The Intoxicated Ghost, and Other Stories

by Arlo Bates

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company Publication date: 1908 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Genres: Classics

303 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

Arlo Bates (December 16, 1850 – August 25, 1918) was an American author, educator and newspaperman.

Arlo Bates was born at East Machias, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1876. In 1880 Bates became the editor of the Boston Sunday Courier (1880–1893) and afterward became professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1900.

Reviews

[Michael Adams · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some good short stories to be found in this collection. Some humorous, some dramatic, a few marked by some rather strange twists and turns.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good collection of short stories from 1st decade of 1900s. The best of these, in my opinion, are "A Meeting of the Psychical Club", "Miss Gaylord and Jenny" and "The Virginia Room."

[Lizbeth Gabriel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Old book, which means it's boring at parts and its subject matter is dated, yet very well-written. Four stories were very enjoyable, one was unreadable. If you love the classics, you'll love this one.

[Manuela · Rating 3 out of 5]

A charming collection of short stories by the American poet and journalist Arlo Bates. Weighty subjects are addressed with lighthearted wit. In the title tale, a family finds itself on the brink of collapse as a result of the resident specter's mischievous shenanigans. The other stories run the gamut in terms of subject matter, but all are satisfying and fun to read.

[Timothy Ferguson · Rating 2 out of 5]

The collection is interesting, but not excellent, saving one story I’d like to highlight Miss Gaylord and Jenny, which is one of the earliest uses of dissociative identity disorder I’ve seen in fiction. Another highlight is A Comedy in Crepe. It is a comedy of manners. In a small town, after the Civil War, three women each don mourning for a missing man, and fight for the social cachet of being his bereaved girlfriend.

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[Julia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun bunch of short stories, some more comedic, some more dramatic, some a mixture of the two.