BOOK

Uncle Silas

Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873, author

2023

Overview

\"A gripping read, Uncle Silas it told from the point of view of a vulnerable young heiress whose fears prove all too real. The novel is structured via a series of secret motives that unfold via a highly dramatic narrative featuring money, violence, imprisonment, romance and escape. Uncle Silas's celebrated ability to achieve chilling atmospheric effects draws on the energy of Gothic, supernatural and sensational narratives . Its magnetic effects were the work of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, a writer whose talents were honed in Ireland during the turbulent decades of the mid-nineteenth century\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Governesses Fiction. / Murderers Fiction. / Orphans Fiction. / Uncles Fiction.
• ISBN: 9780198864356

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR4879.L7 U5 2023	1	BOOK	CATALOGING