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Copyright © Edward Parnell 2019
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The Emigrants by WG Sebald published by Harvill Press, reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd. © 1996
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Source ISBN: 9780008271954
eBook Edition © October 2019 ISBN: 9780008271961
Version: 2019-10-01
For the ghosts
‘And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.’
W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants
Contents
1 Cover
2 Title Page
3 Copyright
4 Dedication
5 Epigraph
6 Contents
7 Prologue
8 1 LOST HEART
9 2 DARK WATERS
10 3 WALKING IN THE WOOD
11 4 THE ROARING OF THE FOREST
12 5 MEMENTO MORI
13 6 BORDERLAND
14 7 GOBLIN CITY
15 8 LONELIER THAN RUIN
16 9 WHO IS THIS WHO IS COMING?
17 10 NOT REALLY NOW NOT ANY MORE
18 11 TROUBLE OF THE ROCKS
19 12 ANCIENT SORCERIES
20 Epilogue
21 Selected List of Sources
22 Acknowledgements
23 Index
24 Also by Edward Parnell
25 About the Author
26 About the Publisher
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