Download or read book Hauntings written by Vernon Lee and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-20 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hauntings is a collection of supernatural short-stories that remains on the threshold between the fantastic and the psychological. Perhaps ghosts and strange forces do exist here, but they?re always invited by the obsessions, hatreds and passions of the living. In the first story, Amour Dure, a historian researching Medieval Italy falls in love with the portrait of a Machiavellian woman and becomes the means to carry on a centuries-old revenge. In Dionea, a mysterious little girl cast ashore is taken in by Catholic nuns, but her pagan ways prevent her from adjusting. The longest story, Oke of Okehurst, concerns a woman whose obsession for family history brings about a tragedy. In the final story, A Wicked Voice, a musician scoffs at an 18th century singer who may have made a deal with the Devil to receive his talent, and starts hearing his voice wherever he goes. The role of women and the danger of the past are recurrent motifs in these stories: in Amour Dure, we read the life story of one Medea da Carpi, a schemer who tried to kill her way to power and sacrificed her lovers one by one to get it. In The Wicked Voice the protagonist takes us to the music of the 18th century; apart from the unusual idea of haunting someone through a ghost voice, this story seemed the weakest one to me.
Download or read book The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Vernon Lee written by Vernon Lee and published by . This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of Violet Paget, she was born to British parents in France in 1856. Today she is remembered for her numerous works on art, music and travel, but most especially for her superb supernatural fiction. Although British and writing primarily for an English speaking market, she spent most of her life living and working on the continent. Lee is an inspirational female and feminist figure, who dressed as a man and formed passionate long term lesbian relationships. Her subtle supernatural fiction focussed on the exploration of the enduring themes of haunting and possession and sometimes contains elements of palpable terror. A contemporary, Montague Summers, the eccentric British writer and clergyman, noted for his own literary forays into the uncanny, wrote that in his opinion 'she was the greatest of the modern exponents of the supernatural in fiction.' This gives some indication of the respect in which Lee was held by her peers. She was a personal friend of the writer Henry James, author of that iconic story of malevolent haunting 'The Turn of the Screw, ' and it is logical to assume that this relationship would certainly have had an influence on her fiction. Lees collection Hauntings appeared in 1890, and her famous story 'Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady' appeared in the Yellow Book in 1895. This notorious and hugely influential publication featured the often erotic art of Aubrey Beardsley and the work of notable writers including Max Beerbohm, Arnold Bennett, Henry James, H. G Wells, William Butler Yeats and many others. Although Lee's fame may not have endured as abidingly as some of her contemporaries of the fin de siecle period, she rightly deserves a place in the pantheon of authors of the supernatural and this comprehensive, Leonaur collection is the perfect way for readers to reap the many rewards of her work. This special two volume edition contains twenty four fantastic examples of Lee's tales of the haunted and possessed. Volume one includes the novelettes 'Winthrop's Adventure, ' 'A Phantom Lover, ' 'A Seeker of Pagan Perfection' and the 'The Gods and Ritter Tanhuser' together with 'The Hidden Door' and six more short stories. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.
Download or read book The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Vernon Lee written by Vernon Lee and published by . This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of Violet Paget, she was born to British parents in France in 1856. Today she is remembered for her numerous works on art, music and travel, but most especially for her superb supernatural fiction. Although British and writing primarily for an English speaking market, she spent most of her life living and working on the continent. Lee is an inspirational female and feminist figure, who dressed as a man and formed passionate long term lesbian relationships. Her subtle supernatural fiction focussed on the exploration of the enduring themes of haunting and possession and sometimes contains elements of palpable terror. A contemporary, Montague Summers, the eccentric British writer and clergyman, noted for his own literary forays into the uncanny, wrote that in his opinion 'she was the greatest of the modern exponents of the supernatural in fiction.' This gives some indication of the respect in which Lee was held by her peers. She was a personal friend of the writer Henry James, author of that iconic story of malevolent haunting 'The Turn of the Screw, ' and it is logical to assume that this relationship would certainly have had an influence on her fiction. Lees collection Hauntings appeared in 1890, and her famous story 'Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady' appeared in the Yellow Book in 1895. This notorious and hugely influential publication featured the often erotic art of Aubrey Beardsley and the work of notable writers including Max Beerbohm, Arnold Bennett, Henry James, H. G Wells, William Butler Yeats and many others. Although Lee's fame may not have endured as abidingly as some of her contemporaries of the fin de siecle period, she rightly deserves a place in the pantheon of authors of the supernatural and this comprehensive, Leonaur collection is the perfect way for readers to reap the many rewards of her work. Volume two of this special Leonaur edition of Vernon Lee's excursions into the literature of the other worldly includes the novelette, 'Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady, ' the novel, 'Louis Norbert' and nine short stories including, 'The Doll, ' 'Pope Jacynth' and 'Limbo.' Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.
