A biographical sketch of the author accompanies fifteen of his stories about ghosts, ancient cathedrals, lonely mansions, and spectral visitors

Ghost Stories of M. R. James

Literature & Fiction

M.R.James

Montague Rhodes James

Genre Fiction

Oxford University Press

Excerpt from A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts: In the Library of Peterhouse A very short statement of the arrangement and contents of this volume is all that is needed from me by way of preface. What has been already done by others in the way of cata loguing this Collection is as follows. 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 digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts: In the Library of Peterhouse (Classic Reprint)

History

Forgotten Books

Excerpt from The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, Vol. 2: A Descriptive CataloguePuckering was no collector of antiquities. Hardly any of his books are earlier than the seventeenth century: but his collection is made remarkable by the presence in it of the famous Milton manuscript. The numerous books connected with Prince Henry have also an interest Of their own: and the considerable mass of Italian documents probably contains a good deal Of interesting matter of which hitherto not much use has been made. The scribe of many of the Italian treatises was Jacopo di Castelvetro, who for some time taught Italian at Cambridge. His diary is among the Harleian Manuscripts (no.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, Vol. 2: A Descriptive Catalogue (Classic Reprint)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Excerpt from The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, Vol. 1: A Descriptive Catalogue I am not at this moment in a position to write a general introduction to the whole catalogue: I propose in this Preface to give some few indications of the principal sources whence the books have come, and to say something of the methods I have employed in describing them. In the volume called I7. Which is a Register of the benefactors of the College compiled by Sir Edward Stanhope, are to be found lists of the principal donations of mss. To the library - exclusive of the Gale mss. Three donors stand out conspicuously among these. The first is John Whitgift, Master of the College from 1567 to 1577, and Archbishop of Canterbury' from I 583 to 1603 - 4. 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 digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, Vol. 1: A Descriptive Catalogue (Classic Reprint)

Two men in a smoking-room were talking of their private-school days. ¿At our school ¿ said A. ¿we had a ghost¿s footmark on the staircase. What was it like? Oh very unconvincing. Just the shape of a shoe with a square toe if I remember right.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories

Science & Math

Benediction Classics

Excerpt from On the Abbey of S. Edmund at Bury: I, the Library, II, the ChurchThe two Essays contained in this volume have both of them grown out of papers read by me before the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. The circumstances which led me to write them are sufficiently set forth, I think, in the opening paragraphs of each: but I should like to take the present opportunity of explaining to my readers the reasons for the form in which the second of the two Essays appears here, and of anticipating certain criticisms which might reasonably be passed on it.It should by rights have been furnished with copious references to the Appendix which follows (and overshadows) it. But the truth is that this Appendix is in its present form an afterthought. I had originally intended to print only the new materials which I had discovered in the Register at Douai and in the manuscript at the College of Arms: but it became evident that extracts from the gesta Sacristarum would have to be added; and then that quotations from Jocelin de Braekelond were indispensable: and, not to make a long story of it, I ultimately decided to present my readers with the whole of the materials that lay before myself, and so to enable them to check the conclusions I had arrived at, by their own independent study of the documents I had used.Again, the issuing of the second Essay together with the first, as an "octavo publication," instead of allowing it to appear as an ordinary Communication, was another afterthought. It was not discussed until part of the text had been printed off. To me it seems a very happy idea, and I am very grateful to those who suggested and carried out the change. This fact will explain satisfactorily, I hope, the occurrence of some repetitions in the second Essay of facts alluded to in the first.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

On the Abbey of S. Edmund at Bury: I, the Library, II, the Church (Classic Reprint)

Arts & Photography

Architecture

A collection of short stories by a master of the genre. Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, (August 1, 1862 – June 12, 1936), who used the publication name M. R. James, was a noted British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918) and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature. One of James' most important achievements was to redefine the ghost story for the new century by dispensing with many of the formal gothic trappings of his predecessors, and replacing them with more realistic contemporary settings.

Thin Ghost And Others

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Two lectures on the Lost writings of Saint Peter.

The Gospel According to Peter & The Revelation of Peter

J. Armitage Robinson

TGS Publishing

M.r. James Ghost Stories

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Ghost Stories of M. R. James

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts: In the Library of Peterhouse (Classic Reprint)

The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, Vol. 2: A Descriptive Catalogue (Classic Reprint)

The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, Vol. 1: A Descriptive Catalogue (Classic Reprint)

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories

On the Abbey of S. Edmund at Bury: I, the Library, II, the Church (Classic Reprint)

Thin Ghost And Others

Thin Ghost And Others

The Gospel According to Peter & The Revelation of Peter

M.r. James Ghost Stories