An edition of The return (1910)

The return

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Walter De la Mare
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An edition of The return (1910)

The return

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After visiting a graveyard, a man finds his appearance has mysteriously changed. Returning home only to be received with horror and suspicion by his family, he must reckon with the social consequences of his bizarre transformation, while searching for an explanation and solution.

Walter de la Mare has a reputation for crafting ghost stories of philosophical depth and haunting ambiguity. The Return, one of only two of his long-form supernatural works, follows this trend, and sees de la Mare exploring ideas of personal identity, spirituality, and the consequences of living in blind adherence to social expectations. Functioning as a fantastical agent of mid-life crisis, Arthur Lawford’s condition uproots the foundations of his existence and casts into doubt all he had taken for granted about himself and his place in the world.

There are no cheap scares or easy answers in The Return. It’s a work rich with enigmatic detail, describing a struggle to find meaning in a world where nothing is certain; a theme as relevant and recognizable now as when the novel was first published in 1910.

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Publisher
Arno Press
Language
English
Pages
312

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2022, Standard Ebooks
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1997, Dover Publications
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1991-01-01, Terrain vague
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1976, Arno Press
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1922, A.A. Knopf
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1922, Collins
in English
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1911, G.P. Putnam's Sons
in English
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1911, Putnam
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1910, E. Arnold

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Edition Notes

Reprint of the 1910 ed. published by E. Arnold, London.

Published in
[New York]
Series
Supernatural and occult fiction

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/12
Library of Congress
PZ3.D3702 Re12, PR6007.E3 Re12

The Physical Object

Pagination
312 p. ;
Number of pages
312

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5215400M
ISBN 10
0405081243
LCCN
75046266
OCLC/WorldCat
3103513
Goodreads
6599931

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