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Carmilla
Carmilla
Carmilla
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Carmilla

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QUESTO LIBRO È A LAYOUT FISSO

Una misteriosa e affascinante fanciulla dal nome Carmilla viene affidata dalla madre alle cure di Laura e del ricco padre, nel loro antico castello in Stiria, isolato e immerso in un paesaggio incantato. Tutti nel castello rimangono affascinati dalla straordinaria bellezza della giovane, ma le sue abitudini insolite e il comportamento enigmatico cominceranno presto a suscitare curiosità e inquietudine.
Nel frattempo, un morbo sconosciuto sta mietendo vittime nel villaggio circostante: gli abitanti terrorizzati e superstiziosi temono il ritorno dell’ “upir”, il vampiro che nei vecchi racconti si narrava infestasse quei luoghi.
Un grande capolavoro della letteratura gotica, un’avvincente trama, intrecciata da suspense, sensualità e mistero, che si insinua in quel sottile confine tra la vita e la morte.
J. S. Le Fanu, (1814-1873), fu uno scrittore irlandese, ricordato soprattutto per le sue storie di fantasmi e di paranormale. Scrisse principalmente romanzi e racconti, tra cui Il fantasma e il concia ossa (1838), Lo zio Silas (1864), La vendetta del lago, Tè verde.
LanguageItaliano
Release dateFeb 6, 2018
ISBN9788865967645
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic horror. Born in Dublin, Le Fanu was raised in a literary family. His mother, a biographer, and his father, a clergyman, encouraged his intellectual development from a young age. He began writing poetry at fifteen and went on to excel at Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied law and served as Auditor of the College Historical Society. In 1838, shortly before he was called to the bar, he began contributing ghost stories to Dublin University Magazine, of which he later became editor and proprietor. He embarked on a career as a writer and journalist, using his role at the magazine as a means of publishing his own fictional work. Le Fanu made a name for himself as a pioneer of mystery and Gothic horror with such novels as The House by the Churchyard (1863) and Uncle Silas (1864). Carmilla (1872), a novella, is considered an early work of vampire fiction and an important influence for Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897).

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