Claude Askew (1865–1917)
Autor de Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer
Obras de Claude Askew
The Golden Girl — Autor — 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Askew, Claude Arthur Cary
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1865-11-27
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1917-10-05
- Lugar de sepultura
- Lost at sea
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Holland Park, Kensington, Middlesex, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Aboard the Italian steamer Città di Bari, about 37 miles from Paxo (torpedoed)
- Relaciones
- Askew, Alice (wife)
Miembros
Reseñas
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 3
- También por
- 13
- Miembros
- 77
- Popularidad
- #231,246
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 2
Anyway, the thing is a sort of novella parceled out as a string of loosely connected stories. Vance is just recalling old experiences in the first half but then asks Dexter to come along for the ride as new experiences arise. The stories themselves are truly bad, full of hackneyed plot devices and various genre tropes, however the whole has a certain quaint by the fireplace charm.
Nobody, including toddlers, would be frightened by any of this, as the stories read more like Edwardian fairy stories with the sprites replaced by spooks. There is some thickly veiled moral ambiguity that wouldn’t be present in most Victorian tales of this kind.
I actually didn’t hate it like I should have.… (más)