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Uncle Silas
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novel by Sheridan Le Fanu
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- Author
- Sheridan Le Fanu
- First published
- 1864
- Editions
- 214
- Subjects
- Uncles, Orphans, Fiction, Governesses, Murderers, Fiction, thrillers, England, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general
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librivox.org →Maud Ruthyn, the young, naive heroine, has a governess who is an enigmatic older woman, a liar, bully, and spy, who takes a dark secret with her when she leaves. Maud is then orphaned and moves in with her Uncle Silas, her father's mysterious brother and a man with a scandalous-even murderous-past. She is horrified to find her former governess appears in her life again, in this Gothic Victorian psychological thriller, with a touch of the occult - Summary by Lynne Thompson
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1864 novels19th-century Irish novelsFirst-person narrative novelsIrish Gothic novelsIrish mystery novelsIrish novels adapted for radioIrish novels adapted into filmsIrish novels adapted into television showsLocked-room mysteriesMystery novels set in EnglandNovels by Sheridan Le FanuNovels first published in serial formNovels set in DerbyshireRichard Bentley booksSensation novelsThriller novelsVictorian novelsWikisource templates with missing idWorks originally published in the Dublin University Magazine