The Pantomime Man and Others (Paperback)

Richard Barnham Middleton's The Ghost Ship is one of the best-loved ghost stories in English literature, about which Arthur Machen wrote, I declare I would not exchange this short, crazy, enchanting fantasy for a whole wilderness of seemly novels. Middleton himself (1882-1911) was a tragic figure, a young man impatient for success, who managed to live the archetypal life of the Romantic Bohemian poet, complete with poverty, unrequited love for an impossible woman (a prostitute), despair, and an early suicide. While he published many pieces in the best magazines of the day, volumes of his work were published in his lifetime, as soon as he was dead, he was discovered. Four volumes of his collected works were in print within eighteen months. Three more followed in the next two decades. His poetry was acclaimed in the press as a new Keats, both for the brilliance of his work and the brevity of his life. such as The Coffin Merchant, On the Brighton Road, and The Conjurer, which only hint at the richness of the larger body of his work, and suggest what kind of a literary artist he would have become if he had lived. The Pantomime Man presents an unexpected treasure-trove of Middleton's writings. It was originally published a generation after the author's death, when it had been thought that the store of Middleton material had been exhausted.

General

Imprint:	Wildside Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2003
First published:	September 2003
Authors:	Richard Middleton
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	292
ISBN-13:	978-1-59224-005-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN:	1-59224-005-4
Barcode:	9781592240050

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