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The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens

von Charles Dickens

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Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits. His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a brilliant teller of ghost tales, and in the twenty stories presented here, which include his celebrated A Christmas Carol, the full range of his gothic talents can be seen. Chilling as some of these stories are, Dickens has managed to inject characteristically grotesque comedy as he writes of revenge, insanity, pre-cognition and dream visions, he indulges also in some debunking of contemporary credulity. Stories include: The Queer Chair / A Madman's Manuscript / The Goblins who Stole a Sexton The Ghosts of the Mail / The Baron of Grogzwig / A Christmas Carol The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain / To be Read at Dusk / Four Ghost Stories The Haunted House / The Trial for Murder (to be taken with a grain of salt) / The Signalman Christmas Ghosts / The Lawyer and the Ghost / The Ghost in the Bride's Chamber A Child's Dream of a Star / Well-Authenticated Rappings / Mr Testator's Visitation The Portrait-Painter's Story / Captain Murderer and the Devil's Bargain AUTHOR Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most memorable characters. His novels and short stories have never gone out of print. A concern with what he saw as the pressing need for social reform is a theme that runs throughout his work. Much of his work first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialised form, a favoured way of publishing fiction at the time. Dickens, unlike others who would complete entire novels before serial publication commenced, often wrote his in parts, in the order in which they were meant to appear. The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by one cliffhanger after another to keep the public eager for the next installment.… (mehr)
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Il miglior racconto: Il segnalatore (The Signalman); tra l’altro è l’unico ricompreso nella raccolta Ghost Stories, Delphi Classics (ebook scaricabile gratuitamente dal sito della Delphi - https://www.delphiclassics.com/ -.

Per associazione mi sovviene la grande magnanimità di Sua Santità … della Biblioteca Civica di Verona che, in questi giorni giubilari, concede la possibilità di scaricare ben due ebooks (ripeto uno uno, e non cito Dostoevskij che scriveva due due) invece di uno al mese (come succede solitamente ed anche a febbraio, per giunta!).

Alla notizia mi levai il cappello (o bareta - in dialetto veneto - che fosse) e mi prostrai. Il colpo della strega che ne conseguì mi impedisce di leggere agevolmente seduto in poltrona (probabilmente l’esimio e benemerito aveva ragione: non si possono leggere più di due ebooks al mese).
Jawohl, meine Fuerher!

Per associazione, ancora una volta, la doppia esse di Sua Santità mi sovviene di un’altra doppia esse, i quali ultimi per scaldarsi le mani nelle notti gelide teutoniche bruciavano i libri per impedirne la lettura.

Ma tutte queste associazioni ci conducono solo ad un unico risultato: vietare la lettura dei libri!

Infine ben sappiamo che l’esimio di cui sopra preferisce (essendo sprovvisto di olfatto) che i suoi sudditi (ossia i frequentatori assidui della biblioteca) siano solo persone che nulla hanno a che fare con la lettura dei libri e la deduzione logica non può essere che la seguente: un ebook o due ebooks non fa differenza, l’importante è la poltrona conquistata geometricamente (come Spinoza: Ethica more geometrico demonstrata): con una esposizione a 90° ai vari politicanti.

Alcuni brani:

Signori, il ponce caldo è una cosa piacevole – estremamente piacevole in ogni circostanza – ma in quella vecchia accogliente saletta, davanti al fuoco scoppiettante col vento fuori che soffiava tanto da far scricchiolare ogni trave della vecchia casa, Tom Smart lo trovò paradisiaco.
(52)

Seduta accanto a lui su una lapide verticale stava una strana figura spettrale, che, Gabriel lo capí subito, non apparteneva a questo mondo.
(65)

la nostra storia ha almeno una morale: che se un uomo è triste e beve da solo la sera di Natale, può star certo che non ci guadagnerà nulla…
(72)

Non ho mai confuso lo scampanellare dello spettro con quello dell’uomo. Il suono del fantasma è come una strana vibrazione nel campanello che non è provocata da niente di esterno; e non ho detto che la campana vibri in modo visibile all’occhio.
(206)

Quella gentile signora nubile aveva come abito mentale una forte vena di superstizione, e tra le altre inclinazioni, le piaceva leggere in solitudine, nella propria stanza, vicino a una candela infilata in un candeliere che aveva ricavato da un teschio umano.
(268)

Gorgoni, e Idre, e Chimere – truci storie di Celeno e delle Arpie – si possono riprodurre nel cervello della superstizione, ma c’erano già da prima. Esse sono trascrizioni, tipi: gli archetipi sono in noi, ed eterni.
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  NewLibrary78 | Jul 22, 2023 |
I read the first couple of these only. Both were fairly interesting, but neither can be reasonably called a "ghost story" in any meaningful sense, they're just strange stories. One features an odd chair that gives romantic advice (rather Blytonesque than horrific) and the other is simply a lunatic's account of his life. Both had the typical Dickensian style, full of verbosity and extravagant phrasings, making them simultaneously characterful and somewhat clunky. Both were also extracts from "The Pickwick Papers", rather than written to be short stories. Considering all this, I decided there was no reason to keep reading. If I want to read the Pickwick Papers I might as well do that properly; if I want to read ghost stories, the evidence suggests this is not a good anthology. And to be honest a little of Dickens' style goes a long way.
I'm really torn on how to rate this. The stories aren't bad in and of themselves, but as a ghost story anthology it is a miserable sham. I'm giving it one star, but no blame attaches to Dickens for that. Well... very little. Paid by the word, is all I can say. ( )
1 abstimmen Shimmin | Feb 5, 2014 |
IMHO the best stuff he did, his novels bore me to tears ( )
  Georges_T._Dodds | Mar 30, 2013 |
Note to self, you may already have this, and it's possible you're forgetting. Time to recheck the shelves!
  bookishbat | Sep 25, 2013 |
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Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits. His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a brilliant teller of ghost tales, and in the twenty stories presented here, which include his celebrated A Christmas Carol, the full range of his gothic talents can be seen. Chilling as some of these stories are, Dickens has managed to inject characteristically grotesque comedy as he writes of revenge, insanity, pre-cognition and dream visions, he indulges also in some debunking of contemporary credulity. Stories include: The Queer Chair / A Madman's Manuscript / The Goblins who Stole a Sexton The Ghosts of the Mail / The Baron of Grogzwig / A Christmas Carol The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain / To be Read at Dusk / Four Ghost Stories The Haunted House / The Trial for Murder (to be taken with a grain of salt) / The Signalman Christmas Ghosts / The Lawyer and the Ghost / The Ghost in the Bride's Chamber A Child's Dream of a Star / Well-Authenticated Rappings / Mr Testator's Visitation The Portrait-Painter's Story / Captain Murderer and the Devil's Bargain AUTHOR Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most memorable characters. His novels and short stories have never gone out of print. A concern with what he saw as the pressing need for social reform is a theme that runs throughout his work. Much of his work first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialised form, a favoured way of publishing fiction at the time. Dickens, unlike others who would complete entire novels before serial publication commenced, often wrote his in parts, in the order in which they were meant to appear. The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by one cliffhanger after another to keep the public eager for the next installment.

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