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Packed with thrilling encounters and unforgettable descriptions from the weirdest ebb of the writer's mind, this anthology aims to introduce a new readership to Gilchrist's entrancing and influential oeuvre.

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Excerpt from Good-Bye to Market: A Collection of StoriesAs dainty an old woman as could be seen anywhere! The last time she went to Calton St. Anne's (she was seventy-six then, and for some weeks had been absent) she wore her best grey gown - of thin silk festooned with ruchings, her Paisley shawl - the ground white, the Indian palms a softened yellow, her scuttle bonnet with its crimped lawn cap, which, bleached as it was, was no snowier than...

Excerpt from A Peakland Faggot: Tales Told of Milton FolkWhen the waggon reached this perilous place, Joe Ascham got down from the high shaft, and, with a few sad clucks of encouragement, strove to make the young white horse proceed. Its shoes had not been sharpened, however, and at the first attempt it slipped back with such violence that the thing inside the waggon was jolted roughly against the side. At the sound the old man winced and crep...

Excerpt from The DukeriesNear by is the ruined chapel, erected about the middle of the thirteenth century. It was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and in olden times must have blazed with gorgeous colours. The roof has fallen, little remains of its former beauty save the lancet windows. The double piscina and the sedilia are still in fair preservation, and we are shown the round holes in the stonework once filled with the pegs of the canons' oake...

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Excerpt from Good-Bye to Market: A Collection of Stories That day she held in either hand the crook of an ash stick. Her eldest son, Jabez, offered his arm, but, being a proud woman, she refused his help, and although she still carried herself with dignity, one could see that her knees were no longer in good working order. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgott...

Excerpt from The DukeriesNear by is the ruined chapel, erected about the middle of the thirteenth century. It was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and in olden times must have blazed with gorgeous colours. The roof has fallen, little remains of its former beauty save the lancet windows. The double piscina and the sedilia are still in fair preservation, and we are shown the round holes in the stonework once filled with the pegs of the canons' oake...

Excerpt from A Peakland Faggot: Tales Told of Milton Folk Philemon: After I departed from you, and had taken my leave of my most sweet old mother, and of my other dear friends, I travelled into Derbyshire, and from thence into the Peak, whither I appointed my books and my clothes to be brought. Eusebius: Into the Peak? Lord God, what made you there? That is a marvellous and a barren country, and, as it is thought, such a country that neither...

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