Ebook {Epub PDF} The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor

7 rows ·  · Overview. , Jerusalem College, Cambridge. The ghost of Sylvia Whichcote is rumored to be Brand: Hachette Books. Taylor sets his blend of ghost story and mystery at Cambridge University in , focusing on one secret club whose overly privileged members embark on debauches that include having a female procuress find young women who are lured to a chamber, tied to a bed, and then raped by the collegians/5(). In Andrew Taylor's The Anatomy of Ghosts, while recovering from his ordeal, Frank Oldershaw is first held at a home for the mentally disturbed. Although the process used to treat him there seems brutal and oppressive to modern sensibilities, for the time period it was considered quite advanced and progressive.

The Anatomy of Ghosts. by Andrew Taylor. X. Critics' Opinion: Readers' Opinion: Not Yet Rated. First Published: Jan , pages Paperback: Jan , pages. Genres. Rate this book. Write a Review. Book Reviewed by: Sarah Sacha Dollacker Buy This Book. About this Book. Summary. Andrew Taylor's The Anatomy of Ghosts provides just that, as grieving bookseller John Holdsworth is coerced into attempting to disprove the existence of "an alleged apparition" in a corrupt, crumbling 18th-century Cambridge college. THE ANATOMY OF GHOSTS AN INQUIRY INTO THE DISTRESSING CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING AN ALLEGED APPARITION LATELY RECORDED IN CAMBRIDGE Set Down for the Curious in the Form of a Novel By ANDREW TAYLOR London: Printed for Michael Joseph an imprint of PENGUIN BOOKS No. 80, THE STRAND, by The Adelphi MICHAEL JOSEPH PUBLISHED BY THE PENGUIN GROUP.

Andrew Taylor's The Anatomy of Ghosts provides just that, as grieving bookseller John Holdsworth is coerced into attempting to disprove the existence of "an alleged apparition" in a corrupt. In Andrew Taylor's The Anatomy of Ghosts, while recovering from his ordeal, Frank Oldershaw is first held at a home for the mentally disturbed. Although the process used to treat him there seems brutal and oppressive to modern sensibilities, for the time period it was considered quite advanced and progressive. He is hired as a detective on the strength of his lucid argument against the presence of spirits in the eponymously named pamphlet "The Anatomy of Ghosts". His decision to write this treatise came out of his own frustration watching his wife's obsessive attempts to contact their dead son.