Uncle Silas by J.Sheridan LeFanu, Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Classics, Literary

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Addicted to laudanum and prey to inexplicable visions, Silas appears like a spirit to his neice Maud. Silas has his own plans for Maud and the fortune she will inherit. Uncle Silas is LeFanu's best-known novel, dealing with themes of spiritualism, secret corruption, greed, lust, and other peculiar Victorian obsessions. A classic novel of spiritual terror by opne of the true masters of the form.

Author Biography:

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 - 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was a 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.

Release date Australia

November 1st, 2002

Author

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

432

Dimensions

161x239x36

ISBN-13

9781587158865

Product ID

27503415

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