Checkmate (Pocket Classics S.)

Fanu, Sheridan Le

ISBN 10: 0750914696 / ISBN 13: 9780750914697

Edité par Sutton Publishing, 1998

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. N° de réf. du vendeur GOR001889210

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.

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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Checkmate (Pocket Classics S.)
Éditeur : Sutton Publishing
Date d'édition : 1998
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good