A Phantom Lover Vernon Lee,
Publisher: Wildside Press
ISBN: 0809593769
DDC: 813
Edition: Paperback; 2004-03-01
Summary:
My Dear Boutourline, Do you remember my telling you, one afternoon
that you sat upon the hearth stool at Florence, the story of Mrs. Oke
of Okehurst? You thought it a fantastic tale, you lover of fantastic
things, and urged me to write it out at once, although I protested
that, in such matters, to write is to exorcise, to dispel the charm;
and that printers' ink chases away the ghosts that may pleasantly
haunt us, as efficaciously as gallons of holy water. But if, as I
suspect, you will now put down any charm that story may have
possessed to the way in which we had been working ourselves up, that
firelight evening, with all manner of fantastic stuff -- if, as I
fear, the story of Mrs. Oke of Okehurst will strike you as stale and
unprofitable -- the sight of this little book will serve at least to
remind you, in the middle of your Russian summer, that there is such
a season as winter, such a place as Florence, and such a person as
your friend, Vernon Lee Kensington, July 1886.
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