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The room in the Dragon Volant

The room in the Dragon Volant


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The curious case which I am about to place before you, is referred to, very pointedly, and more than once, in the extraordinary Essay upon the Drug of the Dark and the Middle Ages, from the pen of Doctor Hesselius. This Essay he entitles Mortis Imago, and he, therein, discusses the Vinum letiferum, the Beatifica, the Somnus Angelorum, the Hypnus Sagarum, the Aqua Thessalliae, and about twenty other infusions and distillations, well known to the sages of eight hundred years ago, and two of which are still, he alleges, known to the fraternity of thieves, and, among them, as police-office inquiries sometimes disclose to this day, in practical use. The Essay, Mortis Imago, will occupy, as nearly as I can at present calculate, two volumes, the ninth and tenth, of the collected papers of Dr. Martin Hesselius. This Essay, I may remark in conclusion, is very curiously enriched by citations, in great abundance, from medieval verse and prose romance, some of the most valuable of which, strange to say, are Egyptian. I have selected this particular statement from among many cases equally striking, but hardly, I think, so effective as mere narratives; in this irregular form of publication, it is simply as a story that I present it.
About the Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, né le 28 août 1814 à Dublin, où il est mort le 10 février 1873, est un écrivain irlandais. C'est l'un des auteurs majeurs du récit fantastique. Les premiers succès L'année 1851 marque une étape charnière dans la carrière du prolifique écrivain avec la publication de son premier recueil de nouvelles fantastiques: Ghost Stories and Tales of Mysteries. À la suite du décès du père de Susanna, Joseph et son épouse s'installent dans la maison paternelle dont Susanna a hérité au 18 Merrion Square. Le Fanu y passera le reste de sa vie. C'est dans ce chic quartier résidentiel de Dublin que Le Fanu fait la connaissance du chevalier Sir William Robert Wills Wilde, chirurgien irlandais, et de Jane Francesca Elgee dite Speranza, poétesse et nationaliste irlandaise. Ce fait, bien qu'anecdotique, nous semble néanmoins intéressant à noter, puisque ce couple d'amis aura comme enfant un autre écrivain, appelé à devenir l'enfant terrible des lettres irlandaises tant par son oeuvre que par sa vie privée, Oscar Wilde. L'épouse de Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Susanna, présente les premiers signes de la maladie qui l'emportera sept ans plus tard. Le 1er août 1854 naît George Brinslay, qui illustrera plus tard les romans de son père et réalisera les quelques rares portraits de lui qui nous soient parvenus.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781540472007
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 180
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 299 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1540472000
  • Publisher Date: 17 Nov 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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