Essays from the Guardian
- ISBN-10
- 0836913701
- ISBN-13
- 9780836913705
- Pages
- 148
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1920
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Company
- Author
- Walter Pater
Description
There is surely something of "natural magic" in that! The wilder capacity of the mountains is brought out especially in a weird story of a haunted girl, an episode well illustrating the writer's more imaginative psychological power; for, in spite of its quiet general tenour, the book has its adroitly managed elements of sensation---- witness the ghost, in which the average human susceptibility to supernatural terrors takes revenge on the sceptical Mr. Wendover, and the love-scene with Madame de Netteville, which, like those other exciting passages, really furthers the development of the proper ethical interests of the book.
