Wylder's Hand

Wylder's Hand PDF Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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Category : Inheritance and succession
Languages : en
Pages : 490

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Wylder's Hand

Wylder's Hand PDF Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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Category : Inheritance and succession
Languages : en
Pages : 490

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Wylder's Hand. A Novel. By J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Wylder's Hand. A Novel. By J. Sheridan Le Fanu PDF Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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Languages : en
Pages : 387

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Wylder's Hand

Wylder's Hand PDF Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Wylder's Hand

Wylder's Hand PDF Author: Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775415260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 934

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Wylder's Hand is a novel from Gothic and mystery writer Sheridan Le Fanu. "There was a little fair-haired child playing on the ground before the steps as I whirled by. The old rector had long passed away; the shorts, gaiters, and smile -- a phantom; and nature, who had gathered in the past, was providing for the future. The pretty mill-road, running up through Redman's Dell, dank and dark with tall romantic trees, was left behind in another moment; and we were now traversing the homely and antique street of the little town, with its queer shops and solid steep-roofed residences. Up Church-street I contrived a peep at the old gray tower where the chimes hung; and as we turned the corner a glance at the "Brandon Arms." How very small and low that palatial hostelry of my earlier recollections had grown! There were new faces at the door. It was only two-and-twenty years ago, and I was then but eleven years old. A retrospect of a score of years or so, at three-and-thirty, is a much vaster affair than a much longer one at fifty. The whole thing seemed like yesterday; and as I write, I open my eyes and start and cry, "can it be twenty, five-and-twenty, aye, by Jove! five-and-thirty, years since then?" How my days have flown! And I think when another such yesterday shall have arrived, where shall I be?"

Wylder's Hand

Wylder's Hand PDF Author: Le Fanu J.
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5521071296
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. “Wylder’s Hand” tells the story of the Wilders and the Brandon, two families sharing a story of rivalry and intermarriage. The Wedding of Mark Wylder and his rich cousin Dorcas Brendon is about to happen. Although everyone understands, there is no love involved. However, everything changes when right before the wedding Mark suddenly disappears.

Wylder's Hand

Wylder's Hand PDF Author: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
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ISBN: 9780809593750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Note: The University of Adelaide Library eBooks @ Adelaide.

Wylder's Hand

Wylder's Hand PDF Author: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
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ISBN: 9780849216305
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 942

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Wylder's Hand; A Novel, In Two Volumes

Wylder's Hand; A Novel, In Two Volumes PDF Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387333900
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Wylder's Hand

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Wylder's Hand PDF Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781541247178
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Languages : en
Pages : 48

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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.

Wylder's Hand

Wylder's Hand PDF Author: Sheridan Le Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781982093983
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Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 - 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was a leading ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Three of his best-known works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla, and The House by the Churchyard.