Carmilla

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Paperback / softback

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Best Novel Classics

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Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Carmilla! The author, Le Fanu presents the story as part of the casebook of Dr. Hesselius, whose departures from medical orthodoxy rank him as the first occult doctor in literature Carmilla is a hugely influential vampire story told by a young girl called Laura, starved of the company of children her own age. After a coach crash not far from her castle home in Styria, her family agree to look after another young girl called Carmilla for a period of some months. Laura recognises the girl at once from a disturbing dream from years earlier. And Carmilla admits to having the same dream. In the nearby village the deaths begin. The rest of the story explains who Millarca is? What happens between Laura and Carmilla. Vampire vampire Mircalla, Bertha's death, and finally about he party joined by Baron Vordenburg, the descendant of the hero who rid the area of vampires long ago. A tomb is discovered at last and the vampire is stopped eventually! Facts and Trivia: 1. Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years. This is a classic Victorian vampire novella, which influenced Bram Stoker's later treatment of the vampire mythos in Dracula. 2. This is a very important book in historic sense, in the genre of vampire reading, due that it was published 25 years before than Dracula. Scroll Up and Get Your Copy! Other Classics for You: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen https: //www.createspace.com/6425513 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen https: //www.createspace.com/6428190 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen https: //www.createspace.com/6428537 Persuasion by Jane Austen https: //www.createspace.com/6427638 Love and Friendship by Jane Austen https: //www.createspace.com/6439962 Daisy Miller (1879) by Henry James https: //www.createspace.com/6445037 Oroonoko: Or, the Royal Slave by Aphra Behn https: //www.createspace.com/6447908

Author Biography:

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 - 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Three of his best-known works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla and The House by the Churchyard. Sheridan Le Fanu was born at 45 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, into a literary family of Huguenot, Irish and English descent. He had an elder sister, Catherine Frances, and a younger brother, William Richard. His parents were Thomas Philip Le Fanu and Emma Lucretia Dobbin. Both his grandmother Alicia Sheridan LeFanu and his great-uncle Richard Brinsley Sheridan were playwrights (his niece Rhoda Broughton would become a successful novelist), and his mother was also a writer, producing a biography of Charles Orpen. Sheridan Le Fanu studied law at Trinity College in Dublin, where he was elected Auditor of the College Historical Society. Under a system peculiar to Ireland he did not have to live in Dublin to attend lectures, but could study at home and take examinations at the university when necessary. Le Fanu worked in many genres but remains best known for his mystery and horror fiction. He was a meticulous craftsman and frequently reworked plots and ideas from his earlier writing in subsequent pieces. Many of his novels, for example, are expansions and refinements of earlier short stories. He specialised in tone and effect rather than "shock horror", and liked to leave important details unexplained and mysterious. He avoided overt supernatural effects: in most of his major works, the supernatural is strongly implied but a "natural" explanation is also possible.

Release date Australia

July 25th, 2016

Author

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

Series

Best Novel Classics

Dimensions

152x229x5

ISBN-13

9781535514224

Product ID

37534593

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