There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge When I cremated Sam McGee.
My greatest fear was not the sorrow his name would bring, but the thought that he would be forgotten by everyone, left only as a secret burnished tale for a married couple.
Stories of our quest for romantic fulfilment abound, De Botton remarks; conversely, however, "the story of our quest for love from the world" is apparently little told - it is "a more secret and shameful tale" whose crevices and clefts can only now be probed by our author.
There is a wrong-headed analysis of The Secret Agent ("a tale that Conrad invested with little political significance") but no sign of Camus' Les Justes, Sartre's Les Mains Sales, Henry James's The Princess Casamassima, or, coming back to Conrad, the anarchist short stories in A Set of Six.
The book also delineates the rise of "Sensation" novelists like Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, whose hit book "Lady Audley's Secret" told the tale of a former governess turned murderous wife.
Many were held in secret jails, and tales of torture abound.
Patrick Flanery's first novel, "Absolution" (2012), was a beautiful book of secrets, a multilayered tale of post-apartheid South Africa.
Out of the usual teenage fare of friends, relationships and secrets emerges a tale of chilling hopelessness, ably conveyed in Ishiguro's recognisably bleak, blank tones.
Maggie goes from fiction to screenplays, before confessing all like Augustine, while Pinky in a basement full of alcoholic fumes compiles his secret archive: "family tales," "scraps of romance," "naïve realism," "correspondences".
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