To Be Read at Dusk: A Ghost Story Told by Couriers
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by John Everett Millais, John Atkinson Grimshaw and Caspar David Friedrich. Five couriers sit on a bench outside the convent at the top of the Great St Bernard, watching the sunset drain off the snow, and fall to arguing about things that happen without ghosts. The Genoese tells of an English bride who dreamed, before her wedding, of a dark man's face she had never seen, and then met its owner in Genoa. The German answers with a London merchant who sees his twin brother come into his room in white on the night the brother lies dying miles away. Dickens wrote the piece for The Keepsake in 1852 and lets the tales stand unexplained, as the couriers do. Fifty-eight plates by painters including William Powell Frith and John Atkinson Grimshaw, ranging from moonlit streets to a courtroom, set beside Dickens's tales of uneasy vision and things seen at a distance.
Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by John Everett Millais, John Atkinson Grimshaw and Caspar David Friedrich. Five couriers sit on a bench outside the convent at the top of the Great St Bernard, watching the sunset drain off the snow, and fall to arguing about things that happen w...
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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English novelist born in Portsmouth. Sent to work in a blacking factory at twelve when his father was imprisoned for debt, he became the most widely read author of his century. His works include Oliver Twist, Bleak House, Great Expectations, and, with Wilkie Collins, The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English novelist born in Portsmouth. Sent to work in a blacking factory at twelve when his father was imprisoned for debt, he became the most widely read author of his century. His works include Oliver Twist, Bleak House, Great Expectations, and, with Wilkie Col...
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