Vincent O'Sullivan

• Oct-2023
• / Thriller
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Wonderfully crafted stories from a master of the macabreVincent James O'Sullivan (1868-1940) was an American -born in New York City-author of macabre stories and odd poetry. Oscar Wilde (who was a friend)commented, ' In what a midnight his soul seems...

• Mar-2023
• / Literary
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In Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, we last see Dr Frankenstein’s Creature shunned by human society and crossing the Arctic wasteland. What if he were rescued by an eccentric English expedition intent on sailing from pole to pole and back &ndas...

• Oct-2020
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-2020
• / General Fiction
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A Dissertation Upon Second Fiddles, first published in 1902 is a collection of four, slightly interconnected, stories. O'Sullivan's characters flit between the stories, all of which have a slightly moralistic purpose. However, O'Sullivan's macabre se...

• Aug-2020
• / General Fiction
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To help a man is like reviving an assassin who has designs on your life. ... A sense of obligation engenders a sense of hate.This book of monologues contains twenty-five short, pithy, often cynical, prose pieces from the acerbic pen of the late ninet...

• Jan-2020
• / General Fiction
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Presenting thirty-five stories from seven collections published over more than forty years, Vincent O'Sullivan's Selected Stories is a milestone in the career of one of New Zealand's leading writers....

• Oct-2019
• / General Fiction
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Vincent O’Sullivan (1868â€"1940) was born into a prosperous Irish American family in New York and moved to London as a child. However, Vincent spent much of his life in the demi-monde world that is the setting of many of his stories.

First...

• Oct-2018
• / Literary
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f we don't have the past in mind, it is merely history. If we do, it is still part of the present. Esther's grandparents first meet at a church dance in London in 1947. Stephen, a shy young Kiwi, has left to practise pharmacy on the other side of the...

• Jan-2017
• / General Fiction
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In "Sentiment", Vincent O'Sullivan looks inside the lives of a group of middle-class English people just before the start of the first world war. The story centres around the love affairs of four young people and how they interact. O'Sullivan pick...

• Nov-2015
• / General Fiction
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In what a midnight his soul seems to walk! and what maladies he draws from the moon!Vincent O'Sullivan looks inside the lives of a group of middle-class English people just before the start of the first world war. The story centres around the love af...

• Jul-2014
• / Horror
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Solis Press are proud to reprint this collection of seven short horror tales from Vincent O'Sullivan, the master of the decadent and macabre.Vincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940) was born into a prosperous Irish American family in New York and moved to Lond...

• May-2011
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• May-2010
• / General Fiction
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A generous selection from New Zealand's foremost writer of short stories.Peter Simpson in reviewing Owen Marshall's stories in the New Zealand Listener wrote: 'Marshall is held in uncommon affection by New Zealand readers - generally we admire and re...

• 2003
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• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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The infamous Dr Crippens mistress finds a new life in Auckland in the early decades of the century. A French nun works amongst the disabled and the poor. Young Spicer, a slow-witted lad finds himself deeply involved in the lives of both. Together the...

• Feb-1993
• / General Fiction
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Unknown to many readers in the United States, New Zealand enjoys a rich tradition of short fiction dating back well into the nineteenth-century. Now there is a book that brings together a wide range of these marvelous tales in one handsome, compact v...

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