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Born in New York City to Eugene and Christine O'Sullivan, he began his education in the New York public school system and completed it in Britain.
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Sentiment and Other Stories
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In "Sentiment," Vincent O'Sullivan looks inside the lives of a group of middle-class English people just before the start of the first world war. The story centres around the love affairs of four young people and how they interact. O'Sullivan picks apart his characters' cares and concerns and shows how these are trivial when we know what was about to happen to them and their world. Vincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940) was born into a prosperous Irish American family in New York and moved to London as a child. However, Vincent spent much of his life in the demi-monde world that is the setting of many of his stories.
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Aspects of Wilde
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A Book of Bargains (Solis Classics)
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Solis Press are proud to reprint this collection of seven short horror tales from Vincent O’Sullivan, the master of the decadent and macabre. Vincent O’Sullivan (1868–1940) was born into a prosperous Irish American family in New York and moved to London as a child. However, Vincent spent much of his life in the demi-monde world that is the setting of the stories in this collection. While in Paris, O’Sullivan was friends with Oscar Wilde, Leonard Smithers, Aubrey Beardsley and other members of the Aesthetic movement. The writer Robert Aickman wrote of O’Sullivan that: "Having lived a longish life as a more or less well-to-do rentier, in latish middle age found himself ruined, wrote his last book under terrible conditions, and, dying in Paris, ended anonymously in the common pit for the cadavers of paupers." This edition includes the frontispiece from the first edition by Aubrey Beardsley. Each of the seven stories is illustrated with photographs commissioned for this new printing.
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The green window
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Leopold Classic Library is delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive collection. As part of our on-going commitment to delivering value to the reader, we have also provided you with a link to a website, where you may download a digital version of this work for free. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. Whilst the books in this collection have not been hand curated, an aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature. As a result of this book being first published many decades ago, it may have occasional imperfections. These imperfections may include poor picture quality, blurred or missing text. While some of these imperfections may have appeared in the original work, others may have resulted from the scanning process that has been applied. However, our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. While some publishers have applied optical character recognition (OCR), this approach has its own drawbacks, which include formatting errors, misspelt words, or the presence of inappropriate characters. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with an experience that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic book, and that the occasional imperfection that it might contain will not detract from the experience.
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Sentiment and other stories
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“In what a midnight his soul seems to walk! and what maladies he draws from the moon!” In Sentiment, Vincent O’Sullivan looks inside the lives of a group of middle-class English people just before the start of the first world war. The story centres around the love affairs of four young people and how they interact. O’Sullivan picks apart his characters’ cares and concerns and shows how these are trivial when we know what was about to happen to them and their world. Also included in this edition are the following short stories: •The End of a Family •The Mormon •Mrs. Turner •A Case of Conscience •Anna Vaddock’s Fame •War Declared •The Dark Day •The Speculation in Mrs._Catling •She Married the Vicar Vincent O’Sullivan was born into a prosperous Irish American family in New York and moved to London as a child. However, Vincent spent much of his life in the demi-monde world that is the setting of many of his stories.
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The Houses of Sin
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Aspects of Wilde
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Vincent O'Sullivan
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The entire family was ruined, and Vincent was destitute for the remaining years of his life. O'Sullivan produced his first collection of supernatural fiction, A Book of Bargains, in 1896. It contains the pact-with the devil story "The Bargain of Rupert Orange", and The Business of Madame Jahn and "My Enemy and Myself", which both feature reanimated corpses.
"When I Was Dead" (1905), "Verschoyle's House" (1915) and "The Burned House" (1916) are ghost stories, while "Will" is a tale of psychic vampirism. Robert Aickman wrote of O'Sullivan that:
"When I Was Dead" is a very rictus or spasm of guilt. Sudden and shattering.
Vincent O'Sullivan was a master of this dyeing and soaking in guilt. The curious should try to find a copy of his novel, The Good Girl. The quest is difficult, but the product distinctive.
O'Sullivan, having lived a longish life as a more or less well-to-do rentier, in latish middle age found himself ruined, wrote his last book (Opinions) under terrible conditions, and, dying in Paris, ended anonymously in the common pit for the cadavers of paupers. John Cowper Powys listed The Good Girl at number 97 in his One Hundred Best Books. "This admirable work of art is not known as well as it deserves either in England or America," he said:
It is a work of genius in every sense of that word, and it produces on the mind that curious sense of completeness and finality which only such works produce.
The author of this book must have a noble and formidable soul.
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Sentiment and other stories
(“In what a midnight his soul seems to walk! and what mala...)
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Sentiment and Other Stories
( In "Sentiment," Vincent O'Sullivan looks inside the liv...)
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A Book of Bargains (Solis Classics)
(Solis Press are proud to reprint this collection of seven...)
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The green window
(Leopold Classic Library is delighted to publish this clas...)
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The Houses of Sin
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- Aspects of Wilde
- Aspects of Wilde
- Aspects of Wilde
- Aspects of Wilde
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Sentiment and other stories
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Quotations: "This admirable work of art is not known as well as it deserves either in England or America,".
