House by the Cemetery. In the Dim Glass
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House by the Cemetery. In the Dim Glass
14.99 €
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) - an outstanding writer of the Victorian era, in which he was often called "Irish Wilkie Collins" and "Irish Edgar Poe", the author of many gothic stories, novels and novels, which survived at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries temporary oblivion, and then regained popularity - already with new generations of readers. The action of the novel "The House at the Cemetery" (1862, publ. 1863), which Le Fanu himself considered the pinnacle of his work, unfolds in the village of Cheyplizod near Dublin, and begins with the discovery in the local churchyard remains of a man who apparently died a violent death. The mystery of his identity and demise leads from the 1810s to the eighteenth century, where a tangled criminal intrigue unfolds slowly at first, then increasingly rapidly: A long ago murder, the accusation of an innocent man, the attempts of the real criminal, who changed his name, to conceal his past by eliminating or bribing witnesses ... On the pages of the collection "In the dim glass" (1872) - the last lifetime published book Le Fanu - neighboring stories about the otherworldly retribution for a long-standing sin - and the story of obsessive compulsion, driving mad a decent citizen, a romantic story about ardent love and the mysterious room - and the legend of the vampire-seducer, a quarter of a century ahead of "Dracula" Bram Stoker.
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