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Uncle Silas, subtitled "A Tale of Bartram Haugh", is an 1864 Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller novel by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Despite Le Fanu resisting its classification as such, the novel has also been hailed as a work of sensation fiction by contemporary reviewers and modern critics alike.
One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological thriller. In UNCLE SILAS (1864) Le Fanu brought up to date Mrs Radcliffe's earlier tales of virtue imprisoned and menaced by unscrupulous schemers.
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Uncle Silas: With Beatie Edney, Jane Lapotaire, Tim Woodward, Guy Rolfe. Maud Ruthyn, a lovely and sensitive girl, is sent to stay with her Uncle Silas Ruthyn, a charismatic rogue who stands to inherit the family fortune... should anything untoward happen to young Maud.
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Complete summary of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Uncle Silas.
Dec 31, 2014 · This collection brings together BBC readings of fourteen of Bates's 1930s stories featuring his famous loveable rogue, Uncle Silas, an old countryman with a gargantuan appetite and thirst, the button-bright eye for a pretty girl, and the prodigious memory to which his fertile imagination is accomplice.
Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance. Charles Frank. Director. Sheridan Le Fanu.
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Uncle Silas is a film adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu's novel, starring Robert Eddison as a sinister uncle who tries to inherit his niece's fortune. The movie received mixed reviews from critics and audiences, who praised the atmosphere but criticized the plot and the acting.
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