriptions. NB. REGRETTABLY NOT AVAILABLE TO SEND TO EU COUNTRIES.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine new copy of the first ever general collection of M.R. James' correspondence. James was of course both antiquary and Provost of King's College and Eton. He is perhaps best known as the author of fine ghost stories. 256pp. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The much-loved author Montague Rhodes James is best known today for his ghost stories. Their popularity has kept them in print since the first collection was issued in 1931, and they've earned a cult following. But for all this literary success, his lifetime's correspondence has remained inaccessible in a Cambridge University archive - until now. This first ever collection of his personal letters has been meticulously curated, transcribed and annotated by Jamesian scholar Jane Mainley-Piddock to offer an unprecedented and overdue insight into a great and singular mind. Through notoriously illegible handwriting, we learn of James's fear of spiders and his love of cats; his musings on the work of other contemporary authors; and a whole life's thoughts on a host of subjects - which shed light on the man himself: his family, his work, his relationships and preoccupations. Essential reading for any fan, Casting the Runes brings at last to the fore a writer adored for his fiction who himself has long remained in the shadows.…