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The entire work--including the final two chapters, first published only in a limited edition in 1992--is included here.
The novel The Secret Glory (written around 1907) is a discursive novel that searingly condemns the British school system for destroying the imaginations of its pupils.
A very different work is the short novel A Fragment of Life, telling of how a seemingly ordinary couple rediscover their sense of wonder in the world around them.
Its account of a young girl insidiously inculcated in the witch-cult, told entirely from her own perspective as she jots down her thoughts and impressions in a diary, achieves the pinnacle of clutching fear.
Machen\'s most accomplished weird tale, The White People, is also found here.
These ten vignettes display Machen\'s luminous prose at its most evocative, and they touch upon the possibility of strange and wondrous phenomena concealed behind the outward fa ade of the mundane world.
Later in 1897 Machen wrote a series of exquisite prose poems that were later published as Ornaments in Jade (1924).
His ruminations on life, love, and authorship are extraordinarily poignant, and at one point he engages in a lengthy dream of being back in ancient Rome, in the town of Isca Silurum, near his birthplace in Wales.
It features Lucian Taylor, a young man from the country who struggles to become a writer in London.
Lovecraft called a memorable epic of the sensitive aesthetic mind.
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This second Volume of Machen\'s Collected Fiction begins with Machen\'s most accomplished novel, The Hill of Dreams (written in 1895-97 and published in 1907), which H
