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A chi è rivolto
Readers who like ghost tales told with wit and atmosphere, fans of Victorian Christmas fiction, and anyone who enjoys a narrator who tries to explain the strange and fails.
Che cos’è questo libro
Some ghosts ring a bell. Some wave from beside a red light. He wrote such tales for the Christmas season, when readers liked a shiver beside the fire. Each one comes in a different voice, and each narrator tells what he saw and then refuses to explain it. Each tale also asks what a ghost really is: a trick of the mind, a warning, or a memory that will not let go.
In questo riassunto
- 1A rented house and a sister's planFree
- 2Master B. haunts the mirror and the night
- 3Two men and a face in Piccadilly
- 4Twelve jurors and one more
- 5A signalman troubled by a red light
- 6Doubters, tone and the unseen
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A rented house and a sister's plan
The first tale begins in daylight, which is the point. The narrator, John, comes upon a damp, neglected house called the Poplars. The landlord at the village inn says he would not sleep there and speaks of bells, banging doors and footsteps.
Bells ring with nobody ringing them. One bell is labelled Master B., and it rings most often. John rents the house for six months, and within hours a young servant sees Eyes and falls into hysterics. Fear spreads from room to room.
Then his sister Patty proposes a bold cure. A chosen party of friends will live there for three months, with no servants, and all agree to say nothing of strange events until Twelfth Night.
That’s 1 of 6 key points.
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Questions about Tre racconti di fantasmi
What are the three ghost stories by Charles Dickens in this book?
The book holds The Haunted House, The Trial for Murder and The Signalman. The first is a comic and tender tale about a rented house, the second follows a juror haunted by a murdered man, and the third is set beside a railway tunnel.
Who is Master B. in The Haunted House?
Master B. is the ghost said to haunt a small triangular garret. A bell labelled with his initial rings most often. The narrator cannot settle what the B stands for, and the narrator, who sleeps in the room, spends many nights guessing.
What does the red light mean in The Signalman?
The red light is the danger signal beside the mouth of a railway tunnel. It is the spot where the signalman sees a figure that waves and cries out, so the light comes to stand for warning and dread.
Are these stories easy to read in one sitting?
Each tale is short, told in a plain first-person voice, and moves from scene to scene with lively talk. You can read one tale at a time, and the shifts between humor and chill keep each story fresh.
What is the main idea behind these ghost stories?
Dickens uses ghosts to ask how people handle things they cannot explain. Fear, memory, duty and doubt run through all three, and each narrator tries to find a reasonable answer before facing what he has seen.