Description:Chapters: Arthur Machen, Thomas Traherne, Hereford Cathedral School, Pete Farndon, Andrew Davies, Frederick Weatherly, Gordon Rawcliffe, Martin Baynton, Philip Wilson Steer, Ivor Stanley Watkins, Denis Apivor, Paul Thorburn. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 56. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Arthur Machen (pronounced ) (March 3, 1863 December 15, 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror. (Stephen King called it "Maybe the best in the English language.") He also is well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons. Arthur Machen's birthplaceMachen was born Arthur Llewelyn Jones, in Caerleon (now part of Newport), Monmouthshire, though he usually referred to the county by its Welsh name Gwent. The beautiful landscape of Monmouthshire, with its associations of Celtic, Roman, and medieval history, made a powerful impression on him, and his love of it is at the heart of many of his works. Machen's father, John Edward Jones, became vicar of the tiny church of Llandewi Fach, near Caerleon, and his son was brought up at the rectory there. Jones had adopted his wife's maiden name, Machen, to inherit a legacy, legally becoming "Jones-Machen"; his son was baptised under that name and later used a shortened version of his full name, Arthur Machen, as a pen-name. At the age of eleven, Machen boarded at Hereford Cathedral School, where he received an excellent classical education. Family poverty ruled out attendance at university, and Machen was sent to London, where he sat exams to attend medical school but failed to get in. Machen, however, showed literary promise, ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=3829We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Old Herefordians: Arthur Machen, Thomas Traherne, Hereford Cathedral School, Pete Farndon, Andrew Davies, Frederick Weatherly, Gordon Rawcliffe. To get started finding Old Herefordians: Arthur Machen, Thomas Traherne, Hereford Cathedral School, Pete Farndon, Andrew Davies, Frederick Weatherly, Gordon Rawcliffe, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Old Herefordians: Arthur Machen, Thomas Traherne, Hereford Cathedral School, Pete Farndon, Andrew Davies, Frederick Weatherly, Gordon Rawcliffe
Description: Chapters: Arthur Machen, Thomas Traherne, Hereford Cathedral School, Pete Farndon, Andrew Davies, Frederick Weatherly, Gordon Rawcliffe, Martin Baynton, Philip Wilson Steer, Ivor Stanley Watkins, Denis Apivor, Paul Thorburn. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 56. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Arthur Machen (pronounced ) (March 3, 1863 December 15, 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror. (Stephen King called it "Maybe the best in the English language.") He also is well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons. Arthur Machen's birthplaceMachen was born Arthur Llewelyn Jones, in Caerleon (now part of Newport), Monmouthshire, though he usually referred to the county by its Welsh name Gwent. The beautiful landscape of Monmouthshire, with its associations of Celtic, Roman, and medieval history, made a powerful impression on him, and his love of it is at the heart of many of his works. Machen's father, John Edward Jones, became vicar of the tiny church of Llandewi Fach, near Caerleon, and his son was brought up at the rectory there. Jones had adopted his wife's maiden name, Machen, to inherit a legacy, legally becoming "Jones-Machen"; his son was baptised under that name and later used a shortened version of his full name, Arthur Machen, as a pen-name. At the age of eleven, Machen boarded at Hereford Cathedral School, where he received an excellent classical education. Family poverty ruled out attendance at university, and Machen was sent to London, where he sat exams to attend medical school but failed to get in. Machen, however, showed literary promise, ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=3829We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Old Herefordians: Arthur Machen, Thomas Traherne, Hereford Cathedral School, Pete Farndon, Andrew Davies, Frederick Weatherly, Gordon Rawcliffe. To get started finding Old Herefordians: Arthur Machen, Thomas Traherne, Hereford Cathedral School, Pete Farndon, Andrew Davies, Frederick Weatherly, Gordon Rawcliffe, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.