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Books by Margaret Oliphant

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4 books listed1 collection represented7 catalogue themes
IdeasEmotionSpiritual ReflectionThe UncannyHorrorInspiration

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Classics & Literature

A little pilgrim

A Little Pilgrim is a spiritually imaginative story centered on a young figure who moves through experiences of death, memory, and the possibility of another existence. Margaret Oliphant uses the idea of a pilgrim to create a narrative in which the ordinary boundaries of life are loosened

Classics & Literature

Old lady mary

Old Lady Mary is Margaret Oliphant at her most quietly unsettling. The story begins in the familiar territory of inheritance, family expectations, and social respectability, then allows the supernatural to enter without destroying the ordinary world

Classics & Literature

The little pilgrim

The Little Pilgrim is a spiritual fantasy by Margaret Oliphant in which a newly departed soul discovers that death is not the end of experience but the beginning of another journey. The “little pilgrim” moves through a strange afterlife in which moral and spiritual truths become visible through

Classics & Literature

The open door, and the portrait.

The Open Door and The Portrait are two supernatural tales by Margaret Oliphant in which the ordinary world is disturbed by something that cannot be comfortably explained. In ‘The Open Door,’ a family home becomes associated with a strange presence: sounds and apparitions suggest that the

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