House by the Cemetery. In the Dim Glass – Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan – Foreigner – 2022 – ISBN 978-5-389-17016-2
House by the Cemetery. In the Dim Glass
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House by the Cemetery. In the Dim Glass
19.99 €
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) was a prominent writer of the Victorian era, often referred to as "the Irish Wilkie Collins" and "the Irish Edgar Allan Poe." He was the author of numerous Gothic short stories, novellas, and novels that fell into temporary obscurity at the turn of the 20th century and later regained popularity with new generations of readers.
The novel The House by the Churchyard (1862, published 1863), which Le Fanu himself considered his pinnacle, is set in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin, and begins with the discovery in the local churchyard of the remains of a man who apparently died a violent death. The mystery of his identity and death leads from the 1810s into the 18th century, where a complex criminal plot unfolds, slowly at first and then with increasing speed: a long-ago murder, the accusation of an innocent man, the attempts of the real criminal, who has changed his name, to conceal his past by assassination or the bribery of witnesses...
The pages of In a Glass Darkly (1872), the last book published in Le Fanu's lifetime, juxtapose stories of otherworldly retribution for a long-ago sin, a tale of an obsessive obsession driving a respectable citizen mad, a romantic story of passionate love and a mysterious room, and the legend of a vampire seducer, which predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by a quarter of a century.
The novel The House by the Churchyard (1862, published 1863), which Le Fanu himself considered his pinnacle, is set in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin, and begins with the discovery in the local churchyard of the remains of a man who apparently died a violent death. The mystery of his identity and death leads from the 1810s into the 18th century, where a complex criminal plot unfolds, slowly at first and then with increasing speed: a long-ago murder, the accusation of an innocent man, the attempts of the real criminal, who has changed his name, to conceal his past by assassination or the bribery of witnesses...
The pages of In a Glass Darkly (1872), the last book published in Le Fanu's lifetime, juxtapose stories of otherworldly retribution for a long-ago sin, a tale of an obsessive obsession driving a respectable citizen mad, a romantic story of passionate love and a mysterious room, and the legend of a vampire seducer, which predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by a quarter of a century.
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