Masterpieces of Mystery Author - 6 Angebote vergleichen

Von Händler/Antiquariat, AHA-BUCH GmbH [51283250], Einbeck, NDS, Germany.
This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware - 'A distinguished American writer of fiction said to me lately: 'Did you ever think of the vital American way we live We are always going after mental gymnastics.' Now the mystery story is mental gymnastics. By the time the reader has followed a chain of facts through he has exercised his mind, - given himself a mental breather. But the claims of the true mystery story do not end with the general reader. It is entitled to the consideration of the discriminating because it indubitably takes its own place as a gauge of mastery in the field of the short story. The demand was never quite so keen as it is now. The currents of literature as of all things change swiftly these times. This world of ours has become very sophisticated. It has suffered itself to be exploited till there is no external wonder left. Retroactively the demand for mystery, which is the very soul of interest, must find new expression. Thus we turn inward for fresh thrills to the human comedy, and outward to the realm of the supernatural.' [.] Part three of the Masterpieces collection. Contains narratives from Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe and many others. 232 pp. Englisch.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, AHA-BUCH GmbH [51283250], Einbeck, Germany.
This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware - 'A distinguished American writer of fiction said to me lately: 'Did you ever think of the vital American way we live We are always going after mental gymnastics.' Now the mystery story is mental gymnastics. By the time the reader has followed a chain of facts through he has exercised his mind, given himself a mental breather. But the claims of the true mystery story do not end with the general reader. It is entitled to the consideration of the discriminating because it indubitably takes its own place as a gauge of mastery in the field of the short story. The demand was never quite so keen as it is now. The currents of literature as of all things change swiftly these times. This world of ours has become very sophisticated. It has suffered itself to be exploited till there is no external wonder left. Retroactively the demand for mystery, which is the very soul of interest, must find new expression. Thus we turn inward for fresh thrills to the human comedy, and outward to the realm of the supernatural.' [.] Part three of the Masterpieces collection. Contains narratives from Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe and many others. 232 pp. Englisch.

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The honour of founding the modern detective story belongs to an American writer. Such tales as The Purloined Letter and The Murders in the Rue Morgue still stand unrivalled. We in America no more than the world of letters at large, did not readily realize what Poe had done when he created Auguste Dupin - the prototype of Sherlock Holmes et genus omnes, up to the present hour. On Poe's work is built the whole school of French detective story writers. Conan Doyle derived his inspiration from them in turn, and our American writers of to-day are helped from both French and English sources. It is rare enough to find the detective in fiction even to-day, however, who is not lacking in one supreme quality, - scientific imagination. Auguste Dupin had it. Dickens, had he lived a short time longer, might have turned his genius in this direction. The last thing he wrote was the Mystery of Edwin Drood, the mystery of which is still unravelled. I have heard the opinion expressed by an eminent living writer that had Dickens' life been prolonged he would probably have become the greatest master of the detective story, except Poe. [...] The second part of the Masterpieces series containing a collection of detective stories. Includes narratives from Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle and others.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Paperbackshop-US [8408184], Secaucus, NJ, U.S.A.
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Anthology of mystic stories, containing narratives from Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson and many more.

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Riddle Stories, Riddle Stories.