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In a Glass Darkly (Wordsworth Classics) (Paperback)

by Sheridan Le Fanu (Author) "THOUGH CAREFULLY educated in medicine and surgery, I have never practised either ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd; New edition edition (Sep 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 185326265X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1853262654
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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This is a collection of tales of the supernatural, where patients of Dr Heselius are plagued by malignant apparitions and vampires, or are drugged into a state of living death. The doctor usually explains such phenomena in terms of psychopathology, but the author is ambivalent to such theories.

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Robert Tracy has also edited The Macdermots of Ballycloran and Nina Balatka & Linda Tressel for the World's Classics. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best of le Fanu, 13 May 2000
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This review is from: In a Glass Darkly (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
This is a collection of uncommon merit, and readers will no doubt enjoy such stories as 'Mr Justice Harbottle' quite as much as the renowned vampire tale 'Carmilla'. But to those unfamiliar with the fourth story, 'The Room in the Dragon Volant' one can only say that this haunting, plangent masterpiece is likely to be the most memorable of all. This book contains the best of le Fanu's tales, better than 'Madame Crowl's Ghost', and represents the apogee of Victorian ghostly fiction.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars read on..., 30 Nov 2007
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This is a superb collection. Green tea is probably the least good but still good. The Familiar is a great tale of a man haunted by his past and eventually destroyed by it. Mr Justice Harbottle is very endearing and one of my favourite ghost stories. The Room in The Dragon Volant is long but well worth it - what could have been the perfect crime, if only...Carmilla, the vampire tale, is to my mind superior to Stoker's overlong Dracula, and was its inspiration.
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18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars An Apt Title., 15 Jun 2007
Whatever the merits of Le Fanu's collection of short stories, the Wordsworth edition is dismal.

The typesetting errors are so frequent that it was only after some investigation that I began to believe that mine is not a bootlegged copy. The most common faults are wandering sem;i-colons, and all exclamation marks replaced with a space followed by a personal pronoun I this can cause confusion when placed in the middle of a sentence, as Le Fanu's old prose does not include capital letters following an exclamation mark.

Undoubtedly cheap, but only really worth it as an excercise in deciphering.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gothic splendour!
Sheridan Le Fanu's classic collection of Gothic fiction is a delight for the connoiseur of weird tales. These stories are gathered as belonging to the papers of one Dr. Read more
Published 7 months ago by D. De Gruijter

3.0 out of 5 stars Probably only scary if you suffer from a nervous psychological disorder
Some books are so bad that you just can't finish them. This isn't one of those books. Which is unforunate as when you read it you constantly wish you weren't. Read more
Published 18 months ago by S. Pollard

5.0 out of 5 stars Five of Le Fanu's longer short stories
'In a Glass Darkly' is a collection of hair-raising tales selected from those recorded by Dr Martin Hesselius during the many years he spent working to understand and explain the... Read more
Published on 23 Dec 2006 by T. Bobley

5.0 out of 5 stars superficial tales- real or imagination?
The classic in the ghost story genre. Most of his
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