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ISBN13: 9798679042865
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 25 2020
Pages: 808
Weight: 2.02
Height: 1.60 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 25 2020
Pages: 808
Weight: 2.02
Height: 1.60 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.
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