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The Diamond Lens
How I longed to discover the secret of some perfect lens, whose magnifying power should be limited only by the resolvability of the object, and which at the same time should be free from spherical and chromatic aberrations, in short from all the obstacles over which the poor microscopist finds himse... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, Charles Dickens and Others: Classic Ghost Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Wilkie Collins • Charles Dickens • Robert Louis Stevenson • John Grafton • M. R. James • J. S. Lefanu • Henry Wood • Amelia B. Edwards • Fitz-James O'Brien • Henry AmesAssembled from the works of the finest masters of the genre, these compelling narratives promise to raise gooseflesh and accelerate pulses with their supernatural scenarios.<P><P> Featured stories include J. S. LeFanu's "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street," with a mysteriou... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
Famous Modern Ghost Stories
by Edgar Allan Poe • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • Ambrose Bierce • Richard Le Gallienne • Arthur Machen • Guy De Maupassant • Anatole France • Algernon Blackwood • Robert W. Chambers • Fitz-James O'Brien • Leonid Andreyev • W. F. Harvey • Olivia Howard Dunbar • Wilbur Daniel Steele • Myla Jo ClosserClassic ghost stories of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, and others.In 1920, acclaimed author and editor Dorothy Scarborough collected what she believed to be the finest ghost stories of her time. Her quintessential anthology Famous Modern Ghost Storie... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021