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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 17, 2021 12:12:55 GMT
What is female version of Master Librarian? Mistress sounds a bit wrong. How about Library Priestess?
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Post by Swampirella on May 17, 2021 12:42:46 GMT
What is female version of Master Librarian? Mistress sounds a bit wrong. How about Library Priestess? I'm good with that. However, my rates will stay the same
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 17, 2021 12:57:36 GMT
Mistress Librarian sounds like one of those books that turn up unexpectedly as recommendations on book searches on some sites.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 17, 2021 13:04:32 GMT
Like Amish romance. I don't ever recall looking for anything remotely to do with Amish romance.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 17, 2021 13:25:17 GMT
A Night with a Madman was trickier to find. But the Chambers Journal indexes helped me find it. It is by Dr W. Stables. Appearing in Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts. 4th S 7 (1870): 385-388.
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Post by Swampirella on May 17, 2021 14:55:11 GMT
Like Amish romance. I don't ever recall looking for anything remotely to do with Amish romance. Yet strangely, there seems to be a lot of it available....
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Post by dem bones on May 17, 2021 18:15:00 GMT
It's fun to track the original versions of these tales down. Some are easier than others. A bit of detective work and I bet you can find most of them. The Tobias Smollett was easy, it is from The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom. Published in 1753. A pre-battered, modern edition of which was groaning mournfully from bookshelf in the charity shop this morning ... Tobias Smollett - The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (Penguin 1990; originally 1753) William Hogarth Blurb: Edited with an introduction by Paul-Gabriel BoucƩ
"The subject and characters ... are, in general, exceedingly disgusting ... but there is more power of writing occasionally in it than in any of his works" - William Hazlitt
Ferdinand Count Fathom ranks alongside Samuel Richardson's Lovelace in the rogues' gallery of despicable villains; and his talents are given full reign in a novel which has betrayals, seductions, swindles and denouements succeeding each other with breathtaking speed and brio. Smolett is as subversive as ever, his comic irony undermining the prevailing literary conventions and his characters ā particularly Joshua Manassch, the first benevolent Jew in English fiction ā defy pious assumptions. The Adventures thus occupies a distinctive place in the history of the eighteenth-century novel, as well as being a thoroughly gripping read.#serendipity #thesupernaturalatwork #theterrifyingworldofvault #isittheIlluminati?
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Post by dem bones on May 17, 2021 18:25:55 GMT
Mistress Librarian sounds like one of those books that turn up unexpectedly as recommendations on book searches on some sites. It would on this one, to be fair.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 17, 2021 19:11:07 GMT
It's fun to track the original versions of these tales down. Some are easier than others. A bit of detective work and I bet you can find most of them. The Tobias Smollett was easy, it is from The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom. Published in 1753. A pre-battered, modern edition of which was groaning mournfully from bookshelf in the charity shop this morning ... Tobias Smollett - The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (Penguin 1990; originally 1753) William Hogarth Blurb: Edited with an introduction by Paul-Gabriel BoucƩ
"The subject and characters ... are, in general, exceedingly disgusting ... but there is more power of writing occasionally in it than in any of his works" - William Hazlitt
Ferdinand Count Fathom ranks alongside Samuel Richardson's Lovelace in the rogues' gallery of despicable villains; and his talents are given full reign in a novel which has betrayals, seductions, swindles and denouements succeeding each other with breathtaking speed and brio. Smolett is as subversive as ever, his comic irony undermining the prevailing literary conventions and his characters ā particularly Joshua Manassch, the first benevolent Jew in English fiction ā defy pious assumptions. The Adventures thus occupies a distinctive place in the history of the eighteenth-century novel, as well as being a thoroughly gripping read.#serendipity #thesupernaturalatwork #theterrifyingworldofvault #isittheIlluminati? If you're interested the episode mentioned in Weird Tales begins on page 130: "he departed from the village" and ends on page 139: "hire a guide for the next stage," Though I don't know if it is complete in Tales. I haven't compared them.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 17, 2021 19:35:01 GMT
Mistress Librarian sounds like one of those books that turn up unexpectedly as recommendations on book searches on some sites. It would on this one, to be fair. Is your collection of these type of books a large one?
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Post by dem bones on May 17, 2021 20:20:12 GMT
It would on this one, to be fair. Is your collection of these type of books a large one? I read nothing else.
