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Title: The Ghost Title Record # 2062597
Author: Wm. D. O'Connor
Date: 1867-00-00
Variant Title of: The Ghost (1856) (by William D. O'Connor) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
Note:
  • "The Ghost. A Christmas Story." --so listed by the publisher in its Autumn list, as published in Amer. Lit. Gaz. and Publ. Circular 1867-09-02 p246 There is no such subtitle on the front cover or title page (viewed at HathiTrust).
  • Reviewed as an imitation of Dickens, dismissively, The Athenaeum (London) 1867-12-14 p804; as an apparent imitation, positively on other grounds, The Round Table (New York) -12-07 p376
Synopsis: "Mr. O'Connor's Christmas story is really so good that we cannot but regret [the seeming imitation of Dickens] The incident on which the latter turns--the softening of a hard, proud spirit to unused charity and gentleness by ghostly influence--is substantially repeated in Mr. O'Connor's tale" --The Round Table 6:150 (1867-12-07) p376
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Ghost 1867-00-00 Wm. D. O'Connor G. P. Putnam & Son  
$1.25?$: US dollar
93
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
chap  
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