The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre [Audiobook] download free by John Polidori
- Listen audiobook: The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre
- Author: John Polidori
- Release date: 2008/4/27
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
- ISBN: 9780199552412
- Rating: 8.79 of 10
- Votes: 669
- Review by: Sara Tennant
- Review rating: 9.6 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/5
- Duration: 3H55M30S in 256 kbps (64 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-06
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, MPEG-4 ALS, MP3, WMA Lossless, WAV, FLAC, WMA, Shorten (compression ZIP, AZW4, RAR, TAR.LZO, EML, GZ)
- Total pages original book: 320
- Includes a PDF summary of 32 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 23M12S (6.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: `Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, 'a Vampyre, a Vampyre!'' John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Set in Italy, Greece, and London, Polidori's tales is a reaction to the dominating presence of his employer Lord Byron, and transformed the figure of the vampire from the bestial ghoul of earlier mythologies into the glamorous aristocrat whose violence and sexual allure make him literally a 'lady-killer'. Polidori's tale introduced the vampire intoEnglish fiction, and launched a vampire craze that has never subsided. `The Vampyre' was first published in 1819 in the London New Monthly Magazine. The present volume selects thirteen other tales of the macabre first published in the leading London and Dublin magazines between 1819 and 1838, including Edward Bulwer's chilling account of the doppelganger, Letitia Landon's elegant reworking of the Gothic romance, William Carleton's terrifying description of an actual lynching, and James Hogg's ghoulish exploitation of the cholera epidemic of 1831-2. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Historical Fiction, Classic Books & Novels, Short Story Books, Classic Horror, Horror
- Download servers: Microsoft OneDrive, FileServe, Torrent, Dropbox, JumpShare. Compressed in ZIP, AZW4, RAR, TAR.LZO, EML, GZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 9.23 USD
- Dimensions: 129x195x16mm
- Weight: 225g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Oxford, United Kingdom
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