Uncle Silas (World's Classics S.) - Softcover

Fanu, J. Sheridan Le; Le Fanu, J. Sheridan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192815415 ISBN 13: 9780192815415

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1981

Synopsis

It is a long, narrow room, with two tall, slim windows at the far end, now draped in dark curtains. Dusky it was with but one candle; and he paused near the door, at the left-hand side of which stood, in those days, an old-fashioned press or cabinet of carved oak. In front of this he stopped. He had odd, absent ways, and talked more to himself, I believe, than to all the rest of the world put together. 'She won't understand,' he whispered, looking at me enquiringly. 'No, she won't. Will she?' Then there was a pause, during which he brought forth from his breast pocket a small bunch of some half-dozen keys, on one of which he looked frowningly, every now and then balancing it a little before his eyes, between his finger and thumb, as he deliberated. I knew him too well, of course, to interpose a word. 'They are easily frightened--ay, they are. I'd better do it another way.' And pausing, he looked in my face as he might upon a picture. 'They

About this title

About the Author:

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 - 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. --Wikipedia

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0192815415
• ISBN 13: 9780192815415
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: McCormack W. J.