Isabella Bruschi

A cura di I. Bruschi 
 
 Six short stories having the world of the supernatural as their main theme.
 Disquieting and mysterious presences, suspense, the atavic fear of the unknown are the characteristic ingredients of these stories.
 They were written in a pre-freudian time where the irrational was still unknown and therefore enigmatic and threatening. Taken from top-level authors – E. A. Poe, J. K. Jerome, E. G. Swain, E. F. Benson, M. R. James, J. G. Lang – they are accompanied by inserts on supernatural entities and on cultural and historical aspects related to the contents of the tales. 
 
 Teacher's Resources available online: Answer Key - Transcripts - Summing-up Activities
 
 Sei racconti che hanno come tematica il mondo del soprannaturale.
 Presenze inquietanti e misteriose e la paura atavica dell’ignoto sono gli ingredienti di queste storie in cui, in un’epoca pre-freudiana, l’irrazionale risulta completamente sconosciuto e minaccioso.
 Tratte da autori di grande livello – E. A. Poe, J. K. Jerome, E. G. Swain, E. F. Benson, M. R. James, J. G. Lang – sono corredate dalle biografie degli autori, da schede sulle "short stories" e "ghost stories" e su aspetti storico-culturali collegati ai contenuti dei racconti.

Introduction

Edgar Allan Poe

Ligeia

Extension: A film director who loved Poe

Montague Rhodes James

The Rose Garden

Extension: What’s in a rose

Jerome Klapka Jerome

A Ghost Story

Extension: Supernatural company

John George Lang

The Ghost upon the Rail

Extension: Transportation to Australia

Edmund Gill Swain

Bone to his Bone

Extension: Ghosts, spirits or human imagination?

Edward Frederick Benson

The Confession of Charles Linkworth

Extension: The death penalty in the U.K.

Summing-up activities

Keynes in Sussex, where Fred prepared his father s book on the life of St. Cyprian for publication. Then, for a brief period Fred served as administrator of a Red Cross fund for the Greek refugees from Thessaly, victims of the Graeco-Turkish War of 1897. On his way back to England, he visited Capri and began a love affair with the island which lasted for decades and coloured much of his future writing. Tremans remained the family s base until Fred s mother died in 1918, even though the children were all grown up and spent much of their time elsewhere. His works included novels, comedies, memoirs, social commentaries, a number of important biographies, books about many aspects of sport, and dozens of supernatural and ghost tales which are still attractive. E.F. Benson is perhaps best known today for his delightful series of books presenting Emmeline Lucas (Lucia) and her social rival, Elizabeth Mapp. Published in the 1930 s, the stories are set primarily in Rye (called Tilling) after beginning in Broadway in the Cotswolds (called Riseholme). The books portray the rivalries, plots and melodramas of small town life and are rich in descriptions of settings immediately recognisable to anyone who has walked the streets of Rye. Benson also wrote a series of books which are invaluable to students of the social and dynastic background to World War I. These include Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria s Daughters, King Edward VII, The Kaiser and English Relations, and The Outbreak of War. Among his other biographies are books on Sir Francis Drake, Ferdinand Magellan and Charlotte Bronte. Benson s connection with Rye began in 1900, the year of his first visit to Henry James, the novelist, who lived at Lamb House in Rye. In 1920 he moved to Rye and lived there in Henry James s former residence, until his death in 1940. E.F. Benson served three terms as Mayor of Rye in the late 1930s. In 1938 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, an honour earlier given to Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling. Fred Benson died on February 29, 1940, ten days after delivering his last manuscript to his publisher. He is buried in the town cemetery just outside of Rye. 116 

  The Confession of Charles Linkworth BEFORE READING 1 Here below three different kinds of confession are listed.Which one do you think the story deals with?   a confession of faith   a confession of murder   a confession of sins 2 Here below there are some definitions of the word  confession . Cross out the one which is not appropriate.         3 Disclosure of a secret Acknowledgement of offence, sin, crime Act of self-mortification Declaration of religious creed The characters in the story are a shopkeeper, a doctor, a prison warder and a priest; who do you think will make and who will receive the confession? Confesses shopkeeper doctor prison warden priest Sheffield railway station (1898). 117 Receives the confession 

Sei racconti gotici con atmosfere inquietanti e figure misteriose da autori come E. A. Poe, J. K. Jerome, E. G. Swain, E. F. Benson, M. R. James e J.

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