The colorful life and creative career of the writer behind six of Hitchcock's thrillers: "An intriguing and revealing story." — Times Literary SupplementWith a career that spanned from the silent era to the 1990s, British screenwriter Charles Bennett lived an extraordinary life. His experiences as an actor, director, playwright, film and television writer, and novelist in both England and Hollywood left him with many amusing anecdotes, op...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation [Louisa May Alcott] The Ghost [Arnold Bennett] The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain [Charles Dickens] The Haunted House [Charles Dickens] The Lost Stradivarius [John Meade Falkner] Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell] The Ghost Kings [Henry Rider Haggard] Carnacki, The Ghost Finder [William Hope Hodgson] The Ghost Pirates [Willi...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work. This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors las...

Stories of war and conflict form the backbone of much of the Western literary canon, portraying a certain image of heroism, stoicism, and survival in the face of violence. War and Imagination challenges the canon with essays, short stories, and a wide variety of perspectives.Paying particular attention to the twentieth century and prioritizing the writings of civilians, the works highlighted in War and Imagination offer an opportunity to challenge representations ...