The Chatto Book of Ghosts

Jennifer Uglow

Book (20 Oct 1994)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Jenny Uglow's anthology gathers together the literature of ghosts in the form of stories, poems, newspaper extracts and film scripts. It ranges from supernatural events in the Bible and Norse epics, through the 19th-century writers, Dickens and James, to contemporaries like Will Self, A.S. Byatt, Seamus Heaney, Angela Carter, Michel Roberts and Peter Ackroyd.;Themes include: premonitions; revenge; guilt; things that go bump in the night; love; and soldiers and sailors. These are woven together into a chronicle of the supernatural and its uses over the past 200 years.

About the Publisher

Chatto & Windus

Chatto was founded in 1855 by a bookseller-publisher called John Camden Hotten. On Hotten's death, Andrew Chatto, who had worked there since he was fifteen, acquired the business with a sleeping partner, W.E. Windus. In 1917, The Hogarth Press was founded by Virginia and Leonard Woolf, and in 1946 this too came under Chatto's management. The firm published many significant writers and classics - R.L. Stevenson, Lytton Strachey, Marcel Proust, Laurie Lee, Christopher Isherwood, Rosamond Lehmann, Henry Green, Sigmund Freud and Iris Murdoch. Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate, was editorial director in the 1960s.

Book information

ISBN:	9780701161477
Publisher:	Chatto & Windus
Imprint:	Chatto & Windus
Pub date:	20 Oct 1994
DEWEY:	809.9337
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	479
Weight:	-1g