Collected Short Stories of Robert W Chambers edition by Robert William Chambers Literature Fiction eBooks
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Author Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was an American novelist, best known for his book of short stories “The King in Yellow.”
Collected Short Stories of Robert W. Chambers, (with an active table of contents), includes
The King in Yellow
•The Repairer of Reputations
•The Mask
•In the Court of the Dragon
•The Yellow Sign
•The Demoiselled’YS
•The Prophet’s Paradise
•The Street of the Four Winds
•The Street of the First Shell
•The Street of Our Lady of the Fields
•Rue Barree
Police!!!
•The Third Eye
•The Immortal
•The Ladies of the Lake
•One Over
•Un Peu D’Amour
•The Eggs of the Silver Moon
A Young Man in a Hurry, and Other Short Stories
•A Young Man in a Hurry
•A Pilgrim
•The Shining Band
•One Man in a Million
•The Fire Warden
•The Market Hunter
•The Path Master
•In Nauvoo
•Marlitt’s Shoes
•Pasque Florida
The Maker of Moons and Other Stories
•The Maker of Moons
•The Bridal Pair
•The Case of Mr. Helmer
•The Messenger
•Out of the Depths
•A Pleasant Evening
•The purple Emperor
The Sign of Venus
The Swastika
Collected Short Stories of Robert W Chambers edition by Robert William Chambers Literature Fiction eBooks
"The King In Yellow" (1895) will forever remain as Chambers' one and only claim to fame. And it's a mixed bag, to say the least. To begin with, only the first four stories (out of ten) are actually in line with the theme of a mysterious and forbidden book that drives its readers mad.Of course, if you're reading this review, you will most likely already know the general plot, so there's not much point going into it. Suffice it to say that, after the first four stories, you then get some sort of medieval romance tale ("The Demoiselle Y's"), which seems influenced more by Walter Scott than anything Bierce or Poe would have written.
The last five stories are a sort of cycle unto themselves, as certain characters recur throughout several of them, in greater or lesser detail. They mostly concern the romantic exploits of a group of American students (artists and sculptors) romping through fin-de-siecle Paris (with the exception of one story set during the Franco-Prussian war).
Although having absolutely nothing to do with the first four stories, they aren't bad. Fans of the "Naturalist" writers of the time, such as Zola and especially his American imitators a la Frank Norris, will find them enjoyable. All in all, "The King In Yellow" was an excellent start to Chamber's literary career, and the stories retain much of their original power.
However, this particular edition gives you more bang for your buck - and that bang is mostly a colossal misfire. After finishing "The King In Yellow", the reader is then ushered on to a later collection of Chamber's short stories, "A Young Man In A Hurry" (apparently dating from 1904? No bibliographical information is included in this edition). These stories contain no supernatural elements whatsoever, and show a considerable decline in both the extent of his ambition and the efficacy of his expressive powers. Quaint magazine fiction of the "Harper's" school, take it or leave it.
It gets worse. The next volume included in this collection is called "Police!!!" (1915). If you thought "A Young Man In A Hurry" showed a marked decline in Chambers' ability and worth as a writer, you ain't seen nothing yet. Unfortunately, you're about to.
To say that the stories included in "Police!!!" are hokey, unfunny, frequently racist and sexist, and written for the enjoyment of smug and bigoted members of the stereotypical pre-war "Old Boy's Club" is basically as good as saying, "Don't waste your time with this garbage". Which more or less covers it. Magazine fiction at its most calculated, even more so than the previous collection - Chambers certainly knew his target audience.
The collection also tacks on a pair of stories at the very end, "The Maker Of Moons" and "The Purple Emperor", that were apparently taken from a volume called "The Maker Of Moons and Other Stories" (published in 1896, just after "The King In Yellow" itself). These stories continue in the vein of the supernatural tales collected in that earlier volume, although without their central concept. Both are quite good, and represent a continuation of Chambers' original - and, by far, best- style.
Why did the author of "The Yellow Sign" and "The Maker Of Moons" degenerate into a pitifully blinkered, cynical, and predictable sham of an artist? The only logical answer is laziness and a lust for the easily available lucre being offered by the burgeoning magazine market of the time. In any case, while the immediate financial benefit was all his, the loss of a great writer of weird tales is all ours.
