

Uncle Silas, A Tale of Bartram Haugh
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Narrator: Lynne Thompson
Unabridged: 17 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Author's Republic
Published: 05/22/2019
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Narrator: Lynne Thompson
Unabridged: 17 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Author's Republic
Published: 05/22/2019
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) was an Irish writer best known for his horror fiction. A meticulous craftsman Le Fanu was a master of tone and effect, rather than “shock horrorâ€, and frequently reworked plots and ideas from his earlier short stories for his novels, which also included Gothic fiction and mysteries. A leading writer of the Victorian era, his most popular works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla, and The House by the Churchyard.
Uncle Silas isn’t a great novel, but it does exactly what it sets out to do. It is an effective “novel of sensation” in the tradition of The Woman in White, presenting us with a likable heroine in increasingly perilous situations, leading to a hair-raising—and extremely well-executed—climax. There a......more
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