The Book of Dreams and Ghosts. Andrew Lang

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       Andrew Lang

      The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4057664644589

Table of Contents

       PREFACE TO THE NEW IMPRESSION

       PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

       CHAPTER I

       THE DOG FANTI

       MARK TWAIN’S STORY

       THE PIG IN THE DINING-ROOM

       THE MIGNONETTE

       THE LOST CHEQUE

       THE DUCKS’ EGGS

       THE LOST KEY

       THE LOST SECURITIES

       THE ARREARS OF TEIND

       THE TWO CURMAS

       THE ASSYRIAN PRIEST

       THE KNOT IN THE SHUTTER

       CHAPTER II

       QUEEN MARY’S JEWELS

       THE DEATHBED

       DREAM OF MR. PERCEVAL’S MURDER

       THE RATTLESNAKE

       THE RED LAMP

       THE SCAR IN THE MOUSTACHE

       THE CORAL SPRIGS

       THE SATIN SLIPPERS

       THE DEAD SHOPMAN

       NOTE

       CHAPTER III

       STORY OF THE DIPLOMATIST {56a}

       UNDER THE LAMP

       THE COW WITH THE BELL

       THE DEATHBED OF LOUIS XIV.

       CHAPTER IV

       THE OLD FAMILY COACH

       RIDING HOME FROM MESS

       THE BRIGHT SCAR

       THE VISION AND THE PORTRAIT

       THE RESTRAINING HAND

       THE BENEDICTINE’S VOICES

       THE MAN AT THE LIFT

       CHAPTER V

       THE WRAITH OF THE CZARINA

       AN “ASTRAL BODY”

       IN TAVISTOCK PLACE {93}

       THE WYNYARD WRAITH {95b}

       LORD BROUGHAM’S STORY

       THE DYING MOTHER {101}

       THE VISION OF THE BRIDE

       CHAPTER VI

       APPEARANCES OF THE DEAD

       THE DAEMON OF SPRAITON IN DEVON {111} ANNO 1682

       SIR GEORGE VILLIERS’ GHOST.

       CAVALIER VERSION {121}

       WYNDHAM’S LETTER

       LORD LYTTELTON’S GHOST