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pA beautiful young heroine-A cruel and unfeeling mother-A one-eyed spy-A mesmerist-A lunatic asylum. These are the perfect components for a Victorian sensation novel, and in iThe Rose and the Key/i, J. Sheridan Le Fanu weaves them into a thrilling Gothic mystery. pThe terror builds slowly, as young Maud Vernon and her old cousin Maximilla enjoy a sketching tour through Wales. Ominously, they find themselves shadowed by a sinister one-eyed man. And when they return to Roydon Hall, Maud's home, things become yet worse. Her mother, the imperious Lady Vernon, seems to loathe her, and there are other concerns as well-a mysterious will, an intimidating man clothed all in black, and the satanic mesmerist Doctor Antomarchi. Le Fanu slowly unfolds his plot, building the mystery and suspence until the shocking climax, where Maud escapes her cruel mother to visit the home of the great Lady Mardykes, only to find that she has escaped one hell, only to enter one far worse! pThis edition is the first to follow the original text, as serialized in Charles Dickens's weekly iAll the Year Round/i in 1871. Featuring notes, the text of contemporary reviews, and contextual documents such as a letter from Dickens to Le Fanu, this is the first-ever scholarly edition of the novel. Highlighting this edition is a groundbreaking new introduction by Frances Chiu, which argues for consideration of iThe Rose and the Key/i as Le Fanu's statement on the troubled relations between England and Ireland and calls for a reevaluation of his ideology and politics.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Fiction & related items Thriller / suspense Espionage & spy thriller

• Pełny tytuł: Rose and the Key
• Autor: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 444
• EAN: 9781934555248
• ISBN: 193455524X
• ID: 04330880
• Wydawca: Valancourt Books
• Waga: 552 g
• Wymiary: 142 × 217 × 30 mm
• Data wydania: 01. November 2007

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