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The Purple Cloud is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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'Can you doubt it? in the shape of a cloud, the pitch of a thrush's note, the nuance of a sea-shell you would find, had you only insight enough, inductive and deductive cunning enough, not only a meaning, but, I am convinced, a quite endless significance. Undoubtedly, in a human document of this kind, there is a meaning; and I may say at once that this meaning is entirely transparent to me. Pity only that you did not read the diary to me before. ... Read more

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I asked with what motives, and in what particulars, the malice of his mother and aunt manifested itself. He replied that there was, he believed, no specific motive, but only a determined malevolence, involuntary and fated; and that the respect in which it manifested itself was to be found in the multiplied prayers and commands with which, for years, they had importuned him to seek again the far hold of his ancestors. ... Read more

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Chapters: Bertoleoni, M. P. Shiel, Gregor Macgregor, Danny Wallace, Lars Vilks, James Harden-Hickey, David Rappaport, John Gawsworth, Marie-Charles David de Mayréna, Giorgio Carbone, Tomas Cloma, Paddy Roy Bates, Richard Booth, Michael Bates, Ari Peltonen, Leicester Hemingway, Dennis Wardlow, David O'keefe, Robbie the Pict, Nick Copeman, Michael Oliver, Martin Coles Harman. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 110. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Matthew Phipps Shiel (21 July 1865 17 February 1947) was a prolific British writer of West Indian descent. His legal surname remained "Shiell" though he adopted the shorter version as a de facto pen name. He is remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances. His work was published as serials, novels, and as short stories. The Purple Cloud (1901; 1929) remains his most famous and often reprinted novel. Matthew Phipps Shiel, (originally spelled Shiell), was born on the island of Montserrat in the West Indies. His mother, Priscilla Ann Blake, was most likely the daughter of freed slaves, while his father, Matthew Dowdy Shiell, was most likely the illegitimate child of an Irish Customs Officer and a slave woman. Shiell was educated at Harrison College in Barbados. Shiell moved to England in 1885, eventually adopting Shiel as his pen name. After working as a teacher and translator he broke into the fiction market with a series of short stories published in The Strand and other magazines. His early literary reputation was based on two collections of short stories influenced by Poe published in the Keynote series by John Lane, Prince Zaleski (1895) and Shapes in the Fire (1896), considered by some critics to be the most flamboyant works of the English decadent movement. His first novel was The Rajah's Sapphire (1896), based on a plot by...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1086030 ... Read more

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Well, the memory seems to be getting rather impaired now, rather weak.
What, for instance, was the name of that parson who preached, just
before the _Boreal_ set out, about the wickedness of any further attempt
to reach the North Pole? I have forgotten! Yet four years ago it was
familiar to me as my own name.

Things which took place before the voyage seem to be getting a little
cloudy in the memory now. I have sat here, in the loggia of this Cornish
villa, to write down some sort of account of what has happened--God
knows why, since no eye can ever read it--and at the very beginning I
cannot remember the parson's name.

He was a strange sort of man surely, a Scotchman from Ayrshire, big and
gaunt, with tawny hair. He used to go about London streets in shough
and rough-spun clothes, a plaid flung from one shoulder. Once I saw him
in Holborn with his rather wild stalk, frowning and muttering to
himself. He had no sooner come to London, and opened chapel (I think in
Fetter Lane), than the little room began to be crowded; and when, some
years afterwards, he moved to a big establishment in Kensington, all
sorts of men, even from America and Australia, flocked to hear the
thunderstorms that he talked, though certainly it was not an age apt to
fly into enthusiasms over that species of pulpit prophets and
prophecies. ... Read more

