Author: Herbert Ernest Bates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
My Uncle Silas
Author: Herbert Ernest Bates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Uncle Silas
Author: Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442945192
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
"Uncle Silas" by Le Fanu is considered one of the greatest Gothic novels. The story is about a young girl, Maud Knollyes who is sent to live with her uncle Silas after her fathers' death. Uncle Silas is a mysterious man who was once accused of murdering a man to whom he owed a debt. The novel has several unexpected twists and turns which makes it a spine chilling thriller.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442945192
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
"Uncle Silas" by Le Fanu is considered one of the greatest Gothic novels. The story is about a young girl, Maud Knollyes who is sent to live with her uncle Silas after her fathers' death. Uncle Silas is a mysterious man who was once accused of murdering a man to whom he owed a debt. The novel has several unexpected twists and turns which makes it a spine chilling thriller.
Death (and Further Adventures) of Silas Winterbottom: The Body Thief
Author: Stephen M. Giles
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402240910
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Lured to their sick Uncle Silas's home under the pretense of becoming heirs to his vast fortune, cousins Adele, Isabella, and Milo soon learn that the old man has a diabolical plan to prevent his own death.
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402240910
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Lured to their sick Uncle Silas's home under the pretense of becoming heirs to his vast fortune, cousins Adele, Isabella, and Milo soon learn that the old man has a diabolical plan to prevent his own death.
Uncle Silas Illustrated
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Faun
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
My Uncle Silas is an ee-e book of brief memories approximately a bucolic elderly Bedfordshire man, written with the aid of using H. E. Bates and illustrated with the aid of using Edward Ardizzone.Bates's Uncle Silas parent, and the various lineaments of his individual become primarily based totally on a actual man or woman named Joseph Betts, the husband of H. E. Batess maternal grandmothers sister Mary Ann. Betts lived in a village in the Ouse Valley become born with inside the early 1840s, and lived to the early 1930s. The parent he portrays is Rabelaisian and robust, a real countryman of pithy and roguish individual, concurrently earthy and whimsical, crabbed and wicked, but complete of humor and "robust original devilishness."Bates taken into consideration that, if anything, he had understated the true English rural individual. The pleasant memories and scenes had been drawn from his very own aromatic recollections of a Northampton shire childhood, from memories actually instructed with the aid of using his great-uncle, or from extra preferred usa lore of apocryphal legends including any attentive toddler is probably conscious of. The boy (representing the writer in childhood) enters into maximum of the memories, from time to time as a listener and from time to time a participant: his dating to Silas and the old mans manner of placing a slant on his memories for the lads advantage are essential elements of the complete effect.One of the maximum significantand fascinating Gothic novels of the Victorian length and is loved these days as acurrent mental thriller. In UNCLE SILAS (1864) Le Fanu delivered as much as dateMrs. Radcliffe's in advance memories of distinctive features imprisoned and menaced via way of means of unscrupulousschemers. The narrator, Maud Ruthyn, is a 17 yr antique orphan left withinside the careof her frightened uncle, Silas. Together along with his boorish son and a sinisterFrench governess, Silas plots to kill Maud and declare her fortune. The novelmounted Le Fanu as a grasp of horror fiction.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
My Uncle Silas is an ee-e book of brief memories approximately a bucolic elderly Bedfordshire man, written with the aid of using H. E. Bates and illustrated with the aid of using Edward Ardizzone.Bates's Uncle Silas parent, and the various lineaments of his individual become primarily based totally on a actual man or woman named Joseph Betts, the husband of H. E. Batess maternal grandmothers sister Mary Ann. Betts lived in a village in the Ouse Valley become born with inside the early 1840s, and lived to the early 1930s. The parent he portrays is Rabelaisian and robust, a real countryman of pithy and roguish individual, concurrently earthy and whimsical, crabbed and wicked, but complete of humor and "robust original devilishness."Bates taken into consideration that, if anything, he had understated the true English rural individual. The pleasant memories and scenes had been drawn from his very own aromatic recollections of a Northampton shire childhood, from memories actually instructed with the aid of using his great-uncle, or from extra preferred usa lore of apocryphal legends including any attentive toddler is probably conscious of. The boy (representing the writer in childhood) enters into maximum of the memories, from time to time as a listener and from time to time a participant: his dating to Silas and the old mans manner of placing a slant on his memories for the lads advantage are essential elements of the complete effect.One of the maximum significantand fascinating Gothic novels of the Victorian length and is loved these days as acurrent mental thriller. In UNCLE SILAS (1864) Le Fanu delivered as much as dateMrs. Radcliffe's in advance memories of distinctive features imprisoned and menaced via way of means of unscrupulousschemers. The narrator, Maud Ruthyn, is a 17 yr antique orphan left withinside the careof her frightened uncle, Silas. Together along with his boorish son and a sinisterFrench governess, Silas plots to kill Maud and declare her fortune. The novelmounted Le Fanu as a grasp of horror fiction.
Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess
Author: Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This is one of Le Fanu's earlier stories. Set in Ireland, it is written as though le Fanu was a priest named Purcell, it contains all the ingredients of the classic Gothic horror story. The countess is known only as Countess D. All we know about her at first is that her family and the family into which she married, are now entirely extinct.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This is one of Le Fanu's earlier stories. Set in Ireland, it is written as though le Fanu was a priest named Purcell, it contains all the ingredients of the classic Gothic horror story. The countess is known only as Countess D. All we know about her at first is that her family and the family into which she married, are now entirely extinct.
Clay's Quilt
Author: Silas House
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565123077
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Clay Sizemore, a coal miner in love, searches his family history for clues about who he is, uncovering a dramatic story woven into the fabric of his uncle's quilts. A first novel.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565123077
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Clay Sizemore, a coal miner in love, searches his family history for clues about who he is, uncovering a dramatic story woven into the fabric of his uncle's quilts. A first novel.
Si-cology 1
Author: Si Robertson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476745390
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
You know him from the hit A&E® show Duck Dynasty®—now you can enjoy Uncle Si’s tall tales, crazy exploits, and quirky one-liners in one raucous collection! “These hands are so fast, I can get your wallet before you know it. In a minute, you’ll be standing there buck naked and won’t know what hit you!” “Look here—if it wasn’t for my tripped knee, I’d be playing in the NBA today.” “Hey, Jack!” Any of these sound familiar? If they do—or even if they don’t—you’re in for a good laugh. The brother of patriarch Phil Robertson, Uncle Si has a limitless supply of stories about his childhood, duck hunting adventures, his days in Vietnam, and everything in between. Now the best of those tales are gathered into this roaring book. And as Uncle Si recounts his outlandish tales, he weaves in an up-close look into his personal life. You’ll learn about his childhood as the youngest son in the Robertson family, his college days, and how he came to use a green Tupperware cup for his ever-present tea.. And in many of these never-before-heard tales, Si openly talks about his wife Christine and two children, Scott and Trasa—who are never seen and rarely mentioned on the show. Sure to please die-hard fans and curious newbies alike, Si’s one-liners are presented alongside fun, expressive photographs, as well as photos of his family. As you learn about his behind-the-scenes life, this smattering of zany stories will have you falling over with laughter and retelling them to all your friends.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476745390
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
You know him from the hit A&E® show Duck Dynasty®—now you can enjoy Uncle Si’s tall tales, crazy exploits, and quirky one-liners in one raucous collection! “These hands are so fast, I can get your wallet before you know it. In a minute, you’ll be standing there buck naked and won’t know what hit you!” “Look here—if it wasn’t for my tripped knee, I’d be playing in the NBA today.” “Hey, Jack!” Any of these sound familiar? If they do—or even if they don’t—you’re in for a good laugh. The brother of patriarch Phil Robertson, Uncle Si has a limitless supply of stories about his childhood, duck hunting adventures, his days in Vietnam, and everything in between. Now the best of those tales are gathered into this roaring book. And as Uncle Si recounts his outlandish tales, he weaves in an up-close look into his personal life. You’ll learn about his childhood as the youngest son in the Robertson family, his college days, and how he came to use a green Tupperware cup for his ever-present tea.. And in many of these never-before-heard tales, Si openly talks about his wife Christine and two children, Scott and Trasa—who are never seen and rarely mentioned on the show. Sure to please die-hard fans and curious newbies alike, Si’s one-liners are presented alongside fun, expressive photographs, as well as photos of his family. As you learn about his behind-the-scenes life, this smattering of zany stories will have you falling over with laughter and retelling them to all your friends.
From Mourning to Knight
Author: Damon Silas
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504362306
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Author and psychologist Dr. Damon A. Silas describes his own, incredible journey of powerfully overcoming loss and grief within his life. Elegantly, and with skillful humor, he guides the reader through the lessons drawn from the tragedies and challenges he has experienced. His poignant style, cleverly interwoven with lightheartedness, draws the reader into a journey that shows remarkable resilience. In addition, he provides useful resources to support readers working through their own losses, grief and trauma. The reader easily believes these losses could at any stage relate to their own life, thus transcending the labels we tend to place on each other. Through every loss is a journey of many steps. Delve into this book to experience the path of evolving from the darkness into the light.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504362306
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Author and psychologist Dr. Damon A. Silas describes his own, incredible journey of powerfully overcoming loss and grief within his life. Elegantly, and with skillful humor, he guides the reader through the lessons drawn from the tragedies and challenges he has experienced. His poignant style, cleverly interwoven with lightheartedness, draws the reader into a journey that shows remarkable resilience. In addition, he provides useful resources to support readers working through their own losses, grief and trauma. The reader easily believes these losses could at any stage relate to their own life, thus transcending the labels we tend to place on each other. Through every loss is a journey of many steps. Delve into this book to experience the path of evolving from the darkness into the light.
Ghost Stories and Mysteries
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486207155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Remaining supernatural fiction by writer many consider greatest ghost story writer of all time. Mystery stories are equally memorable.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486207155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Remaining supernatural fiction by writer many consider greatest ghost story writer of all time. Mystery stories are equally memorable.
The Graveyard Book
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060530944
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
It takes a graveyard to raise a child. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060530944
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
It takes a graveyard to raise a child. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family.