Download or read book Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales written by Vernon Lee and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernon Lee writes in the Preface to Hauntings, “My ghosts are what you call spurious ghosts... of whom I can affirm only one thing, that they haunted certain brains, and have haunted, among others, my own.” First published in 1890, Lee’s most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. This collection, which includes the four stories originally published in Hauntings and three others, enables readers to consider Lee’s work anew for its subtle redefinitions of gender and sexuality during the Victorian fin-de-siècle. The appendices, which include extensive excerpts from writings by Lee’s predecessors and peers, including Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, and Lee’s brother Eugene Lee-Hamilton, allow the reader to see how Lee takes on the themes and preoccupations of the late-Victorian period but adapts them to her own purposes.
Download or read book A Phantom Lover Dodo Press written by Vernon Lee and published by . This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (1856-1935). She is known mostly for her supernatural fiction. She also wrote essays and poetry. She contributed to The Yellow Book and was a follower of Walter Pater. Her literary works explored the themes of haunting and possession. She was responsible for introducing the concept of empathy into the English language. Empathy was a key concept in Lee's psychological aesthetics which she developed on the basis of prior work by Theodor Lipps. Her response to aesthetics interpreted art as a mental and corporeal experience. This was a significant contribution to the philosophy of art which has been largely neglected. Additionally she wrote, along with her friend and colleague Henry James, critically about the relationship between the writer and his/her audience pioneering the concept of criticism and expanding the idea of critical assessment among all the arts as relating to an audience's (or her personal) response. She was a strong proponent of the Aesthetic movement. Among her famous works are: A Phantom Lover (1890), Hauntings (1890), and Art and Life (1896).
Download or read book Supernatural Tales written by Vernon Lee and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 1980 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Virgin of the Seven Daggers written by Vernon Lee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I entered the church...It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all round, these priests chanting and moving about the altar, were dead... Vernon Lee was a polymath whose copious writings include deeply learned studies of art, music, literature, and history, but also a small but exquisitely crafted group of Gothic tales, most of which first appeared in fin de siècle periodicals including the iconic Yellow Book. In these stories of obsession and possession, transgressive desire reaches out from the past -- through a haunting portrait, a murdered poet's lock of hair, the uncanny voice of a diabolical castrato -- dragging Lee's protagonists to their doom. Among those haunted by Lee's 'spurious ghosts' was Henry James, who praised her 'gruesome, graceful...ingenious tales, full of imagination'. This new edition includes Lee's landmark 1890 collection Hauntings complete, along with six additional tales and the 1880 essay 'Faustus and Helena', in which Lee probes the elusive nature of the supernatural as a 'vital...fluctuating...potent' force that resists definite representation. Aaron Worth's contextual introduction, drawing upon Lee's newly published letters, reassesses her place in the pantheon of the fantastic. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Download or read book A Phantom Lover By Vernon Lee written by Violet Paget and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Phantom Lover, Violet Paget weaves a spellbinding tale of a woman haunted by the ghostly presence of her former lover. As the supernatural events escalate, the line between reality and illusion becomes increasingly blurred, leaving readers to question what is real and what is simply the fevered imaginings of the protagonist. Atmospheric and haunting, this gothic novella is a must-read for fans of the genre. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Oke of Okehurst or A Phantom Lover written by Vernon Lee and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage book contains Vernon Lee's 1890 supernatural horror novel, “Oke of Okehurst - Or, the Phantom Lover”. “Vernon Lee” was the pen name of British author Violet Paget (1856–1935). Paget was a renowned author of popular supernatural fiction and was a prolific writer of books on the subject of aesthetics. This fantastic volume is highly recommended for lovers of spooky and chilling literature, and it would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf. Other notable works by this author include: “The Prince of the Hundred Soups: A Puppet Show in Narrative” (1883), “The Countess of Albany” (1884), and “Miss Brown” (1884). Fantasy and Horror Classics is proudly republishing this classic novel now in a new edition complete with an introductory biography by Daniel Lleufer Thomas.
