WAGNER THE WEHR-WOLF werewolf (where wolf) (ILLUSTRATED)

REYNOLDS, GEORGE W. M. & E F BLEILER (ED) & HENRY ANELAY ilust

ISBN 10: 0486220052 / ISBN 13: 9780486220055

Edité par Dover Publications, NY, 1975

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VERY GOOD CONDITION, clean, solid, bright ; Black titles on blue/grey paper covers showing black dog-wolf charging into crowd of men in white carrying torches. red cross coffin in transit cover art. ; 160 pages; Reynolds (1814 79) Victorian author of popular books, prominent political leader - Chartist movement . crusader for social, economic justice.

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• Titre: WAGNER THE WEHR-WOLF werewolf (where wolf) (ILLUSTRATED)
• Éditeur: Dover Publications, NY
• Date de parution: 1975
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0486220052
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780486220055
• Reliure: Paperback
• Illustrateur: Illustrated by ANELAY, HENRY LINE ILLUSTRATIONS(24)
• Édition: First Edition Thus.
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

Book by George WM Reynolds

Présentation de l'éditeur

This Wordsworth Edition is Edited by and includes an exclusive Introduction by Dick Collins.

In the midst of a wood of evergreens on the banks of the Arno, a man – young, handsome, and splendidly attired - has thrown himself upon the ground, where he writhes like a stricken serpent. He is the prey of a demoniac excitement: an appalling consternation is upon him – madness is in his brain – his mind is on fire. Lightnings appear to gleam from his eyes – as if his soul were dismayed, and withering within his breast. ‘Oh! no – no!’ he cries with a piercing shriek, as if wrestling madly - furiously – but vainly, against some unseen fiend that holds him in his grasp.

Aged and deserted, Fernand Wagner agrees to serve John Faust for the last year of his life. In return he is given youth, wealth and beauty – but at the terrible price of becoming a werewolf. He loves the glacial, beautiful, sensual Nisida, whose family history conceals a dreadful secret. Together they flee from Florence to a desert island: but dogged by the Inquisition, and by the might of the Ottoman Empire, they are finally forced to face the horror that lurks in the closet...

First published in 1847, Wagner the Werewolf is one of the very earliest treatments of the Werewolf theme in English literature, and has lost none of its power to shock, it is one of the greatest works of George W.M. Reynolds, once the most popular author in England, and the Master of the Penny Dreadful.