The Lamplighter
A Novel
An atmospheric thriller set in nineteenth-century Edinburgh, Anthony O'Neill's elegant, darkly masterful novel is full of psychological suspense and first-rate horror.Evelyn is a clever orphan at the Fountainbridge Institute for Destitute Girls. Enchanted by a cheerful lamplighter who fires the streetlamp outside her window each evening, she mesmerizes the other girls with flights of fancy. In a time before Freudian awareness of sexuality and the subconscious mind, such tales are forbidden by the institute's governor, who warns Evelyn to cease her nocturnal storytelling.Evelyn defies him -- and is cast out of the orphanage and sacrificed to a…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7432-5429-8
- EAN: 9780743254298
- Produktnummer: 14619444
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 354 KB
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