Casting the Runes Mainley-Piddock Jane
Casting the Runes Mainley-Piddock Jane The much-loved author Montague Rhodes James is best known today for his ghost stories. But for all this literary success, his lifetime's correspondence has…
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Casting the Runes Mainley-Piddock Jane
The much-loved author Montague Rhodes James is best known today for his ghost stories. But for all this literary success, his lifetime's correspondence has remained inaccessible in a Cambridge University archive - until now.This first ever collection of his personal letters has been meticulously curated, transcribed and annotated by Jamesian scholar Jane Mainley-Piddock to offer an unprecedented and overdue insight into a great and singular mind. Their popularity has kept them in print since the first collection was issued in 1931, and they've earned a cult following.
Through notoriously illegible handwriting, we learn of James's fear of spiders and his love of cats; his musings on the work of other contemporary authors; and a whole life's thoughts on a host of subjects - which shed light on the man himself: his family, his work, his relationships and preoccupations.