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| | Amazon.com: In a Glass Darkly: Books: Sheridan Le Fanu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | In A Glass Darkly is comprised of 5 lengthy short stories that are loosely woven together by the figure of Dr. Martin Hesselius, a "psychic doctor." Three of the five stories, "Green Tea," "Justice Harbottle," and "Carmilla," are classics of the Victorian ghost story genre, and are frequently anthologized. |
 | | In my opinion, it is best to read them as they originally appeared, along with "The Watcher," and "A Room in the Dragon Volant," because Le Fanu had his reasons for ordering these five tales the way he did. |
 | | 'In a Glass Darkly' is a perfect example of this, with its unreliable narrators, fractured narratives, mysteries, ambiguities, terrors, obsession with failures of the mind and body, and disruptive sexualities. |
| www.amazon.com /Glass-Darkly-Sheridan-Fanu/dp/9997538587 (1665 words) |
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