George Augustus Sala — новинки

Переехав в заброшенный дом с привидениями, рассказчик, не обращая внимания на предупреждения местных жителей, приглашает друзей; в Двенадцатую ночь он и его гости собираются вместе и рассказывают о сверхъестественных событиях, которые с ними происходили. В результате истории о привидениях по очереди волнуют, шокируют и забавляют всех.
Для этой работы, которая издавалась по заказу периодического еженедельника All the Year Round, Чарльз Диккенс привлек к сотрудничеству самых известных писателей своей эпохи, включая Элизабет Гаскелл и Уилки Коллинза.
«Дом с привидениями», сборник классических произведений викторианской эпохи о сверхъестественном, содержит рассказы:
— «Дом с призраками» Чарльза Диккенса;
— «Призрак в комнате с часами» Хесбы Стреттон;
— «Призрак Двойной Комнаты» Джорджа Огастеса Генри Сала;
— «Призрак картинной галереи» Аделаиды Энн Проктер;
— «Призрак буфетной» Дж. Уилки Коллинза;
— «Призрак Комнаты мастера Б.» Чарльза Диккенса;
— «Призрак садовой комнаты» Элизабет Гаскелл;
— «Призрак угловой комнаты» Чарльза Диккенса.
Сборник «Дом с привидениями» — отличная книга в подарок для ценителей эстетики ужаса, любителей мрачных тайн и историй о сверхъестественном.
Книга на английском языке.
Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends over; on Twelfth Night he and his guests gather together and relate the supernatural experiences they have had. The resulting ghost stories thrill, shock and amuse by turns.
For this work, commissioned for his periodical All the Year Round, Dickens enlisted some of the era’s most famous writers, including Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, to collaborate with him on this Victorian supernatural classic.
Contains: ‘The Mortals in the House’ by Charles Dickens, ‘The Ghost in the Clock Room’ by Heshb Stretton, ‘The Ghost in the Double Room’ by George Augustus Sala, ‘The Ghost in the Picture Room’ by Adelaide Anne Procter, ‘The Ghost in the Cupboard Room’ by Wilkie Collins, ‘The Ghost in Master B’s Room’ by Charles Dickens, ‘The Ghost in the Garden Room’ by Elizabeth Gaskell, ‘The Ghost in the Corner Room’ by Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Haunted House is a collection of ghost tales by Dickens, who wrote the opening and closing stories, framing them, and five other authors: Hesba Stretton, George Augustus Sala, Adelaide Anne Procter, Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell.

Excerpt from The Thorough Good Cook: A Series of Chats on the Culinary Art, and Nine Hundred Recipes

Every one of the Recipes in this work has been carefully studied, and tested from personal experience, and compared with cognate formulas in the culinary manuals of such eminent authorities as Laguipiere, Beauvilliers, Ude, Careme, Soyer, Franeatelli, Urbain Dubois, Jules Gouffe, Kettner, Chandelier (Napoleon's last chef at St. Helena), Garlin, Suzanne, and Durand, together with the English experts, Hunter, Kitchiner, Brand, Simpson, and Dolby. A lady to whom I once mentioned that I had tried practically all the dishes which I have enumerated in the following pages, observed, with a smile, half of incredulity and half of disdainful compassion, that it was a wonder I had not died of apoplexy years ago; and should such a contingency suggest itself to the minds of my readers, I may respectfully inform them that my study of the Art of Cookery extends over a period of fifty-five years; and that ever since I was a boy I have been, not only theoretically but practically, a cook. In a work of mine called "Things I have Seen and People I have Known," I incidentally remarked that my dear mother had all her children taught systematically to cook, as an integral part of their education; and that although, from the circumstance of my having been a delicate child, I was absolved from the ruder labours of roasting, boiling, and baking, I was early initiated into the mysteries of preparing soups, entrees, sauces, and sweets. Further, I may just hint that although I fully appreciate the attributes of a gourmet, I certainly do not wish to claim the status of a gourmand.

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Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator—undaunted by the warnings of the locals—sets before a group of friends the task of driving the ghosts out of the house’s various rooms before reconvening on Twelfth Night. The resulting ghost stories form the basis of a thrilling narrative. Initially commissioned for his periodical All the Year Round, Dickens enlisted some of the period’s most famous writers—including Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins—to collaborate with him on this Victorian supernatural classic.

On Christmas Eve, a party of friends descends on a purportedly haunted country retreat, charged with the task of discovering evidence of the supernatural. Sequestered in their rooms for the holiday, the friends reconvene on Twelfth Night at a great feast and share their stories of spectral encounter. “Conducted” by Charles Dickens and counting Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins among its contributors, The Haunted House examines quintessentially Victorian themes–sex and longing, nostalgia and loss–in ways that continue to resonate today. Ingeniously conceived and written, and spiked with flashes of Dickensian humor, this volume is a strange and sheer delight.