Original Sins by Martin Edwards
A fascinating but shadowy figure of Romanticism, John Polidori was the sensitive but fierce writer behind one of literature's most notorious characters the vampyre. This short story reveals the seductive figure of evil, who continues to exert a powerful influence over popular culture and who cemented Polidori's status within the Gothic tradition. This collection also makes available many of Polidori's lesser-known and hard-to-find works, including a medical thesis on nightmares, an essay on the source of pleasures, poetry and personal diaries, and the novel Modern Oedipus. These works combine to help illuminate and deepen the reader's understanding of Romanticism and the Gothic.Martin Edwards is an award-winning British lawyer and the author of fourteen previous novels, including the Harry Devlin series set in Liverpool and four critically acclaimed Lake District Mysteries. He's written a number of short stories and curated sixteen anthologies of crime fiction. He is a well-known crime fiction expert who has also written eight non-fiction books. www.martinedwardsbooks.com and www.doyouwriteunderyourownname.blogspot.com/ are his websites and blogs, respectively.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780727869999 |
| ISBN 10 | 072786999X |
| Title | Original Sins |
| Author | Martin Edwards |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2010-11-03 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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