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    Ghost: 97 Stories To Read With The Lights On

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    Haunted houses, mysterious Counts, weeping widows and restless souls, here is the definitive anthology of all that goes bump in the night. Hand-picked by award-winning author Louise Welsh, this beautiful collection of 97 ghost stories will delight, unnerve, and entertain any fiction lover brave enough...

    Here are gothic classics, modern masters, Booker Prize-winners, ancient folk tales and stylish noirs, proving that every writer has a skeleton or two in their closet.

    The all-star cast of authors inlude:

    Hilary Mantel, William Faulkner, Kate Atkinson, Henry James, Kazuo Ishiguro, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Franz Kafka, Ruth Rendell, Edgar Allan Poe, William Trevor, Helen Simpson, Haruki Murakami, Dylan Thomas, Bram Stoker, H.P Lovecraft, Lydia Davis, Sir Walter Scott, Annie Proulx, Bram Stoker, Angela Carter and Stephen King.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHead of Zeus
    Release dateOct 22, 2015
    ISBN9781784080167
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    • 3/5
      a play about Mrs. Alving a widow,who was accused by Pastor Manders,of failing in providing enough moral guidance to her son Oswald....

      MANDERS. Just as you once disowned a wife's duty, so you have since
      disowned a mother's.

      MRS. ALVING. Ah--!

      MANDERS. You have been all your life under the dominion of a
      pestilent spirit of self-will. The whole bias of your mind has been
      towards insubordination and lawlessness. You have never known how to
      endure any bond. Everything that has weighed upon you in life you
      have cast away without care or conscience, like a burden you were
      free to throw off at will. It did not please you to be a wife any
      longer, and you left your husband. You found it troublesome to be a
      mother, and you sent your child forth among strangers.

      MRS. ALVING. Yes, that is true. I did so.

      MANDERS. And thus you have become a stranger to him.

      MRS. ALVING. No! no! I am not.


      after this conversation,Mrs. Alving was forced to tell the truth that she had kept hidden.that Captain Alving was an awful man who was unfaithful throughout his life....

      there are many symbols in this play....
      the ghosts which are MRS. ALVING thoughts....lies about the past and her fear to say the truth,that should be told....
      Oswald last wish before dying is to see the sun light ,he kept crying out for the sun. which symbolize for the joy of life which he always seeks....
      The fire that destroys the orphanage which she was naming after her husband name....that destroyed the whole building,and eliminated all the deception.....

      MANDERS. And it is to this man that you raise a memorial?

      MRS. ALVING. There you see the power of an evil conscience.

      MANDERS. Evil--? What do you mean?

      MRS. ALVING. It always seemed to me impossible but that the truth
      must come out and be believed. So the Orphanage was to deaden all
      rumours and set every doubt at rest.
    • 3/5
      Excellently written, dark, controversial at time and now drama about all kinds of unpleasantries that affect peoples lives from 'dissipated lives' to euthanasia and using morphine to commit suicide cos of VD. I will explore Ibsens Ouvre.
    • 4/5
      Ibsen's plays really take you to the end of 19th century - and make youfeel the anxiety caused by social pressures and hypocrisy and seek the power to break free from the rules and conventions and reach for something real.
    • 3/5
      A powerful, controversial play (like most of his), he conveys a less than sterling relationship between mother and son that disintegrates when the truth comes out and the son's mind deteriorates. The truth will always out.
    • 3/5
      Hey, Whoopi Goldberg isn't in this...I found the play interesting, but Oswald's hysterics were melodramatic and bordered on comical. For a better play about a dysfunctional family, read Tennessee Williams.
    • 2/5
      Dilemma?s: -erfelijkheid (Oswald)-hypocrisie en burgerlijke moraal:Manders-vrouwenplicht: mrs Alving-respect voor ouders: Regina (weer erg engelachtig)-euthanasie: Oswaldniet helemaal geslaagd!
    • 2/5
      Dilemma’s: -erfelijkheid (Oswald)-hypocrisie en burgerlijke moraal:Manders-vrouwenplicht: mrs Alving-respect voor ouders: Regina (weer erg engelachtig)-euthanasie: Oswaldniet helemaal geslaagd!