The stone dragon and other tragic romances (Registro nro. 116878)
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PR |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Gilchrist, Murray, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1868-1917 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The stone dragon and other tragic romances |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-05-24 |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | The stone dragon -- The manuscript of Francis Shackerley -- Midsummer madness -- The lost mistress -- Witch in-grain -- The noble courtesan -- The writings of Althea Swarthmoor -- The return -- The basilisk -- Dame Inowslad -- Excerpts from Pliny Witherton's journal; also a letter of Crystalla's -- My friend -- Roxana runs lunatick -- The pageant of ghosts. |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Aaron Adrignola, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "The stone dragon and other tragic romances" by Murray Gilchrist is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. It gathers lush, gothic-tinged tales of passionate love curdling into jealousy, fate, and death, often set amid moors, manor houses, and haunted memories. The opening pieces center on doomed lovers—most immediately Ralph Eyre and his cousins Rachel and Mary Verelst—where beauty, obsession, and fatal choices collide. The opening of this collection first follows The Stone Dragon: Ralph disobeys his domineering great-aunt’s marriage scheme, but years later returns to Furnivaux Castle bound by her will to choose between cousins Rachel, dazzling and volatile, and Mary, gentle and shy. He vows himself to Mary; Rachel’s jealousy erupts, she strikes at him with a knife, and Mary saves him by taking the blow. On their stark, quiet wedding day, Rachel returns only to be found dead beside the garden’s stone dragon. The next tale, The Manuscript of Francis Shackerley, recounts a childhood glimpse of Lady Millicent, married off as a child, then a later, intense affair cut short when her alchemist husband discovers them during a storm and coldly bleeds her to death, leaving the narrator spiritually crushed and silent until years later. In Midsummer Madness, Rupert Drassington exults in his ethereal bride Phyllida; they marry in a roofless chapel, but she immediately falls into a trance of denial, hinting at a binding past vow and casting fresh dread over their union. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Methuen and Co., 1894 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Fantasy fiction, English |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Short stories, English |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Paranormal fiction, English |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76153">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76153</a> |
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