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IN A GLASS DARKLY

ISBN: 9781853262654

作者: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

出版社: Wordsworth Editions Ltd

出版年: 1995年09月

页数: 272

定价: 20.0

装帧: 平装

内容简介


The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.

This is a collection of tales of the supernatural, where patients of Dr Heselius are plagued by malignant apparitions and vampires, or are drugged into a state of living death. The doctor usually explains such phenomena in terms of psychopathology, but the author is ambivalent to such theories.

`the ideal reading...for the hours after midnight'

Thus Henry James described the style of supernatural tale of which Sheridan Le Fanu was a master. Known in nineteenth-century Dublin as `The Invisible Prince' because of his reclusive and nocturnal habits, Le Fanu was fascinated by the occult. His writings draw on the Gothic tradition, elements of Irish folklore, and even on the social and political anxieties of his Anglo-Irish contemporaries. In exploring sometimes inexplicable terrors, the tales focus on the unease of the haunted men and

women who encounter the supernatural, rather than on the origin or purpose of the visitant. This makes for spine-chilling reading.

The five stories presented here have been collected by Dr Hesselius, a `metaphysical' doctor, the forerunner of the modern psychiatrist, who is willing to consider the ghosts both as real and as hallucinatory obsessions. The reader's doubtful anxiety mimics that of the protagonist, and each story thus creates that atmosphere of mystery which is the supernatural experience.

length: (cm)19.8                 width:(cm)12.6

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