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Uncle Silas: a Tale of Bartram-Haugh

Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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2. Second draft

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Text ID Number: E860000-001

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Sources

    Editions (selection)
  1. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas: a tale of Bartram-Haugh, London: Richard Bentley 1864, 1865. Reprinted 1886, 1893.
  2. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas: a tale of Bartram-Haugh, New York: Harper 1865.
  3. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas: a tale of Bartram-Haugh, Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1865.
  4. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas: a tale of Bartram-Haugh, London, Chapman and Hall, 1879.
  5. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas: a tale of Bartram-Haugh, London: Macmillan 1899.
  6. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas: a tale of Bartram-Haugh, Dublin : J. Duffy, 1904.
  7. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas: a tale of Bartram-Haugh, London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press 1926.
  8. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas: a tale of Bartram-Haugh, New York: Chanticleer Press, 1947.
  9. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas: a tale of Bartram-Haugh, New York: Dover Publications 1966.
  10. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, The collected works of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 3 volumes; introduction by Sir Devendra P. Varma, 3 volumes, New York: Arno Press 1977. [Facsimile reprint of 1864 edition.]
  11. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas, edited with an introduction and notes by Victor Sage, Classic Paperback Series, London: Penguin 2000.
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    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Uncle Silas: a Tale of Bartram-Haugh. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Reprint [1 volume; 480pp] The Cresset PressLondon (1947)

    Notes

    An earlier version of this novel was published in 1839 as a short story entitled A Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess in the Dublin University Magazine and later republished in The Purcell Papers in 1880.

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The electronic edition covers pp 27–28; 31–480.

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Profile Description

Created: By J. S. Le Fanu Date range: 1861?-1864.

Use of language

Language: [EN] The text is in English.
Language: [FR] Many words and phrases are in French.
Language: [LA] Some words and phrases are in Latin.
Language: [IT] Some words are in Italian.

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