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Description:The Sacrifice and Other Stories includes four novella-length stories not published in the author’s lifetime. In ‘The Sacrifice’ a young artist encounters an Eastern-inspired tragedy in an idyllic English country garden, while ‘The Sea-Things’ is a marine mystery-story with a Red Sea setting. In the conte cruel ‘Number Fourteen’ the followers of an obscure South American religious cult gain curious influence over a beautiful dancer in post-War London, while in ‘The King of the Lake’ two young English-women are rescued from a Saharan sandstorm by mysterious horsemen and taken to a secret underground Lake.All of the works in this collection display Sarban’s ‘strange combination of daydream and nightmare’, first noted by Kingsley Amis, and continue the skilful exploration of his characteristically opposed themes of wonder and fear, power and enslavement, paradise and purgatory.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Sacrifice and Other Stories. To get started finding The Sacrifice and Other Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 256

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: The Tartarus Press

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ISBN: 187262166X

Description: The Sacrifice and Other Stories includes four novella-length stories not published in the author’s lifetime. In ‘The Sacrifice’ a young artist encounters an Eastern-inspired tragedy in an idyllic English country garden, while ‘The Sea-Things’ is a marine mystery-story with a Red Sea setting. In the conte cruel ‘Number Fourteen’ the followers of an obscure South American religious cult gain curious influence over a beautiful dancer in post-War London, while in ‘The King of the Lake’ two young English-women are rescued from a Saharan sandstorm by mysterious horsemen and taken to a secret underground Lake.All of the works in this collection display Sarban’s ‘strange combination of daydream and nightmare’, first noted by Kingsley Amis, and continue the skilful exploration of his characteristically opposed themes of wonder and fear, power and enslavement, paradise and purgatory.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Sacrifice and Other Stories. To get started finding The Sacrifice and Other Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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