Name: The Centaur (in English)
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Author: Blackwood, Algernon
ISBN: 9781495307829

Type

Physical Book

Author

Algernon Blackwood

Publisher

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Language

Inglés

Pages

212

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9781495307829

Synopsis "The Centaur (in English)"

Algernon Blackwood was a short story writer and novelist, most noted for his stories "The Willows" and "The Wendigo". Here, presented for your enjoyment, is one of his great novels, "The Centaur". O'Malley is travelling on a cruise through the Greek islands when he meets two mysterious men, a father and a son. O'Malley finds these handsome men strangely fascinating and is happy to discover the will all be sharing a cabin aboard the ship. While walking on the shore tricks of light seem to join the pair into a single being; at times a third much larger being seems to join them. Is O'Malley hallucinating, going mad, or is a dark and ancient force at work. This is a Print-On-Demand reprint of the original book. Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. This version was originally printed in 1911.

Algernon Blackwood

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(Reino Unido, 1869 - 1951). Escritor de relatos fantásticos, periodista y locutor de radio. Narró sus propios escritos en radio y televisión y escribió una autobiografía de sus primeros años. Su escrito, Los Sauces, es considerado uno de los mejores cuentos de terror de la historia. Fue una de las principales influencias de H.P. Lovecraft, quien lo definió como «maestro absoluto e incuestionable de la atmósfera espectral».

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