The King in yellow I /
The Repairer of Reputations takes place in a near-future America, where the protagonist, Hildred Castaigne, is recovering from a head injury and becomes obsessed with a mysterious man named Mr. Wilde, who claims to restore reputations. As Hildred's delusions increase, the story delves into them...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Olympia :
Pegana Press,
2024.
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| Edition: | Deluxe limited edition. |
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| Summary: | The Repairer of Reputations takes place in a near-future America, where the protagonist, Hildred Castaigne, is recovering from a head injury and becomes obsessed with a mysterious man named Mr. Wilde, who claims to restore reputations. As Hildred's delusions increase, the story delves into themes of madness, power, and distorted reality, with a dark atmosphere surrounding a forbidden play, The King in Yellow. |
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| Item Description: | Introduction by Robert Silverberg. Frontispiece by Gary Gianni, color illustrations throughout by Michael Hutter, and cameo decorations by Jacob Blanchet. A short story by Robert W. Chambers, originally published as the first story in the short story collection The King in yellow published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. "This deluxe limited edition ... has been signed by all living contributors and is restricted to thirty copies only"--Preliminary page. The Cushing Library/Science Fiction copy is no. 20 and is signed by the contributors. |
| Physical Description: | 60 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm |