EAN: 9780241341629

GHOST STORIES - M R JAMES KARTONIERT (TB)

M. R. James  the bookish and precocious son of a curate  was born in Kent in 1862. He studied
at Cambridge and remained there for most of his life  becoming director of the Fitzwilliam
Museum  Provost of King's College and later Vice-Chancellor of the university. A brilliant
scholar  he translated the New Testament apocrypha and catalogued many of the university's
medieval manuscripts. His first story collection  based on stories he read aloud to friends on
Christmas Eve  was published in 1904 as Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and was followed by three
more. He died in 1936.

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