Ghost: A Modern Fantasy

by Arnold Bennett

19 chapters5h 58mEnglish1911

About this book

The novel opens with Carl Foster, a recently qualified doctor, coming to London to try and make his fortune. He meets a famous tenor, Signor Alresca, who suffers a dreadful injury backstage and Foster tends to him. He thus meets the lead soprano, Rosetta Rosa, and falls hopelessly in love with her.Alresca takes Foster under his wing and they travel to Alresca's home in Bruges. It is clear to Foster that Alresca has some strange obsession. Foster also notices a stranger who seems to be dogging his footsteps.Things take an even more sinister turn when Alresca inexplicably dies. . .(Summary by Simon Evers)

Chapters (19)

1Chapter 1 - My Splendid Cousin

933

2Chapter 2 - At the Opera

1474

3Chapter 3 - The Cry of Alresca

1049

4Chapter 4 - Rosa's Summons

1113

5Chapter 5 - The Dagger and the Man

1987

6Chapter 6 - Alresca's Fate

1736

7Chapter 7 - The Vigil by the Bier

846

8Chapter 8 - The Message

1062

9Chapter 9 - The Train

1494

10Chapter 10 - The Steamer

1587

11Chapter 11 - A Chat with Rosa

922

12Chapter 12 - Egg-and-milk

887

13Chapter 13 - The Portrait

886

14Chapter 14 - The Villa

779

15Chapter 15 - The Sheath of the Dagger

749

16Chapter 16 - The Thing in the Chair

924

17Chapter 17 - The Menace

995

18Chapter 18 - The Struggle

960

19Chapter 19 - The Intercession

1131

Ghost: A Modern Fantasy

About this book

Chapters (19)

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