Uncle Silas Elizabeth EffingerUncle Silas (1864) is a novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Expanded from an earlier short story, Uncle Silas is considered an important precursor to the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, and remains the authors most popular novel. It has been adapted several times for film, television, and radio. Following the untimely death of her father, Maud Ruthyn is sent to live at Bartram Haugh, the estate of her estranged Uncle Silas. Under the terms of her fathers
‘father of the Ceylon tea enterprise’ in the nineteenth century
This book analyses the ways in which Irish political leaders have assiduously presented these two forces as complementary and
The book is both a primer on Childs' own eclectic system of rapier combat and an exploration of the wide variety of topics that fencers will encounter in their training
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This work examines the evolution of the Peruvian indigenista literary tradition in the twentieth century in its relation to the evolution of socialist thought and dialectical materialist philosophy
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In sub-Saharan Africa
and includes the settlements at King’s Mills and Cavendish Bridge
This book analyzes the grant system in its entirety-its history
established methods of control are being undermined by problems such as herbicide resistance
commissioned six stone statues of his favourite warhorses to serve as part of his political legacy at his mausoleum
