Name: The Haunted Hotel: Annotated Edition
SKU: 53995433
Price: 438.00 TWD
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Author: Collins, Wilkie
ISBN: 9781847498397

portada The Haunted Hotel: Annotated Edition

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Publisher

Alma Books

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8x12.7x2 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9781847498397

Synopsis "The Haunted Hotel: Annotated Edition"

The Haunted Hotel is a disturbing novella set in Venice which cleverly combines detective and ghost story genre. This edition is based on the most authoritative text and contains notes and extra material for students. An enigmatic countess is tormented by a dark secret. An English aristocrat, Lord Montbarry, falls ill and dies in a decaying Venetian palazzo. An Italian servant disappears, and his wife receives a note containing one thousand pounds. With the palazzo now transformed into a luxury hotel, and the late Lord Montbarry's family in residence, these strands begin to come together, yet strange and macabre events are occurring, and the dead seem unable to rest.

Wilkie Collins

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(London 1824-1889) Playwright, novelist, and prolific short story writer. At 17, he started working at a tea trading company while writing Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was (Gothic no. 32), a work that was not published until over a century after his death. He studied Law and, although he never practiced, he did use his legal knowledge in many of his works, and critics consider him one of the fathers of the detective genre. In 1851, he met Charles Dickens, with whom he formed a deep friendship and published his main works in his weekly All the Year Around. After Dickens' death in 1870, his popularity waned. He suffered from rheumatic gout which eventually led to an opium addiction. His tombstone epitaph highlights him as the author of the novel The Woman in White.

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