📱 eBook en inglés THE HOUSE BY THE CHURCHYARD (SUMMARIZED EDITION)

Set in Chapelizod, outside Dublin, in the 1760s, The House by the Churchyard begins with a disturbed grave whose skull hints at a long-concealed crime. Le Fanu blends social comedy, civic chronicle, and Gothic unease through a wry, mock‑antiquarian narrator, using digression to deepen suspense. Scenes of tavern talk and garrison life resolve into a historical sensation plot where superstition shadows rational inquiry. An Anglo-Irish master of the uncanny, Le Fanu studied law at Trinity College Dublin, edited the Dublin University Magazine, and mined eighteenth‑century records and folklore for texture. A clergymans son who became reclusive after bereavement, he turned private anxieties about guilt and memory into art. Serialized before its 1863 issue, the novel reflects his journalists timing and ear alongside an antiquarians documentary imagination. Readers of Victorian mystery and Irish historical fiction will relish its breadth and sly intelligence. It offers the satisfactions of a meticulously sprung plot and a richly peopled community portrait. Recommended for admirers of Wilkie Collins, Trollopes Ireland, and anyone curious about the uneasy origins of modern Gothic.
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