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Chapters: C. S. Lewis, Michael Moorcock, Susan Cooper, M. John Harrison, Michael Marshall Smith, David Gemmell, M. P. Shiel, Kenneth Bulmer, Robert Holdstock, William Gilbert, Tanith Lee, Simon R. Green, Jyoti Guptara, Mike Ashley, Anne Perry, Stephen Hunt, Gwyneth Jones, David Clement-Davies, Brian Jacques, Michael de Larrabeiti, Mary Gentle, Joe Abercrombie, Louise Cooper, Jonathan Stroud, Liz Holliday, Natasha Rhodes, Moyra Caldecott, Mary Hoffman, Ian R. Macleod, Lady Georgia Byng, Philip Caveney, Jan Siegel, William King, Geraldine Mccaughrean, Joy Chant, Stan Nicholls, Rosemary Harris, Tom Arden, Mark Robson, Adrian Tchaikovsky, John Grant, Elizabeth Kay, Mark Smith, Roz Kaveney, F. W. Bain, Freda Warrington, Geraldine Harris, Catherine Banner, Charles Butler, Maggie Furey, Christopher Hodder-Williams, Jane Gaskell, Alison Spedding, Patrick Tilley, Jane Welch, Jessica Rydill, Hilary Bailey, Tobias Druitt, Alan Campbell, Jonathan Barnes. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 267. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is also known for his fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy. Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, and both authors were leading figures in the English faculty at Oxford University and in the informal Oxford literary group known as the "Inklings". According to his memoir Surprised by Joy, Lewis had been baptised in the Church of Ireland at birth, but fell away from his faith during his adolescence. Owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends, at t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5813 ... Read more

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In the Calle Las Gabias--one of those by-streets of Lisbon below St.
Catherine--there occurred one New Year a little event in the
Synagogue there worth a mention in this history of Richard, Lord of
the Sea.

It was Kol Nidrè, eve of the Day of Atonement, and the little Beth-
El, sweltering in a dingy air, was transacting the long-drawn
liturgy, when, behind the curtain where the women sat, an old dame
who had been gazing upward smote her palms together, and let slip a
little scream: "The Day is coming...!"

She then fainted, and till near ten lay on her bed, lit by the Yom
Kippur candle, with open eyes, but without speech, her sere face
still beautiful, on each temple a little pyramid of plaits, with
gold-and-coral ear-rings: a holy _belle._ About ten P.M. three women
watching heard her murmur: "My child, Rebekah...!"

She was childless, and whom she meant was not known. However, soon
afterwards there was a form at the amulet-guarded door, and Estrella
sat up, saying: "Rebekah, my child..."

A young lady of twenty-two ran in and embraced her, saying: "I have
been to Paris and Madrid with my father--just arrived, so flew to
see you. We leave for London to-night".
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Montserratian Musicians, Montserratian Politicians, Montserratian Writers, M. P. Shiel, William Henry Bramble, Arrow, Maizie Williams, John Osborne, Reuben Meade, Lowell Lewis, Justin Cassell, Percival Austin Bramble, David Brandt, Bertrand Osborne. Excerpt: Matthew Phipps Shiel (21 July 1865 17 February 1947) was a prolific British writer of West Indian descent. His legal surname remained "Shiell" though he adopted the shorter version as a de facto pen name. He is remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances. His work was published as serials, novels, and as short stories. The Purple Cloud (1901; 1929) remains his most famous and often reprinted novel. Matthew Phipps Shiel, (originally spelled Shiell), was born on the island of Montserrat in the West Indies. His mother, Priscilla Ann Blake, was most likely the daughter of freed slaves, while his father, Matthew Dowdy Shiell, was most likely the illegitimate child of an Irish Customs Officer and a slave woman. Shiell was educated at Harrison College in Barbados. Shiell moved to England in 1885, eventually adopting Shiel as his pen name. After working as a teacher and translator he broke into the fiction market with a series of short stories published in The Strand and other magazines. His early literary reputation was based on two collections of short stories influenced by Poe published in the Keynote series by John Lane, Prince Zaleski (1895) and Shapes in the Fire (1896), considered by some critics to be the most flamboyant works of the English decadent movement. His first novel was The Rajah's Sapphire (1896), based on a plot by William Thomas Stead, who probably hired Shiel to write the novel. Shiel's popular reputation was made by another work for hire. This began as a se... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1086030 ... Read more