The Wyvern Mystery
Author | : J. Sheridan Le Fanu |
Publisher | : Standard Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2024-06-14T20:30:44Z |
ISBN-10 | : PKEY:6DC236E7330E822F |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book The Wyvern Mystery written by J. Sheridan Le Fanu and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2024-06-14T20:30:44Z with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Maybell is a young orphan who has grown up in Wyvern Manor with old Captain Fairfield and his two sons. She has grown into a beautiful young woman with a bright future; but her marriage, and her husband’s secret, will lead her down a dark path. Today, Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu is remembered of as an early master of horror. In his own day, he would have thought of his work as falling into different genres, with his well-loved ghost stories, like “Green Tea,” in one genre, and his “sensation novels,” like Uncle Silas, in another. In The Wyvern Mystery, the suspense is created not by the Gothic or the macabre, but by the all-too-prosaic secret held by Alice’s husband, and how it grows to threaten both their futures. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.