Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781541229839
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Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was born on August 28th, 1814, at 45 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, into a literary family with Huguenot, Irish and English roots. The children were tutored but, according to his brother William, the tutor taught them little if anything. Le Fanu was eager to learn and used his father's library to educate himself about the world. He was a creative child and by fifteen had taken to writing poetry. Accepted into Trinity College, Dublin to study law he also benefited from the system used in Ireland that he did not have to live in Dublin to attend lectures, but could study at home and take examinations at the university as and when necessary. This enabled him to also write and by 1838 Le Fanu's first story The Ghost and the Bonesetter was published in the Dublin University Magazine. Many of the short stories he wrote at the time were to form the basis for his future novels. Indeed, throughout his career Le Fanu would constantly revise, cannabilise, embellish and re-publish his earlier works to use in his later efforts. Between 1838 and 1840 Le Fanu had written and published twelve stories which purported to be the literary remains of an 18th-century Catholic priest called Father Purcell. Set mostly in Ireland they include classic stories of gothic horror, with grim, shadowed castles, as well as supernatural visitations from beyond the grave, together with madness and suicide. One of the themes running through them is a sad nostalgia for the dispossessed Catholic aristocracy of Ireland, whose ruined castles stand in mute salute and testament to this history. On 18 December 1844 Le Fanu married Susanna Bennett, the daughter of a leading Dublin barrister. The union would produce four children. Le Fanu was now stretching his talents across the length of a novel and his first was The Cock and Anchor published in 1845. A succession of works followed and his reputation grew as well as his income. Unfortunately, a decade after his marriage it became an increasing source of difficultly. Susanna was prone to suffer from a range of neurotic symptoms including great anxiety after the deaths of several close relatives, including her father two years before. In April 1858 she suffered an "hysterical attack" and died in circumstances that are still unclear. The anguish, profound guilt as well as overwhelming loss were channeled into Le Fanu's work. Working only by the light of two candles he would write through the night and burnish his reputation as a major figure of 19th Century supernaturalism. His work challenged the focus on the external source of horror and instead he wrote about it from the perspective of the inward psychological potential to strike fear in the hearts of men. A series of books now came forth: Wylder's Hand (1864), Guy Deverell (1865), The Tenants of Malory (1867), The Green Tea (1869), The Haunted Baronet (1870), Mr. Justice Harbottle (1872), The Room in the Dragon Volant (1872) and In a Glass Darkly. (1872). But his life was drawing to a close. Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu died in Merrion Square in his native Dublin on February 7th, 1873, at the age of 58.
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512011890
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Languages : en
Pages : 50
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"Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales - Volume II" from Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels (1814-1873).
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512012125
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Languages : en
Pages : 84
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"Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales - Volume V" from Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels (1814-1873).
Author: Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318727780
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Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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ISBN: 9781785438127
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This volume includes "An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House" (1862) and "Ultor De Lacy: A Legend of Cappercullen" (1861) - a story of inherited castle, once the place of action of a terrible story that interrupted the family of Lacy.
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512011982
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Languages : en
Pages : 94
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"Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales - Volume IV" from Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels (1814-1873).
Author: Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318718764
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Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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ISBN: 9789353424923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales (Volume II): An Authentic Narrative Of A Haunted House (1862) And Ultor De Lacy: A Legend Of Capperculle N (1861) This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512011784
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Pages : 42
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"Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales - Volume I" from Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels (1814-1873).
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Scholar's Choice
ISBN: 9781298062840
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Pages : 170
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