Hauntings Fantastic Stories By Vernon Lee

Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551115786

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Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales by Vernon Lee Pdf

Vernon Lee writes in the Preface to Hauntings, “My ghosts are what you call spurious ghosts... of whom I can affirm only one thing, that they haunted certain brains, and have haunted, among others, my own.” First published in 1890, Lee’s most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. This collection, which includes the four stories originally published in Hauntings and three others, enables readers to consider Lee’s work anew for its subtle redefinitions of gender and sexuality during the Victorian fin-de-siècle. The appendices, which include extensive excerpts from writings by Lee’s predecessors and peers, including Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, and Lee’s brother Eugene Lee-Hamilton, allow the reader to see how Lee takes on the themes and preoccupations of the late-Victorian period but adapts them to her own purposes.

Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : Books for Libraries
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Fantasy fiction, English
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035006852

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Hauntings; Fantastic Stories by Vernon Lee Pdf

A beautiful and deadly Italian ghost. A rescued orphan girl with mystical powers. A modern woman in love with a long-dead poet.

Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513297149

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Hauntings by Vernon Lee Pdf

Hauntings (1890) is a short story collection by Vernon Lee. Published at the height of her career as a leading proponent of Aestheticism and scholar of the Italian Renaissance, Hauntings collects four of her most chilling tales of the supernatural. Employing formal techniques to mimic diary and letter writing, Lee brings her reader face to face with the psychological unease embodied in her characters. A principled feminist and committed pacifist, Lee was virtually blacklisted by critics and publishers following her opposition to the First World War. Through the efforts of dedicated scholars, however, interest in her works has increased over the past several decades, granting her the readership she deserves as a master of literary horror. “They are things of the imagination, born there, bred there, sprung from the strange confused heaps, half-rubbish, half-treasure, which lie in our fancy, heaps of half-faded recollections, of fragmentary vivid impressions, litter of multi-colored tatters, and faded herbs and flowers, whence arises that odor (we all know it), musty and damp, but penetratingly sweet and intoxicatingly heady, which hangs in the air when the ghost has swept through the unopened door, and the flickering flames of candle and fire start up once more after waning.” Vernon Lee’s world is one where ghosts and humans walk together, often without taking notice of one another. In those instances when they do, however, strange and terrible things are likely to occur. The stories in this collection record such fateful encounters: a German academic becomes obsessed with a lady of the Italian Renaissance; a young girl is discovered alone on the Italian coast following a brutal storm; a painter grows uneasy at the resemblance of a subject to one of her distant ancestors; and a composer hears the voice of a famous castrato dead for centuries. Hauntings is a masterful work from the mind of Vernon Lee, one of history’s most terrifying storytellers. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Vernon Lee’s Hauntings is a classic work of supernatural fiction reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Violet Paget
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016600895

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Hauntings, Fantastic Stories; by Vernon Lee by Violet Paget Pdf

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Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : Trieste Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 064900471X

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Hauntings, Fantastic Stories by Vernon Lee Pdf

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Author : Violet 1856-1935 Paget
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1362786888

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HAUNTINGS FANTASTIC STORIES BY by Violet 1856-1935 Paget Pdf

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Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387334654

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Hauntings; Fantastic Stories by Vernon Lee Pdf

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Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1544743688

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Hauntings by Vernon Lee Pdf

Violet Paget was a British writer who wrote under the pseudonym of Vernon Lee and is best remembered for her supernatural fiction. Lee's most famous work is Hauntings, a collection of classic ghost and supernatural tales that was published in 1890.

Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Fiction
ISBN : OSU:32435055971014

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A Phantom Lover by Vernon Lee Pdf

Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781528790529

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Hauntings by Vernon Lee Pdf

Violet Paget (1856–1935), also known under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British writer famous for her supernatural fiction and contributions to the field of aesthetics. She also wrote more than a dozen books on a variety of subjects ranging from music to travel, and today she is best remembered for her original ideas and amusing use of irony. Lee's most famous work, “Hauntings” (1890) is a fantastic collection of chilling ghost and supernatural stories, including “Amour Dure”, “Dionea”, “Oke of Okehurst”, and “A Wicked Voice”. Classic macabre tales not to be missed by fans of frightening fiction. Other notable works by this author include: “The Prince of the Hundred Soups: A Puppet Show in Narrative” (1883), “The Countess of Albany” (1884), and “Miss Brown” (1884). Fantasy and Horror Classics is proudly republishing this classic novel now in a new edition complete with an introductory biography by Daniel Lleufer Thomas.

Author : Vernon Lee,Violet Paget
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:604557998

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Hauntings, stories, by Vernon Lee by Vernon Lee,Violet Paget Pdf

Author : Patricia Pulham
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754650960

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Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales by Patricia Pulham Pdf

Patricia Pulham combines psychoanalytic theory with socio-historical criticism in her study of Vernon Lee's fantastic tales. Using D.W. Winnicott's 'transitional object' theory, Pulham argues that the past in Lee's tales signifies not only an historical but a psychic past. Thus the 'ghosts' that haunt Lee's supernatural fiction held complex meanings for her that were fundamental to her intellectual development and allowed her to explore alternative identities that permit the expression of transgressive sexualities.

Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781776596911

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A Phantom Lover by Vernon Lee Pdf

Fans of gothic horror will relish this spine-tingling novella from "Vernon Lee," the nom de plume of British writer Violet Paget. The story follows an unusual love affair that is not exactly what it appears to be, and the twist ending will shock even the most astute reader.

Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857066838

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The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Vernon Lee by Vernon Lee Pdf

Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of Violet Paget, she was born to British parents in France in 1856. Today she is remembered for her numerous works on art, music and travel, but most especially for her superb supernatural fiction. Although British and writing primarily for an English speaking market, she spent most of her life living and working on the continent. Lee is an inspirational female and feminist figure, who dressed as a man and formed passionate long term lesbian relationships. Her subtle supernatural fiction focussed on the exploration of the enduring themes of haunting and possession and sometimes contains elements of palpable terror. A contemporary, Montague Summers, the eccentric British writer and clergyman, noted for his own literary forays into the uncanny, wrote that in his opinion 'she was the greatest of the modern exponents of the supernatural in fiction.' This gives some indication of the respect in which Lee was held by her peers. She was a personal friend of the writer Henry James, author of that iconic story of malevolent haunting 'The Turn of the Screw, ' and it is logical to assume that this relationship would certainly have had an influence on her fiction. Lees collection Hauntings appeared in 1890, and her famous story 'Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady' appeared in the Yellow Book in 1895. This notorious and hugely influential publication featured the often erotic art of Aubrey Beardsley and the work of notable writers including Max Beerbohm, Arnold Bennett, Henry James, H. G Wells, William Butler Yeats and many others. Although Lee's fame may not have endured as abidingly as some of her contemporaries of the fin de siecle period, she rightly deserves a place in the pantheon of authors of the supernatural and this comprehensive, Leonaur collection is the perfect way for readers to reap the many rewards of her work. This special two volume edition contains twenty four fantastic examples of Lee's tales of the haunted and possessed. Volume one includes the novelettes 'Winthrop's Adventure, ' 'A Phantom Lover, ' 'A Seeker of Pagan Perfection' and the 'The Gods and Ritter Tanhuser' together with 'The Hidden Door' and six more short stories. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.

Author : VERNON. LEE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033513938

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HAUNTINGS by VERNON. LEE Pdf