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Post by dem bones on May 18, 2021 11:07:25 GMT
If you're interested the episode mentioned in Weird Tales begins on page 130: "he departed from the village" and ends on page 139: "hire a guide for the next stage," Though I don't know if it is complete in Tales. I haven't compared them. Read the extract this morning, pretty much an eighteenth century The Terribly Strange Bed (albeit minus the bed). Is it typical of the Count's adventures? More specifically, is Ferdinand Count Fathom good for an abundance of murder and bloodshed, maybe even the odd 'supernatural' interlude or two? I hope not, because that might tempt me to attempt the whole bloody thing. Tobias Smollett - Adventure in a Forest: Fathom is arguably more sinned against than sinner in this episode, though it's a close one to call. Caught in a storm while crossing a forest thick with bandits, the Count seeks shelter at a lone cottage where the hostess, a kindly, harmless old woman, insists he spend the night in the guest chamber. Fathoms suspicions are aroused by the barred windows, and that's before he discovers the still-warm corpse concealed beneath several bundles of straw. Meanwhile the evil old baggage summons two robber confederates to perform their murderous business. The Count must think fast! Later "One of the earliest examples of the genre was Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753), by Tobias Smollett: this was probably the first novel (a form very much in its infancy) to propose terror and cruelty as its main themes." ā J. A. Cuddon, Introduction, Penguin Book of Horror stories, 1984. Damn!
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 18, 2021 12:40:07 GMT
If you're interested the episode mentioned in Weird Tales begins on page 130: "he departed from the village" and ends on page 139: "hire a guide for the next stage," Though I don't know if it is complete in Tales. I haven't compared them. Read the extract this morning, pretty much an eighteenth century The Terribly Strange Bed (albeit minus the bed). Is it typical of the Count's adventures? More specifically, is Ferdinand Count Fathom good for an abundance of murder and bloodshed, maybe even the odd 'supernatural' interlude or two? I hope not, because that might tempt me to attempt the whole bloody thing. It's part of the genre known as the picaresque novel,where a rogue type character wanders around having adventures and getting into trouble. I haven't read it (but I should), however it is mentioned in The Tale of Terror; a Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead, which I am reading intermittently at the moment. Don't look, as it contains spoilers, but I can quote to whet your appetite: The scene in Count Fathom, in which Renaldo, at midnight, visits, as he thinks, the tomb of Monimia, is surrounded with circumstances of gloom and mystery : " The uncommon darkness of the night, the solemn silence and lonely situation of the place, conspired with the occasion of his coming and the dismal images of his fancy, to produce a real rapture of gloomy expectation. . . . The clock struck twelve, the owl screeched from the ruined battlement, the door was opened by the sexton, who, by the light of a glimmering taper, conducted the despairing lover to a dreary aisle. As he watches again on a second night : " His ear was suddenly invaded with the sound of some few, solemn notes, issuing from the organ which seemed to feel the impulse of an invisible hand . . . reason shrunk before the thronging ideas of his fancy, which represented this music as the prelude to some- thing strange and supernatural." The figure of a woman, arrayed in a flowing robe and veil, approaches ā But you will have to read to find out who, or what, the figure is. Also he has wicked designs on a lady called Celinda, and fakes supernatural happenings, including using an Aeolian harp, to try to achieve his aims. Now I want to read it too. If you only want to read these scenes I can supply chapters for you.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 18, 2021 12:56:23 GMT
Later "One of the earliest examples of the genre was Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753), by Tobias Smollett: this was probably the first novel (a form very much in its infancy) to propose terror and cruelty as its main themes." ā J. A. Cuddon, Introduction, Penguin Book of Horror stories, 1984. Damn! Also, because of its age, you don't have to worry about the author caring about offending the moral sensibilities of his readers in the same way they did in later periods (though women like the Bluestockings in their salons would often debate and criticise writers). The Wiki entry says: Sir Walter Scott commented that the novel paints a "complete picture of human depravity". In which case I'm sure you will enjoy it.
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Post by dem bones on May 18, 2021 19:14:40 GMT
Thank you, Princess. Am gonna have to try get back into reading novels sooner or later and this sounds v. much my kind of thing. Trouble is, there are five ahead of it in the queue, so .... Maybe I'll cheat and cut straight to the tomb of Mominia for time being. Getting back to thread opener - were there any recognisable supernatural/ horror anthologies published before Tales of the Dead (UK, 1813), or rather the source for most of it's content, Fantasmagoriana (France, 1812)?
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