W. C. Morrow
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| - | "THIS volume is written to show the life of the students in the Paris of to-day. It has an additional interest in opening to inspection certain phases of Bohemian life in Paris that are shared both by the students and the public, but that are generally unfamiliar to visitors to that wonderful city, and even to a very large part of the city's population itself. It depicts the under-side of such life as the students find,—the loose, unconventional life of the humbler strugglers in literature and art, with no attempt to spare its salient features, its poverty and picturesqueness, and its lack of adherence to generally accepted standards of morals and conduct." | + | "At this moment, however, he lived in the clouds; he breathed and glowed with the spirit of shiftless, proud, [[starving]] [[Bohemianism]] as it is lived in Paris, benignantly disdainful of the great moiling, money-grubbing world that roared around him, and perhaps already the adoration of some girl of poetic or artistic tastes and aspirations, who was serving him as only the Church gives a woman the right."--''[[Bohemian Paris of To-day]]'' (1899) by W. C. Morrow |
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| - | '''William Chambers Morrow''' (7 July 1854, [[Selma, Alabama]] – 3 Avril 1923, [[Ojai, California]]) was an [[American writer]], now noted mainly for his [[short story|short stories]] of [[horror fiction|horror]] and suspense. He is probably best known for the much-anthologised story "His Unconquerable Enemy" (1889), about the implacable revenge of a servant whose limbs have been amputated on the orders of a cruel rajah. | + | '''William Chambers Morrow''' (1854 – 1923) was an [[American writer]], now noted mainly for his [[short story|short stories]] of [[horror fiction|horror]] and suspense. He is probably best known for the much-anthologised story "[[His Unconquerable Enemy]]" (1889), about the implacable revenge of a servant whose limbs have been [[amputated]] on the orders of a [[cruel]] [[rajah]]. |
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| + | Morrow published an apparently journalistic work called ''[[Bohemian Paris of Today]]'' (1900), from "notes by Edouard Cucuel". | ||
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| *"W.C. Morrow: Horror in San Francisco" in S.T. Joshi, ''The Evolution of the Weird Tale'' NY: Hippocampus Press, 2004, 13-17. | *"W.C. Morrow: Horror in San Francisco" in S.T. Joshi, ''The Evolution of the Weird Tale'' NY: Hippocampus Press, 2004, 13-17. | ||
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"At this moment, however, he lived in the clouds; he breathed and glowed with the spirit of shiftless, proud, starving Bohemianism as it is lived in Paris, benignantly disdainful of the great moiling, money-grubbing world that roared around him, and perhaps already the adoration of some girl of poetic or artistic tastes and aspirations, who was serving him as only the Church gives a woman the right."--Bohemian Paris of To-day (1899) by W. C. Morrow |
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William Chambers Morrow (1854 – 1923) was an American writer, now noted mainly for his short stories of horror and suspense. He is probably best known for the much-anthologised story "His Unconquerable Enemy" (1889), about the implacable revenge of a servant whose limbs have been amputated on the orders of a cruel rajah.
Morrow published an apparently journalistic work called Bohemian Paris of Today (1900), from "notes by Edouard Cucuel".
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Bibliography
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Short story collections
- The Ape, the Idiot and Other People (1897)
- The Monster Maker and Other Stories (ed. S. T. Joshi and Stefan Dziemianowicz) (2000)
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Novels
- A Strange Confession (1880–81; newspaper serial)
- Blood-Money (1882)
- A Man; His Mark: A Romance (1900)
- Lentala of the South Seas (1908)
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Further reading
- "W.C. Morrow: Horror in San Francisco" in S.T. Joshi, The Evolution of the Weird Tale NY: Hippocampus Press, 2004, 13-17.
- Bohemian Paris of To-day
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