Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Uncle Silas (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After the death of her father, Maud Ruthyn is named heiress to a sizable fortune. However, she must live with her Uncle Silas, a reclusive man, until she comes of age. Beset with rumors and strange occurrences, Maud begins to fear for not only her fortune, but her life. Uncle Silas is a novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513276649
• Artikelnr.: 61425515

Autorenporträt

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic horror. Born in Dublin, Le Fanu was raised in a literary family. His mother, a biographer, and his father, a clergyman, encouraged his intellectual development from a young age. He began writing poetry at fifteen and went on to excel at Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied law and served as Auditor of the College Historical Society. In 1838, shortly before he was called to the bar, he began contributing ghost stories to Dublin University Magazine, of which he later became editor and proprietor. He embarked on a career as a writer and journalist, using his role at the magazine as a means of publishing his own fictional work. Le Fanu made a name for himself as a pioneer of mystery and Gothic horror with such novels as The House by the Churchyard (1863) and Uncle Silas (1864). Carmilla (1872), a novella, is considered an early work of vampire fiction and an important influence for Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897).