A Fragment of Life by Arthur Machen

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A Fragment of Life

(1904)
A collection of stories by

Arthur Machen

Book DescriptionPerhaps Arthur Machens single most successful novella, A Fragment of Life tells the story of Edward and Mary Darnell and their transition from an everyday, materialistic London life, through to an ecstatic state of wonder. For the first time since its publication in the Horlicks Magazine, we also print the original, very different, final chapter.

A Fragment of Life ..., in its particular way, is almost perfecttender, true, intimate, and restrainedin its exhibition of how a small suburban clerk and his wife came to awake from their dream of a London suburb, of daily labour, and of weary, useless little things, and saw the things that really mattered in life, with the result that the voices of men and women came to sound with strange notes, with the echo rather of music that came over unknown hills. Its mystical qualities are both rare and beautiful, and, as a work of art alone, it deserves to live. - The Standard

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Hardback Editions

June 2006 : Hardback

Title: A Fragment of Life
Author(s): Arthur Machen
ISBN: 1-59818-159-9 / 9781598181593 (USA edition)
Publisher: Aegypan
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May 2000 : Hardback

Title: A Fragment of Life
Author(s): Arthur Machen
ISBN: 1-872621-49-X / 9781872621494 (UK edition)
Publisher: The Tartarus Press
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1928 : Hardback

Title: A FRAGMENT OF LIFE
Author(s): ARTHUR MACHEN
Publisher: MARTIN SECKER
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Paperback Editions

September 2009 : Paperback

Title: A Fragment of Life (World Cultural Heritage Library)
Author(s): Arthur Machen
ISBN: 1-4387-8602-6 / 978-1-4387-8602-5
Publisher: Intl Business Pubns USA
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February 2008 : Paperback

Title: A Fragment of Life
Author(s): Arthur Machen
ISBN: 1-4065-7424-4 / 978-1-4065-7424-1 (UK edition)
Publisher: Dodo Press
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July 2006 : Paperback

Title: A Fragment of Life
Author(s): Arthur Machen
ISBN: 1-59818-881-X / 9781598188813 (USA edition)
Publisher: Aegypan
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June 2004 : Paperback

Title: A Fragment of Life
Author(s): Arthur Machen
ISBN: 1-4191-0127-7 / 978-1-4191-0127-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
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October 2008 : Kindle edition

Title: A Fragment of Life
Author(s): Arthur Machen
Publisher: Oak Grove
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