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The House by the Church-Yard. E-book. Formato EPUB - 9791221357332

Un ebook di  Sheridan Le Fanu  edito da Memorable Classics eBooks, 2022

The House by the Church-Yard by Sheridan Le FanuThe House by the Churchyard (1863) is a novel by Sheridan Le Fanu that combines elements of the mystery novel and the historical novel. Aside from its own merits, the novel is important as a key source for James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

The novel begins with a prologue in the voice of an old man, Charles de Cresseron, that is set in Chapelizod, Ireland, roughly a century after the events of the novel proper. This prologue details how, during an interment at the churchyard of the title, a skull is accidentally unearthed, which bears the marks of two crushing blows to the head and – even more disconcertingly – a small hole from a trepanning.

The novel itself is Cresseron's reconstruction of the history related to this grisly item (though by and large his narratorial voice drops out and the novel is told from a conventional omniscient narrator's point of view).

The first chapter of the novel proper moves back to 1767, the period of the novel, and begins with another mysterious occurrence in the churchyard: the secretive burial of a coffin, with the occupant simply identified on the brass plaque as "R.D." But after this ominous opening the book turns (in its first half) to the careful and largely light-hearted elaboration of the social life and intrigues among the denizens of Chapelizod, from the powerful Lord Castlemallard to the soldiers in the local barracks under General Chattesworth, to the good Doctor Walsingham and his daughter Lily, to the gluttonous local Catholic priest Father Roach.

Informazioni bibliografiche

  • Titolo: The House by the Church-Yard. E-book. Formato EPUB
  • AutoreSheridan Le Fanu
  • Editore: Memorable Classics eBooks
  • Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Giugno '22
  • Formato: EPUB
  • Protezione: nessuna
  • ISBN-13: 9791221357332
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