In a Glass Darkly - Brossura

Le Fanu, J. Sheridan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0192839470 ISBN 13: 9780192839473

Casa editrice: Oxford Paperbacks, 1999

Riassunto

`the ideal reading...for the hours after midnight' Thus Henry James described the style of supernatural tale of which Sheridan Le Fanu was a master. Known in nineteenth-century Dublin as `The Invisible Prince' because of his reclusive and nocturnal habits, Le Fanu was fascinated by the occult. His writings draw on the Gothic tradition, elements of Irish folklore, and even on the social and political anxieties of his Anglo-Irish contemporaries. In exploring sometimes inexplicable terrors, the tales focus on the unease of the haunted men and women who encounter the supernatural, rather than on the origin or purpose of the visitant. This makes for spine-chilling reading. The five stories presented here have been collected by Dr Hesselius, a `metaphysical' doctor, the forerunner of the modern psychiatrist, who is willing to consider the ghosts both as real and as hallucinatory obsessions. The reader's doubtful anxiety mimics that of the protagonist, and each story thus creates that atmosphere of mystery which is the supernatural experience.

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Contenuti:

Green Tea; The Familiar; Mr Justice Harbottle; The Room in the Dragon Volant; Carmilla

Product Description:

Book by Le Fanu Sheridan

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0192839470
• ISBN 13: 9780192839473
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384
• Redattore: Tracy Robert