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The Uninhabited House

Mrs. J. H. Riddell

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .ails looked as if, at an early period of her life, a hammer had been brought heavily down upon them. Mrs. Elmsdale might well be a beauty, for she had taken not only her own share of the good looks of the family, but her sister's also.

We used often, at the office, to marvel why Miss Blake ever wore a collar, or a tucker, or a frill, or a pair of cuffs. So far as clean linen was concerned, she would have appeared infinitely brighter and fresher had she and female frippery at once parted company. Her laces were always in tatters, her collars soiled, her cuffs torn, and her frills limp. I wonder what the natives thought of her in France! In London, we decided—and accurately, I believe—that Miss Blake, in the solitude of her own chamber, washed and got-up her cambrics and fine linen—and it was a "get-up" and a "put-on" as well.

Had any other woman, dressed like Miss Blake, come to our office, I fear the clerks would not have been. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Purtroppo ammetto che le mie aspettative troppo alte sto giro mi hanno giocato un brutto scherzo.
Nulla da togliere all’edizione di ABEditore, che come sempre si rivela una piccola opera d’arte curata in ogni dettaglio e una traduzione ottima, ma la storia in sé non mi ha colpita come immaginavo.
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I so enjoyed reading this delightful story. It had a touch of everything: ghost story, courthouse drama, even a bit of romance. Victorian writing can sometimes be a little slow going and hard to read, but this short novel is a real joy. The character of Mrs Blake with her idiosyncrasies is a comic m

Litigare con persone in carne ossa è una buona premessa per entrare in una casa infestata dai fantasmi.

First published in 1875 this is a thoroughly entertaining haunted house story.
Harry Patterson, who narrates, works as a clerk for in a law firm who have on their books a house called River Hall, owned by Miss Blake, an eccentric woman whose visits are always popular, and come about whenever the ten

Che bella scoperta questo piccolo romanzo vittoriano. Si trova fra la storia di fantasmi e il giallo, non fa paura, ma intriga. Nello stile dell’autrice c’è anche una punta di ironia, e ciò gli dona una freschezza che non spesso si trova in questo genere.
La casa disabitata in questione è River Hall,

La storia è interessante, ma la risoluzione del mistero in realtà è un po' tirata e non si capisce benissimo.

Ever since her moneylender father committed suicide years ago, Helena and her wildly eccentric spinster aunt, Miss Bell, have lived largely off the proceeds of renting out the house he left them. The trouble -- as Miss Bell's solicitor, Mr. Craven, in charge of the lettings, knows all too well -- is

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