Checkmate - Couverture souple

Fanu, Sheridan Le

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0750914696 ISBN 13 : 9780750914697

Editeur : Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

Originally published in 1870 and reissued for the POCKET CLASSICS series, a mystery story which centres on a strange and mysterious man with a disfigurement and a 'dark' past which he reveals to no-one. By the author of IN A GLASS DARKLY and THE ROSE AND THE KEY.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

There stands about a mile and a half beyond Islington, unless it has come down within the last two years, a singular and grand old house. It belonged to the family of Arden, once distinguished in the Northumbrian counties. About fifty acres of ground, rich with noble clumps and masses of old timber, surround it; old-world fish-ponds, with swans sailing upon them, tall yew hedges, quincunxes, leaden fauns and goddesses, and other obsolete splendours surround it. It rises, tall, florid, built of Caen stone, with a palatial flight of steps, and something of the grace and dignity of the genius of Inigo Jones, to whom it is ascribed, with the shadows of ancestral trees and the stains of two centuries upon it, and a vague character of gloom and melancholy, not improved by some indications not actually of decay, but of something too like neglect.

Présentation de l'éditeur

"Checkmate" from Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels (1814-1873).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sutton Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0750914696
• ISBN 13: 9780750914697
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible