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To Quebec and the Stars

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Cover artist
  
Robert MacIntyre

Publication date
  
1976

Pages
  
318 pp

Originally published
  
1976

Country
  
United States of America

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

ISBN
  
0-937986-30-5

Subject
  
Essay

Editor
  
L. Sprague de Camp

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Authors
  
H. P. Lovecraft, L. Sprague de Camp

Publisher
  
Donald M. Grant, Publisher

Similar
  
L Sprague de Camp books, Other books

To Quebec and the Stars is a collection of seventeen essays written by H. P. Lovecraft, assembled and edited by L. Sprague de Camp, who came across them in the course of his research for his biography of Lovecraft. The collection was first published in hardcover by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1976.

Contents

The essays cover a variety of subjects, notably astronomy, poetry, literature and travel; the main piece is a travelogue to Quebec, published for the first time in this collection.

Essays

  • "Trans-Neptunian Planets"
  • "November Skies"
  • "June Skies"
  • "May Skies"
  • "The Truth About Mars"
  • "Metrical Regularity"
  • "Allowable Rhyme"
  • "A reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson"
  • "The Literature of Rome"
  • "What Belongs in Verse"
  • "The Crime of the Century"
  • "Nietzscheism and Realism"
  • "A Confession of Unfaith"
  • "A Descent to Avernus"
  • "Some Dutch Footprints in New England"
  • "The Unknown City in the Ocean"
  • "A Description of the Town of Quebec"
  • Reception

    Richard A. Lupoff praised the collection as "an absolute treasure trove," singling out the title piece as "a delight to read . . . like taking a guided tour of the city in the company of a knowledgeable and garrulous friend whose greatest delight is to share with you his own pleasure in the city and its past."

    References

    To Quebec and the Stars Wikipedia