Haunted and the Haunters

Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

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• Publié le: 08 décembre 2010
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Title: Haunted and the Haunters Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Release Date: November 28, 2004 [EBook #14195] Language: English

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS ***  

Produced by Robert Ciconnetti, Keith M. Eckrich, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

A STRANGE STORY. TO WHICH IS ADDED, THEHAUNTED AND THEHAUNTERS. BY EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ( LORD LYTTON .)

"To doubt and to be astonished is to recognize our ignorance. Hence it is that the lover of wisdom is in a certain sort a lover of mythi [Greek: phylomythos pôs], for the subject of mythi is the astonishing and marvellous."—SIR W. HAMILTON (after Aristotle), Lectures on Metaphysics , vol. i. p. 78.

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THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS;

OR, THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN.

.t"e shd annod ulwow eht tuh  ,swodni y oDw uo tna ynae on tatt haushoengibhroni graaes, said to me, " ".tel eb hw—!teL" whe ty,ho wanom ri"?,es   , IY"sed ithear to  was e reekweesththe no oac ea ,sn dn is dead kept itned ae d—,ah seb d refeof— J—. MreH .hcum os reve o stnd t foun be gu ht , oh eheryat