ISBN: dc35b40fe0f7ee8a36570f6535bdcb06

MP3 Audio CD. Vandover and the Brute Chapter One It was always a matter of wonder to Vandover that he was able to recall so little of his past life. With the exception of the most rece… mais…

MP3 Audio CD. Vandover and the Brute Chapter One It was always a matter of wonder to Vandover that he was able to recall so little of his past life. With the exception of the most recent events he could remember nothing connectedly. What he at first imagined to be the story of his life, on closer inspection turned out to be but a few disconnected incidents that his memory had preserved with the greatest capriciousness, absolutely independent of their importance. One of these incidents might be a great sorrow, a tragedy, a death in his family; and another, recalled with the same vividness, the same accuracy of detail, might be a matter of the least moment. A certain one of these wilful fillips of memory would always bring before him a particular scene during the migration of his family from Boston to their new home in San Francisco, at a time when Vandover was about eight years old. It was in the depot of one of the larger towns in western New York. The day had been hot and after the long ride on the crowded day coach the cool shadow under the curved roof of the immense iron vaulted depot seemed very pleasant. The porter, the brakeman and Vandover's father very carefully lifted his mother from the car. She was lying back on pillows in a long steamer chair. The three men let the chair slowly down, the brakeman went away, but the porter remained, taking off his cap and wiping his forehead with the back of his left hand, which in turn he wiped against the pink palm of his right. The other train, the train to which they were to change, had not yet arrived. It was rather still; at the far end of the depot a locomotive, sitting back on its motionless drivers like some huge sphinx crouching along the rails, was steaming quietly, drawing long breaths. The repair gang in greasy caps, 0<

1970, ISBN: dc35b40fe0f7ee8a36570f6535bdcb06

Garden City: Doubleday, 1914. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-ix [x] [1-2] 3-354 [355: printer's imprint] [356-358: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original terra cotta cloth, front panel stam… mais…

Garden City: Doubleday, 1914. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-ix [x] [1-2] 3-354 [355: printer's imprint] [356-358: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original terra cotta cloth, front panel stamped in gold and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. This novel, completed by Norris in 1895 (it was written almost simultaneously with McTEAGUE), was not published until twelve years after his death. The unrevised manuscript, in storage and presumed destroyed in a warehouse fire following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, was edited by Charles G. Norris. The novel, influenced by the writings of Zola, "... details a man's mental disintegration till he lives and acts like a wolf." - Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 139. "A landmark work of macabre fiction ... One of the grimmest, most terrifying accounts of the moral degeneration of a soul ever penned, it documents the gradual descent into madness of a fine, sensitive young man, who becomes so deranged that he imagines he has been physically transformed into a wolf and runs naked on all fours about his room howling 'wolf, wolf!'" - Frost, The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature, p. 97. BAL 15046. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 N-129. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1883. Neat 1916 Christmas gift inscription on front free endpaper. Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, a bright, nearly fine copy. (#110059), Doubleday, 1914, 0<