Episodes Before Thirty

Episodes Before Thirty

by Algernon Blackwood

This autobiography details Algernon Blackwood's first thirty years of life as an impoverished adventurer in Canada and New York. He recounts his experiences with various investments, swindles, homelessness, and the criminal underworld. Despite these challenges, his love of nature and writing sustained him, and he eventually returned to England to become a renowned ghost story writer.

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Algernon Henry Blackwood, was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The literary c...

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