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The Hill of Dreams

By: Arthur Machen
Narrated by: Alan Munro
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Machen's most important and moving work.

Lucian Taylor, the hero, is damned either through contact with an erotically pagan "other" world or through something degenerate in his own nature, which he thinks of as a "faun". He becomes a writer, and when he moves to London he becomes trapped by the increasing reality of the dark imaginings of this creature within him, which become increasingly real.

One of the first explorations in fiction of the figure of the doomed artist, who is biographically so much a part of the decadent 1890s.

Public Domain (P)2020 Trout Lake Media Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Metaphysical & Visionary
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Never heard of this author before or this book. So pleased I came across it. Brilliantly crafted with language that moves from thick thorns and nettles to thin wisps of mist as it meanders from chapter to chapter.

Beguiling and unsettling a work of excellent.

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helped me to finish the book as Machen is very wordy.
very descriptive. I will be coming back to this book. very relevant to my life

reading very robotic

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