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Klosterheim
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I've just finished reading Thomas de Quincey's only original novel, Klosterheim; or the Masque: although it's not written in his most phantasmagoric manner, apart from a brief dream sequence evoking the horrors of war, and seems of its period in a manner which Suspiria de Profundis, for instance, avoids, it's a fine, densely plotted, breathlessly paced romance.
The paperback edition issued by the University of Michigan Historical Reprint Series cost me about ten pounds, including p&p: the novel can be read online in Volume 2 of Memorials and Other Papers at Project Gutenberg.
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paul_holman)I've just finished reading Thomas de Quincey's only original novel, Klosterheim; or the Masque: although it's not written in his most phantasmagoric manner, apart from a brief dream sequence evoking the horrors of war, and seems of its period in a manner which Suspiria de Profundis, for instance, avoids, it's a fine, densely plotted, breathlessly paced romance.
The paperback edition issued by the University of Michigan Historical Reprint Series cost me about ten pounds, including p&p: the novel can be read online in Volume 2 of Memorials and Other Papers at Project Gutenberg.
Sample under the cut:
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