The House by the Churchyard . Novel by - Sheridan Le Fanu - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781540371911 - November 12, 2016
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The House by the Churchyard . Novel by

Sheridan Le Fanu

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The 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

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 12, 2016
ISBN13 9781540371911
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 378
Dimensions 203 × 254 × 20 mm   ·   748 g
Language English  

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