To Be Read at Dusk

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by John Everett Millais, John Atkinson Grimshaw and Caspar David Friedrich. Five couriers sit on a bench outside the convent at the top of the Great St Bernard, watching the sunset drain off the snow, and fall to arguing about things that happen without ghosts. The Genoese tells of an English bride who dreamed, before her wedding, of a dark man's f...