Download or read book Vanitas written by Vernon Lee and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-29 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (14 October 1856 - 13 February 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music, and travel. The English writer and translator Montague Summers described Vernon Lee as "the greatest [...] of modern exponents of the supernatural in fiction." E. F. Bleiler has claimed that "Lee's stories are really in a category by themselves. Intelligent, amusingly ironic, imaginative, original, they deserve more than the passing attention that they have attracted." Neil Barron described the contents of Lee's collection Hauntings thus "The stories are powerful and very striking, among the finest of their kind."
Download or read book A Phantom Lover written by Vernon Lee and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gradually the embers grew paler; the figures in the tapestry more shadowy; the columned and curtained bed loomed out vaguer; the room seemed to fill with greyness; and my eyes wandered to the mullioned bow-window, beyond whose panes, between whose heavy stonework, stretched a greyish-brown expanse of sore and sodden park grass, dotted with big oaks; while far off, behind a jagged fringe of dark Scotch firs, the wet sky was suffused with the blood-red of the sunset... "Miss Violet Paget, whose nom-de-plume is Vernon Lee, has a strange genius, or, perhaps, one would rather say a genius for the strange and the horrible that sometimes falls little short of being grotesque. She has the divination that sees the possible hidden undercurrents of the tragedy of life. It may not improbably be the verdict of the future that Vernon Lee at the present time is not receiving anything like the recognition due her marvelous power." -The Literary News "Probably the best shilling story since 'Dr. Jekyll.' It is short; it is startling....One is fascinated, and offended, and finally appalled." -St. James Gazette "Vernon Lee has the enviable faculty of investing each and all her works with the charm of brilliant originality. Thus this 'fantastic story' has a grace and a weird pathos that distinguish it from other tales." -Morning Post "Everything Vernon Lee writes bears the stamp of genius." -Manchester Examiner "Her work has always disclosed a morbid tendency, and this story follows in the line of its predecessors. It is extremely well told, skillfully planned to produce and deep and definite impression by suggestion rather than by direct statement, and it is very interesting. As a psychological study it is full of acuteness and power." -The Book Buyer "Few persons besides the gifted an original author of 'Euphorion' and 'Baldwin' would have thought out this ingenious, weird, uncomfortable, psychological story. It is of about the compass of a magazine article, though made into a book by itself. It is a painter's narrative of what befell him in a fine old English country house while he was at work on the portrait of its mistress, Mrs. Oke. There had been a Mrs. Oke of Okehurst, centuries before, and her portrait was now hanging on the walls. That Mrs. Oke had had a lover, Christopher Lovelock, and Lovelock, so tradition ran, had been murdered by his mistress and her husband. The present Mrs. Oke is pleased to personate the former Mrs. Oke by means of dress and all other means in her powre, and in time teases her adoring husband into the hallucination that she is pursued by a phantom Lovelock lover as her namesake was in reality of old. Fired by this hallucination into a frenzy of jealous hatred, he levels his pistol at the supposed phantom and shoots his wife dead. The verdict was 'momentary madness.' This is Vernon Lee's story of it." -The Literary World "Whatever Vernon Lee attempts to do, she does with great order; she writes admirably....In 'A Phantom Love,' which is a hint, not a story, a dream not a reality, a mere piece of brilliant 'impressionist' work - her peculiar powers appear to excellent advantage....Rich in suggestion and color, she defines a little drama of love and jealousy, which belongs partly to this generation and in part is the revival of an old tragedy played out two centuries ago....The fantasy becomes credible in the rich, hazy, unhealthy atmosphere the author surrounds her actors with, as they move languidly and picturesquely through the dim, rich, storied rooms. The little book is the artistic product of very fine powers." -The American
Download or read book A Culture Ghost written by Vernon Lee and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-10-11 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Vernon Lee” was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (1856–1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction, much of it influenced by her lesbianism and feminism, as well as for her books and essays on aesthetics. Her novella “A Culture-Ghost; or, Winthrop’s Adventure” was first published in the April, 1881 issue of Appletons’ Journal. It was left out of Hauntings, but it’s certainly a masterpiece of weird fiction, fully worthy of rediscovery today.