As for the presentation of the texts, there's nothing to complain about until near the end, when the formatting seems to come undone. Either the compiler didn't bother to check them, or the formatting went haywire during the upload. In any case, the final two stories are complete, as far as I can tell, but formatted hideously.
As a result, both for the texts themselves and their somewhat haphazard presentation, I award this volume an average, three star, rating. Chambers could have been one of our most revered authors, something far more than the footnote he occupies as a precursor to Lovecraft. Instead, he lives on as one of our literature's preeminent cautionary tales.
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Collected Short Stories of Robert W Chambers edition by Robert William Chambers Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Very interesting
I got on to this by watching True Detective, a very good show. Now, because of that show I have found another very good author in the ranks of Lovecraft and King.
I am not completely through with all of the short stories, but I throughly enjoyed the ones that I have read. When I read these stories, I come to realize how well the authors penned their works back in the time when these stories were written. Unfortunately, I feel that present day literary skills are degrading...Sorry for digressing!!
"The King In Yellow" (1895) will forever remain as Chambers' one and only claim to fame. And it's a mixed bag, to say the least. To begin with, only the first four stories (out of ten) are actually in line with the theme of a mysterious and forbidden book that drives its readers mad.
Of course, if you're reading this review, you will most likely already know the general plot, so there's not much point going into it. Suffice it to say that, after the first four stories, you then get some sort of medieval romance tale ("The Demoiselle Y's"), which seems influenced more by Walter Scott than anything Bierce or Poe would have written.
The last five stories are a sort of cycle unto themselves, as certain characters recur throughout several of them, in greater or lesser detail. They mostly concern the romantic exploits of a group of American students (artists and sculptors) romping through fin-de-siecle Paris (with the exception of one story set during the Franco-Prussian war).
Although having absolutely nothing to do with the first four stories, they aren't bad. Fans of the "Naturalist" writers of the time, such as Zola and especially his American imitators a la Frank Norris, will find them enjoyable. All in all, "The King In Yellow" was an excellent start to Chamber's literary career, and the stories retain much of their original power.
However, this particular edition gives you more bang for your buck - and that bang is mostly a colossal misfire. After finishing "The King In Yellow", the reader is then ushered on to a later collection of Chamber's short stories, "A Young Man In A Hurry" (apparently dating from 1904? No bibliographical information is included in this edition). These stories contain no supernatural elements whatsoever, and show a considerable decline in both the extent of his ambition and the efficacy of his expressive powers. Quaint magazine fiction of the "Harper's" school, take it or leave it.
It gets worse. The next volume included in this collection is called "Police!!!" (1915). If you thought "A Young Man In A Hurry" showed a marked decline in Chambers' ability and worth as a writer, you ain't seen nothing yet. Unfortunately, you're about to.
To say that the stories included in "Police!!!" are hokey, unfunny, frequently racist and sexist, and written for the enjoyment of smug and bigoted members of the stereotypical pre-war "Old Boy's Club" is basically as good as saying, "Don't waste your time with this garbage". Which more or less covers it. Magazine fiction at its most calculated, even more so than the previous collection - Chambers certainly knew his target audience.
The collection also tacks on a pair of stories at the very end, "The Maker Of Moons" and "The Purple Emperor", that were apparently taken from a volume called "The Maker Of Moons and Other Stories" (published in 1896, just after "The King In Yellow" itself). These stories continue in the vein of the supernatural tales collected in that earlier volume, although without their central concept. Both are quite good, and represent a continuation of Chambers' original - and, by far, best- style.
Why did the author of "The Yellow Sign" and "The Maker Of Moons" degenerate into a pitifully blinkered, cynical, and predictable sham of an artist? The only logical answer is laziness and a lust for the easily available lucre being offered by the burgeoning magazine market of the time. In any case, while the immediate financial benefit was all his, the loss of a great writer of weird tales is all ours.
As for the presentation of the texts, there's nothing to complain about until near the end, when the formatting seems to come undone. Either the compiler didn't bother to check them, or the formatting went haywire during the upload. In any case, the final two stories are complete, as far as I can tell, but formatted hideously.
As a result, both for the texts themselves and their somewhat haphazard presentation, I award this volume an average, three star, rating. Chambers could have been one of our most revered authors, something far more than the footnote he occupies as a precursor to Lovecraft. Instead, he lives on as one of our literature's preeminent cautionary tales.
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