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Wie ihre Zeitgenossen Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling oder Jack London versteht es Elinor Mordaunt, ihre zwei Leidenschaften, das Reisen und das Schreiben, zu verbinden: 1923 geht sie im Auftrag der Londoner Zeitung The Daily News auf Weltreise. An Bord eines Frachtdampfers und eines heruntergekommenen Schoners reist sie über Tahiti auf die Fidschi-Inseln, wo sie als Gast des obersten Häuptlings die Bräuche der Einheimischen kennenlernt. Mit Witz ...

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Elinor Mordaunt was the pen name of Evelyn May Clowes (1872-1942), a prolific and popular novelist and short story writer, working in Australia and Britain in the first thirty-five years of the twentieth century.Melissa Edmundson has curated this selection of the best of Mordaunt's supernatural short fiction, which blend the technologies and social attitudes of modernity with the classic supernatural tropes of the ghost, the haunted house, pos...

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Excerpt from The Venture BookBoredom drives me, the dust and ashes of the easily obtainable drive me, strangeness draws me like a master hand on my heartstrings.And yet I do not know why. I am happy in a house of my own, or a single room of my own. I love my books, my own household gods. But there is something else, another self - and I would give much to know how many other people are charmed and tortured by this other self - which is like a ...

Excerpt from Lu of the RangesFold upon fold the forest draped the undulating sides of the Main Ranges, and filled the valley, broken only by an occasional landslip, a splash of tawny earth and rubble, and the disintegrated roots of trees, with a new growth struggling to life above their fallen bodies. For est myrtles, distorted and moss-grown, mountain-ash, black-butt, and the towering trunks of battalions of white stringy bark, beneath these,...

Excerpt from Laura CreichtonHenry the Eighth, bluff King Hal, and Catharine of Aragon went a-maying upon Shooters' Hill.To-day the may-trees are incorporated with trim hedges, urban lawns. But for all that, they are still there, flowing over the top of the hill, cropping up amid the crowded villas and model dwellings which cluster about the foot of it, petering out, tamed and enclosed, along the road to Black-neath, all amid the gardens of St....

Excerpt from The Venture Book Boredom drives me, the dust and ashes of the easily obtainable drive me, strangeness draws me like a master hand on my heartstrings. And yet I do not know why. I am happy in a house of my own, or a single room of my own. I love my books, my own household gods. But there is something else, another self - and I would give much to know how many other people are charmed and tortured by this other self - which is lik...

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Excerpt from Lu of the RangesFold upon fold the forest draped the undulating sides of the Main Ranges, and filled the valley, broken only by an occasional landslip, a splash of tawny earth and rubble, and the disintegrated roots of trees, with a new growth struggling to life above their fallen bodies. For est myrtles, distorted and moss-grown, mountain-ash, black-butt, and the towering trunks of battalions of white stringy bark, beneath these,...

Excerpt from Laura Creichton Henry the Eighth, bluff King Hal, and Catharine of Aragon went a-maying upon Shooters' Hill. To-day the may-trees are incorporated with trim hedges, urban lawns. But for all that, they are still there, flowing over the top of the hill, cropping up amid the crowded villas and model dwellings which cluster about the foot of it, petering out, tamed and enclosed, along the road to Black-neath, all amid the gardens of...

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