![]() ![]() What if a man knows he is to be hanged in a few moments? Bierce’s story attempts to describe, in detail, what it might feel like to be just seconds away from one’s own death, as well as the experience of dying itself. The eighteenth-century man of letters Samuel Johnson once observed that when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. But what lifts Bierce’s writing to new heights is the sheer length of his description, particularly in the third section of ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’. We find similar moments in the works of Poe and Dickens: the latter’s description of Fagin’s worried mind as he waits to be sentenced to hanging at the end of Oliver Twist would make for an interesting comparative analysis between Bierce’s story and Dickens’s description of the psychology of a condemned man. ![]()
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![]() It begins in contemporary time (although I think this book was published in the 80's or 90's). I've been looking for a book I read years ago and thought someone may be able to help. I really wish there was some sort of database where you could search keyword plot lines to books and find titles! It would make this so much easier! (I seem to run across that book everytime I try to search for this book!) I really hope someone can help! I know it's not a Harlequin, I also know it's not The Black Lyon book. ![]() :) Seems like they're really poor/all of their supplies are gone. I think I remember the h has been running the castle by herself for a while now-though I may be getting that from another book. In fact no one at the castle is happy about the H's presence I remember the h is not happy about her upcoming marriage to the H-so maybe he won the castle in a siege, etc. She is really young-14 or so** This was a big part of the storyline The h has 2 sisters**the youngest of whom is raped (by the H's men (?))-I do know one of his men takes her and cares for her/nurses her back to health. ![]() ![]() (dark hair, etc) "Black" may even be in the title of the book The H wears a lot of black, and it seems like he's dark as well. :) I've been looking for this book for SO long! I don't remember much about it, but here's what I do know: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lovecrafta, rozhodl jsem se zkusit namluvit jednu z jeho povídek. ![]() is publishing this classic short story now as part of our "Fantasy and Horror Classics" imprint in a new edition with a dedication by George Henry Weiss. Howard Phillips Lovecraft - Dagon - YouTube Jeliko mám v oblib povídky slavného autora H. Other notable works by this author include: "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Rats in the Walls", and "The Shadow over Innsmouth". Though his works remained largely unknown and did not furnish him with a decent living, Lovecraft is today considered to be among the most significant writers of supernatural horror fiction of the twentieth century. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American writer of supernatural horror fiction. A chilling tale by a master story-teller, "Dagon" is not to be missed by lovers of supernatural fiction and collectors of Lovecraft's seminal work. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 - Translations into French, Lovecraft, H. After escaping his captors, he drifted for many miles before winding up stranded in a hellish place littered with rotting carcasses and home to an ancient horror. One of the first stories he wrote as an adult, it centres around the recollection of a tortured, morphine-addicted narrator who was captured by a German ship during World War I. 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