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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/823522606 Title: The accursed Author: Joyce Carol Oates Publisher: New York : Ecco, ©2013. ISBN/ISSN: 9780062231703 0062231707 9780062234353 0062234358 OCLC:823522606

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The accursed

Author:	Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher:	New York : Ecco, ©2013.
Edition/Format:	Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Summary:	In 20th century Princeton, New Jersey, a powerful curse, which besets the wealthiest of families, causes the disappearance of a young bride, and when her brother sets out to find her, he crosses paths with the town's most formidable people, including Grover Cleveland and Upton Sinclair.
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Subjects	Blessing and cursing -- Fiction. Lynching -- Fiction. Demonology -- Fiction. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Fiction Romans (teksten) Horror tales Paranormal fiction Historical fiction Horror fiction
Material Type:	Fiction
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Joyce Carol Oates Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780062231703 0062231707 9780062234353 0062234358
OCLC Number:	823522606
Notes:	Map on end papers.
Description:	669 pages : map ; 23 cm
Contents:	Author's note -- Prologue -- pt. 1. Demon bridegroom -- Ash Wednesday eve, 1905 -- Postscript: "Ash Wednesday eve, 1905" -- Narcissus -- The spectral daughter -- Angel trumpet; or, "Mr. Mayte of Virginia "-- Author's Note: Princeton snobbery -- The unspeakable I -- The burning girl -- Author's Note: The historian's confession -- The spectral wife -- The demon bridegroom -- pt. 2. The curse incarnate -- The duel -- Postscript: The historian's dilemma -- The unspeakable II -- The cruel husband -- The search cont'd -- October 1905 -- "God's creation as viewed from the evolutionary hypothesis" -- The phantom lovers -- The turquoise-marbled book -- The bog kingdom -- Postscript: Archaeopteryx -- The curse incarnate -- pt. 3. "The brain, within its groove ..." -- "Voices" -- Bluestocking temptress -- The glass owl -- "Ratiocination our salvation" -- The ochre-runnered sleigh -- "Snake frenzy" -- Postscript: Nature's burden -- "Defeat at Charleston" -- "My precious darling ..." -- "A narrow fellow in the grass ..." -- Dr. Schuyler Skaats Wheeler's novelty machine -- Quatre face -- "Angel trumpet" elucidated -- "Armageddon" -- pt. 4. The curse exorcised -- Cold spring -- 21 May 1906 -- Lieutenant Bayard by night -- Postscript: On the matter of the "unspeakable" at Princeton -- "Here dwells happiness" -- The nordic soul -- Terra incognita I -- Terra incognita II -- The wheatsheaf enigma I -- The wheatsheaf enigma II -- "Sole living heir of nothingness" -- The temptation of Woodrow Wilson -- Postscript: "The second battle of Princeton" -- Dr. De Sweinitz's prescription -- The curse exorcised -- A game of draughts -- The death of Winslow Slade -- "Revolution is the hour of laughter" -- The Crosswicks miracle -- Epilogue: The covenant.
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In 20th century Princeton, New Jersey, a powerful curse, which besets the wealthiest of families, causes the disappearance of a young bride, and when her brother sets out to find her, he crosses paths with the town's most formidable people, including Grover Cleveland and Upton Sinclair.

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