The Black Spider

✍ Gotthelf, Jeremias 📂 Fiction 📅 1842 🏛 John Calder 🌐 English ⚖ 66 KB

After one of their own people repeatedly fails to live up to a pact with the Devil, a petty and morally backrupt village community is plagued by a swarm of deadly black spiders. Using a complex narrative structure, Gotthelf's cautionary novella shrewdly dissects teh iniquitous social dynamics of rur

The Black Spider

✍ Gotthelf, Jeremias;Waidson, Herbert Morgan 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 John Calder 🌐 English ⚖ 70 KB

After one of their own people repeatedly fails to live up to a pact with the Devil, a petty and morally backrupt village community is plagued by a swarm of deadly black spiders. Using a complex narrative structure, Gotthelf's cautionary novella shrewdly dissects teh iniquitous social dynamics of rur

The Black Spider

✍ Gotthelf, Jeremias;Waidson, Herbert Morgan 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 John Calder 🌐 en-ca ⚖ 73 KB

After one of their own people repeatedly fails to live up to a pact with the Devil, a petty and morally backrupt village community is plagued by a swarm of deadly black spiders. Using a complex narrative structure, Gotthelf's cautionary novella shrewdly dissects teh iniquitous social dynamics of rur

The Black Spider

✍ Jeremias Gotthelf 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 New York Review Books 🌐 English ⚖ 70 KB

An NYRB Classics Original It is a sunny summer Sunday in a remote Swiss village, and a christening is being celebrated at a lovely old farmhouse. One of the guests notes an anomaly in the fabric of the venerable edifice: a blackened post that has been carefully built into a trim new window fram

The Black Spiders

✍ John Creasey 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 House of Stratus 🌐 English ⚖ 286 KB

When the earthquake strikes the Island of Canna, rocks are split open and buried strata are revealed. But what is not foreseen is the release of swarms of deadly poisonous spiders. Department Z is faced with this horror as they also try to deal with a vicious maniac, whose crimes are slowly revealed

The Black Spiders

✍ Creasey, John 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 House of Stratus 🌐 English ⚖ 286 KB

When the earthquake strikes the Island of Canna, rocks are split open and buried strata are revealed. But what is not foreseen is the release of swarms of deadly poisonous spiders. Department Z is faced with this horror as they also try to deal with a vicious maniac, whose crimes are slowly revealed