Uncle Silas
Trade paperback edition in very good condition.
"Perhaps other souls than human are sometimes born into the world, and clothed in flesh."
One of the most significant and intriguing gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological thriller. In Uncle Silas (1864) Le Fanu brought up to date Mrs. Radcliffe's earlier tales of virtue imprisoned and menaced by unscrupulous schemers. The narrator, Maud Ruthyn, is a 17-year-old orphan left in the care of her fearful uncle, Silas. The novel established Le Fanu as a master of horror fiction.
Trade paperback edition in very good condition.
"Perhaps other souls than human are sometimes born into the world, and clothed in flesh."
One of the most significant and intriguing gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological thriller. In Uncle Silas (1864) Le Fanu brought up to date Mrs. Radcliffe's earlier tales of virtue imprisoned and menaced by unscrupulous schemers. The narrator, Maud Ruthyn, is a 17-year-old orphan left in the care of her fearful uncle, Silas. The novel established Le Fanu as a master of horror fiction.
Trade paperback edition in very good condition.
"Perhaps other souls than human are sometimes born into the world, and clothed in flesh."
One of the most significant and intriguing gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological thriller. In Uncle Silas (1864) Le Fanu brought up to date Mrs. Radcliffe's earlier tales of virtue imprisoned and menaced by unscrupulous schemers. The narrator, Maud Ruthyn, is a 17-year-old orphan left in the care of her fearful uncle, Silas. The novel established Le Fanu as a master of horror fiction.
ISBN 978-0-140-43746-1
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
1864