Carmilla: Sheridan Le Fanu by Amazonundefined

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Description

"Carmilla" autorstwa Sheridana Le Fanu to klasyczna powieść gotycka, która opowiada historię o przyjaźni, tajemnicach i mrocznych sekretach. Książka ta toczy się w otoczeniu starożytnego zamku i przedstawia relację między młodą kobietą, a tajemniczą i intrygującą Carmillą. Pełna atmosfery grozy i napięcia, ta powieść zachwyca czytelników od ponad wieku.
Recenzja
"Succeeds in inspiring a mysterious terror better than any other writer"
--M.R. James
Opis z tylnej okładki książki
A lonely castle, deep in the Styrian forest - here Laura leads a solitary life, with only her elderly father for company, until a moonlit night brings an unexpected guest to the schloss. At first Laura is glad to finally have a female companion of her own age, but her new friend's strange habits and eerie nocturnal wanderings quickly become unsettling, and soon a ghastly truth is revealed. Suffused with gothic horror and sexual tension, Carmilla predated Dracula by 26 years, has inspired generations of
O autorze
Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of gothic tales, mystery novels and ghost stories, most famous for his novel
Uncle Silas. Carmilla
was first published in 1872 and has served as an inspiration countless books, from Bram Stoker's
Dracula
and Henry James'
The Turn of the Screw
to Anne Rice's
Vampire Chronicles
, and a slew of films such as Hammer Horror's
Karnstein Trilogy
.
Fragment książki opublikowany za zgodą wydawcy. Wszelkie prawa zastrzeżone.
Prologue Upon a paper attached to the narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanies with a reference to his essay on the strange subject which the manuscript illuminates. This mysterious subject he treats, in that essay, with his usual learning and acumen, and with remark- able directness and condensation. It will form but one volume of the series of that extraordinary mans collected papers. As I publish the case, in this volume, simply to interest the laity,I shall forestall the intelligent lady, who relates it, in nothing; and after due consideration, I have determined, therefore, to abstain from pre- senting any
précis
of the learned Doctors reasoning, or extract from his statement on a subject which he describes as involving, not improbably, some of the profoundest arcana of our dual existence, and its intermediates. I was anxious on discovering this paper, to reopen the correspondence commenced by Doctor Hesselius, so many years before, with a person so clever and careful as his informant seems to have been. Much to my regret, however, I found that she had died in the interval. She, probably, could have added little to the narra- tive which she communicates in the following pages, with, so far as I can pronounce, such conscientious particularity.
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