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The House by the Church-Yard (Paperback)
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The House by the Church-Yard (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 560
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The House by the Church-Yard (1863) is a novel by Joseph Sheridan
Le Fanu. An important source for James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, The
House by the Church-Yard is a hybrid of the mystery and historical
genres of fiction. With its complex use of side plots and extensive
frame narrative, the novel is central to Le Fanu's legacy as an
innovator whose literary works inspired Bram Stoker and Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle. During a routine interment at a churchyard in the
historic village of Chapelizod, a grave is disturbed revealing a
skull buried a century earlier. Upon examination, a gruesome
discovery is made-not only does the skull show signs of severe head
trauma, it contains a hole from an emergency trepanning procedure.
Stirred by the discovery, an old man named Charles de Cresseron
pieces together the story of a time the village had nearly
forgotten. In the eighteenth century, a coffin was secretly buried
in the churchyard, with no defining characteristics except for the
initials "R.D." As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that this
burial is somehow related to a series of mysterious events-a love
triangle between a general's daughter, a local official, and a man
who has taken residence in a home rumored to be haunted; the
suicide of a disgraced prisoner; and a rivalry between a deeply
indebted doctor and the agent of a local lord whose home has been
infiltrated by a dubious imposter. As these plots swirl and
converge, The House by the Church-Yard emerges as a masterpiece of
suspense, a thriller that delights its reader just as much as it
demands their attention. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Joseph Sheridan
Le Fanu's The House by the Church-Yard is a classic of Irish
literature reimagined for modern readers.
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