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Scarborough, Dorothy
The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917. First Edition. The dedication copy, INSCRIBED by the author to her parents (the dedicatees) on the dedication page: [To George and Anne Scarborough] / With love and gratitude from / Dot."
About Very Good lacking the scarce dust jacket, with some fray at the spine ends, rubbing to the cloth in a few spots, some stains to the page edges. Still, a generally clean copy.
The novelist, poetess, and scholar's second book, and her first book of non-fiction, a key early reference title on supernatural fiction that is still in print today. Scarborough went on to write a mystery ("Can't Get a Red Bird"), a book on folk songs in the North Carolina hills ("Song Catcher in the Southern Mountains") and a book on early African-American folk music ("On the Trail of Negro Folk Songs"). Though generally thought of today as a Texas author, Scarborough studied at University of Chicago and Oxford University, and was a young professor at Columbia University when this title was published. She taught creative writing at Columbia, and her students included Eric Walrond and Carson McCullers, who took her first college writing class from Scarborough.
Scarborough's most critically acclaimed novel, "The Wind," was filmed in 1928 by Victor Seastrom and starred Lillian Gish. [Book #122773]
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