The Hill of Dreams

by Arthur Machen Narrated by Arthur Vincet

Overview

Generally by now thought to be Machen's greatest work, the novel, published in 1907, recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhood in rural Wales, in a town based on Caerleon. The Hill of Dreams of the title is an old Roman fort where Lucian has strange sensual visions, including ones of the town in the time of Roman Britain. Later it describes Lucian's attempts to make a living as an author in London, enduring poverty and suffering in the pursuit of art.

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"A dream of a book."  —Henry Miller

"One of the great masters of horror fiction."  —Clive Barker



"And it may be, when the final balance is struck, that there is more essential truth to be found in the tales told by such weavers of fantasy as Arthur Machen than in all the charts and graphs and statistics of the world."  —Philip Van Doren Stern

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160341668
Publisher:	Audioliterature
Publication date:	03/22/2017
Edition description:	Unabridged

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