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GHOST STORIES - CHARLES DICKENS GEBUNDEN

Designed to appeal to the book lover  the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of
beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth
printed on high quality paper  and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges  Macmillan
Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.   Throughout his illustrious writing career
Charles Dickens often turned his hand to fashioning short pieces of ghostly fiction. Even in
his first successful work  The Pickwick Papers   you will find five ghost stories  all of which
are included in this collection. Dickens began the tradition of the 'ghost story at Christmas'
and many of his tales in this genre are presented here including the brilliant novella  'The
Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain'  which deserves to be as well-known as A Christmas Carol .
While all his supernatural tales aim to chill the spine  they are not without the usual traits
of Dickens' flamboyant style  his subtle wit  biting irony  humorous incidents and moral
observations. It is a mixture which makes these stories fascinating and entertaining as well as
unsettling. To paraphrase the Fat Boy in The Pickwick Papers : Charles Dickens 'wants to make
your flesh creep'.  This collection brings together all Dickens' ghost stories - twenty in all
- including several long tales. Here are chilling histories of coincidence  insanity and
revenge.   Illustrated by various artists  with an afterword by David Stuart Davies.

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