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The House on the Borderland in Igbo: William Hope Hodgson’s novel of a lonely house in the west of Ireland and the strange forces around it, in a complete Igbo translation.

Original author: William Hope Hodgson. Original title: The House on the Borderland. Translated into Igbo from the English original.

N’afọ 1877, ndị enyi abụọ bịara ịkụ azụ n’ebe ọdịda anyanwụ Ireland chọtara otu akwụkwọ ochie e jiri aka dee, n’ime mkpọmkpọ ụlọ dị n’elu nnukwu olulu nke osimiri na-agbadaba na ya. Onye dere ya bụ agadi nwoke biri ya na nwanne ya nwaanyị na nkịta ya n’otu ụlọ ochie dịpụrụ adịpụ, ụlọ ndị obodo ahụ na-ezere.

Ihe o dere bụ akụkọ ihe ndị yiri ezi si n’olulu dị n’okpuru ụlọ ya rịgoro, nke Mbara Ala nke Ịgbachi Nkịtị, ebe ụlọ ọzọ yiri nke ya guzo n’etiti ugwu dị anya, na nke njem uche ya gafere oge ruo na njedebe anyanwụ. Nke a bụ otu n’ime akwụkwọ William Hope Hodgson kacha ama, nke e bipụtara na mbụ n’afọ 1908.

A sụgharịrị akụkọ a site n’asụsụ Bekee, asụsụ William Hope Hodgson ji dee ya. Isi ederede ya bụ The House on the Borderland, nke Chapman and Hall bipụtara na London n’afọ 1908, n’ụdị Project Gutenberg nọmba 10002. Okwu mmalite onye dere ya, uri ndị dị n’ime ya, isi iri abụọ na asaa ya na ihe ndị onye ndezi dere n’ala akwụkwọ dị ebe a dị ka ha dị n’ederede mbụ.

About this edition: translated from the English text of Project Gutenberg #10002. Paperback, 152 x 229 mm, 140 pages, published by Colombo Aspen. Cover painting: Caspar David Friedrich, The Abbey in the Oakwood (Abtei im Eichwald, 1809-1810).