It was winter - that is, about the second week in November - and great gusts were rattling at the windows, and wailing and thundering among our tall trees and ivied chimneys - a very dark night, and a very cheerful fire blazing, a pleasant mixture of good round coal and spluttering dry wood, in a genuine old fireplace, in a sombre old room.
An edition of Uncle Silas: a tale of Bartram-Haugh
(1864)
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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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 menacedby unscrupulous schemers. The narrator, Maud Ruthyn, is a 17 year old orphan left in the care of her fearful uncle, Silas. Together with his boorish son and a sinister French governess, Silas plots to kill Maud and claim her fortune. The novel established Le Fanu as a master of horror fiction.
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1865
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B. Tauchnitz
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Uncles, Orphans, Fiction, Governesses, Murderers, Fiction, thrillers, England, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, psychological, Large type books, Fiction, horror, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, suspense, English literature, Orphans -- Fiction, Psychological fiction, Governesses -- Fiction, Uncles -- Fiction, Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Murderers -- Fiction, Literature and fiction, mystery and suspenseShowing 11 featured editions. View all 214 editions?
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It was winter-that is, about the second week in November-and great gusts were rattling at the windows, and wailing and thundering among our tall trees and ivied chimneys-a very dark night, and a very cheerful fire blazing, a pleasant mixture of good round coal and spluttering dry wood, in a genuine old fireplace, in a sombre old room.
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