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Title: The House by the Church-yard.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Le fanu, Joseph; 1866. 8 . 12618.bb.12.

Na stranitsakh etogo sbornika chitateli stolknutsja s ledenjaschimi dushu istorijami, kotorye pogruzjat ikh v mir potustoronnego i neobjasnimogo. Temnye tuchi sgustilis nad drevnim pomestem "Grej-Forest": semejstvo Marston nakhoditsja na grani razorenija, a otnoshenija mezhdu rodstvennikami daleki ot idealnykh. Mrachnoe i bezradostnoe uedinenie obitatelej zamka narushaet vizit bogatogo kuzena Uinstena Berkli, privykshego k roskoshnoj zhizni. Nikto i predstavit ne mog, kakuju tsepochku tragicheskikh sobytij zapustit vizit nezvanogo gostja...

Blagorodnaja semja Arden nakhoditsja na grani razorenija: otets semejstva ser Redzhinald v kotoryj raz zakladyvaet rodovoe pomeste Mortlejk-kholl, poka ego syn Richard, igraja v karty, promatyvaet ostatki sostojanija, poetomu vsja nadezhda na junuju krasavitsu-doch Elis, kotoruju rodstvenniki planirujut udachno vydat zamuzh. V eto slozhnoe dlja semi vremja v londonskom obschestve pojavljaetsja bogatyj dzhentlmen Uolter Longkljuz, o proshlom kotorogo nikomu nichego neizvestno. Longkljuz bystro zavoevyvaet raspolozhenie Ardenov: rasplachivaetsja s kartochnymi dolgami Richarda i dazhe gotov zhenitsja na Elis. No chto skryvaetsja v temnom proshlom Longljuza i tak li beskorystny ego pomysly? Kakoe otnoshenie on imeet k zagadochnomu ubijstvu, proizoshedshemu v starinnom zamke Mortlejk-kholl dvadtsat let nazad?

"Karmilla" (1872) - odna z p'jati istorij z praktiki doktora Gesseliusa, scho vkhodjat u zbirku irlandskogo pismennika Dzhozefa Sheridana Le Fanju "In a Glass Darkly".Lora zhive v usamitnenomu zamku z batkom, bagatim vdivtsem. Voni ochikujut gostej - generala z pleminnitseju, ale ta raptovo pomiraje. Natomist u zamku nespodivano z'javljajetsja insha gostja. Pislja jiji pojavi Loru pochinajut peresliduvati nichni koshmari: jij snitsja chudovisko v podobi kishki, jake kusaje jiji. Zdorov'ja divchini pogirshujetsja. Zgodom vona diznajetsja, scho pleminnitsja generala strazhdala vid takoji zh zagadkovoji nedugi. General perekonanij, scho obokh divchat nochami naviduvav vampir...

Sbornik novell klassika "temnogo romantizma" Sheridana Le Fanju o navazhdenijakh, dukhovidenii i drugikh tainstvennykh javlenijakh. Odna iz nikh, "Karmilla", vdokhnovila Brema Stokera na sozdanie "Drakuly". Kniga v sovremennom goticheskom oformlenii bernmoro i VIS.Junaja Lora vedet razmerennuju zhizn v uedinennom starinnom zamke, no vse menjaetsja, kogda v ee zhizni pojavljaetsja rokovaja krasavitsa Karmilla. Kakie tajny khranit ee drevnij rod? Kto na samom dele ee podruga? I pochemu Loru vnezapno nastigaet zagadochnaja bolezn? Sheridan Le Fanju khorosho znal, o chem pishet: pisatel vsju zhizn ispytyval pristupy neobjasnimoj trevogi. V ego istorijakh - zloveschee oschuschenie nejasnosti granits realnosti i mrachnykh fantazij, ujazvimost ratsionalnosti, tschetnye popytki objasnit fenomeny za granju privychnogo mira. Pomimo "Karmilly", v sbornik voshli novelly "Zelenyj chaj" i "Davnij znakomyj".Dlja kogo eta knigaDlja poklonnikov goticheskoj literatury.Dlja tekh, kto ljubit Brema Stokera, Meri Shelli, Roberta Ljuisa Stivensona, Gastona Leru.Dlja tekh, kto ljubit atmosferu viktorianskoj Anglii.Dlja tekh, kto kollektsioniruet knigi serii "Vechnye istorii. Young Adult".

V derevushke Chejplizod, nepodaleku ot Dublina, pri vykapyvanii novoj mogily na mestnom pogoste obrushivaetsja staroe zakhoronenie, obnaruzhivshee neobychnuju nakhodku - tresnuvshij cherep s otverstiem, pokhozhim na pulevoe. S etogo momenta spokojnyj temp derevenskikh del i zhizn mestnykh zhitelej navsegda menjaetsja: razgadka davnego ubijstva i tajna lichnosti zhertvy vedet iz 1810-kh godov v XVIII stoletie, a kriminalnaja intriga zakruchivaetsja vse ljubopytnee, ved nastojaschij prestupnik smenil imja i skryvaet svoe proshloe...