Download or read book Vanitas Polite Stories Esprios Classics written by Vernon Lee and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (14 October 1856 - 13 February 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music, and travel. Her short fiction explored the themes of haunting and possession. The most famous were collected in Hauntings (1890) and her story "Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady" (1895) was first printed in the notorious The Yellow Book.
Download or read book Limbo and Other Essays Esprios Classics written by Vernon Lee and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (14 October 1856 - 13 February 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music, and travel. Her short fiction explored the themes of haunting and possession. The most famous were collected in Hauntings (1890) and her story "Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady" (1895) was first printed in the notorious The Yellow Book.
Download or read book Hortus Vitae written by Vernon Lee and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (14 October 1856 - 13 February 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music, and travel. The English writer and translator Montague Summers described Vernon Lee as "the greatest [...] of modern exponents of the supernatural in fiction." E. F. Bleiler has claimed that "Lee's stories are really in a category by themselves. Intelligent, amusingly ironic, imaginative, original, they deserve more than the passing attention that they have attracted". Neil Barron described the contents of Lee's collection Hauntings thus "The stories are powerful and very striking, among the finest of their kind."
Download or read book Hauntings written by Vernon Lee and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violet Paget (1856–1935), also known under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British writer famous for her supernatural fiction and contributions to the field of aesthetics. She also wrote more than a dozen books on a variety of subjects ranging from music to travel, and today she is best remembered for her original ideas and amusing use of irony. Lee's most famous work, “Hauntings” (1890) is a fantastic collection of chilling ghost and supernatural stories, including “Amour Dure”, “Dionea”, “Oke of Okehurst”, and “A Wicked Voice”. Classic macabre tales not to be missed by fans of frightening fiction. Other notable works by this author include: “The Prince of the Hundred Soups: A Puppet Show in Narrative” (1883), “The Countess of Albany” (1884), and “Miss Brown” (1884). Fantasy and Horror Classics is proudly republishing this classic novel now in a new edition complete with an introductory biography by Daniel Lleufer Thomas.
Download or read book Vanitas written by Vernon Lee and published by . This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (1856-1935). She is known mostly for her supernatural fiction. She also wrote essays and poetry. She contributed to The Yellow Book and was a follower of Walter Pater. Her literary works explored the themes of haunting and possession. She was responsible for introducing the concept of empathy into the English language. Empathy was a key concept in Lee's psychological aesthetics which she developed on the basis of prior work by Theodor Lipps. Her response to aesthetics interpreted art as a mental and corporeal experience. This was a significant contribution to the philosophy of art which has been largely neglected. Additionally she wrote, along with her friend and colleague Henry James, critically about the relationship between the writer and his/her audience pioneering the concept of criticism and expanding the idea of critical assessment among all the arts as relating to an audience's (or her personal) response. She was a strong proponent of the Aesthetic movement. Among her famous works are: A Phantom Lover (1890), Hauntings (1890) and Art and Life (1896).
