000694656 000__ 03619cam\a2200469\a\4500 000694656 001__ 694656 000694656 005__ 20210515093706.0 000694656 008__ 130709s2013\\\\nyub\\\\\b\\\\000\1\eng\d 000694656 010__ $$a 2012532433 000694656 019__ $$a795757351$$a812951146$$a820149125$$a824307490$$a829386712 000694656 020__ $$a9780062231703$$qhardcover 000694656 020__ $$a0062231707$$qhardcover 000694656 020__ $$a9780062234353 000694656 020__ $$a0062234358 000694656 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn823522606 000694656 035__ $$a694656 000694656 040__ $$aUPZ$$beng$$cUPZ$$dDLC$$dTOH$$dBTCTA$$dBDX$$dSINLB$$dOCLCO$$dMR0$$dIEP$$dYDXCP$$dJP3$$dBWX$$dLMR$$dZCU$$dCOO$$dZHB$$dCDX$$dOBE$$dEDK$$dUMS$$dKEC$$dNLGGC$$dOCLCF$$dOCLCQ$$dP4I 000694656 042__ $$alccopycat 000694656 043__ $$an-us-nj 000694656 049__ $$aISEA 000694656 05000 $$aPS3565.A8$$bA64 2013 000694656 08204 $$a813/.54$$223 000694656 1001_ $$aOates, Joyce Carol,$$d1938- 000694656 24514 $$aThe accursed /$$cJoyce Carol Oates. 000694656 250__ $$a1st ed. 000694656 260__ $$aNew York :$$bEcco,$$c©2013. 000694656 300__ $$a669 pages :$$bmap ;$$c24 cm 000694656 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000694656 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia 000694656 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier 000694656 500__ $$aMap on end papers. 000694656 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 669). 000694656 5050_ $$aAuthor's note -- Prologue -- pt. 1. Demon bridegroom -- Ash Wednesday eve, 1905 -- Postscript: "Ash Wednesday eve, 1905" -- Narcissus -- The spectral daughter -- Angel trumpet; or, "Mr. Mayte of Virginia "-- Author's Note: Princeton snobbery -- The unspeakable I -- The burning girl -- Author's Note: The historian's confession -- The spectral wife -- The demon bridegroom -- pt. 2. The curse incarnate -- The duel -- Postscript: The historian's dilemma -- The unspeakable II -- The cruel husband -- The search cont'd -- October 1905 -- "God's creation as viewed from the evolutionary hypothesis" -- The phantom lovers -- The turquoise-marbled book -- The bog kingdom -- Postscript: Archaeopteryx -- The curse incarnate -- pt. 3. "The brain, within its groove ..." -- "Voices" -- Bluestocking temptress -- The glass owl -- "Ratiocination our salvation" -- The ochre-runnered sleigh -- "Snake frenzy" -- Postscript: Nature's burden -- "Defeat at Charleston" -- "My precious darling ..." -- "A narrow fellow in the grass ..." -- Dr. Schuyler Skaats Wheeler's novelty machine -- Quatre face -- "Angel trumpet" elucidated -- "Armageddon" -- pt. 4. The curse exorcised -- Cold spring -- 21 May 1906 -- Lieutenant Bayard by night -- Postscript: On the matter of the "unspeakable" at Princeton -- "Here dwells happiness" -- The nordic soul -- Terra incognita I -- Terra incognita II -- The wheatsheaf enigma I -- The wheatsheaf enigma II -- "Sole living heir of nothingness" -- The temptation of Woodrow Wilson -- Postscript: "The second battle of Princeton" -- Dr. De Sweinitz's prescription -- The curse exorcised -- A game of draughts -- The death of Winslow Slade -- "Revolution is the hour of laughter" -- The Crosswicks miracle -- Epilogue: The covenant. 000694656 520__ $$aIn 20th century Princeton, New Jersey, a powerful curse, which besets the wealthiest of families, causes the disappearance of a young bride, and when her brother sets out to find her, he crosses paths with the town's most formidable people, including Grover Cleveland and Upton Sinclair. 000694656 650_0 $$aBlessing and cursing$$vFiction. 000694656 650_0 $$aLynching$$vFiction. 000694656 650_0 $$aDemonology$$vFiction. 000694656 651_0 $$aPrinceton (N.J.)$$vFiction. 000694656 655_7 $$aHorror fiction.$$2lcgft 000694656 655_7 $$aParanormal fiction.$$2lcgft 000694656 655_7 $$aHistorical fiction.$$2lcgft 000694656 85200 $$bgen$$hPS3565.A8$$iA64$$i2013 000694656 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1312/2012532433-b.html 000694656 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:694656$$pGLOBAL_SET 000694656 980__ $$aBIB 000694656 980__ $$aBOOK