WHEN GHOST MEETS GHOST, by WILLIAM DE MORGAN — Henry Holt & Co. (Feb., 1914)

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WHEN GHOST MEETS GHOST, by WILLIAM DE MORGAN — Henry Holt & Co. (Feb., 1914):
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WHEN GHOST MEETS GHOST

by WILLIAM DE MORGAN

Henry Holt & Co. (Feb., 1914)

Condition: no jacket, pages are fine and not loose, but binding is coming apart in the front and a little bit in the back. Faint price mark on inside back cover.862 pages. Looks like a first edition.

On-line reviews / commentaries:

\" Please understand,\" says the writer, \"that the story is giving at great length incidents that passed in fractions of a minute—incidents Time recorded currents calamo for Memory to rearrange at leisure.\" After this explanation, it is difficult either to commend or to condemn the amazing length of Mr. de Morgan\'s novel. Here is a book which must of necessity be set aside for a summer holiday, for long, lazy days with its nine hundred closely printed pages; and yet there is in it not one word too many, not a trace of verbosity or accumulation. It is rather that Mr. de Morgan\'s powers of observation have by now been strung up to an abnormally high pitch, so that each detail is minutely described, each simile worked out to its logical con- clusion. Add to this faculty it eo mplex plot, ands dense crowd of characters, and the length of the book is not only explained, but atoned for. Moreover, the writer\'s English is, as usual, admirable. We cannot, for the pleasure it gave us, and for its delightful spirit, refrain from quoting the following sentence : For these were the days of crinolines; of hair in cabbage-nets, packed round rubber-inflations ; of what may be called proto-croquet, with hoops so large that no one ever failed to get through, except you and me ; the days when dih the kt marts was the last new tune, and Landseer and Mulready the last words in Art.”

The temptation with De Morgan is to keep describing stuff from his books, in the hopes that I’ll accidentally succeed in conveying how great they are, and I have a feeling it’s not working. Let me try again.

When Ghost Meets Ghost is like a Victorian novel, only it was written in the teens and the omniscient narrator is perfectly clear about the fact that the events of the novel occurred fifty years previously. It’s full of interesting characters and suspenseful situations, and you always end up knowing a little more about any given person than you actually need to — in a good way. Ridiculous things happen, but De Morgan makes them seem normal. Things get sad sometimes. It’s like Dickens, a little, but less sentimental and more modern and self-aware, if not always by much. It’s also frequently, subtly feminist.

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