M. P. Shiel (1865–1947)
Forfatter af The Purple Cloud
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Værker af M. P. Shiel
The House of Sounds and Others: Including the Purple Cloud (Lovecraft's Library) (2005) 23 eksemplarer
The Dragon 8 eksemplarer
Here Comes The Lady 4 eksemplarer
The Yellow Wave 3 eksemplarer
Unto the Third Generation 3 eksemplarer
The Weird O'IT 3 eksemplarer
The House of Sounds [short fiction] 2 eksemplarer
The Bride 2 eksemplarer
Many a Tear 2 eksemplarer
Say au r'voir, but not goodbye 2 eksemplarer
THIS KNOT OF LIFE 2 eksemplarer
THE WHITE WEDDING 2 eksemplarer
The Pale Ape 2 eksemplarer
Above All Else 2 eksemplarer
Collected Works of M P Shiel Parts Edition 1 eksemplar
Orazio Calvo 1 eksemplar
The Bell of St. Sepulcre by MP Shiel 1 eksemplar
The Case of Euphemia Raphash 1 eksemplar
THE WORKS OF M.P. SHIEL Volume I 1 eksemplar
Phorfor 1 eksemplar
The Stone Of The Edmundsbury Monks 1 eksemplar
Dark Lot Of One Saul 1 eksemplar
SHIEL IN DIVERSE HANDS 1 eksemplar
THE WORKS OF M.P. SHIEL Volume II 1 eksemplar
THE NEW KING 1 eksemplar
M.P. SHIEL AND THE LOVECRAFT CIRCLE 1 eksemplar
CHINA IN ARMS 1 eksemplar
THE WORKS OF M.P. SHIEL Volume III 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Great Weird Tales: 14 Stories by Lovecraft, Blackwood, Machen and Others (2011) — Bidragyder — 57 eksemplarer
The Ghost of Fear and Others: H. P. Lovecraft's Favorite Horror Stories Vol. 1 (2012) — Bidragyder — 26 eksemplarer
Homefront Horrors: Frights Away from the Front Lines, 1914-1918 (2016) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
Friendly aliens : thirteen stories of the fantastic set in Canada by foreign authors — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Juridisk navn
- Shiell, Matthew Phipps
- Andre navne
- King Felipe I
- Fødselsdato
- 1865-07-21
- Dødsdag
- 1947-02-17
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Fødested
- Montserrat, British West Indies
- Dødssted
- Chichester, UK
- Bopæl
- Montserrat
- Uddannelse
- Harrison College, Barbados
Kings College, London - Erhverv
- Novelist
Playwright
Pedophile - Relationer
- Tracy, Louis (collaborator)
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- Værker
- 61
- Also by
- 29
- Medlemmer
- 1,230
- Popularitet
- #20,872
- Vurdering
- 3.6
- Anmeldelser
- 28
- ISBN
- 146
- Sprog
- 6
- Udvalgt
- 1
This is a horrific and chilling explanation, but after this the novel somewhat lost its way for me. Basically for months and then years he wanders around the world looking for survivors and there are endless descriptions of piles of bodies in streets, buildings, down mines (to try to escape the poison cloud) and so on - "the arrangement of One planet, One inhabitant, already seems to me, not merely a natural and proper, but the only natural and proper, condition; so much so, that any other arrangement has now, to my mind, a certain improbable, wild, and far-fetched unreality, like the Utopian schemes of dreamers and faddists....It seems to me not less than a million million aeons since other beings, more or less resembling me, walked impudently in the open sunlight on this planet, which is rightly mine". These thoughts are symptoms of a growing dislocation and megalomania. He starts to use his engineering skills to, highly implausibly, burn and destroy whole cities, and build himself an opulent palace in Greece. Eventually he finds one other survivor, but cannot decide on his attitude towards her and treats her horribly, though in time this changes. It is implied at the end that they are basically a new Adam and Eve.
This novel had many strengths as an early post-apocalyptic story, but the wanderings around the world were just too long and drawn out and affected the pace of the narrative, and the final encounter with the other survivor does not come across as realistic.… (mere)