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The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich
The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich







It is pleasant to meet, it is pleasant to be together. While it is still going on, little thought is given to it, because little thought needs to be. In other words, its presence only becomes known in its absence. As a rule it only becomes noticeable when it is interrupted in some way, or broken off by circumstances. As a rule the two involved are not even aware of it at first. It never reaches the heights, and it never reaches the depths.Īs a rule it comes on subtly.

The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich

No jealousy, no quarrels, no greed to possess, no fear of losing possession, no hatred (which is very much a part of love), no surge of passion and no hangover afterward. It has all the good points of love, and none of its drawbacks. What is an attachment? It is the most difficult of all the human interrelationships to explain, because it is the vaguest, the most impalpable.

The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich

Upon his death, he left a bequest of one million dollars to Columbia University, to fund a scholarship for young writers. Because he was prolific, he found it necessary to publish under multiple pseudonyms, including " William Irish" and " George Hopley" Woolrich lived a life as dark and emotionally tortured as any of his unfortunate characters and died, alone, in a seedy Manhattan hotel room following the amputation of a gangrenous leg. The bulk of his best-known work, however, was written in the field of crime fiction, often appearing serialized in pulp magazines or as paperback novels. The author of numerous classic novels and short stories (many of which were turned into classic films) such as Rear Window, The Bride Wore Black, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Waltz Into Darkness, and I Married a Dead Man, Woolrich began his career in the 1920s writing mainstream novels that won him comparisons to F. Because he was prolific, he found it necessary to publish under multiple pseudonyms, including " William Irish" and " George Hopley" Woolrich lived a l Cornell Woolrich is widely regarded as the twentieth century’s finest writer of pure suspense fiction. Cornell Woolrich is widely regarded as the twentieth century’s finest writer of pure suspense fiction.









The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich