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The Haunted Woman (Canongate Classics) (Paperback)
by David Lindsay (Author)
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  • Paperback: 193 pages
  • Publisher: Canongate Books; New Ed edition (1 Jan 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0862411629
  • ISBN-13: 978-0862411626
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.4 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 453,576 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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4.0 out of 5 stars A HAUNTING STORY, 14 Mar 2001
This was David Lindsay's second book after 'A Voyage to Arcturus'. As the reading public had not responded to the grim metaphysical vision revealed in his first (and greatest) novel, he decided to bring his vision 'down to earth'. And so 'The Haunted Woman' is set, not on a strange planet, but in 1920's Brighton, and its characters are not alien cyphers but recognisable members of human society. The plot revolves around a strange house with an interdimensional upper storey reached by a phantom staircase. The heroine, engaged to a conventional businessman, finds herself strangely drawn both to the house and its owner, Mr Judge. The rigid mores of society keep them apart, but when they accidentally meet each other in the phantom upper storey of Judge's house, they recognise the fact that they are soul-mates and fall in love. The tragedy lies in the fact that when they return to the lower levels of the house, they cannot remember anything that took place in the rooms above. This bare outline of the plot cannot possibly convey the book's strange atmosphere. Reading it is a curious experience as it seems to operate on two different levels. One one level it is a conventional story of 'star-crossed lovers' set in 1920's England, with its associated intrigues and an interesting evocation of a vanished era; but on another level (when the action shifts to the weird upper storey of the ancient house) it becomes something else --- but what that 'something else' is, I must leave the reader to decide. One thing I guarantee, the book will haunt you for a long, long time after you have read it. David Lindsay was utterly unique as a writer, and this book is one of his best.
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