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Two hopeful, hapless romantics get drunk, get it on, and then get the hell away from each other. In her eyes, he's a mistake. A mistake who keeps turning up at parties. In his eyes, she's perfect. He's short-sighted. This achingly funny, romantic catastrophe fuses poetry and prose to ask if a one-night stand last a lifetime. A very human tale of good intentions and bad timing. Winner of 2012 Fringe First (for innovation and outstanding new w...

Excerpt from Frivolities, Especially Addressed to Those Who Are Tired of Being Serious Church of England, and the inscrutable laws of the Divine Benevolence have placed me in a position which makes such a loss a matter of cardinal importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotte...

Excerpt from The Devil's Diamond But he was a man of means. What has become of his property? Are you acquainted with his testa mentary depositions? Of course I am his natural heir. What has he left? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to ...

The Beetle' tells the story of a fantastical creature, "born of neither god nor man, " with supernatural and hypnotic powers, who stalks British politician Paul Lessingham through fin de siecle London in search of vengeance for the defilement of a sacred tomb in Egypt. Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stoker's Dracula, George du Maurier's Trilby, and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels. Like Dra...

Excerpt from Tom Ossington's Ghost She caught up the sheets of paper, fastened them together at the corner, crammed them into an envelope, scribbled a note, crammed it in after them, addressed the envelope, closed it, jumped up to get her hat, just as there came a rat-tat-tat at the hall-door knocker. Now, who's that? I wonder if it is that Miss Brice come for her lesson after all - three hours late. It will be like her if it is - but she sh...

Dirty Great Love Story is a funny, romantic story of catastrophe which fuses poetry and prose to ask if a one-night stand can last a lifetime?

By the author of "The Beetle: A Mystery", "Crime and the Criminal", etc.

First published in 1897 by the author of "The Beetle: A Mystery".

Reprinted from the seventh edition of 1900. By the same author as "The Beetle: A Mystery".

First published in 1897, the same year as Bram Stoker's "Dracula", Marsh's supernatural thriller "The Beetle" was initially even more popular.

Richard Marsh (1857-1915) is chiefly remembered for his horror novel iThe Beetle/i (1897) and for his supernatural fiction, but he was in fact a hugely prolific author, publishing as many as eight books in a year at the height of his popularity and proving himself adept not only as a writer of horror but also an accomplished author of short stories and comic fiction. In the lower-middle-class clerk Sam Briggs, whose adventures first appeared i...

Der Moment, in dem du gehen willst ...Hannah will Tom verlassen. Morgen sagt sie es ihm. Und dann erfüllt sie sich ihren Traum, nach Afrika zu gehen. Tom will an seiner Ehe festhalten, sei sie noch so eingefahren. Er ignoriert die Probleme, will einfach nur neben Hannah einschlafen und morgen ins Büro fahren. Doch dazu kommt es nicht ... Hannah und Tom wissen nicht, dass morgen alles anders sein wird. Dass Hannah ihre Pläne aufgeben muss und T...

We cannot help wincing, cannot help feeling that the author has committed an error of taste, cannot help hoping with all the vigour at our command that his example will not be followed. [...] We are compelled by conviction to express in clear terms the disfavour with which we regard audacious enterprises such as the one undertaken by the author of this novel." -- The Literary World, May 25, 1900 "Richard Marsh, author of A Second Coming, is ...

bTitle:/b The Mahatma's Pupil.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial...

p"Humorous and highly amusing." - iThe Scotsman/i br p"A really entertaining collection of stories. The lover of fiction could not desire a more entertaining volume." - iYorkshire Post/i br pOne of Richard Marsh's rarest works, iBetween the Dark and the Daylight/i (1902) contains twelve of Marsh's cleverest stories, ranging in theme from slapstick humour to Gothic horror. pIn "My Aunt's Excursion, " the opening story of the volume, an urbanite...

bTitle:/b The Beetle: a mystery, etc.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with subs...

bTitle:/b The Crime and the Criminal, etc. [A tale.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, ...

bTitle:/b The House of Mystery, etc.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with subst...

bTitle:/b The Datchet Diamonds, etc.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with subst...

bTitle:/b The Mystery of Philip Bennion's Death.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, alon...