Title: Ghosts and Family Legends
Title Record # 1617063
Author: Catherine Crowe
Date: 1859-00-00
Type: COLLECTION
Language: English
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Author: Catherine Crowe
Date: 1859-00-00
Type: COLLECTION
Language: English
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- From the 1859 edition (viewed as a Google Books scan):
- The title page byline credits 'Mrs. Crowe, authoress of "Night Side of Nature," &c.'; the preface closes 'Catherine Crowe.' and '15th October, 1858.'
- The Preface presents the frame narrative as nonfiction. Within that frame every story is printed in quotation marks, with its dialogue in two sets of quotation marks.
- The second paragraph of the frame narrative: "After some discussion on the existence of ghosts and cognate subjects, it was agreed that each should relate a story, restricting himself to circumstances that had either happened to himself or had been told him by somebody fully entitled to confidence, who had undergone the experience." Throughout the frame narrative Crowe identifies participants by title and initial such as Mr. R., Miss P., Captain S., Madame Von B.
- The first part of the book, "Round the Fire", is framed as ghost stories told by members of a house party. It is divided into eight "evenings". Various stories told on each evening are given titles in the Contents listing for that evening, which don't appear in the text itself. (Those informal story titles are listed in the 1859 publication record.)
- "Round the Fire" is followed by an "Appendix" containing purported correspondence: letters sent to Crowe, which narrate further ghostly experiences. She states that she is reprinting them verbatim, but has reduced the authors' names to initials.
- The second part of the book, "Legends of the Earthbound", purports to be family legends told by members of the same house party.
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| Ghosts and Family Legends: A Volume for Christmas | 1859-00-00 | Mrs. Crowe | T. C. Newby | 10/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
vii+ 339 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |||
| Ghosts and Family Legends | 2005-00-00 | Catherine Crowe | Sarob Press (Mistresses of the Macabre #7) | 1-902309-56-1 | £25.00?£: UK pound |
xii+ 115 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Paul Lowe | |
| Ghosts and Family Legends: A Volume for Christmas | 2012-04-19 | Mrs. Crowe | Project Gutenberg | 39485 | $0.00?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | |||
| Ghosts and Family Legends: A Volume for Christmas. | 2012-11-11 | Catherine Crowe | CreateSpace | 978-1-4802-9354-0 | $8.95?$: US dollar |
248 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | ||
| Ghosts and Family Legends | 2012-12-15 | Catherine Crowe | CreateSpace | 978-1-4812-6963-6 | $7.25?$: US dollar |
124 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll |