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One Thousand And One Ghosts (Hesperus Classics)
One Thousand And One Ghosts - Hesperus Classics
Author: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN-13: 9781843910824
ISBN-10: 1843910829
Publication Date: 4/1/2005
Pages: 152
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Publisher: Hesperus Press
Book Type: Paperback
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This is vintage Dumas: conversation galore in rapid fire sentences. Hemingway, observe the master. This short novel is quite different from his normal genre. More in the vein of âThe Woman With the Red Necklace,â he pursues the continuance of life after death and the policy of capital punishment through a series of short tales of the macabre, set between the French revolutions of 1789 and 1830. It begins with the decapitation of a wife by her husband, of which he confesses to the mayor. Allegedly the severed head continued to be animated. Subsequently, the mayor hosts a luncheon for the witnesses to the investigation. Thus, each guest relates a gruesome tale from within his/her own experience. Something for everyone: the guillotine, the gibbet, the mass grave, the vampire; they are all here. One thousand and one ghosts? Not yet, it is only his beginning.


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