Essential Novelists - M. P. Shiel ebook

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of M. P. Shiel wich are The Purple Cloud and Children of the Wind. M. P. Shiel is remembered mostly for supernatural horror and scientific romances. Arthur Machen said about him: "Here is a wilder wonderland than Poe ever dreamt of... It is Poe, perhaps, but Poe with an unearthly radiance." H. G. Wells lauded The Purple Cloud as "brilliant" and H. P. Lovecraft later praised the novel as exemplary weird fiction, "delivered with a skill and artistry falling little short of actual majesty." Novels selected for this book: - The Purple Cloud. - Children of the Wind.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.