To Quebec and the Stars

To Quebec and the Stars

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name = To Quebec and the Stars
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image_caption = Dust-jacket for "To Quebec and the Stars"
author = H. P. Lovecraft
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cover_artist = Robert MacIntyre
country = United States
language = English
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subject = Essays
publisher = Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc.
release_date = 1976
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 318 pp
isbn = ISBN 0937986305
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"To Quebec and the Stars" is a collection of seventeen essays by H. P. Lovecraft, assembled and edited by L. Sprague de Camp, who came across them in the course of his research for his of Lovecraft. The collection was first published in hardcover by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1976.

The essays cover a variety of subjects, notably astronomy, poetry, literature and travel; the main piece is a travelogue to Quebec.

Contents

*"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"

References

*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=323 | date=1998
*cite book | last=Laughlin | first=Charlotte | coauthors=Daniel J. H. Levack | title=De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography | location=San Francisco | publisher=Underwood/Miller | pages=115-116 | date=1983


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