An edition of In a glass darkly (1872)

In a Glass Darkly

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An edition of In a glass darkly (1872)

In a Glass Darkly

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In a Glass Darkly collects together five short stories from gothic horror and mystery writer Sheridan Le Fanu. The book, published in 1872 a year before Le Fanu's death, is named from a passage in Corinthians which speaks of humankind perceiving the world "through a glass darkly." The stories are told from the posthumous writings of an occult detective named Dr Martin Hesselius. In Green Tea a clergyman is being driven mad by an evil demon that takes the ephemeral form of a monkey, but is unseen by others as it burdens the victim's mind with psychological torment. In The Familiar, revised from Le Fanu's The Watcher of 1851, a sea captain is stalked by a dwarf, "The Watcher." Is this strange character from captain's past? In Mr Justice Harbottle a merciless court judge is attacked by vengeful spirits, dreaming he is sentenced to death by a horrific version of himself. The story was revised from 1853's An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street. In The Room in the Dragon Volant, a notable mystery which includes a premature burial theme, an innocent young Englishman in France tries to rescue a mysterious countess from her unbearable situation. Lastly, Carmilla tells the tale of a lesbian vampire. It was a huge influence on Bram Stoker's writing of Dracula and the basis for the films Vampyr in 1932 and The Vampire Lovers in 1970.

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In a Glass Darkly
2017, Standard Ebooks
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In a glass darkly
2009, Dodo press
Texte imprime / in English
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In a Glass Darkly
August 23, 1999, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
Cover of: In a Glass Darkly (Wordsworth Collection)
In a Glass Darkly (Wordsworth Collection)
April 1, 1998, NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
Paperback in English - New edition
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In a glass darkly
Dec 31, 1990, Gill & Macmillan, Gill's Irish Classics / Gill and Macmillan Publishers
in English
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In a glass darkly
1923, E. Nash & Grayson
in English
Cover of: In a glass darkly
In a glass darkly
1872, R. Bentley
in English
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In a glass darkly
1872, R. Bentley
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First Sentence

"THOUGH carefully educated in medicine and surgery, I have never practised either."

Edition Notes

Oxford World's Classics

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Library of Congress
PR4879.L715 1999

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Open Library
OL7384346M
Internet Archive
inglassdarkly00sher
ISBN 10
0192839470
ISBN 13
9780192839473
Library Thing
56850
Goodreads
837422

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