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The Willows is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories . Two friends are taking a break from a canoe trip down the snaking, sinuous Danube River when they discover the corpse of a peasant... Read Full Overview

The Willows is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories . Two friends are taking a break from a canoe-trip down the snaking, sinuous Danube River when they discover the corpse of a peasant... Read Full Overview

East of Vienna, a canoe trip down the length of the Danube River turns strange and horrifying. The two men traveling find it bad enough when they are forced to camp on an isolated island in the middle of nowhere while gale-force winds howl and waters rise. But soon, the threats... Read Full Overview

Considered by H.P. Lovecraft to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature, "The Willows" is a classic example of early modern horror and "weird fiction".As two men travel down the Danube River on a canoe trip, they are harassed by sinister supernatural forces, felt... Read Full Overview

The change came suddenly, as when a series of bioscope pictures snaps down on the streets of a town and shifts without warning into the scenery of lake and forest. We entered the land of desolation on wings, and in less than half an hour there was neither boat nor fishing-hut... Read Full Overview

"They first became properly visible, these huge figures, just within the tops of the bushes -- immense, bronze-colored, moving, and wholly independent of the swaying of the branches. I saw them plainly and noted, now I came to examine them more calmly, that... Read Full Overview

The Willows is famous for being influential on a number of later writers, in particular horror author H.P. Lovecraft who praised it as the finest supernatural tale in English literature. The set-up is intriguing: Two friends are taking a break from a canoe-trip down the snaking,... Read Full Overview

A lo largo de su vida, desempe oficios muy variados en Norteam rica: granjero en Canad , encargado de un hotel, minero en Alaska, reportero en Nueva York. De vuelta a Inglaterra, comenz a escribir relatos de terror, con gran xito. Como a otros escritores brit nicos del g... Read Full Overview

Newly recruited Scotland Yard detective Gabriel Syme infiltrates a dangerous underworld anarchist group with the help of a poet he befriends, named Lucian Gregory. The taut adventure that ensues is part spy narrative, part dystopian novel and part Christian allegory. Chesterton's... Read Full Overview

The Willows is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment-river,... Read Full Overview

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This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's... Read Full Overview

"The Willows" is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft... Read Full Overview

"The Willows" is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered... Read Full Overview

Great revelations of nature, of course, never fail to impress in one way or another, and I was no stranger to moods of the kind. Mountains overawe and oceans terrify, while the mystery of great forests exercises a spell peculiarly its own. But all these, at one point or another,... Read Full Overview

English author Algernon Blackwood first published "The Willows" in his 1907 book The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best-known works and has impacted a lot of writers after him. It was regarded by horror writer H.P. Lovecraft is the best supernatural story... Read Full Overview

Algernon Henry Blackwood, (1869 -1951) was an English writer of supernatural fiction. Blackwood was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. Blackwood had a varied career, farming in Canada, operating a hotel, a newspaper reporter in New York, and essayist for various periodicals... Read Full Overview

"The Willows" is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. "The Willows" is an example of... Read Full Overview