The Shadow on the Wall

Edité par Edward Arnold, 1904

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Coleridge, M. E. The Shadow on the Wall: A Romance. London: Edward Arnold, 1904. First edition. Original navy blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, bottom edge of text-block untrimmed. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-ix [x: blank] xi [xii: blank] [1] 2-286 [287-288: publisher's ads] + 16-page inserted publisher's catalogue dated October 1904. Top edge a bit dusty, a bright nearly fine copy. #3309. $225. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907) was a great-grand niece to S. T. Coleridge and successfully published fiction and poetry. Her fiction is described as "fantastic, obscure but memorable" (Kemp, Mitchell, Trotter, Edwardian Fiction, p. 71). Sutherland (Victorian Fiction, pp. 137-138) calls her work "very extravagant," "unusually clever," "superior" and "sprightly" and remarks that her "quirky, oblique mode of narration grows on the reader." The present title is a dark, complex and elusive tale with strong hints of the fantastic and criminous. It presents a gloomy meditation on themes implicit in the imagery of shadows -- along with such cognates as portraits, mirrors, impersonations, illusions, ghosts, psychological dislocations, and guilty or bitter memories. The story's milieu is that of artists and musicians, young men and women sensitive to the competing demands of art and love. Its basic structure is tragic. The past, with its crimes and mistakes, follows each character like an inseparable but unstable shadow, or, to use the terminology of Greek myth and drama, nemesis. The present title was the only one of the author's novels to be listed in Hubin as a crime novel. But here there is no detective except for the inexorable workings of nemesis. And the very existence of a crime or crimes is only revealed with a delayed and gradual narration of the all-important back-story. Three English art students had formed a quasi-romantic triangle whose intense and jealous friendships eventually bring about the deaths of all three men. (This tragic trio also might be understood as a "shadow" or reversal of the warm trio of English art students presented in Du Maurier's enormously popular Trilby, published ten years earlier.) The densely tangled Parisian back-story is the mainspring of all the novel's subsequent events. The author makes use of elements -- structural, thematic and atmospheric -- from several popular story types of the day. A genuine ghost does make an appearance late in the novel, but it is the air of fatalism hanging over the whole thing that anchors this novel most firmly in the domain of the fantastic.…

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Détails bibliographiques

Titre
The Shadow on the Wall
Auteur
Coleridge, M. E.
Éditeur
Edward Arnold
Année de publication
1904
État de l'article
Fine
Jaquette
No Jacket
Reliure
Hardcover
Édition
1st Edition

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When I began my bookselling business in 1996 I called it "Eldritch Books" because that adjective at least partly covered the type of material I offered (and because its similarity to my own surname seemed so -- eldritch). "Ghost stories" would be another handy, if somewhat reductive, term. Most of it is fiction from the 19th and early 20th century with a strong emphasis on the fantastic. Since the most familiar and relevant genre terms in use today -- "science fiction," "fantasy," "supernatural," "horror" -- were not so much in use when these books were first published, pegging them that way can be anachronistic. But that should give you the general idea. I don't have much in the way of American pulp (either in magazine or specialty press book form) but otherwise my interests range widely from high-brow to middle-brow to low-brow to amateur/eccentric. You're more likely to find rare and obscure works here than high spots. (Or at least they're obscure now, whatever their status was when first published.) In 2001 I went to work for L. W. Currey as cataloguer and general assistant. Since 2014 I've been back working on my own. I have exhibited at convention fairs (such as WFC and Readercon) in the past. I began collecting and studying antiquarian fantasy around 1980. Some of my essays have appeared in genre publications such as NYRSF, Wormwood and F&SF. I tend to carefully research my inventory and write extensive notes. (If another dealer wishes to make use of any of these notes, I'd appreciate the courtesy of putting such excerpts in quotes and giving proper attribution to me. That's what I do when I quote from any of my reference works.) I will be gradually listing my inventory on ABE over the coming years. I hope you find something of interest. …

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