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The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts (Dodo Press)
M. R. James
The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts (Dodo Press)
M. R. James
Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), who published under the byline M. R. James, was a noted medieval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905-1918) and of Eton College (1918-1936), best remembered today for his ghost stories in the classic Victorian Yuletide vein. He is most widely known for his ghost stories, but as a medieval scholar his output was phenomenal and remains highly respected in scholarly circles. His discovery of a manuscript fragment led to excavations in the ruins of the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, West Suffolk, in 1902, in which the graves of several twelfth-century abbots described by Jocelyn de Brakelond (a contemporary chronicler) were rediscovered, having been lost since the Dissolution. James's ghost stories were published in a series of collections: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919), and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925). Other works include Old Testament Legends (1913), Abbeys (1925), and Collected Ghost Stories (1931).
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | August 7, 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9781409974062 |
Publishers | Dodo Press |
Pages | 74 |
Dimensions | 150 × 5 × 225 mm · 122 g |
Language | English |
Contributor | C. Johnson |
Contributor | J. P. Whitney |
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