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When Robert Spinrobin, drifting through life in a daydream, answers a newspaper ad asking for an imaginative tenor with a grasp of ancient languages, he soon finds himself travelling to rural Wales and the home of ex-clergyman, Philip Skale. Here Skale, the housekeeper Mrs. Mawle... Read Full Overview

The Human Chord is a novel by Algernon Blackwood, published in 1910. The story follows the life of a successful and wealthy composer named Michael Fane, who is haunted by the memories of his past and the guilt he feels for abandoning his wife and child. Fane is a man of great... Read Full Overview

Algernon Henry Blackwood, (1869 -1951) was an English writer of supernatural fiction. Blackwood was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. Blackwood had a varied career, farming in Canada, operating a hotel, a newspaper reporter in New York, and essayist for various periodicals... Read Full Overview

WANTED, by Retired Clergyman, Secretarial Assistant with courage and imagination. Tenor voice and some knowledge of Hebrew essential; single; unworldly. Apply Philip Skale. Robert Spinrobin needed the work, and he took the dare -- swallowing the bait whole. Unworldly put the... Read Full Overview

The Human Chord is a novel written by Algernon Blackwood, a renowned British author of horror and supernatural fiction. The book tells the story of a successful musician named John Silence, who is haunted by a mysterious and unsettling feeling of emptiness in his life. As he... Read Full Overview

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Algernon Henry Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English writer of tales of the supernatural. In his late thirties, Blackwood started to write horror stories. He was very successful, writing ten books of short stories and appearing on both radio and television to tell them. He also... Read Full Overview

The Human Chord is a novel by Algernon Blackwood, first published in 1910. The story follows the life of a successful musician, Michael Fane, who is haunted by the memory of a woman he once loved and lost. Fane's pursuit of artistic perfection and his desire for a deeper connection... Read Full Overview

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

As a boy he constructed so vividly in imagination that he came to believe in the living reality of his creations: for everybody and everything he found names-real names. Inside him somewhere stretched immense playgrounds, compared to which the hay-fields and lawns of his father's... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 - 10 December 1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that "his... Read Full Overview