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The Return
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $40.95
Publisher: Lushena Books
Published: Nov 26 2025
Pages: 206
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Return - Walter de la Mare (short summary)
The Return is a haunting, psychological novel about Arthur Lawford, a quiet, ordinary man who undergoes a strange and unsettling transformation after visiting a graveyard. While resting near the tomb of an 18th-century adventurer named Herbert Herbert, Lawford somehow begins to take on the dead man's appearance - and possibly his personality.
As he struggles to understand what has happened to him, Lawford becomes caught between skeptical doctors, his anxious wife, and a mysterious woman who believes his change is real and meaningful. The novel blurs the line between the supernatural and psychological, exploring identity, memory, and the hidden parts of the self.
It remains an eerie, slow-building study of a man who may be possessed - or may be losing his mind.
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