by Arnold Bennett · ESPUELA PLATA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417146245
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«El fantasma» is the mystery novel by Arnold Bennett, published by Espuela Plata in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
The action takes place in the setting of high London society, where a prima donna and the people around her begin to perceive something that does not fit with reality. What starts as a mundane chronicle gradually takes on a supernatural tinge: Bennett doles out the mystery and creates a gothic and elegant atmosphere, in the vein of the fantastic tale.
Volume 2 of the Biblioteca Más Allá collection, translated from English by Victoria León; the original novel was published in 1907 and this Spanish edition appeared in 2018.
For readers of mystery novels and fantastic tales seeking gothic atmospheres and a London setting.
Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically. Between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays, and a daily journal totalling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information during the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. Sales of his books were substantial, and he was the most financially successful British author of his day.
