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The Lock and Key Library (Volume 8: Modern English)

by Julian Hawthorne (Editor)

Other authors: Egerton Castle (Contributor), Wilkie Collins (Contributor), Arthur Conan Doyle (Contributor), Rudyard Kipling (Contributor), Robert Louis Stevenson (Contributor)1 more, Stanley J. Weyman (Contributor)

Series: The Lock and Key Library (8)

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Somewhere in the Other World, where there are books and pictures and plays and shop windows to look at, and thousands of men who spend their lives in building up all four, lives a gentleman who writes real stories about the real insides of people; and his name is Mr. Walter Besant. But he will insist upon treating his ghosts - he has published half a workshopful of them - with levity. He makes his ghost-seers talk familiarly, and, in some cases, flirt outrageously, with the phantoms. You may treat anything, from a Viceroy to a Vernacular Paper, with levity; but you must behave reverently toward a ghost, and particularly an Indian one.… (more)
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Mostly classics as advertised, Conan Doyle, Kipling, Wilkie Collins, Stanley Weyman --the only undamilar author is Egerton Castle. ( )
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Hawthorne, JulianEditorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Castle, EgertonContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Collins, WilkieContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Doyle, Arthur ConanContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Kipling, RudyardContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Stevenson, Robert LouisContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Weyman, Stanley J.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Somewhere in the Other World, where there are books and pictures and plays and shop windows to look at, and thousands of men who spend their lives in building up all four, lives a gentleman who writes real stories about the real insides of people; and his name is Mr. Walter Besant. But he will insist upon treating his ghosts - he has published half a workshopful of them - with levity. He makes his ghost-seers talk familiarly, and, in some cases, flirt outrageously, with the phantoms. You may treat anything, from a Viceroy to a Vernacular Paper, with levity; but you must behave reverently toward a ghost, and particularly an Indian one.

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My own true ghost story ; The sending of Dana Da ; In the house of Suddhoo ; His wedded wife / Rudyard Kipling -- A case of identity ; A scandal in Bohemia ; The Red-Headed League / A. Conan Doyle -- The baron's quarry / Egerton Castle -- The fowl in the pot / Stanley J. Weyman -- The dream woman / Wilkie Collins -- The lost duchess / Anonymous -- The minor canon / Anonymous -- The pipe / Anonymous -- The puzzle / Anonymous -- The great Valdez sapphire / Anonymous.
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