Uncle Silas By Le Fanu
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Author | : J Sheridan Le Fanu |
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Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2020-01-26 |
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Uncle Silas, subtitled "A Tale of Bartram-Haugh", is a Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller novel by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Despite Le Fanu resisting its classification as such, the novel has also been hailed as a work of sensation fiction by contemporary reviewers and modern critics alike. It is an early example of the locked-room mystery subgenre, rather than a novel of the supernatural (despite a few creepily ambiguous touches), but does show a strong interest in the occult and in the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish scientist, philosopher and Christian mystic.Like many of Le Fanu's novels, Uncle Silas grew out of an earlier short story, in this case "A Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess" (1839), which he also published as "The Murdered Cousin" in the collection Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery (1851). While this earlier story was set in Ireland,
Author | : Sheridan Le Fanu |
Publisher | : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 493 |
Release | : 2021-12-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 3986776672 |
Uncle Silas Sheridan Le Fanu - One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological thriller. In UNCLE SILAS (1864) Le Fanu brought up to date Mrs Radcliffe's earlier tales of virtue imprisoned and menaced by unscrupulous schemers. The narrator, Maud Ruthyn, is a 17 year old orphan left in the care of her fearful uncle, Silas. Together with his boorish son and a sinister French governess, Silas plots to kill Maud and claim her fortune. The novel established Le Fanu as a master of horror fiction.
Author | : Herbert Ernest Bates |
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Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 1939 |
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Author | : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu |
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Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1895 |
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Author | : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu |
Publisher | : Namaskar Books |
Total Pages | : 94 |
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Author | : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu |
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Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1889 |
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Author | : Sheridan Le Fanu |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2022-07-21 |
Genre | : Art |
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This is one of Le Fanu's earlier stories. Set in Ireland, it is written as though le Fanu was a priest named Purcell, it contains all the ingredients of the classic Gothic horror story. The countess is known only as Countess D. All we know about her at first is that her family and the family into which she married, are now entirely extinct.
Author | : Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1442945192 |
"Uncle Silas" by Le Fanu is considered one of the greatest Gothic novels. The story is about a young girl, Maud Knollyes who is sent to live with her uncle Silas after her fathers' death. Uncle Silas is a mysterious man who was once accused of murdering a man to whom he owed a debt. The novel has several unexpected twists and turns which makes it a spine chilling thriller.
Author | : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Ireland |
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Author | : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu |
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Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories, English |
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