Author: Scott CorbettPublisher: Dell Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780440475248
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Bruce and Bill meet a strange boy with a bulldog who offers to introduce them to the ghosts in his house.
The Red Room Riddle
Author: Scott CorbettPublisher: Dell Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780440475248
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Bruce and Bill meet a strange boy with a bulldog who offers to introduce them to the ghosts in his house.
The Red Room Riddle; A Ghost Story
Author: The Red Room Riddle
Author: Scott CorbettPublisher: Joy Street Books
ISBN: 9780316157544
Category : Ghost stories
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Bruce and Bill meet a strange boy with a bulldog who offers to introduce them to the ghosts in his house.
The Red Room
Author: H. G. WellsPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473345464
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
"The Red Room" is a short story written by H. G. Wells. First published in the 1896 edition of "The Idler" magazine, it is a quintessentially Gothic tale about a man who spends a night in a supposedly haunted room in Lorraine Castle in an attempt to disprove the legends surrounding it. This thrilling tale constitutes a must-read for fans of Gothic literature and Wells' seminal work, and it would make for a fantastic addition to any collection. Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including the novel, politics, history, and social commentary. "The Father of Science Fiction" was also a staunch socialist, and his later works are increasingly political and didactic. Today, he is perhaps best remembered for his contributions to the science fiction genre thanks to such novels as "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Invisible Man" (1897), and "The War of the Worlds" (1898). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
The Red Room
Author: August StrindbergPublisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN: 9180804721
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
"I'll tell you what, Ygberg, I believe one has to be very unscrupulous if one wants to get on in the world." That's how The Red Room could be summarised through one of its sentences. Through a number of cultural workers Strindberg asks the question of how life should be lived. As a young person, you can pretend to be an ardent idealist; as an older, somewhat sober person, you can come to realise that what you from the beginning thought to be idealistic may not really be. Through its straightforward language The Red Room (1879) is often called the first modern novel in Swedish. It constitutes a representation of Stockholm in the 1870s and is known for its depictions of the urban environment as well as its satire. The book is an attempt to stand by the lower classes by humorously attacking the hypocrisy of the higher classes. The Red Room was described as dirt by contemporary critics, but it was an immediate success. This edition of The Red Room constitutes the first novel in the cluster text style, which could be 20 percent better than ordinary texts, and is intended to function as a kind of survey for how we look at text, reading and book design. This book, in Swedish, was made as an entry for Svensk bokkonst, which every year rewards good examples of book design. The winners get to participate in Stiftung Buchkunt's Best Book Design from all over the World which in German is called Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt. This difference captures an important gap. Book design has long been about designing beautiful books. Now we'll see how Svensk bokkonst and possibly Stiftung Buchkunst see this. What do you think? Should we read cluster texts? You will get an answer to that question by reading this edition of The Red Room. PLEASE NOTE that the text in this book, i.e. cluster text, cannot be reflown and therefore needs to be read on tablets/screens at least 13 centimetres wide, which can handle line lengths of 95 characters (i.e. smaller screens are not suitable).
The Red Room
Author: August StrindbergPublisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
August Strindberg’s novel The Red Room centers on the civil servant Arvid Falk as he tries to find meaning in his life through the pursuit of writing. He’s accompanied by a crew of painters, sculptors and philosophers each on their own journey for the truth, who meet in the “Red Room” of a local restaurant. Drawing heavily on August’s own experiences, The Red Room was published in Sweden in 1879. Its reception was less than complimentary in Sweden—a major newspaper called it “dirt”—but it fared better in the rest of Scandinavia and soon was recognised in his home country. Since then it has been translated into multiple languages, including the 1913 English translation by Ellise Schleussner presented here. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
The Red Room
Author: William Le QueuxThe Red Room
Author: William Le QueuxPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Dive into the suspenseful world of espionage and mystery with "The Red Room." Set in England, this gripping tale by William Le Queux follows a series of enigmatic events surrounding a murder and the covert operations of the secret service. As the plot unravels, readers are taken on a thrilling journey through the dark underbelly of English society.
The Haunting of Hill House
Author: Shirley JacksonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143129376
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
A Killing in the Red Room
Author: Frantoise Armage-ParkPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438952155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
When Suzanne Tassigny is killed under suspicious circumstances, her murder remains unsolved until her daughter, Chantal, returns to France a decade later to bring her murderer to justice. But the crime is no longer a police, or political priority in the midst of WWI, and her search fails until she enlists the help of her lover, The Honorable Mayor of Bordeaux. But in the process of her relentless pursuit of the killer, she learns about the woman she did not know - her mother - and most of all, she learns about herself, and about forgiveness.