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Tongues of Conscience

First published
1900
Pages
257

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  1. Sea Change. Part 1. The Rainbow.

    28:28

  2. Sea Change. Part 1. The Rainbow. (continued)

    44:43

  3. Sea Change. Part 2. The Grave.

    41:13

  4. Sea Change. Part 2. The Grave. (continued)

    45:49

  5. "William Foster." Part 1.

    9:46

  6. "William Foster." Part 2.

    17:47

  7. "William Foster." Part 3.

    29:38

  8. "William Foster." Part 4.

    15:04

  9. "William Foster." Part 5.

    10:31

  10. "William Foster." Part 6.

    21:52

  11. The Cry of the Child. Part 1. The Dead Child.

    21:53

  12. The Cry of the Child. Part 1. The Dead Child. (continued)

    36:46

  13. The Cry of the Child. Part 2. The Living Child.

    31:09

  14. The Cry of the Child. Part 2. The Living Child. (continued)

    33:29

  15. How Love Came to Professor Guildea. Part 1.

    16:13

  16. How Love Came to Professor Guildea. Part 2.

    18:04

  17. How Love Came to Professor Guildea. Part 3.

    12:37

  18. How Love Came to Professor Guildea. Part 4.

    26:46

  19. How Love Came to Professor Guildea. Part 5.

    12:22

  20. How Love Came to Professor Guildea. Part 6.

    12:55

  21. The Lady and the Beggar.

    36:28

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About this book

Robert Hichens gathered five stories of dread and remorse in this 1900 collection, each turning on the idea that a single selfish act can summon a lifetime of haunting. The tales range from "Sea Change" and "William Foster" to "The Cry of the Child," in which an egotistic doctor is pursued by the wail of his dead infant. Its centerpiece, "How Love Came to Professor Guildea," has outlived the rest: a coldly rational scientist who boasts that he has no need of affection finds himself courted by the devotion of an unseen presence he cannot reason away. That story is now counted among the finest English ghost stories and is still widely anthologized. Readers who prefer supernatural fiction rooted in conscience rather than spectacle will find it rewarding.

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Robert Hichens

Robert Smythe Hichens (1864–1950) was an English novelist, journalist, and music critic who first drew notice as a satirist of the 1890s. His anonymously published novel "The Green Carnation" (1894) lampooned Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas so pointedly that it was withdrawn during Wilde's trial.

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Book facts

First published
1900
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
257
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Lisa Reichert