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Rosemary Gray

Autor(a) de Scottish Ghost Stories

18 Works 322 Membros 2 Críticas

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Obras por Rosemary Gray

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Conhecimento Comum

Sexo
female

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I didn't enjoy this very much.

First off, this book is very badly titled. Sure, all the stories are Irish, either in setting, characters, or authors, but half of them are completely lacking in ghosts. There are a lot of stories about leprechauns. We also see fairies, a banshee, a witch, and some giants.

Secondly, reading it was a bit of a slog. I hate reading stories written in dialect, and this book contained several written in an Irish brogue. Even worse some of the stories were really boring, especially "The Living Ghost" by [[Rosa Mulholland]], which also had the bad misfortune to be one of the longest stories in the book. I suffered through 20 pages of a Victorian Gothic romance story with nary a sign of ghosts (or any supernatural elements) before skipping the next 50 or so pages and moving on to the next story.

This is one book I just can't recommend.
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yoyogod | Oct 12, 2015 |
 
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Jonez | Oct 24, 2019 |

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George Moore Contributor
Douglas Hyde Contributor
Sheridan Le Fanu Contributor
William Carleton Contributor
Forrest Reid Contributor
Rosa Mulholland Contributor
Daniel Corkery Contributor
Dorothy Macardle Contributor
Joseph Jacobs Contributor
A. E. Coppard Contributor
Jeremiah Curtin Contributor
Patrick Kennedy Contributor
Charlotte Riddell Contributor
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William Maginn Contributor
Bram Stoker Contributor
Michael Banim Contributor
Letitia Maclintock Contributor
Oscar Wilde Contributor
Guy de Maupassant Contributor
Mark Twain Contributor
Frank Bullen Contributor
Amelia B. Edwards Contributor
Richard Middleton Contributor
Ambrose Bierce Contributor
Arthur Conan Doyle Contributor
Jack London Contributor
Anthony Trollope Contributor
Edith Wharton Contributor
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D.R. Knock Cover designer

Estatísticas

Obras
18
Membros
322
Popularidade
#73,505
Avaliação
2.9
Críticas
2
ISBN
26

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