Capes, Bernard, 1854-1918: A Castle in Spain: Being Certain Memoirs, Thus Entitled, of Robin Loïs, Ex-Major of His Majesty's 109th Regiment of Foot (page images at Google US access only).Capes, Bernard, 1854-1918: Bag and Baggage (multiple formats at ).Capes, Bernard, 1854-1918: At a Winter's Fire (Gutenberg text).Fisher Unwin, 1908) (multiple formats at ) Capes, Bernard, 1854-1918: Amaranthus: A Book of Little Songs (London: T.Capes, Bernard, 1854-1918: Adventures of the Comte de la Muette During the Reign of Terror (page images at Google US access only).Online Books by Bernard Capes (Capes, Bernard, 1854-1918)Ī Wikipedia article about this author is available. Does anyone survive the book? I'm still wondering.Bernard Capes (Capes, Bernard, 1854-1918) | The Online Books Page The Online Books Page Not just humanity, our narrator can't even walk home through the woods without stumbling over a bunny "with glazing eyes and the stab of the ferret tooth behind her ear."Secret after secret is unveiled in paroxysms of terror and hatred but babbling madness usually raises more questions than it answers. dearly loves the handling of the grim, the uncanny, and the morbid he is a master in the painting of suffering humanity, suffering as a shuttle tossed by the hand of Fate." (Star, 1903, review of the later London edition).
An American book but an English story by an English writer, it was well enough described by the Star reviewer in Christchurch, New Zealand: "The author. Doubtless the innocuous title and sylvan binding is partly to blame.
First edition of this long neglected thriller, a murder mystery soaked in horror and the uncanny, missed by bibliographers for a century. A bit used, a few spots, a large owner's name on the front fly still a most acceptable copy. Octavo publisher's illustrated cloth blocked in gilt and green.
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