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Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

 
9780979015632: The Room in the Dragon Volant
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0979015634 ISBN 13 : 9780979015632
Editeur : Skeptic Press, 2014

Synopsis

In 1815 a wealthy young Englishman, Richard Beckett, travels to France seeking increased wealth and adventure. Stopping to help a nearly overturned carriage, Richard meets a stunning but oppressed Countess who soon becomes his object of infatuation. Hoping to become her rescuer, he follows her to Paris where he becomes embroiled in a situation beyond his understanding. Staying in the Dragon Volant, an inn with a dubious past, Richard attempts to ignore the stories of three previous tenants who vanished while staying in the very room he occupies.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In 1815 a wealthy young Englishman, Richard Beckett, travels to France seeking increased wealth and adventure. Stopping to help a nearly overturned carriage, Richard meets a stunning but oppressed Countess who soon becomes his object of infatuation. Hoping to become her rescuer, he follows her to Paris where he becomes embroiled in a situation beyond his understanding. Staying in the Dragon Volant, an inn with a dubious past, Richard attempts to ignore the stories of three previous tenants who vanished while staying in the very room he occupies.

Biographie de l'auteur

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 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.

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Éditeur
Skeptic Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0979015634
ISBN 13 
9780979015632
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
182
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