โ Haruki Murakami
๐ Fiction
๐
2008
๐ Einaudi
๐ Italian
โ 105 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
After Dark
โ Scribed by Wilkie Collins
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 537 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A prolific author of the Victorian era, Wilkie Collins (1824โ89) specialized in tales of suspense. The forerunners of today's detective and suspense fiction, his best-known works include The Moonstone and The Woman in White. The six short stories of After Dark โ tales of murder, mystery, and family drama โ originally appeared in the periodical Household Words, which was published by Collins's friend and fellow storyteller Charles Dickens.
The opening sequence, "Leaves from Leah's Diary," in which an itinerant painter of portraits reminisces about some of his most curious subjects, provides a narrative framework for the stories. "The Traveller's Story: A Terribly Strange Bed," relates an insomniac gambler's brush with disaster. "The Lawyer's Story: A Stolen Letter" involves blackmail, and "The French Governess's Story: Sister Rose" unfolds in Paris during the Revolution. "The Angler's Story: The Lady of Glenwith Grange" recounts a...
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### From Publishers Weekly Murakami's 12th work of fiction is darkly entertaining and more novella than novel. Taking place over seven hours of a Tokyo night, it intercuts three loosely related stories, linked by Murakami's signature magical-realist absurd coincidences. When amateur trombonist and