Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine (The World's Classics) Tapa blanda - 1995

Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Softcover. Good Condition. 18 x 11 x 1.4 cm. A little bit of wear to the cover, but pages are clean and unmarked. Contents a bit darkened. Bindings firm and tight, spine intact. Publisher's note: The tales of terror and hysteria published in the heyday (1817-32) of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine became a literary legend in the nineteenth century. Blackwood's was the most important and influential literary-political journal of its time, and a major institution not just in Scottish letters but in the development of British and American Romanticism. Intemperate in political polemic and feared for its literary assassinations, the magazine became just as notorious for the shocking power of its fictional offerings. These set a new standard of concentrated dread and precisely calculated alarm, and were to establish themselves as a landmark in the development of the short magazine story. The influence of Blackwood's quickly reached many major authors,… Leer más

Oxford University Press, USA, 1996. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.